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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20

ly as a vest, it is not cumbrous. If
the son of Lord Shaughnessy. Presi-
dent of the Canadian-Pacific Railway,
who was killed recently, had been
wearing one, his life might have been
saved, according to his comrades.
Since then Canadian commanders
have strongly urged all their officers
to buy corselets.
The corselet is worse than no pro-
lection against bullets unless the lat
ter are spent. Such is their power
of penetration that they go through
the thin steel, "mushrooning" and
making a larger wound than if moth
ing had been in their way. But in the
trenches, unless one shows his head
about in the shell zone in the rear of
the trenches, one is rarely exposed to
bullets. When an officer goes into a
charge in face of machine gun and
rifle fire he takes off his corselet.
On average days in the trenches
the main danger is from shrapnel bull
lets and fragments from shell explos-
ions which may inflict ugly and fatal
wounds preventable by comparatively
thin protection to such a vulnerable
substance as human flesh. Together,
corselet and steel helmet pretty
effectively shield vital parts against
missiles of low velocity.
The use of the corselet is limited
virtually to officers who pay for them
out of their own pockets. The ex-
pense and labor of supplying all ranks
of a great army with them would
seem out of the question. But grad
ually all the British soldiers are being
supplied with the steel helmets after
their successful use by the French,
who first introduced them. The
French pattern is quite graceful be-
side the British. which is round and
something the shape of a toadstool.
The British is heavier than the French
and there is method in its soup-plate
grotesqueness. Thanks to its form
bullet which strikes it in front.
instead of going through the head as
is the case with the French helmet
glances and follows the inside of the
helmet, passing out at the rear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20

from all parts of the country at the
expense of the New York milk COM
mittee in May, 1911.
After many discussions the commits
sion adopted classification providing
for four grades of milk-Grade A,
certified milk; Grade B, inspected
milk; Grade c, market milk; Grade
d, milk for cooking purposs.
Pasteurization was demanded for
all milk in Grades c and D.
Through the deliberations of this
body the entire country received for
the first time a hint of the true ma
ture of the long-neglected abuses of
the milk industry. Thousands of dol
lars were collected from milk men
in many States for the purpose of pre-
venting the official adoption of the
new standards.
In October, 1911, the National Com
mission on Milk Standards met again.
Three months later. January, 1912,
the New York City Department OF
Health provided for a new classifica-
ton of milk-Grade a for infants and
children, including certified milk,
guaranteed milk, inspected milk, and
selected milk.
Politics and commercialism had
again interfered. Notwithstanding
the proof offered by the commission
that the phrases certified milk"
guaranteed milk" inspected milk"
and selected milk" had no meaning,
and were intended simply for the
purpose of keeping open the doors
through which milk abuses had been
passing uncontrolled for years, the off,
dcials, who dared not offend the milk
men, persisted in perpetuating the old
and dangerous system.
In this new classification Grade B
and Grade were defined. Grade
, B was intended to cover milk for
adults raw or pasteurized, ano
Grade c was intended to embrace all
milk so badly contaminated that il
could be used 'for cooking or manu-
tacturing purposes only"
So bitter was the criticism of these
meaningless standards that the health
authorities confessed their compli-
Gated and unsatisfactory grading sys-
tenn was intended to avoid too great
a disturbance of the milk industry
We do not want to bring about a
milk famine" they said. 1T is bet
ter to have bad milk than no milk al
ALL"
That they failed to provide the safe
guards recommended by the National
commission on Milk Standards set
back the progress of milk reform in
the United States for years. but II
caused great rejoicing among the
dairymen and dealers.
In the month of January 1912, the
National Commission again met and
in August of the same year its first
report was published by the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service.
In this report the pasteurization of
all milk excepting certified milk was
demanded.
In the meantime manp prosecutions
against dealers in dangerous milk
were brought about through the
| health authorities of various com
muntties. all of them. the defense
OF The prosecuted dealer was con-
Quoted by means of the fund raised in
the milk industry for the purpose OF
defeating every effort of the National
Commission on Milk Standards to
| protect humanity against the dangers
of unsafe dairy products.
Just how far these milk re-
actionaries went we are about to see.
The entire country is now suffering
| from their work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20

