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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1917-05-04
May SEND TROOPS
TO French FRONT
Government viii Act Whenever
the Allies Deem il Wise to
Divert the Ships.
GENERAL STAFF AGAINST Il
Washington Officials Say Move is
Made as an Evidence Of This
country's Faith.

Washington, May 2.-The United
States stands ready to send an army
to Europe whenever the Allies deem
it wise to divert the necessary ships
from transporting food to transport
ing men.
1t became known definitely today
that the government had Offered
troops to the Allies, but had suggested
that the alarming shortage of world
shipping might make it impracticable
to send them at once.
General Staff Opposed.
In spite of objections of the genera
staff to putting any American forces
on the firing line before the great
wal army has been raised and trained.
the administration has determined
that the small contingent earnestly
desired by France for moral effect
shall be SEM as soon as possible. The
general belief here is that the way
soon will be found.
Whether the force that is first to
carry the Stars and Stripes into battle
in France shall be made up of regulars
or national guardsmen, or both, has
not been worked out. The subject
was not discussed at today's Cabinet
meeting, but Secretary Baker remain.
ed afterward for a conference with
President Wilson.
Evidence Of Americas Faith.
State Department officials have
continuously urged the sending of an
army, solely for its psychological eff
feet, not only in encouraging the Al
lied troops but in discouraging the
Germans. Convinced that the diplo-
matte advantages far outweighed the
technical and training difficulties ad.
vanced by the general staff, they have
felt that such a step would conse-
crate the United States as a full men,
Der Of the alliance entitled to a most
honorable seat at the peace confer.
ence.
The amount of tonnage that would
be required for transport is usually
put at about twenty tons a man in a
fully equipped force. For the regular
American unit of $4,000 men nearly
half million tons, therefore, would be
necessary, or ships about equal to the
seized German tonnage in American
waters. 1t remains for the Allies to
figure out if they can afford to di-
vert that amount of shipping.
Put Up Pay Of P~rlvates.
Both Senate and House adopted
amendments just before the final roll
calls which would greatly increase the
pay of enlisted men during the war.
The House provision would make their
pay $50 a month, and that approved
by the Senate would fix it at 500 a
month. The present pay is only SIS.
Much to Do In Conference.
Many of the more radical amend.
ments adopted are expected to be
thrown out in conference, and admins
tration leaders hope to restore virtu-
ally all of the important features of
the bill to their original form before
It goes to the President. The question
Of ages probably win form the big.
gest barrier to a quick conference
agreement.
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For Sale.

City street team, wagon and
harness. Apply to G. G. Schawe,
Felix Buellens or John T. Bell,
committee appointed by Mayor
to sell same.
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senate Rnnnsses Ann. nllI

Washington, May 1.-THE Admins.
tration Army Bill with the conscrip-
Lion provision retained was passed
anew today by the Senate without a
roll call, virtually as It approved the
measure last Saturday. The bill now
goes to conference with the House.
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Blowing Up Hospitals.

