YORKVILLE ' ENQUIRER. MWUED gag'WMagiT. (. a. 3rist s sobs. PobUihert. J & < J SimE COPY. P1VE CKMTS. ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK^8.C. FRIDAY. JTJLY 19. 1918. NO. 58 ^ ?? - ?* I t.. nipptu a flop up I'lt-arfHl the | GENERAL NEWS. | question the Government must settle EVERY MAN AT HIS TOOL! Never Before Vas War Like Tbli One. PIOFESSIONAL.MEN AND MECHANICS All Are Needed to Perfect the Great War Machine, the Professional Men the Mechanics and the Artisans nc Less than the Man With the Gun. (I'asscd l?y the Censor.) Corr?(x>riiit-nee The Yorkviile Enquirer. ('{imp Sevier, July 13.?Never wa.? ii war like this* To c-arr.v it to a successful conclusion as the Sammies an KoiiiK to do, it Is necessary thai their millions include men skilled in every known profession under thi- sun The Amerlcun ariny today include; doctors, hiwyers, preachers, photo *.i,,mt?.r?i artists Kniplifn, priiin-in, farmers?men of evi-ry known profesHion and timli'. The American army is a world within itself la-cause every 11;* lawyeis and photographers ami plumbers and oilier professions ubov< enumerated. .This most modern ol wars is being conducted in the most modern way with ali the most modem conveniences and comforts. The veteran of the Wur Hetween th? Sections even yet sits by the tobacco-aiuberol colored stove in the cornet grocery store and talks about t'hancellorsvillc and Petersburg am Yickshorg ami other liattles. 1 !? relales how he slept on tlie grouml nights and rammed horseshoe slug* in his musket when lead hulls wen out. It is the rarest thing in tin world that one of these old vets tells you that In- wasn't engaged at Chancellorsville or Petersburg or Vicksburg with a rifle and horseshoe slug bullets; hut spent his time in mending wagons or doing advertising I'm tin- cause or mending clothes or something tike that. In fact, during tin civil war. there wasn't much of that kind of thing done. Yet, in today's war u larKr nutnhei of ini-n who wear tin* khaki, aye, thousands of them, are doing these things. Twenty years hence or thirt> years hence when the veterans of th< tight of today will sit around tin steam |ii|H's in the corner grocery store (there will l?e no common stovi* anywhere h.v that time) thousands will till that they didn't hurl hotnhs 01 slash with bayonets or shove cartridges into big guns. They served li> dishing out bacon and eggs, by handling the mall, by repairing motorcycle* and automobiles, by raising fresh veg_ etuhles for their^fellow soldiers _ and all of that. And they will be giver just as much credit for their serviei as they who went "over the top" t hundred times, putting the fear o Cod and rcs|>ect for human right inti the minions of "Kultur" every tinu they went. In n modern war conducted in a modern manner, it was necessary that they serve outside thi muddy, brackish ditches. Incidentally be it said, tiiousands of these men ir non-combatant places will be disnpIMitntod at missing the thrill and excitement, the dash and picturesque. Iless of It all. Nevertheless, they nerve. All of this Is by way of introduction to a story about the training ol automobile mechanics and electrician; 01? - l.l.-l. i. ami workers and .. going on at tlii' United States Mechanical school over at Clemson college. Having a In-other in that schoo and a letter from hint a few days am that he might not he there as long as he has been, I obtained |tcrtniasion this wn k to visit hint and give him tlu "once over," as soldiers say, pcrhap: the last for quite a while. There is always much of interest for a visitoi . to Cleinson college to see. The pn-scnce of these Nationnl soldiers then and the work that they are doing 01 rather the work which they are learning. is of very peculiar interest. Some J00 young drafted men froir every county In South Carolina wen sent to Clemson in April, to entei this government mechanical schoo under the tutelage of the aide mechanical professors of Clemson college. Men who had some experienct as carpenters, electricians, auto repair and blacksmiths were selected for the school. Included among thos? sent were some who owned garages of their own, others who owned carpenter and woodworking shops, others who had shod many a horse ani fitted many a wagon tire, nnd others who had worked with electricity foi yeors. Thus these drafted men wen not rookies, and this fact has helpei ^ the college professors much In train Ing them for the work which they mnj soon be doing. Soon after the arrival of these mer of various trades they were separated into four sections?woodworkers. auto repair, blacksmiths and electricians. They were placed In charg* of the respective professors of the col lege who teach these trades to Clemson students each year. The woodworkers invited people of Clemson one the countryside who had woodwork to do, to let them do it for experience There was no charge. Workers in the other departments did likewise. Clemson college bought eight automobiles to bo used by the automobile mechanics to assemble and dissemble Pretty nearly everybody In the lowei section of Greenville and In Oconei counties who had an automobile 01 Ford that once had run, brought it tc the soldier automobile mechanics at Clemson, to put In shape again. A( one time during the period of training 25 automobiles were standing at th( mechanical auto repair shop for th? soldiers to work on. They haven't yel struck a mechanical proposition thai they couldn't solve or that the professor In charge couldn't show then how to solve. I lit*J ICVnivu iuwvi vi w uav mvj know at Clemaon and each of then: p could now command a salary of frorr $40 to $60 a week with Henry Ford. "I thought I knew something abou automobiles before I came to thfa army mechanical school." said on< young fellow