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New-York tribune., 1919-12-17
Pledges Full Force of De-
partment of Justice to
Punish Them and Urges
Refuse to Buy" Clubs
Predicts Quick Relief
Plans to Remobilize "Four.
Minute Men to Preach
''Everybody Work, Save

CHICAGO. Dec. le.--Attorney Cen
eral Palmer to-day pledged the full
power OF the Department Of Justice in
the prosecution of hoarders and profit
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
LITTLE KNOWN OF ST. MARK
Facts as to History of Evangelist Have
Been Lost in the Passage
of Years.

st. Mark, the evangelist, is believed
to have been born of Jewish parents.
deriving their origin from the tribe OF
Levi. He is also thought to have been
sisters son" to the apostle ST. Peter,
though some have confounded him
with John, surnamed Mark, sisters
SON. to st. Barnabas. He was prob
ably converted by st. Peter, and was
his constant attendant in his travels.
He is traditionally said to have found
ed the church in Aquileia, and there
to have written the gospel which bears
his name. ST. Mark suffered on April
25, though the certain year of his mar
tyrdom is not precisely determined by
the ancients. st. Marks symbol is the
lion, because he has set forth the royal
dignity of Christ; or, according to
other writer's, on account of his begin
ming with the mission Of st. John the
Baptist, which is figured by the lion
or to a legend that was popularity be-
lieved In the middle ages, that the
young Of the lion was born dead, and
after three days was awakened by the
voice of it's sire, symbolical Of the res
direction.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
WROTE OF LIFE AT HARVARD
Have Been the First to Depict
Undergradu ate Days.

Harvard graduates, the world over,
have long believed that the earliest
pictorial record of undergraduate life
at the oldest college in the United
States was made when r. G. Atwood
drew. his pictures of college life for
the first volume of the Harvard Lam
poon. The L,ampoon was the fore
runner of humorous journalism to
America; Atwood became a famous
humorist; and his Manners &S Gus
toms OF We Harvard Studente" was es-
tablfshed as a classic. The disco very
OF a tfme-stained book In a New E. ng-
land farmhouse reveals an earli, er
craftsman, whose college Scenes
antedate "Ye Harvard Studente" by
about quarter Of century, but were
soon generally forgotten. OF N. Hay
ward, the artist, no record remains
but the bare fact that he was then In
college. The discoverer, however. had
rare afternoon when he found the
volume in dusty chest, where it had
been packed away with lot Of con-
temporary textbooks and an old Har-
ward diploma.-Christian Science Mon
itor.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Buy w. Il. S.
KAHN'S COMMON SENSE

Teaching of thrift and increas ed in
vestment by the people of America in
government savings securities, Wal
Savings Stamps, Treasury Certifca tea
and in savings banks are methods e.
Yocated by Otto H. Kahn Of New Yors y
for relieving the economic situation en-
gendered by the high cost of necessi-
ties.
This suggestion by the eminent part
ner of the firm of Kahn, Loeb & Co.
was made in an open letter to an Hn-
named government official at Washing
ton. AS a check to waste and certain
forms of useless extravaganza, Mr..
Kahn advocated the establishment o.
federal bureau of salvage which would
instruct the people of the United States
OF. the possibilities Of recreating wealth
from the scrap heap. He points out
that the government in the last three
years has saved over $5OO,O0O,OOO in
this manner.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
COMBAT WITH THEIR HEADS
Giraffes Have Distinctly Peculiar
Method of Settling Differences That
Arise Among Themselves.

While the giraffe can hardly be
classed among the fierce duelists of
the animal world, yet animals of this
species are known to have their COM
bats like their more ferocious fellows.
The long7necked beast has an original
and curious method of fighting. 1t has
neither claws nor beak nor sharp teeth
with which to defend or attack, so
when it is out of temper with one of
it's kind it does not fly in the face of
Providence by trying to disembowel its
adversary, as rhinoceros might, or
tear it, as tiger would. On the con-
trary, the giraffe, knowing that it has
been provided by nature with long
and pliable neck, terminating in very
solid head, uses the upper part of
itself like a fail, and, swinging its
neck around and around in a way that
does immense credit TO its Organiza-
ton, brings it's head down at each
swing with a thump on it's antagonist.
The other combatant uses precisely
the same tactics, and the two animals,
planting themselves as firmly as pos
sible by stretching out on all four legs
to the utmost, stand opposite to each
other hammering away with their
heads until one or the other has had
enough.
The head of the giraffe is furnished
with two stumpy, hornlike processes
so that the animals when at this ham
mer-and-tongs mode of warfare, re
ancient warriors humping each Other
with the spiked balls they used t.
carry for that purpose at the end Of
chain.-New York Herald
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Buy w. S. s.
THE BACKING OF MONEY

