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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
LONDON OPENS ARMS
TO AMERICAN BOYS
Warmly Welcomes Our Soldiers and
Sailors, Who Teach Scraps" to
British chums.

London.-London is constantly filed
with American soldiers and sailors. All
the downtown streets, especially in tn
Piccadilly district, are often thronged
with them. Everywhere the Americans
mix with the Australians, Canadians
and Scotchmen in kits, and all agree
that London Is fine.
In some places the Britons were tni-
tiated into the game Of craps" and, as
usual the beginners won. Craps seems
to have captivated London. The Amer
leans, who had not been at liberty since
their departure from the United States,
were honized. At some corners women
stood handing flowers to the strangers,
who pinned them on their hats.
The especially warm personal well
come extended the men is notable.
Furloughed Belgians, Frenchmen or
other soldiers Of the allies travel
through the city in groups, by them
selves. Every American group is pilot
ed by at least one and sometimes half
a dozen Britons.
Those in London having just been
paid, had pockets full Of money, which
they are anxious to spend. They dine
at the best hotels, some Of them occu-
plying tables adjoining those at which
British officers are seated.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
The ooaIe on q Map.

Distance on a map Is measured by
its scale" By laying rule on a gov
eminent map and ascertaining the
number Of inches between two points
the number Of miles between them can
readily be calculated. Nearly all maps
are drawn to a scale representing one,
two, three or more miles to the inch,
as the inch is the common unit of meas
urement In the United States by which
the eye is accustomed to judge dis
tances on paper.
A scale Of 1:62, 500, used In the well
known United States geological survey
typographical maps, denotes that one
inch on the map represents 62,5OO
inches on the ground, which is the ap-
proximate number of inches in a mile.
Therefore the scale is, almost exactly,
one inch to one mile. A. scale Of
1:125,OOO is approximately two miles to
one inch, and a scale Of 1 !, 100000 rep
resents sixteen miles to one inch.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
WHAT RECRUITS ARE
To EXPECT IN CAMP
Bath First Thing, Then Two
Weeks Under Doctors Eye.
Then Some Real Work.

Washington.-An official statement
showing what the national army re-
cruits may expect when they arrive in
their training camps was given out
here. The first thing the recruits will
do is to take a thorough bath. From
that time on, officials stated, scrupu-
lous cleanliness will be expected Of all
recruits when possible.
Arrangements have been made tenn
porarily to assign all recruits to a
section Of the camp where they will
be in touch with men called from
their own ,neighborhoods. This ar
rangement will be broken up later
when the men are fitted to the various
branches Of service according to their
physical qualifications. These assign
ments will be made according to lists
showing their previous occupations,
and they will go to infantry, cavalry,
artillery, machine gun and other units,
according to their fitness. Men from
the same localities will remain in the
same regiments as far as such DISPOSE
ton Of them is possible.
1Ac uISL IhO "cthS Tie I6CIulC Will
spend largely under the doctors care
Or at least under his watchful eye, &C
cording to the statement, which says:
HE will be given a physical exami-
nation and vaccinated for typhoid,
paratyphoid and smallpox. Recon-
mendations will then be made to the
company commander for special forms
Of exercise to remedy any slight phys
zeal defects. The first two weeks of
training will be occupied almost entire
ly with these special exercises, light
exercises in setting up drills and school
ing Of the soldier.
During the second ten weeks regu-
lar training will begin, but the work
will be increased gradually and the d.
vision surgeon and his assistants will
keep a watchful eye on the general
physical condition Of the men. Thor
ough instruction if personal hygiene,
sanitation and first aid will be given
during their first two weeks"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
THE BROADAy
Published Weekly

