Oxford Democrat., 1921-11-29
Here and There.

Notice.
Lost
Here and There.
Some exhilsrsting pictures OF what
can be expected In the next war, II one
oomes, have been given by Brigadier Cen
ersl Amos ]. Fries, chief Of the chemi-
cal warfare service, United States army,
which may be interesting matter for the
disarmament conference TO consider.
According to him, guns, ammunition
and war ships will play bat small part
In IL. Airplanss and death dealing gases
will take their places. Already gases
have been developed which, with the use
OF airplanes could destroy sll lives In q
city Ike New York in two hours. II 10
being planned to use this gas at sea as
we'll as on land, so IL would put war
ship out Of commission by penetrating
al parts of It's vsntilating system. This
being 90 ships and guns can go into the
discard a. being obsolete. The general
also gives rs the encouraging informa-
ton that wars will cost more in the fu-
ture, and the death roll will be greater
progress has been made, he says, In
chemical warfare material, but defensive
material has not progressed nosrly so
fast, by which he means gas masks and
protective clothing for soldiers. II this
view holds good in future wars soldiers
Won't be what they have been In the
past. They will be few professionals,
but no blue or olive-gresn patriotic
demonstrations.
For some reason many persons think
IL adds something to the strength of Q
statement to end or prefix IL by an oath.
Some are superstitious about making use
OF the name Of the deity for this purpose
and use subterfuges. Some of these are
only thinly yelled "cuss words" like
''darn" for damn, and some are used
with no thought as to their meaning ex-
cept that they serve az safety valves to
some sWfully pent up feelings In their
'.innards." Somebody who has tread
and spelt", and so has time on bis hands
to waste, has looked up the meaning Of
'.jlpgo" is Q by-word stolen from Basque
sailors and means "God"; that the inno-
cent "drat IT,, used much by some ladies
10 simply corruption of "God rot it,;
and that the silly sounding "6ddle-de-
dee" 10 only an attempt TO talk dsgo and
say "fediddio" or Goods faith"
This is admittedly fast age and fast
country, and perhaps the record for speed
10 held by Mrs. Marie A. Hoffman Of San
Francisco. She is in the court for . d.
vorce and she has given the tribunal
record Of her courtship and married life.
The time limitations are these: courtship
twenty minutes, married life ten min
utes, then divorce just as soon ~ the
court will grant is. She wants her an
nulmsnt on the ground OF fraud. Dur
Ing her brief but happy courtshlp, the
speed breaker In woolng told her Of the
clothes be would buy her, the Gar and
liveried chauffeur she could command and
the jewels that should sdorn her person; |;
bot after the wedding hs touched" the
bride for twenty dollars to pay the bills.
That was the little thing which severed
the new formed union.
Modern Thanksgiving diners have moth
Ing on the old Pilgrims, according to
John Packwood Tilden Of New York,
governor general OF the General Society
Of Mayflower Descendants. In an ad.
dress at the twensy-sixth annual dinner
of the Massachusetts Society OF May
flower Descendants last week, be said,
that nc the first Thanksgiving dinner,
three hundred years ago, IL took some Of
the diners two days to sober Oh. Their
Indian neighbor, Massasoit. and ninety
Of his sribesmen, were guests at this din
psr. They were invited for one day, but
stayed three, one to celebrate iu and two
10 recover from the effects. Something
in the liquid line imported from Holland
10 said to be the principal cause Of the
long period for rscuperation.
Courts of law are sometimes called
upon to decide queer questions. A tri-
bunal In Chicago has been called upon TO
decide whether the "shimmy"-ths
dance, not the garment-is immoral and
therefore illegal. This form OF dance is
popular In cabarets, gambling houses and
saloons In the windy city and . drive 10
ton 10 made under seldom invoked law
which provides that person taking part
In IN immoral dance 10 subject TO . fine
Of two hundred dollars or ono years i'm
The officers have witnesses
who will testify that the "shimmy" il
immoral.
How abuormally can be developed
some senses in the absence Of others 10
illustrated In the case Of Miss Willesta
Higgins, . sixteen-year-old deaf and
blind girl of JUnesville. VIE, who can
carry on . telephone conversation, her |
ear being replaced by her flngertips on
the receiver by which means she can reg
lstef vibrations and interpret them into
words. It 10 also stated she can detect |
The presence Of persons In the room by |
The vibration they produce, snd can also |
Tell By these waves whether they are
hose whom she knows or strangers.
Another man who saw the "noble ak
hundred" ride to their death In the Cri-
mean War. has just died at Sc. Cath
lrluss, Canada HE name was William
He was sailor In the old
,attleship Saucy Arsthusa. he. With
lfty-fvs other sailors. was detailed for
and service with q battery, and was ~
headquarters when Lord Rsglon Issued
he order to Captain Nolan for the noted
hargs.
Auotole France, winner Of the Nobel
riss, has this message for the world:
Barn al the books which teach hatred,
xAlt work and love; Lee 10 develop rea-
onabls men capable Of trsmpliug under
Dot ths vain splsndor of barbaric slories
nd Of resisting the sanguinsry ambitions
I'd natlonailsms and impsrlalisms which
ave crushed thslr fathers"