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finally look is described thus by air.
Litchfield:
''On the axis of the main approach,
standing out in firm silhouette against
the background of the bay and the dis
tant hills of Center Island, should be
a great fiagpole with monumental
base. which will be forever reminiscent
of the colonel's intense love for the
American flag. At the end of the Ia
goon there should be a fountain, and
beyond 1t long approach from the
west between thickly planted native
American shrubs and low-growing
trees; laurel. wild honeysuckle. dog
wood. beech and ash forming o dense
dark foliage in contrast to the gravel
walks, the reflection of the sky In the
lagoon and the bright deep blue of the
bay ITSELF
1t has also been suggested to the
Roosevelt Memorial association that
as elms are the most beautiful trees
for the park 1t would be an excellent
idea TO call upon the farmers of Long
Island and Connecticut to donate spec
linen elm trees to the association
great natural beauty. The ensemble
effect would be somewhat similar to
the beautiful park at Versailles, where
the peace conference was held. but it
will be typically American in spirit and
conception. There will be no attempt
on the part of the architect to initiate
the Versailles scheme. The proposed
lagoon will look like diamond set in
green jade, and, through a fringe of
elm trees the spectator will get a
glimpse of the Roosevelt forum. Over
all will wave the Stars and Stripes
that the colonel loved SO well. In ev-
cry way the aim will be to suggest the
virile personality of the man who was
first, last and all the time an American.
Referring to the flagpole with monu-
mental base which forms. in way, the
center of the formal scheme. Mr.. Litch-
field suggested that some day the base
might be the FINAL resting place of the
great mans mortal part.
May Cost 81 100000.
The cost of the memorial has been
| variously estimated. beginning with
sums less than $1,OOO,OOO. But those
who have studied the plan feel that
81. 500. 600 should be raised to assure
its complete realization. Although the
memorial is in some extent local, in q
larger view it concerns the whole ma
ton. The sum given is very small
If il he distributed over the population
School children alone could and would
give an appreciable part of it. Indeed
since Oyster Bay stands for the Roose
welt home life. it is peculiarly appro
pirate that the nations children should
take special interest In such a me
mortal, as they did in the restoration
non.
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1t Is interesting, in view of the pres
ent movement, to recall the fight that
was made several years ago by some
OF the citizens os Oyster Bay for
park-a fight that resulted in failure,
but which aroused the interest of Col
Onel Roosevelt, who did what he could
at that time to arouse the enthusiasm
of his fellow townsmen over the
project.
For years the townspeople declined
to take any action to secure the just
rights which few of them had in
frequently enjoyed" wrote Colonel
Roosevelt during the winter of 1918 in
describing this unsuccessful battle for
the park: "Then the selfish miscon-
duct of one or two property owners
who sought to deny all proper access
to their beaches reused a feeling which
manifested itself in foolish and vic
ious effort-at one time mob effort
to destroy the docks and thereby pre-
their sailboats. The motive seemed
to be less to secure their own rights
than to interfere with those of whom
they were jealous. Recourse to the
law finally settled the right of the
property owners to their docks and
their duty to keep openings in the
docks so that the clammers and the
rare wayfarers along the beach would
not be interfered with.
But this did not help those farm
ers or villagers who occasionally wish
| ID 10 ho fnr hath q
! or boating. A few publicspirited per-
sons therefore started a movement for
park, with long stretch of beach,
on which public and private boathous-
es and bath houses could be erected.
Various well-to-do persons. none o1
whom would ever have used the park,
agreed to furnish half the money II
the town would furnish the other half.
1t was voted on at the next election.
Il rode down to the polls with a
friend. hired mana good. upright,
hard-working citizen, who lives some
miles away from the water, who owns
a small property and is therefore a
small taxpayer. After voting found
that our two votes had neutralized
each other; he voted against the park
and the park proposition was beaten
by the votes of the smaller taxpayers
who lived inland and from among
whom the chief benefciaries of the
park would have come. (The boldface
Is Colonel Roosevelt's.) These men
had felt vaguely jealous of the richer
property owners near the water and
had sympathized with the movement to
interfere with them; but they we're not
willing to incur the small expense nee
essary in order to establish such colec-
tive ownership of a portion of the wa
terfront as would enable them to en-
joy their rights along it,
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Captain Matlack
Knows No Fear
Battling Owls Make
Kansas Streets Unsafe

Republic, Kan.-The streets
of this town are unsafe for
pedestrians after dark on ac-
count of the nightly battles be-
tween large fiOcks of owls. Re-
naming in the trees during the
day, they swarm about like To-
Gusts at night and have become
so numerous and vicious that
they attack human beings. 1t is
unsafe for women and children
to venture out after dark.
