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me explain TO you how we should start
with the least delay to coordinate
these resources and bring them to a
point where they car cooperate In
staAtly with the general Government
for the national defence.
MY associates are scattered broadly
throughout the land. This Is not ac-
cidental, but that they may constitute
strategic LINKS in a chain for the pur-
pose of recruiting local facilities.
These men are making lists OF .techni-
cal associates, large contractors. and
labor and material supplies, so that
they know exactly upon what they
can count Immediately and what II
viii be necessary for them to procure
from Other sections,
"iou may object that these men are
without military training. that they
have no idea of discipline and that
they are utterly strange to the admin
istrative requirements of an army.
Hrt in this happily you would err
Fundamentally,
1T Is no uncommon thing for these
supervising engineers to have under
them anywhere from 5000 to 10, 900
men and in some of their undertake
ings the work is carried on far from
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IL ENGINEERS TO AID IN IMPROVING NATIONAL DEFENC

towns and cities. What loci this
mean? Why, that the whole organiza-
ton must be an ef1cient one. .
The men must be housed, FED n
guarded from disease. Here you have
camp sanitation and the problems or
a commissariat. At the same time
these people nus be policed. Any big
contractor will outline for you how
the force Is managed, and the lines OF
responsibility are so skilfully coordi-
mated that friction IL reduced to q
minimum.
But this Is only half OF the story.
We call the men superintendent.
foremen, master mechanics, master
carpenters, chief engineers, assistant
engineers, office stan. &C.. and these
ame In fact are substantially equiv
alent to the titles OF military officers
having in their turn different depart
ments OF responsibility. Now see
what follows.
THE work may very likely call for
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Leading Organizations Already Studying the Part Profess
sion Would Play in Case of War-.Prime Importance
of Efficient Pioneer Corps Illustrated by
D. Experience of Armies in Europe

and SO do my brothers OF the profess
sion.
"If YOU have familiarized yourself
at all with the work of the instruc-
tional camps in Canada and England
you are then aware Of how long II
takes to harden the volunteer troops
and to get them ft for field service.
The man who has spent his life pre-
viously in an office may learn quick
enough to shoot. but II takes a good
deal longer to brace mp his muscles
and spine so that his back Will stand
the strain Of tolllng with pick and
shovel. Also. 1t will take n consid-
cradle period to make him understand
what camp life means and what he
must do to avoid disease. In short. to
acquire the habit of life necessary to
keep himself At In the presence OF
many other men living In close con-
tact and under unusual conditions.
"Just see what our great construc-
ton camps will have to offer us In
the way OF an asset in the hour OF
national peril. From the humblest
toiler up to the supervising authori-
ties there will he fitness and eff
cheney. our splendid army of peace
time lahorcrs can he swung into line
and set doing all ~ those engineering
tasks so important to the prosecu-
ton Of a successful campaign or the
maintenance OF an ample defence.
so backed up. the regular army
and the volunteers will he as strong
again because OF these men who are
building and tearing down as the &C.
casion requires to meet the exigencies
OF war and the changing demands Of
strategy. Tunnel builders, dock build
ers. bridge builders. road builders,
railway builders, telegraph engineers.
cable planters and scores of others
will have work to do. and the point
is that the engineers and big con-
tractors In civil life are able and
ready to lend their aid when properly
recognized and duly organized as a
reserve force.
Mark you. this does no. mean wait
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ing the years Of peace their principal
activities are of a somewhat narrowed
nature. We build forts but infre-
quently. Our railroads are not owned
by the Government and planned for
strategic reasons our bridges are not
the work of army engineers. and finally
all that Is left them to do Is
mainly the supervising OF those river
and harb0r improvements that come
properly under the control II the gem
eial Government.
Even here the order Of procedure
IL circumscribed and bound round with
red tape. The army engineer has to
advertise for supplies and materials.
taking for this anywhere from n
month to sixty days, and his requi-
sitions and bills are all made II In
tripliCate II not ~quadruplicatc. Ii is
by virtue of established routine and
regulations n very lcisurcly procedure
and totally unequal to the pressing
demands OF war.
Again, these able officials are at
best in touch with only a modest part
of the productive phases of the Cuun-
try and nave to do with the labor
ket TO a very limited extent. These
circumstance are not of their making,
but just the same they handicap the
engineer corps when 1t is brought face
to face with the cxigencies of actual
strife.
We have never measured forces
with a modern first class Power and
even our brief tussle with Spain ex-
posed our shortcomings. When 1t was
decided to plant mines In Boston har-
Dor in 1898 there were not enough
men OF the United States army avail
able for the work at that point.
Thanks &c the patriotism OF one OF our
big electrical industries a battalion OF
experts was recruited from its nearby
plant and these trained electricians
planted those mines quickly and well.
I'm that performance we have a hint
OF what we can do by drawing upon
our civilian and at the same
time II exemplifes the insuficiency OF
tho force OF our REGULAR army. Let
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TEST OF MOTHERS PENSIONS.
THE greatest reduction in crime
ever reported as resulting from

