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COURTMARTIAL OF OFFICER AT
CAMP JACKSON IS ASKED
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Washington, March 8.?Following
the sensational charges lodged at the
war department by Congressman
Sam R. Sells, of Tennessee, that the
body of Private Carben A. Keick,
316th field artillery, was sent home
'early in January from Camp Jackson
Columbia, where the soldier died,
with the body nude, partially washed
and the skull piece not adjusted after
an autopsy, the inspector general of
the army, H. Chamberlain has recommended
that First Lieut. Alfred V.
Solomon be court martialed, that
Maj. T. J. Leary, M. C., now on a
leave, be not permitted to reassume
command of the base hospital, and
that Lieut. Col. W. H. Gibson, now di
-vision quartermaster of the 81st division,
be informed of his error and
fault in the premises.
Shouns, near Tazewell, and when
Jiis body came from the South Carolina
camp with the casket marked
""do not open" the family became
auspicious and opened the casket
and found the body nude, the head
in bad condition and the body showins:
every appearance of an autopsy.
Congressman Sells filed affidvit from
the boy's father and brother and
others as to the conditions of the
body and asked for an investigation
. s with results as stated above.
The report says that the casket
was probably marked "do not open"
by the Columbia undertaking company
or an assistant. "Not to have
detected the gross neglect character
ized by the handling of the body bejfe
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the Tennessee congressman for bring
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| the department, says the family of
j the dead soldier is entitled to the
' facts and that Lieut. Col. Gibson
erred in making a contract with an
undertaker until his competency was
learned.
No further autopsies will be held
on bodies of soldiers until the consent
of the commanding general or
the surgeon in command of the camp
is secured, but autopsies are not pro
! hibited when properly authorized.
PATRIOTIC GIFTS VOGUE
A Preeewt That Last* Five Ytars and
Melpe Win tha War.
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i "Washington, D. C.?Raparta received
at the treaaury department show that
in all parts of Amriea a new plan far
living presents is being firmly established.
The "Patriotic Present" is the
Idea, and consists of War Savings
Stamps te the value of whatever gift
would ordinarily have bean given.
I Parent*, to encourage thrift as well
| as patriotism, have adopted the plan
i of arivinr War Ssvinsre SkarnDs and
i Thrift Stamps to their children in|
stead of the usual presents such as for
! birthdays, surprises, rewards, ete.
| Employers who have been accustomed
! to presenting bonuses te employees are
| instead giving such bonuses in the
j shape of War Savings Stamps. The
j "Patriotic Present" now appears to
| have become a nationwide eastern.
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HOW TO HELP WIN THE WAR.!
(Advice to Americans Between, the I
Ages of Thirty and Fifty.)
j
By GEORGE ADE.
While the war is on, the active
work in support of the boys at the
front will be shouldered cheerfully by
men and women a little too old for
acrobatic service, but not yet frosted
at the temples.
They will supply part of the money
and most of the "pep" needed to supply
and encourage a huge army in
the field.
Tf ic fr?r +.Tiptt? fr> rpaTizp that: we
have passed the period of doubting
and question answering.
We have come to the days when
hustling must supplant conversation.
It was all right six months ago to
spare an hour a day in trying to convince
some one with a vacant eye and
a dark mind that we were really
justified in accepting the insolent
challenge thrown at us by Germany.
You are to be forgiven if, even
four months ago, you spent valuable
time trying to convince a sluggish
minority that?
First?Government bonds are a
safe investment.
Second?Pro-German propaganda
is to be hit in the head.
Third?The Allies are , to be
trusted.
Fourth?The Red Cross is above
suspicion and does not obtain either
money or knitted goods under false
pretenses.
Fifth?All taxes which have been j
levied are justified by extraordinary
and unprecedented conditions.
Sixth?This is not a rich man's
war; it was not precipitated by any
Wall Street influence; it is not concerned
over private investment; it is
not a grand benefit for munition makers.
