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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

right at home who still in their
hearts stand by Germany. But their
day is coming in spite of all the Kais-
er's prayers to God, and the Ameri-
can Kaiserists with them.
A word about the grand Y. M. c.
A. work among the boys. They are
here as a part of our hospital unit
and service in camp. They bring
Christianity where it is needed in
stead of in upholstered pews or
foreign missions. We need all that
influence among the well as much
as the sick and wounded. Today
the only true American citizen is he
who stands by the country in this
A man who lives for himself alone
these days is a useless fixture, the
improbable servant Of the scrip
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

before in order to make you all
around useful. thot 35 patients a
day was enough for days work but
two days later got order, "in addi-
ton" to my other duties to inspect
the construction of the whole hos
pital unit of about 80 buildings.
Carpenter work from roofs to foun-
dation. Steam heating installations,
water works, plumbing and electric
lightning, and report on all defects
and deficiencies. 1 thot it was an
all winters job but got request
from the commanding officer to state
my delay in reporting and so my
completed report went in yesterday.
l could build another unit exactly
like this now having gone over
every foot of the entire unit. With
my 35 bed ward and inspection drills
and meetings every afternoon and
sometimes evenings, also number of
Others we develop a capacity for do
ing big things and doing them cor
rectly, Systematically and rapidly.
Besides all this there is the paper
work. Every case that comes in
must be examined. His whole his
tory from birth, family history, etc.,
marked down in the record. His
present illness injury, all the symp-
toms, send specimen to laboratory
and record them, also the daily pro-
gress Of disease, everything is writ
ten down, reported in duplicates to
different heads and departments, diet
lists, property lists of furniture, fix
lures, medicine, bedding in ward,
patients clothes and valuables. All
must be recorded and be held re-
sponsible for and if one word or let
ter is wrong, back it comes for cor
rection.
It is grand work and interesting.
A wonderfully efficient system worth
years of your life to learn. Does
anyone think we have time or thot
for foolishness in this work? Please
forget it. Every man here is alive
to his duty. 1t is a serious task, re-
sponsibIe We all realize the hell
ahead of us when we go to the front
but there is not shirker among us.
Every one willing to face a possible
death which is sure to come to more
or less Of us. Every nurse faces the
same problem with the same calm
ness and courage and determination
Knowing that the Germans being
contrary to all human and civilized
warfare, spared hospitals, the sick
and wounded and nurses but their
inhuman friends have made special
target of this class. I saw the other
day two little Belgian children whose
| parents we're murdered and multi
ated and the little orphans sent over
here to a family near Chicago. Wher
the kind hearted man went to re-
ceive them the little boy had both
his hands cut off and the girl with
both breasts cut out. That is what
we've got to fight and their kline
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

very reasons mentioned above; its
exactness, system, justice, recogni-
ton of ability and advancement. It
weeds out the unfit and developes
the fit. What higher motive than
to fight for great noble cause like
the present. To unselfishly give your
service and life's blood for human
ity, your home and home people, for
human liberty and the great ruling
principles of life must necessarily
broaden your view, develop your
character and make better and
stronger, and more useful and intel
Iigent citizens.
Have spoken of our army as
whole. 1t might be of interest to
know how our boys are cared for in
case of sickness. No army in the
world is so we'll fed or clothed or
paid or cared for as the American
army In this base hospital we have
1900 beds. There are in all now
about 80 separate buildings still not
complete but will be inside ten days,
all connected with glassed in cor
ed from ten large boilers, which al
so heats hot running water circulated
all over thru all buildings electric
| lighted, water works, sewerage, all
buildings furnished with porcelain
plumbing fixtures, bath tubs, shower
batus, lavatories, etc. A whole little
city all by itself. We have now 500
patients from the 85th division
quartered at Camp Custer one mile
| east of us of which we are unit.
A wide cement road connects us, en-
circling our grounds and running the
whole length of the camp, three
miles.
This is primarily a base and re-
contraction hospital for convalescent
soldiers sent home from abroad, also
taking the sick from the camp here
of $4,000 men. The war department
is building something like 800 of
these hopitals for the care of our
sick and wounded boys. This unit
may go to France and start similar
units there, we don't know, but the
plan is to have sufficient accommoda-
tions. There are about SO doctors
here now and rs army nurses. There
will be so when we have full corps
1t may be Of interest to know that
there are all civilian nurses joining
the Red Cross and they're recon-
mended for army service. The SAM
tary corps, ambulance corps, medical
supply depot, etc., completes the unit
The work here is very hard, althC
pleasant. This is not a training
school for medical officers like FIT
Riley or FIT. Benz. Harrison, altho we
get the military training thoroly in
connection. 1 was ordered here fol
active duty and I got it the first day
with an assignment to a ward of 35
patients. AS l expected surgery they
took it for granted didn't need that
and gave me the medical. You are
expected to do what you didn't know
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

