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r-w- 1- "lrt MONEIY INTHE BANK FOOD FOR EVERY ONE PERSONAL PERTINENT NEBS HIP EDWARD LYNRTT Editor and Publisher tRM IMS JOHN E. BRADLRT General Manager 1911 1938 4 Editor nd Publisher General Man iter Assistant Publisher Managing Editor W1I 1.1AM LTNKTT JAMF.fi FLANAGAN EDWARD LYNETT i-A. J. OMALLET 9), By HELEN ESS ARY, Central Prea Columnist. Washington.

rMy worry about food is calming down. Ive been wondering if after we have finished feeding foreign peoples there will be enough food to keep me and minefrom going hungry this Winter. I have been assured, however, by a man who knows about eatables, from-prunes and peanuts to pickled onions and pate da fois gras, that we can feed all of Europe and not suffer the loss of one personal calorie. Naturally, we must feed Europe out of our surplus. Not out of our scarcity.

Our wheat crop has been so abundant that we can supply flour to every eountry on dhe continent and the British Isles and not be able to tell by our own loaf of bread that we have given away one wheat kernel. It is the same with dried food such as beans and peas. We can dispatch these by the ship loads and never miss them. Likewise, condensed -milk and those dehydfated, meats and processed whatnots which do not interest Americans vet. Indeed, we can send across the Atlantic enough food to supply every hungry European with the essential ration of 2,000 calories a day and improve the American waistline and vitality thereby.

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econd clasa mail matter. XW-vA" T- i i JUST FOLKS By EIKI1R A. (( K8T THESE DAYS By George E. Sokolsky THE SHIELD OF SECURITY great press of people participated in the ceremonial investiture of a bishop. Whilthose in control of the Soviet' government had earlier termed religion the opiate of the people and that it must be crushed out, the great crowd at was proof that religion had survived all persecution.

Prayer is a great consoler and strengthener. ooo INTO A PLEASANTER JAM Benton Harbor, rich fruit center, today began an experiment with war prisoners as labor in the canning factories. The prisoners are Germans transported to this country. It is proposed to let them help save the- fruit crop by teaching them how to make jam and jelly. How many German prisoners of war have been brought in is a government secret.

It is known there are many more Italians in American military prison camps. Not a single prisoner of war, under international rules, can be forced into Such labor must be voluntary and compensated The monotony of life for prisoners of war is not pleasant at best and it would seem the Nazis given the chance to earn an honest dollar at Benton Harbor would be glad at the opportunity to put up fruit. However, there is no telling about human behavior in this war period of crazy notions. If the prisoners of war are as good at making jam and jelly as they were sighting rifles the experiment at Benton Harbor should, if extended, offset in at least a limited degree some of the manpower shortages along the civilian front. 0-0 -o WANTS WHITE PENNY RECALLED Folks who have to deal in small change, and practically all engaged in retail business are in that category, are complaining that the new zinc coated steel or white penny is not easily distinguishable from a dime and is causing confusion.

Wide use of the new penny is expected to save 4,500 tons of copper in penny coinage. This is not the first time that Uncle Sam has issued a white penny. Many years ago there was such a coin but it was heavier and thicker than the present penny or dime and more like a nickel in fact. That penny was retired because of the annoyance it caused. Senator Buck of Delaware has introduced a bill to recall the white penny and also to prohibit other coinage of pieces not readily distinguishable from coins of other denominations." The Cleveland Plain Dealer says facetiously that the Delaware solon is apparently making a subtle move to capture the cashier vote, adding, It was a blunder to create a new coin which resembles so closely another and besides it is out of tune with the times to make pennies look like dimes.

The trend, what with inflation and taxes, is in the other direction. The Plain-Dealer concludes: There would at least be a philosophical excuse for making dimes look like coppers. o-o-o NO PEARL HARBOR WHITEWASH Whether there will be a court-martial over the scandalous Pearl Harbor debacp is finally brought out into the open through a joint declaration by the War and Navy Departments to the effect that the admiral and the general in command will have to face a court-martial. The official statement is important because it was possible that a statute of limitations would apply were the government not alert. However, the War and Navy Departments state that the admiral and the general have waived any legal technicalities that would tie the governments hands.

