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The Newark journal., 1918-12-05

NNOSA ' V VI SNAAO SAi0I NAoA Claude Carl Walbert Joseph T. Dixon Riley Nolen Donoho James $. Stewart Ewin Harris (col.) Charles Estes Edward Lee Anderson Price w. Walford Jodie Brown (col.) Dan Owen Patterson Ethan w. Johnson Luther Wolford Ray Richard Reeves M arion Eden Latham Jay Lawrence Grover Ross Arnold
 William G. Rodgers Joe Hugh Kennard Lucien Bracy Ernest Y. Akins William Harry Akins Lee Royce
 Carl Lueary Oscar w. Boutwell, Monte Dicus (coD John Walker Taylor Weaver Wright Walter w. Reding David F.. Medlock Samuel Joseph Lilies Walter McCurrin (coD Earl Dodd
 George D Simpson Butler N. Harrison David Tucker Leonard A. Griffin William Arley Jackson Ruby H. Hughes Sherman Duty Kilby Hughes Columbus Haddock Vernon s. Weaver John Doris Ford George A. Boswell Frank Huff James William Young Andrew N. Hall Chas H. Burrow Tea Green (col.) William F.. Talley Richard Wilkerson (coD Andrew J Adair Clyde Lexion (coD Virgil Lee Lewis Oscar Ferrill John A. Bro adwater Jacob Jackson Carter Rolan4 Green Izard Grover c. Garrett Sam Ki]nmer James C. Luttrell Edmond H. Carpenter Jefferson Hamilton Browni William O. Pence John Franks Marshall A. Gosset Ed Walker William c. Spraggins Andy A. Melton George Weathermon William Hogan Keeney Mart H. McMahan Allie Josley Edgar k Bridgman Burt Wesley Chas. |. Frazier Clinton Trent George Raymond Smile Harrison Tucker (coD Madison P. Aydelott Estel Carpenter Chester A. Winston William A. Clark Alph k. Huddleston Stanley J. Garbaz Roland Wiltrout Clayton Watkins Continued on next page)
The Newark journal., 1918-12-05

The Journal has received another letter from Captain Continued on last page)
The Newark journal., 1918-12-05
SAYS JOY OF
 FRENCH WAS
 INDESCRIBALE
Combination July 4 and Christ. mas Tame in Comparison
 to French Celebration

The Journal has received the following letter from Dr. $. A. Drennen, Captain Medi- cal Reserve Corps, written on November Il, immediately following the cessation of hos tilities.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
NOT MARK OF DIsREsPEcT
Omission of "Mr." Before Name Of
President lie Thoroughly Sane
toned by Good Usage.

A Kansas City teacher asks the
Star whether 1t Is really in good taste
to refer to the president In a head
line or elsewhere as "Wilson." Ought
1t not always be "Mr Wilson" or
president Wilson, she asks. 1t has
Jared on her In reading the news
to pupils to find the presidents name
used without handle.
Hard and fast rules in matters of
good taste are difficult to establish. In
general the title is appropriately used
with the presidents name; in general,
but not always. The omission of the
title Is not disrespectful on the con-
trary, the more distinguished the man,
the more the omission of the title is
sanctioned by good usage. We speak
Of Webster. Calhoun. Lincoln, Glad
stone habitually without the mr."
So with living men. Isn't 1t more often
Edison" than mr.. Edison" "Berg-
son" than IN. Bergson," "Kipling' than
"Mr. Kipling," Lloyd George" than
Mr.. Lloyd George" "Poincare" than
m. Poincare," "Kerensky" than "Mr.
Kerensky7"
When reference is made to a WE'LL
known man by his name without IT,
tie or even initials, there is an implied
compliment. The implication is that
there is only one Lloyd George, only
one Clemenceau. only one Wilson.
Whether the title is used or not de-
ponds largely on what seems to be the
requirements of the occasion.-Kansas
City Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Oldest Living West Pointer

