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New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
Sniipiing a Sniiper
Bv PATRICK MACGILL, Author of The Great Push"
"Not half" said Benners absently;

"Not half" said Benners absently.
"And I bet Ginger Iggles a bob I'd
lay the sniper by the 'eels," said Spud-
hole. "But It's no CO."
well. where can the fellow be-"
asked Benners, removing a speck OF
dust from the back sight of his rife
with a cautious hand. mo man can
fire at us from the German trench. It's
behind rise, and even If one OF the
Boches looks over the parapet he can't
see our trench. But still the fact re-
mains that no sooner does one Of our
boys look over the parapet than bull
let zips past his ear. Where does the
bullet come from? The sniper must
be between the lines. He must, but
where?"
Spudhole shrugged his shoulders
helplessy and muttered: "Wo was
fools comm out ere. But e ms done
FOR four of our fellows an e must die.
II e doesnt'---
He shook a cautious little head and
became silent. The sun sank down the
sky, and its sight slid along the bar
rels Of the rifles from handguard to
muzzle whenever the weapons were
moved. Benners crunched a biscuit
with Jealous teeth; Spudhole traced
burrows in the ground with his trigger
finger, but all the time kept his eyes
fixed on the front.
"Our boys are maxim tea now," he
said. "Its about 4 o'clock, | suppose.
That damned suns in no 'urry,
neither. Therel' he calculated sud
denly. zone Of our boys as put is
'ead over the trenchl Wait"
Both men heard il, a smothered
shrek like the sound Of drowning
puppy. ,,s
hole in a fierce voice. "The damned
fool! Bowdy!'
what is it, Spud?"
81 saw smoke" said Spudhole, speak
ing calmly. "Just look over. See a
little holler near the German lines !
Yes? Well there's a dead man there,
wiv is knees curled up. Got i'm
That's the place. saw puff OF smoke
and somefng moved. Look, Bowdy.
See somefing shining"
81 see it." said Benners.
"The suns catchin' the sniper's tpe:"
Both the youngsters drew their
weapons taut TO their shoulders and
adjusted their sights.
"Four-ffty?" inquired Spudhole,
sighting his range at $50 yards. -,
"a little lower, little lower" said
Benners. Make it four and you'll not
he far out It'll be hard TO judge
IL we hit the dead man. He'll not
raise a dust. You aim first, Spud.
Spudhole's left cheek twitehed, and
his eve took in the objective. He pulled
the trigger. A squirt of dust few into
the air a little to the rear Of the dead
man.
"Aim low, and we'll get him next
time" said Benners.
Roth rifles spoke together. A figure
detached itself from the limp lump
which lay in the hollow near the en-
emy's lines. rose to standing posi-,
tion. and beat the air with agltated
arms. A,
Thus for a moment, and then the
thing collapsed in an abjeet heap on
| the ground. =.
"That's ALL" said Spudhole, his eyes
full of the pride of an artist who
looks on completed masterrieee
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