In this city since July 18th 1ooo
without missing one single issue D
publicans, Democrats, Catholics D.
testants, Single Takers, Priests ms
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as long as their language is pron.
and responsibility is fixed.
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claiming the editorial right to sDe.r.
its own mind.
Local communications will rers;r.
attention. Write only on one side o;
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application.
Address all communications TO
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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08

public improvement projects. Cartoon
lists and artists sent drawings for a
travelling exhibit boosting his cause.
One newspaper humorist gave up his
job to go out and give illustrated
speeches for him. In the Fargo Cour-
Ter News, all Baer's drawings bore the
union lakeland the workingman was
favorably inclined.
Then there were the farmers, whose
lot he once had shared in his brief
twenty-five years of life. The Repub-
hcan and Democratic candidates sought
to impeach his record on the soil Why,
they charged, he made himself the
laughing stock of the community by
covering a wagon load of fax to pro-
tect it from the frost. 1t seems that
fax is impervious to chill, and the
charge was grave one to make In that
agricultural district. 1t appeared at
one time that Mr.. Baer could not sur
vive this indication that he was unfit
ted to sit in the national councils.
But Baer got out his artists crayon
and drew a picture of the farm wagon
driving through a terrific windstorm.
The tarpaulin, he proved to all within
hearing or sight, was necessary to pre-
vent his harvest from blowing away.
Having thus displayed statesmanlike
ability for explaining away damaging
evidence, the race was conceded to the
young nonpartisan.
As political drawing card all the old
party oratory could not equal Mr.. Baer's
chalk talks. Farmers would drive fifty
miles to see the young fellow draw those
pictures-crude likenesses Of anything
from state owned grain elevator to a
fat Minneapolis miller gouging the men
who raised the wheat.
Baer's election marked the entry of
the National Nonpartisan league into
national politics. Lively interest was
manifested throughout the nation be-
cause the league has now spread into
eight states, Kansas, Missouri and Ne
braska among them, with total men,
bership Of 100000, nearly half of which
is In North Dakota.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
PARAGUAY. aspidsr Lace

Missionaries In Paraguay more than
200 years ago taught the native In
dams to make lace by hand. Since
that day the art has greatly developed,
and in certain of the towns lacemaking
is the chief occupation. Almost all the
women, many children and not few
men are engaged in this industry. A
curious fact with reference to the Par
aguayan laces is that the designs were
borrowed from the strange webs WOW
en- by the semitrOpical spiders that
abound in that country. Accordingly
this lace is by the natives called nan
duti, which means spider web."-Ex-
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
won BY CARTOONS
North Dakota Artist Elected to
Congress by Drawings.
ILLUSTRATED HIS SPEECHES.

None Of the Other Political Campaign.
ers Could Equal J. M. Baer's Chalk
Talks In Getting Audienees-Farmer.
Would Drive Fifty Miles to See the
Young Fellow Make Those Pictures.
Fargo. N. Dali the set rules Of po-
htical poker were violated In North Da-
kota when the workingmen of the
cities and the farmers united to send a
nonpartisan candidate to congress.
John NJ. Baer, who was sent on his
way to Washington by 5000 plurality,
is not a lawyer, gone to join the $50
other lawyers in our national assembly.
Instead, he is a cartoonist on a Fargo
newspaper. He was educated as a civil
engineer, took a fling at farming and
became interested in politics through
the cartoonist's necessity for studying
current affairs. II he had been q year
younger than his twenty-five years he
could not have been admitted to the
house Of representatives.
Naturally, the young men were for
him. Drainage engineers spoke for him
because they thought his technical
training would be Of use in discussing
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
BIG WASTE IN WAR
Money Spent Would Have Made
Earth a Paradise.
"a, 600, 900 DEAD AND MANNED