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Seventh?Fair promises have no
value when they are made by a criminal
-who finds himself backed into a
corner. .
Eighth?That men in our training
camps and aboard transports and stationed
somewhere in France are
being safeguarded as American soldiers
never before were looked after,
as regards wholesome food, proper
oaiiiLatiuii, ^icvciaiuii \jx. uiocaoc, ciuu.
moral guidance.
Why enumerate further
Abe Martin met a fellow down in
Brown County that never heard of
TonyiPastor, and we have a taxpayer
in our township who thinks the world
is flat, and you can find cabaret performers
in New York City who don't
believe there is suck a place as Iowa,
and clairvoyants still find customers
and you can name qeople who will
consult a patent medicine "ad" in
preference to a doctor, and old
Jethro Tilford, over in Shelby Township,
carries a dried-up potato to
keep off the rheumatism.
In every community you will find
a contrary-minded sediment of the
human race?people who keep themselves
somewhat in evidence by noisly
denying facts which are self-evident
to all^.of their neighbors who
hannen to be in the full eniovment
of sanity.
They are somewhat like frogs, i. e.
they make an awfuul noise in propor
tion to their number.
Now, if you will take the trouble
, to check up in your immediate neighI
borhood the people who, from the be.
ginning of the war, have been full of
doubts and questions and false
alarms, you will find that they are
few in number and of precious little
importance, except as atmospheric
disturbances.
Also, did it ever occur to you:
That the man who had bought
most liberallv of Government bonds
I never questioned the safety of his
('security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most socks and sweaters never
believed the silly stories about the
Red Cross being a crooked institu,
tion?
That the soldier boy about to
board a transport and join his comrades
of France and Great Britian
never was known to doubt the sincerity
of the men with whom he was
soon to join shoulders?
No, indeed!
All the wails and misgivings and
fish stories are put into circulation
by a few picayune outsiders who
were just built to be obstructionists
and somehow can't help it.
They are in a class with the Tories
who feasted the aristocratic British
?vffirpr? while Washington's armv
starved at Valley Forge.
They are a holdover of the Vallandingham
clan that reviled Lincoln
and gave ; n underhanded copperhead
support to the cause of slavery, even
after it was doomed.
They are the kind of people who
oppose public improvements, will not
buy tickets for the Chautauqua, criti
cise the minister if he smiles in pub
lie, and attach the presumption of j
guilt to any woman attacked by s*can'
dal.
They are the small bores, the two-j
by-fours, the gnats, the sand flies,!
the ticks put on earth to teach good;
tne quaniy 01 patience.
The time has come to ignore them, j
If we can not lock them for safekeeping,
at least we can shut them
out from our daily program and go
head with the important work laid
out for us.
This is no time to waste precious
hours and vocal energy in trying to
prove that two and two make four,
and water is wet, and the sun sets in
the west, and the mad dog of Prussianism
must be muzzled.
If all the optimists along your
street should arise some morning into
a world bedecked with <iew spark
les and exclaim in unison, "That a
deautiful, sunshiny day" then some I
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ZWO ieg"gcu crctu VYUU1U xawa&I
behind a lilac bush and say, "yes; but j
I think it'll rain before night."
The stalwart men and women ofj
middle age are to keep the homej
fires burning during the supreme ordeal
now at hand.
They are to raise the crops, speed
the factories, collect the taxes, organize
the home guards, conserve the'
wheat and meat and sugar, back up
the Red Cross, peddle the Liberty
Bonds, write the letters, pack the
comfort kits, and stand by for orders
at all times.
If a busy worker feels some one
tugging at his coat tail the thing to
do is to kick straight back and kick!
hard, but do not waste time in look-|
ing around. .
By the way, here is an important'
tip for every man past thirty. Do not!
tell around that you would be keen
to enlist if you were just a little!
j younger.
