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'4 I r; YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISggKD 9BBD -WMBLT. l. m orist'S sons. Pabii?her? j % Jcirspapcr: Jfor the promotion of th$ political, ?orialf ggrieultoral and (Commercial ^Interests of th$ peoplj. J sinole copy. pick ckntn. ESTABLISHED IH."? ~Y0RK7"S." CT FRIDAY. MARC'H'IT 191S- ~ NO. 18 "OVER T By ARTHUR An American Boy Who Years Before ?'opvrii;ht. li> Arthur 'Juy HAI'TKK III I Go to Church. I pou ulistftp nt \\! Iisi'l ! ! -ntit > llsks issio d to ilk These \v? i?- small disks of i< d lih'r woiii around thiM-ck. ?>" Illl-iillS of il MtlillU. Most ol tin- Tommies also usol a lit tic inctitl ji.sk which they Willi- around tleft | wm.hi l?>- means of a ehain. They had previously figured it out that it their heails wen* Mown iilT. tin- ilisk mi the li-ti mi ist would iih-titify thein. If they lost their left arm the t|jsk around the nuk would siim- the purpose, hut il their liea?l ami hit aim Mere Mown off, lio one Mollhl care mIio they were, so it < J ill not niatler. m one >n|e ol the ilisk Mas inserih i| your rank, naim-, iiumlier ami hattalion, Mhile on tin- other was stamp | ill >0111 ! liuioii. tof K-. meaning Church of Kiiulaml; It. Itoniati Catholic; \V? \Wsli'Uiii: I'.. I'reshvti-rian; hut if you hnppoueil to lie all atheist they left il hlauk, ami just hamleil you a piek ami shovi I. t ?ii my ilisk M'as stampeil ol K. This is how I got it: The lit uti-nant who 1 nlisli il me asked m> 1 elm ion. I Mas not sure 01 the religion of the Itriiish army, so I aitsM'iieil, "till, any old thing." ami In proni|itl> put me down 1'. of K. Num. just imagine my hard luck. tut 01 live religions I was unlucky noiigh to pick the only one wln-rc church parath was compulsory The next morning was Sunday. I was sitting in the hillcf writing home to my sister telling her ol my wouder1 iiI exploits while under lire?all re. emits ilo this. The sergeant major put Ins head in the door ol the hitlet ami shouted: of K. outside for ehureh parade'" I kept on writing. Turning to me, - e ? i.... I ill ;i iuuii void', iiKiMii, iiioi't you ('. ol' K?" I answered. "Yep." In nil iniKi.1 toil)-. Id- commanded, "Dou'l you *inc. Soy. Yes, sergeant inajoi." "I <li<l so. Somewhat mollified. lie ordered, "outside lor church parade." I looked up ami answered. "I am not going to church this morning." lie said, "iHi, yes. you are!" I answered, "t?h. no. I'm not!"--Hut I Went. We lined up outside with ride and hayoiiets, 120 rounds ol" ninmunition. 1 ' .'J ..I in IT oirr . in-Tilti.-i.' rnhr-"inr- rr.rrhn to church hegan. After marching ahout live ilos, we turned otY the road into an open field. At one end of this Held the chaplain was standing in a litnhcr. We formed a semicircle around him. overhead there was a Mack speck circling round and round In the sky. This was a tierman I'okkcr. The chaplain had a hook in his left hand?left eye on the hook -right eye on the airplane. We ns 1 Iiwbv U'l. Il'llt (til I OIIMI1IC.-I mil lion.., hooks. so had both eyes on the airplane. After church parade we were marched hack to our billets. ninl playe<l football nil afternoon. I'll AITKIt IV. "Into the Trench." The next inornitiK' the draft was inn|H'?'te?l hy our iP'ticrnl. ninl we were assigned to different companies. The hoys itt the tu'iKnde hnd nicknamed this general old I'eppcr. and lie certainly earned tin- sohrhiuet. I was assimied to It company with another American named Stewart. l-'or the next tell days We "rested," repairing roads for the F leucines. drillinn. and digging bomhing trenches. title morning we were informed that we were going up the line and our march heeun. It look iis three days to reach rescr\e toilets- each day's march bringing the sound of the nuns nearer and nearer. At night. way tiff in the distance we could see their Hashes, which lighted up the sky with a red glare. Against the Imrizon we could see numerous observation halloas or "sausages" as they are called. On the afternoon of the third day's march I witnessed my first airplane being shelled \ thrill ran through me ttnd I gazed in awe. The airplane was tnakitiK wide circles in the air. while little pulfs of white smoke were hurstinn all around it. These puffs ap|>earc<l like tiny halls of cotton while after each hurst could he heard a dull k plop." The sergeant of my platoon f Informed us that it was a tierntati airplane and I wondered how lie could tell from such a distance because the plane seemed like a little hlack speck lit the sk\. I expressed my dotlht as ?.? o >1.1 It. i ii was Knglish. French or <Senium. With a look of contempt he further Informed us that the allied antl-alreraft shells when exploding emitted white smoke while the (Sertnan shells gave forth hlaek smoke, and. as he expressed It. "It must he an A Ileum ml heenuse our pom-jsinis are shellIns. and I know our hatterles are not off their I?ally nappera and are certainly not strafetus our own planes, and another piece of advice?don't chuck your weight about until you've been up the line and learnt something." I Immediately quit "chucking my weight alKtut" from that time on. .lust before reselling reserve billets we were inarehlng along, laughing, and singing one of Tommy's trench ditties: I want to go home. I want to go home. I iion i wan I io u> mv i? ... more. Where sausages and whizz-bangs are galore. Take me over the sea. Where the Allemand can't got at me. Oh. my. ! don't want to tile. ! want to go home?" when overhead came a "swish" through the air. rapidly followed by three others. Then about two hundred yards to our left in a large Held, four columns of black earth and moke rose into the air. and the ground trembled from the report?the' HE TOP" GUY EMPEY Got Into the War Two His Country. Kmpy. i xplosion of four German five-nine or "coal boxes." A sharp whistle bin immediately followed hy two she oms, rani; out from the head of o column. This was to take up "art lory formation." We divided in small squads and went into the tiel on the right und left of the road, ai crouched on the ground. No oth shells followed this salvo. It was o tilist baptism by shell tire, i rorn i wui.it up I was all enthusiasm. l> from there down, everything w; missing. 