The warfare now being waged
against hospital ships seems to
mark the climax of savagery in
the German methods. Except
for the massacring of prisoners,
there is nothing left undone
which could be done to complete
the abandonment of all the re-
strictions of civilized warfare.
Aside from this one exception,
which has so far been maintain
ed, the Germans have establish
ed a complete identity of aims
and methods with those of the
most ferocious warriors of the
ages of barbarism.
Discovering that the distinct
i've marking of hospital ships
simply serves to attract torpe-
does, the British have begun to
remove these markings, but
were too slow in the case of one
of the ships sunk last Tuesday.
1t will be remembered long that
it was the Germans who COM
PEELED the discontinuance of the
Red Cross insignia by making
them a target instead of a pro-
lection. In their eagerness for
slaughter, they doom to death
wounded German prisoners a.
board hospital ships.
Because of this warfare upon
hospital ships, the British have
been obliged to reckon with the
prospect of giving up the use of
such ships altogether and trans
porting their physicians to the
Continent to treat the sick and
wounded there. All the doctors
in the United Kindom have been
called into service. The effect on
the sick and wounded within the
English borders may be consid-
cradle, and it is possible that
it is upon this that the Germans
counted-on carrying frightful-
ness into England by lessening
the possibility of medical aid
sick civilians, women, and
there. 1t is a calculation
not beneath Prussian ingenuity
nor above the poisoning of wells.
New York Times.
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Chicago. May 2.-Red Cross officials
today urged every woman in the Unit.
ed States to knit wooden socks for the
American army. They said that mil.
lions Of pairs would be needed.
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Charles F. Meyer, Chas. Dryer
and E. j. Shull went to Higgins
vile Wednesday to attend a
meeting which is being held
there today by the farmers of
Lafayette county.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Wilkinson
little Miss Mary Louise
Hawthorne, who attended the
redendall wedding left
yesterday for their home in
Mexico, Mo.
7. c. Sawyer went to Kansas
City Tuesday to spend the day
on business.
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For Sale.

lao acre farm, will divide to
suit purchaser in 10, 20 or 40
acres.
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Hope, Hope.

ORD EUSTACE PERCY, at a dinner
IL in Chicago, was talking about the
Germans.
THE rabid Reventlow and the heav-
emily twins, Hindenburg and Luden-
dorff," he said. land all the tribe be-
hind them still hope for victorious
German peace. a heavy war indemnity
and almost boundless lamentations.
Hope,
There's nothing so unreasonable
and absurd as hope, and the Germans
are exactly like the English girl
AN English girl at seaside resort.
after listening attentfvely to young
mans passionate declaration of love,
said:
Your position, then. Cuthbert. is
not one of affluence?'
".Not precisely of affluence.' the
young man confessed.
"'You cannot give me a mansion in
Belgrave Square or Park Lane?'
"'Er-no'
"'Nor even in one of the smaller
but quite fashionable streets contigu-
Gus thereto?
".No; not even that
"'Can I count on a suitable domestic
staff and an automobile?'
"'No.' he groaned. NO.
but then, Cuthbert-her voice
was gentle. yet firm-'what inducement
do you offer me to become your wife?'
1.-the inducement of an undyfng
love- he cried. and half share in a
salary of 81 week.
1T is enough she said. sinking on
his breast. IT is enough And she
looked up at him with a radiant smile.
Half loaf is better than no bread.
and the mansion in Belgravia and the
and things will come
later. Cuthbert. when they have raised
you to the peerage.e"
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BOOKS Received,