A so-called philosopher once said:
eff the rich do not spend the poor die
of hunger"
This fallacy was back Of conditions
that brought on the French Revolu-
tion. Saving is spending, but it is for
the future rather than for the present
1t causes the production of permanent
goods rather than the mere satisfaction
of transient and temporary pleasures.
The trouble is that people confuse
money with what is back of it. They
see that spending increases trade, but
fail to see that investing money in
creases trade just as much. Perhaps
you never stopped to realize that every
time you deposit dollar in a bank or
invest it in some legitimate enterprise
you not only help some to get and keep
job, but useful job Every dollar
you bank or invest provides work for
somebody
1t is sometimes said in favor of one
OF the larger excesses-j -jewelry-that
diamonds are good investment. That
is, people think that they will be able
to sell their jewels if they cannot af-
ford to keep them. But aside from the
fact that l don't believe that anyone
ever sold a ring, or pin, or expensive
watch for as much as he or she paid
for it, there is the further fact that
money invested in jewelry earns no in
terest
Extravaganza brings in no return.
Money saved is not only kept, but it
continues to work for its owner. The
earning power of money which is spent
is given up for all time. It is de-
stroyed-How to Get Ahead.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
SEES PlCKWICK AS JOHNSON
Canadian Writer Believes Dickens
Famous Character Was Sketch
of the Great photographer.

A discussion has arisen between
E. r. Thompson in the Nineteenth Cen
fury and a writer in the Toronto Mail
and Empire as to whether Dickens
famous character of "Mr. Pickwick"
is an adaptation of the personality of
DIR. Samuel Johnson. The magazine
writer holds that this is the case; that
the novelist was inspired by James
Boswells Life of Johnson" and that
the alleged plagiarism is proved by
certain Characterization of Pickwick
which comedies almost to word with
one of Boswell's descriptions of John
son.
The Toronto writer believes if
Dickens did copy his character from
the noted photographer he did 1t un-
consciously and without any attempt
to steal the fruits of Boswells writing.
It is admitted that there are many
points of resemblance between Pick
wick and Johnson. Both were rather
portly, burly men. They had a COM
mon weakness for the use of resound-
ing and dignifed speech; both had
little difficulty in summoning immense
reserves of dignity to suppress the i'm
pudent or the flippant, and both had
great hearts.
''But," says the Mail and Empire
writer, 1--WE have not the Imagination
to picture Doctor Johnson disporting
himself on skates after the fashion OF
Mr.. Pickwick, and there is a sort OF
kindly credulity about the latter that
we find distinctly lacking in Johnson.
Moreover, we never suspect Mr.. Pick
wick of being a bully, although it is
to be admitted that when he orders
the skates of Mr.. Wrinkle to be re-
moved he shows a Johnsonian stern
ness and impatience with pretense."
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
OREGON ELKS
TAKE CHARGE
THRIFT WORK
3. P. 0. E. President VIII
Lead Savings Drive for
$5,0O0,000.

Sale of War Savings Stamps and
Treasury Savings Certificates in the
state of Oregon has been placed
entirely in the hands of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Ell1s. The
state body Of Elks has taken over man
agement of the thrift and savings cam
paign as a volunteer patriotic service
to the state and natlon.
This announcement has just been
made by Harry G. Allen, head Of the
Elks' state organization, and G. S.
Jack son, state director Of the govern
ment savings organization. 1t is estf-
mated that existing War Savings So
cieties and school children throughout
Oregon can be counted on to purchase
$4,000, 900 in War Savings Stamps be-
fore January 1, which Will leave ap-
proximately $4,000, 000 to be subscribed
through efforts of the fraternal organi-
zation, which has "a membership Of
$4,000 in the state.
Mr. Allen offered the services of the
great fraternal order under authority
gwen state organizations of the order
at the national convention in Atlantic
City, which adopted resolutions pledg-
ing active support Of all members to
) the government thrift campaign. He
has obtained leave of absence from his
business and will devote all his per
sonal efforts for the next four months
to organizing sales forces among the
subsidiary lodges
During the war" said Mr.. Allen,
''the order of Elks has felt it a privi-
lege to place at the disposal of our coun-
try the services of it's members. There
were several Thousand Oregtn Eiks un-
der arms, and those of us who were not
privileged to wear the olive drab, the
navy blue or the uniform Of the ma
rines, have taken pride in meeting the
responsibilities of war finance and par
ticipating in all other patriotic move
ments."
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

