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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
"CANTONMENT.'

OF the big part that the cantonment is play
ing in American life it might be good idea learn
how 10 pronounce the word. SO far, everybody pro-
nounces the way he pleases. That only of
the general public, but government military
thorities
1t is said that about half Of the military and
civil officials call il -ment" accenng the
ond syllable. That might sufficient warrant
for that pronunciation. Pres't Wilson, who is
once the nation the head Of the army, and
scholar of no mean attainments says "can-tn-m'nt "
accenting the syllable. be thought that
this is peculiarly a Princeton variation it be
corded that Prof Hunt of Princeton calls it can
tonn-rnent" accenting the second syllable. All these
recommendations heard right along And there is
variation "can-oon-ment" which is said to
respond to the British use OF the word in India
Pres Wilson have nearly all the dictionary
authority side. the Standard dictionary
authorizes Dr. Hunts can tom ment." That by the
way approximates pretty closely the French pro
nunciation-a fact that might have weight. be-
cause it originally a French word. How be
the form from "can-tone- is prob
ably beyond understanding anybody familiar
with the ordinary rules of English and French pro-
nunciaton.
Butts it's nothing quarrel about. Since there's so
much confusion. why not compromise and let every
body call it "encampment' campo"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30


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INNS
Inc ois7Ill commence WIN
which many people viii drink al
most any sort Of water which looks
clean in a glass. providing they can
add 20 il one-third or half It's bulk
Of wine or a dash OF whisky. is ut
terly uufounded If the water hap
pens TO be contaminated with any
serious Infection. The only pOpu
lar beverages which are really safe
from g ARCHAEOLOGICAL point -
view. are tea. coffee ard cocoa. on
account OF the boiling or their wa
ter. and the introduction and
spread OF the use Of any other new
dieretic habit OF recent times.
Fortunately increase of knowl-
edge does not always mean increase
of our difficulties. The problem OF
purifying water is not that of re-
moving from it or oxy5izing all the
COMMUNICATIONS which r. may con
tain. but simply the killing Of its
germs. After hundreds n trials OF
scores OF different drugs and chem
icals one has been found Cchlor-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
The Health of Our
American roopS
in France
BY Garrett p. serviss.

A more quietly charming and
peacefully picturesque country than
that in which our American expedi-
tionary force is temporarily quar-
tered could hardly be imagined. A
gently rolling country Of Hill and
valley rising and falling in long,
broadrested wavz. Toe tops of the
thinly covered with soil bearing
dwarf scrub or grass.
The towns and villages lie shell
tered in the valleys on the rich but
narrow green bottom lands along
the swift streams. The slopes lead
ing up to the long, bare hill ridges
and the deep little cross valleys
running down from them filled
with woods. The effect is quantity
picturesque and ribbon-like, as if
some skilled gardener had laid out
the country in broad contrasting
bands-a narrow band of bright
green down the bottoms of he VAL
legs picked out with red roof and
gray wall and silver CLEANS of river;
broad band of dusky green of
trees and copses along the slopes,
and another band of gray and silver
green along the bare tops of the
ridges.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
Other Editors Than Ours
liz GIFyr on PERsIsTENCE.
lTOpckn CapitaIl

A newspaper friend from another town telling
day of his experience handling newsbOys.
He found them Hkable little fellows, bright
a dollar and alert and energetic. But if one
wanted them to go out fishing, many of them would
think notify the office They would just skip
while the patrons along the Tuning ana
teephoning the office ask why the paper didn't
one boy he learned his route if it
rained.
Now by persistent effort a newspaper usually find
a group boys who will faithfully
At the same time most newspaper who have dealt
with the newsboy proposition find a many boys
who lack persistence and relia bility.
OF course boy is yet a man. and il is hard on
him TO take up the responsibilities of manhood
early Many people feel when boy does his
school work that is all that should be expected The
rest OF the should be free go and come to
get outdoor life and play boy sports In that way they
argue fitting himself for future usefulness
quite as much when he is working money
earning task.
these hard times there many families that
need help of their boys If the youngsters 10
through school they must take hold and help on
family costs. Also a boy with tendency toward mis-
chief is better having a regular task.
Teachers and parents ought TO impress the idea on
the boys if they undertake perform certain
task they come through with IT, fishing fish
ms circus or no circus, rain shine If a boy can
undertake a task and then drop IL when he feels like
it, habit of rregularity and responsibility is formed
that Will hurt him all his life.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
WHY THE FUEL SHORTAGE Is EXCEPTIONALLY
GRAVE IN INDIANA
ICnnfrihnfnhl

