. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No. 22 (November 28, 1919)] . d beat aStrategic retreat. Pirates, says a press dispatch, seizedthe steamer Maria, bound from Novoros-sysk to Batum, and took fifty millionrubles from the passengers. With whichthey probably went out and bought twodrinks. Any estimate of the number of rats inthe]United States, says a daily newspaper,must be pure guess. This will be surpris-ing news to those who had believed thatall rats were numbered and filed alpha-betically. The erstwhile famous Keeley Institutehas gone out of business. Either thereare no more drunken men


. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No. 22 (November 28, 1919)] . d beat aStrategic retreat. Pirates, says a press dispatch, seizedthe steamer Maria, bound from Novoros-sysk to Batum, and took fifty millionrubles from the passengers. With whichthey probably went out and bought twodrinks. Any estimate of the number of rats inthe]United States, says a daily newspaper,must be pure guess. This will be surpris-ing news to those who had believed thatall rats were numbered and filed alpha-betically. The erstwhile famous Keeley Institutehas gone out of business. Either thereare no more drunken men to be cured orelse the few who still have that failingcherish it too much to get rid of it. Is nothing to be left as it is? Now anarchistic mathematicians assert thatthe law of gravitation and the hypothesisthat light travels in a straight line areboth false. May be; we cant answer forcrooked light, but we know absolutelythat the law of gravitation was on the joblast night when we reached the top of thestairs in the dark and thought there wasstill another step There were nearly five millionreal Americans in the servicewhen war was on, but none hasbetter claim to the name thanCorporal George Miner, Winne-bago Indian, 123rd , he didnt wear war paintand carry a tomahawk. In 1910, says the New York EveningPost, a locomotive repair shop in Ger-many, where 417 laborers were in service,delivered 484 locomotives a week. Afterthe armistice the numbers of workers in-creased to 1,187, but the number of loco-motives repaired fell to 411. In April ofthis year there was a further increase ofworkers to 1,253, but the output oflocomotives fell to 353. Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiskes newbook of his own life, From Midshipmanto Rear Admiral, is making quite asensation in naval circles. It putssquarely up to Secretary Daniels manygrave charges concerning unpreparednesswhich the Secretary seems bound toanswer. General Pershings idea of our futuremilitary policy includes an army ofab


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