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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
LEARN BEST FARM METHODS
Modern Principles of Agriculture Be-
ing InstiIed Into the Youth of
Our Ally Italy.

The use of scientific farming meth
DDS is spreading and developing in
Italy; the eliminating of waste and
the replacing of the old-fashioned de-
vices is becoming Il fact in the fertile
land south of the Alps. One of the
most useful agencies for popularizing
these modern methods are agricultural
Institutions where boys are taught the
principles of modern farming.
The department of civil affairs of
the American Red Cross has recently
given material assistance to one of
these schools of agriculture estab-
lished by the Salesian Fathers in the
fields just outside the Porta Furba, one
OF the historic gateways of Rome. This
assistance has been conveyed through
an italian organization, engaged in
work similar to that carried on by the
A. r. G. and known as the "Comitato
pc gil Orfani de Constadini Morti in
Guerra" The boys of the school, all
orphans of peasant soldiers, are given
training in scientific and practical
farming, the object being to strengthen
their attachment to the soil, also to
convert them into good and intelligent
farmers. Lectures and classroom in
struction are accompanied by field
work with modern tools, under the d.
rect supervision of the younger IA
theirs Of the institution, who work side
by side with the boys in the fields,
teaching and demonstrating.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
HAS DOUBLE STEERING WHEEL
inventors Making Interesting Tests
With Vessel That Makes Use of
Blade Rudder.

Some interesting tests have been
made recently with dual rudder, il
Illustrated in Popular Mechanics Maya
zine, in an attempt to demonstrate the
possibility of eliminating the revers-
ing turbines of ships. The action is
described as follows:
For normal cruising the plates are
folded together. A double steering
wheel is employed. When locked, the
two members turn as one At other
times, when the two wheels are thrown
in opposite directions, the leaves of
the rudder are adjusted to desired
angles. The equipment gives Il boat
brake that is quick-acting; it enables
reversement of direction with the en-
CINE running full speed ahead, and
permits a craft to be turned in it's
own length. The demonstration boar
is able to reverse direction from full
speed ahead in nine seconds
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Sinners Made From Hats.

Now it happened. over there, that,
though army hats were plentiful
enough, hospital bedroom slippers were
very, very scarce. 1t took long leap
of salvage ingenuity to take apparel
from the head of man and put 1t on
his feet. But that is what the army
did. With dies it cut the brims of the
old army hat, which was then usually
on the road to ruin, into shape OF the
human foot, stitched two layers to
gether, stitched them back and forth,
as is done with japanese slippers,
turned the fragments into heels, turn-
ed the crown into tips. used bits OF uni
form for the uppers and sent off to The
Red Cross prodigious supply OF bed
room slippers.-Donald Wilhelm In
H0rDer'S Magazine
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Pass AIonu INSPIRING Words.

Miss Eta V. Leighton, civic secre-
tary of the National Security league,
has started "Me and You" lip to lip,
American propaganda. In this the plan
is that for every Hun lie uttered there
shall be spoken an American truth.
The truths are embodied in slogans
taken from President Wilson's
speeches, General Pershing's messages,
and from literature sent out by the
committee on public information, the
National Security league and other or
CARNATIONS.
Miss Leighton is also advising club
women. teachers, and other groups to
write the slogans on slips of paper and
t. inclo!e them in all letters sent to
France and Italy, these slogans to be
written in the language of the country
for which they are intended. so that
they can be handed to soldiers and civ
Hans
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
NO VEHICLE FOR AN AVIATOR
Motorcycle Which Was jogging Along
at Only 81 Miles an Hour"
Injured Rider.

At present I am in the convalescent
ward Of an American aviation center
In Italy, recovering from a slight ac-
cident wherein the motorcycle-the
silly beast-shied at a dog and ran
off the road while | was jogging quiet
~ along at Ga miles an hour, Lieut..
Patton MacGilvray, [. S. A, writes in
Atlantic Magazine. These crazy cycles
seem to poke along, after one has
been riding in plane near the ground,
making twice that speed. Hence the
temptation to run wide open on
"high."
l had my usual luck-motorcycle al
most a complete wreck-but | was
gently tossed 20 or 90 feet from the
scene of the accident and thus got out
of the way. When found to be suf-
fering from a sprained left ankle, a
rather deep cash down to the bone on
my left shin, dislocated thumb and
a face that IS sight TO behold
never was a beauty until now-it's
quite wonderful how the little expert
ences of life make new man of you.
And really aviation. am finding, has
its dangers.
Were it not that the accident oc-
cured an the line of duty ] should
probably be explaining to some stern
court-martial why our camp has one
less cycle. The commanding officer
forbade me riding a motorcycle again,
saying rather delicately that aviators
are too valuable to waste: but some
how or other | have rather sneaking
suspicion that it was merely tact
full way of saying that motorcycles in
Italy are too valuable to waste on
this particular aviator.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
An3zipo Nerve