sire to ''get at" the enemy which the
trench raid satisfies. 1t means spring.
ing over the parapet and rushing
across mo Mans Land" into the very
houses of the enemy and man to man
on his doorstep proving which is a
better fighter.
To go over the parapet ordinarily
means death. In order to make any
such rush there must be ''interfer-
ence" as they say in football, and the
barbwire in front of the enemy's
trench must be cut. This is usually
done by the guns, which become more
and more deadly in their ability to
turn accurate sprays of destruction on
given points. They cover the rush
and they cover the return of the raid
ers with their prisoners.
But the guns are not all; there are
all kinds of organized trickery in or
der to enable a body of soldiers to get
into the enemy's trenches for a few
minutes of activity, when the occu-
pants throw themselves on their in
vaders at such close quarters that it
is a question If even revolver is now
practical weapon. 1t cannot be
thrown over a traverse and a bomb
can. Running into a German around
the corner of a traverse a blow may
be better than a shot.
every man who went out was respons-
ible for a casualty or prisoner while
the raiders own loss might not have
been one in ten to the enemy's. There
are also failures. Success requires
that every detail should work out
right. The British inaugurated trench
raiding which the Germans promptly
adopted. Where it's development will
end no one dares venture to say. One
advantage of any raid is that those
some information of value to the in
telligence corps.
Officers in the trenches as we'll as
officers in other military units, US
ually wear steel corsets as a protec-
ton against spent bullets.
Score one for the breastplate," )"
said an officer who had been doubled
over by a shell fragment which hit
him in the abdomen. Instead of a
flow of blood crimsoning his blouse
all that was visible through the rent
in the cloth was an abrasion on a
steel surface.
But for your new corset you
would have been dead by now" the
surgeon told him.
Early in the war an officer who
wore protection of this kind would
have been frowned on by his fellows
as unsoldierly. A type of corselet of
small plates of highly tempered steel
Joined together by steel wires is be-
ing more and more worn by officers.
It's structure adapts itself to the
movements of the body, it weighs
only few pounds and, fitting snug
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20
TRENCH WARFARE
Is FASCINATING
Soldiers Receive Orders to
Cross ''No Mans Land
With Delight

British Headquarters, France, Sept.
Is Correspondence of The Associat-
ed Press) - Between the British and
German modern machine warfare
wherein every man was supposed to
have become a pawn without ln1tl-
ative of his own has been developing
perhaps the deadliest form of sport
Imagination can conceive - where
every combatant places his cunning,
his strength and his skill in hand-to-
hand fighting against those of his ad-
versary.
Hardly a day passes that there is
not a trench raid" by one side or the
other, and some times several such
sallies. No subject is more tabooed
in it's details by the censor. Com
manders do not waSt to let the enemy
know why their raids succeed or fail
or why the enemy succeed or fail.
Invention fights invention; secrecy
fights secrecy.
All the elements of boxing, wrest-
ling, fencing and mob tactics plus the
stealth of the Indian who crept up on
a camp on the plains and the team
work of a professional baseball nine
are valuable to the player.
The weapon that is least needed is
a rifle. A club or a sandbag or an
Indian battle AK or spiked club is
better. A good slugger without any
weapon at all may take an adversary S
loaded rifle away from him and
knock him down and then kick him
to death.
The monotony of trench existence
these days is broken by preparing for
raids and against them. Battalion
commanders work out schemes of
strategy which would have won them
fame in smaller wars. Fifty men or
a thousand may be engaged in a raid.
1t may be on a front of fifty yards or
a thousand. It's object is to take as
many prisoners and kill and wound as
many of the enemy as possible in q
few minutes; and then to get back to
their own trench. The assaulters try
to hold on to the piece of trench they
have taken, the guns are turned on
them, the bombers close up on either
side, and machine guns and rifles are
prepared to sweep the zone of retire
ment.
An uncanny curiosity gives the SOL
diers incentive for the raids. Ordin-
arfly they never see their enemy hid
den in his burrows across mo Mans
Land" from their own burrows. I'm
seen bullets from unseen snipers crack
overhead. Unseen guns suddenly con-
centrate in a deluge of shells. For
months this sort of thing goes on and
the trenches of the adversaries remain
always in the same place: the grim
monotony of casualties and watch
ing continues. This arouses the de-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20