When the court-martial will be held is not stated. In the opinion of the War and Navy Department heads it is undesirable in the public interest to proceed at this time. The people of the United States have no disposition to have their government participate in anything savoring of a military lynching, but they will have to guess why it is undesirable to proceed with the court-martial. If the reason for delaying the court-martial is that it may expose facts to the enemy such facts would be past or stale facts known to the enemy, but even this could be avoided for the reason that courts-martial in wartime are not public but behind closed doors. Courts-martial are everyday occurrences for the humbler ranks in the armed forces.

In the case of the commanding officers at Pearl Harbor the derelictions with which they are charged cost the lives of 3,000 American soldiers and sailors and put so many units of the Pacific Fleet out of action as to expose Hawaii to capture and imperil the entire Pacific Coast of continental United States. The assault on Pearl Harbor took place Dec. 7, 1941, and in two more months but for the waiving of the statute of limitations by the officers, now officially announced, the right of the government to court-martial the accused would have gone by default. It is important to the morale of the rank and file of the army and the people that there be no whitewashing of the Peafl Harbor disaster. Rio Grande and an army was organized under Gen.

John M. Schofield to support the Mexican republican government. General Schofield was also sent to France to inform that government of the American attitude namely, that we would undoubtedly fight to drive France out of Mexico. It was a firm American policy in defense of distinctively American principles and ideals which, after we were out of the dangers of the Civil War.Mrove the French out of Mexico. We did it.

And we did it without the assistance of any country. HITLER -THOUGHTS When Hitler settles down to sleep, Tis curious I am. Do visions start to flame and leap Of ruined Rotterdam? And does he think of Lidice. A whole destroyed? fe'arful, cruel memory Of power he once employedl Now as the night comes slipping down. What fears his heart must chill Who broke the spires of London town, But could not break its will! When Hitler shuts his bedroom door What must he think today To hear our planes above him roar, With more upon the way.

(Copyright, 1943, Edgar A. Uuest 0-00 LOOKING BACKWARD (from The Time of Thirty end ilfteen leurt Ago.) Already, so I am told, the United States is feeding Sicily and the lower part of Italy. So beautifully timed and organized is the work of the American food people that when capture of Sicily was announced, food ships were ready to leave American docks immediately. Under convoys, of course. Sicily has co-operated superbly with American food administrators.

Her fruit and vegetable crop has been gorgeous. Italian farmers down in the toe of the boot are also toiling with their crops. Every step in the feeding of Europe is being anxiously studied. For example, the detail? of feeding France and Norway when the German occupation is ended, have been thought out by experts Such thickly populated places as Poland are a special problem. There is not a chance, so I understand.

that we will not continue to feed the hungry in Europe. After we have won the war with guns, we mean to win the peace with food. Returning travelers tell me that the Germans have infuriated the people of the occupied countries by taking their food. It's bad to be starving. Bad for the body and spirit.

Americans are smart. They know tfiat well-nourished people are contented people. So I say, send all the dried beans and foodstuffs we can spare. I don't like dried beans nd peas anyhow. Report on Washington as it is today.

Mrs A. was sitting at her desk virtuously writing a newsy letter to a distant relative when Mat-tie. the pretty new maid, came to tha door to say there were two men outside. They had come to take out the phone. Take out the phone!" exclaimed Mrs.

A. Yes, ma'am, they had an order. Mrs. A. declared she had not given any order to take out the phone She could not live without her phone.

She had paid her bill a week before. It couldn't be that "Ak the men to come m. The men came in. big fellows, the kind that climb telephone poles with their spikes on their heels and hammers and wroqchcs in their pockets. "Here's the order lady, "and the foreman held out a long document on which was written Mrs.

As address and telephone number. Mrs. A. said no matter if the telephone company was calling in equipment they could not have hers. She argued so pitifully that the telephone men left without wrenching out the phone wires.