1 thought 1 should die wi fright. After awhile, we reformed into ce umns ot fours, and proceeded on o way. About live that night, we renchi the ruined vi Huge of II . and I g my first sight of the awful destrm tion caused by German Kultur. Marching down the main street v eaine to tlie heart of the village, ai took up <11111 iters in shell proof rella (shell proof until hit hy a shell Shells were constantly whistling ovi the village and bursting in our tea searching for our artillery. These cellars were cold, damp at smelly, and overrun with large ratsbig black fellows. Most of the Ton mies slept with their overcoats ov< tln ir faces. I did not. In the inidd of the night 1 woke up in terror. Tl cold, clammy feet ot a rat had |?ass? over my face. I immediately smut! red myself in my overcoat, but coul not sleep for the rest of that night. Next evening, we took over our set tor of the line. In single file we went nl our way through a zigzag con muiiieation trench, six inches dec with mud. This trench was call* "Whisky street." On our way up I the front line an occasional flare < bursting shrapnel would light up if skv and we could hear the fragment shipping the ground above iis on 01 right and loft. Then a Fritz woul tinvirse back and forth with h "typowritor" or machine pun. Tlx I mi lets made a sharp cracking noise ovei head. The boy in front of me name Prentice crumpled up without a won A piece of six -II had cone through k shrapnel-proof helmet. I felt sick an weak. In about thirty minutes we reache the front line. It was dark as pitcl v">|# A Bomb Proof. Kvery now and then a Herman si shell would pierce the blackness ? in front with its silvery light. I w trembling all over, and felt very lone and afraid. All orders were given whispers. The company we reliev tiled past us and disappeared into t blackness of the communication tron leading to the rear. As they pass us. they whispered. "The best 'o luc mates." I sat on the lire step of the treni with the rest of the men. In eai traverse two of the older men hi been put on guard with their hca< slicking over the top, and with th? exes trying to pierce the blackness "No Man's I .and." In the treni there were only two dugouts, at these were used by Lewis and Vioke machine Runners, so it was the II step for ours, l'retty soon it starti to rnin. We put on our "macks." b they were not much protection. Tl rain trickled down our backs, and was not long before we were wet at cold. How I passed that night I w never know, but without any tinusu occurrence, dawn arrived. The word "stand down" was passt along the line, and the sentries k down oft the tire step. Pretty soon tl rum Issue came along, and it was Clod send. It warmed our chllh bodies and put new life into us. Th< from the communication trench came dixies or Iron pots, filled wii steaming tea} which had two woodi stakes through their handles, at were carried by two men. I filled n canteen and drank the hot tea witl out taking it from my Hps. It wi not long before I was asleep in tl mud on the fire step. My ambition had been attained! was in a front-line trench on tl western front, and oh. how I wish< I were back in Jersey City. CHAPTER V. Mud, Rats and Shells. I must have slept fty two or thr hours, not the refreshing kind that r suits from clean sheets and soft pi lows, but the sleep that comes fro cold, wet and sheer exhaustion. Suddenly, the earth seemed to shal and a thunderclap burst in my ears, opened my eyes?I was splashed t over with sticky mud. and men we picking themselves up from the bo torn of the trench. The parapet on n ? l?-ft hail toppled into the trench, i pletelv blocking it with a wall tossed-up earth. The man on my lay still. I rubbed the mud from face, and an awful sight met gaze-- his head was smashed to a ] and his steel helmet was full brains and blood. A flerman " nic" t trench mortar i had explode the next traverse. Men were dig into the soft mass of mud in a fr of haste. Stretcher-bearers cami tlie trench on the double. Afte few minutes of digging, three i muddy forms on stretchers were ried down the communication tr s" to the rear. Soon they would s'' resting "somewhere in France." a little wooden cross over their hi ul They had done their bit for king country, had died without lirmg a i ?? l>ut their services were apprecit nevertheless. I-iter on I foun<l out their na ?'r They belonged to our draft. 111 1 was dazed and motionless. ! denly a shovel was pushed into l" hands, and n rough but kindly \ 1,8 said: "Here, my lad, lend a hand elea the tren' li, but keen your head d< a and look out for snipers, tine of 1,1 Fritz's is a daisy, and he'll get yi you're not eareful." '' Lying oil my belly on the bottor "l the tren.