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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-04-26

offender was sent to Jail. A judgment
was had on the nuisance count, and
in most cases the soft drink places
have been closed up tight.
The comptroller's report for the
year is not ready but it is apparent
that all bills contracted by this adj
ministration will be paid and part
.af,t1e deficits iisherit,.a from tre fcr-
mer administration will be taken care
OF.
Business conditions never were bet
ter. hand you clipping taken from
one OF our daily papers under date of
April 20, 1918.
The general feeling here is that the
dry policy has been success.
The following is the report on bank
clearings referred to above:
Business continues to be on the in
crease in Danvile. according to that
unfailing financial barometer, the
bank clcarings. An increase OF nearly
100000 is noted in the weeks busi-
ness as shown by the weekly report
of the Danvillc Clearing House asso-
citation. This report was issued at
the close OF business Saturday and
shows that the clearings for the week
were $870,555.25. \ years ago for the
same week in April the clearings were
$4o6,62276. The increase is $373,932.-
40.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-04-26

On the subject OF vacant rooms, !
had him make personal inspection
OF the places which were used as sa-
looms. The total was 73. At this
time there are 28 vacant, but at least
one-half of these were never fit for
any other purpose than saloons. The
location is not adapted to the conduct
foi, oti.er lifss- of 2bas;sess.
In the matter of liquor prosecutions,
the record shows a series OF prose-
cutions in the January term OF the
county court against about 20 offend
ers and conviction in practically all
cases and penalties, which, with costs,
amounted to about 10000 and in ad
ditional jail sentences aggregating
about 5000 days.
The first cases were bitterly con-
tested, but after a fe~ convictions the
rest asked to make terms and pleaded
guilty. Later in the same month an
other series OF prosecutions were
launched in the circuit court and, as
a result of this, penalties and impris-
onments in about double the fore
going amounts were imposed. In some
OF these cases the parties are now
serving jail sentences. In other cases
the sentence was suspended on parole
for year on condition of the closing
up of the place OF business. In one in
stance the parole was violated and the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-04-26

Peter Bitter, of Louisville, KY,
was fined $100 and costs for selling
liquor on Sunday. He faces several
other charges. How many times he
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-04-26

The real submarine is the distiller's
still or brewers vat. For the simple
fact is that the brewery vat and the
still probably swallow more food than
all the Atlantic itself assisted by the
submarine.-The Christian Science
Monitor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-04-26

If you do not invest in Liberty
Bonds, buy Thrift Stamps. Either will
help lick the Kaiser.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
HANG ON TO LIBERTY BONDS
Timely Warning to Those Who May
Be Tempted to Trade Them for
UnWlse investments.

Several million people who are not
used to investing In stocks and bonds
have of late become investors in the
Liberty loan. The effect, we hear,
has not escaped the attention of va
rious bands of thieves, a y a writer
in the Saturday Evening Post.
The return upon an investment in
government bonds-four per cent
seems small out in the country, where
money loaned on good farm mortgages
has been fetching six or seven or eight
per cent. 1t is said some get-rich-
quick artists are ofling up their old
paraphernalia and preparing to ac-
cept Liberty bonds In exchange for
~engravlngs that promise far higher re
turns.
In spite of the laws that many
states have enacted, there is still op-
portunity for the blue-sky swindler to
clean up a community and beat the
sheriff to the state line. Look out
for these gentry. Remember that any
investment which promises a very
high return, along with absolute secur-
ity, is quite sure to be a swindle. The
shrewdest investors in the world can
not find investments that yield more
than six per cent interest and are
practically free from risk.
Never deal with strangers. If any
investment that looks tempting is pre-
sented to you, go to the bank and in
quire about 1t. We hope millions of
these new investors will keep their
Liberty bonds indefinitely. They are
convenient things to have. But If
you do think of converting your Lib
erty bond, beware of the wildcat. Do
not keep a bond round the house,
where accident or theft may put you
to much inconvenience or entail an
outright loss. Take it to the bank for
safekeeping.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
PLEA FOR "FooLLEss" DAY
Movement to Abolish Stupid April FIrse
Jokes Surely Would Meet With
General Approval.

