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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
PAYROLL OF ARMY
Big Task Getting Money to Uncle
Sans Troops.
RATES HIGH UNDER new Law.

Biggest Pay Of Any Officer In tho Field
Is That Of Lieutenant General, Which
Is $1,000 a Year-United States Avi-
alton Force Offers Wide Field and Is
Rsmunerative.
Washington.-Uncle Sam for the first
time in nineteen years is getting ready
to pay a big field army. The army on
the border was designated as de-
partmental force. With 100000 men
scheduled to serve with the colors just
as soon as they can be obtained, a big
job faces the quartermasters at each Of
the six department headquarters, and
the finance division Of the depot here.
The finance division Of the depot in
Washington is under the direction Of
Major George G. Barnhardt. It pays
off all retired officers and soldiers I'M
der the war depot in the city, some in
the Philippines and some in Texas. Al
ready it has big task, and with the
increase Of the army it will be loaded
down with work.
The highest pay of any officer in the
field is that of lieutenant general,
which is $1,000 year. There is no
active lieutenant general now, however.
Generals Miles, Bates and Young, who
reached that rank, are all retired.
The pay of major general is $1,000
year at the time Of his appointment,
and he gets 10 per cent increase each
five years. This 10 per cent increase
each five years also applies to briga-
der generals, colonies, lieutenant colo
nels, majors, captains, first lieutenants
and second lieutenants.
The pay of brigadier general is &c.
600 year; colonel, $4,000, and lieu
tenant colonel, $780,. Other salaries
for line office are major, $4,000 year;
captain, $780,; first lieutenant, $1,000;
second lieutenant, $1,70O.
First and second lieutenants are very
much in demand. Examinations are
being held in many parts Of the coun-
try to fill up the ranks Of lieutenants
in order that the big army of recruits
may be drilled.
The aviation corps, which offers a
wide field and which is to receive much
attention, in addition to opportunities
for service, is attractive from the stand
point of pay. ..-
While on. duty that requires him to
participate regularly and frequently in
areial flights, each duly qualified mill
tary aviator receives an increase Of Is
per cent over the salary which the pay
of his grade entities him to-.
Chaplains appointed to the army will
receive $1,000 year, the pay Of first
lieutenant.
Privates receive SIS a month. In
case they are sent to Europe they will
get an increase of 20 per cent or SIS
per month. A certificate of merit en-
titles soldier to 50 a month more
and there is yet an additional sum for
expert ritlemen, sharpshooters and
marksmen. Cooks receive $50 month.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
vAssAR GIRLS TO TRAIN.
Abandon Festivities to Study Women's
Work In War.

Abandon Festivities to Study Women's
Work In War.
Poughkeepsie, N Y.-At a meeting
Of the Vassar College Students asso-
citation extensive preparedness meas
ures were taken. The spring program
was changed from a series Of week
end festivities to strict curriculum of
voluntary courses in which each girl
will be prepared in some way to be of
real service to the nation.
All college events calling for large
expenditure of money will be eliminat-
ed or modified. The money and the
time will be given over to instruction
In wireless telegraphy, library work,
Red Cross training, automobile mech
anlsm and operation and stenography.
Military drill was crossed from the list
as being impracticable.
Commencement exercises will be
greatly simplifed. The hoop dance and
procession of the daisy chain will be
omitted. The third hall play and the
senior prom are also stricken of.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
CUBA OFFERS AID
Well Trained Troops at Service
of United States.
PORTS OPEN TO. OUR SHIPS,

Will Act If Necessary as Hallway Sta
ton to Aid Northern Republic In
transportation Of Troops and NUM-
tions to Panama Canal or Other
Points on Gulf
New Orleans.-In addition to declar-
ing war on Germany Immediately fol-
lowing the lead Of the United States
government, Cuba will place $4,000
we'll trained troops-infantry, cavalry
and artillery-at the service of the
northern republic for the duration of
the war. President Mario G.. Menocal
has issued an order to this effect, and
Colonel Aureli0 Hevias, Cuban minis
ter Of war, is apportioning these troops
and selecting the officers who will ac-
company them.
First news Of this placing of whole
army division Of Cuban troops at the
orders of the. United States was
brought to New Orleans by Eduardo
r. Mendez, Cuban sugar expert, who
has just returned from Havana.
Cuba entered the great war largely
in an effort to show it's sincere friend
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05