THE greatest reduction in Grim"
ever reported as resulting from
the operation of any one law
is that which has just been ru'
on record by the official d.
tributer OF mothers pensions n
Cook county, Illinois, Before the pen
sion law was enacted in that STATE
$50 children In Cook county out O.
group Of 1000 children whose father
were dead and whose mothers 49,
poor were brought to the Cni.'-'
juvenile Court charlod with crime
Since the pension law has h"ru .
~crative only eight children mt o' '"
. 600 whose mothers receive pc So"
have been in court. The two ~ .H'.
compared are exactly the san" h.t
of children, ard in many inst.
OF the same families, The official d's'
rributcr reports that more than ur'
half Of the pcnsioncd mothers ''N"
moved in better neighhorhouds, tah 80
their children away from tive suns
An of them now remain a. home "a
care for their families instead ~ r"..i
out to work and allowing thvW '...'-
dren to run Wild
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.ging Of trenches to he lined with con-
crete and tho forming OF foundations
for howitzers and heavy rifles.
THE nearest railroad is too far
away. to admit OF hauling by. motto
truck or horses the needful tools and
materials. What do I do? ,'
with this telephone ] can reach
my seconds in command in a few min
utes. they are men who have worked
with me for years and I know their
capabilities thoroughly. In the same
fashion l get In touch with big con-
tractors and they. in their turn. are
able to muster the necessary men and
tools. My materials I reach through
supply houses with whom ! am well
acquainted.
There Is none Of the delay Of ad-
vertising and I am not puzzled for a
moment where to turn for the man or
thing that II necessary. should be
repeating in time Of war those very
things that are all in the days work
now.
Tho army engineer would have
trouble to ind civilian aids: either
memory or the office index will
W. ~ WiViV " SCVNs u bio
may want large numbers of picks and
shovels and be at n loss where to
get them. I know the men who have
big stores OF these and I likewise
know the factories that can turn them
out In great numbers on short notice.
But II Is not enough to build gun
emplacements, to dig and line trenches
or to lay rapidly spur railways. II
may be necessary to establish camps
for 1000 or 100. 900 men. Sanitation
Is vital to their welfare and an ample
and wholesome supply Of water must
be made available.
This may demand the services Of
specialists-men who are accustomed
to plan and lay extensive sewer sys-
tens and others who know how to
drive artesian wells and are familiar
with the problems Of properly distrib-
uting immense quantities OF water
through complex systems OF mains. ]
know where to find these experts
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Copyright American tress Association.
German sappers bridging a
stream in Belgium for pas
sage of infantry.