In connection with the movement for
"less' days it is up to some patriot
who has the highest interest of the
nation at heart to launch a campaign
for a foolless first of April.
Individuals, like automobiles, are not
foolproof, and Mr.. Absent Minded, who
from time immemorial has been a
much-fooled man on the fatal day,
would rise up and call congress bless
ed, instead of calling the members
thereof names, as he now does, If that
body would busy itself with legislation
abolishing the April-fool jokes that
wreck tempers, ruin dispositions and
work havoc generally.
On the other hand, Mrs. Absent
Minded would probably fight to the last
ditch against any curtailment of the
privileges Of jeering derisively at her
husband when he puts salt in his cof-
fee, cracks an egg which proves to be
only a shell, finds the lining Of his
overcoat sewed up, picks up some stage
money on the doorstep and starts to
work with a box of soap camoufiaged
as candy In his pocket to MUNICH after
lunch.
AS a result the sons of dignity will
probably have to endure the annual
disturbance of their mental equilibrium
in order to keep peace in the family.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
WOULD BRING BACK OLD COIN
Our Daddles Found Many Uses for.
Copper Two-cent Pieces, and Its
Restoration Is Urged.

The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association has recommended the
return to the two-cent piece. Do you
remember the old two-cent coin, with
he big figure 90" on it? 1t was decor
ated with q wreath and almost every
thing else that could be crowded onto
it.
1t was used principally for the chill
dren to play with. 1t was too big for
the baby to swallow and large enough
to be found when one 1t was lost.
When the Sunday school kids read OF
the woman in the Bible who had lost a
coin and searched the house until she
found 1t, they Immediately associated
1t with the two-cent piece and wonder
ed why there should be any trouble
about its recovery.
But 1t was good old family coin. new
ertheless, and would buy two pieces OF
licorice or one all-day sucker. 1t was
not without It's advantages, either, for
the Sunday collection. 1t looked big,
anyway, and made a very respectable
noise when 1t was tossed into the plateS
on top Of a pile of other coins.
To have the old two-cent coin with
us again would remind us of the good
old days and work no hardship on Our
financial system. So, let us have it
with the big figure 80" on one side. the
wreath and the national shield, and ev-
erything, just as big as ife.-Kansas
N1tv Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
Pat Sullivan Now His
Same Old Self Again

vances. He wheeled round on their
like a shot, and they remembered
pressing business over the other side
of camp.
Finally the Red Cross man noticed
him and after much diplomacy got at
the heart Of his trouble. Pat had no
family except an older sister, with
whom he had had a fight way back in
1901. They had never spoken since.
self, and the idea of going off to
France with no one to say goodby
and no one to write letters or give a
damn If he got shot was getting on his
nerves. He thought about his sister,
and the more he thought the more he
realized what a darn fine oma she
was and what a fool he'd been. He'd
about sell his soul to get in touch with
her again, but he had no idea where
she lived. He knew she was married,
but did not know to whom, but hat
was all he could tell.
By communicating with the Red
Cross Chapter in Sullivan's home town
the home service man finally got on
her trail. Having located her, he
wrote the prettiest letter he knew how,
telling how her brother had repented
and wanted to hear from her, etc.
Fol days there was no reply, and
the secretary had about given 1t up
when Pat burst into his tent one eve
ming waving a letter wildly around his
head oft came I" he shoutad sIt
camel" 'It'' was a long, rather
clumsy, tear stained document, rather
too sacred to reproduce here.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
AMONG ToMBs OF MoNARCHs
Shaft viii Be Erected on Scottish
Coast to the Memory Of United
States Soldiers.