An elderly British army officer Is a
tester Of parachutes, and it is his al
most daily business to go up in obser
vatinn balloons to n height Of some
thousands of feet and then to throw
himself out with parachute for
lifeline. Sometimes he falls nearly l.
600 feet before the parachute opens
He may land in the oldest places, and
the other day he and his parachute
came down in the middle If Il busy
street, and he narrowly escaped being
run over by Il mOtor-omnibuS. There
was also an occasion when ne found
himself upon the roof of a house with
nc visible means of getting down
therefrom, and for some little time his
position was precarinuS.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Strengthens
Kidneys
Purifes Blood

You can't expect weak kidneys to
Keep up under the terrific strain OF VA
lures effort to hitter the acids ana poi
sons out of the system unless they are
given little help. Don't allow Your
kidneys, the most OVerWorkcd or.-ans
of your body, to become diseased when
little attention now Will arcl cmt il.
Don't try to cheat nature. 1t can't be
done.
As soon as you commence to have
backache, feel nervous. tired or worn
out without cause, GET BUSY. These
are usually warnings that your kid
neys are not working properly and
throwing off the poisons as they
should
DO not delay a minute. Go after the
cause of your ailments or you may find
yourself in the grip Of an incurable
disease. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil
Capsules will give almost immediate
relief from kidney troubles, which may
be the unsupported cause of i'll health
GOLDMEDAL Harlan Oil Capsules
will do the work. They are the pure
original Harlem Oil Capsules import
ed direct from the laboratories in
Haarlem, Holland. Ask your druggist
for GOLD MEDAL ana accept no sub
stitutes. Look Tor the name GOLD
MEDAL on every box. Three. sizes.
sealed packages. Money refunded ii
they do not help you.-AdV.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Plane Shapes Confusing.

American battleplanes are now
beginning to make their appearance
on the western front, according to the
Scientific American, and it is Of in
terest to note the changes undergone
by well-known types of domestic ma
chimes. Certain of our machines have
taken on characteristics of German
battleplanes, such as the tapered front,
propeller pot and fishlike fuselage,
while others have taken on the char
acteristics of the French Spad and the
British Sopwith fighter. The Ameri-
can machines in several instances are
inclosing the V-shape engines, leav-
ing only the exhaust pipes showing
and these are grouped into one pipe on
either side, which leads back and ends
In a perforated taper. One we'll
known type Of American airplane has
been so materially changed of late
that 1t is at first COMPOUNDED with the
French Spad; the engine is entirely
inclosed; the wing arrangement is SIM
liar to the Spad; and the strut ar
rangement is identical to the French
machine.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
AFTER "ZEMoSHuN" MONEY
Darky Had Somewhat Misunderstood
the Situation, But He Was Used to
Disappointment.

Trailed by his wife and II children,
ranging from stout corntirld hands to
bow-legged toddlerS. an old darby
made his way from office 10 office in
the federal building n Ashevflle, \.
c.. seeking his 'ZempShun."
Finally reaching the city exemption
board, he said: BOSS, I done come
for my zempshun money! The clerk
did not understand him. You mean
your pension money, don't YOU" quer-
led the clerk. The old man shook his
head. mo, sir, boss: mean de $4,000
dc gubment lows married folks
Further inquiry disclosed that the
old man had heard some one say the
government allowed the head of a fam
lily $4,000 exemption under the income
tax law, and he understood this to
mean that the government would pay
him $1,000.
He accepted the news that there
was nothing coming to him philOsOph-
ically.
"Jest like after luther wah.' he re-
marked. "Dey say den us darkies
gwine fer to git a mule apiece and
we amt nebber got none"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
ireland Lives in Plenty.

