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A Mg mitrine sergeant StOod lurn the front Steps of Star building to take it look at the blew avenue loefore going to the \Devil Deg\ recruit- ing .1,1 t While lie stood there along cattle sailors tind marines. They streamed in) - . The sergeant canoe to module Mae ufler lime. Ills arm he - gnu to grow numb. As hinsky 11H he este, rothilIng ut machine-gun nnmtehmim- cii tiresome. The sergeant grinned HS lie subbed for thy steenth time. \If salutes would win Oils war,\ ite snit', pleasantly. \we would will it right l ie s,. lit Washington.\ — Washington Star. The Effect. \That °Meer seems to he very uppiell.\ \Vie; he lins just 1.11111e Into die avia- tion to One for Each. sils.• limailtuni---Wati divorce would le• 11 moil two ilV 1114.111. Lawyer WWII do you mean? Me e ibittlthen - Ali) livin' dooble Mire. Boston Evening 'fran- script. ------ -- Why Bald So Young? Dandruff rind dry scalp usmilly the cause : tool leitheira the remedy. Ruh the Ointment into sculls Follow with !sot eliampoo of Cutlettra Soap, For free sample address, \Cuticura Dept. X, Roston. At druggiale mid by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. The Main Witness. - There 111111111er .1f lull 11.4 . NSON 111111 the 1•111111111T Wits norm- smommlt hy the defendant's goat. ml' er limit e any rebutting wit- nessesr \t old y I he {14 Int. Ile seemed to tlo all the re -but I log.\ 1 es . ): Packers' Costs and Profits How much do you think it costs - 1. To dress beef, cure hides, and prepare all the numerous by- products? 2. To cool the meat for two or three days before shipment? 3. To freight it to all parts of the country in special refrige- rator cars, iced daily? 4. To carry it in hundreds of branch houses, each with its refrigerating plant? 5. And to deliver it to the retailer — sweet and fresh — in less than two weeks after dressing? Swift & Company did all this for you in 1917 at an expense of less than 2 1 / 2 cents per pound of beef sold, including an, average profit of 1/4 of a cent i pound. Figure for yourself how little effect this cost and profit had on prices you paid for beefsteak. Swift & Company, U.S.A. t<,• THE STANPORD WORLD NERVOUS BREAKDOWN Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Restored Her Health, Newark, N. J.—\For about three years I suffered from nervous break- down and got BO I • weak I could, hardly stand, and had head- aches every day. I tried everything I could think of and was tinder a phy- sician's care for two years. A girl friend had used Lydia E. „ se, Pi nk h am's Vege- es , .1 table Compound and she told me about it. From the first day I took it I began to feel better and now I am well and able to do most any kind of work. I have been recom- mending the Com- pound ever since and give you my per- mission to publish this letter.\—Miss FL0 KELLY, 476 So. 14th St., Newark, N. J. The reason this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, was so successful in Miss Kelly's case was because it went to the root of her trouble, restored her to a normal healthy condition and as a reselt her nervousness disappeared. There are several ways to pay debts, but most of them are paid with reluc- tance. TOO WEAK TO FIGHT The \Come -back\ man was really never down-and-out. His weakened condition because of overwork, lack of exercise, im- proper eating and living demands stimula- tion to satisfy the cry for a health -giving appetite and the refreshing sleep essential to strength. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules, the National Remedy of Holland, will do the work. They are wonderful. Three of these capsules each day will put a man on his feet before he knows it; whether his trouble comes from uric acid poisoning, the kidneys, gravel or stone in the bladder, stomach derangement or other ailments that befall the over -zealous Amer- ican. The best known, most reliable rem- edy for these troubles is GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. This remedy has stood the test for more than 200 years since its discovery in the ancient labora- tories in Holland. It acts directly and gives relief at once. Don't wait until you are entirely down-and-out, but take them today. Your druggist will gladly refund your money if they do not help you. Ac- cept no substitutes. Look for the roam/ GOLD MEDAL on every box, three sizes They are the pure, original, imported Haarlem Oil Capsules.