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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
HUN BOOBY TRAPS
Left When Armies Were Driven
From France.
Detection Of ContriVances Which Had
No Part in Civilized Warfare Was
Made Work of Special
Organization.

Detection by British army investi-
gators of German "bOoby traps saved
the lives Of many an officer or man
Of the British armies during the period
when the Germans were retreating
from France.
Il am convinced" says one officer,
that we nipped many of the Huns
favorite plans by capturing near Bray
a little factory where he made his
booby traps When we occupied it
we learned much from the partly com
pleted traps we found lying about the
place.
"One Of them was an iron plate.
This the willy Hun dropped in a road
way 50 that it would likely be trod
upon by soldier or horse Of our ad-
vauc-ug troops. The plate was in
two parts with a spring inside, an4
usually contained a detOnatOr connect
ed With a heavy charge Of explosive.
When the weight Of the foot was re-
moved the spring slipped into place
ana exploded the detonator, and tie
damage was done.
These spring decorators were the
Germans speciality. They consisted of
a tube containing Il little spring with
a hook at one end. Attached to the
hook was a string or wire connecting
with the explosive charge. Any ar
rangement by which the spring could
be distended and then suddenly con
tracted served to jerk the string, and
the charge was exploded.
"One night received q call from our
lieutenant colonel who had spent the
day directing movements from a re
Gently captured German dugOut. He
told me he was nervous, and believed
he was assOciating with a BOBBY and
asked me to send him a squad Of engi-
neers to look it over. l went myself.
'The colonel sat in the dugOut, about
ten feet down, on q chair by table.
Directly in front of the chair was a
petrol can, and it was the can he
feared. He had noticed it early in the
morning when the dugout was first Oc-
cupied, but had no time to examine it
until evening. Then he found nothing,
but he had a 'hunch' that it was
trap and wanted expert assistance.
Il dug a little trench around the
can, but could find no wires, and then
tapped it, but received no sound other
than that which might come from any
old empty can. There was nothing to
do but open 1t, and, borrowing the
cOlonel's can opener, I went at 1t as
gingerly as I could.
ut was partly filed with about eight
pounds of one of the most deadly
powder explosives known to science.
This removed very carefully, and in
the bottom of the can found the spring
detOnatOr. 1t had been fastened to the
bottom of the can in such a way that
If the can had been lifted from the
floor Of the dugOut the charge would
have exploded, and the colonel and his
party would have been blown to bits.
"The colonel paled a little when I
showed him just what he had been as
sociating with all day, and very fer
vently thanked himself for obeying his
'hunch' to let that can alone"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17

heart. She had been SO Strange and
diffident among them all, and in SO
many ways he had helped her. Later,
those evenings at the theater or the
opera in his company had become her
one loOked-for pleasure.
Mrs Shannon, who had vouched so
emphatically for his Worthiness, had
forgotten to mention the fact of his
injustice to his own child and the loss
which had embittered him. And only
last night-before the awakening of
the cry which had led her to the truth,
John Langley had asked Marcia to be
his wife. She had not given him an
answer, she wanted to wait-and
make sure for them both Sadly Mar
cia planned that answer. And then
the candle fared as the bedroom door
was softly opened.
Before her stood John Langley him
self, he whom Ted's loyal heart had
called his nice daddy.
"You!" the man exclaimed, his eyes
lighted joyOusly. $50 you found him
MaFcia, the poor little waif. He doesn't
know that he is to undergo an opera
lion tomorrow upon his ear I'm go
ing to stay and see Ted through.
Motherless, with a heartless father
roaming around the globe, he is In
need of friends. / came on him quite
accidentally and we've had secret
meetings up here ever since. ! was go
ing to tell you about him, Marcia"
But you" murmured the girl per-
plexedly, "he calls you his daddy"
John Langley laughed. ''It pleased
Ted to adopt me-" he explained. "'Fa.
ther doesn't like me- Ted said, so
don't like father. You'll be my
daddy"
Gently Marcia put her sleeping bur.
den back in his bed, then she turned
to the man with outstretched hands.
"Iohn," she said, you and I, we
must both see Ted through"
kCoavrI.h+ 1910 hy wastarn Narsnoro, u.so.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
The First Gas RespIrator.