ship for the United States" said Mr..
Mendez at his home "The island is
the key to the gulf Of Mexico and to
the Caribbean sea, and by declaring
war on Germany Cuba closes all her
ports to Germany. More than this, all
the ports of Cuba now are open to the
United States as war ally for indefi-
mite periods and for unlimited supplies
of all kinds, whereas had Cuba not en-
tered the war American warships
would have been subjected to all re-
strictions of international law as to
time of stay and amount of fuel OBJ
tainable there
I'm other words, Cuba desires to be
the outpost Of the United States in the
gulf and to act also if necessary as a
halfway station to aid the northern re-
public in it's transportation of troops
and munitions Of war to the Panama
canal or to other points on the gulf or
on the Caribbean sea. President Men,
ocal has announced officially in Ha-
vana that the entire Cuban army of
$4,000 men will be placed at the orders
Of the United States government and
will be supplied with officers who
speak English as we'll as Spanish. for
service throughout the war. This quo
ia, constituting an entire army divi-
sion, will be kept to full enlistment by
constant recruiting throughout the war,
and 25,O00 more volunteers will be re-
cruited to take the place in the army of
those sent to the front or distributed
wherever the United States wishes to
use them.
Announcement also has been made
that American warships will aid the
Cuban navy in patrolling the waters
around the island and such parts of the
gulf as may be deemed necessary. The
ill timed and badly advised revolution
is at an end; General Gomez is a pris-
oner in Havana, and other revolution
lists are being extradited from Haiti. so
the full forces of the Cuban govern
ment can be turned to the prosecution
Of the war against Germany"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
PART OF BABYL0N|AN
EPIC IS TRANSLATED
Missing Book Of Gi|gamesh, Re.
garded as One of Oldest
Poems In World,

Philadelphia.-In the University of
Pennsylvania Museum Journal pub
lished recently is the translation of a
Babylonian tablet, which will be of in
terest to the historical, religious and
literary world. 1t is one of the miss
ing books of the epic of Gilgamesh,
regarded as one of the oldest and
noblest poems in the world. The epic
was composed about the time of
Abraham, but all known tablets and
fragments of tablets containing it date
from a much later period. George
Smith made the first discoveries more
than forty years ago. The tablet in
the University museum was probably
written between 600 B. G. and 300
B. c., he says. 1t was translated by
DR.. Stephen Langdon, curator of the
Babylonian section of the University
museum, and, according to that schol-
ar, contains important new material
bearing on the whole epic and also
supplies missing data and mentions
hitherto unrecorded nations It tells
the story of how barbarous man, in
the person of Enkidu, is redeemed by
the love and devotion Of woman.
Gilgamesh, half mythical king, by
many identified with Nimrod, ruled so
cruelty that the people asked the gods
for relief. The mother goddess made
from clay wild satyr, covered with
hair, but strong enough to oppose Gil
gamesh, who was two-thirds a god.
Eventually Enkidu is changed by love
Of woman to civilized being, loses
his hair and becomes rival of Gilga-
mesh, with whom he has a terrific
combat. Finally the men become
friends. Gilgamesh fOrsakes his evil
ways, and the two heroes start on ad-
ventures. which are told in the other
tablets already we'll known.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05

Photo by American Press Association.
WILLIAM DENMAN, CHAIRMAN OF SHIP
PING BOARD.
F. Huntington Clark, a New York en-
gineer, conceived the idea of wooden
ship fleet, probably will be associated
with him. ~ ......-
The story of how the wooden ship
building plan grew from an idea con-
ceived simultaneously by two mining
engineers until it has taken a place
In the forefront of Americas war
policy reveals that Yankee inventive
genius and ingenuity were as ready
to meet the present emergency as at
any time Of national stress in the past.
After Mr.. Eustace and Mr.. Clark had
been called to Washington by Chair
man Denman of the shipping board,
and the board decided to take up the
plan, Mr.. Eustace decided to interest
General Goethals and went to place
the situation before him. The canal
builder Immediately seized on the plan
as the one way by which the United
States could do most to aid the allies
In defeating Germany. Then General
GOethals was told the board wished
him to take charge Of the work. Re-
luctant at first to leave his post in New
Jersey, the general finally was con-
vinced the nation needed him.
General Goethals was chosen to head
the work, it was explained, for three
reasons-his capacity, his German de-
scent and as a testimonial to the 10y
atty of American citizens Of Teutonic
extraction and because he is consider
ed the one man in the United States
most offensive to Germany. Germany,
it has been said, has never forgiven
the man who constructed the canal
when German experts said it could
not be accomplished.
In their efforts to persuade General
Goethals to take charge of building
the ships it was pointed out that he
probably would spend before the war
was over as much or more than was
expended in building the canal.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
PREPARES OWN FUNERAL.