In several instances persons
have been struck on the head
and rendered unconscious. One
woman was painfully hurt by
direct attack from an owl which
she had tried to ward off with
an umbrella.
Steps are being taken by the
authorities to rid the city of its
strange pests. Such condition.
it is said. was never known here
before, although owls have al
ways been numerous in this Sec
tion of the state.
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Daring Cavalry Leader Is Terror
to Bandits on Mexican
Border.
ANSWERS THREAT WITH SHOT
Ability for Coping With Banditry Led
to Speedy Promotion From Ser
oeant to Captain During
Four Years.

San Antonio, Tex.-Capt. Leonard
]. Matlack, commander of Company
X, Eighth United States cavalry, Is to-
day the most feared American that
Mexican bandits have encountered on
the Texas border. He is feared more
than the Texas rangers. who for years
were the only official guardians of the
peace In that remote country. His
men are of the fighting, daring type,
but Captain Matlacks desire to go it
alone when handling difficult situa-
tions has struck terror to the hearts
of Mexican evildoers who are learning
not to commit offenses in country
where he Is known to be stationed.
When Captain Matlack went to
Candalaria, Tex, four years ago, he
was sergeant. He took station with
his company at a small, isolated COM
munity on the banks of the Rio
Grande. They soon found themselves
In hotbed of banditry, which Mat
lack determined must be cleared.
MatIack Clever and Daring.
Matlack found that the leader of the
tandit crew In San Antonio was Chico
Cano, former captain in the Carran-
IN army. Matlack visited San Antonio
alone at different times and met Cano,
Informing him that unless he ceased
his lawless practices he would meet
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sian governments photographic office.
A program of these undertakings
was published last November in the
Complies Rendus of the French acad-
emy Of sciences by the widely known
oceanographer. Gen. J. G. ShokaIski.
who is still in Petrograd, so far as
known. Subsequently General Shokal-
ski has found means of sending let
ters on the same subject to some of
his scientific friends in the United
States.
ried out by two parties. One, work
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? rDIGNIFIED open-air the
ater, to be known as the
Roosevelt Forum. built
along the lines of a Greek
1 anphitheater and utilized
as nonpartisan meeting
place by patriotic Ameri-
cans for the discussion OF
> grave problems affecting the
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Decalogue for
Frugality Seen

ployer for liquidation. The bill Tor the
cost resulting from the inefiiciehcy OF
the average man and housewife in the
spending of money and their failure TO
get full value for money received is
also handed to the employer for pay
ment either in increased demands Tor
wages or in increased dissatisfaction
and Industrial unrest.
$50 many employers are learning
that, along with plans for stimulating
the interest of the worker in his JOB,
there must go hand in hand with II
an education of employees in tunda-
mental economics and in the use ana
value of money.
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SERBIA is FREE OF SMALLPOX
Typhus Also Stamped Out by Relief
Workers, Including Amer
leans.

Belgrade.-For the first time In FIVE
years Serbia IS today free of smallpox.
Only three cases are reported In the
whole kingdom.
The announcement is made by the
medical staff of the American Red
Cross headquarters in Belgrade which
week ago made the even more graf
ifyipg announcement thar Serbia is
once more free of typhus, after a strug
gle of five years.
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Ing from the White sea eastward to
Cape Chelyunskin, was to be under
the command of Captain Vilkitskii,
the discoyerer of Nicholas ii Land
and the leader of the expedition
which made the northeast passage
from Bering strait to the Atlantic
ocean in 19l4-15. Another party, sur
veying from Cape Chelyunskin to Be
ring strait, was TO be commanded by
Capt. z. A. Novopashennii. Several
new radio stations were to be estab-
lished to facilitate the work of the ex.
petitions Scientific American.
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Learns at 70 Two Can't
Live Cheaper Than One

Santa Rosa.-"You can't beat
this high cost of living nohow.
8 saws John BoroQueZ, seventy
years old, who on September
married Adeline Young, aged
sixty-four, keeper of a boarding
house, on the theory that two
could live cheaper than one.
They agreed to divide the pro-
ceeds from the boarding house
Boroquez asked for his share
of the profits. The thrifty bride
refused and started for the bank
to deposit the coin Boroquez
went to the newspapers and had
inserted notice that he had left
his bride and would not be re-
sponsible for any debts contract
ed by her.
