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Appreciates Puritanism

An Italian wrote to a Philadelphia
paper the following:
Sir: l have read the letters on the
Sabbath question. May | say all
these DIRECTORS have missed the marx :?
The question is not whether the rich
should play golf and the poor stay at
home on Sunday. To me there is
something greater, i. e., GA nation
without vision will perish" No nation
can long endure if her ideals are slack
or based on pastime. During the week
we are engaged in chasing the dollar
in one way or another. Sunday is the
only day left to us wherein we can or
should try to find our bearings. AS it
is, we are trying to shake loose any
moral restraint there is so as to do
Just as we please.
When | came from Italy | was en-
ployed from 7 A. NJ. to 8 P. M. and on
Saturdays from 7 A. NJ. to II P. M.
and | had to work on Sunday, also
| That rave me the afternoon for recre-
alton. Naturally | went to the parks
in the summer and spent then practi
cally all I made during the week, com
ing home dead tired. Later on
CHANGED to enter a Presbyterlar
Church and gave up my Sunday work
| Joined a Sunday school class, thus
giving up the park, and as continued
in the Church the desire for more edu
cation was so great that didn't res
till | went through the University o
Pennsylvania. | owe what | have AM
what | am to the Church, and not t.
its disregard.
l thoroughly believe if the averag
foreigner in our midst would hav
more Sabbath regard and more of tn
old Puritan spirit, he would becom
more readily Americanized and hav
a higher opinion of America and it
laws. Michele frasla.
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The acquittal of Ralph Vitelli, in
Salem County Court last Wednesday,
is conceded in Penns Grove by those
who know the circumstances to be a
gross miscarriage of justice by the
jury. When a big array Of counsel
for the defense awes a jury, there are
reasons to believe therd are too much
softness and mollycoddle ~passivitism
on the jury. More moral backbone to
uphold the law with sternness in the
committal of high crimes will do much
to stop the crime wave now sweeping
over the country.
The case originated in a Jealous
family fued and because the jurors
failed to do their duty the seconc
murder was committed in revenge.
When small misdemeanors are pun
ished unreasonably evere and mur,
derers are let free, it makes many fee
there is an incompetency of those OF
the jury either in knowledge or il
moral sensibilities and discernment.
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"YellOw Peril"

1t appears that in proportion to
numbers there are more Cinnamon
members of the Orthodox American
Churches in San Francisco, California,
than native The Chinaman joins
a Church and the American joins the
home-wreckers' union. What about
the yellow peril?-Los Angeles Tires.
The Yellow Journal Peril is far
worse than the japanese or Chinese
peril. 80.
Childish minds are still seeing King
Georges Bird red coated soldiers of
1776 on the Atlantic Coast conjured
up bv Irish a~gitators and the Shintc
gods of the Japanese and the Chinese
Dragons are childish dreams on the
Pacific coast.
American minds of men who know
the history of their nation and the
principles it is founded upon are as
ready to teach and preach them as
the open-minded foreigner or then
children are to receive them. .,
"Know the truth and the truth vii
set you free" from yellow per1ls ant
st. Georges and Chinese Dragons.
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NATIONS LEAGUE ONE YEAR
OLD
40 Nations, Three-FOurtks of World
In 1t. II Applicants. L. 5.
Lays Behind