"It's Jolly way Of fghtin' this
said Spudhole, as he changed his posi-
ton by the fraction of an inch without
removing his eye from the tip OF the
rife foresight. "Gawd," he whispered,
81 ave i'm now. | saw somehn' move
Just like a bird. I'll give i'm a round
Don't" muttered Bowdy Benners un-
der his breath. "It's no good firing II
you're not sure of your man. One shot
will give us away, and that's the TWEEN
ticth time you've seen him; each time
I'm n different spot. He's not like
bird: he can't be in two places at one
time. What the hell! Don't move
"a cramp in my CUTS" groaned Spud-
hole, wiggling a little. "Gawd' IT. lsnt
'arf giving me gypl Ooh-wooh!"
The youth kicked out with both legs
raised his head an inch or two, then
brought it down again to the level Oh
the earth. Benners swore under his
breath and cursed Spudhole with We
hemence. u,
must move. I'd rather ave bullet IN
the 'ead than a cramp in my belly.
Wooh! It'll twist me up like edge
'Og!" , n .,rn
ing half left and fixing his eyes on
Spudhole.
"Wot"
"You know that il you're seen NOV
ing You'll get bullet across here =
az don't care a damn" said Spudhole.
"But do" muttered Benners. Next
time | come out sniping I'm going to
take a man with me; one that won't
give a position away when he has got
sore tummy"-- -,
"I'm not going to move no more
said Spudhole. T'm going TO be as
1uiet as a sandbag. OohwOOh!"
Both boys lay close to the crest OF
n hole in the ground, which rose behind
the British front line. 1t was now noon,
and they had been out there since 8
o'clock in the morning, lying prone
with their heads close to the ground,
their eyes fixed on the enemy's trench,
which wound slyly as a snake over the
levels some 700 yards away. The Eng
lish line was right in front, and APP
parcntly near-"a spit down from us,
as the youth nicknamed Spudhole re-
marked. ,,,. =,
"Gawd, it's a funny business, KILN
an killin'," said Spudhole. "Ons would
think that We enjoys it by the fuss
the pypers in England makes about it,
Flows your cramp now" asked Ben
ners. "Gone, is it?" -,
"It's 'opped it," said Spudhole, with a
laugh. "Blimeyl"
Both men covered to earth giggling
nervously as a shell burst near them,
scattering a cloud Of dust over their
bodies. A second she'll burst, ard q
third.
"They must have spotted us" SAID
Benners. frowning at the fields. III
they have it's all up
But the shelling ceased as suddenly
as il had begun, and the youngsters
breathed freely again. 3,
"Cleaning out their guns, suppose,
Benners continued. Lucky they didn't
clean us out OF existence. I'm
tired OF waiting here
"I'm tired an 'ungry an 'ot,' said
Spudhole. "But We can't get out or
this damned place till night. q.
They won't 'arf ave the laugh on US
when we 60 back"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
The Sinews of War
By Theodore M. Knappen

WORK, NEB, July 28.-Eght great Begans with steady
stride OF efficient power drawing harvesters that were
telling the thick ranks OF the barley hfteenoot swath
halted their mighty frames lathered with sweat stood still al
ave. certainly in deep admiration for these magnhcent
animals and the perfectly running machines
WELL what do for you' asked the lean awed level
eyed young man the of the foremost machine
He caught my approving gaze at his power.
Great horses, those Belgans. Nothing like them.
Doing their bit for the old land, too | suggested
you know it. They fysix OF yesterday We
things days. and those Begans work they
driving nails in German consand they when
Won come to think of it."
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

Oh, when women ask the ballot
It's an easy thing to say,
An easy way of wriggling out
And getting clean away,
Say that homes the place for woman
And It's there that she should stay,
Lingering long about the kitchen,
Never working out for pay.
Never working out for pay,
For the Ants always say
Only selfish, greedy women go a-workIhg out
for pay,
Home is where she ought to stay
That's the sort of thing men say,
Till they need her seIf-supportng, when they
take her man away.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

sight Of hghbred disturbing the peace in pursuit
, ,,bin, New York Times editorial, July 90 1917.
That petty whim, alas, alas,
What trouble it has always made;
What horrid wars has brought to pass,
What tyrants slain, what kings betrayed,
What conflicts made 'twixt class and class,
What martyrs, firm and unafraid,
What men have died on land and sea,
For it-this whim of being free.
Oh, women, let us pray that we
In days to come, in life's decline,
May see though we ourselves are free,
The road stretch on, the vision shine;
Oh, pray that we may never be
Like him who wrote that shabby line,
PRAY God we may not be like him,
Who looks on freedom as a whim.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
Geared to High Speed

