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PEOPLE ARE LEFT HOMELESS

Country Should Be Forced to Pay for Ruthless Destruction as Far as Within the Power of Its

By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. In August. 1014. the dty of Lens In northern France was a prosperous community of close to 50,000 people. It was known as the Pittsburgh of France, and Its coal fields were the one great source of supply or fort for the nation. Its Keel and Iron mills supplied much of the material for French railroads, shipbuilding and other Industries. Its people were Industrious and thrifty, living In comfortable homes, surrounded by the modest luxuries of an Industrial community. All that Is left of Lens today Is a crumbling pile of debris. No single wall of the dty Is still standing, and hardly a plec*. of a wall as much a* ten feet square can be seen amid the terrible ruins. Both the buildings and the machinery of Its factories are gone completely. Its coal mines are flooded and the machinery with which they were operated has been destroyed. And all this because Germany start ed a war for the purpose of conquest; a war In which no principle other than that of selfishness was involved. Today Germany is a crushed nation. Her plans for world domination miscarried, her armies have been defeated, but before these things happened the dty

they can be made to pay ftr them so far as dollars can pay. And with the passing « nils dty there passed away many, thousand lives of British soldiers who today He buried around the place they so bravely defended. One possibly better realises here the terrors of this war than at any other one root Here the Germans held the hllU to the east of the dty. and the British defenders occupied the low-lying field* between the Mill, and the dty. For them dmgout* or deep trenches were out of the question as the land U but little above sea level. And here. In what is almost a marsh, the British Tommies lay month after month, through winter and tner, a fair target for the Boche guns on the nearby hills. When I was In Tpres late In October, many of the people to whom ft had been borne, were there digging hopelessly In the rubbish In a vain effort to find some small thing that could be associated with the homes that the Germans had destroyed in their effort secure world domination by t war of conquest City of Walla Only. The dty of Menln in Belgium, was not shelled by either army, and yet it is a dty that Germcny should pay for. The walls of Menln are standing, but it is a dty of walla only. The floors, the roofs, the Joists, the doors and windows and tile door and window casings are gone, all torn out by the Invading Boche. with the result that the people of Menlo are as homeless as the people of Lees and Tpres and hundreds of other dties end towns in the invaded

Every few days a

another world map to conquer.

After cugartees. whcetless and fatless days, we are to hare tight!MS days.

I wood amid the ruins of what had once been the attractive and prosper , oua Industrial community of Lens and 1 watched hundreds of her people who had returned after the Germans had been driven beck, ea they * arched for the spots on which their homes had once stood, as they dug Into the debris

LATE WINTER HAT FORETELL SPRING

I rode through devastated Armentleres. Ballleul. Le Basse*. DouaL Cambria. RolaeL Peronde, Albert Arras, SL Quentin, Gnlecsrd. Noyoo, Cheuny, Thlaucourt, VTgneuUea and hundred* of smaller towns, and the story of devastation was always the same, with but little variation, devastation caused by the Boche, and fee which the Boche should pay. and for which the price assessed wtM never be high enough. In many ways the hellishness of the Boch® has been demonstrated. The city of Arras has-not suffered such complete destruction as has fallen upon many other dties. Here the German gunners centered their fire upon

High prices used to be asked “on account of the war." Now they are Just naked.

The war certainly cannot be blamed for an Increase In tbc price of snow shovels. The end of the war brings the old familiar growl from watch dogs of the treasury.

&m) now coffee is going higher. Is there a conspiracy on to force us to drink water? How can a Jail attendant ever feel easy In the presence of shoplifters and pickpockets?

Becpnstre-tior. may be relied on to prevent any more woridess days for years to come. Germany’* hatred of England Increases. which fact in nowise distress! ■« England.

Sugar restriction* are off. but good habits acquired during the war need sot be abandoned.

> Here are three hats, non-committal ea to dime Id which they are to be worn, so that they may spend their days against a background of palms and flowers, er fit In with another of now.' Being late - winter model* they babble of. spring and show which way the millinery wind blowa. although One of these alluring bits of headthere Is not a straw among them, wear, calculated to coax the price of an extra-late winter bat out of nlmoat anyone, la made of crepe georgette in a lovely pastel shade of pink. It la a small hat. leaving the shape covered with folds of crepe fastened to It with long, crosswise stitchet. of heavy silk thread. Its faring of black panne velvet makes i wonderful setting for a youthful face. Just os we are about to make up our minds that this la a spring hat our eyes light upon a small duster of velvet fruits at the front which sets us to speculating—Just pul there for that purpose no doubt.

