Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-11-30

holding $50 sailors taken from Amerl-
can ships by commerce raiders and
other German vessels.
Percentage Of Sick At Army Camps
Less Than Per Gent
Returning from inspection trips to
1G army and aviation camps, Col. Wes-
ton p Chamberlain, Of the Surgeon
Generals Office, reports that the. per
cent Of sick ranges from below l per
cent to slightly below z per cent.
Among the conditions leading to
treatment in hospital are severe colds
tousilitis, slight injuries, and other
comparatively slight ailments. About
the only serious, disease found at any
camp was pneumonia.
Each national army camp has a
thousand-bed hospital, equipped in &C.
cordance with most modern practice.
Permits for Persons Subject to Draft
Save Delay in Travelling
No passport is required by the state
department to go to Canada, but pc.
SONS subject to draft who desire to
cross the limo are often delayed while
their cases are being invest gated.
When any registered person desires
passport or to go to Canada he may
apply to his local boaro for a permit.
IF he is not likely to be called within
the period Of the proposed absence or
if the board is otherwise assured that
his absence will not result in evasion
Of or interference with the execution
Of the draft law, ho may obtain the
permit by giving his address while
absent and by agreeing to. keep him
self informed Of any call upon HIM
and to return Immediately upon call.
In the United States armies, Novem-
Der 7, there were 7.8l5,000 men. in the
navy 1,571. OF the total Of 2O87 1871
approximately 100000 voluntarily
enlisted.
Since the war insurance plan be.
came operative in October more than
As 600 soldiers have applied for insur.
ance. amounting in all to nearly half
q billion dollars and averaging about
$4,000 q man.
Newton D. Baker, secretary Of war
estimates the losses up to June of
the British expeditionary forces in
deaths in action and from wounds at
Z per cent of the total Of all men sent
to France since the beginning of the
war. He adds that the ration of losses
of this character today, because of
improved tactics and swiftly mount
ing ellied superiority in artillery, is
less than to every 10C mon.
CLAIMS SCHOOL DIRECTOR DIS.
L0YAL-QUITS POSITION
st. Cloud JournalPress: Mrs. Fer
ney Arnesberger Of Sank Rapids,
teacher in school district No. Al, town
Of MAYHEM Lake. Benton county, has
RESIGNED her position because of al
legged acts Of disloyalty on the part of
one of the members Of the school
board. :
Mrs. Arnesberger is 100 per cent
American and proposes to associate
with people of her class She is Of the
opinion that public school house
where growing American children con
gregate is no place for German sym
pathizcr to preach disloyalty and not
being in position to defend herself
and her country in any other way she
promptly resigned. -.
It is said that one of the members
of the board, a German by birth, but
a prosperous American farmer, preach.
ed dislovalty among the children. BE
is reported to have made uncompli.
mentarv remarks about the Liberty
Loan, the Red Cross and the United
States soldiers in particular. All sol
diers who enter France to- fight Ger
many ought to be shot, he is report
ed to have said.