-h. I tilled sandbags with I * stieky mud. they were dragged to rear by other men, and the worl ?'' rebuilding the parapet was on. hard> i' I worked the better I felt. ls though tie- weather was eol?l, I soaked with sweat. II Occasionally a bullet would ci ' overhead, .md a machine gun wi kick up tin mud on the mushc u' parapet. At each crack I would <1 and shii hi tny face with my artn. *" of the ? bier men notii-cd this ac of mine, and whispered: "Don't din k tit the rrack of :i '' let, Yank; the danger has passed never hear the one that wings ?" Always remember tli.it if you arc ing to get it. cm II get it, su n< worry." Tills made a great imnression on at the time anil front then on, I tub * his motto, "If you're going to ge >r> you'll get it." (I It helped me wonderfully. I .list so often afterward that some of Jl mates dubbed me, "If you're goinj get it. you'll get it." 's After an hour's hard work, till " nervousness left me, and I was lau 1,1 ing and joking with the rest. ,s At one o'clock dinner came ui the form of a dixie of hot stew. J looked for my canteen. It fallen off the lire step, and was *' buried in the mud. The man on left noticed this, and told the corpt ls dishing out the rations, to put '' share in his mess tin. Then he w pered to me, "Always take care '' your mess tin, mate." I had learned another maxim of m tienchesT" That stew tasted line. I wan hungry as ;t bear. We had "seeo on iinother helping, because thri the men had "gone west," kille ig; the explosion of the Herman tr mortar, and we ate their share, still 1 was hungry, so 1 tilled in bully beef and biscuits. Then I dri my water bottle. loiter on I lea H another maxim of the front line, ~ sparingly with your water." The g beef made me thirsty, and by tea ? I was dying for a drink, but my i P would not allow me to ask my n for water. 1 was fast learning gg ?thics of the trenches. That night I was put on guard ?? an older man. We stood on the $ step with our hands over the top | ?! i it tr nut into Vn Mnn's tjind It nervous work for tin-, but the i fellow seemed to take it as a pa 1| the night's routine. ?5 Then something shot past my P My heart stopped beating, an I ducked my head below the par A soft chuc kle from my mate hro me to my senses, and 1 feebly a: "For heaven's sake, what was thsi He answered: "Only a rat taki promenade along the sandbags, felt very sheepish. About every twenty minutes the try in the next traverse would I! star shell from his Hare pistol, as "Plop" would give me a start of fr >1 y I never got used to this noise di jn my service in the trenches. ,HI 1 would watch the arc describe h,. the star shell, and then stare int< Ph Man's Land waiting for it to burs P(| its lurid light the barbed wire k* stakes would be silhouetted again: light like a latticed window. 1 [.p darkness. rh once, out in front of our win ?l heard a noise and saw dark U moving. My rifle was lying acros: .j,- sandbag parapet. 1 reached foi p. and was taking aim to tire, when L.|i mate grasped my arm and whispc 1(1 "Don't tire." He challenged in a r;- voice. The reply canto back Instil iv from the dark forms: "Shut your blinkin' mouth, m bloontin' idiot; do you want us to < l1( it front the Hoehes?" it Liter we learned that the word, 1(| challenging or tiring, wiring party ill in front," had been given to the s :il ry on our right, but he hnd faile pass it down the trench. An ofl ?d had overheard our challenge and . ...,1 I... mil 01 l'?. ...V h<. fending sentry under arrest. r, sentry clicked twenty-one days on ?d wheel, that is. he received twenty days' field punishment Xo. 1, pp "crucifixion." as Tommy terms it th Thu? consists of being spread-ea ?r. on the wheel of a Itmber two hou ui day for twenty-one days, regardle U the weather. During this period. ; It. rations consist of bully beef, biw is and water. oe A few months later I met this s ry and he confld?d to me that s I being "crucified" he had never fs ie to pass the word down the tr< >d when so ordered. In view of the fense. the above punishment was light, in that failing to pass the v down a trench may mean the los many lives, and the spoiling of a ee important enterprise in Xo M e- Land. (To be Continued), m te According to information rece I at the war department there are ill 63 survivors of the American tr re port Tuscanla, recently torpedoed t- Irish hospitals ?* the result of injt ly and exposure. TOLD BY LOUL EXCHANGES left , ' News Happening:; lo Neighboring Ulp. Communities. of CONDENSED F01 QUICK BEADING King Dealing Mainly With Local Affairs of enzv Cherokee. Cleveland, Gaston and e up Chester Counties, r a Gaffney Ledger, February 26:.. Th? still, school teachers of Gaffney at the recar nuest of the government, have been eiich assisting the local board in making be out the classification cards for the with registrants in Cherokee county. As ^ads. there were over tvso thousand of these and cards the Job was a big one but. shot, thanks to the teachers, the work ha? ?ted, been about completed C. Y. Allison. rural policeman, accompanied by mes. \v". j?. Hardin, captured a distillery last Friday morning near the York Sud- county line in the Kings Mountain my battleground section? The officers did oice not succeed in capturing the operators as they doubtless were notified of the ring aooroach of the ofilcers Y.r. T. <t. jwii, Mc'Vaw has disposed of his Grassy the Pond farm, just beyond Providence >u if church, and purchased a home in Gaffney and will shortly move back a of to the city and make this his home, the it will be remembered that about six my years ago, Mr. ' Mct'raw bought the k of J. J. Magncss place near Grassy The Pond, paying for the same, $27,0on. Al- loiter he sold Mr. Lester Swofford a was slice of this place for 13,100. Then he sold Messrs. Gettys anil 1>. W. Humphnick ries a few acres for J 1,000, and then li 111* 1 a few acres to 1). Ross for J 4 0". d-in The last transaction was on yesterday, luck when he sold Mr. A. Humphries the < ?ne