from Dorchester county to me yesterday. "1 have been drivinj i (.sir* for years and working in a gaI rage and I know that I kn< w as much a* the average 'blacksrpith auto ex- C . |K-rt.' I tut under an able professor. I have gotten the line {mints of tin game here. The most intricate part i of an autoinohile's niechanisrn is the s electrical part. We have l>een in- r strutted in tiiat l?y a professor who | lias been here at Clernson college fift teen years. A professor couldn't stay p , at Clemson til'b-en years unless in- t| > knew his business." fi That these young soldier mi-chunics ti have a high regard for their instructors is evidenced by the way the s ( young fellow <|UOted above talked, n They all feel that way. None of them had any comment other than the u t highest praise for them. "I would s ( have hatisl to think that I should some time lie driving a truck over c t there without the experience I have d gotten at this mechanical school." said 11 a young fellow whom the boys call n "Cat," and who lives in Walterboro. g Cat ean handle an eighty horse-pow- a er government truck like it were a r Ford. ?' A Ion if with their mechanical trnin' iiiK the mechanical students have been a getting some two or three hours mill- s | tary training each day. They know all a about the school of the soldier, bay- s i , onet fighting, skirmishing and every s I t.ranch of the infantry. -They are 11 quartered in the barracks of Clemson n j. college and they must keep their re, s|?*ctive quarters In military manner. S | An Infantry captain of the National i> army and three lieutenants are in n charge cf them, and the Importance of o military training and discipline is s stressed. In the drill they use the e rifles ttint the Clemson men left be- 'I' . hind for the summer. They are re- r sponsible for the good condition of c . those rifles which sliine in a July sun li like the rifles of any crack out lit of li i'ncle Sam's army of the line. Though tl these woodworkers and blacksmiths c; and electricians and auto men will p hardly ever light in tlic line, still, e thanks to their military truinimr at Clemson. 1 hey will know how to do n it if it ever becomes necessary. And T any soldier will tell you that on?? nev- si er knows what's next in tiiis modern e war. a So far as military courtesy and n resjwet for otlicers is concerned, these tl soldier-mechanics arc the equal of the si slst division of Camp Sevier, and the e: ' Mst has a shade on almost any other s division of tiie National army or the c< regulars either, in saluting and mill- o la rv courtesies. I was seated outside n the Cleinson barracks under the shade ti of a tree Thursday after dinner talking g to a dozen or so of these young mi'- ci ehanics. Tltey were dressed in overalls awaiting the bell announcing aft- t< er dinner work time. There was to n be a dance over at Pendleton that si evening and they were discussing \\ ' whether or not they wanted to go. a Their captain passed down the ce- c - TUtfhl 'Ai&Wiik UM3*??W-rfr-4rffey" Wtf standing and sitting, some with cigarettes in their mouths and others with ipiids of tobacco or gum. '"Shun," called one of their num- ^ her. Cigarettes went flying. Ihown's Mule juice squirted, healthy bodies in ill , titling dirty overalls became rigid. j right hands went up over the right () eve and elbows at an angle of forty11 live degrees. ( The eaplain returned the salute ami ^ (tossed on. It was all done in a mo- ^ meat and with such accuracy and prevision that I imagined myself back in Sevier ami in the midst of the Stone11 wall division ^ Only about two months in service J) Not intended for lighters and yet they have mastered mechanics to be rated p as proficient and in addition know (| military to beat the Hun. . . I-- rt Ohlut > ^ Cotton Statistics for June.?Cotton (| consumed during June amounted to 527.464 running hales, and for tin- ;| eleven months ending June 30. it was s 0.019,511 hales, the census bureau announced hist Monday. ( Ijiist year In June 574,110 hales were (( consumed and for the eleven months j; period, 6.250.682 hales. ;| Cotton on hand June 30 in consuming establishments was 1.661.992 ' hales, compared with 1,743.527 a year ago. and in public storage and at comI presses 2.117.300 hales, compared with .. 1.402.403 a year ago. w Cotton spindles active during June numbered 33,720.413, compared with y 33.447.037 a year ago. I Imports of foreign cotton during v June amounted to 30,191 bales, com- s pared with 26.1S1 a year ago. Exports during June amounted to )( 273,302 Imles, compared with 245.709 ' a year ago. and for the 11 months 4,256,353, compared with 5.467,412 a ' >ear ago. Linters included In ex- { |H>rts were 9.101 Imles for June, com- , I pared with 20,077 a yeor ago and for n the 11 months 171,002 compared with , 4I6.9S5 a year ago. June statistics for cotton growing f states follow: I *' Consumed 296,9S0 hales compared with 327.962 a year ago. and for the 11 months 3,417,952 compared with v 3.582.140. n On hand June 30, in consuming os- t| tahlishments 731.8S7 Imles compared n with 7SS.402 a year ago. and in pub- s He storage and at compresses 1,723.- h 190 compared with 1.117.35C. h Cotton spindles active 14.2S7.734 compared with 14.021.15S a year ago. Removing Blight of Islam.?The h ' Might of Islam which has scaled '* Jerusalem for centuries, which has re duced Mesopotamia to a desert. Syra ? " to desolation, promises to be lifted at ' last over all that region that was the 5 " cradle of civilization and the first n > garden of the world. "The crescent of ? ' fertility" stretches from old Judea and 0 - ?.. j,.. o t Philistine aiong me diivumumui ' littoral curving eastward to the upper f Euphrates and Tigris and then con- F * ttnulng southward to the Persian gulf. t The sone between the sea and the c 1 desert, and again between the moun- n tain and the desert, will be redeemed s i as Egypt has In our own day !