—Adv. That Pot of Beans. We were talking with some of tilt boys who shortly before had served In the trenches with the first detachment nseIgned to the tiring line. They told 'us of the fighting mid the raids nnd how young Enright and Hay had met their death. \But bow do you like life in the trenches?\ \Oh not so bad! Gee! You ought to have seen those beans. It was this way. The cook bad just cooked a pot of beans for slipper and had put It on the edge of the trench to cool. when along came a German shell and hit if _square. Gee!' I guess it inner have rained beans for an hour and we didn't have any supper. It was great Francis Rogers In the Vigilantes. More Ferocious. \BY gad!\ pridefully elattilated a pronenent resident • of the Ilitt»pue 'Ridge region of Arkansas. \The way them American soldiers fight the Gen mans is a sight on earth! They are reg'inr ringealled catamounts in bat tie, and then some!\ \Uh-lmh!\ fCturned Gap Johnson \But you ort to see my fourteen chi'. siren fight amongst theIrselves over sack of mixed candy when I bring 11 borne from town foe 'ena!\—Kansas City Star. The more some men talk the mon trouble they pile imp for themselves. e• Children bike the attractive ffa- vor of the healthful cereal drink POSTU14 And it's fine for them too, for it contains tiothinci harmful— only the goodness of wheat and pure molasses. POSTUM is now relit- larly used in place of - tea and coffee in many of the best of families. Wholesome econom- ical and healthful. \Therel a R.005011\ AMERICAN PEOPLE GREAT SPENDERS Millions of Dollars Thrown Away for Trifle' s That Ought to Set Nation Thinking. SOME WAYS MONEY GOES Postcard and Cheap Souvenirs Take Big Sum Every Year—Billions Spent for Needless Telephone Calls and Telegrams. By EDWARD MOTT WOOLLEY. It seems bleongrtionS that III this rich and wonderful land of ours it should be necessary to conduct mighty euiing and advertising campaigns in order to raise money to crush our ene- mies—cruel and dangerous enemies who are bent on throttling the very lib- erty on which our country has been hullt. If we really felt the impulse, we could raise six or eight billion dol- lars spontamerusly and without the blare of saleemanship anti publicity ; and we would do it so easily that Ger- many rind her allies would stand eginist at our overwheh»ing resources slid purpose. The trouble is that even yet we do lot realize the n tragedy that is over is, The war has not sunk into the American consciousness. Willi a mil- lion or more of our boys In France, and the casualty lists coming home every day, we still lack the pulsating fervor of intrepid courage—the courage that ,veils within ene and stirs the soul. Fighting impulse Needed. The one unquestionable eVIdenre of courage is the willingtwes to sacrifice. A man who sees 1114 child in deadly peril is instantly ready to sacrifice everything, even his life. It takes no urgument to \sell\ to him the need of eournge. He gets it from uSthin. The fighting Impulse dominates his every instinct. 1'hat we most need in Alnerien today Is fighting impulse. Ones we get it the 'loom of Gel -ninny, as it menace to ourselves and to the world, will he sealed. If we had this satorous, molgunted determination we routel raise, this miffing year. not mere- ly six or eight billion. but as many inn iiS our country might need. Let us search our hearts. therefore. find discover why It is that brass-hand methods are needed to sell lie Liberty bonds. It seems all the more !Herten- lote that such should be the case when the money we are asked to contribute Is merely money saved for ourselves. Indeed. we could put through this fourth Liberty loan without even feel- ing it directly. I am not talking here about great sacrifices. With merely triv- ial and passing inhibition we can make this fourth loan a glorious manifesta- tion of Americanism. Never was there such a nation of menders—we literally throw money to the winds. Cash runs out of our pock- ets Into a hundred channels of extras' - neither. Tempted at every turn by something that appeals to Ott r pleasure - saturated instincts. we hum) nut the dimes, quarters and dollars. We work hard. most of its, and we piny hard. Many of us play with an amazing abandon that scarcely reckons the cost. And we gratify ourselves not only at plays, hut we satisfy our luxury -loving tendencies and our vanity in many of the things that enter into our daily lives. Let us consider here merely the