Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 7

‘Sub'iect That Most People Know |} ' x .7 OB/ STILLWELL Very Little About. sat: down’ on his WHOLE SYSTEM S CHANGED chin in hig' mit- tened hands and +tried to plan “what ‘'he could Private Gets $33 a Month as Long as ' He Is in the United States and 20 Per Cent Additional When He Goes Abroad—Allowance Made for Wife ‘give: folks - for Christmas, for it «and Children—Dependent Parents Provided For. was " only three days away. “I can't give a hing!”. he - mut- “tered at-last, for- he did not have a penny of his.own, and heknew that . money was. very scarce on the farm that year. The Stillwell children would be lucky if they all had mittens and warm shoes and stock- ings. Yet Bob knew that his sister Nan was dreaming ‘of a doll house, little Peter wanted a puppy all his own. and he didn’t dare think of his big sis- ter 'Amy and big brother Elmer and :his father-and mother. “Why not make 'em somethlngf" was ‘the thought that‘éame to him. s home wl)ls- ‘Washington.—Ask the first ten peo- ple you meet what Uncle Sam pays his soldiers. "It will be safe to bet they won’t know. Half of themn may have some hazy | idea about a “dollar a day,” and you - will find lots of people who think ‘. Uncle Sam still pays the old scale of $13 a month, but few outside the army % know . the ins and outs of the wage " ‘beale; even for private soldiers. .. The whole pay system of the United States army has been revolutionized gince the war started. : ! A iprivate in‘ Uncle ’ Sam’s armies, Natlonal Guard or: National | S| :h' a;:x;pfig 4 th les; a n ¥ fon to 1o0d, clothing’ an:l’1 12y ts s, large'and sinall, an rch ene i system‘,: @owever, about Wwhich most z 1gnmn Jsltha.flc‘lleot@l@ for the walfm-e ot only of | I service, fi\lt’lcfl; lledé%‘?fi he lert eI B ; his Bew.setibtioyifi Mtheresualf: wee wamhgfluhfieflrewwd m' onth!iffirect “trott’ Uhiere” Qi $1 onfl,fivhlch is virtually an addlfl ‘| to nsk himself each morning whether! M ;! “of‘ 'UnneoesSai'y ‘and" Extrava-““ gant Joy Rlqu, t EIWERNMENT RE(llllllES HIEI. Army and Navy Need Large Amoun{ of Liquid for Airplanes, Trucks, Automobiles, Tractors and Other Machines. If the automobile owners of the country will stop unnecessary and ex- travagant pleasure riding during the period of the war, they will save enough gasoline to take care of all the war needs of the United States, ~ ' “If the automobile owners and deal- ers in gasoline handle this most pen fect of all fuels in a careful and eco- nomic manner, they.can save enough more gasoline: perhaps to: take care ol the ‘war needs of the alifes. The ' above stntements were made 28, epnrt,ment of the s morough Investigation the present gasoline situation, 1 Solve! Porpmdng Problem. A pntrlotlc. thoughtful fsh responsé “to'" sald Mr. M.l.nnl.ng, : f | carried on successfully, the army.and navy ;will-have to have linmediately oD, e.for the air' fipb}les, stractors, or not his proposed trip is absolutety necemrynanq et accordingly; tlier | the prob, A Snm'l responsibility and a bulwuk -against-dependence on- charity. - - Allowan( pendent pa and for brothers, slaters and mndchll- the man more than $50 & month. mawkish prudery entered into : ental "allo nce, the P ‘cardboard furhiture that Bob® ‘had dofl being. that. if it is born.after De-| made. He had even.tacked.little-scraps pber 31, 1917, it must be born in the of lace at the windows for curtains. Unifed States. So in the case of a wife For Amy there was the lovely pic- thefie need tbe no:legal marriage if | turefrom the Sunday new; spapel‘ ‘which there Is proof’ that tHey have Jived to “she | : ob find! n{menflrer— ther as man 4o \vtte for two ye: ‘ed 4dd had! to enlistment. # of strips of wood. nnd the wood le Sam also sees to it that his| he had glued tiny pine cones, pieces of soldlers do not throw all_ the burdgn _bir harla pa g blfi] moss, and as the of gnrlng for dependents on' hid-broad plc ireé wds @ Wobdland scene you can t> sholilders by making it compulsory for | imagine how pretty it was. Bob had enc.fi man who has left a wife or child| found a chair rung, which he scraped and polished with some oil and turpen- tine. He put some screweyes-in the ends, and Amy gave him a piece of behind to pay over to them through thy :}reasury at ieast $15 a month-and as pluch more as will equal the allow- ancg which Uncle S.xm makes , to [ narrpw e@ ubhon te make loopg——and, half 2 man'¥ iy e : DN éd,' thier i pékee hoider for in (§ervice/ abr HoF his i & whittled a 2 el Yor her” Eldthes+ ? X ‘ahid'it*vas wife and child’ behind “the m: have to assign to them at least $19.! S0 ‘ a month, to which the government will ! -add}; $25, making a total of $44.80 whieh they are to receive. The old pension fiv*mm is wiped out by the new and fai ‘more éqgiftableisys-]’ ,tel’lxEa of compensation for, deulh and disabllity. This compensation differs from that pnwlded in any other law. It talkes! the/family as the unit that is serving 'the ‘nation, ‘not-the-individual man. i Depends on Size