normal year of 1915 Indiana produced 1900
50 tons Of coal OF this 6.394.o19 used tr
Indiana i'm domestic and manufacturing consumption.
The railroads practically the amount. the
exact figures being 61SS.55O tons There shipped
out of the state 4.422. $50 tons
But 1915 Indiana bought foreign coal-coal mined
outside the state to the amount Of 9141.746 tons.
Now possible restrict the of Indiana
coal 10 this state on the basis the 1915 figures
would short 4.f4S163 tons. the difference be
what shipped out Of the state and what was
shipped in
is that much Indiana coal is being shipped
out of the state THESE shipments are legal con-
tracts before the United states regulatory law
and there be the least regard
tor law. these contracts not be invaded
Indiana does produce enough coal for her own
needs even i'm normal years Why she doesn't may be
interesting speculation but it isn't pertinent the i'm
mediate situation The embarrassing fact 20 be dealt
that could take all Of the Indiana output
Indiana consumption. still would be short APP
Droxdmately 100000 OF coal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
THE MELTING POT
Come Take Pot Luck With Us"
FARMLAND.

Fairyand where o pass.
hiding a in grass:
weather's
Where spre and imps brownies
Where butterflies birds
The world is fun of miracles that tantaIize
We wonder and wonder, but allowed
What kind of thoughts DO head?
And what cterpllars dream asleep
How is ii chestnut tell what kind o L
And how oaks
Are pelcans ashamed to have such long less?
DO blackbirds really admire those funny spotted eggs?
If could whatever they might
Would each and OF them prefer a snake?
want to live in Fairyland get the reply
To how and when where VIII
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30


This is song for a soldier
To sing as he rides from home
To the fields afar where the battles are
or over the oceans foam
Whatever the dangers waiting
In the lands I have not seen.
If L do not fal-if l come back at all
Then 1 will come back clean.
81 may lie in the mud Of the trenches,
I may reek with blood and mire,
But / will control by the God in my soul,
The might of my mans desire.
I viii fight my foe in the OPEN
But my sword shall be sharp and keen
For the foe within who would lure TO sim
And L will come back clean
"I may not leave for my children
Brave medals that I have worn
But the blood in my veins shall leave stains
on bride on babes unborn.
And the scars that my body may carry
Shall not be from deeds obscene
For my will shall say to the beast, OBEY
And L Will come back clean.
ooh not on the fields Of slaughter
And not in the prison cell,
Or in hunger and cold is the story told
BY of its darkest hell.
But the old, old sin of the senses
Can tell what that word may mean
To the soldiers wives and to innocent lives,
And 1 will come back clean"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
Chlorine to the
Rescue
BY Woods Hutchinson. VI. d.

