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Army and NavyNe

included in the directory, as the con-
tract surgeon and the Army Nurse
Corps are both carried in the direc-
tory. Warrant officers stand next be-
low second heutenants, have the al
lowance OF such. are governed by the
same retirement laws, receive the
same mileage for travel and wear the
same uniform, with slight modifica-
tions, as those of the commissioned
grades. Aside from the enlisted per-
sonnet, they are the only group in the
regular establishment who are not
carried in the directory and register.
The need for including the warrant
officers in the directory and register
became apparent in February Of 1928
and July of 1925, when the warrant
officers, at their own expense, publish
ed list and directory. Shortly after
the publication of the first directory
requests for copies were received
from and sent to practically all Army
activities. The warrant officers them
selves bore the expense of getting out
the directories, but, as pointed out last
week, the increased cost to the War
Department in including the warrant
officers in the directory and register.
which would be slight. would be more
than compensated by the increased
value to the service of the two publ
cations. In the Navy and Marine
Corps the warrant officers are carried
in the same lists and directories as
are those Of the commissioned per-
sonnet. and the hope was expressed
this week in the War Department
that the adjutant general of the Army
may find a way to overcome this diff
Guilty in the not too distant future.
Navy.
There will be convened at the Navy
Department the latter part of this
month a board of officers who will
meet for the purpose Of recommend
ing an officer of the Navy Medical
Corps for promotion to the rank of
rear admiral in that corps, to fill the
vacancy created by the death Of Rear
Admiral George H. Barber. The
board will be composed of the follow
ing officers: Rear Admiral Cary T..
Grayson, Edward r. Stitt and Albert
M. d. Mccormick and Lieut.. Comdr.
G. Haven Mankin, recorder.
Approval has been given by the
President Of the report of the board
Of officers on selection which con-
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a result of comprehensive flight test
competition in which the rnanufactur-
ers Of planes will compete. AS out
lined in the procurement law as passed
In the last session of Congress, the bu.
reau proposes to procure the training
planes by way of a design competitors
among the manufacturers.
Marine Corps headquarters announc>
ed last week the promotion Of II OF
ficers Of that corps to the grades In.
dictated. They are: Capts. G.. T. Hall
o. T. Francis and E. "A. Craig. First
Lieuts. A. w. Corell. j. D. Humphrey,
w. o. Brice, F. M. Wulbern. E. A.
Pollock, r. Nice. Pate. c. ]. Eldridga
l.. c. Whitaker. ]. R STREET.. F. g
Hall and B. 8. Roberts.
There Is no certainty that Capt.
George w. Steele. jr., will command
the Pittsburgh when she departs from
New York on October l to relieve the
Huron as flagship Of the Asiatic sta.
ton. Capt. Steele. 1t will be remem.
bered. formerly was in command Of
the Lakehurst Naval Air Station and
also commanding officer Of the Nays
airship Los Angeles. He Is now at
tached to the headquarters of the
third naval district at New York. but
as he has not been In the best OF
health, has been undergoing medical
treatment in New York. The Pitts
burgh recently returned as flagship
of the European station under the
command Of Capt. Franck T. Evans.
When the Huron is relieved, she will
proceed to the navy yard at Seattle.
WASH, where she will be recommis-
stoned.
Approval was given last week by
tho NAVY Depa RI rnent Of the ftfnerary
of the Pittsburgh on her cruise to
the Asiatic station. From the time
she leaves New York. on October 1. un-
til her arrival at Manila, she will have
cruised q total Of 1864 miles. She
will make the following stops on the
dates indicated on her way to her new
station; Colon. October 9; Panama,
October 8 to Is: San Diego. October
81 to November 1; Honolulu, Eovem-
Der 10 to 16; Guam, November 80 to,
December 4. and Manila. December g.
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have been issued to Lieut.. Comdr.
Henry B. Cecil, detaching him from
duty in the Bureau Of Aeronautics
and assigning him to duty as aide on
the staff of the commander of the
battle fleet. Lieut.. Comdr. Ralph G.
Pennoyer will be detached from duty
on the Utah and will proceed to this
city, where he will be assigned to
duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics.
Four Navy officers became due for
promotion on September 6 as the re-
suit of the retirement of Capt. Paul
Foley on September S, who retired
after the completion of 30 years
service upon his own application.
The officers becoming due for promo
ton on September 6 are Comdr. l..
Wilkinson, Lieut.. G. F. Began and
Lieut.. tjunior graded w. A. CORY.
Lieut.. Comdr ROLAND r. GasSer of
the Navy Medical Corps will be trans
ferred from the sanitary service of
Haiti to the Naval Medical School.
Washington. d. c.. and Lieut.. James
r. Root, also a Navy medical officer.
will be transferred from the New
York Naval Hospital and assigned to
undergo the course Of instruction at
