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The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-29

Mr.. James Touhey of Medicine
Hat, Alta. has traded his property
at that place for the Frank Hop
kins ranch at Center and expects
to have his family here in short
time. Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins will
leave for their new home in the
north soon.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-29

Leslie Russell of Seattle. a re-
turned soldier boy who has been
in the signal corps and Just recent.
ly discharged, came over on Mon.
day for visit at the home of his
aunt, Mrs. A. Mathiason.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-29

Read the Classified ads.
The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-29

Neolin soles at Rendall's repair
shop, Portage. Phone Red ll5l.
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0N the case of the Rev. Umsted Sam
 uel Pitts, the youthful pastor of St.
 Johns Methodist church, the
 atrocious crime of being a young man" is certainly repudiated. for in spite of his years Che is now only p years of age) this splendid young minister has all the boise, the dignity and the Chris tian fortitude of the man of older years and a religious vision which is worthy of those many years his senior-attri- butes which youth seldom measures up to, but which are largely inscribed upon the character and life of this fine young man.
 And let me say just here that am not reminded of the quotation that I have used in this connection because of the young minister's name being Pitts almost the same as the famous young man who made the historic reply to Wal pole-but because it is really applicable
 Tall, slender, with a shock of vivid red hair, and honest blue eyes that look out upon the world with gentleness and kindness to all humanity, make the young clergyman a striking figure of youthful vigor and determination, and If I were asked what in future years would be the most indomitable trait in the character of MT. Pitts, the influ- ence he is most likely to exercise, l would say: the influence of a character of absolute purity of motive and of un- yielding independence of thought; the in fiuence of one to whom the world can offer no bribe, for there is nothing in gifts that he wants-neither power nor praise nor wealth.
 His mind to him a kingdom is'-and In that kingdom he finds full content.
 In that kingdom, too, will be found a reticence of expression-a slow method of arriving at conclusions and a yet slower method of expressing them, for
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this humble, Christian minister goes on thoughtfully.
 It is a pleasant picture to be sure that gathered of "The Little Minister as i he sat face to face with me few days ago the innocent victim of the probing and searching questonings of a news paper person; not an easy thing to face. when one is young, to be sure-nay even when one is old, but sooner or later it would seem that this ''girlling" comes to every man-and so I will tell you how well Mir. Pitts stood the ordeal and some of the interesting things he told me.
 "In the first place." said MT. Pitts. q am not an Alabamian, although many people think I am, and it is quite natural since I have lived in and near Birming- ham for the past 16 years, my parents coming here when I was quite young. I was born at Emboden, Ark, a small place in my fathers circuit, for l must tell you at once that he was a minister I am frequently asked why l chose the ministry as a life work, and it is al ways an easy question to answer, be- cause I came by it very naturally, my father being minister, my mother father being a minister and my grand father on my mothers side-all Meth odist ministers. My home life-the beau tiful Christian influence of our home of course, largely guided me in my life's avoca tion and when I found the tre- mendous need for young men-conse- crated young men-in the ministry, it did not take me long to make de- cision."
 T preached my first sermon when l vas IS years of age," said the youthful minister, with gleam of pride and joy in his blue eyes. 'I have that sermon tvpewritten and laid carefully away in
 my treasure -Dox and l wouldn't tak'
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, anything in the world for it. It took me | two weeks to prepare it and that is more | time than is usually allotted to a min ister for one sermon. I preached this sermon at the North Highlands Method ist church, and, like all young public speakers, suffered terribly from em- barrassment and fright; but only through the introductory phases of my sermon, after that a tremendous boise came to me. I found myself, or rather lost my self, in my subject and from that time forth I was unafraid and in compelte control of the situation.
 est Johns Methodist church is my third charge said MT. Pitts. my first being at the Ninth Street Methodist church. my second at Edgewater Mc- Donald chapel, and the present charge St. Johns, where I am very happy in my work.
 My education has practically been re- ceived in Birmingham" MT. Pitts said T graduated from the Birmingham High school in 1915 and later attended the Bir- mignham Southern college, where I grad uated in June with the class of 1sls
 "The ministry has always appealed to me-" said MT. Pitts, "and all influences being favorable, it has been my pleas ure to qualify for this as my life work. When you were kind enough to say you would like to have a talk with me, you found me in the midst of a revival which I have been conducting for the past 10 days at Lewisburg, and which I am glad to say has been successful, as there have been a number of con- versions and a spirit of cooperation, throughout the revival.
 '"rhe old fashioned religious revival of years ago, always associated with the Methodist church," said MT. Pitts, lis not as frequent now as in former days.
 If one might say so, revivals seem to
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two countries is bound up together.
 And it ought to be firmly fixed in the
 minds of our government that legisla-
 ton affecting Canada must be made
 with a view to cementing and advanc-
 ing the friendship and cooperation of
 the two countries. With a population of approximately S,Oo00o0 people, Canada probably has the largest natural wealth per capita of any country in the world. Tn 1917 the total foreign trade of Canada
 was $2y64S, ,691 000. Last year the value of Canadian crops amounted to S, 367,9O = | lNO. The year ending March 31, 1918, Canada imported from the United States | S792 LOGO worth of goods and exported | to the United States $41S,0O0,000 worth. | A total trade with this country Of | a, ,210, ,000, GOO, with balance of trade in our favor of almost two to one.
 From 1865 to 1911 our tariff laws op- l erated powerfully against the normal l economic development of Canada. Shut | out by our hort-sghted legislation from lher natural markets here Canada was l forced to create east and west channels | of trade for herself. By long and care | ful attention to the matter, our sapient | lawmakers managed to turn Canadian | trade from this country to England and | other lands. Under this stern discipline l Canadian business learned to rely upor | itself and to advance into untried paths. \ It acquired a world point of view, and l developed the habit of seeking world l wide market.
 1 The period of economic independence | through which all young countries mus
 pass has apparently been brought to 8 | dramatic close by the war. At a recent meeting of the Canadian Society of New | York, Sir John Willison, Canada S
 greatest publiclst, pointed out that ir
 the 20 years prior to 1914 Canada had
 borrowed $1000,000,000 For the most part ] these enormous loans were placed in
 England. During the war, not only did | European borrowing practically cease | but also Canada extended to Grea Britain alone sl,000, 600 of credit fo
 the purchase of munitions in Canada,
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1TjHUE, BOOK STEELE
By THE BIBLIOPHILE
.sTHE LERVAISE COMEpY."