When it comes TO the question of
good drinking water the room" of
the human race is distinctly prefer
able to its company" A draught
from the crystal spring or the purl-
ing stream out in the wilds or the
open country may be perfectly safe
and wholesOme-thOu often with
the accent on the "may''-but as
soon as farms begin to fiji the val
leys and villages and little towns
10 dot the landscape IL is a case of
"Caveat bibitor," Let the drinker
beware
There is no safety whatever in
judging either by appearance or
taste. for thousands of water tests
by our army sanitarians have con-
hrmed up to the hilt our former pO-
sition that the clearest and most
sparkling water may be simply
swarming with colon or cholera
baciln. While as for taste the sim
pie but deplorable fact is that a
slight addition of sewage. filtered Of
its gross impurities by passing
through 10 or 10 feet of soil, actu-
ally improves the flavor and kick"
of drinking water.
People who have been accustom-
ed for years TO the bouquet of light
~ polluted water, with its salts and
sparkling carhOnic acid gas from
vegetable decomposition, often com
plain bitterly Of the fiat and insipid
taste of tap water" when for the
first time i'm their lives they are
supplied with abundance OF pure
and wholesome water 10 drink. VII
layers will not infrequently plug up
or twist the handle off faucets TO
prevent their children from poison
ing themselves and continue TO carry
AN their water half or three-quar-
ters of a mile from heavily pollut-
ed wells or springs because they do
not like the queer taste Of the
new pure water.
All along every sector Of the west
ern front, from Ypress TO the Ison-
20. the reports are practically unan-
imous that at least three-fourths Of
all the waters tasted whether wells
streams or springs. We're swarmins
with colon bacilli-that is. contain
mated by sewage This means that
practically two-thirds of the water
supply of the soldiers must De treat
ed and purified in some way before
il is safe for them 20 drink.
BY the mercy of heaven the peril
Gus problem of water supply in the
field has been robbed Of tvo-thirds
OF its terrors by one single blessed
discovery and invention Of science
that is. the typhoid vaccine. BY
means of this. and this alone. ty-
phoid. the classic scourage Of
armies. has become an almost un-
known disease on the western and
Italian fronts. But while this takes
the raw edge of the water problem
and robs even the vilest of water
OF two-thirds of its possibilities for
harm. fl still leaves IL with a con-
siderable margin OF powers for mis-
chief
Even mountain springs are by no
mans rHa naarau-horu source OF
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Also the large amounts Of water
consumed in the comforting form
Of coffee or tea are sterilized by this
process.
This leaves only the method OF
adding 70 the water some chemical
substance which IS capable Of de-
stroying the germs and yet leaving
liz safe 10 drink. Something. as the
Irishman expressed il. Ito take the
cruelty out of the water" Scores
Of different substances have been
proposed and tried for this purpose
alum sulphate Of iron, permanga-
nate of potash. peroxide. chlorine
and many others.
Nor has the list been limited 20
vile chemicals and horrid tasting
scientific compounds The popular
imacination has been fertile In de-
vising such purifiers ranging from
the one that the IrIshman had in
mind. through the various wines and
liquors. down % lemon juice.
tfsanes. vine-ar. toast and oatmeal.
Nearly all Of these are believed 10y
their users TO. In some mysterious
way. render the water harmless and.
If they do not actually kin the mil
crobes al least 20 stun or temper
arily paralyze them so that the
juices OF the stomach can digest
them before they have time 20 come
70.
Unfortunately for our convivial
enjoyment and peace of mind there
IS practically no basis whatever for
the belief that any Of these agree
able additions 10 our drinking wa
ter DO anything substantial 20 puri-
f. it. or even 20 make IL safer 20
drink. Pure alcohol is an active
germicide but in order 20 produce
any real Iethal. or even discourag-
ing effect upon the germs ia drink
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Our metropolitan police to have contracted
arresting people just for a showing with
the board safety and then letting them we'll
maybe they afraid tell what they arrest them
for 1t might be parsimonious-or silly. Secrecy is
a cloak behind which the devil always hides.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Now Secy McAdoo tells us il is not costing much
run the war expected. be because
we have gotten Russia off hands as a borrower.
Otherwise. assuredly. lit can't be did Who ever
heard Of a war costing less than was expected? Or
anything else?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

To make the gay formal garden
effect more complete the moOrs
above are splashed with purple
streaks of heather, and the stubbles
below are on blaze of pink from
sheets of a magenta lowered mint
1t is a land of sheep and cattle
and bees. In fact. that beautiful
pitch upon the shoulder of a hill,
with the wheat fields and pastures
sweeping below it and the green
shadows of the woods behind, stands
on the slopes of just such a valley
as is repeated a dozen times in our
little America in France.
You can see sheep being driven
down by scores and hundreds in the
sunset light every evening, by the
same old sheep paths and winding
lanes. from the mOOrland pastures
above 10 their folds under the same
roof as their shepherds in the viii
lage below. And their shepherds
look ancient and time-worn and
primitive.
The fields of the valley are too
narrow and crowded and the land
too valuable 70 be torn up with
trenches and covered with barbed
wire entanglements. SO most of our
regiments march up the hill slopes
for a mile and a half 10 three miles
every morning-wh is very good
for their wind-to their trainins
fields and drill trenches, which have
been laid out along the broad, roll
ing SUBMITS of the ridges.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Don't forget o follow the Marie Bonin Brown arti-
cles on The Truth About Germany" They give you
the German peoples side-and they good for sew
eral days yet
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