The first apparatus to enable per-
sons to enter a noxious infammable
atmosphere was called an 'aerophore"
and was the invention of NJ. Denayr-
rouse, a French inventor and scientist.
1t was first tested at Chatham, Eng
land, A years ago, and was reported
successful. Vast improvements on
this device, which comprised an air
pump, lamp and flexible tubing, have
since been made and these have saved
the lives Of hundreds in mine accidents
and other disasters where rescue work
would be impossible without their use.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
The VILLAGE Stocks.

The curious old habit Of Furnishing
offenders by placing them in the pub
lie stocks seems very far in the shad-
owy past, yet a number of these old
wooden machines may still be seen in
England Usually they stand, or they
stood, on The village green, near the
church: and it is not such a long while
since stocks ceased 10 be used in tbs
land.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
Country Board.

"Im tired Of canned beef" complain
ed the summer boarder. "Some fish
wouldn't go bad"
THAT'S easily fixed" responded the
genial farmer. "Ezry, open a can OF
sardines."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
pisapnroves Old Adade.

In spite Of the old adage to the con-
trary, some things done by halves are
done most satisfactorily, as for exam
pie the much-used Quinsigamond
bridge at Worcester, Mass. Here traf-
fc suffered a minimum Of interruption
by completing and putting into use
one longitudinal half of the new struc-
ture before the other half was built.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
The Difference.

'aThat man is telling of the most
wonderful exploits he accomplished
when he was on the firing line"
''Was he ever overseasY"
swell, he might have been half seas
over"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17

"You are mispronouncing the names
Of places where these battles oc-
Cured"
THAT'S all right. If our boys had
stopped to argue about the pronun-
citation they might not have won the
battles so quickly"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
GrsndmotheIs Economy.

Another reason why your dear old
grandmother &lidn't think she could
afford silk stockings was because she
thought she ought TO wear six or seven
petticOats-Dallas News.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17

To kill insects on a cactus plant
spray it with & very weak solution Of
alum-112 to per cent. This solution
is said to be perfectly harmless to the
plant but to kill the plant lice.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
Not Walkinn-

DO yOur troubles make you walk
the floor?"
NO." answered the irascibie man.
That's the worst of it. My principal
trouble is gout."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
Little Things.

Life is made up of little things. 1t Is
but once in an age that occasion is Of
fered for doing a great deed. True
(. greatness consists in being great in
little things,
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
Pace Mr.. Hoover,

First Suburbanite-I understand he
was arrested by the government.
Second Suburbanite-What for?
First Suburbanite-Hec cast his bread
upon the waters and later found cut il
was q Wheatless daY.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-05-17
The
Bayou Bridge
By NELLIE CRAVE GILMORE

Copyright, 1918, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
CONSTITUTIONAL DAY.

The anniversary of the completion of the
draft of the United States constitution on
September 18th is to be made the occasion
of a national crusade in behalf of close
study and a better understanding of this
great instrument by the masses of the peo-
pie. 1t is possible if more people knew what
the constitution is and what its strength and
symmetry are there would be less of the
blatant drivel about the overthrow of con-
stitutional government. The soap box ora
Gle who bellows about the destruction OF the
rights of classes has no knowledge of the
principles upon which constitutional gov
eminent is founded. He does not know that
the instrument places the whole power OF
the government in the hands of the MAORI
ty. He does not know that the limited term
of Office for all public servants is the guar
antee against usurpation of power. The on
ly thing he would do with the constitution
would be to tear it into shreds and set up
mob law in its place.
The observance of constitutional day may
set the people thinking about the value OF
that instrument and what would result II
it were destroyed, for the instrument can
not be destroyed without destroying the
government built upon it. If the masses
would study, not merely read, the constitu-
ton there would be higher regard for It's
sanctity and a broader concept of the WIS
dom in which it is embodied. The check
of one branch of the government over the
other, like the veto of the president, the
right to declare war by congress, the inltla-
tory taxing power in the branch OF con-
gress which is amenable to the people in
biennial elections, the concurrence in legis-
lation of two houses of the legislature tenn
peramentally different in their membership,
and score of others of like effect, would
be understood in the light of great safe
guards of liberty instead of abstract mat
tiers without purpose or intent.
If the special observance of the anniver-
sary of the completion of the instrument sets
the public to studying its merits it will serve
a meritorious purpose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
SAME OLD STORY.