THE FLOODS OF JULY, 1915, How the
Southern Railway Organization Met
nm Emergency. Washington: Pub,
nshed by the Southern Railway
Company.
BREACHES OF ANGLo-AMERIcAy
TREATIES; A Study in History and
Diplomacy. By John Bigelow. major,
Z. S. A. retired. With three maps.
New York: StUrSis IL Walton Co.
INTERIOR DECORATION, For the
Small Home. BY Amy L. Rolfe, NJ,
A. New York: The Macmillan Com.
pany.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF
PEACE; and the Terms of Its Per.
petuation. By Thorstein Eeblen, au-
thor of The Theory of the Leisure
Class" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
MANS UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICT,
Popular Exposition of Psychoanaly-
sis. By Wilfrid Lay, Phi. d. New
York: Dodd. Mead & Co.
THE KINGS HIGHWAY SERIEs-THU
WAY OF THE GREEN PASTURES.
By e. Hershey Sheath. Phi. D., LII.
D.: George Hodges. d. D.. LII. D..
and Henry Hallam Tweedy, NJ. A.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
THE KINGS HIGHWAY sERIES-THE
WAY OF THE GATE. BY Carolyn
Sherwin Bailey, in collaboration
with +. Hershey Sheath. Phi. D., LII.
D.; George Hodges, D.. D., LII. D..
and Henry Hallam Tweedy, NJ. A
New York: The Macmillan Company,
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clinging to with all of our ability II we
would promote the welfare of our
country, is confidence, enthusiasm and
service.
'The women of our society have real
lied these facts and it is filling big
gaps of imra ediate need. Aware of the
long delays which of necessity must at
tend many avenues of governmental
preparation for war service, they have
attacked number of the supply prob
lens with an energy that has produced
most gratifying results and shows what
q productive force they have the abil-
ity to be. Just as an illustration, ten
days saw the completion of ! ,165 khaki
colored wooIlen sweaters by group of
Montclair. y. j., women. Ten days from
the time the request for them came to
US this number were completed and
ready at headquarters for shipment.
YES they do need these little articles
OF personal comfort. It makes for better
service. and while we all know that the
government will provide for the soldier
and sailor his full equipment and his
necessities, there is yet left much that
may be done for his comfort Even in
the matter Of equipment. 1t is a gigan-
tic task to equip great army or even 4
portion of an army for active war serv-
ice under conditions on foreign soil that
constantly change and which are totally
different in character from any service
the United States troops have ever be-
fore had to meet, and there are weeks
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Philippine waters. while far-away
Guam and Hawaii became the nearest
shelter for others.
The government of the United States
protected them as they fled into her
harbors. and so, today, when a state of
war exists between this country and
Germany we have in various ports 4
vast number of informed sailors and
marines of the enemy, and we have de-
cided to do something about this, both
for our benefit and theirs. The marines
who hunted shelter in Hawaii the
Philippines, Guam and other places in
Pacific waters are now detained in San
Francisco. Those found in the New
Orleans harbor have been held there.
along with the men who ran their boats
into San Juan's protective bays.
Charleston gave asylum to another
group, and these were sent on by the
government to Philadelphia. Those in
Boston harhor are still held there. The
largest company of these Germans is
that which has been in New York har-
Dor for nearly three years and occupies
building to itself on Ellis Island.
The 700 seamen in Norfolk were f1rst
taken in at Newport News, and last
summer sent to the Philadelphia navy
yard. The German vessel which slip
ped into Boston harbor under cover or
a black, rainy night more than year
ago was manned by men now held at
Gallups Island. There the government
has arranged for their detention in
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informed Germans to Make Highways for Gov
MoNG the shadows OF a Nortl