natural live" taste. it gives a fiat
and insipid flavor to the "demni-
ton product" as Mr.. Mantalini
says.
This method IS used on the west
ern front quite extensively in pre-
pairing the water for use in field
hospitals, the same apparatus. often
huge steam boiler mounted on a
motor truck. which is used for
sterilizing clothes and dressings
and providing the hot water neces-
sary for the operating theater be-
ing utilized for the purpose.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30
SOLDIERS. COME BACK CLEAN.

This especially
popularity the training This
of OF
likely be- make
him your duty he boys
are Of
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

always comes from the surface
somewhere, however distant And
if that original surface is sufficient
ly heavily polluted the germs may
pass for miles through underground
channels and yet bubble up alive
and kicking" in the spring Be
sides, springs being on slOping
ground or at the foot Of hills, are
naturally liable to surface pollu-
ton during heavy rains, so that a
small spring in the area of a large
army is in great danger Of becom-
ing polluted at one end or the 9TH
er
The dysenteries and diarrhoeas
which cut such a heavy figure in
camp diseases and army mortality
will still attack the typhoid pro-
tected man, and also, of course,
cholera, if its germs happen to get
into the water supply. The one
drawback of the anti-typhoid vacci-
nation is the idea which seems to
have got abroad that a vaccinated
man can drink freely Of any old
water which ne comes across with
perfect impurity," as Mrs. Parting
ton used 10 say.
This is anything but the case, as
it was found years ago that when
fresh supply of perfectly pure wa
ter was furnished TO a community
which had been a heavy sufferer
from typhoid, not only were the
deaths from typhoid almost wiped
out. but there was also a heavy re-
duction Of the general death rate
outside of this disease, in the pro-
portion Of two deaths from other
diseases prevented to every death
from typhoid avoided
How, then, can this usually pol
luted water be robbed Of its final
possibilities for harm? There are
three main methods. filtering. boil
ing and alternating. The first is
too slow and TOO expensive and elab-
crate for army use. except in those
areas where reservoirs and a per
manent pipe line system can be in
stalled. II requires filter beds
storage tanks, standardization basins
and mains. which are usually quite
out Of the question under military
conditions. As for the little indi-
vidual or household filters. they
have been practically abandoned.
for the reason that they only took
out the big dirt" and none Of them
would filter out bacteria. except the
porous porcelain and spongy plat
mum ones. and these are so ex-
tremely slow In action that they
would only yield a few pints OF
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Even mountain springs are by no
means the heaven-born source OF
guaranteed purity which they are
usually regarded. Spring water
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

