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The Press., 1919-04-24
Star Time Most :.ReliabIe.

The official time man" at the naval observatory at Washington, lying on his back with his eye to a telescope and his finger on a recording button, checks up "Old Sol" by certain fixed star-for the sun Is not quite punctual. In fact, Sol Is about four minutes be- hind time except on just four occasions during the year; and so many allow ances have to be made for his vagaries that an imaginary sun Is used by the government astronomer, on which. to base his horoscopical calculations:
 It may be interposed that the earth's elliptic orbit and its varying rate of speed In It's travels, says, the Watchman of America, helps to give the sun, as a timekeeper, a bad-recy ord, but the fact remains that sidereaI, or star time, Is much more reliable than sun time.
The Press., 1919-04-24
First Bottled Beer.

One of the funniest of accidental discoveries relates to bottled beer. IT the reign of Queen Mary a certain dean of St. Paurs and master of West minister school had to fly to the con tinent for his life. He was angling by the silvery Thames at the time the warning reached him. Some year, later he returned not only to Eng land, but to the very spot for the very same purpose, with rod and line Growing thirsty. he remembered that he had left a bottle of beer in the hollow of a neighboring tree when he had suddenly taken flight some years before. The bottle was there, but when he removed the cork 1t wen. off with such a bang as to make him think 1t had been changed by the fat ries to a gun.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Considerate in Death.

When Sir Ralph Abercromby was mortally wounded in the battle of Aboukfr he was carried on a litter on board the Foudroyant. To ease his pain soldiers blanket was placed un- der his head. He asked what 1t was.
 Its only soldiers blanket" he was told.
 Whose blanket is it?" he persisted, raising himself. "Only one of the men's."
 'I want to know the name of the man whose blanket this is," the dying commander insisted.
 "It is Duncan Roy's of the Forty second, Sir Ralph," said his attendant at last.
 ''Then see that Duncan Roy gets his blanket this night!" commanded the brave man, who did not forget even in his last agonies the comfort and well fare of his men.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Big Gun to ..... "Fire Shots" for
 Victory Loan
Four Trains of Trophies-One of Tractor Artillery Will Aid Loan.

Four Trains of Trophies-One of
 Tractor Artillery Will Aid Loan. Liberty Loan Campaign Trains will be more than ever feature of the Victory Liberty Loan.
 The relic trains will be larger and will carry a much more extensive equipment of trophies of the Great War than ever before. They will in clude guns of all descriptions cap tured from the enemy, and very complete exhibit of the arms of all sorts used by the American soldiers
 Relic trains will tour each New of the Loan from April 21st to May 10th.
 Each train will carry 250 aerial bombs, one or more of which will be fired from flat car as the train moves into a town, heralding it's ap proach.
 On each train will be military guards, speakers and bond salesmen who will address the meetings in be half of the Liberty Loan.
 Train 1 covers Connecticut; Train 2, southern Massachusetts and Rhoa6 Island; Train 8, Northern Massachu- setts and Essex Gaptw
 Train 4 will spS6u the first week in Vermont, second in Maine and the third in New Hampshire.
 The most striking gun train to visit New England will be that of the Coast Artillery carrying howtzers, anti-aircraft guns, trench mortars and other big firing pieces.
 It arrives in Springfield April 2s visits Worcester April 30, Boston May Lowell May 3, Providence and Hart ford. This is not the first train ride that the big firing pieces of the Coast Artillery Corps have had, for in the A. E. F. the powerful Railway Artil- lery was manned by the C. A. C. troops. In all 15,369 rounds were fired from Coast Artillery Guns on rails.
 The Commanding General, Rail- wy Artillery Reserve Coast Artillery troops) during the St. Mihiel operation had the direct control of 22 batteries of artil- lery, all exceeding sevsn and a half inches in calibre, including GA guns, Al railway locomotives, II: ammuni- tion cars, 386 other railway cars, railway construction and operation troops.
 At the time the armistice was signed the artillery expenditure pro gram had assumed proportions that taxed the ordnance output to the utmost. Contracts had been let for guns and munitions that were staggering in magnitude. -
 The cost of all this must be borne the price of victory. The appeal of the Victory Loan Train of the Coast Artillery Corps is "Pay for the Big Guns" A fully subscribed Victory Loan will do it.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Flying Circus
 Here For
 Fifth Loan
Most Daring Aviators of the War Will Give Air Combats in Six Now Eng land Cities.