Wheat, oats barley and afaa-al demanding immediate
havesngand the cornfeds crying for cuvation-these are
the West High prices and the everywhere prevalent
feeling that every grain and every blade be saved this
drive every every horse and every tractor to the limit OF
endurance
isn't grand all this said Banker C. A. McCloud, of York.
with local pride his eyes swept the fruitful vista Men
horses, crops soil, earth and sky-can you beat it'
Here in this great agricultural West the visitor to feel
the power the nvncibe strength OF the Republic
where else 1t is something than the primitive force that
strengthened the muscles OF Standing here the
harvest fields amid 1.-the snewy, active ettecuay using the
OF animals and mechanical power gazing upon these endless
fields well ordered we'll cared for feels that all this talk
about the German superman in all his OF auocrac
efficiency have been genius to the genius
Of democracy
The Proof of Democracy
Directed by no pedanc bureaucracy cowed by military
caste bound efficiency by official red tape these OF the
farms these plain Americans each developing himself and direct
ing his life in his own way are to-day serving their country and
the great cause as no supeoganzaton could hope do tat
least with OF their kind On the fruitful heds OF the
great central valley OF America democracy to-day giving the
possible argument for itself To work its
eciencyth efficiency the broad fields and enter
plises wonder Germany may this but to
the stupidity the autorac brains that thought
OF challenging the peaceful giant to trial at arms.
Germany done the way the West puts it There is no
The city folk may wish there were more brass bands
OF the errbeness OF an with banners this Perhaps
the farmers do too but undeonstrate they like the
steady busneske way the nation gets itself ready 1t fills them
with confidence 1t isn't the cuvetng mustang that does the bu
the farm It's those big quiet Belgans that put their
shoulders the collar with pull that that they will move
anything that the tugs can stand
Farmer Boys Enlistng
The farmer boys slip away by and enlist In
station waiting may be mother and soldier son in
khaki speaking what may be the long farewell Very few OF these
bows are enstng for adventure the pursuit OF glory Duty
moves You have dig hard through their oshng to
find it out beneath you find that the little schoohouse
and the much condemned teacher who supposed be
eeminzng the boys have done their work True they all had
such horror of war such Uopan belief that the civilized
would again be each others thoat they were
instructive pacis few months ago They looked at things
etC,,lI he heV
same evolution that President Wilson did They have gone
through it with him. Now they with him to the end
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

We do not ourselves agree in the policy of pketng not
ause think protest should ever be made against in
ce no tea thrown into harbor ever deposed;
M rather because mancy is the method of despair and at
pent woman suffrage sweeping everything before there
and in Canada England Russia and France
We do approve of the policy of pcketng but we can
M help noticing that the politicians who most strongly oppose
are saving in effect militant we shall put them
the workhouse if they orderly shall forget all about
them
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
Washington, July %.

Editor Coming Tower-The Gentleman from New
York moves that the column do now adjourn.
The motion agreed to, too; accordingly (at 10
o'clock and 81 minutes n.y. The Tower adjourned until
Tuesday morning July 81, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

And this perhaps is good time as any other to quote
Lord More description of the conservative with his mex
austble patience of abuses that only torment others; his
getc word for beliefs that not be precisely true as
one could wish and institutions that not altogether use
M one might think possible his cordiaty toward progress
and improvement in general way and anpathy TO each
progressive proposal in particular.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

Mtancy has usual alenated great many people from
cause in which they never believed
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

MANY members of the Administration, says D. L IN lhe
Evening POST Openly declared that while they might have
n voraby disposed toward suffrage they will not vote for 1t
until the womens organizations show better respect Tor law
and order
not fortunate that all the mems organizations such as
and the w. behaving perfectly or else the
Administration might have to abandon its belief in manhood
mTraqe too? And that would be awkward at present
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

From Cambridge Anti-Suffrage Notes No 1852 we learn
that man addressing womans club IN San FRANCISCO SaU
that women are rapidly assuming the same relation to the
nation that thew have occupied in the home The author OF the
Notes is Mortified at such prospect and asks whether IN the
future man is to become purely ornamental?
We do not know San Francisco, but we do know Cambridge
and seems to us that the writer alarms herself
Tho od States government is rapidly cutting the ground
from under the feet of the anti-suffragists
poster in newspaper Office in New Jersey calls Tor pa
ITS N oin the Marine Reserve Corpsmen between the ages
"a and Al single men, or married with self-suppormg
wives" an
Home does not be the sphere OF the wives Oh e
u S. Marine Corps Reserve.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
AdUice to Rebels
Bu One of the Governing Glass

e larger number of suags devotng themselves to war ser
"a are embarrassing no one deserving the balot-D in Tn
Wv York Evening Post
Be patient and quiet,
And study to please.
Don't argue or riot,
Don't trouble or tease
Don't badger or harass
Great people like me,
For that might embarrass
Me greatly you see
Be docile, unswerVing,
Such virtues denote
That you are deserving
And fit for the vote:
Idon't think you'll get it,
hope not, indeed;
But then why regret it?
Why ask to be freed?
Your highest endeavor
Your prize, you admit,
Would be if you never
Annoyed me one bit.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29
Are Women People?
By ALICE DUER MILLER
The Petty Whim

Te sight hgbred disturbing the pursuit of their
~. ,bin, New York Times editorial, July 20, 1917
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
TO HAVE WHITE LINE OFFICERS
Newark, N. ].