THE JERvAISE COMEDY" By J. D. Berresford The Macmillan company publishers, New York City.
 A young dramatist, making weekend visit with people he barely knows, sud denly finds himself involved, first as onlooker and later as participant, in B planned, but only half-expected elop- ment. Theincidents leading up to the elopement and following it are narrated with spirit, and the love story of the dramatist and the sister of the male eloper is handled with skill
 MT. Beesford's book is just what it's title implies-a comedy that will interest and amuse readers through it's situations and that will delight them because of the charm with which it, is told.
 WAR BORROWING"
 GA study of treasury certificates of in- debtedness of the United States). By
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Wesley and Whitfield and the rest
 I've noticed in reading church his tory" Mir. Pitts continued. that in deep spiritual revivals there is developed a greater devotion to Christ, a greater mis- sionary spirit, and more conversions than in any other season of prayer and sac rifice.
 Many suggest that revivals play upon the emotions; that conversion is not last ing, and other similar phases said MT. Pitts, but my observation is that feel ing, emotion, as well as faith, is part and parcel of religion. Nearly all de- cisions are made from the threshold of emotion God works through the hearts of people and enables them to arrive at
 From experience, l have found that there is something divine, something all most supernatural in reyivals." said MT. Pitts, flor I know full well that the more I pray, the more earnestly l work, the easier it is for me to reach people. I know, too. that the more deeply stirred people are by a message, the more earn estly they endeayor to rectify their lives. In other words, the emotions are employed in the realization of our re- ligious standing. I can preach cold, in tellectual sermon with oratorical effects and flowery language which probably would please, but not touch dozen peo- pie in the congregation; but when speak from the heart when my emo tions are bouyed up to great spiritual heights, I can deliver message which will stir and encourage and help people as nothing else can do."
 "The young minister today said MT. Pitts, "has a future before him that has been unequaled in almost any period of history The -the-war conditions offer a wonderful work for the young minister A young minister can talk so
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Jacob M. Hollander, Ph. D. The Mac
 milan company publishers, New 4ork
 City
 Professor Hollander undertakes in this volume to examine the part which public credit has played in our national defense during the war period with particular reference to the use of anticipatory bor- rowing through treasury certificates of indebtedness. After reviewing the earlier instances in our history in which re- course has been had to negotiable short term debt obligation, the author de- scribes in detail the thirty-one issues of certificates of indebtedness emitted by the Treasury in connection with our war financing. In succeeding chapters the direct fiscal results of the Treasury s policy in this connection are analysed and it's collateral effect upon the business world, through the money market, and upon social well-being, through the price
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REV. U S. PITTS, PASTOR OF ST. JOHNS CHURCH