remainder of the Magness tract for tion Hn.ono. making a total of $50,5i'0 he received for the property which he bul- | ild $27,000. Mr. M of raw has adyou \<>iUsed his stock of goods ami a lot you. of farm tools and implements to be go- Mi|d on Friday, March 15. ever AMERICA'S SOLDIER CITIES i me apt- Remarkable Task that Has Been Suet it, cessfully Accomplished in Short While. id it The enormous task successfully acmy complished by the l*nited States govg to eminent in erecting thirty-two soldier cities for the new National army and my for the mobilization ol" the National igh- tluard troops, is picturesquely set forth by William Joseph Showalti in er in a corammurication to the National Geographic society, a part of had which is contained in the following half war geography bulletin: my "There is no record of what Uncle ii;'l, Sam said to the builder of his soldier in> cities, but the facts in the case would his- have warranted his giving these inof st ructions: 3 " 'I have placed in the treasury of the the United Stat*a? aubjoctjto-your or-, Jdcr, a sum of money wliich Is equal i as to all the gold produced by all the nds," mines of the world during the past ;>e of year. With this money I want you to d by house my armies while I get them in cnch shape. In the first place, I want you hut to build 16 great military cities in as with many sections of the country. These lined III cities must he capable of housing a rued population equal to the combined pop"Go ulation of Arizona and New Mexico, bully There must also be stable room to care time for as many horses as there are in pride the state of Oregon, latcs " Furthermore, you must establish the hospitals to take care of as many sick and wounded people as are to be with found in all the hospitals west of the fire Mississippi river in normal times, peer- "*Xor is that all. You are to prowas vide all of the mess halls and other alder general buildings for all of the Kurt of tionul Guard mobilization camps. And while you are doing that, you will not fuce. forget your regular work of expandd I ing and keeping in repair the housing apet. facilities of the Regular army posts, ught " 'Xor will you overlook the fact <ked. that as soon as all that work is unit?" der way you will be expected to unrig a dortake the construction of two big I concentration camps from which the American army will embark for MOM. Pin Mi'i? timl thrnnph tvhl/'h ifu villi. Ire a plies will reach the frout. The "'Yes. I know it is a large order? ight. in fact, a tremendous proposition? iring but these are tremendous times, and I'll have to ask you to execute it d by within four months. Of course, I > No realize that you will, in its execution, t. In spend the money three times as fast and as the world mines its gold, but at ?t its the same time 1 expect you to render rhen an account which will show that every penny has borne an honest burden.' ?, 1 "Such was the order. It has been ?rms executed as the American army alii the ways hits executed is; orders?to the r it. letter! i my "The story of the 16 National army >red, lantonments surpasses anything else low in the history of building. Such, lnintly deed, has been the transformation wrought at these cantonments that you ihe world might well have believed it dick all magic had it not heard the rhythmic blows of 25,000 hammers "No driving home 1,200 miles of nails a out day: had it not seen enough lumber ent- go from the country's mills to these d to <amps to make a board walk four the * ? of- * The * HOW Yor CAN HELP THI the ? -one * or * Realize that the restrictions s< 8 are for the good of all the people I That those who are undertakin gled * doing so from a spirit of patriotisi rs a ' not for pay. , * Observe the wheatless and ni * others do so. These are most esse your < Insist upon the wheatless and ruits 8 ever you eat. * Good intentions and promises i 8 practice home economics, ent- . Talk food conservation. Ince * Tell your neighbors of a pract died r yourself used that economizes in w h * The food regulations are all your merchants or eating houses s of- facts to the county food adminlsti very * who appreciate the actual necessi rord 3 Woraens' clubs should discusii ? leave their Ibsen and Browning e' a or * return home. ome When you use wheat, see tht an's * other cereals. See that your neighbors and 1 co-operating and are not asking u Be independent of the outside your own field or garden. Have f? Remember that all you save li ived * soldiers and their companions in Be a soldier behind the lines l'l now that time in seeing that food croi ans- v cultivate your own garden. I, in * If it is not for you to bj on t and producing food. ' / feet wide?runners and all?from Palm Peach to Bagdad via Bering -Strait and the Arctic Circle: had ?t not witncwed the movement to their sites >t enough material and supplies to load a string of cars reaching from Portland. Maine, to Portland, Oregon, via Boston, Cleveland. Chicago. Minneapths and Spokane. "Consider a weekly pay roll twice as large as the monthly pay roll at Panama when the canal work was at high tide, and paid off in two hours. \vher? three days were required to pay eff the big ditch force. Reflect upon the fact that the expenditure of the 16 cantonments for the month of Augu.