Washington, d. Con the best in
formation obtainable, recommends
tions of the commandant at Camp
Fort Des Moines for commissions have
been received at the War Department
here. When the camp was established
/, $50 young colored men received ap-
pointments, $50 of whom were from
the four colored regiments of the reg
ular army.
When it was announced that at least
three divisions of colored troops, un-
der the selective draft act, would be
raised, Negroes expected that sec
ond camp for training of colored Off
GERS would follow in order to secure
anywhere like an adequate number of
colored line officers for the three di-
visions.
The very fact that a second camp
is not to be provided, although all
white camps for training officers had
a second consignment of men equal to
the first, means that the government
uOeS nOl " Ollittl Soioicu
regiments with colored officers, it is
pointed out
The very fact that but less than 500
commissions are to be awarded to the
1850 men who entered Camp Fort Des
Moines three months ago is said to be
another Indication that colored regi-
ments are to be differed by white Of
ficers-young white men who received
their training at white training camps
and possessing no more ability, endur'
ance and loyalty to country than pos
sessed by young colored men.
The War Department must furnish
commissions, battalions and compa-
MES for all the young white men
trained at white training camps for
officers, hence the provision for only
one training camp for colored officers
at Fort Des Moines so as not to have
more than about $50 left eligible for
commission. Many are wondering it
colored officers for colored regiments
was but dream of the race.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
UNIT OF COLORED AMER
ICAN TROOPS ON REG
ULAR ARMY PLAN

Washington, D. C.-Negro
troops of the National Army will
be organized in separate units,
as is done in the regular Army,
and as far as possible will be
trained in the states where they
are raised. The call for drafted
Negroes to mobolize at their
camps will be postponed to allow
officers at the camp to arrange
for the organization of these sep
arate Units. Both white and Ne
gro men of the selective forces
will be given an opportunity to
volunteer to battalions for SER
vice on the line of communica-
ton, their work being military,
but not combatant. There also
will be, however, Negro fighting
regiments of the National Army
as there are of the Regulars and
the National Guard. Of the
687, 900 men called for as the
f1st increment of the National
Army, it is estimated that ap-
proximately 10000 will be Ne
groes. In all, the Army in
France will need, it has been es-
timated, more than 100,0 900 men
behind the lines for use along
the roads and railways, or on
other special work. A great
many battalions of both white
and Negro troops will be neces-
sary for those purposes and the
War Department feels certain
that many of the Negroes of the
selective drapt forces will volun-
teer for that duty in order to be
sent quickly to France.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
NATIONAL RACE CON-
GRESS OF THE U. S.

Washington, D. ca Nat
ional Race Congress of the Uni
ted States will convene in its Sec
ond Annual Session at the Flori-
da Avenue Baptist Church here
October 3rd and 4th 1917.
Every phase of the Race con-
dition of the United States will
be discussed, including the East
St. Louis, the Chester, Pa, riots
and the immigration of Colored
People North.
Twenty-one states were repre-
sented in the last Congress. The
officers of the Congress are ap-
paaling to the race loving people
in every state to see to it that
they are represented in October.
The Colored People seem to be
aroused in this country as never
before, and many of the promi-
inent men of the race are eX-
pected to be present.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22

problem, which the white press could
do much toward remedying. He con-
tinued:
This serious problem is in the
South more especially, in city, towns
and villages, there can be found on the
police force uneducated white men
from the rural districts who place no
value upon the lives of colored men.
In the Southern cities they make the
mistake in selecting anybody in fill
ing the positions of police officers.
They should select men who have the
qualifications from the fact that ig-
norant men have no conception or
right They often dog colored civil
ians around, and they are forced to
take this treatment 1t does not even
stop there, they often dog and mis-
treat unarmed colored soldiers. They
don't know that there is no earthly
power to prevent these soldiers from
going and coming back. Any fair
minded man who has been around col
ored soldiers knows, as a rule, they
are harmless, but no man can mistreat
them. They are nice and sociable to
talk to when approached in the right
manner" '.-- -%--@. ~
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
THREE STATES CANNOT
SUPPLY DRAFT QUOTAS