E'The Triton Gozette and the Albany Her
aid have caught the rythm of the profiteers.
They have discovered that when the govern
ment begins to investigate you can look for
things to get worse The Herald was the
first to predict the slump in the hog market
and the Gazette discovered that as soon as
a price was fixed on sugar the supply gave
out" says the Griffin News and Sun.
Twas ever thus. These government IN
vestigations have never benefited the pub
lie; only the politicians have profted by
them. by attracting attention to themselves
in a seeming effort to do something really
beneficial. 1t has now been several weeks
since the latest furry was begun at Wash
ington to reduce the high cost of living, and
the consumer is paying as much for the ne
cessities as before-in some instances act
ually more, thanks to "fair price" commit
tees. who increased the cost over the coun-
ter of some articles.
The high cost situation, which arose as a
consequence of war and abnormal condl-
tons. has become a common mania or cpl
demic and more of a moral than economic
question. Inthe face of such conditions gov
ornamental action is all but helpless But do
not worry; we'll get over it IN time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
The Law and the Fact.
From the Omaha World-Herald.

We hear much in these days about the
law of supply and demand. Some tell US that
the fundamental cause of high prices is a
great demand for goods, which exceeds the
supply. That may be so, undoubtedly is 50
in many lines, but when prices rise on that
account alone what is it but profteering?
When the demand exceeds the supply it SIM
ply means that many people want what one
man has. The thing which he has does not
cost him more merely because many people
want it. But because many want it he can
get a higher price for it. He makes big
ger profit. The thing itself is of no greater
intrinsic value but because there isn't
enough of it to go around the fortunate pos
SCISSOR is able to profteer. 1t isn't fair, of
course, to charge every man with profteer-
ing who uses the Supply and demand"
theory to explain the high price of what he
has to sell. He may be a middle man, who
has suffered himself. But, insofar as the
law of supply and demand is cited as a pri-
mary explanation of high prices, it means
that somewhere the man who had what 9th
er people wanted took advantage of their
want to boost the price. 1t may have been
the producer, it may have been the middle
man, it may have been the laborer, but
somebody did it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
Too Much Government.
From the Vidalia Advance.

There seems to be an idea among a great
many people that the inequalities among hu-
man beings can be corrected by legislation.
That the simple minded, the Indifferent, the
careless the extravagant ones, who suffer
because of these traits of character, can be
improved and made successful by the enact
ment of laws The idea seems to be that
the suffering and poverty of certain ones is
the result of imposition by others, and our
legislative bodies have set themselves to the
task of lettering the condition of the peo-
pie by laws The result is that our statute
books are being loaded down with the acts
of legislatures and congresses intending to
regulate the business, professional, social
and home life of the people
This country is suffering today because OF
too much government. The best government
in the world is the one that interferes as
little as possible with the affairs of the peo-
pie. That saying Of Jesus of Nazareth, "the
kingdom of heaven is within you," simply
means that every man carries in his own ma
ture the attributes or forces that lead to
success in life. Ambition, energy, economy,
perseverance and thrift are the attributes
that lead to success, and whenever the gov
eminent takes hold of the lazy, careless and
extravagant man and tries to place him by
the side of the man who possesses the for
mer traits and let them equally enjoy the
things of life it is violating the inherent
laws of the universe and the result is con-
fusion and disruption.
Every man should realize that his life is
in his own hands, that "God is no respector
of persons" and that his success or failure
in life is wrapped up in his own nature Let
him look within and he will find the key that
unlocks the riches of human life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
SEE THEIR MISTAKE.