Thought He Had Cancer-Provides
Corpse by Committing Suicide.
Bishop, Cal.-After having prepared
carefully for his own funeral John
Shortall, mining man, went out and
shot himself through the head.
Death was instantaneous. A month
ago he had undergone an operation for
a growth on his lip and had become
obsessed with the fear that it was
cancer. This led him to self destruction.
Shortall was sixty-four years old and
had been long in the Owens valley. His
mining property, promising copper
proposition, is located in Moclano, be-
tween Benton and Laws.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
WILL RUN CANTEENS.
Girls and Boy Scouts Will Dispense
Eatables to MiIitiamen.

Giri8 and BOY Scouts Will dispense
Eatables to MiIitiamen.
New York - Canteen stations, at
which girls and boy scouts in uni
form will dispense coffee, chocolate,
buns, sandwiches and cold ham to the
soldiers, sailors and militiamen detail
ed on guard duty, are to be established
in New York and other cities through
out the country, according to an an
nouncement by Mrs. William Carol
Rafferty, of the Waldorf-Astoria, wife
Of Colonel Rafferty,, commandant at
Fort Hamilton.
Mrs. Rafferty, has been made honor
ary commandant of the emergency
canteen stations to be opened here
after the plan originated by Mrs
James Montgomery Hendrick in Lon
don. Uniforms are now being made
for girls of the Young Women's Chris
tian association, who will be in attend
ance.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
BRITON ACTS AS GUARD.
Does Patrol Duty In Boston After Mi
1S$;av~oan coI1ene>.

Does Patrol Duty In Boston After Mi.
litiaman CoIlapses.
Boston.-A sailor Of the British navy
maintained part Of the water front
patrol here, bearing the rifle of ma
tional guardsman who had collapsed
on his post.
The bluejacket, a member of the gun
crew of steamship which was tied up
In port, found the guardsman on the
wharf where he had tainted. Taking
him into nearby shanty, the sailor
telephoned for a doctor, then shout
dered the guardsman's rifle and for
nearly an hour kept the post in driz-
zle Of rain until corporal who encoun-
tered him arranged for relief.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
Troops to Get Bibles.

New York.-The American Bible So
ciety has issued an emergency call
for $4,000 with which to provide large
editions Of New Testaments bound in
khaki to be given to all soldiers and
sailors through the Sunday School as
ISOLATION and the Young Mems Chris
tan association. The society has CO.
operated with these agencies in the
distribution of about 100000 copies
to soldiers in Europe and 100000 to
men on the Mexican border. Similar
distribution is to be started here with
out DELAY.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
PLANS VAST FLEET.
Story of How Wooden Craft
Building Plan Crew..
TRIBUTE TO YANKEE GENIUS.

General Cocktails, Chosen to Head
Work, Has Never Been Forgiven by
Germany For Constructing Panama
Canal When German Experts Said II
Could Not Be Accomplished.
Washington. The administrators
program for building a vast fleet of
wooden cargo ships to transport sup
plies to the allies and thus defeat the
German submarine campaign was put
under way when the shipping board
formed corporation to build and oper.
ate the vessels.
Major General Goethals, who at the
direction of President Wilson has
agreed to supervise building Of the
ships, will come to Washington to take
charge of the work as soon as he can
arrange to leave his task of building
New Jersey highways. F. A. Eustace,
a. Boston mining engineer, who, with
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
MUST NOT ABUSE FLAG.