-t was $32,000,000? nearly nine tons of gold, or more than was ever paid out in a whole year on the Panama canal, until now the world's greatest undertaking. "With the sites selected and 160 jf the biggest sawmills in the United States turning logs into planks, joists, rafters and studding at an incredible speed the cities themselves were ready to begin rising from the ground. "The railroads of the country, already sore pressed for rolling stock, l 1 r<VI I 1 V (ftVA.1 /> nigh I he limit of war-time demand on peace-time facilities, set aside 30.000 ears ior cantonment material trans' porta Hon. and vast quantities of lumI her were moving east. west, north, and south to the camp sites. In a I single day there was unloaded at Dcs I Moines 1,890,000 board feet of lumber. the equivalent of 300 miles of 12-inch hoards. "t'ne day a one-story office building, some trenching machines, some teams and trucks, and a chaos of materials, and in 4S hours a respectable village. In two weeks the village had crown to a town, and in two months the town had become a city." BLEAK IS GERMANY. So Say Prisoners Who Have Return ed to England. All Knglaml has been stirred by the return of 36<i soldiers and civilian prisoners of war from Ruhleben, Germany, some of whom are fishermen who were surprised by the Germans in the North sea immediately after the declaration of war and had therefore aeon prisoners almost from the first day of hostilities. It is not because of the stories they tell, :for their lips have men sealed so far as their own sufferings are concerned by order of the government. The remark of one of the civilians to an old friend who met the party?"We are fairly all right, but we have all got barbed-wire fever" ?is said to contain the whole story. Knglishmen know what thut means and there is nowhere any desire to reverse the government order. barbed-wire fever Is the nervous stnoln that is telling with inereasijd^irce?especially in the case of * wno cSfiffbi taae "so mOcn exercise?upon the hundreds of men who have spent over three ( years on that unhappy racecourse," says the Manchester Guardian. "They | were bitterly disappointed that the | attempt of our government to abolish Ruhleben altogether by an exchange, however it might advantage the Germans, came to nothing and many of the repatriated men are convinced that there may be an increase of mental cases if Ruhleben continues much longer. You could see the marks of nervous excitement on many of the faces, and probablj the reaction from being set free will be felt severely by the men of more sensitive minds." Krom a few of the civilian prisoners something of the condition of affairs in Germany was learned?illustrations supporting the general impression according to the Daily Telegraph, "that the war has entirely changed the conditions of life in the enemy country, which has ceased altogether to display that air of cheerful prosperity which characterized the Germany of peace days." Germany, it was said, presented the appearance of a country "under a blight." i "I was very much struck when trav eling through the country," said one of the men. "with the dead look of everything. Kven in one of the great towns thicugh which we passed there seemed to he little going on, and the railway stations were almost entirely deserted. On the line between Spandau and Hanover we did not see a single passenger train, and the goods traffic appeared to be quite neglible. The fields were devoid of cattle. and on the whole Journey I saw le.fs than a score of sheep." Dther men with observant eyes had come to the conclusion that the fuel shortage In Germany must be acute, because though the weather was bitterly cold, smoke was rarely to bo seen issuing from chimneys. Another thing that struck them was the exient to which women are doing work on the railways. They were seen acting as firemen on locomotives and as platelayers. jrhe grammar schools of Milwaukee, Wis., have abandoned the study of the Geyman language in their classes and substituted French and Spanish. i * K tk)OI? ADMIXISTILX TOILS \ jggdsted by the food administrators * and Ito win the war. r to enforce the food regulations are m ajnd service to their country and leafless days strictly; and see that ntial. * mefUJcg, days wherever and when- " cout naught Both preach and ten I > appetizing recipe you have * 'hea~-~Vgar and fats sure ,f d patriotic, and If you And ' I ire y/1 ng to co-operate, report the * ator *f'.nd give your trade to those ? ty fi : recognized rules. 4 i pru, ?!lcal household questions and * srenipgj until the boys "over there" ! * it it is mixed with corn meal and * ^ , ? particularly your merchants are nauthe rlzed prices for foodstufTs. * wosld and provide your table from * >o<J*ufr to sell, not to buy. * a whei.t, Cats and meats is for your * ir half an hour each day. and spend * ps tin cultivated on your fields or * he t lag line, do your bit in saving . | :| 'a/ . . SOLDIERS IN THE MAK NG ? , "b How Military Dlscipllae is Taught at Sevier. 4 ? na WHERE THE WATCHWORD IS WORK h? a a Lesson in Regulation Dress?Higher 'et" Officials Go to Very Great Pains to |i?' Teach Privates Just What to Do ni" and How to Do It?How Joe Cudworth Learned His General Orders. stl< Passed by the Censor. sel roc Corr*ip*oS?nc? Tbt Torkvlll* Eoqulrir Camp Sevier. February ^5?Soldiers ot'1 uf the Thirtieth Division, hundreds a * and duubtless thousands of them, are co' out thousands of dollars because they r:ir have various articles of clothing ultra- ^Ia regulation, and which they are no j longer allowed to wear. I am stuck Rro to the extent of $40 or more myself tr() by reason of the purchase of leather (. leggins, "wrap" legglns, a Stetson k,j military broad brim hat, collars and trimmings of one kind and another ^ mat i am nui pcrnma-u iu ncui j() longer. Some of the fellows are stuck . for sums ranging as high as $100. 