a MONG the shadows OF a North
IN Carolina forest, In the heart
~ of the Appalachians. where
& - roads are crooked trails and
the few buildings are miles apart. there
will soon be seen, laboring with ak
and shovel, mortar and pestle. rake
and hoe, many hundred husky Germans.
They will be working for their newest
opponent in the world war. the United
States, making crooked trails into fine.
broad roads, worthy of persuading the
most fastidfous motorist to follow into
the cool recesses. and they Will TIL
the soil of valleys lying at the feet
OF timbered foothills.
The Department of Labor has had
problem on its hands for some time IN
dealing with the 1000 or more German
sailors and marines who have been
informed in various harbors or the
United States. At last, 1t would APP
pear, a solution has been found. and
this will be worked out by the immi-
grafton bureau. under the departments
direction. In fact. known to but few,
and previously not announced in the
press. this unique proposition or the
government has really been started-a
number of Germans are on the ground
in North Carolina.
These men have been taken to the
Hot Springs Hotel. where ample ac-
commodations have been provided for
their care While the remainder of
the 1000 or more Germans are on the
way there or waiting for q time at
the various ports where they have
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been detained, the Pisgah forest re-
serve will be prepared for their &C
commCdation. and as such housing is
completed our forest guests will be
transferred from the hotel to the roomy
buildings among the great trees. The
entire number will finally make their
temporary home there.
To remember when these aliens came
to our shores, and how and why; to
discover. from the Department of La
bor. what study has been required
toward the correct solution of the mat
ter-these things sum up like a story.
Such a story might begin thus:
There were some 1000 men of ma
ton once friendly to ours who went
out in ships upon the seas to forward
the commerce of their country in
strange lands. While on this mission
their fatherland engaged in war, and
ships of the enemy, also in foreign
waters, turned powerful glasses upon
the face of the deep, seeking to destroy.
There We're many clashes. One big
merchant steamer, either the Ettel or
Wilhelm, having sailed as far as Siam,
commenced raking into the south Pa
cific whatever craft of the unfriendly
she could find and conquer According
to one of her officers. this vessel be-
came 4 veritable raider-one OF the
few informed ships that did do so-and
ran to American shores, finally. be-
cause of the lack of coal.
Others fingered in Porto Rican and
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most satisfactory manner. The men
have garden to work in, are favorably
housed, the climate Is good and the
Young Mems Christian Association is
about to erect barracks for them.
The prisoners like work. One has
only to read the newspapers to know
what efforts they made toward doing
at Norfolk, when the Eitel
and Wilhelm were held in the navy
yard. The German village" they built
on the shore out Of the refuse lumber
and scraps of metal and glass picked up
on the sands became widely known.
These men simply had to occupy their
time somehow, and so they erected the
tiny houses and played at having a
town. There was a mayor. n sheriff. a
church and a quite wonderful windmill
which served as pretended watch
tower.
If you visited the city" that lay at
the feet of gray GOLFERS up for re-
pairs" and hemmed in by its own yell
low -funueled steamers, n Whitehead
officer would take you down the street
straight past Herr
Foerstars picket-fenced hut with its
chicken yard and up into the heights"
of the windmill. there to survey tho
seventy-five buildings. There was a
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fellows who choose farming as an occu-
patton.
Roads have been surveyed in the
reservation, and these will be built by
labor furnished by the Germans. A
large reservoir is contemplated. and
this will be constructed by the same
men. should the funds therefor become
available before their departure.
One very Interesting thing IN connec-
ton with the banding Of the men Is
that they will take their own cooks and
their own choice of provisions along
with them In whatever part Of the re-
serve they stay for certain work. Those
who go into the sawmills to work for
civilian employers will have their ar
engagements for noodles and sauer-
kraut. rye bread and thick soups, coffee
cake and sweets, just as do those in the
reserve close by. The farmers who raise
their favorite vegetables, kohl-rabi.
cauliflower. brussels sprouts and the
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A Sad Answer.

NOSEPH LETTER, president of the
~ Army League. said in a Chicago adj
dress:
Speculation in the food Of the people
may be pardonable in times of peace,
but in war time 1t is heinous.
AFTER tho allies victory, the downfall
of the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs,
and the Inauguration of permanent
world peace. l can imagine little boy
saying to his father, q rich food prof
itesr:
Daddy. what did you do in the
great world war;
THE proflteer would have to reply,
My son. did tbs people,"
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newspaper office, too. and a plaza gar
den. where all were privileged to rake
and hoe
Now. these men and others, belonging
to the various interned vessels which
have been taken over by Uncle Sam
and given new names, may engage in
labor worth mans attention. Playing
they are working will no longer be
necessary.
The Department Of Agriculture will
have many things for them to do. and
the high cost of living, now such big
and important thing. may sit in a more
shadowy corner. 1t may, in reality,
proceed to a lower level, when the sum-
mer is past and the government garden
in the mountains has put a new face on
virgin wales. The forestry division of
the Department of Agriculture has
sured the immigration bureau that
work can be secured for all. even II
some do not desire to go into the fields
and till the soil. There are largo saw
mill operations going on in the neigh
borhood. and those who prefer may
labor there, in close proximity to their
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Hard Labor.

vV7ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN said
wv in a chautauqua address in Du-
luth:
"'rhe seductiveness of drink!
q know a man who was recently in
troduced for the first time to that black
and bitter drink. Belfast stout.
The man tossed off A glass of 1t, and
smacked his lips and rolled his eyes in
ecstasy.
My gosh he said. that's meat and
drink BOTH
Eyes. said I. looking up from my
buttermflk, and II you take enough
of it, it's lodgings and work as we'll :"
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The DoWnhiII Road.