The road to success is no rougher,
or harder, or more painful than the
road to failure, but there is a differ
ence; we voluntarily choose to bear the
pains of success, while the pains Of
failure are thrust upon u.s. The pains
of success are mental and physical as
are those of failure.
The boy or girl who aspires to sue
ceed in school pays daily penalty In
the act of resisting the impulses to en-
joy pleasures of the moment; In fore
ing the brain to exercise when it is
crying to quit; in doing daily mental
tasks which are just as tiring as any
physical labor The man who succeeds
pays his penalty, too. He must save
when he would like to spend. He must
work when he would like to loaf. He
must be up and doing when he would
like to sleep. He must take kicks and
not kick back. He must assume respon.
sibilities when he diSlikes to add to his
burdens. He must be patient when his
nature is to be impatient He must
bring his appetite to reason when 1t
calls to be unreasonable. All of us know
men who want to succeed, but we know
that they cannot because they will pay
the penalties of failure; they cannot
avoid them although they think they
can. They will pay and pay hard. The
enalties of success are suffered for the
most part in early years. The penal
les of failure are reaped in later years
when the rewards of success are being
plucked.-The Fortuna Magazine.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Historic Stras bourQ.

In establishing the administration
Of the restored provinces Of Alsace-
Lorraine In the city OF Strasbourg. the
people OF France have regained a rich
ly histosic ground, says the Boston
Transcript. It's cathe dral, whose build
Ing engaged the services Of famous
architects and decorators for the pc.
riod Of four centuri es before reaching
the completion In which 1t stands to-
day, is one of the mlarvels of the world.
It's great university has library OF a
million volumes ind before the war
It's students mum bered more than p
900.
These are ths, local glories, but a
universal fame. has been gained by
the products of its more intimate
talent. Thus, Alsatian wine has had
worldwide recognition since the mid
die ages; St.rasbourg beer was known
before Anne rica was discovered, and as
for that delicacy so priced by the fas-
tidious ia ste of gourmands, the pate
de fois gras, the name Of Strasbourg
is the certificate of extreme excellence.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Business Women E.ederatIna.

The first national conve 0tion of busi-
ness women of America wiz be held in
st. Louis, Mo-, J"ly a. One of the i'm
portant subjects to be disc used is
housing for business women. his con-
vention is a step toward the federation
of business women. Behind the move
ment is national committee of k cen
business and professional women, re q
resenting every section of the country,
with headquarters at 600 Lexington
avenue, New York city. Lena Madesin
Phillips is the executive secretary of
the fedora ton.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Improved OfI-Burner.

A new oil-burner for the kitchen
stove, announced from Cuiro, Egypt, is
attachable by special fiange to the
CRATE door, and it nej ther requires
alteration Of the soil d fuel stove nor
prevents tie use of solid fuel. The
nozzle projects about all inch into the
CRATE, the oil tank eng mounted on
a suitable rack outsi de the stove. A
small fire heats the fuel oil to. about
$50 degrees Fahrenheit, and as the oil
passes from the nozzle, a jet of com
pr. essed air or steam converts 1t into a
Spray that burns with continuous
smokeless and cd orless flame. In Cal
70, it is noted, c. impressed air Is sup
piled In pipes to, houses.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
THE KING
and
THE KID

San Francisco-This ought to be
a short story and it's title ought to
be ''The King and the Kid
The King is Albert of Belgium.
The kid is Richard Siprelle of San
Francisco, eleven years old The
King had entered his automobile
after his official reception at the
City Hall here and no doubt
thought himself safe, surrounded
as he was by secret service men,
soldiers, and police. Enter the
kid: leaping on the running board
of King Albert machine, he
thrust into the Kings hand a
Thrift Stamp with a card on which
to paste it.
King Albert" said the kid to
the King, don't you want Thrift
Stamp?" The boy with his natty
overseas soldiers cap in hand
smilingly awaited his answer. The
King took the card and stamp; said
Thank you,' and the incident
in the Kings life and the epic in
the kids life closed then and there
with a forward lurch Of the auto
mobile, leaving the kid behind.
q just wanted the King to
know" said Richard, what a
chance America gives us kids to
learn how to save so that when the
King gets back home maybe he
will make Thrift Stamps for Bel
gian kids. The newspapers said
that l wanted two-bits for the
stamp but didn't. l am going to
write the King a letter and see if
| he won't send ne his photograph
| with his name on it."
Needless to say, Richard Siprelle
is in the movies, so if you see a
| picture Of the King in his automo-
! bile with a kid on the running
| board, you will know all about it.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
Muscular Music.