regularly, shave, keep his body and
his clothing and accoutrements
-scrupulously clean, his bed and bar
racks likewise. Plenty of nourish-
ing food cleanly prepared. When
the inspecting officer inspects the
mess kitchen and mess hall and rubs
his white gloyed fingers over dishes
or tables and finds grease or dirt
there is a report going in unfavOr-
able to the guilty ones. Orders came
the other day from Washington,
which applies to all camps, to have
loose leaves in mess tables in order
to have them taken out and scrubbed
on the edges that would otherwise
form dirty cracks.
Then again all men are taught
cleanliness and sanitation and re-
quested to practice it. No foul
language is allowed either among
officers or men. He is taught man
ners, politeness and activity. How
to walk, stand, sit, to give quick at
tention, to obey, in short to act as
a perfect gentlemen on all occasions.
He is taught respect for superiOrs
and for nOn-combatants, innocent
women and children. One of our
soldiers in France was guilty of this
latter offense and was shot very
promptly. Compare this with the
bestial offenses of the German SOL
diers in Belgium and France who go
UNPUBLISHED and are encouraged to
commit such outrages. The army
has been the great temperance and
prohibition force in this as in other
countries as the last three years rec
ord will show.
Here is the whole argument in a
nutshell. It is not the army that is
unclean but the civilians outside.
The life inside the army is clean.
Whatever appears in the army comes
from the outside. The bad that is
in soldier he brings with him from
his home or his civilian life. 1t is
not question of protecting the civil
ians from the soldiers but of protect
ing our boys from the civilians. In
Nl1nIOdpO44S o1lU ~ CICA1 InC OA4SCAE
of FIT. Smelling had to establish q
provost guard in their cities to pro
tect their soldiers from the evils Of
the cities. Doesn't this prove that the
army tries and does protect our boys
The civilian citizen has privileges
daily that would put our boys in the
guard-house many times a day.
A soldiers first duty is to obey
and be loyal to his trust. Last weel
two attendants on night duty failed
to show up till next morning. 1t was
three months in the guard house an(
no pay. A young. fellow over at the
camp got lonesome and went to hi!
home in Indiana on a furlOugh an(
didn't come back. Being a desertel
in war time he could have been shot
but owing to his youth and the len
iency of the officers he got ten year.
hard labor in Leavenworth, Kansas
Army life is attractive for tn
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

Many people this year are giving
their time and money, generally
spent for making and buying gifts,
to the patriotic work of their coun-
try. This certainly shows the pro-
per Christmas spirit and will be APP
preciated by the boys in the canton
ments and trenches.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-12-21

lures who had his talent taken away
from him. In due time they will all
be taken care of together with the
coward, the Stacker, the pacifist, the
yeIlow-back and the un-American.
Capt. G. R. Christensen,
M. R. S. u. s. Army,
Base Hospital,
Camp Custer, Mich.
Nov. %, 1917. :..
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24

When I began I used false beard. But as time went on and l devoted myself entirely to the Lincoln work, grew a beard of my own. It was much better to do this than to use a false beard.
 But l never tried to attract atten tion to myself. On the contrary, l avoided it. When I left my hotel almost invariably took a cao. I had my meals in private rooom. Being stared at because I looked like Lin coin was repugnant to me. It was undignified and unworthy to parade myself in public.
 Tt is only within the past few weeks that in the press of arranging for this picture production l have been forced to give up my usual habits. But I have done it through necessity, not through choice.
 'I suppose my resemblance to him if, as people say, I do resemble him has come through years of imper- sonating him. I now use very little makeup. The lines and wrinkles produce by using my facial muscles. I have studied all his portraits care fully and have spent innumerable hours of practice trying to repro duce his various expressions-not so that I may look like him off the stage, but that I may better portray him in plays and pictures"
 MT. Chapin himself never saw Lin coin. But when he began giving the monologue there were many persons still living who had known the great war president. Their most frequent criticism was that while the face and manner were true to reality. the voice was not.
 To achieve this resemblance in voice was a difficult thing. Portraits helped him to initiate face. figure and attitudes. Friends of Lincoln could give him details of manner and ees- ture. But to reproduce a voice he had never heard was another matter
 That he did succeed many of Lin- coln's old friends gave their testi- mony. One night at the Hackett theater in New York General O. o. Howard stood up in his ooX between the acts of the Chapin play and told the audience that when he had first seen the impersonation several years earlier the voice had seemed to him different from the real one he hao known.
 But tonight" he added, even the voice seems like that of my own Linz coln'
 The pictures which MT. Chapin has made deal largely with the boyhood of Lincoln. In these scenes he takes the part of the future presidents father, Tom Lincoln.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24