1 car know one sergeant who invested $6o in a serge suit and $18 in a pair of js { leather leggins recently. Within two t() days after his purchase an order was a s puidished to the etfect "that this comniand must get into uniform." and that j.ni sergeant was out $68 pronto. After flen e'amp Sevier was established lust J( j summer?in fact for two or three months afterward, a great many sid- { diers were unable to obtain equipment. . There was a shortage of olive drab . uniforms and other articles and really it was a problem to get uniforms of any kind. Then later Greenville furnishing stores laid in enormous stocks of "wrap" leggins, leather leggins, . serge uniforms, hats and other articles Joj( which looked neater than the regain- jljs tion stuff. Soldiers fell for them of jy course and because of the shortage and maybe for other reasons (I don't stu know) were allowed to wear anything jo that looked a little like regulation uni- pir form. Thousands of pairs of these j(n) "wrap" leggins were bought by men of t(u this division at $5 per pair; hundreds of pairs of leather leggins were pur- h;u chased at from $6 to $18 per pair and ?w hundreds of other articles of clothing accordingly. These articles looked twj much better and most soldiers (even jt rookie .oldiers l want to make as good f an appearance as possible, ? . Hut now there Is sufficient rogula- ^ tion issue for every man and every clej man must wear regulation. Those wh canvas leggins that lace up the side ^ (rabbit hunters) the fellows call ,.l(J them: don't look nearly so nice as t "wraps' or leathers; but they arc the Q kind Uncle Sam has decided his soldiers must wear. Military Police on ^ duty around camp and over In the city gU| of Greenville, have received orders to ^ IASranfc.9JP.Vr soldiers. stcaxlc.e other thai) L. n{ "rabbit hunters" unless that soldier has I a written statement from his captain I h(. get down off his horse, go Into a all trench where a buck private was ly- tal ing down trying to sight a rifle cor- ou rectly; lie down on his stomach beside Ge that private in an Inch of mud, and In work with that buck a full thirty lot minutes, teaching him how to do it. if And the buck lay there without shlv- frt ering and twisting and declared after- ne ward that the "guy with the buzzards Fr on his shoulders (a colonel's insignia Bti is a silver eagle on each shoulder) Pti wasn't a bit "harder" (meaning w? stem) with him. than any of the ser- tul geants of his company. Scores of sol- thi diers witnessed the incident and hun- ' dreds who didn't see it were told about cu: it, and withall It had a powerful effect vii for good, because the drafted men and co: volunteers who knew about it had an practical evidence of the fact that this mi is everybody's war and the colonel or ca the commanding general or any other to "higher up" is willing to perform any del that he has been unublc to obtain the ^ regulation issue. The division is obeying the order. Occasionally some "beau brumtnel" buck private tries to (b get by with his non-issue stufT; but ca most of them are sorry when tliey try it. There has been some grumbling ?not because the money put out on these articles is lost (because money (b is the .very least of the average soldier's troubles) but because the old j "rabbit hunters" don't look so well. Greenville merchants. scores of m them, are grumbling however: i)ecause j they stand to loose hundreds of dollars co| as a result of the prohibitory order. Many of them calculating that the ro men would always be allowed to wear ^ anything they bought, laid In big supplies of goods ahead. When the order t requiring regulation issue came out r(? their sales stopped while they had in some instances large supplies on hand flr| which they can't even give away. I s.( know one ('.reenville merchant who Is stuck to the tunc of a couple of thou- (ja sand dollars and maybe more because he figured too far ahead. And I understand that there are many of them T1 who are "out of luck." Of course none to of us are worrying about that?not yo anymore than I am worrying about <l?i my S4o. or the sergeant his IBS. pe "The general tells the brigadier a general, the brigadier tells the col- an onel, the colonel tells the lieutenant h colonel, the lieutenant colonel tells b(, the major, the major tells the captain, the captain tells the lieutenant; he ^ tells the 'top' sergeant; he tells the corporal: he tells the first class pri- )j(J vate and he tells the 'buck' who does mi the work himself because he hasn t th anybody to tell," is an old saying in ( the army. Maybe it wan that way when Uncle Sam's bullies were chasing h Filipinos or Mexicans but it Isn't that ^ way anymore. The general tells the bq brigadier; but he does a good part of ^ the work himself and it is so all down kp the line in this war. The captain sweats as much as the "buck", and ar maybe a little more. Fact is there ^ are no "gentlemen's Jobs" In this army an I hat is going to France, and the ^ "skippers" (slang for officers) get their hands soiled and their clothes dirty the same as privates. ( Before f got in this fracus I had Er seen quite a number of soldiers?gen- bu era Is, colonels, majors, captains and ca; privates In my experiences as a news- let paper man, and to tell the truth I th< never came in contact with very is many who made any impression on th< me for energy or pep or well, democ- m< racy. But my experience with them pei here (it hasn't been very much) has let changed my opinion. I saw a colonel sk that the.v are called on to p< rm. 1 have heard that same coloi awl" out a corporal or a sergea that the "non-com" would feel 11 had come in contact with one tite's shells that almost had I me and number," and then I ha iird him turn around and