The great flying circus representing the greatest flying campaign the United States has ever known visits New England on the week of May 4th to 10th in connection with the Victory Liberty Loan.
 It will give wonderful demonstra- tions of the flying art. as developed over the battlefelds of Europe, in one city in each of the six New England States.
 One each of the circuses will be To- cated at Boston, Providence, Hartford. Portland, Concord and Rutland.
 The flyers who will take part are made up ot most daring aviators of the war, chosen from the air services of America, France and Great Britain and assigned for this work by their governments to aid the Victory Lib erty Loan.
 Each squadron will be carried in special train of eleven cars travel ling at night Nine end door baggage cars will be required to carry the seventeen airplanes in each squadron. An officer will precede each train, meet local Loan Committees and make arrangements for landing fields and the entertainment of the flyers.
 Photographers of the Signal Corps will accompany each squadron and take war pictures of each American city visited.
 The general program to be followed in each city visited will be as follows:
 Two American scout planes will rise to drop Victory Loan literature over the city.
 Four German planes will then at tack these two American planes in the air.
 Four American planes will then drive off the German planes and the flyers will give demonstrations of aerial acrobatics.
The Press., 1919-04-24
BUYING VICTORY NOTES MADE EASY BY TERMS OF PAYMENT.

Subscribers to the new Victory Loan will pay 10 per cent. down and the remainder in installments ranging over a period of six months, announces Secretary of the Treasury Glass, thereby extending to the people of the country more convenient terms of sub scription than were offered in the four previous loans. ''
 The first payments on subscriptions will be due to the extent of 10 per cent. on or before May 10. the closing day of the campaign. Another 10 per cent. will be due on or before July 15, more than two months later, while there will be allowed four subsequent in stallments of 20 per cent. each on or before: August 12, September g, Octo- Der and November II. Accrued in terest on deferred installments will be due with the last payment -,- The terms of the Fourth Liberty Loan permitted deferred payments overeonly. four months and the install ments were arranged so that 50 per cent became dnasbetween January TO and January 30. 1919.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Time for PoliteneSa

There Is nothing chivalrous about the young man who steps aside to al low a woman to enter a car before him and then, In his haste, steps on her heels or on her dress. There is nothing very generous or kindly in the favor of a business man who gives someone an interview, at the same time making the interviewer feel that he Is encroaching on the time of a man who earns several dollars an hour There is no virtue in the hurried hand. shake that Is not accompanied by al welcome light in the eye; no affection In the kiss that Is given from forcs of habit or from custom. Every per sonal touch that does not bear the stamp of genuine courtesy Is akin to an insult.
The Press., 1919-04-24

No road impossible, no stunt i'm possible" is the slogan of the crews of the sixteen real battle tanks which will tour the New England District in the interest of the Victory Loan.
 These tanks, of the type known as six-ton whippets camouflaged for war, will start out April 14 and keep on crawling until the end of the loan.
 Tanks just like these helped put the fear of the Tanks into the Hun hordes on the western front and the crews are men of the 352nd Over
The Press., 1919-04-24
PULPITS WILL JOIN IN VICTORY
 LOAN APPEAL MAY 4TH.

Sunday, May 4. has been designated by the government as Victory Loan Sunday.
 -.- On that day in every church in the nation the sermon is to be based on the loan, if the ministers and priests adopt the government plan AL ready assurances have been received from thousands of churches that their church services and Sunday school sessions for Victory Loan Sunday are to be built around the need humani- ty has for successful fifth loan.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Folly of MonarehiaI Government.