A lovely black velvet hat, brimmed and bordered with a fringe of curled ostrich, proclaim* the return tfl the cost beautiful feather as a rules In the realm of fagjiion. And sines black velvet makes its appearance at all seasons, this bat will be at home anywhere. Every* woman who is contemplating a new hat Just now win give this one consideration. The big black hat knows nothing but victoryThe last hat U a chenille and la made In many colors. It Is apparently knitted or crocheted—e new kind of hat—an American product which has already sailed over seas to make a conquest of Europe. It keeps Its shape without a supporting frame of any kind, and 1* very noft and very rich looking. Tnls particular model has a scarf of velvet about it embroidered at the front with gay little f were of chenille. We can Imagine them Koomlng In any quarter of the globe and bringing a smile to the eyes that behold them. «

H. A. DEERY

FURS FROM TOP TO TOE

Jfobbin* hi AB ft! I SBAISLBCJTY.H.J.

New Series ot Shares Now Open Sa Isle Clt} k k L Assocut::: Taik It ortr with say «l the Direct on or WAYNE M. 8TROTHERS,

As the City of Mealn Looks Today.

Six-ed the days when pies are norlanl him doughnut* resume their pristine IndigostlMUty! One Inexplicable phase of human Mture is why jieople will pay 10 cents to a dog-fuced girl.

Tin- reluctance to use fresh air a* a ! preventive of Iniloenxa would suggest that a shun age existed. Omi Int figures show that during the : war 1 rert.two Germ*a* were killed. I Now they are good Germans. What •‘••urili of traveling men th'-re is going to be when the country goes on a soda water basis l Wife desertion Is a problem to the law, dcclure* a sociologist; it also presents a problem to the huebsud The German* Intended to retain the north of Fiance permanently. But. then, the Americans came along. Ril--rui. once fMtpnlariy regarded as a hopclcfut waste. Is now looking forward to it* first real estate boom. About the orly das* of (fcople who can sympathise with a iiohenzolleru the*.- day* an- our baseball umpire*. Jt!*l now i* the time that the fellow* who wanted to go abroad, but couldn’t. wUh they had gone anyway. Our henry casuaRy list* InJIrale that In tin- lust day* American* went to their tasks without counting the

.a an effort to rescue from It some one thing, some memento of that home they had loved as much, or even more than we Americans love our homes. I saw the tear* on the cheeks of many as they tolled. I saw an old woman carrying away, as the only thing she could find, a piece of a broken chair, and I thought, who shnl! pay for this devastation, this misery? There Is But One Answer. Are the broken, homeless people of Lens to pay? Are the people of France to pay? Are the pejpk- at England or America or Belgium to pay? Or are the Germans to pay? To be sure, the dty of Lens wa* destroyed by shells fired largely from British guns. But they were fired Into the dty because the Invading Germans In the dty must be drivej out that not only France, but the world, might lie freed of the menace of German domination: and the debris ■ that once wa* Lon* Mand* today a* , a striking monument to German greed and to the accuracy and efilclency of

British artillery.

Could the people of America have S'-en the people senrehlng those ruin* a* I saw them; could they have seen the tear* as I saw them they would have said, as I said, Germany must pay. and she mnst continue to pay until this fair dty and many, many olhcre like p, have been restored; : until these people and their descend- | Bnt » af again the happy, prosperous, contented people they were before the hell of German wantonness ami selfishI ness let tixwe In lt»14. ) What tmpponed in Lens has hap- | pened In many other dties and towns lu Frim-e, in Ib-igiuin, in Italy. In ! Berbla, In Ronrnnnla, in Poland, and I f" r “h °f 'I'eni Germany and her allies should psy. and pay. and pay.

Cruel Fate of Yprt*.

* Another example of ihe hr'.iishnes* of this German war of i-onquest t* seen in what was one- the beautiful and historic dty of Tpres in Belgium. This town is todiy hut i>n.. uu*> of

ILiU and

the cathedral, and day after day, week after week and month after month they continued to poor a rain of metal j upon this beautiful old church until ! today it Is noth): g but a mass of pow- I dered stone. Germany cannot give j bark that cathedral of Arras, but she | ran pay and should pay for the needle**. senseless destruction. And the fslr rides and towns that have been iwi ruthlessly destroyed are hut incidents In the devastation caused by thl* war. and for all of which Germany and her allies, and they alone. responsible, and for all of which ,

they should pay.

ruins.

