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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*