easily to the returned soldier boys who have been over there in the midst of shot and shell, and suffering and death,
 for the past few years. An older minis ter, of course, can advise and reason with these young soldier men, but youth calls to youth, and the young minister can
 sympathize with the young soldier, and especially is this true of the young min- isters who have been in the service them selves; they have an excellent advantage in this respect.
 q joined the Students Army Training corps during the war" MT. Pitts said, and in this way I was in very close
 touch with the saldier boys. The soldiers seemed to appreciate the fact that I had given up my charge and my work and had entered into their work, and they were very appreciative and had great many opportunities to talk to the soldiers, and in many cases they expressed deter
 mined religious convictions, which of
 course was very gratifying to me.
 Tn replying to your question of my deepest interest in my work" MT. Pitts said, q may say that I am more in terested in missionary work than any other phase It is my hope and desire to become missionary to foreign fields, preferably to China, after have finished my conference work. Under Robert | Speer, and other great leaders at Blue ] Ridge, I joined the Student Volunteer
 movement, and there received great in spiratio for my chosen field During the great Centenary just closed Methodism
 has done the most stupendous and gigan-
 tic work ever before accomplished fn
 the history of the church. This has
 doubly inspired me in my decision to dc
 missionary work. Of course, the con-
 secration of young men and young women
 to the mission fields was one of the pri-
 mary objects of the Centenary, and the
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FIGHTERS FOR PEACE"

FIGHTERS FOR PEACE
 By Mary R. Parkman: The Century
 company, publishers, New York city
 'Fighters for Peace,' by Mary R. Parkman, includes in it's contents ac- curate brief biographies of the soldiers and statesmen who have achieved most prominence during the war, giving the amount of material on each subject that pleases the average reader. The follow ing chapter headings indicate the nature and scope of the book: The Champion Of Honor-King Albert of Belgium; The Hero of the Marne-Marshal Joffre The Chevalier of Flight-Captain Guynemer' 'Ie Patron" (The Boss)-Marshal Foche; The Man Behind the Guns-David Lloyd George; The Tiger as Man of Victory Premier Clemenceau; The Liberator of 1 Bagdad-General Maude; The Deverer of Jerusalem-General Allenby; The Spirit of Garbaldf-Victor Emmanuel and | His Armies; "The Big Chief'-General Pershing The Chivalry of the sea-Ad- niral Beatty: The Champion of Peace President Wilson.
 Each chapter is Illustrated with pno- tograph of the subject treated.
 "A LITTLE ~GRAy HOUSE IN | FRANCE"
 Rv Helen Davenport Gibbons The Cen tury company, publishers, New 1orK
 city.
 Mrs. Gibbons is an American writer live ing in France with her husband ana four children She has not been outside | of France since the declaration or war in 1914 For nearly three years she was engaged in relief work, being the found. CT and director of "Sauvons les Bebes, which provided layettes TOT heariy '"V newborn Parisians
 After the United States entered the war and the American Red Cross took over the existing relief organizations, Mrs Gibbons began to devote herself to the American soldiers. She traveied 10 all camps in France. speaking for the . IM c. A.. and observed the growth or the army from its earliest days at St. Nazaire to the signing of the armistlce She visited the Alsatian and British fronts after the Americans went into pat. tie lines, and went to all the ports or lAandng on different occasions, Last spring she took her family oNAx-ies- Rains and from there to chaseaa ana it to he he area of Base 1. Her place came 10 pc known bv soldiers as "the little gray house in France"
 Mrs Gibbons, in a simple. easy, en- tirely human way has achieved the taSN of getting the American doughpoy on paper, what he thinks of France, what he felt about the war, what France thinks ahout him. etc. It is book of the heart that will touch the emotions of readers and fill them with the impulse to tell oth- CTS about it. The verdict of the profess
 s'onal readers in the, Century company was unanimous.
 The author describes her methods thus | in her forword to the hook: "In the study of my Little Gray Home in France IS an old Brittany wardrobe. The boys toast
 their toes at the fireplace beside H..
 When they stop for a, breathing space
 they tell me what they think ana see,
 Or shelf are paper and pencn, ana
 when I e,o there to get out chocolate or new pair of woolen socks, I scratch down hastily what my boys have said.
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The New Canada

