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1 Inch. % year 1 tech. * year..*. Larger !«*ee pro rets. Readies Kotleae—10c. per line Brat page. 5c. on Inalda pages Adrertlaemect: — 1c. per vord; three Insertions for the price of t *Le*al Advertiaing at retea fixed by Levs of the Plate of New Jersey. Next to Reading Matter. 5 per cent, extra. Ml position. 10 per cent, extra. Island position. 15 per cent, extn Forms doee Wednesday p. m.

The Spertacan U the botaherU with German efficiency adde<L

America Is coming to be regarded M the awrtd's rich node.

Give to all the good caoses If T can—give to some of them, anyway.

And when trill the dollar and the donghuat rcftittne their normal sixet

As long as newspapers exist osttoos cannot lair behind each other - * backa. By staying In Its own back yard boh sherism would greaUy oblige Code Sam.

»w that the war l* ore*. It may bet faaMoaaMe for women to feint

The war garden's soil will cheertelly do as ranch for peace if It

Germany's “propaganda of silence" against American* will go big with

If thi *•* must be riot* In the world. Berlin is about as good a place a* any for than.

The fellow that Inwoted “ for .-eaollltlo3> could base l time mot* profitably.

The persons wh*> least desrrre them already base begun to plan their tner vacations.

french Peasants Undismayed

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Their aim in life is to gel back on their own land and they face, the future smiling

Vincert AMsUnte practical

Old Sbow M»a* «•» E^irWartMra^cidt, j

rr alia ST. ISLE Cm, K. J.

MATTHEW J. BTAK PUbUc, Whokspk Dwki •ndaUppwM

A RELIABLE BUILDER H. A. DEERY

New Series at Shares Now Open So Islt GtrA A L AnodiUt: i M owr wllk «ay el Mracton or \ WAYNE M. STROTHERS,

flower fur prices are pn dieted. This ought to permit the girt* to dress Im omltgly for summer. The price of butter seem* to hare g<.ne down recently merely to get a running start up again.

Now is the time, one may pstados teal I y remark, for the backyard g*r

den to come to the front.

The race in pr.iphedr* between the airplane and Wirelew expert* Is be-

coming almo't thrilling.

Anarchy Is at least cnnsUleni in «dlectlng 4i* 11* color red. the recognised danger signal the world over. The married ■ohller win do well to ctlrg to hi* gs» mask f«»r use In thy In vrttable domestic dUturbanre*. If one enrea f«r nothing except t-i find a ges lesk. the 1-0*111 w method U to look for It with a lighted tuatrli. Rstremc* meet «U.-*n ths lerjdexl tie* of klrrplng »lckn«-*- threaten to give Aludli-n* roedh-al expert* tnona-

nay fix i i to be no tnsunu-r <

By LLOYD ALLEN. Special SUh CorreapondinL <Copyrt*tit. »». Western Nesspspw rnWe-t • OISSONS. FRANCE.—Tou wodd expect to find the peasants of France a gloxny lot as they wort: their way a CTo** country back to shattered homes. Nothing seemed to dismay them. They filtered from their havens In tee south of Vranee In a thin, ragged 11d*“always smiling. They were faring the future cheerfully. They have only om great aim In life: They want to get bat* to their lauds and they are willing to suffer privation In order to get re-established In thrir broken-up homes. They am numerous, numbering more than two million. I have seen and talked to hundreds In the devastated country around Solssons. where scores of towns are wiped off the map. and found not a single soul storting life oxer sgmin

with a grooch.

There Is no doubt that much needle** suffering was caused by the ewgeroen of the peasants to get hack to their home* before the French goternment had telly organixed It* relief machinery. Each peasant however, knew that the HMD growlog season. In order to be productive of fair retain. must begin with the spring plowing In February with the disappearance of the snows. So each family head made great effort to get back to hi* land in the bitter weather of January and early Kebrusry In order to get some kind of a shelter ready la which he could sleet- and *at. before hU day* were given over to work on the land

and tee production <n food.

Mod of the refugee* were the very old or eery young. During the early week* of the peace conference there were very few soldiers returning to tlie land. Eighty per cent of the French army consisted of men fr <m the farms, and the demoblUxatlon rate war comparatively alow. At SoMoos an American organlxstloa. with a French name, was rendering valuable assistance to the people This commltloe. which was known as the i'omlte Amrricaln pour les Ib-gx-n* D«e vastee* de la France with Mr* A M Dike of lultituore a* president ami Mia* Anne Morgan of New York a* vlor president, had !.r=ncbe» In 3) *um-un>!lng villages where supplies were being either given *«*> «r *old. depending <* the financial comjiilon of the farmer*. If the returning man or woman bad money with which lo buy g.wal*. a charge of “co». p'u* 10 |-cr cent" was mad'-. The 10 1-er ceni profit went to the French man «.r woman r.mnlng the st.irr l uu.U to conduct tee organLatrion came from Viuerira sod Were raised by popular »^b*cr4-tloo

Cotry. a Typical Villag*.

