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WARS LESSONS GOOD
Sociologists and political economists
throughout the country are emphasiz
ing the fact that those qualities which
are needed to make a nation effective
in war are exactly the qualities which
will make it most efficient in time of
peace.
The president, in his various expres
sions and messages, has pointed out
that what we need during war time is:
Economy, conservation of energy,
preservation of health, elimination of
waste, righteous living, abolition of
speculation and gambling in the neces
sities of living, fair prices and profits
for all. high ideals, temperance in all
things.
Each of these qualities and princi
ples is necessary to a nation if it is
to reach its highest efficiency and use
fulness in time of peace. War has
merely served to bring to the surface
the fact that this country, because
of its prosperity and good fortune,
was in danger of forgetting the car
dinal virtues.
The war, therefore, will be beneficial
to every American in his daily manner
of living long after the fighting is over.
HAM AND EGGS, $3.80
The man who is always telling you of
vane one who is worse off just as you
are getting happy telling your troubles
is a pest All the same, the next time
you gasp after a glance at the hill the
waiter hands you, remember what hap
jrened to f olonel Fairfax l ee when lie
dropfe-d in at the fOriental Restaurant
je Rgrbmond in IHtJl
A bullet lia<) knocked f olonel Lee
off the active list, hut it had not spoiled
hi« apj/etite, att'l lie derided to have a
s/jifarr m»al to even tip for t amp fare
f /r re is what he ordered I
A glass of Frete h hramly. soup, a
po/lf'/fi of roast turkey, (rotators, raft
j/age, bread and luittrr, a ettp of eof
fee and a pint of madeira
'flu waiter didn't even murmur an
e/rnse alentt its t<riog "on a/nottnt of
the war" as he handed the Colonel the
lull, wbteh totaled *71 Aft
The bill of fare from which Colonel
Lee ordered is presented to show how
really modest prices are to-day. The
charges are for single portions:
Soup, $1.50; turkey, $8.50; chicken,
$3.50; ham and eggs, $3.50; rockfish,
$5; roast beef, $3; beefsteak, $3.50;
fried oysters, $5 ; boiled eggs, $2; raw
oysters, $3; cabbage, $1 ; potatoes, $1;
coffee, per cup, $3; milk, $2; bread
and butter, $1.50. Wines, per bottle:
champagne, $50; madeira, $50; port,
$25; claret, $20; sherry, $35. Liquors,
per drink: French brandy, $3; rye
whiskey, $2, apple brandy, $2. Porter
or ale, $12 a bottle. Cigars, $1.
TEACHERS SHOULD MARRY
According to the 1914 report of the
Commission of Education, there were
in the United States 169,029 men en
gaged in school-teaching, and 537,123
women. More than half a million
women, practically all of them unmar
ried, and many of them—because of
lack of opportunity or because of legal
restrictions—cut off from marriage. Is
this a good thing or a bad thing? asks
the Journal of Heredity.
If women are to teach, on eugenic
grounds, preference should be given
to married teachers rather than to
single ones, and single ones should he
encouraged to marry. This requires
(1) that considerable changes be made
in the higher education of young wo
men, so that they shall be fitted for
motherhood rather than for nothing
except school-teaching, and (2) that
social devices be brought into play to
aid them in mating—since it can not
be doubted that a large proportion of
celibate school-teachers are single from
necessity, not from choice, their pro
fession not being favorable to finding
mates.
USE HIS OWN JUDGMENT
State Senator Carlos Ucc, of Texas,
was in Washington not long ago on
business with Secretary of War Maker,
and is credited with this story about
two of his colored constituents:
• >ne of them was a pronounced pa
cilisl, while the other had friends in a
negro cavalry regiment, and rather
thought he would enlist for the war,
rhe pacifist was declaring himself
earnestly on the subject of (lie srlee
tire draft.
"No, suh!” lie said, "I ain't no
lighter, an' I don't want to lie no light
er. I hese while lolks kin mrk inr go
hi the alimy, way I ligurr it, but they
kain't mrk tor light No, still!"
I lie other looked at hull ill disgust
"No," be agreed "I rsprr' they
kain't Mill you listen limit, uiggrIC
They kaill’l nieli villi fight, hilt they
sho'ly kin lake ion wlirie the lightln'
is at, all' lei you Use you' own judg
tnrlil "
WHY THEY MARRY SOLDIERS
Because he is an officer.
Because he is a private.
Because he was drafted.
Because he enlisted.
Because he is in the infantry.
Because he is in the cavalry.
Because she is sure he will not come
back.
GULLS AND SUBMARINES
War, by providing the urge of neces
sity, is at least the grandmother of in
vention. People who in peace times
never thought of trying their hand at
a non-refillable bottle or an automatic
furnace feeder get in the game at once
when the fighting begins. The War
Department has been so flooded with
suggestions that a special force had to
be organized to receive and file plans
for knocking out the Kaiser.
By far the greater number of these
schemes aim at the destruction of the
German U-boats. It’s much harder to
find a submarine than it is to destroy
it, once found: and, bearing this in
mind. Dr. A. D. Pentz, Jr., of Staten
Island, N. Y., has worked out a plan
to enlist the services of sea-gulls as
U-boat detectors.
He proposes that British submarines
be equipped with hoppers through
which food is to be released to float to
the surface and impress the gullible
gulls with the idea that every sub
marine is a meal ticket. Thus trained,
he reasons, the gulls will flock about
any under-water boat that they spy,
and the nimble submarine-chaser will
have only to follow the gulls to find
its prey.
AUTO THIEVES PROFIT
hrom the stand|>omt of protit and com
parative safety, there is no form of
theft like the theft of automobile- It
is described Iw \\ illiam Klinger, an
insurance man quoted in the /WtVe
Hull din. as one of the safest wavs of
"making a living without working."
(Veasionalh an automobile thief i
sent up to prison: Inti the percentage t
small, and the earele-.snes- of owner
i- a constant invitation to new trennt
lo enter the business. How huge i
tlie tialhe in -lolen machine- i- shown
hv the following ligmes, reptr-enthig
the record of the tu-t -i\ month- of
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