As the exercise of government re- quires talents and abilities, and as tal- ents and abilities cannot have heredi- tary descent, it is evident that heredi- tary succession requires q belief from man to which his reason cannot sub- scribe and which can only be establish ed upon iga orance; and the more ignor- ant any ccantry is, the better it is it. ted for the monarchial species of gov ernment.-Thomas Paine.
The Press., 1919-04-24
Waste of Good Timber.

Many complaints are heard because Christmas trees were so scarce this seeson that only q few could buy them, Railroads could not haul them until the eleventh hour, and high prices, as well as the small supply, barred trees from many homes.
 Trees adapted to Christmas use have survived the ills and perils of infans life. Barring accidents, they are sure to live, grow and freshen. It is sav- agery, if one views it rightly, to de- stroy them. Yet men who would not harm full-grown tree hack down tree lings without pity or remOrse. But If we are to have trees for all time, young trees must be saved.-Mil- vaukee Journal.
The Press., 1919-04-24
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1919.
TOO MUCH WASTED ENERGY
Writer Has Right Idea in Pointing Out Folly of the Present-Day
 Hustle and Bustle.

The world is always in a hubbub 1; what appears to be a futile fashion. Why do we not conserve our energies, save our time and strength for big things? What does the hustle and hustle amount to, when we do sit down and rest and think? Nothing ]! because we could have done what we did without that tense nervousness which so many of us think we must assume, to make others think we have important business on hand. If we only knew how much more force, strength and ability lies behind calm exterior our aim lwouasis, bss to assume that pose until it became our rightful inheritance.
 "Out of silence comes thy strength" It brings wonderful results, results that show us how our. power Is in creasing. Try to be calm for few days and watch the issue. You will marvel at your strength, be astOnished at your success.
 Be silent, patiently listen, and wait ION ihc stlcukki tIiul IS DCSio"Su oh all. It is like the ruby in value, priceless treasure-a life force, in other words, which makes geniuses of men and women.
 Begin tomorrow. Go slow but sure, knowing you are doing the right thing Put aside all nervousness and hurry. You will be amazed at the results i; people will come to you because that force being magnetic will draw all good things in your direction. Some may say. II cannot do this. There is too much to be done in.a short time." We need not go to the other extreme and become snails; but, by striking the happy medium" ouf success will come, perhaps slowly at first, but surely, nevertheless.-Excha
The Press., 1919-04-24

seas Tank Battalion. Each tank will carry driver and pilot with a machine gun which can be turned to give the gun sweep in any direction and capable of demolishing a Hun ma chine gun nest.
 To the Huns in the accompany ing photograph the machine gun must have looked quite terrible. They ap- pear to be crying "Kamerad," but the pilot looking out of his turret prob ably could not hear them while the tank was climbing the rather steep hillock below
The Press., 1919-04-24
The Unseen World.

and so-called "spiritualism" offers its kind of proofs. The belief of the Christian Is based more on faith than sight
 The church and general Christian culture direct our thoughts and senti- ments to the facts of the Unseen, no facts of science, physical or mental science. that positively reveal the "un- seen world" There are certain cults, esoteric, so-called, that make special. ties of allusions to the "unseen world"
The Press., 1919-04-24

headaches disappeared. I gained in weight and feel fine, SO can honestly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound to any woman who is suffering as I was. "-M Mrs. ADELNE B. LYNCH, 100 Plain St, Providence, R. 1.
 Bsckache and nervousness are symp- toms or natures warnings, which in Siicate a functional disturbance or an unhealthy condition which often devel- ops into 6 more serious ailment
 Women in this condition should not continue to drag along without help, but profit by Mrs. Lynch's experience, and try this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound-and for special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkhar, Mod ~ nm. Mass.
The Press., 1919-04-24
The EphemeraI.