New York, Jan. 15.-The League of
Nations is one year old today. Its
membership now comprises 40 nations,
representing, it is estimated, l,26O,-
900 900 people, or three-fourths OF the
worlds population of 1,6O5, 900 900:
Eleven additional States, with d total
population of "A, 000, 900, have formally
applied for admission, while 1t is
known that Germany, with it's 80,00O,-
900 people, wants to join as soon as
she is given a chance. This leaves
about 300, OOO, 900 of the worlds IN
habitants completely outside OF the
League.
The League began it's life when the
Council met for the first time In Paris
at the of President Wilson
on January 16, 1920, with % mem
ers. By the time the first meeting OF
the assembly was held, a fortnight
ago, the membership had increased TO
Al. Eight have since been added.
At the time of it's birth the League
had no quarters of its own, but today
it is installed in it's permanent seat at
Geneva. where an old hotel has been
transformed into the Palace of the
Nations. The General Secretariat,
under Sir Eric Drummond, has a staff
of more than 300.
Most of Subsidiaries Organized
There have been II meetings of the
Council of the League, and most OF the
subsidiary OF semi-independent bodies
contemplated by the covenant have
have been brought into existence
These include the International Court
of Justice, the first institution of its
kind in the worlds history; machinery
for the registration of international
treaties; commissions to deal with dis
+ armament, mandates, economic block
ade measures, public health, interna'
tional statistics and the international
/; Labor office.
Preparations have been made fol
. bodies to deal with international com
f m~unications and the suppression O.
the white-slave traffic and the creation
! has begun of permanent machlner.
, for the regulation of internationa
credits and the economic rehabilita
q ton of countries ruined by wal
Friends of the League point to its in
tercession in the Polish-Lithuanial
and Swedish Finnish disputes, the lat
ter over the Aland Islands, as anon,
: it's achievements, although both case
await final settlement. They ais
enumerate as standing to the League
credit the repatriation of more tina
r 10000 war prisoners and a campaigl
: against typhus in Poland. They sa,
t it has furnished a Government. for tn
Saare district, formerly German, an
that it has helped Danzig to assum
it's position as a free city under tn
Leagues special protection.
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They Are Living Brutuses

The Senator who remarks that none
are so poor as to do Wilson reverence
might add that they were Senators
who stabbed Caesar.-Baltimore Sun.
The living Brutuses today will be
forgotten 1000 years from now, but
like Caesars commentaries Wilson's
democracy will be studied in world
histories 1000 years from now.
Our Army Strength
The War Department says that on
November 30, 1920, the strength of
the army was: Commissioned officers,
13,461; enlisted men, 208,364; National
Guard, 4,159; enlisted men, 1857.
From two millions of men November
Both, 1918, all have returned to peace
full occupations. Never in the history
of the world did a people rise up to
the call of a leader as in April, 1917,
and vanish in two years.
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FRANKLIN'S REQUEST TO DELINQUENTS

All persons indebted to Benz. Franklin, Printer of this paper,
are desired to send in their respective Payments: Uhose Sub
scribers for the News excepted from whom a Twelve-Months'P Pay
is not due).
Gentlemen, it is but a little to each of you, though it will be
a considerable Sum to me; and lying in many hands wide from
each other, according to the Nature of our BuSineSs) it is highly
inconvenient and scarce practical for me to call upon every One;
l shall therefore think myself particularly obliged, and take it
very kind of those, who are mindful to send or bring it in without
further Notice.-An Advertisement That Appeared in The Penn
sylvania Gazette, 1740.
The Above Is a Timely Tip To Readers of The Penns Grove
Record.
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The Federal Reserve Board says the
financial crisis is over and the future
is bright before US. Undoubtedly the
sun will shine, the rain will fall and
the terrestrial ball whirl around every
t~wenty-four hours and thru space at
10 miles a second, the same as in the
past. All we need is to use our minds
and muscles to grow crops and make
goods as in the past. We should keep
in mind that the world owes no n a
living unless he works and earns it;
also that no nan owes the other man
a job unless he needs a helper and not
a boss.
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GOOD WORK OF THE LEAGUE
Woodrow Wilson, Prophet of World
Democracy, Gave The Nations
Rules To Live By