Then Mrs. tried to ask the telephone company what was going on. She found her phone was dead. It had been cut off at the mam office. The phone stayed dead for several hours.

Mrs. who had not planned to dress for the street that morning, reluctantly got herself to an outside line and called the trouble clerk. The trouble clerk could not understand what had happened. Said she'd do the best she could. It was a lady trouble clerk.

Mrs. A's phone stayed dead until the afternoon when its ring cut the silence in its old-time way. Mrs. A leapt to answer. A nice voice said, This is the telephone company.

We've got vour phone in order now. It was another phone we meant to cut off. It was simply a case of the wrong I see," said Mrs, A. Wrong number. Yes, wrong number, replied the telephone company and hung up.

SMILE AWHILE How come you dont like the girls? "Oh. theyre too biased. Biased?" Yes, biased. bias Jhis and bias that till Im broke." Chicago Daily News. Judge Well, John.

I can give you this divorce, but it will cost you $3. John Three dollars, boss? Judge That's the fee. John Well, boss, I jes tell you, I dont believe 1 want no divorce. There's ain't three dollars differenct between them two women. 0-00 THE GRAB BAG LEGERDEMAIN Tlie road to Cintra follows Wide windings up the hills; Homes snuggle in the hollows And roses wreathe the sills.

A twisting road, and narrow, Along a winding way, Where folk may do tomorrow, What might be done today. A road that runs up-hill, down-dell A windmill here and there, A castle and a wishing-well And magic in the air. A shady road, a sunny strand That looks out to the sea I walked the road to Cintra and Came back a different me! Tom Daly In Philadelphia Bulletin. 0 0, Most people, I think, at one time or another have attended a cornerstone laying in connection with a church or public building. The ceremony is interesting.

The custom is traced back to the ancients. The historian Tacitus describes fully the laying of the cornerstone at the rebuilding of the Capitol of Rome. A procession of vestal virgins, robed in white, surrounded the stone, and consecrated it with libations of water. A prayer to the gods followed, and then the magistrates, priests, senators and knights laid hold of the ropes andi moved the mighty stone to its proper position. In a hollow cut in the stone were placed ingots of gold, silver, and other metals, which had not been melted in any furnace.

The ancient Jews also performed ceremonies at laying of the cornerstone. With them this stone was considered an emblem of power. To insure the stability Of a building very large stones were used for the corner. The Christian church has utilized the laying of cornerstones for the carrying out of impressive ceremonies. In the Catholic-Church whenever it is possible for a bishop of the diocese to attend he invariably does so.

In the Protestant denomination effort is always made to have some outstanding church leader present and preach. The rite connection with the laying of cornerstone was taken up in medieval times by the Free Masons As observed by them, everything connected with it is symbolical The form of the stone, a square on the surface and a perfect cube: its place, at the northeast corner of the structure, its permanence. all have their hidden meaning, as do the ceremonies of testing it with a square, level, and plumb, and pouring libations of corn, wine, and oil over it Others, not Masons, observe the ceremonious laying of a cornel stone, partly deference to ancient custom and partly to mark the importance of the act of beginning the construction of a building to be devoted in some department religion, education, science, art, or the like to the public advantage. Coins of the current year and important documents are usually placed beneath or within the cornerstone. 0 0 0 The Information In the foregoing paragraph is interesting just at present from the fact that I learned the other day that James T.

Sweeney has presented the Lackawanna Historical Society with the cornerstone of the old 13th Regiment Armory on Adams Avenue, the site of the present Sears-Roebuck Store. Originally this building was called the Scranton City Guard Armory. The cornerstone was laid in 1377. The society plans to give the stone a permanent place on grounds at the Catlin Home. Some months ago when The Times was printing pictures, When Scranton Was Not So Old." I recall a picture of the laying of the cornerstone of the First Presbyterian Church of Scranton.