bKss u ommissloned officer for some ne t. in a stronger language. Ai nehow a soldier doesn't feel so h liated over a cussing like that wh knows that it is as likely to >wored on an officer as well as hir f; but he is made to resolve to co t his fault and let It fall on son icr fellow next time. For "cussim loldier without cursing him. th one! has any man beat that I ev i up against, possibly "Oycloi ek," excepted. t is wonderful to note what pr ss a man can make when he real ?s. I have the case of Private Ji ilworth in mind. Cudworth is Ill SUfllutii ur au n nv juim-u u t lima I (>uaril a summer or so ag ause he didn't have anything el do. He's like most fellows enteen?a hurum, scarum. devile kind of lad and he never real li/.ed until today that the counti n a world-war and that he has g "soldier." One of the tlrst thitii oldior is renuirod to do is to leal general orders, that is he mu jw what his general duties as tinel are. Cudworth. as I said, larum, searum, I'll get-aroundd of kid and he's been managing by without knowing those orde il today. He's got plenty of sens fact, is as bright as a dollar: bi stubbornness of seventeen dldr art from him until today. You have got to learn those gei I orders before you eat or sleep i ve this Ciiinp, for anything," he wi I today. He laughed, eonfldent ability to get by as usual. He wi en a card bearing the knowledi uired to be transmitted to h bborn head and a hard box < leh to sit. That was this mornin iner time came and the "ehc ?" formed. Cudworth, usually front of that line, sat on his b< h his general orders card in h id, maintaining a sullen sllenc uzn't hungry nohow," he assortc hour afterward, though he sort sted his stomach like, when he sa Saturday afternoon is usually iday with the Thirtieth, and aloi >ut 1 o'clock the men who had "Ifr%v tha tt-enlf thflt is tho o had received no demerits for II offenses began to come into tl P's" tent to register out for an u noon and evening in Oreenville i und camp. Cudworth stood pa ugh by this time he hud begun p his eyes on the card soniewhc l>per time came and he was st bborn. "Didn't want no supper >"saTd7 A?*Tie #lJ7icf?ii 8T" hio "CaTu At 9 o'clock tonight he was s ddlng his card, though one who 1 id experience with stubborn lads I idworth, having been that way hi If more times than once, could i at he was more familiar with t rd that he was willing to admit. "Well, tomorrow Is Sunday. I'nl u learn these orders tonight you ; ing to spend another perfect day at Morris chair (hard box.)" For the first time since he had bt the service perhaps, Cudworth v ked and licked good. The "tc eant It and the fact suddenly daw on the hard-headed boy. He had me across and that was all. It took him nbout a minute then peat those orders to the satisf; in of the "top." Some of us fellows can be let hers of us have to be driven. A ally It is entirely up to us as to 1 ethod that is used! Personal!] id that it is more pleasant and mi tisfactory all around to be lei - I -** 'a.,?iww1 (hn( unntfi tiling y. Ask the average soldier of 1 lirtloth when he thinks he is gol he sent over the pond and he'll t iu that he doesn't know und irsn't much care. That's all yoi t out of him. You won't tlnd one hundred who will ever discuss I bject at all unless you broach id then it is hard to get his id? out the whole business. Maybe il cause they are so busy getting rea id have so many other things ink about that they are not int< ted. The average man or worn tside the army knows a great d ore about what is going on 01 ere and is more Interested in kno < when the Thirtieth is going ov an are the men of the Thirtit emselves. Of course there are < ptions to this statement and pi nally I am one of the exceptio it like all the other fellows I do iow when and I know that it is re none of my business when. 1 e all in the army now. and it is t siness of the captain and the ma. d the colonel and the general a few other folks to let us all kn me of these days. Jas. O. (>riat Open Windows Save Lives.?T igllsh suffer less from tuberculo! t the French more, than do Ame ns. according to the monthly bi In of the Pennsylvania Society ? Prevention of Tuberculosis. T because the English keep more ?ir windows open and the Frer >re of their windows closed than t ople do here, it is stated. The bi in continues: 'Lots of us are so drugged with st. that we cannot get out of the m? rut, permitting tuberculosis to I r people at home faster that I rmans will kill them at the fro three years of war the French hi it 10 per cent of their soldiers, a the 20,000 soldiers who have gc im Philadelphia are engaged in 1 xt three years as severely as 1 ench have been, we will lose 2,0 it as compared with the loss of 2,< illadelphia soldiers in three yea ! will lose 2,000 Phlladelphians >erculosla every year, or 9.000 ree years." Tuberculosis is preventable a rable, declares tne bulletin. It a ics every one, in order to keep ir ndltlon in which the best physii d mental efficiency is possible, ike It a practice to chew his fc refully, to ventilate his home a walk somewhat every day.?Phi Iphia Ledger. er- GENERAL NEWS NOTES. lei l"1 Record of Current Happenings Colof lected from Various Sources. l(s The I'nited States steamship Kentra. ve Pb'intf between New York and I'hilien ut ports, has been stranded near I'oronel g and will be a total loss, it is believed. |uj Part of her earjro and all the crew u were rescued. et, Since last June the New Jersey labe brary association has supplied a total n- of 53.000 books to its soldiers servinK r- in the I'nited States armies. The usno sociution proposes to supply 100,000 g" I books a year. ut I An allusion in the Italian chamber cr of deputies to the entrance of the t* United States into the war. brought all the members to their feet in a round of applause during the debute on the war aims of Italy and her allies. A vote of confidence. 