Not far from K-t**o*i». wblefa l» ITi-cred with machine gun ‘jh and »hatter»d by big shell expb*»lon*. Is the little hillside town of Cutry. a typtcnl destroyed village, with only atamt 10 per cent of the b.»«»*e. remaining habitable. The American women of tb» •omuilitee peddle >applie* In Cutry ot.ee or twice a week. Twice a week a w..iiwii pnct-ir from the cmnmlilce visits the place In « utry 34 pe**aui» live wllh the must cheerful out-|-,.k .-4 life. Twelve of them *lecj> in a big cave on tt, bllisidr Hough boards have been placed la th« cave (Otrwnee to ktwp oat the wind. Inside, la tl>e dark, a small stove tevves to keep the plaro

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„!.l wtHiisn one of te-> happic- . res’ures la rid apparently was living alone In one aecibe cavern Aib-iolng ber tea-.pursry h-one a iniprovt*ed stable, where she kept h*t and four «-hlcfce«* and a tw .► wheeled cwrt. .] fled bet ore the adtshriux German army „ 4..nkc» and cart and four chickens; hvd i'-in for f.u. >ewr» in th* south "f Irance. i.-iurntng lo Cutry rode back in style In tea I be Street, tu s house that had suffered I..mb shell rue. ware Mow. nnd M. isrd. Old Ulan, tor I. a veuma ui the >u war r as hem lind feeble. II.* e^htj .,{ life cm a small Frmch farm bad left him

face tod softened Into a perpetual smile. Most of hfa. teeth were gone. Mme. Blanchard, also very old. was more sprightly. The old couple tod one Joy In life beside* being back home again after four years as refugees. That Joy was a big. sleek white cat. They tod a son In the aVmj. and While waiting for his rerun: were patching up the boose and refurnishing It. Of the several hundred people that tod lived In Cutry. the Blanetord* were two of twenty-four that tod returned. They picked up pieces of tirat-ors .'rotn sheOstruck bouses for fuel. They worked by day patching up their house and slept in the cave at night The American women of Soisaoo* kept an eye oo the old folks; brought some cigarettes for the old man every now and then and saw to It that they had food enough to keep them going. It was always x red letter day in Cutry when the comtalttve’s auto truck appeared loaded with supplies. Driven by a typical American girt, the little track would swing briskly cp the Tillage street, would take the hairpin turn* leading up the big hin toward the church and would draw up with a flourish In front of the cave dwellings In the old quarry. A big ubrili-toned bell tod been mounted ut. a pole near the spot when- the merchandise with which the truck was loaded was to be sold. The moment the young woman track driver rang the bell 24 refugee* dropped their tasks and came hurriedly «p the street, anxious to secure soum badly needed good*. If they lacked money and really needed stuff no difficulty was placed In tee peasant's way to secure the materials. While the bartering and exehangw* went on (be young American woman chattered French with the pmuant*. ex.tongrd Joke* and generally helped promote the gospel of d cheer.

Rtd Taps Causes BufftnnB.

So tl.rra were many bright *pot* such a* this through tee «.0U0 squars ml.--* o' devastated France. In aU the ravaged territory—which will bewr the acwrs of war for geoerutlm.*—the Job of r.cooaiTurtion was starting with all the atmosphere of a holiday, notwithstanding :Ue rlnlster background of disrupted roof*, crumbling walls, shell-marked street* and mim'd public bull ling*. What did It matter that Franc., tod half a million bouse* struck by shell*, with a quarter of a million rvdtK-ed to rubW*h heap*’ The war was over and the pig task of robuilding was starting with an impel ut that demon*: ruled the farweri*

lnrpll.1t faith In the future

Two and a quarter billion •lol’arW worth of household goods In ill France tod been de*:rujrd. occordhig to official estimates made soon after the armistice Algid eg when the first cslculatiuu* Indicated teat France's wwr damage for actual destruction ..f property would amount to something like thirteen billion dollars for everything. As the statist I dabs chock over their figure* there wlU probably lx- some alteration* ’wade on the grand Mtal of thirteen biUiuos At pnweut that rtena stand* as the pTObabl# low* in France, to property

in land* over*4*44 I>> the Hetman*

Biersncourt not far from Kolssoo* about 60 per cent destroyed. Is Ju»t on Item on the tong French tndetm.lt> bill raw'll*! Germsay Here the G.-rmans had full »way until they were driven out Id the la*t few W4wk* of the war Now the French famine* are beginning to get bock into lllrraa-

.xwirt and begin life over again.

One of the Brat to arrive was a Freach soldier tu-nwwhly discharged. He wae fsrrd by terrible .tiffb ultle*. He bad nothing but hi* unlf.mn. and that had to b. returned to Ute govenunont. But .(1- government :* standiug behind this wddlrr In 1.1* pr-t.l-o. ■* r-palring a srar damaged home and l«1.|* The kY-n.ii g'-verruuent la gvilng to give *de*|U*te aid f.-r the trhole psrtod of n-coostruc-il.w About »l«u an acre for dewred firioa, and a tergr part of nweasafy rxpeUA.-* t -r th.- time and wwk required for getting houw and home togetbey. But te:^ money, amrt' r «iu be when hbalty received U not r-adllj avaUabio. Forma must he filled out. <berk'“l RK'i .'; i-roved, and ao lorth. before tee moott* Id •dually pale. Tha

customary governmental red tape deU-y mu*t ha endured. And lr the meantime the soldier tod to Sleep .id a bed of straw in the severest part of winter, wiih only his overcoat for a covering. Ue tod no money to buy food. One of the Amenrau .•ommlttee women took care of the discharged fighter. He.wn* given the barest necesriUc* and Just enough food to keep going, and he was saved from a lot of hardship and

suffering.