Every day the League of Nations
is alive, ana everything 1t does, ever II
relatively small, the posse comitatus
OF nations in the phrase of Theodore
Roosevelt, become more potent for
good. 1t is an absolutely new thing,
not like anything that even existed be-
fore, and OF course faith in its practical
bility is yet to be established. In the
peace conference England was only
half-hearted in its support; France
was openly opposed; Italy was in
different, and Japan kept silent and
watched the Christian nations try to
legislate a little Christianity, OF civili-
cation, into international relationships.
Nothing but the extraordinary IN
fuence OF President Wilson, based al
most entirely on his lofty moral aims,
enabled him to secure the covenant of
the League and it's incorporation in
the peace treaty. There never was a
more striking demonstration of the
power of a single man animated by a
great moral purpose.
For incomprehensible reasons, OF
under party passions which the his
torian will have difficulty in explain
ing, the country which was ennobled
and glorified by Woodrow Wilson's
superb struggle for great moral ends
~repudiated his work. But the League
exists; it works; it has accomplished
many important things.
If it had done nothing more than
to restrain the lust of conquest, as it
has done by the adoption of Mr.. Will
sons project for the administration OF
territory conquered from Germany
and Turkey by trustees for the popu-
lation concerned and for the civilized
world, it would have accomplished a
wonderful task in moralizing the rela-
tons of nations, and in establishing
the supremacy of right over might.
But the League has done much more
than that, as the official report on the
first year if it's existence shows. 1t
has secured publicity for treaties, and
this is a great factor in the effort to
maintain peace. Sixty treatles v
been registered in the secretariat. The
League has accepted responsibility for
the protection of minorltles, which
means that if Rumania or Poland per-
secutes the Jews it is the concern OF
all the rest of the world-eXcept the
United States; we hold aloof from
Christendom and from civilization.
The mandate commission to admins
ter the former German colonies has
been created, and it has formulated its
instructions to the nations which are
to act as trustees and not as con-
q%uerors.
The League is administering the
Saare Valley, by which the rights OF
France to coal are recognized, While
the rights of the population to deter
mine their sovereignty are safeguarded:
The League is directing the affairs O
the free city of Danzig, by which
means the national rights of the popu-
lation are harmonized with the right
Poland to have access to the sea.
The districts of Eupen and Malmedy
have been transferred in spite of the
efforts of Germany to get another
plebiscite in the hope of retaining
these natural Belgian districts.
The League of Nations is perpetu-
ating peace by ~disposing Of the causes
of international friction.-Philadel-
phia Record.
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Poor Richard Says

Without Repentance non to Heav'n
can go,
Yet what Repentance is few seem to
know:
T is not to cry out Mercy, or to
sit
And droop, or to confess that
thou hast faiPd;
'Tis to bewail the Sins thou didst
commit,
And not commit those Sins thou hast
bewaiPd.
He that bewails, and not forsakes
them too,
C~onfesses rather what he means to do.
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Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applicatiOnS as they cannOt Teach
the diseased portion of the ear. There 10
only one way to cure Catarrhal Deafness.
and that il by a constitutional remedy.
through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
Of the System: Catarrhal Deafness 10
caused by an inflamed condition Of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inf1amed you have q
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when 1t 10 entirely closed. Deafness 10 the
duced and this tube restored to its nor.
NAL condition. hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases Of Deafness are
Condition Of the Mucous Surfaces.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case OF Catarrhal Deafness that mo
2 cured by HALLS cATARRH
An Druggists 75c. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
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Rare German Chemicals Made By
Americans

At a recent meeting of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society in Chicago, DR..
H. 7. Clark, of Rochester, N. Y, be-
fore the organic division, made a
statement that the German monopoly
on rare chemicals had broken. Before
the war hundreds of the chemicals es-
sential to laboratory work were made
exclusively in Germany, Doctor Clark
said, but now 800 of these rare chemi-
Gals are produced in America.
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President Harding is having a hard
time of it listening to every caller
and trying to suit everybody. As
soon as a prominent man is mentioned
for a cabinet position another politi-
clan uses the shillalah on him. All are
dead against Wisconsin, eve if they
do not know what it means, but Hard
ing will have a Donnybrook Fair at
Washington.
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All farm crops in the United States
grown in 1920 are estimated to be
worth $10,465 OILS 900. Those in New
Jersey are valued at $97,190,000. Be
ing part of the whole this should
make every farmer feel rich.
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1t is said there is nothing new under
the sun, only things have been re-
discovered. An old record shows that
in Chester, Pa, the first woman jury
was drawn in 1859. New jersey
women worth 80 pounds ($250) voted
from 1776 until 1903.
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President-elect Harding having alb

President-elect Harding having alb
sorbed the best from 'the best minds
in the United States, we are expect
ing soon something astounding from
the greatest oracle of wisdom in
America. All those who made the
Peace Treaty and the League OF Ma
lions Covenant will feel like pigmies
when he becomes the spokesman of the
wisdom of all ages.
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Born In Boston January II, 1905.
Died In Philadelphia April II, 1890.
Patron Saint of Printers