>een redeemed, provided the Turk be forced c ' back northward and westward behind 8 1 the Taurus and the Anti-Taurus bar- h ? rler. " t A dispatch from Amsterdam says ? that Germany is trying to recruit its ? army In Russia by offering boys from v , the Baltic provinces commissions In o j the German army. v McLAURIN STEPS DOWN hscouraged Because of What Ap pears to be Hopeless Fight. Senator McLaurin has withdraw mm the tMiU-rnatorial race. His rea his ar?- set forth in the followini ivi-n out from the Xytria hospital ii Eit'hinond: To My Friends: I see no pood t < accomplished l?y my remaining Ij ho campaign ami dpsirr to release yoi mm such obligation you may fwl a a my support. 1 ain discouraged that my purpose coin so sadly misunderstood and m lotivcs so wilfully misrepresented. What is the use when only IS inin li s an- allowed to lirescnt great Ls I1C8? I did not offer as a candidate bo uusc of any personal ambition. M; sire was to serve, l'rimnriiy, it wa iy iiope.to unite a conservative ele lent in both factions upon a pro raintnc lor building a system of fln nee based ui?on cotton, which woul< ender our section forever rich am ^dependent. I have given ton years of my lif nd spent much of my means ii pleading the propaganda. Its fruit iv visible on every hand, but I do pair of ever making faction riddoi outh Carolina u leader in a grea lovement of this kind and shall mak 0 further attempt so to do. Let me state the proposition clearly lection 13 of the Federal reserve ac rovides not only for the discount o otes secured by receipts for cottoi n storage, but also for discountini ccuritics. where the proceeds are b liter into the production of the crot 'bis means that a note secured h: ' lit or a crop mortgage can be dis minted at the Federal reserve bank 1 is done now, but not for farmers w of them know these facts. Al lint we need is the machinery and i an be more easily provided than tli resell I system, which 1 presented aft r I lie failure of the Wade plan. The warehouse is miTfly ii lunua ii utal incident in :i system of llnanci lie real l>asis is the conversion of al I'curitics which represent cottoi itlicr made or to he made into fluii ssets wliich will pass current in th< toney %narkcts. When yon do thii lie marketing question will logical): idvi' itself and can never he solve* (crept h.v the tlrm estahlishment of : ystem of credits, where the iiound o ntton is the unit, and as good it ne man's hands as another's. It wil ever lie done hy voluntary organlza Ions; it can only come through thi ovcrnmcnt, and to secure that fioliti nl control is necessary. However, as the people are more in [ rested in other matters, I see ni fa son for dragging myself around t hi late in a vain effort to help peopli ho do not wish to he helped. Helm side show to a third class country ireus does not appeal to me. ? ? -?Jo'int \yo\-rndctr ^*ek*nrfrrr.VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVICE lary Robert* Rhinehart Will D< What She Can. Mary Roberts Ithinehart. one o interim's foremost writers, respond ntr to the notion's call for 25.00 nrsos. imis enrolled with tho i*t lent of nursing: of tho American Hoi 'loss anil soon will take lu-r pine rilh that valiant army of womei ,ho arc ministering to the siek am rounded In Franco. Mrs. Ithinohart is expecting a sum ion to overseas service motnentarll.v Hie has closed her home In New York as |tacked the nursing oqtilpmen irovided hy tho Hod Cross and ha ait her personal affairs in order h reparation for a protracted stay ii 'ranee. Mrs. Ithinohart is a graduate nurse the received her training in a hospita n I'ittshurg. retiring from nursini ervlce and devoting herself to writ tig after her marriage to the chle urgeon of the hospital. She has no qualms, she says, ahou he work tlint may lie given to her t< o aliroad. No matter whnt the tasl <. she cheerfully will perform it, sh titled: "I am perfectly willing to scrul oors," she snld when she applied fo nrollinent at the heaquarters of th ursing department of the Red Cross The time has come for Amerlcai t-omon "to work with their hands, annot, just now, think of anything ,-ould not do. "No longer," she continued, "can i i-otnan of leisure?she who Is no elf-sup|iorting and who has nelthe idles nor dependants?sit back witl aided hands doing only the pleosnn asks which have to do with war scr Ice. "She Is needed In the hospitals, I: ho factories, and above all. If sh ? fitted to be a trained nurse or i urse's aid. she is needed by th imerlcan Red Cross. If she does no nswer the need Bhe Is not doing he nil duty by her country and hu lanity. The Long Pull Ahead. "The time has come for me to worl .ith my hands. Since the very begin ing of the war I have been watch ag and fighting the battles of the en sted man. letting his mother and hi ister and his wife and his sweet eart know what he is doing am ow he is being cared for. "I have visited officers' tralnlnj amps, have investigated hoapltalf nvo reported on general camp con itions in many cantonments from th itlantic to the Pacific at the requea f the secretary of war. "But the time for the onlooker ha one by. Naturally, we must recog Ize this. There is no use deiudinj urselves by the occasional small sue esses which begin to mark the tun f the scale. The big thing is still be ore us. We are still merely in ou eriod of preparation. There is a loa nil ahead and to win will require th ollective individual effort of ever ian woman and child with tw trong hands and a brain to use then: "I am going to nurse simply be ausc I should be ashamed not to d o. I have always been proud of m lospltal training, but never so prou s I am today when it gives me some hing to offer my country." Has War Experience. Mrs. Rhlnehart has considerabl far experience. During the first yea f the war she went abroad for < .eekly publication of national circu lation and wan fortunate, at a linn when correspondents were forbidden - in spending five weeks with the Bel gian army at the front. n She crossed No Man's Land, spen - several days at General Koch's head g quarters, and also visited French am n British trenches. But she has no de sire for such, o "I want to work," she resumed, "nnc n I believe that every trained woman it 11 the country should work, too. No! s long ago a boy wrote me from a hoj' pital in France. He had been woundec s three times and was about to go bacl y again to the trenches. " 'I am just going to keep on,' hi - wrote. 