General Horatio Gates Gibson, the
oldest living graduate of West Point,
veteran of the Mexican civil and In
dian wars, has just celebrated his
91st birthday in good health and
spirits.
Among the guests of the soldier on
his birthday were a few surviving
members of the Aztec Club, which
was formed by officers of the service
In the city Of Mexico seventy-one years
ago. There Is only a squad of the
original members of this club living.
Gen. Gibson is one of them and is the
organizations president.
1t is probable that this veteran
thought as a young soldier. after cam
paigning from Vera Cruz to the city
Of Mexico under the leadership OF
Gen. Winfield Scott, that the Mexican
war was a good deal of war. 1t is
likely, also. after serving as an ar
tillery chieftain through the cam
paigns from 81 to IS, that he thought
the civil war was about the biggest
thing In the shape Of war that ever
happened or could happen. Today,
this man of service. 81 years of age,
is under the necessity of readjusting
his earlier thoughts on the compare
tive magnitude of conflicts between
nations.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
MADE THE CHAIN COMPLETE
Physician In His Excitement Rather
Gave Away Secret He Should
Have Kept.

Attorney General Gregory tells this
piQuant story of prominent finan-
cier and well-known physician:
The money juggler called at the Of
fee Of his family physician one morn
ing and told him with much concern
that his only son was suffering from
diphtheria. The doctor was solicitous
but assured the financier that with the
care given In the hospital to which
the boy had been taken he would pull
through nicely. "Of course" said the
medico. mo one is safe when that
terrible disease is around"
But" said the father, "the boy con-
fessed to me that he is sure he caught
the disease from the parlor maid
whom he had kissed"
"Well, young people are certainly
very thoughtless," unused the doctor,
"I'm sorry to hear that your son has
been SO indisc-eet."
"Yes. Of course. DOCTOR" said the
financier, nervously, but don't you
see, to be frank with you'll have
kissed the girl. Do you think !, too,
will have the disease?"
"Why, yes" said the doctor. you
are probably already infected. In
fact, that would be the very next thing
to expect"
ooh. that's awful" gasped the finan-
cier, @and / kiss my own dear wife
every morning and evening, SO she,
too"
"Geod heavens I" cried the ply
stefan. jumping up excitedly, "then l,
too, will have it l"-Illustrated Sunday
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
SEEMS GOOD BUSINESS IDEA
Proposed Commercial Register for HoI-
land Has Powerful Support in
Industrial Circles.

A law to establish a commercial reg
lister In Holland has been introduced In
the states general, according to a dis
patch from P. L. Edwards, CONNER
cial attache Of The Hague. 1t is re-
ported to have the support of men,
bers of the government, of high legal
critics and of important business In
terests generally. This is said to be
the elimination of movement started
20 years ago for the passage Of such a
law.
One of the most important features
of the proposed law is that 1t forbids
the use of precisely the same name
by more than one concern within
given districts, 1t also provides that
In each given district there shall be
maintained public register in which
would be given the name, age and
domicile Of each member of firm, as
well as the extent to which each one
might be held legally liable for its
obligations. 1t also would make illegal
the use of deceptive, title, including
such words, for instance, as 'broth-
ers," land company" or "and sons"
where the owner is only one person.
From the proposed commercial reg
lister stranger would be able to as
certain the name and residence of
holders Of not fully paid up shares,
and the full particulars as to the ma
tionality. residence. ETC., of managers,
directors and other officers Of corpor-
atoms and associations. There would
also be particulars as to former bank
ruptcies Of persons or concerns In
question. The present law already pro-
vides for publication of many of these
details. but they are only to be found
in such scattered places that in prac-
tice they are not available to the gen
eral public.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
LITTLE PLEASURE IN TRAVEL
German TRIMS Creep Along in Dark
ness fpr Fear of Bombs Of
Allied AViators.

