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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-02
STACCERS A MILE
WOUNDED BY Gun
Milan Youth accidentally Discharges
Weapon While Hunting West
ol the Village.
TAGEN TO Sc. ANTnoNps HERE
Missile Enters Thigh of His Leg After
Impact Explodes Firing Piece
When lie Stnmbles.

Weak from the loss Of blood. his
cries for help becoming fainter and
fainter. William Won Ach, 17-year-
old Milan youth, staggered into the
village this morning after having
walked a mile with 4 gunshot wound
in his leg.
Residents of the west end Of the
village heard his appeals for help and
rushed to him He was hurried into
the village where doctor was sum
moned and first aid given him. and
later he was taken TO st. Anthonys
hospital, where it is reported he is in
q serious condition.
Young Won Ach who lives with his
sisters and brothers in Milan. his par
ents being dead, is employed at the
Rock Island arsenal, hut was on a
vacation which was scheduled to last
for a month. He went hunting early
this morning and while stepping over
a rock at point about a mile west
OF Milan lie slipped and fell, the gun
being discharged as a result of the
impact The charge entered his thigh.
Walking WCakens Him.
Maintaining a presence Of mind re-
markable for a youth Of his years. he
Immediately began the journey to
Milan. a mile away He found the
going more difficult as he continued
as the blood flowed from the wound
and in time weakened him so that he
could only stagger along and made
i his cries for help, which were CON
tinuous, fainter and fainter. The
wound ordinarily would not have beer
I so serious but for the loss Of bloo6
+ resulting f1on his walking the dis.
lance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-02

tiyes until after they have been exam
med and accepted In the case Of the
Alabama Negroes coming from a much
warmer climate preparations are being
made TO keep them warm until exam
nations can be made and uniforms is
sued. Examination Of geo Iowa, NIi-
nois and Minnesota Negroes who al
ready have arrived is progressing rap
idlE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-02
ARTILLERY RANCE
At CAMP MAPPED
FOR HEAVY FIRING
Soldiers at Dodge Cantonment Pre-
pare to Drop Explosives on
Large Tract oi Land.
vo0DEN GrN WODELs ARE MADE
duplicates Of Large Field Pieces Are
Constructed Tor Preliminary
Practice.
pee.al to The Argus .

Camp Dodge la, Nov. 2.-Wariike
hattie maps OF the recently obtained
fge.m.a artillery range for the
sigaw-agh.n division Of the national
arm. are n the process of making.
w.u maps of the battle fronts in
France as examples officers now are
6g.r dividing and subdividing, reck
arna aud determining the various
problems which The men later viii be
Jailed upon TO work out
These maps iu every detail viii be
s thoroughly practical az II force
,f ~aa.oa soldiers had established
raf ur DHa winter in trenches south
and west of the town of Granger, near
tHp extremity OF he range. At this
1aur The tract on which the shells
.r. a drop Is about one and one-half
miles n width
Land Is Rolling,
Odd. little more could be asked in
..r way of typographical advantages
t..r ara offered by the contour Of
r.e puI Itis slightly rolling and the
detectives and targets may be seen
mm light rise back of the point
where the guns Will be placed
ASS .e. u1 field pieces have arrived
.al .aa arslierymen to practice with,
HH. 70 has been announced several
guns are being shipped from the Rock
island arsenal and should arrive in
camp before long.
The guns Of the three artillery regi-
mega are 90 be OF different sizes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-02