8t. Martin's rfjureh. Ur, among tie- marvel* of Lu: dating Lick to the tbirie are gone, never to be re * no way by which the back to the world th<

ul motiUr.4frti of part cuoiurlt a, bqtjsu

00 YOU YAWN AT CONCERTS? If So, There Is a Reason, Which, la Thu* Explained by Modern Song Writer. If a person yawns during a symphony concert and twists hi* program Instead of bring absorbed In classical music it may not be hi* fault. It may be due to an undeveloped pituitary body, which Is located In the brain, back of the templrs. Thl* 1* according to Cyril Scott, the song writer. In hi* "The Philosophy •if Modernism In Connection With Music." Mr. Scott says that this pituitary body is highly susceptible to musical vibrations. If normally developed. In other words, it Is the seat of the emotions. He goes further and adds tlsal if I* the sent of the astral or subUmal self. This is In keeping -rith tin theory of the andeats that this gland is the seat of the soul. In oimmentlng on Mr. Scott's sUte- | mem, Medicine and Surgery Magu-iao

says:

"At e time like this when the pituitary body Is the paramount topic at ('onveraation in medical circle* on aceoum of Its Influence on cur umlar"right nr overweight. Cyril S.-ott*g message in regard to Us attitude toward music should give us pause. The faulty pituitary body can be comvtad. no doubt, by trestment; made *ap«r-

lorrca | sensUlvw and vibrant; thus a person 1 both j indifferent to music may become highly

■utury, I tippredadra to 1L" There 1 — —- —

ti- i an j Young pea pods are largely eaten In Europe and are described as teadnv.

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succulent and wholesome.

Never wa* such a furry winter’ No matter whether milady llvfcs down on the Gulf of Mexico or up on the Canadian border she Insist* upon furs of eorar sort and weor* them regardlcs* of the thermometer. One might think we' were finally looking to the Esquimaux fur style Inspirations, but a coolleas Purls i>robably set the pace In fur*. When even the meager allowance of coal that French women make out with was denied them, they enveloped themselves In furs of all

Boris.

Keel utility fur* for cold climates makr a rtory by ^bemselves. There are chort nod long coats and coatee* of all sort* of skin* from uadyed muskrat up to flue mink and sable. 1 AU the Htiort-hnlred for* are requl- ' onioned for these most comfortable ' garments. But the most universally popular fur* are In sillaller piece*, wide scarf*, small •'ape*, single skins j worn a* ucart* and o-mblnation garI menu, like rapr-scarf* and cape-eouta ; that are having a great vogue. < A prRlty enpe of caracul I* shown In the picture here. It 1* made In any of the popular furs with good effect and often the shawl collar Is of a different kind of fur than the body of the cape. Upward curving scallop* at the bottom add to the gracefulness of thl* little wrap, the curves gliding up at each side until the cap* shorten* to ribovv length over t!io arm*. The bat warn with Ibis cape Is s

"blue devil" Urn of satin with a bond of fur about It. Hat*, neckpieces mad muffs to match are very chic. The chances are If we could see this lady’s dress as well as her cape we would discover a hand of fur about the hotof the skirt for nothing could be smarter than fur from top to toe. "Suitcase” Dreset*. “Suitcase" dresses of georgette of different colors are made to wear with one slip as. for Instance, a yellow gUp , which ha.* dark blue georgette for morning, light blue for afternoon, low yellow, sleeveless and elaborately beaded for evening, and yellow, with high neck, and long sleeves, finished with batik effect at hem. In octagon figures, irregularly siiaded In yellow* and browns.

Colorful Blouses.

The colorful hlousn attract the eyo first, of course. Never were such cd-

ors combined In blouse »cmr. a n-sult U not garish and crude, as on* might fancy alien reading that “cd-

, “red s alats are the fnshW U u

quite the reverse; the new colored blouse* ere beeutitM, *nd they smto

| ’o add Just the light tone and Interest

to winter costumes otherwise rather

■dark and severe In hue.

* wear, and the

What an Owner Cannot do

Beyond a certAin point an OWNER cannot raralato the CONTRACTOR a* employa. You can cag« a leopard, but you cannot change his spot* or his point of view. But what an Owner CAN DO U to select the ftrat place, a Contractor who baa an established reputation for integrity, efficiency and results. Edward B. Arnett Building Construction Bell Telephone Connections SEA ISLE CITY. N. J.

WILLIAM A HAFFERT Notary FuMIt All Work Promptly Attended T *- 104 Wset Jereer Avenue Ss* Isle Cty. N. J.