Some of the men just under thirty j
will have their doubts, and even those
who believe you will not find entertainment
in your conversation.
CHILD'S PRAYER.
Leslie's Weekly.
The following child's prayer is rec
ommended for the children of patriotic
American parents:
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
God bless my brother gone to war
Across the seas, in France, so far.
Oh, may his fight for liberty
Save millions more than little me
TTW.tyi nrnpl fnt.pd rvr ruthless blast.
And bring him safely home at last.
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BODIES OF NAVAL MEN
WHO DIED ACROSS
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Base American Flotilla in British
Wstnvc M?rr-Vt 7 T'np hOilies of
four American naval men who have
died over here have just been shipped
back home on board a United
States naval supply ship. A brief
funeral service the first of its
kind to be held here?took place on
the quarter deck of the supply ship
when the bodies, in sealed laden caskets,
were received on board. The
ship had just finished unloading American
supplies at a dock so that
several hundred townspeople were
able to witness the funeral service
from points of vantage ashore.
All flags on the American and Brit
ish men-of-war were half-masted dur
ing the service, which was conducted
by the chaplain of the American flotilla
flagship. The coffins were
placed in the center of the deck and
each was covered with " Old Glory"
while grouped about were several
bluejackets. The reading of the
funeral service over, the band from
the flagship played "Nearer, My God
mi mi i i _ _ - ? _
to inee. men tne coiirns were
lowered into the ship's hold. All the
time the service was in progress the
civilian onlookers stood with bared
heads.
One of the bodies was that of Dudley
W. Queen, surgeon on one of the
destroyers, who came to the navy
from Texas and whose death is the
first from disease since the arrival of
the American forces over here. The
other three victims of accidents on
board their ships. They were William
-Lusso, an electrician of Kansas
City and Martin O'Callaghan and
John Rourke, water tenders.
There also took place the other
day the first burial of an American
naval man at sea from an American
destroyer over here. He was Willis
Martin Goodrow, a machinists' mate,
whose home was in Charleston, S. C.
He was killed in an accident on board
ship and was buried in a U-boat infested
area.
One o'clock on a bright Januaryafternoon
was chosen as the time for
the service. The body was placed in
a canvas casket. Draped with the
stars and stripes, it reposed on the
after-deck of the ship while the bluejackets
listened to the Episcopal burial
prayer read by their comanding
officer. This over, the destroyer
was brought to a stop for 30 seconds
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the starboard side of the vessei.
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| JUDGE DRAFTS ALSO
TO REQUIRE PROOF .
George S. Drafts, probate judge
of Lexington, has joined the judges
of probate who will require doctor's
prescription as evidence that the
whiskey for which permits are requested
is for medicinal purposes.
Judge Drafts writes: "In reply to
your letter of recent date I will on
i March 10 start with a physician's
prescription to issue permits."
The Record asked all the probate
judges in the State to outline their
practice which they will employ in
satisfying themselves that the whiskey
for which permits to purchase
was asked, would be for medicinal
purposes. A large majority of the
probate judges replying wrote that
they would require a doctor's prescription
as the best evidence as te
the intentions of the applicant.
The new law is effective March 10
Probate Judge Bellinger of Richland
was an early advocate of the doctor's
prescription to establish the fact that
the whiskey was for medical purposes.
He explained that by this
method he employed what he considered
the strongest testimony covering
the point.?Columbia Record.
8 AMERICANS
WIN WAR CROSSES
j With the American Army in
j France, March 10.?The French War
! Cross has been presented to these
I Americans for heroism displayed in
action along the Chemin des Dames
front:
Lieut. Harold K. Davison, Chaplain
0. Boucher, Sergt. George F. De
von, Corp. Frank Hurley, Privates
Edward Larkin. Harold Eldredge,
I Stuart W. Miller and Charles M.
! Sykes.
All belong to the same company,
i Particulars of the deeds for which
; hey have been decorated are not gij
:n out by headquarters.
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