34U to 44. oe was given the government. le The periodical revolution is now u under way in t'osta Kica. according to m, advices now coming in. Several uf towns have boen captured by the rej. volutionists. The present government jv came into power in January. 1st7, ry under (leneral Tlnlco. The United ol States government has never recogni/.ed the Tinico government, n Uaptain l>avid A. Menkes. Sixteenth st infantry. U. S. A., has been sentenced a to dismissal front the service and conis tlnement at hard labor for '.'5 years it by a general courtmartlal held at Oovto entor's Island. Menkes, who is of (lerrs man descent, endeavored to resign his te. commission, saying he did not care to lit tight against relatives and friends. 1' James K. Kdwards after serving eight of a twenty year sentence for ' bank robbery, will probably soon be ar released from the t'olorudo state penitentiary, after evidence has been prou' tluced proving an absolute alibi. Kdu-nr/lu u'lm In I'tnh nt I hi' time the K,> robbery occurred sit (tlcnwood ' s Springs in Colorado. >n . . Ilcnry Cohen, a grocery man ol K" Vewark. X. J., started to the bunk this week with 5i?6 one dollar bills x in his hand. The wind blew his hat off and he reached for the lid with his hand holding the money. He turni(j ed the money loose and saved his $2 hat, while the wind blew 200 of the o one dollar bills away. Correspondence made public in Chla csigo by Francis J. Hcney, attorney lf. for the Federal trade commission, a shows that the Chicago meat packers 80 were in virtual control of the food (. administration in Washington. Ac(,t, cording to information given out by f. Mr. Heney, the meat trust had^m ur own paid representatives holding poI sitions with the food administration at "II a year." it.' An interdenominational church ill building has been dedicated at Camp . Cpton. X. Y. Protestants, Catholics r " *ai?\i "uevrs*|?i^iitTp?ict'n m liie'opeinTig ? * till exercises. The building, costing $30.las 000, was erected by six co-operating ike denominations, Kaptist, Congregational alist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbytcrissoe an und Protestant Episcopal. It will Ihe be used by all in common. A French woman of modest clress cumstances. living near Toul, Just ire back of the American front, Invited on three American soldiers for tea. Her husband said why not tell them to >on bring their friends. She did so. The r'as Americans turned up, 42 strong. The ?P French couide scoured the neighbor,-n* hood for extra cups and saucers, ncv,0 er letting the guests know they were not expecting so many, to ? , ic- CLOTH FROM PAPER. l(j. German Mills are Now Making it in ltd Quantity. ,j)p Practically all the textile mills in , j ine rnemnuz inaxun) > uimnti, #inir jrc cen,er ?' industry in Germany. u<j were making cloth from paper during t0_ 1917. the available supply of cotton and wool for textile purposes having been entirely exhausted. A few esthe tabllshments were spinning and weaving ing fnbrlcs of nettle fibre by the prolell cess invented by an Austrian scientist he during the wur. it'll Profits from the manufacture of in the substitute cloth were according to ihe a review of the Industry published In it a recent number of the t'ologne tlusas zette, by no means small and many t is plants made good dividends, .fly Scarcely had the mills been conto verted to working upon the paper cr- yarns, however, when the manufacian turers were unpleasantly surprised by eal the news of an alarming shortage In /er the new war material, viz: wood pulp, w- almost the entire supply of which is er. required us a base for explosives and jth other munition purposes and the prosix poets for the textile plants for the or- coming year were described in the rens. view as very poor, n't Nettle llbre as a possible substitute al- for paper yarn is available only in tVo limited quantities so that only a few he mills can be employed upon that raw Jor material. nd The paper cloth in question Is not ow a regular paper but is made of yarns spun from fibres made of liquid cellulose or woodpulp and woven like cloth, with warp and woof. It is expected in Germany that paper cloth rl* will dominate the market for some time after the conclusion of the wur, for ow ing to the difficulty of getting suphls plies of cotton. As to nettle cloth a ot concern has been formed to establish ich regular plantations of nettles upon ho waste lands to supplement the casual u'* roadside and fence corner supplies. but it will be long before the nettle a,e fibre, which resembles that of flax. :n" can come into general use. Tulle factories in the Cehmnttz dishe tricts were well employed during 1917 but the supply of silk was running very short n<1 Machine works and munition plants. me usually converted textile mills, in the '?>e Chemnitz district were extremely busy he during the entire year and paid good dividends; in addition to laying aside large reserves to finance the return to normal lines of production after the ' war. In g ? It is estimated that by reason of n(1 the four months of meetles* days in ld" the United States, this country has 1 a been able to ship to the Allies 140,cal 000,000 pounds more meat than 10 would have been shipped otherwise. K>d Altogether during the past four j>d months the United States has shipped ,A to the Allies 146,000,000 pounds of beef and 400,000,000 pounds of pork and pork product*