by the milkmen themselves in order
to deceive the public.
Third-Inspected milk. It was sub
sequently found that inspected milk
had no more significance than 'se-
| lected milk"
Fourth-Guarantee milk. 1t was
subsequently found that guaranteed
milk had no more significance than
! either inspected" or selected" milk.
sequently found that certified milk
had no significance at all. In fact
many of the worst abuses of the
| milk industry were perpetrated in
so-called certified herds.
Agitation in scientific circles had
become so keen that the Board of
Health of New York city, completely
| under the control of the milk industry
OF the time, was forced to do some
thing for the appearance of things.
The grading outlined above accom-
plished nothing for the reason that
it provided a place for every kind of
milk shipped to the city-raw, pas
| ing the situation exactly as it was
before.
The conditions following the 1908
legislation were not improved in a
| single detail over the conditions pre-
viously existing. Political and COM
|
crime against humanity did not real
ize the enormity of their offense, but
| they continued to raise money for
the purpose of fighting all efforts of
the authorities to impose bacterial
standards upon their product.
In December, 1910, the situation,
based on a continuous parade of new
ly discovered evidence showing in
spectacular detail the true nature of
the American milk tragedy, had be-
come 90 acute that the New York
Milk committee called conference
of the leading milk authorities of the
State of New York.
At this conference it was resolved
that pending the adoption of national
standards the classification of milk
recommended by the United States
Department of Agriculture and ap-
proved by the commission of the Dis
trict of Columbia, 1907, but never
acted upon by the milkmen. should
be adopted.
On the same day the conference
passed another resolution as follows:
Whereas, IT. has been demon
strated that it is imperative that
definite standards and regulations
should be adopted to control the pro-
duction and handling of dairy prod
ucts for the prevention of disease and
the saving of lives, be it resolved
that the New York Milk committee
be asked to invite twenty recognized
experts on milk problems to meet in
conference for the purpose of making
a unanimous report recommending
proper milk standards on which con-
gress or State authorities may formu-
late milk legislation
Out of this resolution was born the
National Commission on Milk Stand
ards. comprised of twenty of the
foremost milk authorities in the
| United States.
These men were brought together
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20

For nearly ten years a bitter fight
has been waged by milk dealers and
producers against city, State and Fed
eral control of their products-poli-
tical compromise, corruption of pub
lie authorities, and the expenditure of
vast war fund so completely demor-
allied the efforts of milk feformers to
improve the quality of all dairy prod
ucts that milk to-day, except in iso-
lated instances depending upon the in
tegrity of the individual farmer and
dealer, is shamefully and dangerously
below standard.
AS long ago as August, 1907, so
alarming were the facts in the hands
of milk scientists concerning the gen.
orally unsupported deadliness of dis
eased and contaminated milk and
milk products that the commissioners
of the District of Columbia called a
milk conference in the city of Wash
tngton.
At this conference the first grading
of milk ever attempted in America
dangers of bad milk was recon-
mended.
The grades adopted were:
Glass l Tor certified milk.
Glass 2 for inspected milk.
Glass 8 for pasteurized milk.
In the certified and inspected milk
st was required that the COWS be tu-
berculin tested and that the bacteria
count of the milk be under the
1000. 900 mark.
1t was known that pasteuriZation
destroyed or rendered harmless the
germs that cause tuberculosis, scarlet
fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, and
other diseases
For this reason 1t was urged that
all market milk should be pasteurized.
1t was not, even then, thought that
pasteurization would be looked upon
by dairymen as substitute for
cleanliness or decency because pas
teurization does not and cannot re-
move filth from milk.
The action of the commissioners
of the District of Columbia was not
without it's effect. 1t inspired violent
opposition among milkmen all over
the country. Organizations of dairy
men and dealers were at once created
for the purpose of resisting all
.'faddish" invasion of their rights
by "highbrow" scientific reformers.
In April, 1908, the Board of Health
of New York city graded milk into
fiye classes:
First-Plain milk. BY plain milk
was meant ordinary milk either raw
or pasteurized. Pasteurization was
not required.
Second-Selected milk. 1t was sub
sequently found that the phrase Sc
1ected milk had no significance. The
term was merely a device employed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
Commissioners Proceedings Special
Session November IS, 1916

