T H E EA ST H AM PT ON ST AR. F R ID A Y , FE B R U A R Y 7, 1919

WILL BE NO SMALL STATE

Czecho slovakia Could at Once Take

Rank 36 Eighth World Power, Asserts Writer.

We are told the Czechoslovak state will be a small one, and as a result Its

existence w ill be precarious, assum­

ing the world shall remain In any­

thing like Its present condition of In­ternational disorganization, Charles Pergler writes In Asia Magazine. In

the first place, as modern states go, the new state w ill not be a small one. hav­

ing a population of about 12,000.000, and the area of the new stute w ill be, about 50,000 English square miles. When we recollect that Belgium has

11,373 square miles. It Is seen at a glance that the new state can hardly he classed as small. Moreover, the belief In the necessity of large states, rife In certain circles of economic and political theorists, and largely based upon ctrtnln teachings of Karl Marx,

Is one of the superstitions that period­ically appear, in order to be abandoned upon a sober second thought.

The theory that small states and na­

tions cannot succeed is not borne out by history. Even prior to the war

there were in Europe 27 states, and the great majority of these were

small. There were onl£ six of the so- called great powers: Russia, Germany. Austria-Hungary, England, France and

Italy. Portugal, Denmark, Switzer­

land. Bulgaria, Belgium. Norway, Ser­

bia, Greece, Holland, Sweden, Monte­negro and Turkey are all, or were, smaller than the state we are attempt­

ing to describe. The latter will hold In Europe the eighth place, only Eng­

land, Poland, France, Italy , Spain and Russia being larger.

FIGHTERS GOT THEIR ’‘EATS”

How American Soldiers at the Front

Were Supplied by the Com­

missary W ith Food.

The service of supply of the Amer­

ican army receives a lion’s share of

praise for our victory. Needs of men In the trenches anil on the fighting

line were well cared for. Hot meals

were served to them to an extent un­precedented In any other war. Under

bnrrage fire ahd gas attacks, however,

hot food could not be carried forward. To meet this difficulty sealed con­

tainers were provided, each holding

sufficient food for 25 men for a day. These containers were absolutely air

tight to prevent poisoning of food by gas. They contained a dry, hard corn

bread, corned beef, corned-beef hash,

roast beef, salmon, sardines, salt, flugnr and coffee soluble In cold wa­

ter, together with the necessary can openers. Each contafner weighed 107

pounds and was cleverly camouflaged

for Its trip to the firing line. An emergency ration sim ilar to the “iron

ration" of the British army was pro­

vided for the Americans. Th[s was the ration they carried over the top

and used only In dire extremity. It consists of ground *meat and wheat

pressed Into a cake, and a block of

sweet chocolate. The cake can be

eaten dry or stirred Into cold water. j One cake boiled four minutes In three j

pints of water makes a nourishing !

soup, in one pint of water an accept­

able porridge. The S. O. S. relied upon its mighty accumulation of foods ,

from America for everything except

fresh vegetables. I t was almost Inde­

pendent in this respect, however, for j

16,000,000 pounds of dehydrated vege­

tables were contracted for In the

United States.— Thomas F. Logan In I Leslie's.

PUT HYPNOTISM TO GOOD USE

Praise "Stars and Stripes."Newspaper men, magazine men, lit ­

erati and, In fact, everyone In Amer­

ica Interested In catching the spirit

of the Tank invasion of Europe, should by all means read copies of that

great voice of the American expedition­

ary forces, the Stars and Stripes. Letters from pals and relatives paint

little Intimate tableaux of the extraor­

dinary life of the Yankees In France, but a few copies of the Stars and

Stripes can rear an atmosphere which

hundreds of excellent letters could not begin to comprise. The editors, by

their work, show that they are regular fellows. They have the viewpoint of

the buck private, as well as that of the gray-halred executive w ith the silver

stars on the shoulders.— The Quill.

W ip ing Out W ild Beasts.One of the efforts of the state\gov-

«*minent of Arlzonu and the federal

government in their campaign for the

eradication of predatory animals,

which cause large losses In runge

stock. Is the employment o f skilled

hunters. Thirteen are now In the em­

ploy o f the state and federal govern­

ments.Other men are exterminating rodents

which destroy ranges.

One of the hunters w ithin two months has killed 11 mountain lions.

Another killed 55 coyotes w ithin a

month.

No "Can 't" In Banking

The vice president of a b l j San

Francisco bank remarked recently that they had run their business without

any bank after the fire of 1006. w ith­

out any money before the Issue of dearlng-house certificates in 1907 and

w ithout any men In the w artim e Influ-

enia epidemic of 1018, offering further proof. If proof be needed, o f the re­

sourcefulness of bankers.— Pacific

Banker.

Had a Reason.

"W hat makes you so sleepy around

the office?”“ It's my sense o f duty, boss."

•H u h r

“I lie awakt- too much at night tk lck lo f about my work."

Australian Physician Announces ThatHe Has Cured W ar Stammering

by Its Employment.

W riting In the Medical Journal of

Australia, Dr. Clarence G. Godfrey states that during die past two years a number of cases have been referred to him for treatment by hypnotic sug­gestion, In which stammering or st&t-

terlng had developed, or had been

revived, after years of disappearance, as the result of shell shock or of various war stresses. Sometimes a hpynotlzed patient has been told to

keep on repeating some well-known nursery rhyme and not to cease at the signal to awake, although In the mid­

dle of the rhyme, but to keep on talk ­ing. He will usually manifest his

astonishment at findlug himself ta lk ­

ing without difficulty. Sometimes a patient w ill converse on waking w ith­out realizing that his stammering has

disappeared until his attention is

drawn to It w ith amusing effect. In one case the patient spoke perfectly In sleep at the first attempt to hyp­

notize him, although he had had a

very bad stutter for eight months past, being almost inarticulate. lie woke In a few minutes apparently cured

and has been free from stutter ever since.