No other mar in America had sc
many sides as Benjamin Franklin
After learning the printing trade in
the shop of the New England Courant,
published by his brother, James
Franklin, he came to Philadelphia in
1923. In 1870 he established the
Pennsylvania Gazette, which is now
continued in the Saturday Evening
Post, which has a circulation of mil
lions all w the earth.
Franklin was Statesman, Diplomat
and Philosopher. He was one of the
signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence in 1776. He negotiated the
treaty with France and procured help
in the Revolution. He was a delegate
to the convention which drew up the
United States Constitution in 1887.
In the Colonial days, when he was
still actively performing his duties as
an editor in Philadelphia, there was
no other publication that was so wide
ly circulated as the almanac in which
the maxims of "Poor Richard appear
ed from year to years the best of them
being finally gathered together in that
famous harangue which good old
Father Abraham" was represented as
having delivered to the crowd at the
auction sale when he demonstrated
with them for their habits of foolish
or extravagant expenditure. 1t was
long before the Revolution that Frank
lin wrote that happy piece of homely
wisdom. But it is 10Y just as reason
able in the affairs of all men as it was
then. In fact for much more than a
century and a half it has had a con-
slant influence on American character,
and its savings and warnings have be-
come, in their way, almost a staple of
our thought and speech, like the
proverbs of solomon, and indeed are
hardly less quoted as domestic pre-
cepts by our people than those Bibli-
cal texts of worthiness in human con-
duet.
Patron Saint of Thrift
Franklin knew the value of Time
and the use of Money. He kept a
book shop at his printing shop. A
customer called one day TO buy a book.
After examining it the price was ask
ed. Franklin said, Zone dollar" The
customer continued to look thru the
book and haggled about the price.
When asked again the price. Frank
lin replied, S1.10." Asked why the
increase, Franklin replied, "Time is
money. You have taken my time
when l ought to be proftably at
work."
Poor Richard Says:-
Time is money.
"The use of money is all the adj
vantage there is in having money"
Franklin was no gold monometalist.
He said that gold is fit to "plug teeth
and ornament FOOLS
In Poor Richards Almanac which he
began printing in 1892 was stored wit
and wisdom which has continued to
be Americas household. topics ever
since. Some are as follows:
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep neal shore.
Don't give too much for your
whistle. He wrote the little story of
an experience as a child, while he was
representing his country in France.
Everybody was delighted with the ap-
plication Franklin made of the maxim.
Turn the whistle into the autombile
or any other luxury that might be
spared and the saying is as pat today
as it ever was.
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The New Jersey Legislature pro
pose to deprive US of the $50
beer Qaw) Gov. Edwards gave US. We
will have to go to Atlantic City next
summer to get as wet as the ocean.
The hotels eagerly awaits us, as in
the past.
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Poor Richard Says:--

Poor Richard Says:--
How weak, how vain is human pride!
Dares man upon himself confide?
The wretch who glories in his gain
Amasses' heaps on heaps in vain.
Can those (when tortur'd by disease)
Cheer our sick heart, or purchase
ease?
Can those prolong one gasp of breath,
Or claim the troubled hour of death?
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Poor Richard Says:-

Poor Richard Says:-
Would men but follow what the Sex
advise,
All things would prosper, all the
World grow wise.
IT was by Rebecca's Aid that Jacob
His fathers Blessing from an elder
son.
Abusive Nabal ovid his forfeit Life
To the wise Conduct of a pru-
dent Wife.
At Hester's Suit, the prosecuting
Sword
Was sheath'd and Israel liv'd to bless
the Lord.
Poor Richard Says
Where there's no Law, there's nc
Bread.
AS pride increases, Fortune de-
clines.
Drives thy Business, or it will drive
thee.
In other men we faults can spy
And blame the mote that dims
their eyes;
Each little speck and blemish find;
| To our own stronger errors blind.
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AirpIane Has It's Limits.