James Buchanan Brady THEOLOGICAL
Institute in Baltimore. Orders have
been issued to Lieut.. L. w. Curtin,
detaching him from duty in the Blu
reau Of Aeronautics and assigning
him as chief flight officer Of the PN-1O
planes, which are now under course
of construction at the naval aircraft
factory.
The procurement plan of new planes
for the Navy for the next fiscal year,
which was announced last week by
the Bureau of Aeronautics, contem-
plates the purchase Of about 2S3
planes. These planes will be pur-
chased from money appropriated, but
are not a part Of the f1ve-year pro-
gram which was authorized by the
Congress just before its adjournment
at the last session. 1t was made known
at the department that the exact num-
Der Of planes to be purchased had not
been definitely established. this feature
of the procurement program being sub
ject to modification in accordance with
the actual requirements of the naval
air force. The plan as outlined above
includes five classes of planes, as fol-
lows: One hundred VI lighting
planes), Al VO observation planes), 81
VT bombing, torpedo and scouting
planes), IA VN draining planes) and
l VP patrol plane). Twenty-seven of
the 100 fighting planes will be used on
battleships. The fighting type of
ships 1t was said will be obtained as
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yened on August % for the purpose
OF recommending officers of the Civil
Engineer Corps Of the Navy for pro-
motion to the rank of commander.
The officers recommended for promo
ton were Lieut.. Comdrs. Henry G..
Taylor and Gaylord Church. The
former will be commissioned in the
higher rank from June a. 1925, while
the commission of Lieut.. Comdr.
Church will have the same date as
his line running mate upon the pro-
motion of that officer to commander.
Fourteen officers of the Marine
Corps, first lieutenants and II
second neutenants. have been pro-
respectively. as follows, as of the
dates indicated of the year 1926: First
Lieuts. George T. Hall, June 16;
Oliver T. Francis, July S, and Edward
A. Craig. August q. Second Lieuts.
Augustus W. Cockrell. October l.
1925: Joseph d. Humphrey, February
"a; William o. Brice, June 6; Francis
NJ. Wulbern, July IL: Edwin A. Pol
lock. June 16; Randolph Nee. Pate,
June %; Cornelius J. Eldridge. June
q; Lucian c. Whitaker, July S; John
r. Steet, July IL; Franklin c. Hall,
July Is. and Beverley S. Roberts,
August ~.
1t was pointed out at Marine Corps
headquarters last week that some of
these promotions are in accordance
with the recently enacted law in
which 1t is prescribed that promo
tons to the higher grades are au-
thorized when the promotion of Off
GERS at the top of the lists thereof
are delayed for various reasons.
Even with these promotions, it was
brought out, there Is a deficiency of
three in the grade of ma jor. In the
grade Of captain there Is an excess
of the same number, but this will be
absorbed upon promotion of the num-
Der now due for advancement to the
grade of major.
Comdr. Ezra G.. Allen, who upon
being relieved from duty in the Blu
reau Of Navigation had been ordered
to command the Hatfield, will go in
stead to the Pittsburgh as executive
officer, where he will relieve Comdr.
Arthur S. Carpenter, who will go on
temporary duty to the receiving ship
at New York. Two commanders,
Sydney M. Kraus and Eugene E. Will
son. both Of whom have been on duty
in the Bureau of Aeronautics, have
been assigned to aviation duty. the
former at the Lakehurst Naval Air
Station, while Comdr. Wilson will
proceed to the naval air station at
Pensacola, Fla, for duty. Orders
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the lack of sufficient funds to carry
on the operations Of the two Porto
Rican regiments is responsible for
the issuance of the order. Available
funds, it is said, will not permit keep
ing both regiments on the required
training basis, and as the War De-
partment does not desire to place one
of the regiments in an inactive status,
1t was indicated this week that a bat
talon in each Of the regiments will be
eliminated by means of the expiration
of the enlistment contracts now in
force. Thus, by not accepting any
more Porto Rican enlistments will
make it possible for the two bat
talions, which will be selected to be
disbanded. to become inactive at an
earlier date. Upon the reduction of
the two battalions, it is thought that
the Porto Rican enlistment ban will
be lifted.
Though the inclusion Of the names
of warrant officers of the Regular
Army in the Army List and Directory,
issued quarterly, and the Army Regis
ter, published annually, has been un-
der consideration by the War Depart
ment for some time. lack of sufficient
funds have up to the present time
prevented this being done. No one
seems to know in the department just
why the warrant officer list was never
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officers Wer6 an
structed not to
enlist any Porto
Rioans. This or
der will particu-
larly hamper the
recruiting activi-
ties of the New
York district, as
the enlistments in
that district have
been about Is
per cent Porto
Rican. Although
no official state
ment in explana-,
ton of this order
has been forth
coming from the
War nona rfp,opt
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An Irish Alibi.