'And perhaps out of all thli - wretchfulness and struggle, I shal gain some honorable advancement foi - my soul.' He was killed two week! y later. So It seems to me that thi s j women who can, should gain this - honorable advancement for her soul - We cannot gain It through fighting - We must gain It through service. il In addition to enrolling nurses foi J assignment as needed to the armj nnd navy nurse corps for milltarj e service, the American Red Cross a through all Its chapters Is making < s special effort to encourage even - nurse who, because of marriage 01 a other reasons, has given up her pro t fession to enroll as a home dofensi e nurse for part time service at leas' in public health nursing or in hos: pitals, clinics and dispensaries, t , , t ABSOLUTELY SURE TO WIN a g John Temple Graves Thrills a News 0 paper Convention. t. One of the outstanding features o y the convention of the Southern News - paper Publishers' association, in ses l. sion at the Grove Park Inn, Ashevllle i, recently, was the address delivered b: 1 Pol. John Temple Graves, editorla t representative of the Hearst publicse tions. Colonel Graves, one of the mos' . i-ioiiiient orators in the country ani for years a favorite in the south, n . viewed in detail the superb achieve , ments of the American government ir 1 the conduct of the war and the un1 precedcntcd results of its excellenl 1 preparations. c "I note the amazement and insptra s iion with which our allies in t'oreigr y countries have followed the vigor ant 1 expedition with which this great rei public has crossed the ocean to theii f ivlief, and the staggering realizatior i of our Imperial enemy that the Unite* I States under the stress of necessity - and purpose has developed in a nighi p into a military power of IrreslstibU - force and efficiency," he said. Colonel Graves paid tribute to th< - genius and devotion of President Wili son, the secretaries of war and th< p navy, to the shipping board, the ord? nance board and the provost marsha ? general. He emphasized the re y sources of the country and the Bub< lime devotion with which they T hayi - ifiv taeet.-Toiisrenurt'U/ till' WJUnij of humanity's Armageddon. He so in order the mighty and transcenden issues for which the United Statei 0 Is fighting and made It clear tha "peace short of achievement Is t f cowardly surrender of all trat l! worth living for and so abundantly 0 worth dying for." Colonel Graves spoke of the les j sons this great war will tench, speak , ing of It as a stern and blood; ^ schoolmaster whose teachings wil . ili-vi-lnn character nnd Inter all thi future race. "It shall be a nobler race," hi said, "more unselfish, more efficient more patriotic, more helpful, mon t man-loving and more God-fearlni B than In nil Its previous history n There will he an equality and fellow n ship among the millionaires and thi men In the ranks who fight side b; , side nnd bleed and sacrifice together j There will be a fellowship of racci and nations never known before. "England nnd France arc bound ti f the great republic in bonds that cen turies will not dissolve. Italy is ou t bond brother through the ages t< D come, as the Czech-Slavs and Polei k and redeemed Russia will be knit b p the grand brotherhood of man whlcl makes Inevitably for the fatherhoo< h of God. All the thousand years be r hind us will not have brought si e much or counted so far toward thi , ultimate of the race as these bloody n heartbreaking but triumphant year: j that are about us now., j "There is not a shadow of doubt li my mind. I know that we are abso tt lutely sure to win this war. All thi ,t prophecies of Holy Writ and all thi r promises of God are above and be h neath and beside America and he t allies, against the foe of all creed: and all humanity. The sword of thi Lord and of Gideon is unsheathlni n now in the providences of dlplomac: p nnd in the dispensations of God, ii a the hunger and discount, the reac e tlon and revolution of the Germanli t nations, and in the more than nature r power which He is putting into thi _ armies of the republic of liberty 'whose strength is as the strength o ten because his heart is pure* to thi j. cause of liberty and humanity. Go< . Almighty is coming at last to tak . His part In this war. - "For our eyes have seen the glor a of the coming: of the Lord, . He in trrtmpllng out the vintag< a where the grapes of wrath ar stored; g Our God Is marching on."' ' Colonel Graves concluded his ad - dress with the great question of wh; 0 God permits this war. He recentl: * addressed a Bible class in Washing ton on this subject which caused a 8 much comment that Dr. Charles Wooi * of the Church of the Covenant, Invtt ? ed him to repeat It before the grea * congregation, n Four hundred and fifty American r built battle planes have been sea ? abroad or delivered at ports for ship e ment on July 6, the date of the lates y complete official report reaching th 0 war department. In announcing thl L figure last Monday, Secretary Bake disclosed also that deliveries of Lib ? erty motors of all classes on the sarrv V k./i .A.?tii [1 , a' , President Wilson went to the wa department last Monday- and spen three-quarter* of an hour with Sac e retary Baker, going over the new r from the front Official reports war a far behind the press dispatches dee - crib tug the fighting. -isijjj 4 . ; ;(? \mm Tut u-duais t kltttb And American Destroyers lire Eicittig line. NINTESS HtOl OFFICIAL BECOBDS. 