camp Dodge Iowa, Nov. 2 The ef-
forts OF the men selected from Iowa.
Minnesota. North Dakota and Illinois
to make OF themselves the best sol
diers the world has ever seen, are not
going unappreciated by Major Gen
eral +. II. Plummer, division comman-
der.
A memorandum posted at division
headquarters by direction OF the gen-
erai gives expression to q feeling Of
qualification for the manner in which
the soldiers and officers are deporting
themselves.
The commanding officer is greatly
pleased" the memorandum says, with
the manner in which the soldiers are
salRting and deporting themselves
Special attention is called TO an I'M
expected tour which the general made
down Main avenue on which occasion
the department Of the men and officers
was all that could be asked.
j wouldn't have missed having a
hand in the making of this national
army for anything in the world, is
the way an old regular army officer
/ expressed himself recently while re-
ferring to the work being done by the
recruits at Camp Dodge.
When the plan first vas developed
/ / was selfish enough to hope I might
F be assigned to q national guard organ
/ ization. because ! thought the work
would run smoother in view Of the fact
these units had been organized foI
many years. Now I'm glad ! was sent
here"
Z officers are agreed that the selected
men at Camp Dodge are going TO de
yelop soon into d. part of the greatest
military organization In United
States history.
Although the men themselves vii
be entitled 10 the greatest praise foi
their development, the officers whe
hare had charge Of the work OF train
ing and disciplining them will he glat
they had the opportunity to aid in tht
work
1t was moving day at Camp Dodg.
Wednesday
officers at division headquarters to
gether with those OF the division sur
staff officers. were moved to the new
quarters, Des Moines avenue ans
Twentieth street. 1t was not 0rdinar
moving, but a regular exodus. For a
O. least a dozen moving vans were use
d to transfer the furniture and import
ant papers from the old headQuarter
10 the new.
Captain Preston C. Skaggs of tn
Quartermaster's reserve corps la
, been ordered 10 the remount depot q
p Camp Dodge to command the WACO
company. according to dispatches re
ceived from Washington,
p Dr. H. h, Greenfield has been re
I lieyed from duty at ST, Louis and Of
, dered to the Eighty-eighth division a
p contract surgeon and member OF Tia
Z board to examine soldiers for traces
p tuberculosis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-02

ASK for Handy Box" matches, the
AH5 you hang up on the wall. Cost
mo- more than ordinary box. Sold by
a.| leading grocers.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
The Falling Submarine Score.

Las. weeks submarine score was the
lowest since the beginning of ruthless
U-boat warfare, with a destruction of
thirteen British merchantmen of over
1900 tons and two of less tonnage,
total of fifteen ships. The lowest pre-
vious record was that of the week end
ing August u, when only sixteen vessels
of all tonnage were sunk. A striking
the week before only eight vessels of
the higher tonnage were sunk, the
smallest number at any time since the
intensive campaign began, twenty ships
of small tonnage were destroyed, the
highest number of that class of craft
with one exception in the course of
this fight against England's carrying
trade. This week the score of ships
sunk of the higher tonnage rises by
five and that of the smaller ships drops
by eighteen. The reduction of ships of
all tonnage sunk from twenty eight to
fifteen indicates that the German sub
marines are either less numerous or less
effective This reduction cannot be due
to diminution of the number of ships
in the submarine zone, for the arrivals
during the week at British ports were
2,775 and the sailings were 2,69l. These
arrivals and sailings were approximate
ly at the normal point Of many weeks
past, so that the low score made by
the submarines was not due to lack of
possible victims, but must have been
attributable to the superior methods of
protection now employed to safeguard
commerce. Germany's present hope
lies In her submarine warfare. She
Evening star., 1917-09-30

tho allied forces suffer comparatively
little in the attack. If they can hold
the positions until they are "consoli-
Dated" which means turning them
around, so to speak, to face the east in
stead of the west, they are prepared to
resist attacks. The Germans have not
time to deliver intensive artillery fire to
make clear the way for these counter
attacks. They must strike before the
British and French, after one of these
advances, have had chance to bring up
their field artillery and change the
range of their heavy and more distant
guns. So they must strike quickly, and
it is in these advances that they suffer
so frightfully. If they wait until they
can reorganize their artillery, itself
badly damaged by the intensive pre-
paratory fire Of the allies, they find
themselves in precisely the position
they were before the assault. So they
are faced with choice of evils, to suffer
a series Of backward pushing attacks
that lose them valuable ground, or to
suffer the heavy losses of counter at
tacks that slow up the allied advance
but waste the man power prodigally.
has evidently chosen the
latter policy, in the hope, as suggested,
of stemming the French and British tide
to keep the western war map
as it is until spring.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
Germany's Counter Attacks.