"Thank goodness, now the Hun has
shown himself in his true colors, our
ears are no longer shattered with the
noisy music Of Richard Strauss"
The speaker was Handel Booth, sec
retary of the Denver Philharmonic So
ciety.
81 know a chap" he went on, ''who
said to his music teacher:
Professor, I'd like to take Up the
study of Strauss with you. What will
it cost?
"Dot, mein friendt,' said the old
professor, will depend on how many
times der piano will have to be re-
built'''
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
CHRISTMAS Sale
OF W. s. 5. WILL
TOTAL MILLIONS
Government Appeals to Holi-
day Shoppers to Give Sc
curities as Presents

Governor John U. Calfins of the
Federal Reserve Bank, which is the
financial agent of the United States
Government in the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District, has written letter
to every bank and trust company in
the district calling upon them to use
every means within their power to
induce the people to buy War Savings
Stamps and Treasury Savings Certifi-
Gates for Christmas presents this year.
1t is the hope of the Governor that
the people Of the Twelfth District, in
stead of spending their money for lux
uries to be used as Christmas presents,
will help the Government finance its
war debt of twenty-six billions of dol
lars by sending War Savings Stamps
and Treasury Savings Certificates as
gifts to their friends and loved ones.
Demand for War Savings Stamps
and Treasury Savings Certificates, the
latter in denominations of $1OO and
| $1,000, set in last month. The Federal
Reserve Bank shipped $60,200e worth
of Treasury Savings Certificates to
| eighteen banks on November ~, this
| being the largest days shipment since
the close of the war. The GOVERNMENT
anticipates in the light of the demand
! of these eighteen banks for these Sc
curities to meet the holiday trade, that
the seventeen hundred banks in the
district will purchase more than
| quarter Of a million dollars worth OF
the Governments paper. Increased
call for War Savings Stamps and
Treasury Savings Certificates, and
even Thrift Stamps has come in from
all postoffices in the west in order
that postmasters may have on hand
sufficient supplies to meet the public
demand.
The Governments holiday slogan
"Give a War Savings Stamp or
Treasury Savings Certificate for Christ
mas" is elaborated in Governor Calk-
ms letter, which follows:
1.-THE Christmas holidays are almost
/ upon us. Everything points to a
tremendous outlay of money in tie
purchase of holiday gifts, the greater
portion of which l think l am safe in
saying will be luxuries. The present
situation demands not that more
money be spent in the purchase OF lux
uries, but that we curtail as much as
possible, with the consequent beneficial
contraction of credit.
"Therefore, | appeal to you as fel
low banker to do everything within
ro,,r mower to stimulate the purchase
and living of War Savings Stamps ane
Tro.sn nv Savings Certificates as Christ
mas mr. esents in place of the usua
needless . a>ud expensive gifts. 1t seems
TO me that he responsibility Of leadi
MONS minds along the ways OF thrift
ana simple liv ing rests to great ex
tent mon the b. mixers of the countr'
and in asking you to push the sales o
Treasury securities >durlng the Cnris'
mas holidays, l am as. Qns you 'niy
take advantage of an .'ppor'uni''
meet this responsibility.
In addition, Christmas p. 'steis o"'
rying an appeal to give War SAVING
Stamps and Treasury Savings 0el'il
Gates for Christmas presents wiz
distributed throughout the TWei v
Federal Reserve District, and all bank
have been asked to include slmlia
appeal in their advertising.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
No Novelty,

''How did you find the feller that
runs the Busy Bee store?" inquired an
acquaintance.
II just rummaged around till ! un-
earthed him." replied citizen OF
Sandy Mush, Ark, who had been shop
ping in Tumlinville.
Eyes, but 1 heerd that he was in
mighty bad health?"
"Mebby so. He may have been puny,
but I didn't notice it. 1 found him
asleep in the back room setting on a
keg, and when l asked him If he had
any axle grease he lowed he had, bun
wanted to know if / couldn't just as
well come around later, when he'd
prob'ly be standing up. Nope, l didn't
see anything peculiar about him.
Kansas City Star
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
TO ALL CONCERNED