that he labored so much harder than
into the ground seemed to spring up
as by magic and just grow and grow
everything except potatoes.
We understood exactly why,
but with potatoes. the one essential
crop in those parlous times, father al
ways had the darndest luck. There
was n black year, shudder yet
when / think OF the winter hat fol-
lowed-vhen father swore the frost
wouldn't beat him that time, and in
order to make II safe ana certain he
drilled the holes for the potates two
feet deep. He was forever expert
menting with original methods. Father
had great faith in old Mother Earth
despite all the neighbors' protests.
He planted the potatoes IVY feet deep
early in April and assured US We would
harvest a phenomenal crop.
That was the happiest summer of
my life. We boys didn't have to hill
q single potato nor pick a single
potato bug all summer long. And all
the neighbors seemed more cheerful
than usual too. for potatoes went ia
the dollar mark In the fall. with
his ~unbounded faith In q mysterious
Power father never lost hope that
those potatoes would come up until
the irst killing frost in November
] Then ne quietly resigned himself to
the rigors Of the oncoming winter and
bade mother and us boys to say no
more about It. And We didn't. 1t was
a hard winter.
These delightful spring days make
every man with cookies on his heart
think seriously Of rising early and do
ing a little garden work before breah
fast. There Is something In the air
that makes you yearn to get out n,
sunrise and dig and roo. In the smelly
soil, II you are not too old to yearn
II you are too old here Is a bit OF rea'
medical advice: Work in a garden and
refresh tho weary spirit; dig in the
earth and r~eJuvehate the ~falterina
ambition, but don't try II II you have
a neighbor like Gnnnison. .
Many a morning I"have rolled over
in bed and peeped out Of the window
with half . notion Of getting up and
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ing until war Is upon us. Congress
should be duly prompted to take IN.
necessary action at once 50 as IN
authorize this force that the engineer
x societies are now paving the way
for.
Capable experts should be picked
and given commissions in this rcsorye
engineer corps. and they should lie.
required to see service for a shor.
period every year so as to familiarz,
themselves with the military cord..
lions with which they must coordinate
in time of strife. For this brief yearly
service they should receive the nav
incident to similar ranks In tho rcrl.
lar army. This would probably no,
even pay for their uniforms.
THESE engineers would carry on
their civil pursuits. but at the Same
time because Of their gradually ac.
cumulating knowledge of military
needs learn year by year how better
10 turn the industrial com.
ing under their cognizance to the ma.
tional defence when required. This
would do away with the undirostod
appointments OF civilians when var
Is impending.
See how ridiculously small would he
the tax upon the Government and We.
think OF the magnitude of the forces
that the engineers of civil life could
muster and skilfully direct. More tina,
ever the engineer officer is needed
and while we are sadly lacking in
trained fighting men. we can have, l,
the people insist upon 1t as they should
this wonderful constructive reserve.
In this fashion we might easily havs
a body Of engineering leaders mum.
berlng thousands and have tabulated
through them contractors and their
cohorts mounting into the hundred.
of thousands.
Now you know why I said the SOL
der Is secondary to the engineer n
modern warfare. But don't le, this
blind o to the necessity OF N.
fighting man. We need both Of ,hem
and all We a muster"
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The kind of heavy tasks our
civilian engineers are bat
Ting with every day.

mere handful compared with the pos
sible vastness of the theatre OF war
should an enemy seek to invade this
country.
with hostilities imminent many Of
these highly equipped men would
promptly ask TO be transferred from
the staff 10 the line of the army. Gen.
Robert +. Lee was of the engineer
corps, and so was Gen. Mcclellan. but
a wider field of usefulness opened for
them as officers of the line, and we
all know how skilfully both OF these
men served the causes for which they
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By WILLIAM BR ADY. NJ. d.

TATHER was conceded to be n
~ Of the greatest amateur gar
deners This country has ever
produced. He was the envy
and despair of all the n%eighbors. not
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
GAR. VETERAN LAID
TO REST BY COMRADES

Funeral services were held Sum-
day at the home of the late Samuel
E. Bayes, who passed to his rest,
Friday evening, July 80, at the age
of 72 years.
He was native of Johnson
County, Kentucky and served three
years and three months in The 14th
Kentucky Infantry. He was men,
ber of the local G. A. r. Post. He
was an ordained Minister of the
Gospel, having been ordained in
Kentucky by the Southern Baptist
Convention and was for many years
in the active ministry, an able
preacher, and of a lovable DISPOSE
tion.
The service was conducted by P.
H. Davies, pastor of the Baptist
Church. the members Of the choir
helping in the singing. The casket
was carried to the cemetery by the
comrades of the G. A. r. The wild
Ow and family have the deep SYM
pathy of the community.
Three daughters and four sons
remain to cherish the memory of
loving father, Sandford. Daniel,
Ellen, Chap, Dorcas, Elijah and
Margaret.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
BAPTIST CHURCH TO
BUILD PARSONAGE