A few weeks back 1 had a story about the cornerstone laying of St. Patricks Church, West Scranton, sixty years ago this Summer, which was attended by 3,000 people. The Masonic rites, as mentioned, are frequently used in the laying of cornerstones of public buildings. When the cornerstone of the Lackawanna County Courthouse was laid May 25, 1882, the ceremony, we are told in Hitchcock's History of Scranton, "was in accordance with the ancient usages, customs and landmarks of the Free Masons. A.

B. Stevens was acting right worshipful grand master, Hon. Alfred Hand delivered the address. Mr. Stevens at the time was a well known coal operator and sheriff of the county.

Mr. Hand later became judge of Lackawanna County courts and eventually a justice of the State Supreme Court. The cornerstone laying was preceded by a parade in which even the rain that afternoon did rot deter war veterans and Ma sonic orders participating. Col. F.

L. Hitchcock was grand marshal. That evening a grand banquet opm memorative of the event was held by the Scranton Bar Association. Dr, B. H.

Throop presided. A. H. Winton was toastmaster. No less than eighteen addresses or impromptu talks were made.

John Jermyn proposed monument to be erected to the memory of Col. George W. Scranton, one of the founders of the city and who afterwards helped give us not only our first industry but our first railroad system. A committee was appointed to carry out the proposal but it fell by the wayside. 0 0 0 The cornerstone of the armory of the Scranton City Guard or, as later known, the 13th Regiment, which Mr.

Sweeney is giving the Historical Society was laid Nov. 14, 1877. It came into his possession, 1 believe, when the armory was demolished. The armory, after the building of the present huge 109th Regiment Armory, was first converted into vaudeville theater, the Dixie. Eventually it was taken over by the Masonic bodies and used as a temple until the big structure on North Washington Avenue was erected.

Laying of the cornerstone of the armory, we are told, was a red let' ter day of pageantry." The ceremony, again I quote Hitchcocks History was in charge of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Free and Accepted Masons; Edward P. Kingsbury, D. G. acting right wor shipful deputy grand master; A. B.

Stevens, right worshipful grand sec retary, and Rev. R. W. Van Schoick, right worshipful grand chaplain. The grand master and his assistants were escorted from Masonic head-' quarters to the armory by the Car-bondale, Scranton, Pittston and Wilkes-Barre Commanderies Knights Templar: The column was headed by the Scranton City Guard with hand.

Addresses were made by His Honor Mayor McKune: Major Boies, commanding the City Guard, on the occasion of -the presentation of beautiful standard of colors to the battalion. Gen. E. S. Osborn of Wilkes-Barre was the orator of the day.

Among the list of articles sealed and placed in the cornerstone were a history of the organization of the battalion, roster of the field staff and companies of the guard, names of the members who partici pated in the suppression of' the '-strike riot at the corner of Lacka wanna and Washington AVenues Aug. 1877, list of officials of the city of Scranton, names of the architect. contractor and building com mittee, a copy of each of the newspapers published in Scranton, a program of the ceremonies. J. Reuben Clark, when he was undersecretary of state, wrote of the Monroe Doctrine: it should not be overlooked that the United States dcclincct the overtures of Great Britain In 1823, to make a joint declaration regarding the principles covered by the Monroe Doctrine, or to enter into a conventional arrangement regarding them.

Instead this government determined to make the declaration of high national policy on its owp responsibility and in its own behalf. The doctrine is thus purely unilateral. The United States determines when and if the principles of the doctrine are violated and when and if violation is threatened. We alone determine what measures, if any, shall be taken to vindicate the principles of the doctrine, and we of necessity determine when the principles have been vindicated. No other power of the world has any relationship to, or voice in, the implementing of the principles which the'doc trine contains.

It is our doctrine, to be by us invoked and sustained, held in abeyance or abandoned a our high international policy or vital na-. tional interests shall seem to us, and to us alone, to demand. This Is worth remembering, particularly at this time of divided counsel when Walter Lippmann stresses our dependence upon Great Britain, because during nearly the whole of our history it was the Monroe Doctrine that served as the shield of our national security. It kepf us out of Europe's dynastic wars in our early days by preventing Europe's continued expansion on our continent. Europe moved into Africa and Asia but no further into North and South America.