1 " * ' , Landsman May Get Some Idea of the I I Grim Game From Details of Few 1 . * Encounters Officially Reported? > I r Thrilling Story of Rescue of Crew I . From Burning Oil Ship by British 1 Destroyer. 1 The destruction of a German sub- ] t marine ia never announced by the 1 British admiralty except upon the r Strongest possible evidence, which is i often provided by the destroyers that j #re engaged in a long game of hide 3 and seek with the elusive U-boats un. der conditions of varying excitement. . The landsman may obtain some idea of this grim game from the details of r official recorda-of a few encounters as r to the result of which there is no room r for doubt. j A convoy of merchant vessels was i being escorted by British and Amerl; can destroyers. A submarine attemptr ed to attack the convoy, but al. though It maneuvered from one po1 sltion to another the destroyers were t too quick for It and every time it at tempted and came to the surface its presence was detected. Finally an American destroyer lighted the periscope In a favorable position and headed for it, with the Intention of ramming. A depth charge was dropped directly over the U-l?oat. 1 which was still visible under water from the American ship. The result was an upheaval of black-colored water, two broken pieces of a spur and some small pieces of wreckage. 1 Nothing more of the enemy was seen. ' Early one winter's day a destroyer sighted an enemy submarine on the surface and steered for it at full speed. So swiftly was the maneuver ' carried out that the German had no ' time to submerge. Within thirty sec- 1 onds of the sighting the destroyer had rammed the enemy, tearing a great rent in the hull of the U-boat. At the same time a bomb, "which," said the commanding officer, "exploded satisfactorily," was dropped. After ' this the destroyer wheeled back over r the spot and dropped another bomb. ? Large quantities of oil rose to the 1 surface, but no other sign of the ' enemy's presence could bo detected, t and when the position was swept later ' the submarine was located, still lying on the spot where she had sunk. Submarine Cut in Two. A merchantman which had fallen < behind the main body of the convoy I to which she belonged was escorted ' back tout eight . feet apart on her starboard bow. The . destroyer managed to get within 50 yards before the U-boat 'submerged: then a depth charge was dropped over the submarine's course. After the explosion of the charge a second and r much louder explosion was heard and j felt by everyone on board the destroyB er, and a column of black-colored 1 water was thrown to a height of 1 about 30 feet. A film of light oil j then spread over the water, and In the next two hours had increased to 5 a considerable extent. p Sighting the wake of a submarine, a . destroyer dropped a depth charge and g oil rose to.the surface. Later a periscope appeared. Another depth charge 1 was dropped, and more oil was seen. When darkness fell a large and conp sflcuous patch of oil was observed. p and was still very clearly marked next morning. Another depth charge r was dropped In the middle of the s patch, whereupon more oil and bube bles rose and continued rising for the ? next two hours. Sweeping operations . were then undertaker. and on obstruca tlon was located on the bottom. More oil rose to the surface, c Rescued From Burning 8hip. 1 A lieutenant in command of a dee stroyer discovered that a British oiler had been torpedoed and set on Are. f She was burning furiously and was e out or control, although her engines i were still running. A continuous e stream of oil fed the flames, which prevented anyone from entering the y engine room. Her peak was not yet alight, and crouched up there were e thirty Chinamen, the remainder of the e crew. To extinguish the Are was beyond the power of the destroyer's crew, but . her c&ptailn determined to make an aty tempt to rescue the survivors In the y peak, although It was obviously a difficult undertaking. He ran his vessel 0 closer past the oiler's stern, and as she ] passed rafts, lifeboats and life buoys were pitched overboard. This maneut ver was carried out three times. By now all the destroyer's boats had been lowered to pick up the men in the water, while all her available loose t life-saving gear had been thrown overboard. However, there still ret rosined nine men in the peak of the e oiler. The concluding part of the operation may be explained in the words of the destroyer's captain: "T /tiw>l/lA/l <* wos noons A IIICIC1VIC UCViUCU II woo Mtvvoe Mtry to place myself alongside the ship and take off the remainder of the crew. A speed of eight knots being r maintained, this was done. We ret mained alongside locked to the ste&xn. er*s windward bow for a period sufB flcieet for all nine men to lower theme aetres on board this ship, which sus? tslned slight superficial damage to guard rails and upper deck fittings. steamer she was burned to the water line." a ' AMERICAN SOLDIERSHIP o French People Convinced that the ^ World Ha* Never Seen the Like. | Communiques give us the story of e our troops at Cantlgny. They "fought p gallantly" is the soldier phrase, and it rovers deeds for which awards have already been given. But a soldier's