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a sudden death. 1t was not long after
several hundred cattle. Matlack took
up the trail recovered the cattle. killed
Cano and drove the cattle back into
Texas
In like manner he met and killed a
brother of Jesus Renterias. the ban
dit leader who held the aviators. Davis
and Peterson, in captivity, pending the
payment of ransom money. 1t was
Matlack who outwitted the Mexican
bandits when he went alone to rescue
Peterson and Davis and escaped with
half the ransom money. inviting death
for himself and the avlators.
Takes Long Chances.
On one occasion Matlack and his men
were surrounded by an overwhelming
force of Mexicans. Instead of max
ing stand to fight, as the bandits ex-
pected, Matlack ordered charge, rode
down the Mexicans and killed 35 of
their number. Matlacks men suffered
one slight casualty.
Not long after this cattle ranch
near Candalaria was raided. Matlack
and his men pursued and killed the
Mexicans and recovered the cattle.
Later Matlack went back to look for
more cattle. While he was riding
around the town shot was fired from
an adobe house. The bullet went wild.
Matlack boldly kicked in the door Of
the house and killed the Mexican who
had fired at him. In virtually every en-
counter with Mexicans Matlack has
taken long chances, but he has always
gotten his man.
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SCIENTIFIC WORK IN RUSSIA
A. Ambitious Campaign Of Survey
Work Along Siberian Coast
is Undertaken.

One of the most surprising pieces
II news that has come lately ffoni
p,.ss,a is that in spite of untowara
no,ie1ca1 conditions an ambitious cam
pa,,.n of survey work in the Arctic
ocean along the Siberian coast was
,,nd-rta,en in the summer of 1918 un-
d dar the immedIate-direetion of the Rus
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Drawn by National Committee
for 1920 Drive Against High
Living Costs.
MAKE A BUDGET, coMEsF|RsT
Keep Tab on Expenditures Have a
Bank Account, Spend Less Than
You Earn, Are Other Com
mandments.

st. Louis.-Ten commandments fol
the guidance of mans financial iire
have been drawn up by national
committee of bankers and others tc
aid in the great drive of 1920 against
the cohorts of high cost of living.
This decaIogue for the frugal man
to stiffen his morale in a battle to save
something from the profiteers and rent
raisers is part of rhe program for the
National Thrift week, to begin Janu-
ary II next.
Plans for rallying the armies of
money savers for the 1920 drive by
holding this Thrift week were ap-
proved by the American Bank
ers' association in its recent conven-
ton in this city. The idea already
had the Endorsement Of the United
States League of Building and Loan
Associations National Federation OF
Construction Industries. Retail Cred
1t Mems association. National Associ-
alton of Life Insurance Underwriters.
National Crndit Mems association. the
American Life convention, and other
national bodies.
"Make a Budget" One Commandment.
The ten commandments as recon-
mended by Walter w. Head of Omaha,
vice president of the National bank
section of the American Bankers as
ISOLATION, are:
!. Make budget.
2. Keep an intelligent record Of ex-
penditures.
3. Have bank account
4. Carry life insurance.
5. Make Will.
6. Own your home eventually.
Z. Pay your bills promptly.
8. Invest in War Savings stamps
and other government securities.
%. Spend less than You earn.
10. Share with others. Thrift with
out benevolence is a doubtful blessing.
The eight days of the National
Thrift week have been named nfter
some points of the financial creed. as
follows:
Saturday. January 17-'Bank day"
or National Thrift day." to empha-
size the need for individual thrift and
the service bank renders a COM
nunfty.
Sunday, January 1S-"Thrift Sun
day" with sermons In all American
pulpits on the relation of economic
life to religious well-being and the
need Of sharing with others.
Monday. January 19-"National In
surance day." to stress the need Of
protecting ones family.
Tuesday, January 20-"Own Your
Home day." to show why 1t is desira-
BILE and how it Is possible to own your
own home.
Wednesday, January 21-"Make
VIII day." to urge men to make Wills.
Thursday, January 22-"Thrift in
Industry day." to advocate factory
thrift and cooperation between capi-
tai and labor
Friday, January 23-"Family Budget
day"
Saturday, January 24-"Pay Your
Bills day"
Supporting this movement in an ad-
dress to the bankers in their conven-
tion here, Arthur NJ. East of New
York, national director of the Thrift
week movement. said:
Financial and industrial leaders are
interested in the increased cost of liv-
ing because they know that In most
cases the bill for the Increased cost
Is handed by the worker to the en-
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Il
8M n place by patriotic Ameri-
ANN cans for the discussion OF
sa4>D grave problems affecting the
future of this country, is one of the
features of the proposed park at Oys-
ter Bay. The plans already have been
approved by the Roosevelt Memorial
association.