Special precautions against air
raids are now being taken on the Ger
man railways in those districts espe-
cially liable to aerial bombardments
by the allies, Railway Age states.
The Palatinate railways, in particular
are adopting precautionary measures,
and writer in the Lokal Anzeiger who
recently Travelled on this system de-
scribeA the darkening methods adopt
ed at night.
For hours he writes, "the train
Travelled as though In a dark cave,
without lights, without conductors,
without any station names being called
out when the train stopped. When
every lamp is extinguished throughout
the countryside. and the towns and viii
lagos, as though constrained by agony,
have closed their shops, the journey op-
presses ones mind and is nowise reas-
surfing. One goes on in uncertainty,
facing danger.
Everywhere placards Indicating how
to behave during air raids show that
one is in the aviators territory. Slow
ly, very slowly, the train proceeds on
its Journey in river alongside the
line one still sees the locomotive which
togther with its train, plunged into the
water on the occasion of a recent acct.
dent. A train with broken windows
not pane has remained intact-passes
near us; another train passes all black.
ened and half consumed by fire. And
on arriving at the end of this dismal
journey the first question heard by the
traveller is, VIII they come tonight 2 >
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
GOLD MINING HIT BY WAR
Many Properties That Were Profitable
Have Been Forced to Close Down
Temporarily.

Gold is one of the war victims. The
was has forced down, in market value,
measured by human labor, many kinds
Of property and most of the staple
commodities, until some gold mines
which yielded fair profit before the
war have become temporarily useless
to their owners. 1t costs SO much to
operate them that they cannot be
worked without loss.
There has been change in the value
of gold itself, In the money Of great ma
lions which have maintained their
monetary systems on the specie basis,
while almost everything else has gone
up. The result is that any given num-
Der of ounces of gold mined will buy
much less material used In mining,
such as explosives. drills, pumps and
other machinery. and will pay for few
er days. work. This change is still
going on and the position Of the gold
mining companies grows less and less
secure and sound.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
AS HAVE OTHER HUN THINGS
Man Complains That His German
Made Clock Has Completely Gone
to the Bad.

My old alarm clock has gone to
smash. That may not be a news item
nor 1t may not interest you, but up ut
our home the fact that the alarm clock
wouldn't go any more was an event of
interest. 1t was ticking away on the
Shelf at q quarter to IL the night of
July IT. i took 1t up to wind 1t. One
twist, and-rattletebank, siss boom ali.
Something went all to pieces in the
works.
More twists, shaking, putting the
clock to ear and final determination
that 1t was done for. / thought to
look 1t over before depositing 1t in the
ash can. On the back was scratched
the month and day of the purchase In
1912. / was looking on the face for
the last time and studying it closely.
Then down at the bottom / saw in
small letters: 'Made in Germany"
There 1t had been ticking away on the
shelf year after year, sounding its
alarm regularly, and yet never before
had noticed that detested inscription.
Probably if l had it would have gone
into the ash can long before.
Just like a lot of other "AIade in
Germany things that we didn't know
were around until we found them out.
But the old German clock is busted,
the works have gone to smash, 1t has
sounded Its last alarm, and as l medi-
tated On It l thought how true of
everything else made in Germany"
including the juggernaut war machine,
40 years in the building with which
the kaiser was to ride untrammeled
over all the rest of the world. The
works SIS busted. e. E. K, In SYRIA
cuse Post-Standard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
TOOK FLING AT BOOSTERS
Visitors Suggestion Probably Did Not
Tend to Make Him Popular
In Los Angeles.

Merle Sidener, local advertising
man, recently returned from a West
ern trip in which he visited the city
of Los Angeles. He was impressed
with the boosting of the Los Angeles
citizens and said he learned that an
Oregon colonel from Portland was the
guest of honor at banquet In Los
Angeles. The usual after-dinner
speeches were made, all boosting the
city of Los Angeles, but each speaker
regretted that Los Angeles had not
been founded on the coast The speak
ers all said that had the city been on
the coast instead of ten miles or so
from it, the city would be the garden
spot of the world. The visiting colo
mel was called on to speak and said:
Gentlemen, 1 am impressed with
your city as much as you are and be-
lieve that l can suggest way in
which you can accomplish your wish.
All of the citizens present leaned
forward eagerly, for this was no doubt
the solution that had long been wait
ing for. The colonel continued:
This is what you should do. OBJ
tain a large pipe, run it from the CEN
ter of your city into the ocean and If
you can suck as hard as you can blow
the ocean will soon be In your city,
indianapolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
VALUABLE FIND IN ALASKA
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Enriched by Collection Of Eth
biological Specimens.