If the farmers of Butts county re-
main in their present state of mind
there will be tremendous cut In cot
ton acreage next season. There is no
doubt of the fact that we have reach
ed the point where other crops will
have to be grown. and less reliance
placed on cotton. The boil weevil or no
other kind of pest ever hurt country
that produced its own supplies with
surplus to sell.-Jackson Progress-Ar-
gus.
Our contemporary states truth that can
not be disputed. The past two years the
farmers of Terrell were more prosperous
than ever before in the history of the coun-
ty, due to Investigation of crops upon the
arrival of the boil weevil. Besides raising
their own supplies and some to sell they
marketed each year million dollars worth
of peanuts, shipped hundred or more
car loads of hogs and cattle, grew their own
wheat for flour and produced 10000 bales of
cotton as a surplus crop. This year, mis-
guided by the fact that few farmers who
planted cotton heavily made a ''pile" last
year under unusually favorable conditions
conditions which occur only at intervals
through a period of years-the farmers OF
this section increased their cotton acreage
and neglected other crops. With prospect
of the smallest cotton yield ever known here
they see their mistake now, and it's safe to
predict that the cotton acreage will be mate
rally reduced another year and attention
again given to those crops which brought
unprecedented prosperity.
There can be no lasting prosperity and in
dependence on the farm without diversified
ton of crops.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
REMEMBERING.

Sometimes always, or even too Of
ten. but when we are inclined to fay, grill,
or sound through the megaphone of gossip
our fellow mortals or tales of their dehn-
ouencies-let US, in the dim chamber OF our
own souls, recall our own unaccounted trall-
ties. best known to God and ourselves, and
gently hesitate Perhaps a few moments of
reflection may reveal to US the viewpoint OF
the conference.-the conflicts and the sor-
rows they have had to face, conflicts with
themselves quite as often as with others and
sorrows visited upon them. Remembering
hatred often is melted into sympathy, and
the proposed fling of gossip may become
a silent VOW of something akin to love.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
THE. JUNIOR SENATOR.

Senator W. j. Harris is the subject of 8
special article by John Temple Graves III
Hearst's Magazine this month. Mr.. Graves
says Senator Harris is as new in type anc
method as he is in the modest and gentle
face which looks at the vice president from
the outer edges of the democratic benches
and adds:
''He is one of the remarkable type of
new public servants in great legisla-
tive bodies whose service is steady and
tireless but never blatant. 1t is prob
able that in his years of senatorial
service William J. Harris will never es-
say a great senatorial argument, or APP
peal to the galleries and the Congress
sional Record with an eloquent grafton.
But it is safe to wager that whenever
his senatorial career is done there will
be found to his credit more things Sc
cured for Georgia men and Georgia
towns and Georgia counties-for Geor-
gia rivers and Georgia harbOrs-than
most senators win in twice the time"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
Is a Great Month.
From the Savannah Press.

Septe m er, the harvest month,
brings US to cool mornings and eve
nings, which hint of autumn, and soon
bit of fire in the CRATE before breakfast
will be welcome. Now, morning and
evening, we begin to notice the shorten
ing of the days. AS the shadows and
GOODNESS of the evening fall it is COM
Portable again to gather within about
the evening lamp before seeking repose.
In September we find many signs of
autumn's presence. In September the
wild grape bushes purple. In fields of
corn we find ears dented and harden
ing. Wild shrubs are loaded with ripen-
ing fruit.-Dawson News.
This is a part of an editorial in the ex
cellent Dawson paper upon September. Thi
is the month when summer inactivity begin
to give way to early fall hustle. We BIZ
goodbye to the straw hat and the pain
beach suit, and don our working parapher
MALTA. We start to pick the cotton the Dol
weevil has left US, and to filling the barn
with the gathered harvest
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
A Bulwark of Protection.
From the Jackson Progress-Argus.