EIectus 3. Litchfield. architect. who
designed the monument to President
Mckinley at Columbus, Ohio. and who
has executed other important COM
missions. has been engaged by the
Roosevelt Memorial committee at Oys-
ter Bay to carry out these plans for
the memorial park. Mr.. Litchfield lives
at Oyster Bay and was a neighhor OF
Colonel Roosevelt. Therefore he Is IA
miliar with the park site.
Mr.. LitchfieId thinks forum such
as has been suggested for the park
would have met with the appreciation
of the colonel himself. says the New
York Sun. Members of the Roosevelt
Memorial association also feel that
such forum could be made most use
full in our national life in carrying out
in useful and vital way the ideals
and teachings of Theodore Roosevelt.
Mr.. LitchfieId's Vision.
"At the head of the auditorium"
says Mr.. Litchfield in describing his
plans for the park. there would be
rostrum, having its west front built
somewhat in the form of Greek the
ater and providing a stage upon which
may be seated the performers al open
air concerts for the people. Within
its walls 1 had hoped there might be
reception room and small hall.
somewhat in the nature of supreme
court room in the capitol at Washing
ton, where would be gathered from
time to time once every two or three
wears or two or three times year,
MS in the opinion Of the trustees Of the
Roosevelt forum the occasion may re-
auire, few of the great men of the
country, who shall there discuss be-
fore the whole nation the grave ques-
tious that will affect conditions in this
| country as a result of the wars after
math."
This beautiful park to the memory
Of great American will embrace
about forty acres and titles TO the
property have been examined and sur
yeys made. When completed this park
will have an athletic field. tennis
courts, bathing beach and pavilion. the
theater. a great fiagpole $50 feet high
and a beautiful promenade, arched by
elm trees in the center of which will
be a lagoon.
The idea of William Loeb, Jr.. chair
man of the Roosevelt Memorial COM
mittee at Oyster Bay, AMI other mem
hers of the committee, is to have a
mark that will provide In the best and
most healthfui way amusement facili-
| ties for the country at large; park
that will have an individuality and
atmosphere suggestive of the life and
spirit Of Roosevelt. The colonel was
a nractical man who combined artistic
ldeas with common sense execution
and the Roosevelt Memorial aSsocia-
tion. does not want a park that wonld
not have met with the approval of the
colonel himself. AS a matter of fact
| Colonel Roosevelt himself very mucf
desired such park at Oyster Bay ant
publicly expressed his views on tht
subject.
How the Park viii Look.
The general appearance of the
Roosevelt Memorial park as it viii
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danes Albert Jordan, Andrew Polls
ter, A.~H. Bair, Luther Zahn, Miss
Marie Polster, Robert Zahn and
others.
Mr.. and Mrs. John P. Wilhide en-
tertained Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
B. Smith and family, and Mr.. Henry
Frost, Of Gist, and Mr.. and Mrs: A. H.
Bair. .m.....
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Zahn enter
tanned the Jolly Glee Club Saturday
evening. Social games and music on
the organ were INDUCED in. Refresh
ments were served consisting of
cakes and lemonade. Among those
present were Messrs. and Mesdames
Robert Zahn, Andrew Polster, James
Schneider, Albert Bair, William N.
Barber, Albert Jordan, Luther Zahn,
Miss susanna Cflples, Mrs. Ethel
Davis, Misses Marie Polster, Mildred
Schneider, Fern Schneider, Gladys
Zahn, Ethel Zahn, Larue Davis, Mr..
Walter Edmondson, Wesley Shipley,
Rowe Davis and others.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
G ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.