The University of Pennsylvania mu-
scum has received and placed on ex-
hibition a remarkably fine collection
Of chronological specimens secured by
Louis Shortridge, full-blooded In
dian, who for three years has been
exploring In unknown southern Alaska
for the museum at the cost of John
Wanamaker. He has sent many col
lections, but the last is the finest group
of the whole.
His latest trip was up into the noun
tains, where he secured a vast amount
of ceremonial material which was for
the most part made a century or two
ago. 1t is parted with now only be-
cause the Indians have become we'll
nigh extinct and those younger men,
bers of the tribes who remain have lit
tie interest in ancient ways because
they are taking on civilization.
There is collection of poles or sa-
cred standards used In ceremonial
dances, handsomely carved and deco
rated with the totem Of the bearer.
There are some amazingly lurid masks,
which were used in the dances, and
some costumes which are richly deco
rated. Some are made of buckskin,
but others are of Hudson's bay traders
cloth deliberately embroidered. Alto
gether Mr.. Shortridge has sent about
1000 specimens and these are often
unique and as whole are unequaled.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
TYPIFIES SPIRIT OF FRANCE
Brave Thirteen-Year-oId Girl, With
Two Small Brothers, Doing All
the Work on Farm.

When the work in your war gar
den seems tedious and you straighten
your aching back and look longingly
toward the inviting shade of the trees
or toward the arm chair on the awning
covered porch; when you mutter to
yourself that 1t will not matter much
whether the weeds do choke the beet
patch--It may help you to finish your
task if you call to mind a story told
In MY War Diary" by Mrs. Mary King
Waddington.
In village near ours, says the au-
thor, girl of thirteen is running the
farm. AT the beginning of the war II
was thriving farm with q man and
his wife, six sons and one daughter
Then the blow fell, and all the men
in France were modified; the father
and his two eldest boys went off at
once-fOur hours after the decree OF
mobilization was received In the vii.
lage. The farmer had no time to put
his house in order, but left the farm
in the hands of his wife and the two
OA6 OCyos ooCA 7hAlCCn anu SlAIGGQ. 1ne
man and his two eldest sons are now
dead, the two next are In the army.
and the poor mother, a wreck phys
ically and mentally, cries all day. The
girl and the two little boys do the
whole work of the farm. The young
est, who is only ten years old,
cannot accomplish much, but he does
manage to watch the cows and to
carry cans of milk or baskets of but
ter.
see the girl simetimes; she is per-
fectly well, never complains and never
asks for anything-except occasional
ly for warm petticoat, or hood to
keep her head and neck warm and dry
when she is working In the fields.
There are hundreds of girls doing that
work all over France.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
RUSSlA'S RICH TIMBER LANDS
Systematic Expectation Would Have o
Great Effect on the Markets
Of the World.

An article in current magazine by
A. J. Sack presents statistics on Rus
sia's forest resources as a means of
paying the billions of dollars due to
home and foreign creditors.
The astonishing statement is made
by thiz writer that Russia, including
Siberia, mas 1925, 100000 acres of tim
Der which is 63 per cent as much as
the whole world possessed. This re-
source is being set aside by Russian
economists as fund to pay the coun-
try's debts.
The effect on Americas business
should be duly considered, observes
Hardwood Record in discussing the ar
ticle Except oak, it continues, which
is generally known in the market as
the japanese oak, it is not probable
that much Russian timber will reach
the United States; but it will compete
with American lumber in other mar
kets, notably those of western Europe,
and perhaps those of eastern Asia,
western South America and the Pacific
islands.
ITO that extent" says Hardwood
Record, "our lumber business may be
hurt by the flood Of forest products
from Russia. In normal times Ger
many received 4S per cent of its lum-
Der imports from Russia, and Eng
lands per cent Of timber imports from
that source was nearly as large.
Lumber shipments from Russia will
come from the Baltic, from the Arctic
coast of Russia proper and Siberia.
and from the Pacific coast Of the lat
ter country. The principal lumber
markets of the world can be reached
from those points"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
He MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, saPrEBER II 1918
Destroys Sleep