Germany evidently is determined to
prevent if possible a spectacular ad-
vance by the allies on the western front
this autumn so as to hold the "war map"
approximately the same in that quarter
while showing to the German people a
materially extended holding of enemy
territory in the east as result of Rus
sia's breakdown. By this time, doubt
less, the German people have come to
appreciate that the war is actually be-
ing fought in France and Flanders. So
long as the fight can be maintained on
French and Belgian son, with no great
changes of position. Germany may be
able to delude her citizens into the be-
lief that the fight is being won. If,
however, another big retreat occurs
equal to that of last February at the
Somme this confidence would be serious
ly shaken. Consequently, it is vitally
important for Won Hindenburg to throw
into the fight on the west all the forces
he can concentrate, not in the hope of
regaining the aggressive in that quarter,
but to stop the British and French ad
vances, which are imperiling his posi-
tion.
All the reports of the recent fighting
on the west front indicate terribly
heavy German losses. In an effort to
regain the positions lately taken by
Gen. Haig, the Germans have been
counter attacking in succession of as
saults such as has never been known be-
fore in the course of the war In one
day seven heavy blows were delivered,
and all were parried. It is in this kind
of fighting that the severest losses oc-
cur. The British and French move out
to capture positions only after an in
tensive preparatory artillery FIRE. Fol-
lowing this pulverizing rain Of shells
snd advancing behind barrage fire
which keeps the enemy in his dugouts,
Evening star., 1917-09-30
ARGENTINA.
From the Seattle Post-1ntelligencer.

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
AS a medium for transmitting Ger
man diplomatic messages. the Swedish
ninister to Argentina has achieved
nome success. but he is not what might
ne termed a happy medium
From the Charleston News and Courier.
A German-inspired general strike in
Argentina will hardly make the citi-
zens of that country feel more kindly
toward the kaiser.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
That general strike in Argentina. laid
+o German agents, may make 1t neces-
sary for the military to use the lamp
nosts in Buenos Aires for purposes
other than lighting.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Argentina and Brazil have a very
clear sense of what German success
would mean for them. and they may
feel like taking some part in the great
var for Independence Of Germany
Evening star., 1917-09-30
"Teddy" on Tour.

Mr.. Roosevelt's visit to the middle
west and the northwest has shown how
well qualified he is for securing atten-
ton for the war problem. Whether at
cantonments, addressing soldiers in the
making, or in big town halls, addressing
citizens on their duty to the govern
ment at this time, he aroused great en-
thusiasm. Men and women cheered him
to the echo.
This was not the result of oratory.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not an orator. He has
few graces of diction, and none of de-
livery His voice is neither musical nor
appealing. He does not cajole, but
drives an audience He is as hard and
direct as a tack hammer.
The result was attributable to belief
in the speaker on the subject he was
discussing His hearers accepted his
words at full value They did not doubt
his sincerity. They had always asso-
ciated him with the sentiments he was
then expressing. War being on, they
felt certain "Teddy's" heart was in it.
They had not come to enjoy display
of oratory, but display of conviction,
rigidly, if ruggedly, made; and they
were not disappointed.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not discreet with
either tongue or pen. As the phrase is
he is apt to "blurt out things" better
left unsaid, or, if said, said in smoother
style than he employs. Whatever pops
into his mind pops out, without much
change.
But his qualities and peculiarities are
known and allowed for. The people
know how to "take" him. What would
not in another escape open and direct
rebuke, in him is either smiled off or
excused. The good he does far exceeds
the harm.
Now that he has begun this valuable
work, Mr.. Roosevelt should keep it up.
The Star proposed it for him months
ago. AS he is not for work in the
trenches-he complains about being
barred-he should have liberal assign
ments behind the trenches. There are
many cantonments. There are sections
of the country where the war has not
yet stirred the people. Their indiffer-
ence is a topic of remark. Let Mr..
Roosevelt swing around the circle-go
wherever he is welcome and is needed
He has the time and the means, and he
could not employ either in work more
important just now to the cause he has
so much at heart.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
SURPRISING SEDITION.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The nature OF the disloyal and sedi-
tious sheets that now circulate through
express companies and newsdealers is
such that suppression Is essential to the
national safety.
From the New York World.
But how can La Toilette be stopped
circulating?
From the Philadelphia Record.
We again invite the attention Of three
or four senators to the fact that at ~.
rious times five senators have been ex-
PEELED for disloyalty.
From the Memphis Commercial-Appsal.
Germany's yellow dachshund fund@
needs a tracer on its trail. Who got 1T
From the Hartford Courant.
If there are still any Irishmen OF
Irish-Amerfcans who have doubts about
the quality Of German friendship efoe
Ireland. their eyes ought to be opeoed
by the disclosure OF the State Oopa1S.
ment In WashingtAA
Evening star., 1917-09-30
REVELATIONS OF GERMAN PLOTTING.