The boa I'd of county commissioners met
today at the office of the county clerk pur-
suanU to call by the chairman. There were
present : y. Newcomer. chairman. John
McNaughton. A H. Hamm and the county
clerk. The object for which this meeting
was called was TO appoint superintendent
of public instruction Mrs. Minnie O'Neil,
superintendent elect. was appointed to fll
vacancy. The following bid was on file for
erecting closet and lavatory in the county
Jail
To the honorable board of county commits
sioners:
r Gentlemen:
l am herewith pleased to submit for
your consideration my bid for the fnstala-
tiOn on one prision hopper closet and one
enameled lavatory in accordance with the
following specifications / will furnish all
material and labor necessary to install one
No. 6l3. Enameled prison closet fitted with
self closing cock flushing fhe closet
One No. o-334 enameled lavatory fitted with
one self closing basin cock iron trap
run TO the wall. All the pipe work includiDg
waste and water pipes are tie be concealed in
the stone wall. nothing TO be exposed exec Dt
the trap and cocks which are Connected in a
substantial manner to the fixtures. 1 will
run the waste line of the closer and lavatory
to FIVE feet outside OF the foundation wall.
and do all cutting of chases in stone on the
inside of building the county TO do all dig
giuC on the outside. also furnish and lay the
necessary sewer pipe TO the cess pool. will
furnish the materia1an labor necessary to
install the above as specified for the sum OF
$3.50.
Hoping to be favored with the contract for
the same /
Yours very truly.
Signed P E. KERAUS
The bid of P. z. Keraus was accepted.
No further business appea airing the board
ad journed sine die
IseaD c-H. BENSON. County CLERK
Fresh pork at Bakers. adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

Hig Swiggett was in Oakley Mon
day on a land deal.
Clyde Poffenberger and the editor
made an auto trip to north of Park
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. d. Fitzpatrick or
Franklin township were shopping in
the city Wednesday.
See the HELP THE HEN LAY cou-
pom of DR.. Pruitt's of Hays, Kansas,
on page 8. Adv. 80 2t.
For Sale or Trade-Six horse Weber
gasoline engine, in good repair. Jas.
Pugh. Brownell, Kan.-Adv 80 At
Remember the date for the Cam
bridge Players, the third number of
the lecture, Saturday evening, Dec
ember 2.
Editor Clark of the Hays Free Press
was a visitor to the city last Monday
afternoon. He made this Office a
pleasant call. Sorry we were out of
town when he called.
A license was issued Tuesday auth
orizing the marriage of George N.
Burback and Miss Winifred Van
and Miss Emma V. Burback. All
these popular young people are of
Collyer township.
The Methodist Aid society ladies
will hold their annual baZar and
chicken pie supper in the parlor and
basement of the NJ. E. church, Tues
day afternoon and evening, Deem
Der 5. Bazaar opens at 2:3O p. M. and
supper will be served from $50 to 700
p. m. Everybody come.
The third number of the lecture
course will be given at the court
house, Saturday evening, December
2, by the Cambridge Players, -four
people, presenting dramatic and mus
zeal numbers in costume. This COM
pany carries its own scenery. Single
admission tickets on sale at GibSon's
and at the door at usual prices, fifty
and thirty five cents for the general
! public and pupils, respectively. The
bureau considers this the best num-
Der of the course.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

day.
The canvass of the vote was first tkenup.
No material differences was found from the
certificates of votes cast to this office by
the several election boards. After the can
vass of the votes of the absent voters was
credited to the several candidates Che
board declared those candidates elected re-
ceiving the highest number of votes to the
Office for which they were candidate. and
that the county clerk should issue each
successful candidate certificate of elect
ion and transmit the same to the Secretary
of State. abstracts required.
The Official Vote:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
County Commissioners Proceedings
November 10th. 1916.