Although only three-hour boat trip
separates England and Ireland, there
Is as much difference as between day
and night in the two islands, as far as
food is concerned, says the New York
Sun.
Ireland is not rationed voluntarily
or otherwise, and there is plenty Of
everything, with the exception of sd
gar. In respect to food it is more
pleasantly situated than the United
States or England, because prices have
not advanced as they have in America.
and are no higher than in England.
where the ministry Of food not only
rations, but controls prices. Ireland
always has sent quantities of meat
and dairy products to England and
still is doing so.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Human in Spite of Stars.

A private of the buck species was
watching plane duel in the skies.
"Quite a sight" said voice beside
him, and his head nearly dropped off
when he saw that it belonged to the
general commanding the division.
There is a story in that same divi-
sion about the same general, which de-
scribes how he was seen one day re-
Gently walking along and chatting
with a top sergeant. This shows that
use has at last been found for top
sergeants.
That division did its share, and paid
its price for the doing, when it helped
to drive the Hun back across the
Marine. That night some one softly
opened the generals door, and then as
softly closed it. And the word went
around that he sat with his face
buried In his hands, and his frame
Quivering with sobs.-The Stars and
Stripes.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Conservation Under Fire.

| know of nothing more strange than
the usual conversations in which one
INDUCES at the front in the heat of
battle. Recently l was racing down a
road to get out from under heavy
shell fire, falling on my face every five
or ten yards as whiStling scream an
nounced fresh arrival. A painting
lieutenant caught step with me. do
YOU know So-and-So?" he gasped.
YES" l replied as a shell whirred
down out of the sky and we both fell
fiat on our faces. where is he now?"
he continued as the sound of the explo-
sion died away and we rose, running
together Il think he's in Paris" l an
swered, and even us l spoke rolled fiat
with him in a muddy ditch as. another
shell screamed down and broke near
by. And thus we continued our way
for several hundred yards, discussing
our friend and his characteristics be-
tween dives into the mud.-William
Slavens McNutt, in'Colliers Weekly.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Would We Hesitate.

To many, perhaps, to most OF US,
saving In these times of high prices Is
difficult, and to get the money for
bond may mean some deprivation. So
II is when some dear member of the
family IS sick unto death and the ex-
ppnse Of medical advice and surgical
skill and care is mounting to figures
that it seems as if we could never
meet Do we hesitate? No; we pledge
the last dollar and are glad to do It.
How should we feel five years from
now # we were to have locked in our
hearts the knowledge that our mother
country persisted because we withheld
the things that would have sustained
her strength when she was fighting
the powers of death and darkness?-
Youths COMPANION.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
Animals Die on Substitutes,

Animals in the zoo in Berlin have
died in large numbers recently, prin-
cipally because the substitutes which
they have been given instead of their
accustomed food could not be digest
ed sufficiently to sustain life. Among
the species in which the mortality
has been greatest are the CRATES,
n,andrills and chimpanzees. The
health of the surviving animals Is not
good.
According to Hamlyn's Menagerie
magazine, published in London, the
Berlin Geological society declared
that while dates and bananas and 9TH
er tropical fruits were unprocurable,
the npeS were fed on kind of biscuit
made of muSty flour.
The carnivura manage to live on
scraps from the slaughter houses, but
the animals requiring grain and seeds
are not thriving well on the wild roots
given them as substitutes.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09

A development Of war conditions in
the steel industry of the United States,
has been the demonstration of the
possibility of making pig iron and iron
castings direct from steel scrap in an
electric Misunderstanding never ac-
ColnpliShed before. It has been claimed
that such iron, east in the form of
castings, is far superior to the samei
castings made from ordinary pig iron.
melted and cast. Tests of this new
iron recently made at Columbia uni
versity demonstrate its high quality
Its tensile strength was shown to be
80, 730 tn 5000 pounds per square
inch. much higher than that Of Or
binary cast iron-Scientitic American.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
EVerYth:nn WIS All RIGHT.