It was because of all the implications of the Monroe Doctrine that the United States was ready to use its veteran armies after the Civil War to drive Maximilian "out of Mexico rather than the existence of the British Navy which did not prevent Maximilian from landing in Mexico and which interfered in our domestic during the Civil War. As soon as the Civil War was over General Sheridan was sent with an army of 50,000 men to the SHINING TI1E AX IN GERMANY Henceforth whoever in Germany doesnt think right will have his head taken oft at the shoulders with the ax. The authority for the dwe threat to the population inside Germany is Dr. Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda. It has come to a pretty pass, obviously, when the German people must be terrorized with a declaration by their government that he who attempts to undermine belief in victory will be beheaded.

More than a vear ago, in Japan, there was set forth the dictum that peoples minds must be policed. Bv this they meant "'ould be a high crime for any one not to agree in toto with everything the Japanese government In Germany no one must have an honest 1 fear that Germanys mad adventurers have placed in jeopardy the life of the German nation 4, Notwithstanding the way the threat of the ax is being dressed up, with promises of victory, the German government of Hitler has resorted to the very highest form of terrorism upon its own people. The promise of the ax in Germany can not be other than the threat of men who feel themselves like rats in a corner. If the situation inside Germany were not grave there would be no need of so desperate an exhibition as Goebbels shining up the ax in public. o-oo REJECTION XP TO PEOPLE Declaring his belief that Magistrate Aurelio of New York is unfit -to hold his position or to be elevated to a higher post.

Governor Dewey of New York nevertheless believes it is more important that our system of government be preserved than that an occasional unfit be elected to office. For that reason Dewey has declined to call a-special session of the Legislature to amend the election laws to permit the Democratic and Republican judicial conventions to reconvene and revoke -Magistrate Aurelios nomination for Supreme Court Justice. The New York courts appealed to declared however demoralizing his nomination And election might be, Aurelio was regularly named, that there was no authority in the law for conventions to revoke a nomination or to reconvene unless, it can be demonstrated that there was fraud within the conventions. That has not been charged. Summed up, the situation today is that if Aurelio is to be kept off the Supreme Court bench he must be defeated at the polls.

The way is open for that if enough citizens disregard the practice of straight voting and cast their ballots for Matthew M. Levy, Amer- lean Labor Party candidate. The legal phases of the situation may puzzle some. However, if calmly thought out the correctness of the attitude of the courts 1 and of Governor Dewey, for that matter, can not be questioned. 0 -O0 1 THE WAR AND PRAYER Evidence is not lacking, in fact it is daily demonstrated, that religion and prayer are embedded deep in the hearts of the people of this and other nations.

Neither war nor rulers can blot them out Jn our own county in every great crisis leaders entrusted with the shaping of our destiny have spent much time in prayer and meditation. V(p all know the story of Washington at Valley Forge and Lincolns reliance on the Supreme Being. before, the people Secretary of State Seward, discussing this situation, said: The real cause of our national discontent is that the French Army which is now in Mexico is invading a domestic republican government there which was established by her people, and with whom the United States sympathizes most profoundly, for the avowed purpose of suppressing it and establishing upon its rums a foreign monarchical government whose presence there, so long it should endure, could not be but regarded by the people of the United States as injurious and menacing to their own chosen and endeared republican institutions." It is a pity that Americans writing propaganda these in fa.vor of this or that foreign country, fail to go to the history of their own country. There they find ample justification for nationalistic determinism, We may support another country, co-operate w'ith it, be -allied to it, but never dependent upon it. This country has never in its history pursued a course of isolation from the rest of mankind.

We have traded and had commerce with all men and we have succored friend and foe in need. But we have always retained a distinct and positive identity, and we have with steadiness adhered to a fundamental principle that that policy of international intercourse is sound which best serves American interests and makes for her greatest security. Nothing has occurred during the past quarter century to weaken that principle. Nothing is happening now which justifies a retreat from it. (Copyright, 143, Columbia Nw Service THE TIMES MAIL BAG (Oct.