The Board of County Commissioners of
TreSo county met today at the Office of the
county clerk required by law for the pur-
pose of canvassinG the returns of the gene
raj election held in Trego county Nov.-7
1916.
All members of the board was present, to
wit s. A. Newcomer. chairman; John Nc
Naughton A. Il. Hamm and the county
clerk. The Loard was called TO order by
the chairman and remained in session the
10th and 11th, taking recess from day to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

Theo. Cruson returned Sunday
night TO his home near Lebanon,
Ore, after a stay of seven months
here. He was called to Kansas on,
account of the death of his father
and had remained to arrange some
business affairs. He likes the vest
ern coast country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

Buy Prince Albert every
Dhere tobacco IS sold IN
fopPy red bags, Sc; tidy red
fins, Zoe; handsome pound
and haF-pound tin huyz1i-
dors-ond-tHnf corking fine
pound cDstoI-gtass hun1i-
dor IDith spo1ge-n,oisfener
fop that keeps the tobacco
IA such clever trn-ailUays!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02
the national JOY smoke

it is delightful. You the like of it!
!, either.
Men who think they can't smoke pipe roll ciga-
rette smoke and viii smoke if they Prince
Albert. And smokers who have not yet given P. A.
out certainly have big surprise and lot of enjoyment
coming their way they invest In supply.
Prince Albert tobacco will tell its story
R J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Wnston-saIem NJ c.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

On the reverse side
of this tidy red tin
you viii read: PRO
cess Patented July
30th, 1907" which
has made three men
smoke pipes where
one smoked beforel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

has flavor as different it is delightful. You
And that ism t strange, either.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-02

Fresh PORK at Bakers adv
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-31
A. L. FONTAINE, Publisher.
Thursday, August 81, 1916.
Vine Street and Bridge.

We are informed by Geo. N. Wood
that Vine street at the east end of
the wagon bridge is 81 feet. wide be-
tween buildings. There is now in use
a roadway on Vine street at the bridge
"a feet wide and sidewalks on either
side of said street 10 feet wide. The
wagon bridge has q driveway 10 feet
wide and sidewalks on either side 8
feet wide. The west end of the bridge
opens into Grand avenue which is sc
feet wide, George insists that a
bridge Sc feet wide or more can be
built on Vine street which is true
Even wider bridge could be erected
if desired. All this is true, but it
would not change the contested con-
dition on Vine street or the good rea,
sons for a neg bridge
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-31
DIRE DISTRESS.
1t Is Near at Hand to Hundreds of
Grand Rapids Readers.

Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is often the kidneys cry
for help.
Neglect hurrying to the kidneys aid
Means that urinary troubles may
follow.
Or danger of worse kidney trouble.
Here's Grand Rapids testimony.
Mrs. A. C. Smith, 1897 Washington
Ave, Grand Rapids says: ga bad at
tack of kidney trouble laid me up for
eleven months. Dizzy spells came on
me and sharp pains shot thru my back
The kidney secretions were in bad
shape. I tried Doan's Kidney Pills
and one or two boxes relieved me so
much, that continued taking them
Six boxes cured me-"
Price SOC at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
cured Mrs. Smith Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-31

Miss F. Richards, a cousin of Mrs
Margrey, departed last Saturday for
her home in Longwood, after spending
ten days at the Margrey home. She
was accompanied to Chicago by S.
Frances Margrey, who will spend the
next year in a school in Indiana.
Miss Mae Lorenz and cousins Ray
and Viola Frye of Chicago, went to
Almond Saturday for a few days visit
at Otto Lorenz, Jr. Miss Lorenz ex-
pected to return Monday and her cou-
sins will continue on the homeward
trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Margrey spent Some
time visiting at the Otto Lorenz, Sr
home. Sunday.
A light frost Saturday the 26th
but as far as we have learned nc
damage was done. Tho some state
they had heavier frosts-