report can hardly give the impi-ession that these precursors of the American . irmles to follow make upon the s4-a- ' soned warring countries of Kuropo. This reaches us In a letter from the famous French painter. Francois w Plameng, to an American friend, who 1,1 allows, through the columns of the A! Mew York Tribune, the public In gen- to sral to share in the pleasure of hearing $' aur troops well spoken of. The letter ' :omes from the French front, where Mr. Flameng is also serving, for all o classes in France help to bear her si burdens. "I cannot resist the pleas- tl ure of telling you," he writes, "of the C( admiration and Joy of the French p army corps where it is my good for- p tune to be hospitalized, at the splen- n illd conduct of your compatriots in the |f affair at Cantlgr.y." And going on: "Seeing them work with so much energy, so much Intelligence, good tj listeners, questioning and studying all T the time, our chiefs had soon discover- f( ed the rare quality of the American t] soldiers. But what would be the practical value of the officers and staff? j That was the question. Well, the ans- ^ wcr came quickly. Under the constant bombardment, burled In the cellurs of ruined chateaux and houses. 0 all ollicers?generals, colonels, majors ? and juniors?did their duty calmly, ' eagerly, with an intelligence always '' alive. It was soon realized that they ' were model officers, active, hard work- '' Ing. capable of assimilating with ex- ? tinordinary rapidity the experience !l and methods of our old armies. It was a tremendous satisfaction, and at once ft absolute confidence and mutual esteem * were established, affection followed, ?' and then admiration. There is not a " French soldier, from poilu to general- ' in-chief, who does not spenk of the sl American troops with emotion. Kyes M and hearts smile at their courage, H their devotion to duty, their disinter- ? estedness. This is the reason thnt we e nr\i Uflfhnitt nnvMv for VOIir n debut?not thnt there was uny pos- w slide doubt of your courage, of your b contempt of danger, but because one was moved to see such good friends ti face death for the first time, because 01 their lives seemed even more precious p than ours. We Frenchmen have be- ei come accustomed to give our blood ! ' without stint. To die Is nothing, our n beloved patrle, France, 1b everything c for the pollu, !?* "Therefore, when at 7 o'cl morning we watched for ! Wrprr^tr (NMI&a?fnTE that most dramatic of moments when r the soldier goes to death and glory, c we had our hearts In our mouths.* n But there was a shout of unanimous admlrntlon when they leapi-d out v quickly In as perfect order as on jui- ;1 rade, faced the formidable barrage |? fire, and disappeared In the dark v smoke of obus bursting on all sides. Soon we saw them coming up to the j village and taking it so brilliantly v that It seemed as if an Irresistible ,. force ImiM-lled these soldiers fighting j, for right and Justice. The proof (| was conclusive; the American soldier ,, wns truly a great soldier, and one ? could be sure that whatever counter- v attacks might come, he would stand ,j like a rook against which the enemy waves would be broken. I cannot tell you our joy, for you are the hope of ' the world, you are the future, you s will bring us victory, and also because 1 you personify to our people the high- ' est feeling of honor and generosity. "When on the dangerous roads ' near the front, I met an American poilu covered with dirt and dust, * loaded with his arms and heavy equip- ' ment, sweating and trudging nlong 1 without a murmur, nay, whistling and e singing, I see agnin the splendid 1 specimens of humanity I-used to meet c with in New York. In Chicago, every- '1 where in America, and when I think " that this American poilu Is one of t them, that he has left everything? f family, affections, comfort, all his in- ?-* terests?to come across the ocean anil f take hla part in this sacred fight. I cannot restrain my emotion, and I want to express to that lone soldier , the gratitude I feel and which no hu- . man words can express. "Dear friend, It is too wonderful. , The coming of America Into this war . will ever remain as the most beautiful and noblest action In the history of the world. You were not obliged to come. Why do you do it? Why this gigantic human effort of yours, why so many sacrifices freely consented? Simply and solely to save the future civilization and the liberty of man." Good Road* Saved France.?In the f July Farm and Fireside an editorial says; , "Good roads have twice saved t France in the present war. Had it not been for the radiating road sys- s tem maintained by the French government, the Germans would have won the battle of the Marne and * reached Paris. The Germans had ' calculated on only three divisions tie- ' tng sent out from Paris to stop,the ? invasion. Instead, the excellent sys- I tern or nignwaya maoe u jwasiuic iu> ~ five divisions to be sent to thia front. < "Again, ahortly after the battle of ? Verdun started, the French railroad I which was to furnish many of the ? supplies to the troops was destroyed, f The French government, however. I had a macadam road 32 feet wide on a which four lines of traffic, two in * either direction, were maintained, t Day and night 14,000 motor trucks i carried men and equipment v ' 1 ne vnuuc ucvcr ?? a hole was made in the road, a man ! with a shovelful of rock slipped in be- | tween the lines of trucks and threw c the rock into the hole, then jumped \ aside to let the truck roll the rock t down." u i ?? i A French aviator, In America to t help train American aviators, last f Sunday performed the unprecedented i feat of flying a big warplane under- e neath the four bridges that span the t East river. New York. c v