It has been nuticed that every case treated, even the worst, has bfeen able to spet\k far better In the hypnotic state than out of It.

“TREASURES" IN THE CELLSR not ARDENT WORDS OF LOVE

Little-Known Hero.O f the many stories of heroism dur­

ing the war on which official records

are silent but which are being brought forth with relaxation of the censor­

ship Is that of Captain Larcombe of

the antiaircraft defenses of the Lon­

don (Eng.) district. H is Job for four

years has been to find and dispose of German aerial bombs that failed to explode when dropped on London.

After each air raid, and in the early

part of the war there were many, Lar­

combe and his men would go about the city seeking the "duds.” I t was dan­

gerous work extricating them from

wherever they happened to drop, tran-<

porting them out of the city and ex­ploding or otherwise destroying them. During the excitement after a raid few

people thought of the bombs that

failed to "go off,” but all of them have

ceased to be a menace to the city.

Cleaner Finds Many Things Stored

There, W ith More or Less In­teresting History.

Health drive Is on this week, and every good Brooklynite will go down

i In his cellar and clean out all the rub­

bish and useless stuff except possibly the furnace. When one Is engaged In

this sort of wofk he runs across lots of ! old forgotten stuff.

He unearths crayon portraits of Un­

cle lliram and Aunt Marin, made with an a ir brush in exchange for 400 cou­pons and §2. They were intended for the parlor, but reached the cellar after

j throwing the old fam ily canary into

convulsions; and there is the wreck of the old whatnot that grandma gave

you. It used to stand in the corner of

the parlor, filled with old fam ily pic­tures, sharks' eyes, Indian bead work and other terrible monstrosities that 1

children gazed upon with awe. And as

you come across it you remember that

the first thing you did after dear . grandma passed away was to hustle the whatnot down below, back of n pair of moth-eaten portieres.

And you find your pair of white flan­

nel trousers that you wore to a picnic and sat down in on a blackberry pie.

And you recail the trouble and embar­rassment you had getting home, and of

how, when you had the trousers

cleaned, the big stain turned green and the trousers went into the discard. And

you run across the first silk hat you ever wore, which made you look like

an undertaker, and the vase which you

smashed and blamed on the cat, caus­ing an innocent feline to lose a good home; and the tie your wife bought you, on which you deliberately spilled

ink, for which no one could blame you.And so you go along rooting out one

old article after auother, piling them

in heaps to wait for the ashman and

the junkman, humming that old hymn. “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”—Brook­lyn Standard Union.

At First, Though, it Would Seem That Salesman Was Addressing

His Adored On*.

! “No one ever loved ydu ha lf as well as I do," he said to her.

She made no answer.“How did you come to love me?"

he pleaded. Still the girl refused to speak, although she smiled encour-

' nglngly at this.

‘‘Your name Is written on my heart. The world Is dark without you. I ’ve built a bungalow for you and me. Let

us fly to an isle In the tropic sea. The

kiss you gave me set my heart on fire.”

The girl was not offended. She

scowled a little, but not at him. She seemed In deep thought. Suddenly she looked Into his pleading orbs.

"No,” she said. “Nothing like that."“My Oola-loola girl. When— ”

The girl shook her head and left ; the counter.

! The young salesman had been nara- ; ing the latest popular songs. Doesn’t

sound like a national anthem epl-

i demlc, does It?

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J. E D W A R D H U N T TIN G , Mgr.

Was It a Caveman Rarebit?Exploration of caves In South Berk­

shire, Conn., resulting in the discovery of stalactites and stalagmites, big

white spiders weaving their webs, bats

incrusted in the crystals and a subma­rine brook, made Jack Newboy of Lenoxdale recall the day that he went rabbit hunting In the Patterson woods.

Newboy’s dog chased a rabbit into a cave. Jack waited outside for results. He waited two hours, called the dog

and, getting no results, went home. He

found the dog was at home and had the rabbit. Pat, his brother, explained:

" I was fishing on a lake not far from (he shore when I heard a commotion

in the water nearby and was surprised to see a rabbif in the water. As I watched the dog came to the surface, swam after the rabbit and captured him.” __________ ____________________

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DEALER IN MEATS AND FISH i

Saw Another Chance.

“Say,‘ that lot you sold me is thre*.

feet under the water.” i s It?"

"Yes. it is, and you know it.”

"Well, It’s a good thing you told me.I can lot you have a hargaln In a canoe.— Kausns Cltv .lonrnal. ______

FOR SALEFARMS

50 A cres------- --------- $15,00040 A cres_________ __________________ 7,00020 A cres_______________________________ 2,000

Small Cash Payments Particulars

D. F. OSBORNE Southampton, L. I.

Revised PricesThe assurance of material for quantity production of Buick cars enables the Buick Motor Company to establish the following prices on the various Buick models, effective January first, 1919.

These prices will not be changed during our present dealers’, selling agreements.

Three Passenger Open Model H-Six-44 - $1495

Five Passengei O^en Model H-Six-45 - - 1495

Four Passenger Closed Model H-Six-46 - 1985

Five Passenger Closed Model H-Six-47 - - 2195

Seven Passenger Open Model H-Six-49 - 1785

Se\;en Passenger Closed Model H-Six-50 - 2585

Buick Motor Company, Flint, MichiganPioneer o f Vtilve-in*Head M o to r C a rs

I . *Fresh Fish and Lobsters £

I 1Received Daily From Montauk £

k *O R D E R S C A LL E D FO R AN D D E L IV E R E D J,

t *i £

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