mil- lions that go for trivial things that do not count as permanent investments either for utility or luxury. Millions Spent for Cards. For Instance, take our post card mania. This habit, which perhaps we would not criticize in times of pence. le almost universal. A dealer esti- mates that 50,000,000 people spend s an average of n dollar a year on the cheaper kinds of cards, anti an addi- tional sum of a Mildred million dol- lars on postage. But on the fancy cards and more expensive sets, sold largely to tourists, the estimate is $200,000,000. In addition to the postage. Including the cards that nre kept by the peschasers, It la probable thot the total Is half a billion dollars. Many men have made fortunes in this business. I know of one former valentine manufacturer who retired with a lot of money. It Is certainly inconsistent that this great sum should go for such a trivial purpose when the nation is in- volved In this mighty war that calls for cash everlastingly. Here Is ono expenditure that could be eliminnted almost wholly until this wnr is over. Besides this amount put into Liberty bonds might menn ,something worth while to the people themselves. Then there Is another class of sem venire that masquerade as merchan- dise and absorb aim nstonishing amount of money. Travelers rind tourists es- pecially waste their rash upon these things, find funnenee quantities are sold to the people everywhere. The bulk of this stuff is useless junk—at least In war time, when conservation is the high need. Why spend our money these days for fancy baskets, card trays, woOden claptrap nrtIcles, knick- knacks, trinkets: popguns, stuff and whim whams? The souvenir stores In AtInntle City, Asbury Park, Coney land, Revere Reach near Boston, Ven- ice near Los Angeles,' and alinllar es: tablislunents take more thin it a hundred tellion dollars out of our pockets every summer. One small town con- cern In Atlantic City Sells a hundred thousand dolinee worth, on whieb' the net profit is over fifty thousand. There are factories that turn out this sort if moduct in vest (pinta Ries! and much of It is fraud stuff. Wooden articles are reputed to be made from trees that grow on historic spots, but are really bogus. Strings of beads are manufac- tured by the mile and sold to the pub- lic as the work of Indians. The same is true of 1110M114111S, toy canoes and the like. • At best the bulk of these goods is rubbish, and our outgo for this Pur - pose might well be cut off entirely thus Ing the war. To do this requires ab- solutely no sacrifice. The people en- gaged in this business will slimily have to do what so ninny of us have already done, adjust themselves to war. Aside from souvenirs, we nine wan- ton sPelelers for actuttl merchandise thnt Is inferior or worthless. There Is a great class of people to whom cheap- ness or flashiness appenis, rather than utility and economy. A dealer in cheap goods told ute that he netted $25,000 a year from inerchandiee (lint wait prac- tically werthless. Ile found it easy to appeal to the spending instincts of his eustomers. Unnecessary Phone Calls. Not many of us ever stop to think 1if the Immense amount of money that is spent for unneeessary telephone calls. Wherever you go the telephone booths an. occupied, and when sent catch frammentit of the conversations you 'Usually find them unimportant. Reginald calls up his best girl to tell her he still loves her, Mamie ealls M- gernon to thank him for the chocointes. No mutter how trivial the oecasion. itar first Impulse Is to step into a tele- phone booth. If five million people would Sit Vi' one (lye -cent call a day it would Mean a total of over ninety mnmihl toni dollars a year. Douldless several times this sum could be saved very tsasily by the gen eral public on local mid long-distance eons. We mire lavish's . extravagant in the use of Op. telephone. I know of business Melees that talk several temps day between New Siert: and Cilleago, alcurring tolls on each 11(.111141111 Clint ran from nee to forty dollen.; or rinpre. If there is one thing that the Amerl- 'ans haven't Maimed it Is economy of talk—which in these days of war need might well mean 11111110ns of dollars Iii Liberty it' muds. The telephone wires :ire 12illivily overtaxed, anyhow. Then there is lite telegraph. We have this habit, too. With n little Ill anning we could commonly use 11 three -cent stamp insteall of a ten-werd message. One large wholesale