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 19.-Geerg-
la, Alabama and Louisiana will
be unable to supply their full quo
tas of 40 per cent of whites or
dered to start for training camps
tomorrow, as the second incre-
ment of the first draft of the
national army. State authori-
ties said that the lateness of the
war department order calling
only white men was responsible
for their failure to furnish the
men desired. Georgia will send
only 5,291 whites, whereas its
quota is 1885, and Alabama and
Louisiana will each fall about
1000 men short, according to un-
official figures available tonight.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
CAN'T SCARE CoLoRED\UNiO
PRESIDENT.

| Praco, Ala, July 2S, 1917.-(Special
( to the Birmingham Reporter.) THAT
the white labor union is not friendly
toward the colored man in the mines
| is shown by a report from Praco
Mines just a few hours ago when a
colored man was seriously intimidated
by white men because of an office he
is holding by election when whites
and blacks met together and organ
| lied what is known as a United Mine
Workers Union.
At this place the Negroes outnum-
bered the whites by a fine working
majority, and they proceeded to put
one of their members in as president,
defeating the white aspirant, and this
has caused, as is reported, the white
union men to begin their nefarious
practices on the colored workmen.
The situation is pathetic, heart reno-
ing and the indications are that trou-
BILE may be had.
Informant states that the colored
man was elected president. He pro-
ceeded to exercise the functions of
his office as president of such office
Those who claim to be his friends
among the white labor union men ad-
vised him to quietly and submissively
resign and let one of the white breth-
rem have it. Mind you, it is stated
the Negroes number three to one in
that district. The colored brethren
said: No, he didn't think he would do
that; | am a miner just like you, only
have got the interest of my company
and my people at heart, and we repre-
sent the work in this district, and |
am not going to resign. Well, several
committees went to him; he still re-
fused and holds out with his colored
brethren strongly behind him, sup
porting him in his well chosen office.
One of the white brethren said
Jim, want you to give that office up
and let Mr.. Smith have it,"
"On what grounds must l do that?"
asked the colored gentleman.
well, you know we white men are
not going to let you preside over us.
niger
We'll, know l am not going to re-
sign
Then came the threats and the in
Limitations by his white brethren.
"You are an impudent d black
s-of b."
The colored man answered: 81 don't
know just why you say that, and l
don't know that l am all the things
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
RACE NE VS.
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Spencer and Captain Hamilton
Fish, Jr., lead their black troops
through the streets of Paris to-
ward the scenes of deliverance.
it will be a proud moment for
America. Our friends abroad
may then see how we, in a half
century, have raised an enslaved
race to full citizenship, how we
have solved the problem of assim-
ilation, and the brave knights
will be able to tell the liberty-lov-
ing Frenchmen that their broth
ers have been welcomed with
quality-as as writers and musicians
and actors and educators. 1T
is condition-the gallant Fif-
teenth-which would have en-
thralled with holy joy the heart
of the greatest humanitarian
Abraham Lincoln"
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
RACIAL NOR
ALITY AND
SOLDIERS

not fundamental thing. The morality
of the race is about to be threatened!
The social and religious forces among
our people everywhere, but especially
about the cantonments, should get
themselves together and with we'll
organized plan be able to meet this
situation, which is inevitable. We
shall regretfully see it's results in an
other few years if we do not.
WILLIAM M. ASHBY.
Newark n j.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22

you say | am, but there is one thing
l do know am president of this To-
cal. and I'm not going to resign, white
man. You need not to come to me any
more about it, have nothing in mind
like resigning or what you want me to
do"
Thus ends the first episode of Ne
groes associating with white folks.
The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
A SERIOUS DANGER IN SOUTHERN
CITIES

Galveston, Tex-E. c. Branch has
sons Magazine, commencing an arti-
Gle that appeared in the September is
sue, entitled Democratic Massacres
in East ST. Louis" by Martin Greun-
ing In the course of his letter, ne
said that there is another serious