of Family. | It bases the commensation on the size’of the family ifrom tirpe to. time. | While a totally disabled bachelor yill get only $30 a month the mar with a wife and four children will get $75. i Twenty dollars is added if a nurse ls required; $10 .a month as long as he' may live, whether he is married or not. If he dlu from' Injpries or disease | recelved in the line of duty. the ‘widow, children and widowed mother receive sums ranging from $20 to $75 a month, according to size of family. No dis- tinction is made between a private and the highest officer. In addition, every man may take out insurance up to $10,000 at the ac- tual cost of furnishing such insurance in peace times—the entire nation through the treasury bears the war risk. This insurance is wisely safe- guarded to protect it from creditors, shyster lawyers and loan sharks. a wonderfully handy thing, and for his father he bought a pipe.. It happened this way : He did some errands for the man who kept the tobacco store in the nd when the man svould havc soniémdney ’ ’Bob!kaid he'd rather have a pipe. So now they were ‘all* 'provided “for exeept Titfle' Peter. How was Bob going to get hold of & real live' puppy? “You go over to my brother's place at the foot of ‘Long hill,"and you tell him I sent you,” said the tobacco man. “Maybe he will let you have ‘s puppy and work it out for him on Saturdnya He has a paper route.” “P1l do it if/ he willl” fcried Bob eagerly. Half an hour later he hurried into the woodshed with a wriggling iittle puppy under his coat. Of course he had to tell his mother about that. And how Bob did enjoy the. secret, run- ning’ to/ and fro with milk and scraps of meat for the puppy! When Christmas morning dawned I think Bob Stillwell was the most sur- prised boy in Little River. He was so interested in watching the pleasure of his brothers and sister with the gifts he had made with his own hands that he stood smiling, forgetting to look at the tree for his own preseats. “Look, Bobby ; look 1" screamed little Peter. Bob looked and turned pale with sur- prise. The grandest new sled, painted a bright red, runners and all. His fa- ther and Elmer haa made it together. And there was a red woolen muffler that Amy had knitted for him and oth- er things that Santa Claus brought Dbz The city of Lyon has opened a pro- fessional training school for the high- er technical and scientific develop- Went of French women. other ‘hand, bé fllought for the re!gnl gtflne ontnmml "m ers to co-nperatg [ (hd: mak ! my cplnlun. a 1ud,|(:|‘ automdbile " for/ this p this amouat of ‘gasoline in hl which would ‘mean*the saving of, morg’ “than K “By a real economic use of gasoline, the United States with sufficlent for fts war needs, but also enough for the ! needs of " the~allles. “Héfe afe”a 16w spggestlons as. to how the latter.save lmzs may be made: “Don’t allow your gasollne engineto run idle—if every antninoblle ‘i the ! United ‘Statés saved a pint a week, it WD\lld amount to 440,000 gallons per week or enough to run 10000 nir planes one day. HEg i%Gasoline is generally used ‘in: gll- ges for clesn when kerusenfl D ! Porcelasn, Fezthor, Fur Munvy. sPoreelain money is usced inddgaiin and Simn; and {eather maoney, nginpus |y fuciured from the short red. . ffom beneath the wings of .a of parrot, is the ordinary currency of thé santa Cruz islanders. The Loyalty | iglands,, which lig in the Pacific to the exht of Ausuull.x, are famous for thelr fur money. The fur, which ig tuken from behind the ears of the .sn-culled‘ e “fiying fox,” in reality a large fruit- eiiting bat, is woven into cords of vari- . ous lengths, and these. constitute the ordinary currency of the islanders. S Teach Feet to Point Straight. The human foot is wonderful in its formation; the 26 bones and intricate arrangement of muscles make it sus- ceptible of a high degree of training, ns one observes in fancy skating and ballet ddncing. But it is sadly ham- pered in its practical activity by be- ing encased in leather and having to support the weight of as well as to propel the body forward. To over- come this as far as possible we should learn to walk with the feet pointing practically straight. Shakespeare and the Bible. Whatever his faults and limitations, 3hakespeare will live forever. Dr. George W. Carey has sald: ‘“Shake- speare probed the deeps of human possibilities, analyzed the stuff from which thoughts are made, turned the searchlight of incomparable genius on the records of the soul, painted its deeds on the canvas of life, and left it naked and ashamed.” Shakespeare and the Bible will survive, after all our current literature is forgotten.— Los Angeles Times. 1,000,000 gallons'each aay.in the.year. | Wn can save not only-enough to: supply-|; species | 'LEDGERS i1 'lvw-of? woltibsion hooy nl "{mllmg fldoks 'Pnce Books,, .Ledgeu. ' Note Boob rnl‘lh. mRecol'dt; ‘ S ST, 747 sRySRY SRS NS WY PRAN '-..-,—Yolu"ll‘ need new books in whic_l1 to " start the 1918 records. 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