house requires tin its (raveling men to re- port daily by telegram. an expendi - ture that might be The telegraph lolls of some of the l a m e iii. the:trial mmliii commercial establish - ments more so big that they seem in- credilole. The night letter is, in n mensure, n luxury, at least we conid do uwaY with the sm•hil phase of It ' an of the domestic. I hap- pen to know one business min, who on his frequent and long absences from home. gets a night letter from his wife every morning and sends one (melt night. Nor are these messnges tilled to fifty words, but often rtut sev- eral times flint tenet!). Baby load the (mile; Freddy fell downstairs nnti skinned his knee, Jeannette had her hair WilSlied, happen to be acquainted also with web a young nem who revels In night letters to his fiancee. They are real let- ters. too, beginning like this: \Darl- ing Sue—I love you more than ever. I couldn't sleep last night thinking of you. Do you love me still? . . .\ A certain business man, the head of a large concern, goes away at intervals to rest for n week or two, hut Insists on Miring a night letter every morn- ing, ruirratitig the substance of the previous dory's businese. _ These mes- sages run into hundreds of words every day. I would not belittle the night letter; but In the present stress we need to eurtall wimtever part of this expense may be unnecessary, tool bean tine money to the government. The Taxicab Mania. We Americans also have the taxi- cab mania. There Is a very large class of men and women who ride in cabs habitually, and let go Immense sums in the aggregate. They take taxicabs to go a few blocks. In a group of twenty lending cities there are about four hun- ' tired thousand of these vehicles. nun if each of them absorbed ten dollars ev- ery day In unnecessary fares the ag- gregate would be over fourteen mIllIon (bonfire n year. What would he the total for the whole United States? It Is a luxury to jump Into a cab when- ever ones wants to move abeut, but these are stern times and we need to be more iron -minded. The boys Iii France do not ride in cabs, and tlie. money we waste on this form of luxury might better go into gas masks for them. We Amerienn men saturate ourselves with many kinds of soft Indulgences— as In the barber shops. These places In the high class hotels, as well as tlie better eltope outside, take from us im- mense sums—for %dull? Here Is a typienl list: Shave. 25c: haireut, 50e; slumps°. 35c; hay rum. 15e; face mas- sage, 35e; manicure. 50c; shine, 10c; tips, 20e; total $2.40. It Is not un- common for men to go through the whole list, nntl to pay additional money for hair nnice and ether fancy frills. When we nnitlyze this; list we find that the only item really necessary is the haircut — anti perhaps the shine. Men can shave themselves at a cost of two or three cents, and !gave perhaps half an hour in time. Our soldier boys cannot Indulge In these effemlnaties. Many of them, in those good old days of pence, were In the class that patron- tzed these shops, but today they' tire made of more Draconian stuff. Why should we ourselves indulge ite these costly !Witte when the nation calk for cannon to balk our troops abroad? If a minion men +mend nn average of 50 celits a day unnecessarily In hashes shops we have it total of $182,500,000. under the actual figures, taking into consideration till classes of people. In Hie extensive barber shops one finds mu ' , Tetanal stream of men, of the modersie sellerv class. view indulge tm the le ms I have enumerated. We might suess the total ought to be at least Lalf a billion dollars. To lei ye our shoes shined we spend at least si00,000.000 a year and a mil- lion more than the market priee for shoe inees because we wish to avoid the treable of putting them in our - selves. Some of this expense undoubt- edly is neetsssary, but while the war lasts we need not be nshanted of anY form of Spartan economy. We can be tight Fainted and rigorous with our nickels :trill (11111e14 in being open to the elairge of stinginess—provided we Ilse the nioney for government needs. We can shine our own shoes for a tenth of this hundred millitm dol- lars. 