Berlin Paper In Making Comparison.
Says Funeral cortese of 7,ooo,oot
Men Killed Would Reach From Pari.
to vIadivostok, One Hearse Following
Another.
Berlin.-The Berliner Tageblatt sums
up the results of the war to date as
follows:
"War loans, $S7,OOo,OOO, 600; loss in
dead and wounded, 100000 men;
killed, 100000 men; crippled for life,
100000 men; loss through decrease of
birth rate in all belligerent countries,
100000 men.
''The gold production Of the world
during the last 500 years amounted to
$4,000 100000, or less than one-fifth of
the cost of the awful world war;" the
paper continues. "In five dollar gold
pieces the $s7, 100000 raised in war
loans would form belt that could be
wound around the earth nine times.
"The funeral cortege Of the 100000
men killed would reach from Paris to
Vladivostok if one hearse followed the
other.
when the war began the combined
public debt of all European states was
a little over S25OO0,OO0,OOO, and now it
is over $112,OO0,OO0,OO0 The British
merchant fleet in 1914 represented a
value of about $95O,OO0,OOO. That is
less than the annual interest England
now has to pay for her war debt. Be-
fore the war Germany exported goods
to the amount of $113,OO0,OOO per year
to the British colonies. By cutting off
this export England can eventually re-
imburse herself for her losses, but this
will take more than 200 years.
Germany, with the amount spent by
her for the war, could have bought all
the cotton fields, the copper mines and
the whole petroleum industry of the
United States and still would have had
several billion dollars left over.
Russia, with her war expenses,
might have covered her immense terri
tories with a net of railways as close
as that of Belgium and France, whose
losses in men are larger than the entire
male population of Alsace-Lorraine,
could have bought all the Portuguese
and Dutch colonies with the money she
sacrificed for the war.
with the enormous wealth destroy
ed by the war Europe might have been
made paradise on earth instead of
bowling wilderness. There is no doubt
that the awful struggle would have
been avoided if the nations had any
idea Of its enormity when it started"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Drops "Kaiser" From Plane.

Redwood City, Cal-"The kaiser is
dead" shouted a modern Paul Re
we're, galloping through Redwood City.
The people rushed to the town hall to
hear confirmation Of the news Direct
ed to nearby marsh, they found the
kaiser" up to his neck in mud. Dan
Davidson, air pilot at the nearby avia-
ton school, made an efflgy Of friend
Bill Hohenzollern, went up in his aero
plane early in the morning and dropped
Bill into the marsh. An early rising
farmer saw the ef1gy drop and rushed
to the spot, thinking some aviator had
fallen. On learning it was only the
kaiser the farmer spread the word.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Pantheon and Parthenon.

The Parthenon, or what is left Of it,
stands upon the Acropolis of Athens.
The most famous building on earth
was erected under the administration
Of Pericles about B. c. 442. Its present
ruinous condition was caused by the
explosion of a bomb during the war
between the Venetians and Turks in
1857.
The Pantheon at Rome was built by
Agrippa in B. G. q and, unlike the
more beautiful temple at Athens, is
still in a fair state Of preservation.
The Pantheon is, of course, well worth
seeing both for its own sake and on
account of its historic interest, but
it does not hold the fame belonging
to the Incompatible building on the
AcrOpolis.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
AMERICAS WAR EXPENSES
NOW A MILLION HOURLY

; Washington.-War expendi-
lures Of the United States, in
, Guiding allied loans, mounted
, during August to more than $24,-
100000 every twenty-four hours.
The figures, minus $100,O00,OO0
just loaned to Russia, are con-
tanned in a treasury statement.
Two-thirds of the daily total,
$16,375, 600, is represented by ad-
vances to the allies. For its own
needs the United States has been
} spending daily $S,OSS,652, MAX
} ing the gross total $24, 400, $50.
; Since war was declared, 40
, days ago, the treasury has paid
, out total of s., 1881, 400, 0S6, Of
which S1,6SO,5OO 900 has been
) advanced to the entente govern
, ments.
Lord Northcliffe Of the British
, mission presented to Secretary
} McAdoo figures showing that the
credit Of the British government
} would have to be increased from
- $500. 100000 monthly to about
$oO0,0OoOOO.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Adopts Soldiers, Families.

Canton, O.-Mrs. ]. n. Hines, a
wealthy Canton woman, who was re-
Gently formally commissioned as hon.
orary captain Of Company G, Eighth
Ohio, has adopted as war wards the
members Of the families Of the soldiers
whose honorary commander she is.
Mrs. Hines has procured the names
and addresses OF every family and the
number Of children, and she will see
that they are cared for during the sol
Gers absence.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Camphor Laurels In Japan.