Man loves the thing that doesn't last. He lives on the ephemeral. Ills newspaper, with its passing quips and rapidly fading scenarios, Is his daily Bible reading.
 The death of an actor, who will be forgotten the week after his burial, moves a people profoundly. Thousands sit up all night to read a book that they "scrap" the next day.
 Man does not seek truth, but va- riety; he seeks sensation, not perma- nency. His health lies in his incon- sistencies. For to be ephemeral Is human; but to be eternal is to be dead.
The Press., 1919-04-24
KIDNEYS WEAKENING? '-''' .' ''; ..
 LOOK OITTi

Kidney troubles don't disappear of themselves. They grow slowly but steadily, undermining health with deadly certainty, until you fall . vic- tim to incurable disease.
 Stop your troubles while there Is time. Don't wait until little pains become big aches. Don't trifie with disease. To avoid future suffering begin treatment with COLD MEDAL Haarlem oil Cap 0ulos now. Take three or four every day until you are entirely free from pain.
 This weu-known preparation has been one of the national remedies of Hol- land for centuries. In 1896 the govern- ment Oe the Netherlands granted ton and eaie
The Press., 1919-04-24

The housewife of Holland wsuld ale most as soon be without food As with out her Real Dutch DropA." As she quaintly calls COLD MEDAL HaArlsn oil Capsules. They restore strength and are responsible in . great measure for the sturdy. robust health of the Hollandsrs.
 Do not delay. Co ts your drusuist ana insist on his supplying you with COLD MEDAL Haarlsm oil Capsulss. Take them as directed, and h you are net satisfied with results your drugHist will gladly refund your money. Look fer the name COLD MEDAL. on the kex and accept no other. In sealed boxsA three sizes.
The Press., 1919-04-24

Secretary Glass is Coming to
 New England. Hon. Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury will visit Boston in the course of the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign. He spends the day of May sth in Boston and will probably make TWO. speeches.. :
The Press., 1919-04-24
EIectroIiers Erom Gas Lamps.

An ordinary gas reading lamp can be made over into a satisfactory. cleo uric fixture at very moderate expense. The burner and attachment for gas piping are removed and socket and electric light bulbs substituted, the electric wiring being passed up through the standard of the lamp. Tall can dlesticks may be also fitted with cleo tric bulbs and such candlesticks, with small lighted bulbs instead of ordi- nary candle flames, are used at either end of the piano or sideboard.
 There is more Catarrh in this section put together. and for years 1t was SUD- local remedies. and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional con- ditions and therefore requires constitu- tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi- cine. manufactured by F J. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars re- ward is offered for any case that Halls Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
 F. J. CHENEY & CO.,. Toledo. Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Press., 1919-04-24

hChCop LII bcSA ached all the time.
 I was tired and had no ambition for any thing. I had taken a number of medi- cines which did me no good. One day I read about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound and what it had done for women, so I tried it. My nervousness .-l harEo,ha onI
The Press., 1919-04-24
0W--T9 AVOID BACkACHE AND
 NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
 Own Experience.

Providence, R. I.-"I was all run down in health, was nervous, had head
The Press., 1919-04-24
Loose Leaf Books and All Kinds of
 Blank Books at -.~~~.. The Press Office.
-N OFTEN LETTER

R. V. Gibson  Lumber Prices. but ii.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

expresses the local sentimcnt very
accurately Ali Kansas. anI The sur
roun dfz g states as we'll, are getting
behind tbs movenlent~ to nlsae coal
with volunteer forces, Here is the
COMMENT. Of The Wicn isa Beacon"
Governor Aliens paper> on The
spirit with which the karican
Legion has backed the volunteering
THE Wichita Post OF sha American
Legion was not making a bluff when a
large number of its men offered to
dig coal. This action was HOT taken
hastily or without careful deEibera-
ton. The action, as pointed out by
Post Commander LaGraAs and State
Commander Phares, was in fulillmeut
Of the constitution Of The Legion
which pledges It's members to upheld
the government, national and state,
in its efforts to preserve the welfare
of the people a. large.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
oUernor Aliens CaII