The officials Of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture have been in
receipt Of many suggestions relative
to extinguiShing forest fires with the
use of gas bombs dropped from air.
planes that 1t has been found neces-
sary to issue a statement for the pur-
pose Of explaining that the scheme is
not feasible. For the purpose of over
coming q detachment of men, a mix
ture Of one part Of virulent poison to
100000 Of air would be entirely suf-
ficient to accomplish the purpose, but
one of $50 parts to the thousand would
not be powerful enough to quench q
conflagration. Another thing to be
taken into consideration Is the diff
Guilty Of dropping the bombs with the
necessary precision. The art Of strik-
ing a target with any degree Of &C.
curacy has not been developed at this
time, and there Is no prospect that II
will be sufficiently perfected to the
point of becoming available for the
purpose of fighting fires.
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GERMS FUTURE WAR WEAPONS
Scientist Draws Dark Picture OF Saw.
aaery That Will Be Part OF

NGXG SO0IISS
Mobilization Of the mosquito, me
house-iy, the louise and various other
disease-carrying pests for the dissent
nation of deadly germs in enemy terri
tory is a possibility of 1.-THE next war"
pictured by Prof. Maxwell LEROY. a
London scientist.
"I foresee the mosquito from Brazil
starting yellow fever in new lands, the
house-1y, duly infested with cholera,
dysentery or enteric and the typhus-
laden louse doing their deadly work
much more effectively than spies pol
soning wells" said Professor LEROY
in a recent address.
"This would be part Of the work OF
war Office of entomologists-the
working out of strategic plans for the
distribution of these pests by airplane.
1t seems that the world Is intent upon
furnishing an airplane service for
these pests, many Of which are now
held somewhat in check by natural
enemies in their native cliInes. This
will give them just the means Of tran
sit they have required. 1t will be a
peace.time danger as well as one that
could be used very extensively In war.
The danger from these winged battal-
ions of death is more serious than one
dare estimate"
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HONE OF DEALY SC0RP10N
Reoicn in Mexico That Is Avoided by
Travellers for Most Excellent
Reason.

Revolutionary bands and brigands
may ride up and down Mexico, but
there is one strip Of territory that even
the hardest and most daring Of them
will not brave. 1t is desert country
that extends from point near the city
of Durango to the borders of the stare
of Zacatecas, about seventy-f1ve miles
long by fifty miles wide. 1t Is as
serted that myriads Of scorpions infest
this region and are the most deadly OF
the species.
In the city of Durango. although re-
parded as outside Of the more deadly
zone. the death rate, due to scorpion
stings is high. This is especially true
as to children. The alachrane, as the
insect is commonly called, is regarded
as such a deadly pest that for many
years the municipal government has
paid a boGnty Of one centavo, equiVa-
lent to about onehalf cent OF Ameri-
can money, for each one killed ami
delivered to the official custodian OF
dead scorpions. Something like 1OO-
600 of the scorpions are killed and
bounty paid for them annually.
Killing scorpions is a regular indus
try with many men, women and chill
dreu Of Durapgo. One Is told that
some of the natives even 90 so tar as
to establish regular colonies Of the
poisonous insects in their homes for
the purpose of breeding them for the
market.
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Navasota, Texas.-Mrs. w. M. Peden,
Of this place, relates the followingi interest
Ing account of how she recovered her
strength, having realized that she was
actually losing her health:
Health is the greatest thing in the
world, and when you feel that gradually
slipping away from you, you certainly sit
up and take notice. That is what did
scne time ago when found myself in a
very nervous, rundown condition OF
health. was 50 tired and felt so lifeless
could hardly 60 at all.
"Iwas Just no account for work. |
would get a bucket of water and would
feel so weak I would have to set it down
before felt like ! could lift it to the Shelf.
In this condition, OF course, to do even
my housework was a task almost i'm
possible TO accomplish.
II was nervous and easily upset.
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ORCHARD AND GARDEN NOTES

Clemson College, March-The first
spray for peaches should be applied
about ten days after full bloom.
Spray with arsenate of lead, using
one pound of the dry powder or two
pounds of the paste form to 80 gal
Ions of water. In addition to the a.
bove add 2 pounds Of quick lime to
each SO gallons of spray.
Non-bearing pecan trees can be
top-worked. Now is an exce.len:
time to prune back the head t. force
out new growth, which is essential
i'll this work. The buds should be
inserted in August.
Sweet potatoes may be bedded in
the open ground after danger of
frost is over. Ordinarily, the bed
should be made at least six weeks
before the plants are wanted. Porto
Rico and Nancy Hall are the most
satisfactory varieties of sweet pota-
toes.
If the seed potatoes are diseased
in any way, soak for 5 minutes in a
solution of formaldehyde, made by
diluting one quart Of 40 per cent.
formaldehyde with so gallons of
water.