SOLDIERS VOTE
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, By Chapter rs of the Acts
was provided that whenever state q
war exists in the United States, or such
other circumstances occur as to cause
the Government of the United States to
call into service the Maryland National
land National Guard, and the Maryland
Naval Militia, or eIlner the Maryland Ma
tiOnal Guard or the Maryland Naval Mill
tia, and by reason Of such state Of war
or such other circumstances duly quail
fed voters or the State are absent from
| the ward or election district in which they
reside on the day set for any general,
Presidential, Congressional, Judicial,
State, County or Legislative District or
any election in Baltimore CITY tine 6s
once in no more than three newspapers
| In each county and in Baltimore City,
suspend the operation of the election
laws of the State, and all rules and reGu-
| lationS adopted hereunder, so far as
such laws and rules and regulations are
inconsistent with the provisions OF said
Act;
AND WHEREAS, 1t is further provided
! by said Act that whenever the Governor
! shall issue such proclamation, then the
provisions In said Act contained shall
become effective as law, such provisions
authorizing and providing the means for
duly qualified voters absent 10 the mill
I by reason Of the state of war or other
circumstances calling them into such SER
vice, to vote by mail at all general, pri-
mary and special elections whether
State, County, or Legislative or any cleo
ton in Baltimore City, on and after the
sd4pton a. fba stafa % ne S0a
voters to vote by mail, which said amend
ment, being Chapter 20 of the Acts OF
submitted to and adopted By the voters
OF this State at the general election held
herein In November, 1918, and Is now
part of the Constitution OF the State;
AND WHEREAS, a state Of war does
exist and such other circumstances have
occurred as have caused the Government
Of the United States to call into service
Maryland Naval Militia, and BY reason
thereof duly qualified voters Of the State
are absent from the ward or election dis
trict in which they reside. and will be
NOW, THEREFORE, I EMERSON G..
HARRINGTON. GOVERNOR OF MARY
LAND. by virtue of the authority con,
ferred upon me as aforesaid by the stld
Act Of Assembly, do hereby. suspend the
operation o. the election Jaws S Of ne
| adopted hereunder, as and to the extent
authorized By said Act Of Assembly, to
the. end that the provisions of said Ct
authorizing and providing the means for
duly qualified voters absent i'm the mill
4 tary or naval service Of the United States
70 vote By mail at general, primary or
special elections. may be and become
effective, as therein set forth.
4 IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, L have
hereunto set my hand and caused 10 be
| affixed the Great Seal
\ THE OF the State or Mary
GREAT SEAL land, mt the Capitol,
OF in the City of .4nnapo-
MARYLAND lis on this fifteenth
\ day OF January; in the year OF our Lord
\ one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
! EMERSON c. HARRINGTON,
\ BY the Governor:
THOMAS w. SIMMONS,
Secretary of State. Jan A-1t
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Sunday morning with Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Jordan.
MIR. Murray Stein, of Glover Hill
Farm, spent Sunday with Mr.. o. zepp.
MIR. and Mrs. Guy Smith called on
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Wilhide Tuesday.
Mr. Leo Davis, who has been on
the sick list, has improved.
Mr., Earl w. Gibson, of Camp
Meade, called on Miss Marie Polster
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. r. Conner called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hughes Sat
urday. -.--a...l Nj
Mi. and Mrs. Leo Davis and Master
Rowe and Miss Larue Davis visited
Mrs. Alice Shipley and Mr.. and Mrs.
Warner Sbauck, Sunday at Gambler.
MIR. and Mrs. John P. Wilhide spent
Thursday with MIR. and Mrs. Guy B.
Smith, at Gist. The day was pleas
iantly spent i'm quilting. .-....
Miss Marie Polster spent from sun
day until Monday with Miss Bell
Easton. y
Mr.. Levi Zahn had as his guests
Sunday Norman and Milton Magins
and Sterling Slater.
Miss Estella Wagner had as her
guests Sunday Misses Coda and
Hilda 'Haines, OF near Woodbine.
The Jolly Glee Club visited Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Schneider Monday
evening and was royalty entertained
by them Refreshments were serv-
ed consisting of cakes, candies,
bananas, oranges and lemonade.
Among those present were Messrs.
and Mesdames Frank Schneider, An
drew Polster, Leo Davis, Luther
zahn, Albert Jordan, William N. Bar
Der, Mrs. Ella Carr, Misses Marie
Polster, Larue Davis, Mr.. Robert
Zahn, James Schneider, Thomas
Carr, Clarence Calples, Herman Wag-
ner, Milton Magin, Uncle Powell,
Rowe Davis, Levi Zahn and others.
Mrs. Lula Zahn and Miss Gladys
Zahn spent Monday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Jordan
Mrs. Catherine Rupert and fam
and Mrs. John Rupert and family,
of Baltimore; Albert Jordan, William
and David Ruppert and others.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Bair spent Mon
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Bair, at
Dennings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hughes and
family visited Mr.. Grove J. Shipley,
at Bird Hill, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Jordan enter
tanned the Jolly Glee Club Tuesday
evening. They expressed themselves
as spending a pleasant evening. Re
freshments we're served consisting of
cakes, candies and lemonade. Among
those present were Messrs. and Mes