Nature has built on several of Scot
lands western islands great stone
shafts that are viewed with wonder
and admiration; mar has erected on
others many columns and monuments
that are renowned in art and history.
To mention notable examples. the
natural may be seen in the basaltic
pillars of Skye and Staffa, the artistic
in the memorials to Scottish, Irish and
Norwegian kings In the buryingi
ground of st. Columba's Isle, Iona.
There will shortly appear amid this
%concourse of records a monument all
together novel, a new-world monument,
by which America will signalize the
memory of her young soldiers of free
dom whom Germany's submarine dew
iltry drowned In the adjacent waters.
On this knoll a lofty monolith Of i'm
p%erishable granite will be raised in
honor of the brave who went to death
u~ndismayed and self-controlled.
Islay was the chief seat Of those.
fighting chieftains, the lords OF the
isles, who began In the twelfth century
their incessant warfare with the
Norsemen, and the title of the island
princes has descended to the Prince OF
Wales. Quiescent past and stirring
present seem to meet on this pic
turesque island. If the shades of the
old-world kings ever visit the royal
tombs at Iona, they need look south
but 80 miles to see a towering sign Of
the making Of new-world history.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
@SldfR g.! Is
w. Author of AT GoodEoId SiWWsshh' 8 O\
PUBLICITY.

Publicity Is the science of talk
ing into two million ears at once.
1t Is the stuff m~illionaires are
made out Of nowadays. 1t is used by
some people as a substitute for sue
cess. 1t Is the best known disinfec-
tant for politics.
1t Is also the best imitation Of abil-
ity on the market. One good press
agent can make ten famous actresses
while ten good dramatic instructors
couldn't make one fair actress out
of the same material.
Publicity can make ten million
people rise in the morning with a
laundering for a new brand of shat
tered wheat which they had never
heard Of three months before.
1t can make two men fight over the
comparative excellence Of two auto
mobiles, although neither man owns
an automobile and one Of them still
owes for a baby buggy.
1t causes men in San Francisco to
weep with gloom when the Philadel-
phia team is defeated and enthus-
lasts in Texas to get out q band
when the Giants win a game.
1t causes hundreds of Americans to
play solitaire for amusement while
travelling down beside the Hudson
river on their way to view the Rhine.
The Hudson has plenty of water and
carloads of scenery but 1t needs
about two centuries more of unfiag-
ging publicity in order to become
truly beautiful.
Publicity Is a great partisan and
plays favorites shamelessly. One man
will serve his country ably and
faithfully for fifty years and at his
death the newspapers will spell his
name wrong and confuse him with
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
Man Dumb From War Now Talks.

Parents of Walter Jones, a soldier
of Glen Cove, L. l., who has just re-
turned from France, answering a tele-
phone call from New York, heard the
voice of their son, whom they sup
posed was dumb as the result of shell
shock. In the trenches in France a
shell exploded within a few feet Of
Jones and he became unconscious.
Several Of his comrades were killed
by the explosion. When Jones re-
gained consciousness he was deaf and
dumb. He was sent back to America
for treatment and on the ocean trip
homeward the vessel was attacked by
a submarine. The excitement of this
shock is said to have restored both
his speech and hearing.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07

tied to that m%onotonous switchboard.
"TH stay home myself" thought
Yates. THAT girl certainly deserves
a Saturday half holiday. / can't ask
any of the elevator boys to run the
switchboard, but l can do it myself,
and I I'm going to-"
Yates concOcted a hurried telephone
excuse to his hostess and then with a
light heart started uptown to Kings
Castles. He could visualize the happy
smile that would come into Abby's
eyes when he told her that she could
take the afternoon off. He looked for
ward, too, with no small pleasure to
the ten or fifteen minutes of instruc-
ton that he knew must take place
while she showed him how to work the
switchboard.
"And if | do make Mistakes" he
thought, "and the tenants get mad,
nobody can fire me-
He got up to the apartment house
about eleven o'clock and found Abby
as fresh and smiling as ever.
81 have nothing to do this after
noon, Miss Sarter," he began, "and it's
such q corking day, l thought perhaps
you'd be wanting an afternoon off. SO
1 thought I'd stay here and run this
switchboard and you could have a
little vacation. I don't just know how
but l think maybe you could show me,
couldn't your
Ahhu 1nn1yOd % kfD, H.
"Why, I don't want a vacation, Mr..
Barlow. I couldn't possibly do any
thing that would give me as much fun
as running this switchboard"
"But I mean a chance to go some
place-out in the country, you know
or something like that" said Yates.
but I've lived in the country all my
life, Mr.. Barlow. And this-she waved
her hand inclusively about the spacioAs
hall-this is so wonderful. I should
think just to own a place like Kings
Castles would make you happy"
Barlow looked at the girl before him
with a new interest. For months he
had been growing fond of her, but
mixed with his liking there had been
a feeling Of pity that she should be
forced to do uncongenial work. Now
he felt q new admiration for her. She
was doing the work she liked and
getting a full measure Of happiness
from each day at the monotonous
switchboard. "Just to own a place
like this"-her words rang in his ears.
Well, why shouldn't she own Kings
Castles? He could give It to her for
a wedding gift if that would make
her happy. He knew now that 1t was
Abby who could make him happy and
perhaps he with Kings Castles thrown
in could make her happy.
"Well," said Yates, 'let me stay
with you this afternoon, anyway, and
let's 60 some place for dinner together.
I'm going to ask you if you'll help me
run Kings Castles all your life?"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07