From the Pittsburgh Chroncle-Telegraph.
Is there country in all the world in
which agents of Germany have not been
plotting?
From the Philadelphia Press.
We may not have found out all about
Germany, but 1t looks as II we had
found out enough.
From the Springfield Republican.
The more test tubes filed with mi
crobes are thought about as a part
Of warfare. the greater seems the need
for making the world safe for decent
folks to live in.
From the Chicago News.
No wonder Bernstorn looked worried
all the time.
From the Raleigh News and Observer
German marks are now plainly seen
In many intrigues.
From the Boston Transcript.
Some Of the German plotters must
have been nervous for fear that II ar
rested they wouldn't be tried in Coha-
lAn's court
Evening star., 1917-09-30
America and Terrorism"

In the course Of his speech before the
main committee Of the German reichstag
Chancellor Michaelis said:
ain the United States the government
attempted by all methods, even by un-
paralleled terrorism, to stir up war en-
thusiasm, which had hitherto been non
existent among the wide masses"
Just what the chancellor means by this
and to what period he refers is not
clear. 1t cannot be in reference to the
raids and arrests just conducted by the
government in New York and Chicago,
which are of too recent occurrence to
have been known to the chancellor when
he made his speech. There has been
nothing in the nature of terrorism" in
this country. The government has at
no time attempted by any process Of
agitation to foment war feeling. Ger
many has done infinitely more to stir up
war enthusiasm in the United States
than has the American administration.
Germany's own acts in 1914 sent fame
Of indignation running through the
American people, and that flame has
never died When at last at the end of
January, 1917, the government at Ber-
lin announced its intention to begin un-
restricted submarine warfare the Amer
lean people with very few exceptions de-
manded a break of relations with Ger
many, even though it involved hos
tilities. The real terrorism in the
United States has been that Of the anti
war propagandists. the frebrand pacifists
and the plotters against the peace and
security Of the people, who have gone
to all lengths to oppose the war and to
cripple the American measures for its
prosecution. If the German chancellor
is we'll informed of American conditions
he is simply in statements of this kind
seeking to delude the people of Germany
into belief that the United States gov
ernment itself forced this country into
war, in an effort to offset the American
charge that the nutocratic government
at Berlin forced war upon Europe with
out consulting the wishes of the German
not we'll posted the conclusion follows
that his agencies of information, once so
numerous and SO reliable, are no longer
effective.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
Business and Politics.

Tho bringing together of leading busi-
ness men and leading politicians In the
country's behalf, as the war is dong, is
serving a purpose the effect OF when
will survive the war. It should, and
probably will, long be felt.
Hitherto. business men have known too
little about politics, and politicians too
little about business. Mistakes growing
mt of this condition of things-igno-
rance, if you please-have been made
Fewer complaints would have been
lodged if a better understanding had
existed
Take the case of the trusts. Business
men have charged the politicians with
inability to distinguish between the good
and the evil of big business comblna-
tions. The politicians for a time re-
sponded with the charge that big busl-
ness seemed to work only evil; that all
trusts in that particular were alike.
That view, however, had been greatly
modified before the war began.
Take the case of the tariff. Business
men for years asserted that many OF
the difficulties growing out of tariff leg
islation proceeded from the fact that,
as a rule. Congress was composed largely
Of politicians who knew nothing about
the subject. Protest at least reached
the point where a national convention
of business men. without knowledge OF
the political end of the proposition,
formally proposed that the tariff be
taken out of the hands of Congress and
put into the hands of commission of
experts. Evidently they had never read,
or had forgotten, the Constitution OF
the United States.
Both business and politics are now
very much in the picture. They are COM
panions. They are working together as
public servants Hence they are In the
way of understanding each other. Old
complaints should cease as soon as this
eomradeship is we'll established.
And out of this understanding and
comradeship much future good should
issue. The business men will have
greater influence with the politicians,
and the politicians greater influence
with the business men. The necessity for
this will be great, since the country Is
not likely to return to antewar condl-
tions. Henceforth the state will be in
closer touch with business; and conse-
uuently those in both legislative and
executive commission for handling state
Affairs must be better advised than in
the past about what is best for the
state and for business: A campaign Of
education is now in progress.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
HEARD AND SEEN.