if"'. ' ? ' . <4 * . -i. lems of Interest Gathered From Various Sources. The Arbeiter Zeitung, of Vienna, the fticial organ of the Australian Social )omooraey. demands. according to a lavas dispatch, that the Austrian govrnment come to an agreement with resident Wilson. John IVtera. manager or the fanning ltorests of A. P. Smalling of Bristol, a., was shot to death last Sunday ight. Jess t'nntrell. a farmer, is In ( til at Itlountville. Vn., charged with le shooting. i Six completed wooden hull ships 1 ere launched l?y one tlnn In one ny at 1'ortlnnd. Oregon, last Sunday, tr. Schwab, who witnessed the Liinchir.gs, said that there would be .'00.000.000 worth of ships built at brtlnnd during the next year. Returns from the recent enrollment f women through Xow York state hows that 670,618 women availed lemselves of the opportunity to beome affiliated with the party, so as to e able to vote In the primaries and ave a say in party management. The umber of men enrolled with all part's In the state is 1,475,088. Mayor Bylngtoc of Reno, Nov., has nnounced the adoption by Reno of Be slogan, "Work, Fight or Walk." 'he police have strict orders to en?ree it. All idlers must get a job. join he army or leave town. Gamblers, >olroom touts, saloon hangers-on and heir like will be rounded up in a eneral police dragnet. Government control of common labr throughout the country will become (Tcctlve August 1. After that date the nited States employment service will e the exclusive agency through which innmon labor may be enjoyed by war tdustrles having on their payrolls 100 r more persons. This is inclusive of II employes, regardless of the status. Robert S. Armstrong of New York, ibricaling engineer for the Carolina hiphuilding corporation, was found end in a bath room of a hotel at Wlllington, N. C., Monday afternoon, lea til was due to apoplexy. Aimtrong was for ten years fabrlBting engineer for the American tridgc company, and later general innagvr of the Downey Shipbuilding innjwiny. He was one of the recogizeil experts in his profession. He lis 44 years of a no anil is survived y his wife. A proposed concentration of freight rattle on railroad lines having the asiest gnulo, was one of the prinelal items of discussion at a confcrnee between William (1. McAdoo. ederal director of railroads, and nilroad chiefs from all parts of the ountry in San Francisco last Mon~-^"Therv is a pronounced 'uncon^^rallroad transport* ^toiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiii" uary 11, when there ai*s sidetracked and \... i?o loved." Organization of the strikei-s whose ralkout at the big plant of the (Jerrd Electric company of Lynn. Mass., ist Monday, seriously hampered rork on war contracts, has proceeded [ipidly, according to strike leaders, tetween 6,000 and 8,000 employes, rho have heretofore been unorganizd, are saiil by the leaders to have ained unions connected with the rade. No formal demands were made l>on the company. Many dcpnrtlents of the plant were closed down, rhile others were o|?eraL-d on a reneed scale. Government control of the tobacco adustry of the United States may reult from the heavy requirements of he American military forces abroad, tutioning of the American population ? believed to be a possibility. The war idustries abroad announced it has een conducting an investigation to dcerndnc the requirements abroad and he amount that must be seserved in his country to meet the situation. It stiniutes that approximately twohirds of the leaf tobucco raised In this ountry in If 17 will be available for imerican manufacturers. Out of this lust come cigarettes and pipe tobacco or troops not yet overseas and exports >f manufactured tobacco in addition to igarettes and tobacco purchased here or Belgium. The University of Texas will have out more than 25,000 Into the army ly the end of the year. Besides this, he university has financed the cstabishment of army technical schools to he amount of more than $600,000. letter still, in the chemical laboratory ?f the university there recently was nadc a discovery in the making of nunltions, which has been turned over o the War Department, which will iave the United States many times the oat of the university, both for buildng and maintenance, throughout its ntire history. The nature of this disovery, for obvious reasons, cannot be nadc public. These are only several if the prldeful statements mode by the oard of regents In a review of the iniversity's activities. 40 of whose facilty are actively engaged in the war ervice, many of them in the army. Government regulation of the wages if labor and the fees of professional nen in the United States is provided n a proposed amendment to the Fed?ral constitution to be offered in the iouse by Representive Henry W. Waton of Langhome, Pa. It authorizes ongress to regulate wages of laborers ind mechanics employed in any occujatlons and to regulate the prices of ill commodities produced in or offered or sale or consumption within the Jnited States and its insular possesions. Representative Watson said he vould address the house at length on he proposed amendment at an early late. He declared mere wan uni/ wre tray to prevent strikes and that was by fovernraent regulation of labor. The rovernment now Is regulating the >rlces of wheat and other food prelucts, and if it Is going to regulate the >rlces of the things the wage-earner >uya, it follows logically that the rovernment must likewise regulate rages," said Mr. Watson.? "This can be lone by a commission created by confess. Such a commission, of course, vould have to establish wage stand irds according to the economic condiions in the different sections of the ountry- The regulation of labor is a ' eventually and the sooner it is disposed of the better for