The only time that a filter which
really filters works well" from the
point Of view of the average house
holder or housekeeper. is after il
has got cracked or in some other
way sprung a nice large leak. which
lets a good flow Of water through
entirely unchanged. The faster a
small filter works the more worth
less il IS
The second method Of purifca-
ton boiling. is an excellent and
most efficient one, but IT has certain
serious limitations in practice In
the first place il takes fuel. and a
good deal Of il. which is always
g scare and difficult commodity in
the neld. II the second. il takes
time. first. 70 light the fire and boil
the water. AID. second. 20 cool IL
down 70 drinking temperature
Third by driving of the contained
air and other gases and precipitat-
ing the salts. which give water its
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Here they march and counter
march and practice complicated
maneuvres of attack, charge with
the bayonet, jab viciously downward
at dummy Germans in the first
trench as they leap over it and
jump fercely down into the second
one and proceed to mop up" inn
aSinary BOches. This. with rifle and
machine gun practice on the ranges
with sham fights against the splen-
did veteran "Chasseurs- a-pied' and
other French troops which have
been sent down to drill with and
against them, fills mp the time bus
lily. until the clatter and groaning of
the chuck wagons scrambling up
with their mule teams from the
valley below announce the hour Of
grub.
Each man draws his mess tin and
dipper full and the squads squat
down in long rows on the ground,
officers and men alike, and faG 20
eagerly. Then after 90 minutes OF
luxurious basking with slackened
belts the bugles sound. mp they set
and at il again vigorously for two
hours more, and then line up for
the march down hill and into bill
lets in the village below.
An hour or so policing their
bniets. hauling away manure heaps
from their front yards, doing IA
tigue duty on the construction of
latrines. bombardment shelters or
"abris." sidewalks, cleaning arms
and equipment then the hugle
sounds the glad call for supper and
the squads line UP before their mess
kitchens TO draw their rations.
A hearty meal, a luxurious smoke
along the VILLAGE streets in the twi-
light. a band concert or sins-sons
AT the Y. NJ. c. A hut. with much
laughter ard polite conversation
with the natives. and particularly
the mattresses. till the last bugle
call ends the day with lights out"
tt is a lusy, vigorous. happy life
in the open air. and the men take
10 il like ducks 10 water. And there
is a good deal Of water for them
20 take TO. for their first baptism
of fire" was by immersion, three
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-30

Ii is lusy. vigorous. happy life
I'm the open air. and the men take
10 il like ducks 10 water. And there
is a good deal Of water for them
20 take TO. for their first baptism
of fire" was by immersion. three
weeks Of almost incessant, chilly.
pelting autumn rain, which falling
on a clay loan soil. save them a
real foretas-e OF the famous mud
OF the trenches. But this did not
stop or dash them i'm the slightest
they drilled ard marched and
CHARGED with the bayouet and coun-
ter-attacked and crouched down in
10 trenches half full of muddy
water. all in the pouring rain, until
they got so hard and "self-heating"
that they positively enjoyed the
downpour-or at least they said so.
The men are fairly bursting the
buttons off their tunics. not below
the waist. but across the chest. and
not q few of them can actually
hardly get into coats which were a
comfortable nj when they landed
with the army three months ago.
They are getting as hard as nails
and as waterproof as trout. And so
spIendidly are they fed and so SUI
perblv sanitated and protected
against diseases of all sorts that
their sickness rate is barely $40
percent. as compared with . IL
percent in barracks in time ,f peace.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-10-25
Estate of FRED B. GILMORE
Commissioners Notice

The Undersigned, having been APP
pointed by the Honorable Probate
Court for the District of Manchester,
Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust the claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of
Fred B. Gilmore late of Manchester
in said District, deceased, and all
claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purpose aforesaid, at the
late residence of the decedent in the
Town of Manchester in said District,
on the 10th day of March next, from
o'clock p. NJ, until 4 o'clock p. NJ, on
said day and that six months from the
10th day of September A. d. 1917, is
the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to US
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Manchester this 10th day
of September A. d. 1917.
w. B. EDGERTON,
E. M. TAYLOR,
1873 Commissioners.
Kate H. Gilmore, Administrative,
Manchester Depot, VI.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-10-25
Estate of LUTHER II. WADE
Order of Notice of Allow ance of
Account

District of Manchester SIS.
The Honorable Probate Court for
the District Aforesaid:
To all persons interested in the
estate Of Luther II. Wade late Of Man
chester in said District, deceased.
GREETING:
Whereas, said Court has assigned
the 18th day of November next for
examining and allowing the account of
the administrator of the estate Of said
deceased and for decree OF the resi-
due OF said estate 10 the lawful claim
ants Of the same, and ordered that
public notice thereof be given to all
persons interested in said estate by
publishing this order three weeks sue
cessively previous TO the day assigned,
in The Manchester Journal, news
paper published at Manchester in said
District.
Therefore, you are hereby notified
TO appear at the Probate Office in
Manchester in said District, on the
day assigned, then and there 10 con
test the allowance Of said account II
you see cause. and TO establish your
right as heirs, legatees and lawful
claimants 10 said residue.
Given Under My Hand. this 23d day
Of October, 1917.
2s-s EDWARD GRIFFITH. Judge.