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.every point, mace on a good comfortable lastthere‘s a boot like that for you LA Ld ipiniciibyed pelle bras ethel Grem and tough at boots leak then, it‘s cold, wet ‘Teer for the rest of the trip, perhaps long weeks of it. The U. S. rubber boot is made for f ren — every } air bucked up with extra thicknesses: of pure

rubber and good strong duck where the wear to hardest, af just (nose points where boots are likely to break through first. Every pair is made with plenty of room at the toes and is shaped so as nct to rub up and down at the hecl Go to the store and see for your» self these U. S. boots for fishermen ~any length you want, the Haif Hip, the Hip, the Knee Boot. — Ask for U.$. Rubber footwear-it means solid weer and long service for your money.

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AMERICANIZATTON L A 32 .n Probably nothing is being talked ut more at the present time than this immense problem confronting P e CIs have gone so far as to say the lack Chag L321 in errvan of our government, thereb ing us with revolution. extreme views of the situation, the recent coul stril sctflement, Ernpedine Shot Rantstart ned odic us realize how big a preblem Ameri canization is and the constant menil his absence means to our institune would bard! believe it, begat it not proven by drafting of our armies,. ,. that one out of every four persons in the United States can neither read or if at all or Pao read or write the langwage of our government. — Can you imagine thas such a larg» percent ds of our population cannot acadl ballot they vote, canno: read l notices, are in constant Tanger "m in deine their work because th lnniey 4 such nad (Cary no | light," "Explosive "Stop, Look and Listen?" Prvcal which by the way cannot be as accurate as army figures,‘ because there are many people who concen! the fact of their illiteracy on account of shame, showed that five mi people can neither read mor write any lang and one- he language of our land, but this is held to be far from accurate, and the Uniter States Department of Commerce and Labor places it at 25 per cent based on ‘the Army draft: figures, which in other words means twentyfive million people of this land can either not read or write any language or read or write the language of our It is hardly believeable and 1 know it wilt set you thinking, asking yourself whether a condition such me this can possibly exist in. our land of free schools and n oacace.J t. these Fags to rl t our + three largest cities, New %. Hadeli in* ting 2C CCE. CPT 16 per cent of the people of New Jersey are illiterate, some . states | run much higher Admitting these figures to be co rect. and there is every reason to beHeve they are coming officially from our government, is there any wonder dition of unrest when the three basic Industries of our country are manned fafeehy by this class . of people? yA are namely: coal, steel and raillie: are we going to solve this most important of all our national bee al meetings of the Farmers\ National

Congress and the National Grange Convention we would have no such problem, for mac they are. tru Americans, . regardless of — whethci they come to this country from all corners of the earth. What they said at those meetings will go down in It sounded so splendid editorial pidiniels oring of foreign propadrsds 4 is refreshing and consoling to hear the clear and strong voice of American producers and conservative patriots." . *Could te editor have written otherwise of our farmpre when they "denounced the treason of false leaders who for pay and price | would scuttle the Shp o rd State and rear the red of Bol from the Nationa! Grange. meeting, "Above all he, (the farmer) is saturated. with ‘Americaniem, with the spirit or democracy, with faith in the sanctity of law and order, of home and country, We will first of all have to admit that the posar of Americanism is not a problem of thet every wal alone. For all too long people have been calling themscives Americans because grandfather fought in the Revolution- > War, or he was one of the signers pel Pt Mg wef pets rmiet Independence l sil rre his ancestors came over s the Mayflower, — Not thinking further, we have taken this as a perfect» ly sound reason for calling one an merican. Dr. F. C. Butler, the man in charge of the newly created Bursa of Ameicanization at Wi ington, gives figures showing over 23 per cont iliteracy in a certain town in Pennsylyania where . everybody could call himself ., American, pr to ancestry . Can be Amereans when t le cannot read ar wite the language of their land? Are they not easily led by false lead ers who for hay p and price would senttle the Ship of State? — Are we real Americans whes we shun the Ttalian call him "wop" or the Polander a "Pollack" or the Jew a "Shceney$® Perhaps it has never occurred to many people that the problem of Am: ericanizaton is one that does not confront any other country Did. you ever stop to thnk that in England they don‘t have to Englishize, in France, Frenchize, in Italy ire, in Germany Gepmanize, altho Germany tried to do it to the world outside of its own country ‘and. got into a lot of trouble but in America we must Americanize if we are to have a government? i these people who come here from every land on the face of thr earth and Americanize them | These people come to our shores and only those who come from England can read and understand our language. ‘The balance, as stated: previonsly, tither can‘t read or write our lan-