From the Jackson Progress-Argus.
The Progress-Argus wants a mill
tary company organized in Jackson "for
the protection of life and property"
Dawson should have a good military
company, too. The old Dawson Guards
had long and honorable career of use
full service, and The News would like
to see the company brought into exist
ence again.-Dawson News.
The way things are going now a mill
tary company is needed in every county
Such an organization would prove a rea
bulwark of protection. Nothing inspires
confidence and safety in the people and help
to keep down lawlessness more than a wei
equipped, well handled military organiza
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

1t was a little city the president had about
him in Paris. Thirteen hundred persons
constituted the retinue at one time, but the
president incidentally remarks that there are
only about 800 over there now Somehow
that army of 1900 people grouped about the
American ENJOYS reminds one of Solomon
in all his glory or Pharaoh going out for
walk One is tempted to wonder what they
all did
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

The Cordele Sentinel, for many years one
of the prominent weekly newspapers of this
section of the state, is now an afternoon
daily, with Herring, Christian and Brown
as publishers, and John L. Harrington as
editor. The numbers which have reached our
desk reflect great credit upon the makers
and the enterprising city in which its is
published. Here's luck to all of you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

The recent municipal campaign in. Atlanta
contained something more than local inter
est in the election of R. H. Jones, jr., to
the council. He is nephew by marriage
of former Governor John NJ. Slaton and
former Superintendent of Schools w. M.
Slaton, of Atlanta, and fight was made on
Mr.. Jones because of the relationship. Mr..
Jones carried every voting precint in the
citv
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

Much interest is felt in Georgia in tenn
pie of agriculture to be erected in Wash
ington, D. c., at cost of a million dollars,
bv the national board of farm organizations.
Liberal contributions are being made,
among the latest being that of Senator Hoke
Smith. He has sent donation of $3.50 to
President j. H. Mills, Of the Georgia Farm
ers' Union.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

Alice Nelson is quoted by Boston paper
to the effect that going barefoot will cause
the feet to become smaller. The average
boy realizes every year when Jack Frost be-
gins to bite that the shoes which were large
enough for comfort when he discarded them
in the spring are too small for comfort after
a few months of the barefoot plan
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

The economic problem is to be settled, &C
cording to some fellows, by working six
hours a day and five days per week; by 9TH
ers by getting 60 per cent. increase in
wages; by others by striking and not work
ing at ALL Get pencil and figure it out.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16
QUACK LANGUAGE DOCTORS.

From the Meter Advertiser.
The Dawson News ridicules Henry Ford's
idea of revising the Bible so that it's Ian
We quite agree with The News in its COM
ment. But an offender who scrapes his
horny hand over our sensibilities every
time we try to read him is the Literary Di-
gest with it's so-called simplfed spelling.
Nobody who could spell ever wanted to
change the photography of the language.
London has over 1900 women
nurses unable to find emnlovment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

The normal youngster usually looks for
ward to school again. Many will be in man
ual training shops. Girls will cook and sew.
Schools of today are real training grounds
for the men and women of tomorrow-not
mere places of captivity, where unwilling
youth is stuffed with Latin, grammar and
cold dates in history.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

The food spectators are carefully study
ing that portion of the old testament which
tells how Joseph boarded the corn supplies
of Egypt during the seven years of good
crops and profiteered on the rest of the
world when the seven lean years came.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

A little while ago, observes a contempt
rary, the army stores of food were not
thrown upon the market because that would
reduce prices. Now they are thrown upon
the market in the hope of reducing prices.
Now YOU see it, and now you don't.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-09-16

There are ominous murmurings about in
creases in railroad rates, and prices are now
being fixed in anticipation of such increases
But when the railroads are turned back to
their owners to operate will we not be told
that rates will have to be reduced again?