One of the policemen who took part
in the bandit fight on NonlgalI avenue
the other dag called his home imme-
diatcly after hoSIiiliys ceased. to as.
sure his wife that he was not injured
His wife was in the apartment up
stairs. but his molher-in-law was there
and answered the telephone. she took
the message and then went upstairs
to reasSure her daughter. "Now. don't
get excited" she said, for there's
nothing serious. Now everything will
be all right but you know the police
have had Il big fight with some train
robbers out by the Belt line. and your
husband"
The wife slowly, softly, slipped from
her chair in Il dead faint Ten min
uteS later she was revived. Then she
said: well go on, tell me the rest"
And he called up to say he was
all right, and will tell You about 1t at
supper time. kansas City Star.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
THINGS TO LEARN IN NAVY
Old Petty Officer Reminds the Recruits
There Are Some Things That
Cannot Be Taught.

The old petty officer in charge of
the drills drew a deep breath ana
looked down the long lines OF newly
enlisted apprentice seamen. few ar
the boys were from the poorer quar-
tiers of nearby cities and towns: some
were from the farming districts; but
the greater number were underGradu-
ates from colleges and universities
f1ockinS 20 the colorS Ut the first in
timation of their country'S need, and
all were astonishingly transformed by
the mere donning of uniforms and
caps, into potential sailors for the
ships of the United States navy.
The petty officer cleared his throat,
writes Harriet WelleS III Scribner's.
Somehow the sunshiny parade ground,
bordered by cheerful yellow brick bar
racks and backed by the sparkling
blue of Narragansett bay and the dis
tant, pointed spires of Newport
churches, seemed too incongruouay
peaceful compared With the things Of
which he was trying to speak. He
cleared his throat again.
"Td like to remind you, lads" be
said, that there are some things In
our navy that you'll have to learn for
yourselves. We can teach you the
manual of arms and the drills: and
there are schools here TO train you for
any branch of ships work that you
have a leaning toward-wireleSS. cleo
tricity, signal corps. hospital corps,
engineering, cooking and yeoman's
workout what you've got to get. If
you're to he of any real use. is the
spirit of the navy.
maybe there's those with education
enough to explain that spirit to you.
l haven't got the words. I only know
what it means in actions. Summed up,
1t amounts to about this: Aboard ship
there amt no you and there amt no
me; there's just us, And we're work
ing together under the flag of the fin
est country on earth
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
WAR PROFITEER IN HOLLAND
Numbers and is Always an Oh.
ject of Contempt

Though he has lined his pockets
with gold the Dutch war profiteer is
IL marked msa, Isaac f. Marcosson
writes i'll the Saturday Evening Post.
i was walking down the Hoogstraat-
III" ,eading retail business street in
Holterdam-one day last June, when
my companion. a widely known Dutch
man, t,Igged at my sleeve, pointed to
lIan driving in smart new dog cart
ana said: Hes an over"
what is that?" l asked.
"a war profiteer," he replied.
I then discovered that the Dutch
have coined this phrase to Indicate the
cespised type. 1t is Il combination Of
tbr first letters of the two Dutch
words Oorlog Whist, which means war
ploiits. When pronounced it sounds
Ike over"
Holland has the number" of these
gentry. They are spotted wherever
they gc, and by an interesting system.
1t was explained to me by Il Dutch
inan in this fashion: whenever you
a
Few carriage you can put him down
a> profteer No Self-reSpecting
Dutchman will buy Il new vehicle these
days. BeSides-as far as the motor is
concerned-petrol is scarce and too
nigh for the ordinary man. Some
pr"iiteers try to disguise their cars by
buying low motor car numbers"
The protiteers have grown to such
numbers in The Hague alone they oc-
cupN Il whole residential district. BY
a fitting irony it is located near the
peace palace. Here they have taken
Possession Of scores of imposing res
ideEcc>, whose owners have not been
ohIe to maintain them under war con-
ditions. 1t is the domain of the Dutch
new rich. Holland imposes a tax of
80 per cent on war profits. Since 1915
it has yielded the government nearly
500 100000, which would mean a
gross total of nearly $500, 100000. But
these actual taxes are about as fair
an index to real figures as the in
heritance tax in America is to real
inheritances. Besides, there is the
huge pool of untraceable profits gar
nered by the farmers, who have been
among the principal profteers.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
BAT AT HOME EVERYWHERE
Species of the Race Vary as Widely
as Their Hahits--rIot Especially
Deadly to Mosquitoes.

