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A PAYCHOLOGICAL K Sri me*, it appMiv. U protnotloQ* Id the new army. Irogar wi'! a captain, la need of a •ergmot, aay: “Oh. sire It to B01 • ohm. He's a good old rcoat. and has a bead oo him and the boys bass

and the psychiatrists aad tbs other deaeeadaets of Psyche will toko bold of Bill Jooe* and pat the campers oa

him, and measure the distance f the lobe of the left ear to the I of tb* cranium a<ed deride t he shall be a sergeant or i

the Bedford Standard. It assas rather rough on BUI. becaaas be has no voice In deriding whether the men who examine him art fit Cc ho rated as psychologists or shoald be drlring s team. Jnst what tseta the soldiers will hate to sabndt to we do not know. Perhaps they will have to cross oat all A 1 * in a conglomeration of letters.

Perhaps they will have to wrong with a picture of a

out a head, and will be marked sero If they answer that there's nothing wrong if the fellow is a Hem. We

confess to being a little a boot the introduction of tlx

tory methods Into the army. There U a great deal that the psychologists do not know, and It will not do to place too much dependence In their Judg-

ed them have national any* Houston Post W1 atoned in their-pi«,«V tolre they draw an

Teaching Into the

cur of them la working for the United Slates for "a dollar a year." They are In the government eerrtce to btip win the war. They are looking for no reward. They atpe« the part they take. They are

n"—and that

FRIDAY. DECEMBEH tt, WIT

EFFECT OF THE WAR. j One of the Incidental and umxpectjed effects of the war has been the teadorados of the American merchant mairtne. Old Glory again flies over ocean Jeecnwr- ? to the extent that 28 per of the exports for July were carta American bottoms. A steady in ahlpplng under the Am*r*fiag has been noted since the war ways Omaha Bee. This was unquestionably stimuli net entirely brought about by nstances which removed the igreet fleet of Goman commerce carpers from the sen. creating a demand •that only American vessel» could All. )At present the larger part of our ocean traffic Is carried between North and jSooth American ports, although the flag once more flies over ships bound tar all parts of the world. The reof this Industry promises tur future. As efforts will M mads to hold foreign trade after i war, so trill shipping be fostered not be permitted to fall out of American control again. Shipowners Save learned one groat lesson of pasod may be expected to apply It, to the end that America will, InL become the greatest among IHme as among commercial and Innations. SHIPPING NEEDS. With every nerve tense, the war dels doing all In Us power to be needed transport for American troops. The warning of Lord KonhcUffc backing the suteof Sir Joseph Madery, British controller, that the United States will have to provide 0.000,000 of tonnage a year to offset the havoc Of the submarines. Is appreciated by tha American government. This counipects to have, upon the present Of Mtiniates, and including the I ehlpo, about &2SO.OOO of tonnage by the cMoe of 1918. Yet this does not admit of transporting as many as a million of men in time. But the people of this country believe that the shipping board will do much more than has yet appeared upon the ■urfic-v says BaldThey would not be to see the United Stales ae.qtflre under some form of agreement iall the seised German ships In South American ports. And they would sot be surprised should this country make agreement for the creation of shipbuilding plants at South American porta, so that every considerable port inpoa the continent may be marked by 'plants to build ships, the necessity for ■wHlch bears as heavily upon Latin American as North American Interests. This country has but begun the -ship-building program that will great*ly expand ms the work continue*.

To whatsoever extant Germany may

belittle the military porer United States, it must m

our rosoun.es as a custodian We found many German ships In our harbors and we ha vs put them In war paint and will use them aa naval raxlUarlea, says tbs New York World. On taring account of stock, we also discover hundreds of millions at German property here of which we are to take ptwamrion. Every ship one* German will carry troops and munitions to Europe and every dollar that can be

raised on property or er*<

man win be put into liberty bonds. In

One of the rekhstag party leaders declares that not a square foot of German soli win be renounced. This Is defiant, but it Is wiso significant as when the war began it was not the retention of German soil, hut the acoulsltlon of enemy territory w!

was the Teutonic rim.

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Wa waste Mine while we w* P^jns to born; we settle down to Int and mediocre lives while we . “tor our talents to develop. In ■ fird*. we deliberately throw

uid days because we have

I 00 end In view, and therefor* «worth tt> a " ,0 do “ rT,ce th * t are abU How 0,0 we U " u wh *t Ilka a deuJ*. Wever. unless we TZ>y Ik- tl^ effort to find out? times before wi* «haU fail many m which to direnver the right line tba rim- ahUiaea. hut at

astm « “r pin aid ct to ttA^e-%

' which

The formality at translation win give the editor of a foreign language paper time to thick before be publishes. Bren before postal supervision the foreign language editor was easier to inane ye than the foreign thought writer or talker who used the English language with native fluency.