1913.) David W. Fowler has been chosen grand marshal for the big Mitchell Day parade in West Scranton Oct. 29, while George Brown will be chairman of the day. Pushing a one hundred pound wheelbarrow John A. Krohn, aged forty years, passed through Scranton today toward the completion of a walk around the United States.

Mr. Krohn is a printer by trade and is walking for his health. Taylorville Lodge of the I. O. O.

F. installed officers last evening. John Garrett is the new noble grand. Officers for the ensuing year were elected at a meeting of the directors of -the Pennsylvania Oral School yesterday. Judge Alfred Hand is the president.

Other officerg include J. Benj. Dimmick and Henry Belm Jr. Oct. 4, 1928.) Scranton lost one of its pioneer and widely known citizens today in the death of Hon.

John E. Roche. Mr. Roche was a resident of the city for sixty years and prominent in politics and civic affairs. Six couples who started in a $1,000 prize dance marathon in the Dunmore ball park last Monday night are still in the contest.

The dancers have fifteen minutes rest in each hour. Included in the group of local dancers participating are Sophia Martin, Catherine Thomas. Mildred Thomas and Helen Rankin of Dickson City; Mary Keller of Throop. and Julio Sabo of Joe Turco of Dunmore is one of the local male contestants. Ezra Griffin Camp, Sons of Veterans, has elected Robert E.

Lee as commander. Clarence Darrow, the distinguished member of the American Bar who has attained national prominence in the courts, will speak in Scranton Oct. 10 in behalf of presidential aspirations of Alfred E. Mr. Darrow was also an attorney for the United Mine Workers In their case against the anthracite operators subsequent to the settlement of the 1902 strike.

0-0-0 SENATOR SOAPER (Released By North American Newepaper AlUance, To head off the Thundering Herd, Washington extends the life of coupon No. It seems all Gods chillun want shoes at the last minute. From Hollywood, "Variety reports fears that further draft demands may make film production impossible. But gee whiz, they cant cut off necessities of life.Jike Grable. Bandits appeared simultaneously at the front and rear doors of an Ontario bank, as they had studied the double entry system.

In the middle of a speech, Churchill takes an hour off for lunch probably a new record for keeping an audience under the ether, Fatigued Finland would gladly settle for the territory she already hblds, as would any bingo player with four numbers filled on the card." Who remembers war before It became global, when a small neutral 1 could stand off at a safe distance, approved by underwriters and watch history being made? One-Minute Test 1. For what is the City of Ham-merfest, Norway, noted? 2. What city in the Netherlanda gave its name to a kind of china-ware? 3. What city claims the two largest bridges in the world? will do all we can to back our gov ernment all we can s6 our boys wiU be back home soon and we will be happy and learn to smile again. DURYEA HEADER.

Dear Mom: Received your letter and I am well. We know that we are many miles apart yet In my heart you seem so close so close, in fact, that you seem to be with me at all times. Soon this war will over. Then we can live happi once again. I am not sorry that I am here.

I have a lob to do. Don't worry about me because every thing is going to be all right. must admit I miss your home-cooked meals but then just look at the appe tite HI have when I get back. Ill keep you busy for quite some time; nevertheless, I have plenty to eat I am worried more-for you all back in the states with the rationing going on. "Things can never be too tough knowing that 'You are waiting tor Give my love to Pa.

"I remain your loving son, BENNIE.1 0-0-0 word Study By W. L. CORDON Words Often Misused: Do not say, ly figures are absolutely correct. Omit absolutely. Correct does not require a superlative to qualify it Often Mispronounced: Equipage.

Pronounce ek-wi-paj, as in bet, i as in it, syllable ft in page, and accent first syllable. Often. Misspelled: Vacuum. Observe the double u. Synonyms; Sleep (noun), slumber, rest repose, doze, nap.

Word Study; Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us iri! crease our vocabulary, my mastering one word each day. Today's word: Inherent; belonging by nature. "These are inherent qualities of the human mind.j TEACHERS LAYOFF Editor Times: The people in gen- eral as well as the teachers in the city schools appear to be much concerned with the threatened layoff of forty or fifty teachers and so well they should. If a new industry was scheduled to start in the city Oct.