There is a stringent law in Japan
that when one camphor laurel is cut
down another must be planted in its
place. The tree is hardy and long lived,
attaining to an enormous size. 1t is
covered with 4 small leaf Of vivid
green color. The seed, or berries, grow
In clusters, resembling the black cur
rant in size and appearance. And the
wood is employed for every purpose.
from cabinetmaking to shipbuilding.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Would Rather Not Go.

$50 you were late to school, BessieT'
Eyes, mamma"
"Why didn't you run, dearT
Because you told me never to de-
ceive, mamma"
"But how would that deceive, my
child?'
at might give some one who saw
me running an idea that was anxious
to get there, and I wasn't"-Yonkers
Statesman.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Just a Step.

you may not believe it, mum, but
I wunst knelt at de feet Of queen"
"And how did you fall so low as to
become a tramp"
1T wuzn't much of a fall. mum. You
see, I was a super in de movies "-Ez.
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
LOST 121 LBS. IN FEW WEEKS
Weighing 316, Physician Walked Eight
cen Miles q Day.

Seneca, N. Y.-Dr. 1. 81. Magill
weighed 316 pounds when he went on
his vacation a few weeks ago. When
he returned he weighed 1916 pounds.
1.-THE doctors told me 1 never would
be able to get down to 200 pounds" he
said, ''but 1 fooled them. 1t took per-
sistent exercise. While I was in Texas
I started walking a mile a day. That
was all 1 could stand at first. But by
the time I had finished my visit in San
Diego was walking eighteen miles a
day without becoming in the least ex-
hausted."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Sliced Hair.

Tommy, bright little three-year-old,
had just made his first visit to the
BARRIERS and was very dissatisfied upon
his return.
81 don't like my hair curled in this
way. all in little curls," he said.
"How do you wish it? queried
mamma.
"Why, 1 want it like Uncle Toms.
I want it in two Slices
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
The Ambitious Bride.

Bill-Hello! Home from your homer.
moon trip already?
Gill-Oh, yes.
Rather short. wasn't it?'
"Oh, yes. My new wife seemed rath.
er anxious to get home and try her
cooking OH me. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08

Great Lakes Vessels Going to Atlantic.
Boston.-More than a hundred YES
sells from the great lakes will be
brought to the Atlantic coast during
the next few months In an effort to re-
heve the shortage Of tonnage here, It
was stated. Many Of the ships WIN be
cut In halves to enable them to pass
through the Welland canal
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
GROUNDING is BACK HOME.
Returns to Family That Befriended 1t
Twenty Years Before.

MadisonVille, KY Hezzie Sisk of
Dalton. is the owner Of a grounding
that is now old enough to retire to
private life. About twenty years ago
Mr.. Sisk's son Sam found a young
grounding pig, took it home, and that
fall it hibernated. 1t came out next
spring and soon was missing.
Sight had been lost of the animal,
but about two months ago the same
hog turned up again and went to the
same quarters where it was reared and
is still with the family. Mr.. Sisk says
there is no doubt that it is the very
same grounding that strayed off from
home a number Of years ago. 1t is
gentle and seems to have made up its
mind to die among its former friends.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Time For the Lecture.

you're not going so early?"
Eyes, indeed! have had a fine time
at your party, but If am to get any
sleep at all tonight I've got to go now
to give my wife a chance to tell me all
the breaks have made while here
Detroit Free Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Varicose Veins.

@ Operation is necessary in very Z
@ severe cases. In simple early Z
O cases treatment consists Of ap- g
@ plying suitable bandages and g
O paying attention to regularity of z
@ the bowels and general health. z
@ The bandage, which should be g
@ Of flannel, about two inches wide Z
@ and a yard or so long, is wrapped &
o spirally round the limb affect 9
@ ed, commencing well below the g
9 prominent veins and taken well g
@ above them. 1t should be adjust e
o ed firmly, but not too tightly, Z
. and each layer should slightly g
g overlap the last. 1t should be
@ put on while lying in bed in the g
@ morning and not taken off again g
@ till lying down in bed at night. 9
q Never massage or rub the parts. 9
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
The Retort Courteous,

He-This bargain hunting shows your
character. You are always looking out
for something cheap.
She-Too true. That is how / came
to marry you.-Baltimore American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Sarcastic Pop.