the country." THE GERMAN RIFLE A Splendid Weapon But Just a Bit Clumsy. In the hands ot the chap in the sloppy greenish-gray uniform, watchfully waiting in the trench across the way, there is a rifle with higher velocity than ours, with nearly a foot greater stabbing length when the hayonet is fixed, and with a better stock, making snap-shooting ami shooting at night more certain. The rifle of a nation that has ape ciaJized on war and Its tools, the German Mauser in some respects offers serious advantage to Its user over the new Springtn iu of the American forces. The weak point Is the man behind. It gives unquestionable advantage In bayonet lighting?but the Hun doesn't like the bayonet, and therefore gets licked In spite of his superiority In weapon. It gives higher speed to Its bullet?but the German soldier Is usually a poor shot and even the little, antiquated, patched-up short Lee-Enfield of England proved too much for the better Mauser, because It was In the hands of better men and better rifle shots. The stock is better than the stock on either the new Springfield or our newer M1917. modified Enfield, but the bolt handle Is so clumsy that the superior speed of fire of the American rifle neutralizes this advantage and gives us a lead in the bargain. Consider Mauser rifle No. 2,668, captured at the Somnte, and made In the year 1916 at the German works of Dberndorf, where Paul Mauser developed the great rifle that boars his name. It was taken by the Itritish in the year in which it was made, but as it lies before me it looks the |>art of the luitile-scarred veteran. Tinwood of the stock is chewed up and scarred and full of dents, as if it had been used on barbed wire. I tut the bore is still clean and bright, testifying to the German efficiency, and tlu- fear ol tin- consequences that coni|M-lled its owner to keep it elean In spite of "hell and high water." (o n inohi.41 Iam.? UI. ono. year 1918, the other taxes not earlier than the date of approval of the bill. Eighty., per cent of the new revenues are planned to be produced from readjustment of the excess profits and income surtaxes and the remainder from excise taxes on luxuries, non-es- . sentials and possibly essentials. A long list of tentative suggestions, submitted by the treasury department, ranging all the way from a tax on retall sales of gasoline to a graduated tax on servants Is before the committee but members have indicated that many of them will not be adopted In addition to these suggestions the committee had before it a mass of recommendations made to It by witnesses who testified during hearings on the bill, which did not end until last week. Several weeks probably will be required for framing the bill, which the committee hopes to present around the middle of August. - fourth more than the Springfield. It is far better shnpetl, with its neat pistol grip. arul semi-shotgun lines, anil it is better shapeil tluut the stock of the M 1*117, because it tits the shouliler anil aids to line up the rifle. In mechanism the rifle is practically the same ns the new Springfield and the M1917?which are both modifled Mausers. We tried it out one day at Camp Kearney, Major White and I, and a lieutenant with a very Teutonic accent, a man who had doubtless served his time with some other army ^ydlesa of his love for America , .a hfs shots In the short ie of 1 3-G seconds per shot, from a position below the elbow to the report of the rifle, and using only this square of light for a rear sight, made bull's-eyes on the little 8 Inch black spot at 100 yards, or else "fours" close up to the black spot. The lieutenant did nearly as well. We tried out the Hun rifle at long range. S00 yards, and then some grou|?s at 550. It w.is accurate enough for fighting?it hit the 3-foot black spot eight times out of ten shots at sou yards, with the other two shots not far off. At 550 yards it put five shots into a space smaller than a man's chest, but not into so small a sjmce as would the two American rifles. Hut with all the Mauser's good l*oint's. it has a point so bad that our Yankee rifles far outclass It in the sort of fighting now done ?>n the fields of Kurofs-. This Is that the American rifle, in the hands of skilled American riflemen, will fire, I should say. three or four shots to only two shots for the Hun rifle. The solo difference lies in the silly and clumsy shape of the Mauser bolt handle, the only weak i?olnt in the Mauser, but the fatal and necossary concession to the rough-handed, halftrained "wop" type of soldier found in the armies of Central Kurope. 1 say half-trained, because as riflemen, they are half-trained; a regiment of American marine of the old days? I don't know aitout them since war broke out?could lie In a field at S00 yards and shoot to pieces a regiment of Prussian guards if said guards depended only on their rifle fire to serve them. I know this because I know German systems of training and I know the marines. Wherefore, in spite of the bayonet superiority of the Hun rifle, and In spite of the better stock, and in spite of the higher velocity of the German bullet, our new rifle makes two bullets fly where but one bullet had Mown before?and bullets are what are going to end this war.?Edward C. Grossman, in the August Popular Mechanics Magazine. Eight Billions Needed.?Eight billions of dollnrs, double the amount now yielded by present tax laws, are to l>e raised under the new revenue bill which the house ways and means committee began framing last Monday in executive session. It Is part of the administration's programme of meeting the vastly increased expenses on account of the war, estimated at $24.000,000,000 during this fiscal year. The income and excess profits taxes will lie levied en the luuila of the cotendnr