Those who have signed subscription
lists and those who wish to subscribe
for shares in the Winslow Co-Opera-
tive Union Store, can now make full
payment at the Bank of Winslow, or
can make both installments and pay
ments in full at the office of J. F.
Mahoney.
Mr.. Mahoney has been appointed col
lector under bond and will remain
IN his office until $50 p. m.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
"key Money"

IN many distr lets of England, ana
particularly in Yorkshire, where the
dearth Of houses is acute, the practlce
of paying "key money" is growing. Sc
keen are prosT Iective tenants to ge'
into house di rectly it is vacant tha'
as much as s. o to 500 is offered to
the occupier f or the key, this transac
tion generally carrying with it the un
'derstanding t nat the landlord Will &C
cept the succ eeding tenant.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
No ESCAPE.

Good morning, Mrs Jagsby. We
are peace delegates"
Peace delegates?"
"Yessun. We were sent by Mr.
Jagsby, who was unable to get home
last night. He wants us to arrange
the armistice terms and settle on the
size of the indemnity he owes you"
"Umph! You tell Mr.. Jagsby if he
dosn't show up here in the next hour
I'll come and get him. He's not in
Rolland."rBirmipgham tAge-Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
BUY ". S. 81
SLAVES OF CHANCE

"The habit of thrift tends to give
clear eyes, good digestion, efficient
muscles Young people, es-
pecially,. should economic, always re-
membering that we should have every
thing we really need 1t is folly 10
skimp in eating for the sake OF saVIes,
or to wear dowdy raiment. Have Wnat
you need, but do not buy things you 90
not need. But there is joy in gong
without things-a fine tang in eliml-
mating the superfluous
Loving labor and thrift go hand IN
hand. He who is not thrifty is slave
to circumstance. Fate says, Do THIS
or starve,' and if you lave no su-pius
saved up you are the plaything OF
chance, the pawn Of circumstance, the
slave of some ones caprice, leaf in
| a storm. ."-EIbert Hubbard.
4 - EnUY ". 5. S.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
They Wouldn't Suit Her.

Mary Pickfc,rd was talk ing @Dout
the new French fashions.
'The French" she said, ";lre trying
to bring the ong skirt back again.
She frown, ID slightly. The u, as sne
glanced dow at her little shoe, her
brow cleared
There's 10 DOUBT" she sal d, that
long skirts would suit some girls down
TO the grOur 3D."
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
T. Z Cz/\Zsz~Ms% >s1lmA,gI~X'

The appeal which the govern
ment issued early this year, urging
the production of a large crop Of
vegetables and farm products OF
all kinds, as a means of assisting
America to check the food fam
inc of the Old World, evidently did
not fell on deaf ears in this section
of the country. An early evidence
Of this Is found in the unusually
large number of early entries which
have been received by the farm
products show TO be held at the
Arizona State Fair, to be held at
Phoenix, Nov. 3-8, inclusive.
parable with the delight Of children
playing. with matches. With what
probably seem to the cult the most
laudable Intentions in the world, there
Is danger that fire be started which
cannot be controlled. The inequalities
of social strata are admitted, OF
course, for any fool can see that they
are there, says Lowell Courier-Citizen.
The thing needed is sanity in dealing
with them-and sanity is about the
last characteristic that can be predi'
Gated to the average ''parlor bolshe-
viA" If only a few Of our male and
female agitators could be isolated in
psychopathic wards, where they clear
Iy belong, the world would be infaiteiy
hetter off.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
8UY ~. S. s.

In place of 100000 persons who held
government securities previous to the
ar there are now at least twenty mil
ion. If this can be raised to 10000, 900
= 1919, the better it will be for the
neonle. Buy w. S. S.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

IL is said the ex-crown prince OF Ger
many has gone into the pottery busi-
ness. He may be in the stone-b>eak-
ing business before the allies get
through with him.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

A technicality is a device In law by
which great wrong or injustice may
be perpetrated in a perfectly respect
able and legal manner.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

The peace terms laid down for the
Germans are very mild compared to
the penalties which Germans were
ready to impose on the world in the
event of victory.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

A British astrologer predicts new
war In 1926 Seven years off? That
won't give us time enough to wear out
the old one.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

One of the peris of city automobll-
ing is the cross-the-street boob, who
speeds across intersections without de-
termining If the coast is clear.
The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26
TURN RIGHT

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The Winslow mail., 1919-12-26

EsUY W. s. e..