'II 're are in New York a number of men who have grown very wealthy from Ilk , Sline-S11111111g business. Among them 111 - 1 1 sortie large tenement otrilerti --One reputed to be worth 1111111Ons. There ure more Dion fifty thousand !KRUM:irk platys In the United Stittes, seine of them employing in dozen or more men. The majority of these bootblacks lire within the fighting age, at least they ought to be doing some sort of war service, instead of shining shines- Amerienn blood runs 50 freely on the other side. Women Big Wasters. But when it comes to this kind of self -pampering women spend far more money than 1114.11. Figilres seellred from one large department store give some interesting sidelights oil possible eco- nomies. Its sales of toilet goods last year ran about 1.3 per cent of its total sales. Thus for every million dollars in sales Its customers buy $13,000 worth of toile( articles. Apply this rate to all the stores in the United States mid yon have a tettil of unnum- bered millions. The term toilet goods is very (-Insets Including both neces- sary and unnecessary entities, but the conscientious war sliver no doubt would class one-third ofehese items out partly diepensable, such ins perfumery, certain soaps, powders, rouge, tenet winters, so-called beauty compounds, and th.• like. Amerien's women are highly scent' ed. We live in an atmosphere redol- ent with ambrosia. From almost every woman one TIVISSeS on tile \pli nit de\ streets of the cities there comes an aura of roses, 1111' Pel'llaps violets. Our girls deommil scents. In Infinite vnriely_ me may ein perfumery itself, but In hundreds of produeta. Merely to grafi: fy our sense of olfnctory luxury we spend tens of millions of dollars itn - totally. Yet in France the husbands, brothers and sweetlienrte of our w timid .girls nre NWP» lung Mid fighting In 1101,Snine pierce :mini& the stench of disease. 111111 demi]. The odors they get are of gunpowder mid blond. Surely we can spare Sfline of our perf , ry money In the Catise for which we sent them abroad. If it were possible to estimate the money spent by women In New York alone for hairdressing and beauty cell - tare it would undoubtedly run into the tens of millions. One hairdresser In the metropolitan district states that within eighteen menthe, or since Amer heirentered the war. les Ions built lip 11 bushieSS thnt nets 111111 tteven hundred dellare a month. A woman proprietor of it se -called beauty establishment says that fifty elistomers bring her a revenue of $30,- 000 a year. that she renlized a clear profit of $20,000 on powders. creams and perfumes, flint she Auld sets Of cosineties at seven hundred dollars. each. Thousands of women pay tames fees for hair waving. tinting rind ideloching. One enncern rinnounces twelve colors. ranging from black to golden blonde. Mulch money also goes for reirmeal of freckles, wrinkles tre»t- meat. face bleaching and so on. The municure bill in New York is enor- mous, nail the chiropody outgo large. These places are furnished in the ut- most luxury. If only we could im- press on women of this class the dread- ftil tin rush our American youth are tinili•reoing in the great cause! The lesson ought to sink home to all women in Atte - mem. who In greater or less , , r degree, let their good 111011ey go for seelt futile taunters, It is estimated (hat a million 111011 and women throughout the enuntry nre gives: to the Turkish 'milts an aver- age ef a dollar a day. Thus We , 1111Ve tom! of $305.000,000 a year. To this we tem add perhape half as much for flints -nice. attendant fees, special trent ment and Incidentals. Bathing is commended, but most of its. at least thoee who have the Turk- ish ' , nth habIt. can take our attluttons at home. The Soldiers in Europe don't hasp Tlirk11411 births. We imagine we need them here. We eat big dinners and till ourselves with rhemnatle de- posit,'- Pelson ourselves by gorniandiz- ing. We contract colds because our systems are toe limit:et:logged to throw off g , rms. It is when we are stuf- fed with rich viands land n11 sorts of luxuries Dint we turn to the Turkish bath for relief. Why not discipline ourselves during the war and transfer all these millions of (tidbit's Into the fund that is going to - beat autocracy anti the Germnn peril? I Mem touched on merely a few of We items of unnecessary outgo:, The Ilst might be extended indefinitely. Rut there ought to be enough here to set us thinking, and we . can make . the ex tensions ourselves. There is no use denying the fact that tile people 'met. not yet put theinselvee on n war basis financially. We are still wasting mil- lions on trifles. The war would he over now If we hail taken ourselves In baud at the beginning.