The Red Cross is now placing two
home service workers in every camp
and cantonment throughout the cOun-
try to get in touch with the men who
have family problems in which the
service may be of assistance. Proba-
bly, not one-half of the cases they
work on require financial assistance.
But every conceivable family difficulty
that can come to q group of 25,000
men has to be met and dealt with by
the Red Cross workers. The following
story is typical of dozens of cases in
which a Red Cross man has brought
scattered families together.
Patrick Sullivan was the strong
man of Camp Dix. Six feet two in his
stockings, with arms like a gorilla, 1t
al an unfortunate recruit who got
into the grip of his iron paws. Few
did.
The second day after coming to
camp Pat announced he was champion
wrestler, boxer and strong man ex-
traordinary of the camp. And to date
there is no M who has not taken his
word for 1t. He had a big, genial
Irish face, too, that should have been
laughing at the whole world.
Lonely and UnsociabIe.
Instead of that he would loaf around
his barracks by himself or take lonely
little strolls up and down the COM
pany streets. He was lonely, no ques-
ton about that, and several recruits
who took a chance on the natural So
ciability in his face tried to make adj
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
INDIANS NO LONGER OUTCASTS
Red Man Has Taken His Place With
Other Respected Members Of
American Social Life.

In the annual report of Cato Sells,
commissioner of Indian affairs, this
is said:
Evidences of material and humani-
tartan advancement are everywhere APP
parent. Industrially and socially, the
Indians are making unparalleled
strides toward s%elf-suppOrt and civ
ilization. / have discovered that with
sympathetic cooperation and intelli-
gent encouragement their response is
almost universal"
Within the last few years 42,110
Indian families have forsaken the
tepee to live in houses. The tribal
Indian rapidly is becoming individual
lied" His red past is only a few
years behind him, but it is in the past.
The government no longer believes
that wars with the Indians are posi-
BILE. The question of peace with them
is an answered one, and all that re-
mains is to make of the Indian a self
supporting. self-respecting member Of
American society.
II utS Dctu od4b oiob thN ANu PO9A
of the Indian is only a few years be-
hind him. How s~trikingly this is
shown by the fact that today many
officers of the United States army be-
low the rank Of brigadier general wear
the ribbon which shows that they have
seer active service in warfare against
the Apache, the Sioux, the Cheyenne,
or other tribes of mountain and plain.
1t probably will be hard today to find
any irreconcilables among the Indians
of the West. unless the search be ex-
tended into the tepees of the ancients
who grow to old age in a condition of
and warriors, and in whom
nature forbids a change to take place.
@Chicago Evening Post
Motorcycles IN Java
One of the Occidental countries In
which the use of motorcycles has be-
come popular Is Java, an island about
as large as all of Great Britain, with
a population of 100000. 1t is gen
orally billy, but there are good roads
over the island. A favorite motor
cycle tour in Java is the one between
Batavia and Soerabaya, a distance OF
| about 345 miles. wei one of these i'm
! proved roads.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07