Decorators Will Be Arrested, Says
Justice Department..
MISUNDERSTANDING against desc
Grafton Of the American flag by aliens
was issued by the department Of JUS
tice. The following notice was sent
to federal attorneys and marshals:
"Any alien enemy tearing down, mu-
tilating, abusing or desecrating the
United States flag In any way will be
regarded as a danger to the public
peace or safety within the meaning Of
regulation IL Of the proclamation of
the president, issued April 6, 1917, and
will be subject to summary arrest and
confinement"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
MRS. GEORGE DEWEY's PLEA
Enlist In Navy First, Says Admiraps
Widow.

Gn'st IN Navy FIRST, says AdmIrarS
Widow.
Westinghouse national campaign
to promote recruiting for the navy and
marine corps has been started by the
woman's section of the Navy league.
Mrs. George Dewey, widow of the late
admiral and president Of the woman's
section. has sent this appeal to all
chapter heads: t.
Urge all young men of your COM
munity who are without dependents to
enlist in the navy and marine corps,
our first line Of defense There merit is
recognized and promotion comes speed
lily. Send in the names of eligibles to
the woman's section, Washington. Ask
the newspapers in your neighborhood
to cooperate with US. Help our coun-
try now, and may God bless your eff
forts and give US security
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ROMANCE NOT DEAD;
HERE'S A CINDERELLA.

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y nance is dead or never shows
y itself in big cities? Miss Miner
" va Menke of New York insists y
y it is not. Five months ago she
y lost a pump size No. Pas she
y was alighting from trolley car.
v The footwear caught In the step.
y The motorman drove on, and q
y passenger, Jack WOlfs0n. found y
y It. He advertised for the fair
y owner. She answered. He call
Y ed-then called often. Soon
y Miss Menke will be Mrs. Wolf \
y son. 4
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
MAKING! {! OFFICERS
More Than 10000 Are Required
For United States Army.
HOW TO OBTAIN COMMISSION

Candidates Will Be Grouped by Cities,
and Examining Officers Will Be Sent
to Conduct Examinations at Central
Points-First and Most Important
Requisite Is Military Training.
WashingtOn.-The new army will re-
quire more than 10000 officers of the
line, including those of the regular
army and the reserve. In the next few
months, therefore, opportunities will
be open for thousands of capable young
men to enter the military service. The
method of obtaining a commission is
not what it has heretofore been in
times of emergency.
The applicant may send his applica-
ton to the secretary of war or he may.
If he has acquaintance with his con-
gresham or senator, send it through
either Of these. His application once
on fle in the war department, he will
be duly notified as to every step nec-
essary for him to take to qualify for
commission. Naturally at this time,
when the increment necessary must be
crowded into q short period of time,
many requirements will be less rigOr-
ously enforced than in ordinary times.
Candidates will be grouped by cities,
and examining officers will be sent to
conduct examinations at central points.
Examining officers will conduct ex-
aminations in selective manner.
maintaining a ratio of one major to
five captains, five first lieutenants and
i've or more second ieutenants. The
first and most important requisite is
military training, but military train
Ing alone will not admit a man to the
officers reserve corps. He will be ex-
amined as to character and sobriety,
personality, address and force, reputa-
ton and standing in his community,
power to command respect of officers
and men, and adequate education. Mil
itary efficiency, however, will deter
mine the grade to which he will be ap-
pointed.
In case Of men who have had little
or no military training candidates will
be recommended for appointment as
second lieutenants subject to the thir-
ty-second year age limit, provided they
are college graduates, or seniors in col
lege, or clearly well educated men, or
have demonstrated ability in business,
athletics or other activity and possess
in a marked degree the ability to ham
die men. The war department expects
that it will be possible under this
standard to obtain from forty to fifty
good reserve officers of the line from
each congressional district.
Instructions to examining officers are
to hold the general examination as to
character and capability up to a high
standard.
Orders have gone out from the war
department to speed up examinations
and recommendations because it is rec
ognized that it will require time to
make an army of even 100000 men eff
fective for service under the conditions
Of fighting employed in the present
war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
Had to Promise 70 Win Her.