From the Boston Transcript
An Irishwoman said to her huSba No 7
You told me your work kept yot,
late" l..
Yes. my dear"
Then how is it Mr.. Murphy saw
you at the ball gamer"
"Oh. that wasn't me, my dear.
saw that fellow there myself and I'll
admit he looked a lot like me-"
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Wanted to Be Posted.

From the Progressive Grocer Magazine.
It was small dinner party, and the
dessert stage had been reached, when
little Joan said:
'NVill dessert upset me tonight,
mummy, or is there enough to go
round?"
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Army.

Considerable mystery surrounds the
order issued by the adjutant general
Of the Army, Maj. Gen. Robert G..
Davis, last week, in which recruiting
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Disabled American Veterans.

Already approved by President
Coolidge and Director Frank T. Hines,
the annual Forget-Me-Not drive of the
District Of Columbia Department of
the Disabled American Veterans. Oc-
tober 2. was last week Endorsed by
the District Commissioners, Arch
bishop Michael Curley and Bishop
William F. Mcdowell in letters to
The Lambertville record., 1926-09-02

"Mah sermont dis mawnin' is bout Dan1 in de
lyun's den Yo' nggers whut went ter de circus las
Satdy an de lyuns in de kin reckon fer
SETS whut skeery time po' Dan1 must a-had wen
King Darius done thowed i'm inter dat den whut had
hunerds O. lyuns roarn eroun seekn' whom dey might
devou.o Thus began Doc Bloom his Sunday morn
ing
"But de yuns doan bite Dan1; nawsuh! An wy?
All axes yo' wy ddn de lyuns eat Dan1 up?" He
paused, and there breathess expectancy the
of his hearers in the little building of the Antioch
African Baptist Church, South.
"Well King Darius done said hssef dat, by Gawd,
whom dou continually e will delivah de!' Yas
suh OATS whut de Pershn king done say ter Dan'!
An aft Dan1 outa de lyuns' den, de Good Book
done say, No O. hurt foun' on i'm, cause
e believed in is Gawd!' Yassuh! Dat whut de Good
Book say!
"But whut wuz benin all dat? All axes yo' Whut
wuz benin de fac dat de lyuns amt done eat Dan'
up, hide an hair an grissle?
"Ah1 tell yo' whut 'twuz: Hit cause de lyuns
done got lockaw! Yassuh! Done got lockaw, an dey
couldn't a-bit Dan efen dey wanted ter bite inn
Nawsuh!
"An' how come dey got de lockjaw? Dan1 hssef
dat queschun! Wen e outa de den e say
Nah Gawd sent is angel, an shut de lyuns' moufs
dat dey couldn't hurt mel! Yassuh! An does yo' know
how de angel shut de lyuns' moufs? Ahll tell yo!
"Ah done heahed a smaht doctor lecturin ter de
boys up to College, an e say dat lockjaw is
cause by liz bitty bugs whut gifts inter Yassuh!
Folks uster think dat lockiaw is wen yo stick
nail inter yo foot somepn'. But dat amt all! Nav
suh We done learn de science whut tell all bout dem
things! Yassuh! An science done tell us dat lockjaw
is by de teternus germs-germs is ILL bty bugs
whut yo' CANT wild de nekked eye. Nawsuh! Dey
done be Ill dat nobody CANT 'em widout deys
got magnerfyin' glasses ter look thu. Yassuh!
Well, De Lawd kin see evything! An de angels O.
de Lawd kin ev'ything! An de Lawd done tell de
angel ter git. miums an miums o. dem liz tetternus
bugs an put em in de de yuns Cause de
lyuns is alus fghtin' an scrachn' mongst deyse'fs
and deys allus got dey faces. Ah done seen
dat wild de yuns in de circus las Satdy
$50 de angel come down and put de liz bugs in de
an de yuns gifts de tetternus sickness, an de
fus things dey knows day CANT open dey moufs! Nav
subj Dey done got de ockjaw, an all dey kin do is
walk roun an roun an slobber cause deys hongry
ter eat Dan1 up"
Doc interrupted at this point by anky, hem
darky with begone expression who
stood up and asked in wstful plaintive voice, "Doc,
does yo' know whar niger could git some O. dem
bugs ahd like ter git ter glib nah wife ter stop
'er blab mouf frum takin' much!"
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AN OUTRAGE TO MOTORISTS