Evidently Charles D. Woodward, of
Providence, r. l., has often had con-
siderable trouble in driving the con-
ventional wood screw into hard wood,
for he has developed a screw which
bores It's W hole as it proceeds. Ac-
cording to his patent claims, says the
Scientific American, he has devised a
countersinking gimlet-pointed screw
having at the root of It's point a bulge
constituting the largest diameter of
the shank, and having across its
thread a spiral groove, one end Of
which forms a cutter at the bulge.
The groove goes once around the
screw and terminates at the slant Of
the head and at the root of the gimlet
point.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
why the Blu. Heron Is Eurr,

Did you ever watch a great blue
heron fshingf Knee deep he stands
in some pool, stream or bay, and no
marble statue has anything on him for
being immovable, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger. Presently some member
of the fnny tribe, perhaps a chap out
of class or the whole school even,
wanders by beneath the crystal depth
and-whack The combination of long
bent neck and dagger bill does a stunt
that is both funny and effective and
generally gets the fish. The entire as
pect is peculiar and hard to describe;
it is much like a miniature and plumed
clothesrack with a crazy tongs at
tachment, the latter being heightened
by a released watchspring. You can
see it. but merely so; no more than
that.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07

| missed her and / missed the care l
took of her, although the scars did not
attest to it. I wanted to die when l
saw you lying in the snow with the
blood running down your face"
He smiled at the remembrance. mo
n seemed to know where your father
went after your mothers death. But
| made a covenant with myself; to
find you. I never thought of you as
grown up. 1t was always as my little
sweetheart, which Of course was fool
ish."
why, of course" she asked sedate-
ly. Don't you think a child can re-
tain a memory" She unpinned the
watch hanging upon her breast, open
ed 1t and held 1t so that he could see
two little birds drawn upon a scrap of
paper.
i can match that" He snapped his
w open showing two hearts pierced
by a dart. "But there was something
else" He vas showing more of ear
nestness than the occasion seemed to
demand.
The girl colored. 81 have forgotten"
"Your pardon, but I think not"
She still held her watch, but as he
spoke 1t fell from her fingers. Some
thing bright rolled away from it and
a slip Of paper fell so that a line of
writing vas visible.
Blair Henderson stopped, his color
rising as he picked up the trifies.
why did you say that you had for
g~otten7" he asked. did you believe
the boy could know what he wanted
and not desire 1t as a manf' He
looked at the tiny ring set with tur-
quoise forget-me-nots; the scrap of
paper upon which was written to my
Wife "Was that the reason?"
"Why should 1 remember anything
when for four weeks l have been a
guest in your home and you did not
recognize me?"
"That is over and done with. /
know you now, although I yet do not
understand your change of name. Are
you going to play with me or will you
be honest and give me the chance to
show you the man is as earnest as the
boy once wasp
IT think, Blair. the difference be-
tween the man and the boy is only a
matter Of years. He seems about the
same to me-"
"And the girli Has she changed?"
"When her father died she was
adopted by a very dear aunt and took
her name. The years made a great
difference in appearance, but other
wise she did not alter. Old memories
were too precious to part with and she
still clings to them. 1 cannot play
with you, Blair. I am happy in the
thought that boy and man are OF the
same mind, and If the little ring was
not SC small I would be wearing 1t
now"
THAT Is a fault easily remedied," he
returned, as he drew her to him. "You
must let me have the measure Of your
finger"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-05-07
Library for Every School.

In the past we have thought relative
ly too much about teaching people how
to read and not enough about getting
them to read after they learn how.
To develop "the reading habit" in
each pupil should be one of the chief
aims Of every teacher, says the Pro-
gressive Farmer. Train any child so
he likes to read, so he Is a real book
lover, and he will educate himself ever
If he never goes to school another day.
Moreover, If a school has a good IL
brary it should aid greatly in educating
the older people whose school days are
over, but whose learning days should
never be over. The saying of old
Thomas Carlyle, "The true university
of these days is a collection of books"
cannot be too often repeated.