A ]. BALFOUR, head of the British
fAe commission. told a pathetic an
ecdote at a New York reception about
a young peer.
HE was dreadfully wounded at
Mons" said Mr.. Balfour. land. though
he fingered on a long time. he knew,
as we all knew. that his hurts were
mortal.
II met him limping painfully on his
crutches in Piccadilly one morning. He
was the shadow Of his former self.
YOU'RE walking very slowly I said.
He gave a sad kind of laugh.
but I'm going very fast said he"
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nave their laws of courtship and mar.
riage: that all trees keep a diary: that
many travel: that others are archi-
eects or musicians: that some have a
coilege education. and that each is
curious in its human resemblance TO
man. A chapter on Historic Trees"
that sttll survive the wars, romances
and religions OF gone-by centuries with
which they were associated, gives tho
laurels OF the years to a decrepit CIV.
press in little village in Mexico
which Is generally regarded to. be the
oldest living thing in the world. Sci
ence proves that 1t was a sapling when
Cheops built the pyramid, and that It
could count its century rings when the
lsraelites fled to Canaan matter of
nearly 5000 years
Added to the genuine delight of tho
text are many pictures, photographs
and color productions, which Illustrate
specially famous trees from all quar-
tiers of the globe
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and even months of waiting for some
of the supplies to be ready for distribu-
ton. You know" she explained i'm
presslvely. 4 young new soldier cannot
get the true atmosphere of his patriotic
conservation to war duty without his
full equipment. He ought to have it
ali as soon as possible after he is mus
tered in, and to help even little to-
ward this is constructive preparedness.
our society has definite objects, one
Of the principal OF which Is to raise
funds to train aviators No. that is not
dup!icatinn--tust cooperation. All Of
our chapters are taking an active inter
est IN this line OF work. and the women
of New York have already trained and
equipped five OF these experts. Our So
ctety has just furnished 900 copies of
Maj. l.. w. i. Rees' book, Fighting in
the Air,' to the students in the aviation
schools Prof. bingham Of the aviation
service, War Department. considers this
a most important book We have also
ordered ten volumes Of Iornine's Mill
tary Acroplanes. and are donating them
TO Bay shore and Mineola. L. l.. schools;
Lung motors, binoculars and hospital
outfits are being provided for Bay
Shore. These are absolutely life saving.
In addition. hooks. magazines and news
papers are being supplied. and Mrs. Will
liam Allen Bartlett. chairman of the
aviation committee, makes weekly trips
to see how the society may be permitted
to aid.
Then. as 1 said before. there are
other activities. including making and
rolling surgical dressings. knitting
sweaters. muffiers. gloves, helmets,
making hospital garments. gardening
in all of its branches. home economies,
patriotic lectures. automobile instruc-
ton. classes in wireless telegraphy,
signaling. dietetics and first aid. In
fact. this society performs all sorts of
relief work and at the same time gives
needy women employment"
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like will have them cooked to their ma
tive taste. The steamship companies
that owned the vessels in which the
Germans entered our ports have been
contracted with by the government to
supply cooks and helpers to serve the
aliens in the Pisgah forest and give
them food they like and are used to
having.
In case q sailor falls i'll, there is
physician to attend him. This is DR..
B. W. Brown of the United States pub
lie health service. who has already
gone with the first detachment of in
termed men and will give close atten-
ton to the health of these forest work
ers. d. Brown left New York several
days ago.
Another interesting fact concerns the
compensation of these people. From
Anthony Caminetti, commissioner gem
eral Of immigration, 1t was learned that
this was quite noteworthy matter,
that while the provision Of The Hague
convention may not apply, yet when
these interned people are employed in
government work they will be paid at