One of the most horrible detours motorists have
into is the back road from Alexauken Bridge to
Brookvlle which traffic during the first
stages of repairs to the Stockton road 1t is full of pro-
jecting rocks and torturous turns, and is
that pass only in scattered spots
Last week several cars either ecked suf
fered serious damages during the heavy The mry
clay in which the Jagged rocks imbe ided in the
surface of the road works up in treacher of
Shiny mud that bitches before the unvary driver
is aware of it.
1t is callous outrage to limb and life and
property to detour traffic such dangerous by
ways Motorists who have suffered serious damages
ought to bring suit against the county and the conrac
tors who impose such hardshps the public
In most states there laws which make it man
daory to improve all detours before traffic is deoured
them when repairs are started on main highways.
There should be such a lass in every state.
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TERN IN PRISON MUST BE
SERVED BY GEORGIA STATE
cEM Tod LaOp ENID L,ZZ

SEN lux FOR EN- BtLL-
LING DISABLED'S FINDS
Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 6.--State Ser
ator J. d. Clifton, Of Leesburg. Ga
who was convicted in Sumter Su
perior Court last December of en-
bezzling $4,O08.09 of the funds Of
John j. Curry, World war yetor
an, for whom Senator Clifton had
been appointed guardian, must serve
his term of three to five years
the state farm at Milledgeville, it
was ordered recently by the Prison
Commission of Georgia.
The Prison Commission received
notice Monday that the judgement
of the Court of Appeals of GeorPi.
affirming the trial court, had reach
ed the trial court, becoming its fin
al judgement, which left nothing be-
tween Clifton and the service of his
term, and ordered him to the statc
farm. The commission allowed th'
convicted man to go the farm, rathe
than on the public roads, on account
of the fact that Senator Clifton had
suffered several strokes of paralysi.
The trial was in Sumter Count,
on a change of venue, it having ap
peared when the case was called in
Lee County that jury could not be
obtained because of large numhel
of voluntary and other disqualifi-
cations.
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LIKE DRIVING OVER A VOLCANIC LAVA BET

Since the concrete bridge was built by the Pennsyl-
tion the paving they left it like the undulating
of extinct lava bed. Coney Island with its
Bump bumps has nothing on this particular lob
lolly of so-caled paving.
If all the oaths uttered and muttered by auto
drivers they pass this spot could be laid end to
end they would reach from heaven to hades and back
again And if all the dire invocaons they have called
down upon the heads of the Pennsylvania Railroad
were to take effect they wouldn't last long wax
dog chasing asbestos thru his satanic majesty
well known domain
The Board of Commissioners have called upon the
Pennsylvania Railroad officials time after time to put
this piece of paving in good condition But always there
are the they use "poor yokels'
while they dsdanfully ignore the rights of the public
One of the excuses they gave was that they intend
ed to lay larger rails along the crossing at this point
and that the heavier rails were installed they
would repair the paving at the time But that was
two years. and neither the larger rails" paving
has been installed.
The "large rails" excuse is a lot of bunk anyway
Only few months before that excuse was given the
old rails removed and larger installed These
100 pound rails. The only larger rails they could
install 1870 pounds such used ON main lines
where the heaviest traffic is carried,
In the meantime automobile springs can be brok-
drivers swear tires he blown out heads can be
bumped against auto tops, and old ladies' lose their
false teeth do the Bump the-bumps" over this
abomnable paving BUT WHAT DOES THE PENN
SYLVANIA RAILROAD CARE?
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"A COUNTRY PAPER FOR COUNTRY PEOPLE

The other day "Bill" Ely unearthed a twenty-four
year old copy Of THE NEW HOPE NEWS which he
brought around to this office The heading carried the
above statement-"A Country paper for country
people,"
Twenty -four years have made lot of change in
living eonditions-there is not in the strict of
the word, any Country people, nowadays The rural
dweler has his telephone radio, mail delivery automo-
bile and convenient roads which all keep him in close
touch with the great metropolitan centres of the
country.
But we still have local interests, and the pa
per continues today "a home paper for home people,
We like to know what is going around And
that is where this paper functions We growing all
the time--tell your friends about
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t. S MAKES ALCOHOL POISoNS DEADLIER.
HELPS BO0TLEGGERS BOOST DEATH RATE