One thing that •cratch his head is to dons fall sharply right along with a rise In the price of bacon. Bnt coo dltlona now are calculated to keep a owlrt of Interrogation marks churning In the consumer's brain.

There is no doebt that In the feverish haste of preparations multiplied millions of money are being wasted. Gee, what a headache the world la going to have when this orgy Is over and the blU comes In.

An operation oo King Constantine of Greece is apparently a failure. It thus differs from the operatioo performed on him by the allies, which was a pronounced

Way of making a Mt with her employer. displaying genius that proa groat success for her In the busl World. When the bom dlctatae a latter containing a word she does. ■ how to spell she dow not make at It. She looks It up Qty S

In fining George Thomps :;, a Lincolnshire farmer, for viols ting the maximum price orders by selling potatoes

at a higher figure than the law aU~w- Efty fast

od, the British government has shown the way to deal with food pirates. Bat

to *27,500.

•cap Barry Tra*.

The JaboocaUa or soap berry tree

ro .vs ta the hm "

Has It occurred to you. camouflaged reader, that new* of persons Is rem ably scarce In this ridiculous war? So titanic Is the struggle Itself that the "peerless leaders" of yesteryear become Insignificant grains of dm kicked up by the Iron heels of the giant

unfortunatelj- no control forbids the Kaiser to show his gratitude by bestowing co some ‘Americans In high offsets! life the Iron Croea of the first

The Chicago News says that cant knit because the smoke In 1 eyes and the ashes fall Into the sock. Members of the anti-tobacco league ought to make first-class knitters. The world U advancing so rapidly that any nation that has been kissing the fort of a monarch for centuries Is liable to wake up some morning and

find Itself a repub! : c.

Prussians have done so much to aow disloyalty throughout the world that jthsy should not be surprised to And {the seeds of dissension sprouting a

abundantly at home.

What has become of the lotted country editor who used 9 at the subscriber who left cord wood, potatoes or core to pay Us Rubacrtptioo?

Remember that the federal government exprosely invites the eating of more chicken, 1 h, har*. goose, lob. ster, oysters and egg dishes.

German mutlaeeni who shy at snb< marine service are being sent to the trenches, a case of out of the frying pan Into the fire.

If we want to make aotne momentous captures let us do more than hurt gas bomba in the direction od the food pirate*.

A statistician has placed the Ufa of a dollar bill at throe wneka, bat be most be thinking of the good old day*

General Haig Is like the old-time iCngilKh fighter who stood and until his opponent was whipped.

Fist feet In some quarters are ting to be almost as fashionable an ailment as the gout.

They shoot spies In Europe; are w* to pet and pamper them In the United States?

There are many theories as to the moment the honeymoon code, but ah* Is no longer In doubt about it when aha asks for money and gets a clean turndown. Liberty la not worth haring if It la The best college tulle runner In the ,.«»« worth figAtag for and paying for, world has enlisted, but the kaiser ! should understand that be has always 1 Squeero you- dollars and the eagls done his running toward, and not from,! cant •cream' the goal.

of Ecuador, bring equivalent to more as their weight of that

Hat Water Drinking. A stomach deanstne treatment Is ofteti jnrt us important ua n rest for tlie organ, scys Win. Ensnoon In Phy-sic-1 Culture, The best on Unary method .if stomach cleansing is ihe drinking *r u considerable amount of not staler. Ncl oo hot. Jnst hot enough so that you can drink It with fair rapidity and take a considerable amo Into the stomach In a abort lime, you win drink a cup of hot water every I've minutes until two quarts or

Was^n The strolling company were playing "Hamlet" bnl they were afraid that Shahi-speare's groat trrgedy would not •uQcicntly cttract so they conceived the bright Idea of altering the title to "How a Stepfather Was Paid Oat* Ti.e result was a crowded house.—London Tit-Bits.

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However, you can't expect ua to have much sympathy for the neutrals. After all that has happened, this world U no place for a neutraL

The American farmer has a chance to take part In the world's greatest plowing match. It la his wits against

After the slacker has had a few months' experience with martial law be won't be so fearful of the other kind.

Chile and 1 hatchet, this t instead of in e

u nave buried the t in neutral ground i other, as formerly.

millions of hot of them prufes

If the dear g Ung let us not log the yarn!

it say* there are In America. Some he sociologists, too.

.re doing the knitthat dad la buy-

dd be strong for f of Its reduction

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