At a night session up on Capitol Hill
! not long ago a large person from the
west, with considerable nerve and no
modesty, endeavored to get into one of
the public galleries. Because of the
fear on tho part Of a certain employe
that he will be kidded to death by this
narrative, let US not ask whether 1t
was the House or Senate gallery. How
ever the large person had a nne set OF
musta ches. upturned and diplomatic IN
| their general aspect. Win MIN tfalieo
three women dressed to XIII in the
finest stuff you ever saw In all your
| life.
Well, all the galleries were filled, ex-
cept the executive gallery and the dip
| lomatic gallery. The large nervy per-
son didn't think he could bluff his way
into the Presidents own reservation,
but he waltzed up to the diplomatic
gallery, and it was just his luck that
the regular veteran doorkeeper was not
on the job at that moment.
The substitute, though. looked MIN
over, and decided he must be some
thing or other with all that mustache
and that fleet of females.
TT is necessary to have your card.
though" said the doorkeeper. because
1 have to know who you are.
II have no cards with me-" responded
Nervo. But l am the Ahkoond OF
Swat and these are three of my wives
And with that the doors swung open
and the quartet OF four-dushers went
in. sat down, gazed upon the session
below and later retired.
The next day some one told the SUD
stitute doorkeeper that Nervo had put
one over on him.
Jaw, shucks." replied the substitute.
that amt nothing. Freaks like that
butt in here every day..
~
The busiest little fellows in the world
these days are the correspondents OF
the southern newspapers. which indi-
Gates a whole lot to the northern pollti-
clan who has been off the government
pay roll for 10. these many years. These
southern boys are rushing around town
irving to scoop one another. and having
a terrible time doing it. and in order to
get something real fresh and grand
every now and then one of 'em will
write a perfectly wonderful story ABOUT
some prominent southern statesman,
which is all right except that 1t lacks
the facts.
that Claude Kitchin, the untamed demo-
cratic bronco from Scotland Neck. n. C.,
has bought a secondhand fence. II
rnmor is correct Mr.. kitchin probably
houeht the fence to put it around a ten
acre lot or to chop 1t up Tor kinonng.
The purchase of this fence Is certainly
nothing to stir the curiosity OF a Won
dering multitude, but there is one
southern correspondent who TOOK ?
grand running leap into the ether aho'
iabbing his pen into the Milky way,
wrote a glorious description OF now
make public benefaction out of that
fence. L.,
Evening star., 1917-09-30

cannot win on the land, save perhaps in
Russia, where victory will be Of no per-
manent advantage. Her lines In the
west are steadily yielding to tho allied
attacks. The German people have been
stimulated to great expectations from
the submarines. If the truth Of the
steady and increasing failure Of these
vessels to cripple England becomes
known to the people, reaction is likely
to be powerful in proportion to the hope
of victory through piracy.
Evening star., 1917-09-30
Universally Sought.

All simple are the togs he wears;
He likes to 60 without a coat.
The outdoor world invites his cares;
He does not rank with men of note.
He does not make a speech or write
Wise words of comfort or alarm,
Nor join the festive throng by night.
He simply works upon farm.
And yet all eyes to him are raised.
Each cabbage is blossom fair;
The corn and oats are humbly praised,
More precious now than jewels rare.
His old straw hat looks like crown:
His mood has dignity and charm;
He is the envy of the town
The man who works upon . faxm