Had TO Promise to Win Her.
Valparaiso. Ind Before she would
marry him here recently Mrs. Edna n.
Jewett exacted a promise from Otto
]. Wankle that he would become an
American citizen, Wankle is an Aus
TRAN, and Mrs. Jewett refused to sac
rifce her own Americanism. The
couple came here from GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
HAIR CUTS BOOSTED.
But Members Of 1aIdhead Club Plan
q Back Fire.

But Members Of BaIdhead Club Plan
. Back Fire.
Milford, Conn.-The price of hair
cut in Connecticut cities was boosted
from % cents to IS cents by BARRIERS
throughout the state. Led by mem
bers Of the Baldhead Club of Amer
lea, revolution against the BARRIERS
Is now in progress and a remonstrance
against the action was sent to the
state BARRIERS commission at Hartford.
The Baldhead club plans vengeance
with capital V-"No tips' is the
word being passed down the line. At
the head Of the protesting phalanx
are George c. Woodruff, president Of
the club; John Rodemeyer, originator
of the club, and Lew Stone of Winsted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
Almost 1000 In Family.

Hiawatha, Kan.-The biggest family
in this country has almost 1000 mem
bers. It is at Reserve, nine miles north
of here. Reserve Is a small town Of
200 or more people with an average
Kansas populations III the country sur
rounding for an area of six miles. Yet
In the town and the entire area Of
country there are not more than ten
families who are not related to each
other by ties of blood or marriage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
At Thirty thre. Mother Of rw.lv..

At Thirty three Mother Of Twelve.
Oklahoma, Ark. Twin boys have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Aleck Muir
kerson Of Dobyville, making the third
pair of twins in the family with less
than two and half years between the
ages Of the two younger sets. The
new arrivals bring the number of Muir
kerson children to twelve. The mother
is but thirty three.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-05-05
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YELLOW STREAK SIGN.

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The Washington times., 1917-09-20
WASHINGTON STUDENTS
TO CLERK IN STORES

A course in salesmanship and mer-
chandise will begin at Business High
School today. This new course is the
result Of a strong desire on the part
OF Washington boys and girls to ac-
quire a vocation and attend school at
the same time.
Three days a week will be spent in
the study Of salesmanship, English
bookkeeping, arithmetic, commercial
law, textile merchandising, and color
and design work. The remaining
days will be spent In the city's best
department stores, where the instruc.
ton received in school will be put in
actual practice. For this work the
apprentices will receive not less than
S3 4 week.
Students in any high school in the
city may take the course, the only
prerequisite being one year of h gh
school work.
The Washington times., 1917-09-20
ADAMSON PICKED
FOR PORT Of n. Y.
APPRAISAL BOARD

Congressman william c. Adamson,
father Of the Adsmson eight-hour law,
has been selected as a member Of the
board of appraisers OF the port Of
New York, it was announced at the
White House today.
1t is understood that Judge Adam.
son, who represents the Fourth
Georgia district in the lower House
will assume his new duties at once,
The post carries a salary OF $4,000.
Announcement that Judge Adamson
would be nominated for the post came
as a distinct surprise, as up to the
hour 1t was made II was understood
that he was to I'LL one Of the three
existing vacancies on the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The President also sent the follow
ing nominations TO the Senate: Byron
L. Newton, OF New York, to be col
lector OF customs, at New York;
Daniel c. Roper, of South Carolina, to
be commissioner OF internal revenue.
The Washington times., 1917-09-20
Don't
Suffer

No matter how long or how bad
20 TO your druggist today and get q
90 cent box of Pyramid Pile Treat.
The Washington times., 1917-09-20
ROGERS WANTS ALIEN
DRAFT BILL STRONGER

Moge drastic plans to draft aliens
into military service have been
evolved by Congressman Rogers. OF
Massachusetts,. who has put a mum
Der of new teeth into the Chamber
lain measure recently passed by the
Senate.
The bill was revised by Mr.. Rog-
ers at the instance of the State De-
partment, and today il will be con-
sidered by Chairman POu, OF the
Rules Committee, and the commit
tee itself to see whether it meets re-
quirements.
As the bill is rewritten. japanese
and Chinese are included in IT.
The Washington times., 1917-09-20
Dining Room

Includes handsome Golden Oak Buffet
and heavy solden. oak eft. Extension
Table, golden oak Chairs with imi-
tation leather seats. and ft.xo It.
Mating Rug.