The soldier - * experience wa* typical of the committee's work. It U for case* like this one that American aid from the Bed Cross warehouses will

b« a god-cod.

Red Cross Work.

Six big warehouses are being established In France by the Bed Crow, and two in Belgium, for French relief work these Morehouse* are located at Lille. Atrlen*. toon. Ctolous. Verdun. M-.tlere*. And the Belgian Motions are at Ad'okerkr and CourtraL Here the sa|ipUe* brought to France originally lor use of the American army are t > be gathered and distributed lo co-operation with the Frooch government. There Is a vast supply of stuf* available. There aro many tn-tor-truck* ai d hospital aupplie* no lunger needed by the Amem-un Kxpvdithaiary forces. And they will ‘ B**l*t ll-r l*reo-1i jWMple In their Iretnefidous Job

of reconstruct loo.

Aiding la reiTJOStrurtiun here In France, a* viewed by a mrjorlly of the American* who nre trying t« le-lp. is a propo*lil.*i of giving find aid - auiqilylng a aitoll Iron stove and »—roe t-edding and a little food—and not taking .-a **.' actual repair of dratroyrd touses. except to furnidi whenever possible such Iteniv B* a few yards <-f oiled paper to l-otch up a few windows In .-rd.T to give the French family ■•nr room that can be warmed

during the --olil weather.

Stove*, for Inttanc*. are very difficult in obtain

A small sheet-iron beater that would cost about

fft In America, possibly lew. costs *15 lo *30

the u*ual French supply house. It is an Inathqusle Move at best. It give* out very little brat.

It hardy take* the chill off an ordinary sired room

Yet it Is jn expensive Item because the Fretvlj and English factories are not pr-doring at fa.I capacity yet. and b cause when the stove hai bora

manufsrtured it 1* difficult to trans|M>rt It. Seventeen *-er cent of the personnel of the

Fren.-h railroad system was inobUlzetl and lix* not yet been pul bark to work, t'onsequently ther- U th. spec*acle of hundreds .if train loads of vltrl

uecesslUe* -idetracked and <I<-U)rd indefinitely. The rrllcf commiltee. ute *betr [ww.-ftel Influ-

ence to gc* hold of the slot••* that ran be found by book or crook | n Fran— They endeavor to get U-e .love, donated, or pay for them at coat prices, ■tel ore then able to either sell or give the stove to tee i-eaaant at a fairly low figure. Ten dollars

Is cnnsidrrvd a fair price w| u -n a sale la made. Throughout the work of HI*. Anne Morgan's

cummltt-:- an effort Is made to refrain from paupertxlng the peasant, which 1* dlffi. alt. berattse the peasant is Inherent!} thrifty, and a* a general rule

Is very anxlo-t* to be i-auperurd. FauiewtEatloo

when vli'Wcd frotr. the Mand;-oUit of a peawut who is a war sLff.-r.-r. and wthw tu^-ne, 1* always

earned at grra: expen-Iituiv of Isl-or. 1* a ugly word, or an andeslrabk- con-lit ion. In fart. M. and Mine. |‘easant by the hundreds will bring terrible tabu u f privation to the cm

mlttee workers In Uir hope test Intrusive i.unrtl. ration will act m ut And the rammUtortos to go to -Mua truul to ascertain whrti.er or D „.

ths tale of horrible misfortune ,, lru , i-^^,,

tec «M>4.r Of tlsr Village or wane of th, thoroughly tellable .ntablUDis kiw.a perferU) well ahat should Im •wne lo the matter And the cnntn'lte*

, -a, the Judgm-u. of the French offi.-ia!.

,1 “- » pTOUy f 0 „ •t hundreds «-f (amille*

wUlri.. roughly 14irwk

l»ges betnevo Vlcwur .'STunT* *“’ r bJO “ work

Quality Grocer

•atltfactteu to Price. F. B. SHARP

HOBDELL Practical Dytr of OSTRICH FEATHERS Wc Solicit Your Fuather Want* in all i

154-156 N. Thirteenth 84- | PHILADELPHIA

What an Owner Cannot do

to a iatge knowledge la thalr *«

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a certain pouri . JWNER cannot res?- j lata the CONTRACTOR U employa. You can caff* a but you cannot chance hi* apota or his point of view. But what an Owner CAN i DO ia to aeJact, in tha place, a Con ractor who ha* an esUblia.ied raputation for inteffri*y. eftWency reaulta. Edward B. Arnett Pufldia* Coast; wctk» Bell Telephone ConnecUon.SEA ISLE CTTY, K. J-

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