As a group bats are Of worldwide
distribution except in the inhospita-
bic polar regions. Tuey are real MANI
mails and present an extraordinary
variation in size, from tiny little crea-
lures, almost as small and fragile as
butterflies, to the huge fruit bats, with
a spread of wings like that of u wild
goose.
The heads of bats are strangely
sculptWed, some being smoothly con-
toured and shaped like those of little
foxes; others appear like miniature
bulldogs; and still others, have curious
cartilaginous nose-leaves upright on
the muZZle Some have the entire face
nodded into a hideous mask repulsive
to look upon.
Their habits are equally varied to
meet special conditions: Some are
eaters of fruit alone; others feed sole
ly upon insects, while others bite other
mammals, including man, for the pur-
pose of drinking the oozinS blood, upon
which they subsist. All are nocturnal.
but some appear late in the afternoon.
before the sun sets Most species,
however, wait until the shades of
night have covered the earth.
Throughout the world the majority
of the species Of bats feed upon in
sects, but there are many fruit eat
ers. The teeming insects and plant
life Of the tropics afford never-fail-
ing food supply, and the center of
abundance OF these animals is found
there. In some localities between 20
and 80 kinds of bats exist, with such
vast numbers Of individuals that the
bat population far outnumbers all 9th
er kinds of mammals combined.
And alas. it is not true that bats
prefer Il diet of mosquitoes,
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
WORSE THAN WARS HORRORS
Among Active Aids of Recruiting Ser
geant May Surely Be CIassed the
Nagging Woman.

He was khaki-ClHd, with the "U. s.
Il" 0n his collar, and as lie clambered
aboard the interurhan car he swung
in his free hand Il small travelling bag
that appeared to be empty. Preceding
him was the other member of the
family. all fused up in her tailored re-
caIia bound for Il town Il few miles
distant. while the husbands destina-
ton wa@ Detroit. Once inside, he
tossed the travelling bag on vacant
rack at the forward end of the car and
seated himself facing his better-half.
Then the car lurclicd around Il curve
and the bag, Slipping from the rack,
deposited itself on the woman's hat
anG bounced n.t 10 Tie ;'oor
MY hoavens! ~ was her Startled ex-
ella nAliun, then when she discovered
the trouble: That was a very careless
thing to do
The maa gathered up the bag, with
profuSe apologies and placed it back of
his feet, where it could do no further
harm.
"You don't know how that hurt"
came Inc tDllii'''tlit, dilIlouSH lliS
crown of the hat WIS not even dented.
"Supposing it had been filled with a
lot of your truck" she went on.
No response from Ier vis-a-vis.
"Eou should never put anything like
that up there" was the next bit of
shrapnel. in tones loud enough to be
heard the length of the car.
at must have been the metal strip
on tie bag that struck me.
1T was very careless thing for you
to do.
"You might have known that it
would fall off there.
"IIl probably have a headache all
the day that will spoil my trip.
"When anything like that comes
down on you it unneryes you, / can
tell you"
Her vis-a-vis only smiled amiably,
and getting no satisfaction from that
quarter she turned to her seatmate,
who was trying to hide his annoyed ex-
preston behind weekly war digest.
Did that bag hurt you when it
fell?' she inquired, although it had
missed him by at least foot.
"Not at ALL was the reply, without
looking up. at never touched me-"
ut was an awfully careless thing to
do she ratified on, "and-"
Good night" CALCULATED man
across the aisle, who had tried in vain
to read the news from the front in
his morning paper. And as he stalked
toward the solitude of the back plat
form he was heard to mutter: mo
wonder some men enlist so they can
GET aWaX from hnmnN
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-11-09
His Autohionran!lY.

In one of the big base hospitals Of
the army not long ago a new librarian
was set to work by the American Ii
brary association. She was n very
charming young woman, and very
anxious to please all of her custom
ers," though some of them didn't even
wish to look at a book. In her rounds
she approached one Of the patients
and he declined to be interested in
her wares. At the next cot she stopped
and offered its occupant a book.
whats it about2" the patient
asked.
"Oh, this is Bambi," said the IL
brarian. Its about a girl who mar
Red a man without his having any
thing to say about it.
Hold on there" shouted the man
who had declined all books He raised
himself up on his elbow and reached
out his hand "Give me that book.
It's my autobiography. Prom a Bull
letin Of the American Library Associa
4on.