A building and remodelling wave
is now under way at the Baptist
Church, and before it recedes the
congregation will have a frightened
home set in attractive grounds with
a fine new parsonage.
Work will begin on the parsonage
building next week. The structure
will be so designed that the en-
tire interior may be thrown into one
room to accommodate large gather
ing. The main hall of the parson-
age will be II 2S, and will be
used as a classroom. A pastors
study and a series of living rooms
are being provided.
The church tower is being re-
modelled at present, the roof re-
shingled, a porch constructed over
the front door, and a concrete walk
laid. When the construction work
is completed, a lawn will be laid out
around the grounds hedged by low
evergreens.
The committee that is doing its
best to make the Church and
grounds one of the show places of
the town is composed of the Rev.
Percy H. Davies and E. w. Bayes.
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LYNDEN TWELVE YEARS BACK
(Pilot, August 6, 1909


The total value of the nssessable
personal property of Lynden
amounts to $21,299. Thirty-two
horses valued at 1920 and thirty
six cattle at $64O were included In
the list, as was 10 pianos and or
gans.
The State has purchased $4,000
worth of Lynden school bonds. In
terest on them is only Az per cent.
The Whatcom County Agricultur-
al Association will hold its third
annual exhibition and race meet at
Whatcom Sept. / to 5.
Mike Wander Griend's new house
IN his ranch northwest Of town is
tbOut completed.
Axling Brothers have purchased
the Lou PhilO threshing machine,
also a wood saw and grist mill.
Rural free delivery will be es-
tablished from the Lynden post Of
flee next month. Postmaster O'Neil
has received Instructions to create a
route to be known as No. /, with
one carrier.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
LYNDEN PIONEERS TO
ATTEND ANNUAL PICNIC

Many Lynden pioneers are plan
ming to attend the sessions of the
County Association at Ferndale this
week.
The following is the program:
FRIDAY. AUGUST
Morning-W. P. Brown, Chair
man.. General assembly of mem
bers and guests; Ferndale cornet
band.
Afternoon-Music Ferndale corneI
band; Pioneer poem, Clarence Dahl
quist, of Laurel; Address, "Old
Oregon Trail" Mrs. Dunlap of Ev-
erett; Annual Pioneer oration, Rev.
Fred Alban We'll, of Bellingham;
Music, Ferndale cornet band; dance
in pavilion, York's Military band ;
Shooting tournament, gun clubs Of
United States and Canada. The
Topperweins in expert shooting ex-
hibitiOns.
Evening-Grand ball in pavilion
York's Military band.
SATURDAY, AUGUST z
MOrning-General ensemble of
visitors and old settlers.
Afternoon-Mass assemblage call
ed to order at 1:3O O'Clock by Chair
man Brown; Address, Thomas G..
Bishop, of Tacoma; Music; Address,
Hon. Miles Poindexter, United
States senator; Presentation of iov-
ing cups by Judge Daniel w. Feath-
erkiel, as follows: "Oldest Setter
cup to Capt. J. w. Tarte; "Oldest
Native-Born," cup to Victor A. Roe
der; dance in pavilion, York's Mill
tary band,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
WOMAN'S MISSION.

Woman's function In society Is
determined by the constitution
Of her nature. AS the sponta-
neous organ CT feeling, on which
the unity of human nature en-
tirely depends, she constitutes
the purest and most natural ele-
ment of the moderating power,
which, while avowing its own
subordination to the material
forces Of society, purposes to
direct them to higher uses. First
as mother. afterward as wife, 1t
is her office to conduct the moral
education of humanity. Woman's
mission Is striking illustration
Of the truth that happiness con-
sists In doing the work for which
we are naturally fitted. Their
mission is always the same. 1t
Is summed up in one word-love.
1t is the only work In which
there can never be too many
workers. 1t grows by co-opera-
ton. 1t has nothing to fear
from competition. Women are
charged with the education Of
sympathy. the source of real hui
man unity, and their highest hap
piness is reached when they have
the full consciousness Of their
vocation and are free to follow
it.-Auguste Comte.
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EVERSON