WASHINGTON Aug. 22--Investment tip: Buy
stocks in undertaking supply and coffin companies.
rise in the mortality rate appears to be newt
able with the government deciding to make industrial
alcohol chief dependence bootegers for foundation
material poisonous than For experience has
shown that poisoning the alcohol won't keep booteggers
from converting it into gin, whiskey" and other COM
modities of the illegal liquor trade.
Until some time after the Volsead act became law,
denatured alcohol alcohol poisoned legally by the
government, considered of such deadly nature
that it required it still is, to be labelled to be
sold only for industrial purposes.
Then government chemists say the bootleggers'
chemists highly paid experts discovered way to
move most of the poison put into the alcohol by the
government but used other posons, The two poisons
thus placed in the alcohol have been described as bat
Continued in next column
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HOW TO MAKE IT RAIN

After much discussion pro and
con, ard many long distance explain
ations and claims, the United States
Weather Bureau has definitely de-
cided that there is no certain way
to make it rain. Probably not, but
wearing a new straw hat, or get
ting up a picnic, has been known to
help a lot.-Central (Perkasie) News
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HOW MANY CHILDREN

A young man from neighboring
county about to be married has
written the Department of Agricul-
ture at Washington asking how
large a family they would advise
him to have. We would say to the
young man that there are families
and families. Some can have doz-
en- children with credit to themsel-
yes and the nation, while in others
one is far too many. We advise the
young man to wait a year or two
and then send sample. Perhaps
the Department will be able to tell
better at that time.
Central (Perkasie) News
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l SHOULD SAY so.

The lady in the apartment across
the way had forgotten to pull down
the shade. The two gentlemen in the
opposite fiat watched her for bit
with casual interest. Then one of
them remarked, "Not very modest,
S she ?"
NO" replied the other after an
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VET MUTE CURED

BY COPS FLASHLIGHT
Lawrence, Mass, Aug. Ga po-
liceman's flashlight has started
George Gibbs, deaf and dumb for
nine years since he was wounded in
the World war, talking and hearing
again.
"You fool" shouted Gibbs as the
flashlight was turned into his ia ,e
while he slept in an empty house.
They were the first words he had
uttered since a bullet pierced his
cheek in 1917.
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INK FROM OTHER
PRESSES
Humorous and Serious Topics
From Leading Editors
of the Country
PROHIBITIONIsTs WON'T

BEITEF ' u VIo
Here is story, and, we are
told it is true, from Emaus. A
chicken man had cluck that
wouldn't keep her chicks. He gave
her two tablespoons of wine. The
cluck Topped on her nest, drunk,
and when she sobered up she stay
ed with her flock and fought vic
iously to protect them. This was
an original idea, hatched in Mo-
rayian town, where Judge Iobst was
reared. Town and Country.
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8 9
VETERANS COLUMN
BELATED REWARD FOR
tCK FETEP, VICTIM

'SKEETER' VICTIM
Washington, Aug. 6.-Belated rec
ognition has been accorded by Con
gress to Clyde L. West, former
"buck" private in the Army, who
risked his life to advance the cause
of science during the Spanish
American. war, the War Department
announced yesterday. He will re-
ceive a pension of 800 a month
for the rest of his days.
While in Cuba in 1900, West
twice volunteered to be bitten by
mosquitoes infested with yellow
fever On the second occasion, he
contracted the disease and has suf-
fered physical disabilities ever since
West is a watchman in Gov
ernment building here.
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EDITORIALS
TO a LADY

/ never thought such kindly eyes
Could turn so cold with steel and ire;
Nor that the grace your hands comprise
Gould show such iron strength entire
The velvet smoothness Of your skin,
Enveloping a form 50 sweet,
Conceals a nerve as hard as sin
With stceled resistance too complete
| know the grace your charms unfold,
Thru the error of mscue;
| learned the knowledge | have told
When | tried 50 hard to kiss you!
Gee Sec
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WHY THE BILBOARDS?

Billboards were, are, and always
will be nuisance, wherever they
are placed, be it in town or along
the public highways. There may be
some excuse" for placing them in
fields, but when it comes to plant
ing those grotesque things along
any street in town, then it's
violation of common sense or good
judgement.-Quakertown Free Press.
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observant moment. mot modest, but
obviously retiring" -Drawl.
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ONE FOR THE ROAD HOG
Wayfarer (annoyed by motorists
exhaust): "ere! 'Alf the road, guv'-
nor. What do you fink you're aplay-
in at? Sky writin'?" Exchange
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rs PROHIBITION
Il FAILURE?

Comments for against will be published here weekly
If sign them. Unsigned items will be iRnored-Edtor