Dr. Charles A. Eaton. in Leslie's.
 Canada is facing the problems Of indus trial reconstruction with wisdom and courage. On April commission was appointed by the government for the purpose of Investigating industrial con- ditions throughout the country and re- rorting to the government by June |. As I understand the matter, 1t is pro- posed to make this report the basis of a national labor 1olicy.
 Canadian problems are very much like our own. In fact the future of the
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have gone out of style, as it were, but to my mind there is no more potent ally to religion than the good old Methodist revival of the days gone by. I believe revvals are necessary for the preser- vation of the spiritual life of the church
 All history points to revivals. St. Paul was a revivalst; our own John Wesley, the founder of our church, and his CO., workers were staunch revivalists. Meth odism was born of a great revival-of
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besides substantial credits to Rumania, Belgium and other allies.
 The heroic part played by Canada in the war has brought her people into very close contact with the friendship, ideaism and sympathy of Americans. Let us hope that this attitude will con- tinue and that the two nations, so vital to each other, will work together for the advancement of a common North Amer ican civilization.
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The longest railway tunnel on tne American continent is the Rogers Pass tunnel on the Rocky mountain division of the Canadian Pacific line, which is five miles in length and runs under Mt Macdonald, in the Silkirk range It was constructed at cost of more than s1o, Ooo,ooo Previous to it's being put through the Hoosac tunnel on the Fitchburg di- vision of the Boston & Maine railroad, four and three-quarters miles in length. was the longest tunnel in America
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hating but uncertain, not always winning the readers sympathy herself, introduces him to others who will win it, even to the extent of lump in the throat; though not always deservedly. The book is an unconscious plea for those who go under, for the fighting weak.
 It is staged in a transition period of Americas history, that just previous to the great war; and depicts with the sure | touch of one who knows the restlessness, l the dissatisfaction and pettiness, preva- | lent in our social atmosphere before the | thunderstorm. As one of the characters comments: We seem to be marking time, waiting for something real to happen to us"
 | Unlike most novelists who deal with daily life, Mrs. Kelly does not concern herself overmuch with detail and min utiae She paints with a big brush on a | big canvas. There is plenty of humor in | why Joan?" plenty of action and drama. and idealism of high order. But most | of all there is humanity; living, breath | ing people with whom one smiles and signs and wonders, and who will not soon
 be forgotten by those who follow Joan's | fortunes to the end. Which is only the l beginning.
 THE AMERICAN"
 By\Mary Dillon. The Century company. | publishers, New York city,
 "The American" charmingly written by Mary Dillon, is an enthralling love story. The heroine, a beautiful girl of
 wealth, answering an insistent call to duty, goes down into a slum, lives in a settlement house and does her bit first
 for those near at home. The threads of her life are presently mingled with those of her new friends well as the group of wel-to-do people to which her family belongs. Two men of contrast ing antecedents and manners are soon contesting for the best that ans woman has to give-her whole heart. One is a young millionaire part of her old life; the other is a golden-hearted Irish hoy who belongs to her new life. The war
 comes. and she and both men go to dc
 their duty Which wins her in the end
 and why, is the conclusion of one of the
 most interesting stories Mrs Dillon has
 to her credit.
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Great quantities of molasses are wasted by the sugar mills of Cuba Attempts have been made to utilize thiS waste product as fuel for the boilers of the sugar mills, and now a Cuban inventor asserts he has invented an apparatus which will permit the use of the molasses as fuel without choking the furnaces City workers in London are to be paid honuSes every six months
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Before the year 1859 practically every shoemaking process was hand procesa
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By DOLLY DALRYAlPLE