Another voice Of approval in the
ast is found in The New York
mes:
Kansas was never lacking in courage,
aadiness Of resource and public spirit
Ter Governor, Henry J. Allen, took
ossession Of the coal mines in the
is been forming an organization for
heir operation. To his call for volun-
GERS thousands have responded. The
ollege undergraduates are most numer-
Jus among them, but all ranks are repre-
iented--workmen, farmers, transporter
Jon men, professors, miners, steam
hovef engineers.
Work begins to-day. BY the middle
If the week the Governor expects that
! daily output of 10000 tons will be
reached. Just as the British peop le
sprang to defend themselves from the
paralysis of communication and trans
portation threatened by the railway
strike, so the Kansas people spring to
the relief Of the state from . similar
paralysis threatened by the strike of the
bituminous coal miners; and the neo-
pie of other states dependent upon
bituminous coal viii show the same
willingness to lend a hand
The stirring editorial from 1.-The
Kansas City Star printed above
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07

tirely known, the hurt will hurt no
body except politicians and preda-
tory interests, which, as usual, are
war dancing"
AS for the question Of actual war
against Mexico, THE Chicago
Tribune" is the only pape- out
spokenly favoring it. A modern,
we'll organized campaign on
large scale could be easily accom-
phshed, so that We could clean up
the country and teach the Mexicans
10 take care OF themselves. A few
raids viii not accomplish anything !;
only real intervention will be of any
use. If we do intervene, warns "The
Charleston News-Courier," we must
BE prepared to occupy the whole of
Mexico, otherwise we had better do
nothing.
"If We are going to do anythin. to
Mexico at all, we shall have to do the
whole job; we shall have TO occupy the
whole vast country with an army Of 4
half million or so, hold it and admin
ister it under military law for long
term OF years, aid release it only when
here has beel brought about such =
! enabilitation as was achieved by the
american occupation OF CUBA re-
Mobilization which would be much more
difficult and take a great deal longer
time than was required il Cuba"
! The radical papers, and with them
THE New York World" see oil and
other interests promoting the desire
for intervention:
| Such intervention would have the
unqualified approval of the oil inter
Tests, the mining iatsrests, the Hearst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
{ he Legion's Volunteers

"The Legion members arc not strike
breakers. They will take no part
whatever in the controversy between
miners and operators. They repre-
sent the overwhelming sentiment Of
she people, which demands, as mat
ter Of life and death, that the coal
hat Kansas has should be mined and
supplied TO the people. Whatever
right there may be on the side Of the
miners, there is far greater right
the right of the people 20 use the coal
that nature has provided for them.
my man who denies that right a. u
time like this, in midwintcr, IS taking
stand that cannot be justified on
Apy grounds whatsoever.
ONION labor, Ike every other or
sanization, needs public sympathy. Il
cannot live without it. The wisest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-07
|mpatience With Government
Grows as Kansas Shows
/, the Way
The Voice of America
(.Aa Editorial in The Kansas City Star,


vT%HERE been much false theory Of gov
expounded this country recently by the mus
by the violent which there
choothat fearless patriotic expression of
mericansm such Governor Allen just given us comes like
,hng nvigorating by the spirit of Theoe
Roosevelt himself Let's hear again:
"Onc Gnd for al It must be understood
the state Summoned INTO action for the
people ADORE anG beyond those organ
aaton vhether OF capital or OF ndiuiduos."
what americans have been waiting TO hear and almost
despared of hearing the unchecked rising
key from, the ppngs nternationasn world
motherhood that has supplaned the defiant
uncompromng and Aericansn in tho
government a Washington.
The long of trucking ducking to interests and
that American nothing with
institutions has frutage foreign
policy that always America consistent and in
evbe result that should have policy that Welded
the and the
claims of arrogant and selfish private interests
Never before the history of this pu
government and democracy been boldly
challenged at home and abroad they being CHALLENGED
being frozen and
with puny equally destruc
democracy and the purposes established
Governor Aliens sounding rarely heard
since the manly and patriotic voice Theodore
sd He reminds again what this government why
Clothed with the The highest
function of from whom
draws being tolerate 10 dost
greater than its The government 50 is doomed
and its people
Give back the America Roosevelt Give Us bach
sloppy and scy sentimental 20 to the devil
and domestic policy that tells every doesn't
like America the Americans to go to Europe or hell
as he may choose.