Many Mount Holly People Testify
to This.
You can't sleep at night
With aches and pains of bad back
When you have to get up with uri.
nary troubles.
IL the kidneys are at fault
Set them working right with Doan's
Kidney Pills.
Here is Mount Holly proof of theil
merit.
Frank L. Pratt. retired blacksmith,
81 Water ST., says: About year age
/ was taken down with severe attack
of kidney complaint and was in bed
for six weeks. | could not move hand
foot The pains in my back were en-
ongh to drive me crazy and most oil
the time my back felt as though a
knife had been thrust into it. l had
to pass the kidney secretions eight Oh
ten times night and they were burn
ing and filed with sediment. Every
one though / couldn't live, was in
such bad shape. Even before had to
go to bed. had TO walk witha cane, hl
bent over. My feet and ankles were
SO swollen couldn't put on my shoes
got Doan's Kidney Pills at Kille's
Drug Store and it didn't take them
long to cure me OF the attack l still
use few OF Doan's and they keep me
in the best Of health"
Price Coo at all dealers. Foster
Milburn { o.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
ACROSS OCEAN IN AIRPLANE
Expert Is of Opinion That Successful
Flight Viii Be Made Before
End of Year.

The most famous voyage in the his.
tory of the world was made in 1892.
Columbus sailed from Spain, touched
the Portuguese coast, paused at the
Azores, and then drove across the I'M
charted seas until his jollyboats nosed
the sands of new world.
Another voyage that will shine in
history beside that Of Columbus will
almost surely reverse the route of the
great discOverer-from the American
continent at Newfoundland, say, to
the Azores. thence to Portugal and
finally to France. But 1t will be made
through the skies by airplane. And If
there Is anything in prophecy based on
science 1t will be made this year.
AT least this is the settled opinion
of Maj. Gen. William S. Brancker, con-
troller general of equipment on the
British air council. General Brancker
Is now in Washington to help co-ordi-
nate the effort of the allies in the air.
His position as to the flight across the
Atlantic Is simply this: That 1t must
be done some time in the present war,
that 1t Is already possible to do it, and
that therefore 1t should be done now.
Once the first flight is an accomplish
ed fact he sees steadily growing fleets
OF huge planes making the trip as a
regular part Of the independent aerial
offensive.-From Committee on Public
Information.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Bluff That Failed.

General Plumer, who has recently
been recalled to France from Italy
can be very ironical when he chooses
as the following story proves:
Shortly before the war. when he
held the Irish command, regiment
was being unanswered. before him on
a field day, and the colonel in charge
succeeded in getting his men mixed up
pretty thoroughly.
However, he went grimly on, and at
last, calling halt, rode up to Plumer
with an air of Importance.
II flatter myself that was extremely
well done, sir" he said, evidently with
the idea of trying to bluff that moth
ing had gone wrong.
"Oh, excellent" was General Plum.
er's suave reply. But may ask what
on earth you were trying to do?"-
Parsons Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Effect Of Poison Gases on Troops.

Certain gases have for their more
immediate object. the irritation of the
eyes (the lachrymatory gases, one part
In million of air being effectively, tenn
porarily binding the victim; others
are designed for the irritation Of the
nose (the "sneeze-gases"), making it
almost impossible for the fighter to
overcome the tendency to throw off
his mask; and others again, for the
production of burns when in contact
with the flesh, which are of a most
distressing character, and, even If
they do not cause death, incapacitate
the victim for service for a period of
months. The last-named gases are
likewise toxic and lachrymatory to a
high degree. The so-called mustard
gas" a compound somewhat similar
in character to mustard oil, but far
more of an irritant, has proved par
ticularly destructive, and doubtless ac-
counts for many of the casualties in
recent attacks.-Henry p. Talbot, In
Atlantic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
old-Time Barley Bread.

We find more entertainment than In
structiOn ia an editorial of the Hart
ford Courant on the revised use of
barley. 1t refers to its use in Bible
times and finds this verse in the Book
Of Judges to give an idea of its quail
ity:
'And when Gideon was come, be-
hold there was man that told a
dream unto his fellow, and said, Be
hold, 1 dreamed q dream. and 10, q
cake of barley bread tumbled into the
host of indian and came unto a tent
and smote it that 1t fell and over
turned it. that the tent lay along"
The Courant seems to approve OF
the use of barley flour, though admit
ting some difficulties in preparing II
for bread. But it takes this Bible
verse as evidence that its density
would make 1t serviceable as a pro-
jectile.-Waterbur American.