11 that would employ fifty people at the salary school teachers receive there would be much enthusiasm. At the opening of the school season a month ago it was reported there were approximately twenty-five teachers less on the payroll due to deaths, resignations and retirement, as well as twenty-five others off on leave. Is the threatened layoff of fifty more In addition to this group or is it a new setup to Jake care of some friends? Nobody wants the school district to carry fifty school teachers on the payroll If they are not needed, but everybody wants them to be fair! All eyes are on them, and if there must be layoff it should be where, it will hurt the least I have a gentleman acquaintance, a retired school teacher who served for more than thirty-five years, and he tells me he could name a score of teachers who are older than he and who were teaching ahead of him. I have heard a lady teacher who is retired for four years say practically the same thing. They both contended this wss absolutely unfair.

Why not ask all teachers to prt-sent tneir birth certificate they do this in almost every line today and it may present an easy way out for the school directors and all others except a few old folks who would still be well taken care of with, a pension- FAIRNESS. FRO A LOVING SON Editor Timesi The following is a copy of a letter from a son to bis mother from a jungle in the Southwest Pacific. Here's hoping, after reading this letter, we Americans BOND DRIVE OVERSUBSCRIBED In the long ago, the days before the Civil War in fact, there was a political saying, As goes Pennsylvania so goes the nation." Today that can be applied to the Third War Bond Drive just concluded. Pennsylvania went over the top. So did the nation.

Lacka-' wanna- and Scranton in line. The glorious news that the $15,000,000,000 bond drive had been- oversubscribed was an nounced as early as Thursday evening. Since then additional reports have been rolling in. The total of subscriptions wont be definitely known until late today. The Third War Loan was the largest, sum ever asked from the people by this or any other nation.

Its being oversubscribed, as The Times said previously, is proof to any one who may have had doubts that the nation is back of our government in this war and ready to pour in its funds to the limit that the democracies may win. The campaign wound up on schedule. That demonstrates what organization, accompanied by intelligent publicity, can do. The news that the bond drive succeeded, that the amount fixed was oversubscribed, is an encouragement to those at1 home directing the war and -to our boys who are fighting our battle on mahy other shores. 7 Words of Wisdom.

Progress is the law of life; man is not man as yet. Robert Browning. Hints On Eliqnette. Do not hold your cup of tea or coffee with both hands and with elbows planted on the table. It bad manners.

Todays Horoscope. You are self-reliant dependable and aggressive, if you have a birthday today. You have a wonderful capacity for detail. You are practical, shrewd in your judgments and refuse to accept defeat Success in life and a happy marriage are indicated. If vou have to rise very early on this your birthday, and are not in the mood to be gracious, it wont help jou to be resentful.

Others also have to make the best of inconveniences. This early morning, also, a friend who is calm in meeting annoyances mar give you the inspiration to handle all aorta of demanda for the rest of the day. Do not be tempted to gamble this evening. It would bd unwise to take a long chance. One-MMiQtc Teat Aftawera.

J. As the, northernmost city In the world. 2. Delft, South Holland. 3.

San Francisco, which has the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. (Distributed Br Kina Features aUt JM4 'Vt of this nation been so impressed with the need for prayer. They realize that if we want to win the war we. must pray. Protestant, Catholic, Jew all are turning to prayer.

As one divine has said: If we dont want the boys over there to let us down we must get down on our knees here. In New York yesterday there was a great ouipouring of- people to join in prayer for victory and peace. More than 75,000 jammed the Polo Grounds to participate in the service under the auspices of the Archdiocesan Union of the Holy Name Society. Most Rev. Francis Spellman, Romani Catholic Archbishop of New York, military vicar of the army and navy, offered the prayer He asked Divine in- tercession for the President, all officers of the government? men in the armed service, men in the battle area, the wounded, the honored dead, for this land of and that Eternal Rome be spared from destruction.

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