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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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.” __________ ____________________
| THE POPULAR M ARKET *2 J
* FRED McCANN, PROP. I* I
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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PIPELESS HEATERShave been on the market many years. For some types of dwelling or business houses they are
EM INENTLY SATISFACTORY
W e are, as we always have been, prepared to install
the same where we believe they will prove adequate.
Call on us and we will quote you lowest prices on
Cast or Sheet Metal Pipeless Heaters
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