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Miller and
son Kenneth, and Clarence Herbst
were Sunday dinner guests at the
Sills home at Nooksack.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Peist and
laughter, Sophia, autoed to Belling-
ham Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cyr, Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer Cyr, Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Cyr, Miss Evelyn Cyr, Bert
Cyr and Mrs. John Cyr We're dinner
guests at the Elmer Herbst home
1T Laurel Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Warner and
son Elmer, and Mr.. and Mrs. Cordie
Saturday for a week at Silver Lake
Edgar Sollinger returned home
Saturday from St.. Luke's hospital
after an attack of typhoid fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Techer and
laughter Velma, and Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. A. Miller and son Kenneth au-
loed to Bellingham Saturday.
Mrs. o. G. Norman was a passen-
ger to Bellingham Thursday.
Miss Edith Burman of Belling-
nam is spending her vacation with
home folks.
Mason and Gray homes in Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Fisher and
children of Bremerton are making
an extended visit with Mrs. Fish
ar's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Join
Todd and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Bushby and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Ar
aell and daughter Dora, autoed TO
Bellingham Monday evening.
Mrs. Kinman and children, and
Mrs. Murphy returned TO Vancouv-
9r, B. c., Sunday. They were ac-
;ompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Henry and son Jimmie, whom they
have been visiting for month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hymes and Mr.. and
Mrs. Going departed Thursday
morning for San Francisco and San
Diego where the will visit the fairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Trowbridge and
son Chester, and Miss Valeria
Joyce spent Thursday and Friday at
ro-Woolley.
Mrs. A f. Hardin and children,
Irene, Marie and Eardley, and
Mrs. H. Iverson and children and
Miss Margery Kinman spent Thurs
lay at Birch Bay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Trowbridge and
son Chester and Mr.. Paul King
autoed to Bellingham Monday.
Miss Claribel Mathews spent
Monday at the Techer home.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
GLENDALE

A number OF Glendale people
gathered at the home of o. E. Reed
Saturday night to serenade J. M.
Reed and his bride.
Misses Helen Wilson and Leta
Mcleod autoed to Birch Bay Sun
day with the Jes family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzgerald of Su-
mas were the weekend guests at
the o. E. Reed home.
Mr.. Tucker of Lynden visited
Glendale friends Friday.
Miss Violet Mcleod aptoed to
Birch Bay Thursday evening with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anglin.
Mrs. Geo. Bruins and Mrs. Ed
wards spent Saturday in Lynden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Skiles visit
ed friends near Lynden Sunday.
Mrs. Jes and daughter LOttie were
weekend visitors in Bellingham.
Mr.. Tucker requests that all pn-
pills expecting to attend the Glendale
High school the coming year to
meet at the school house on Friday
afternoon, August 9th.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
County News

Interest In the building of the
Bellingham, Mt. Baker & Spokane
railroad, which is to be a part of "A
line from Port Mel
son, on Hudson Bay, and after foul
years of promotion work by j. E.
Morrison, is again revived by tie
statement that work will begin from
the Bellingham end within sixty O.
ninety days. Arrangements for the
roads construction have Just been
entered into between the owners Of
the charter of this road and Cap
tain E. j. Fader, millionaire con
tractor and promoter, of New West
minister and Seattle, who will
within the next thirty days, estaE
ish an office in Bellingham. The
authority for these statements Is
Captain E. ]. Fadey and Mr.. ]. E.
Morrison.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05
EASTERN DISTRICTS
AFTER FAIR PRIZES

That the Eastern section of the
County will be a powerful contend
er for the main prizes at the 1915
Fair Oct. to 9 is the prediction of
Secretary George w. Frick, who
spent this week interviewing farm
ers in the Everson, Nooksack and
Sumas district.
Mr.. Frick found that great inter-
est is being taken in that section in
the coming Fair, and that farmers
everywhere are planning on dis
plays to capture awards.
"The Nooksack, Everson and Su-
mas mn will have plenty Of material
for handsome exhibits" said Mr..
Frick today. II was surprised with
the interest they are taking. 1t
certainly promises well for the Fair
in October
u A delay of one week has been
met In the distribution of the prem
ium lists. They will be off the
press by Monday, and part of the
new list of awards will be run IN
The Tribune next week.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-08-05

A controlling interest in the
Boundary Red Mountain Mining
company's property in the Mount
Baker district was bought last week
by George Wingfield, the Nevada
multi-millionaire mine owner. The
entrance of Mr.. Wingfield in the
Mount Baker district gives evi-
dence that the properties must have
considerable merit and it is expect
ed he will spend considerable money
in the development of the mines he
has become interested in.