guage or can‘t read or write their own, let alone ours, and up to the present time we have been cont-nt or igoorant of the fact that they man our three basic industries almost enuzely. — What tas hen the result of this condition; haven‘t they been led as the Farmers‘ Congress puts it "by false leaders who for pay and pri would scuttle the hag be State," be cause they bave not been Americanire To Americanize them we . must C a c of our land we must acquaint them with American ideals. . In this process of Americanization we should not try to make these people over in our own The process of American: ization should not be one where we would try and make these people be: fieve as we believe but rather it should one of building upon their own ideals and beliefs. The government has been quick to recognize this appalling condition of our country, and in this direction has created the United States Burpropriates k. | With this money schools will be held in lodge rooms, sewing circles, factories, mines, anywhere. _ He further states it will pay .e employers of this kind of labor to give them time off for studying our language, because of the decrease in accidents and greater general: bffiUnder the government plan Jersey — would reecive. $400,000 for this work based on her popula« tion, providing she appropriates a similar amount This would be spent over a term of years. Surely _ it will py our country to spend this money if it helps to bring peace and happines in place of unrest and misery. | Theodore: Roosevelt said, "There is terrible evil in our social and industrial conditions today and unless we recognize this fact and try resoultely to do what we can to remedy the evil, we rum great risk of seeing men in their misery turn: to false teachers whose doctrines would indeed lead them to greater misery hut who do at Teast recognize the fact thit they are miserable. berenton..s a commmmnd NOTICE TO GUNNERS ; All persons are forbidden to tres pars with dog or gun on any of the property of the late Emlen Phymic cither in Cape May City or in Lower! Township. Al trespassers will | be dealt with according to the law. SAMUEL F. ELDREDGB Atty. for Emlen Physic Eatate.

MARTYR HELD IN REVERENCE Bt. Catharine Occupies Exaited Posk tion in the Calendar of the Reman Catholle Church. | | Among the eariter dates of the Roman Catholle catendor Bt. Catherine | holds an exaited position, both from [ rank and intellectunl abilities. . Dur i Ing persecution instituted by Emperor | Maximus 13, t. Catharine was mar tyred, the tyrant reserving a more | ervet puntshment for her than any of the rest of his vietima, . She was placed in a machine, composed of four wheels, connected and armed. with wpikes so that the victim would be torn to pleces as they revolved. A miracle, it is sald, prevented the completion of this project, ms a flash of lightning. severed the chords | with which she was tled, ahattering the engine and killing the executionera. Maximus ordered that she be carried beyond the walls of the city ; scourged and beheaded. — From the circuns stances relating to the wheel, th known circular window In ecclesias tical architecture is known as Catharinewheel, and also a firework of the same name. Thin St. Catharine, who ltved in the fourth century, is not to be confounded with the equally celebrated St. Catharine of Sienna, who lived ten centuries later, * Our War With Mexico, The Mexican war of 1848 lasted nearly two years.. ‘The first actual col lisfon ond bloodshed was on April 25, 1848, between a band of Mexican troops that had crossed the Rio Grande and a company of American soldiers. On May 17, 1840, President Polk sent a specinl message to congress reciting the frets and grievances, and meld: "As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforta to avoid {t, exists by the met of Mexico herself, we are called wpon by every conaideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the bonor, the rights and the (tp PHH Thousands of years ago-long before the great western nations of today, Jong before even Greek and Roman hhodiacad more lindbaine sma Alexander; the frrestatible adva the pounded . of various elements, | but chiefly Mongoltan and Malayan, stood adaptivences which Loa ‘Then away to the east in Central and . South — Aimeri¢®, . civilisations waxed and waned, roching their high eet development in the Axtec and In can empires. the lntter Of which was an extremely interesting exniuple of despotic soctaliem. * Rupert Brooke in Fijt, Fi# in moonlight 1# like nothing PoC e — oo CT eolors and all scents. Anid here, where and wispe of mist run bleating up and down the valleys and blistdes: like looking . for . their — mother, [deniiebd only one thing on earth as utiful; and that‘e Beamon by moon light. ‘That‘s otturly different, merely heaven, sheer lovelineat, You He on H EEST ETE cbradind out on the white sand under.the high avin bedder ep be ocabi line of the reef a mile out, amd moon: light over everything, foods and 800 a t. wach that you alice thin goiden-white sh it, an otr i. Poems of Rupert Brooke: WM 8

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