enlistment of over 300 missionaries was one of the results. In my own church two splendid young women signified their intention of devoting their lives to mis- sionary work. The Centenary has de- veloped and deepened the spiritual life of the church; it has taught us how to pray more earnestly, and to give more gen. erousfy and withal has been a great spir- itual blessing to the church.
 "To the young man who is thinking of following the ministry as his life worl' said MT. Pitts, T would say that my own personal experience has indeed been a happy and joyous one I find the great est pleasure in preaching, in visiting the sick, the hospitals and in helping those who are weary and heart sick. I don't think that religion is morbid, long faced, narrow thing, but broad vision of the beautiful life which may be led during our earthly existence. I try to read and keep abreast of the times; the best of the current magazines give me great pleasure; I try to be able to talk with people about the things that inter- est them and above and beyond all have found that person doesn't have to be worldly to be happy, but that happiness and joy come of a deep. spiritual convic- ton of a. life we'll spent"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

treatment in skit dealing with "Uto-
pia." The coal king, the landlord, the
butcher, the baker, the grocer and
other functionaires of everyday life
all had prominent parts, through which
they bewailed the prospect of no
greater profits.
The coal king sang that his idea of
the greatest fun was "high-priced coal
and short-weight ton"
The capitalist said his idea Of Utopia
was "a place where there is neither
income nor excess profits taxes and
one can charge 20 per cent interest"
He walled that "it's got so a Millionaire
can't lay up a dollar any more"
''Too Busy" to Meet Anderson
When the walking delegate entered
he was invited to "come over and meet
Judge Anderson Of Indianapolis, but
the delegate protested that he "was
busy"
The King of Utopia advised them
all to 60 back "to the good old U. S. A.,
play the game square and find Utopia
right at home"
The walking delegate allowed that
the place wasn't Utopia, after all. but
rather was Hell"
Some singing of popular airs with
words arranged for the occasion COM
pleted the evening 1t included little
song for Vice-President Marshall to the
tune of Bubbles" with the refrain
I'm forever facing troubles,
But they never get my goat"
Senators Borah, Reed and Johnson
of California, came in for little dtty
entitled Hiram, and William and Jim. u
New-York tribune., 1919-12-14

Wright, and for nine days abused he,
horribly. She escaped while the Viii.
istas were raiding Columbus. N. NJ
When bandits raided the ranch of John
w. Correll at Colonia, near Tampico
Correll sought to defend his wife. and
was shot down before her eyes, She
was repeatedly outraged by the ban.
dts, who were thought to be Carranzs
soldiers. On July % of the presen,
year rebels kidnapped an unidentified
American girl from train at Baredon
Puebla. She was carried off and died
as the result of outrage.
Sixteen of those listed were victims
of the Cumbre Tunnel horror, on Feb.
ruary q, 1914. Bandits under Castillo
set fire to the timber lining Of the
railroad tunnel by running a BLAZING
freight train into it. A passenger trair
crashed into the burning freight trair
in the center Of the tunnel, and not 9
single passenger escaped. Some of the
bodies never were identified, but it was
established that Mrs. Lee Carruth anc
her five small children, with ten othel
Americans, perished.
Al Mining Men Slain
At Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, the mar
showed the deaths Of eighteen Ameri'