She-I told papa you wanted to see
him the next time you called. He
What did he say? She-He said for
you to come on; he wasn't afraid Of
you.-Boston Transcript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
LASS0S 1000 POUND BEAR.
Animal That Killed Many Cattle Is
TraiIed to Its End.

Trailed to Its End.
Santa Fe, N. MA thousand pound
= female grizzly bear was lassoed in
the Santa Fe national forest by ]. F.
McMullen, trapper, of the United
States biological survey. The animal
was trailed down as she raced through
the woods with a forty-five pound trap
and six foot drag hanging to its feet.
McMullen tied the bear and sent a
man to the Mountain View ranch to
bring an audience Of ranchers and
tourists to see and photograph the
brute before it was given the death
shot. The bear had killed many cattle
recently.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Top and Bottom.

The chiropOdiSt is humble indivld
ual. In the profession he begins and
Is content to remain at the foot The
barber, on the. contrary. is ambitious
He begins at the head and stays there
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
Slow Work.

"How's your boy Josh doing in the
armyT"
First rate" replied Farmer Corntos-
sci, although his mothers little dis
appointed. She speaks about the slow
ness of Josh's promotion every time
she sees in the pal or that the same
old general Is still holding his job
Washington Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
HIS FACE WAS FAMILIAR"
Did Not Recognize Brother Till ExpIa-
nation Was Made.

Hopkinsville, Ky.-Vego E. Barnes is
back from Buffalo, where he went to
see a certain man and met him on the
street. How are you, Orville?" said
Mr.. Barnes, extending his hand. The
Buffalo man, with the natural suspi-
cion of an fastener meeting strang-
er, hesitated. "Your face is familiar, I"
he said. I'm sure I've seen it before.
But who are you?" Merely your
brother" Vego explained. 1t was the
first time they had met in twelve years.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
The Pessimist Saws:

Seeing is believing" but that does
not alter the fact that some men see
things which have no real existence
and therefore believe things which are
not true.-RichmOnd Times-DiSpatch
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08
PHONE WENTWORTH 25e7.
JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and
Publisher.

Entered as Second-Class Matter
Aug. 10, 1902, at the Post Office at
Chicago, Illinois, under Act OF March
3, 1879.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08

Haste makes waste. and waste makes
want, and want makes strife between
the good man and his wife.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-09-08

To what CULTS a single deviation
from the track of human duties leads.
Byron.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-10-19
TRUST U.s." SAY BRITISH
War Does Not Make EngIishmen I'm
derstand American Coloquiaisms
Any Better Than Before.

Washington.-Evidently the war has
not made the English understand
American colloquialisms any better
than heretofore-or some particular
Englishmen are merely lacking a
sense of humor. Anyway, official
Washington is smiling an official smile
(which is the diplomatic way of con-
cealing undue mirth) over little in
cident that occurred in Hampton Roads
the other day. when Secretary Baker
was on an inspection trip. He crossed
from one camp to another when a
British cruiser, lying near by. sig
nailed:
"Who is that going ashore flying an
official flag?"
THE secretary of war" was the
answer.
'Thank you" said the Britisher.
Don't mention IT." replied our cour-
teous bluejackets-
That ended it until one of our sail
ors saw the British wig-wagging furi-
ously. He read the signal.
Trust us" the British were saying,
wen never mention it 20 a soul"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-10-19

should be the winning pitcher each
time.
Fortunately Vanguard was not
forced 10 extend himself In the game
referred Ia, as Rube has had tough
times after making his records. After
Marquard's winning streak was broken
IN 1912 he just dubbed around until
the end OF the season, being Of very
little use 10 the Giant team. He found
himself 10 the worlds series that fall,
winning two OF the three games won
BY New York from the Red Sox in
1912.
Pittsburgh Beaten Twice.
After Vanguard established new
National league long distance record
In 1914. by beating Pittsburgh on July
II. he aid not win another game that
year. lie lost ten straight. He then
started the 1915 season Ia blaze OF
glory by pitching a no-hit game over
Brooklyn, only TO go to pieces after
that. In midseason he was released to
Toronto.