nor of injury done him by German. that governor paid not the slightest at tention to his complaint, nor granted ~oetitution hut brutaly repulsed him and delivered him to his minions who
 .ld iev.i- Ard beat the nan and cast him into prison.
 The Germans, above all, transgressed against our benevolent religious i,... TheV drew ID stringent regulations for bidding the opening of schools where the great Koran is taught. and thus our
 '-;id~en hal no on~o~tunitv to read the Koran accept in their homes secretly. .e, .nlaAs } SC forbade the rite of circumcision, which is approved by the Sunna of our honorable prophet. They even kept strict watch over the judges and the mans of the mosques, and so shamefuliy i'll used them that finally Mo~lcr'r would not accept these offices, through fear of the German adminiStra- ton.
 In addition, to all this, they compelled the natives to rear pigs, though it Is well known how despicable such trade is from the Moslem point of view. The object of the Germans neIe,n was to undermine the religious doctrine of the natives and a ienate them from lslanI
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
M0S[EMS WERE ILL TREATED BY
 THE GERMANS

Sayid Sulaiman 'ibn Yusuf, leader of the Moslems in German East Africa, writes exultantly in the Akhbar el Hao of Agiers concerning the capture by the British of Oar -cs- Saiaam. He pre- sents a Moslem view of the danger of ~"~rnan influence on the faithful as fol- lows:
 those German tigers who were wont to devour the Moslems here have been haunted away by the victorious British forces, who have captured Oar Sa laam uod having delivered us from their claws, we are filled with gladness and rejoicing, as men who come forth from a prison of misery where they have ianguished long.
 Truly my pen is powerless to,describe ali tLe Sutfaiings endured by the Mos lems of Dar-es- -Salaam under brutal German rule We have been like aD Ject slaves, and worse; assuredly the very dogs in civilized lands are better treated than the Germans treated us. They are a nation who hate Islam with an implacable hatred. and hold it in utter detestation. For our persons and property they showed no respect. We endured at their hands many forms of
 rferIiIg ana ininulty-SeiZure of our goods, reviling and imprisonment With out cause-for the considered end ana purpose of the Germans is nothing else than the destruction of our race and the ruin of our religion,
 The German officials here were cruel oppressors imposing upon the natives a single iaw-that Of the rcd. If any Moslem complained to a German goVer-
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
PAGE SEVEN

American. They make their wives walk ten paces in the rear on all pub lie occasions, and I wouldn't walk be- hind any man. 1 want to walk beside him.
 ''The women in China and Japan are waking up, though. There is a big feminist movement. In Japan Mrs FujiSawa, who is one of the leaders of the movement there, gave me a check for $2,500 because she was so glad to see a woman do something that no other woman had done in Japan That was when, clad in kimono, l made my flight over the city of Tokio. The Japanese were wonderful then.
 They are intensely interested in aviation, and all the city turned out. They had the aviation field fenced in with slender bamboo rods. The crowd was tremendous and the interest keen. but the Japs were so polite that not a rod was broken
 In China Miss Stinson made a flight from the grounds of the sacred temple of agriculture over the residence of the president, which was formerly the Chinese imperial palace.
 "The Chinese have never forgotten what they consider the magnanimous conduct of the United States in re- turning the indemnity money at the time of the Boxer uprising"
 A check for $3,000 was the gift of President Li to the young Americal. who was teaching his people how to fly.
 Miss Stinson is on her way to New York to try out her new 150- horse power army plane, with which she ex- poets to break the mems as well as the women's record, and in which she will soon make long distance flights from Cricago.
 When war was declared 1 cabled the offer of my services to the war department she said. I've heard nothing from them and I believe that there are plenty of men to do that work now. When the time comes I'll be ready; I'm just dying to be sol dier.'
 Miss Stinsons brother Ed is at San Antonio, teaching aviation, and her brother Jack has just taken out his aviation license. Her sister Margery is also flying at San Antonio.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
SHOWED UP THE
 JAP AV|ATORS

Caustic comments by officials and the press of Japan against their own army and navy aviators was voiced recently after 20-year- -old Katherine Stinson of San Antonio had made several exhibition flights in Japan. The American girl showed the Japa- nese what a woman could do with an airplane and it was so far ahead of any flying that the Japanese govern ment aviatOrs had shown that the comparisons made in the press were far from flattering to their people.
 Miss Stinson arrived in San Fran cisco recently after making thirty-tw flights in Japan and thirty five ir China. She cabled from Japan offer ing her service to the government as instructor and expects to be assigned to aviation work within a short time. Her brother and sister are conducting an aviation school in San Antonio at
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
sembly or in body or chassis assembly -iS carefiIllN watched

sembly or in body or chassis assembly -is carefully watched.
 The motor parts are fitted by expert workmen and inspected by most rig orous tests. Each addition to the chassis is inspected to make sure that 1t is set in Orsfastened on correctly. At the conclusion of the assemblies, the finished product is tried out under it's own power by expert testers.
 Forty-eight men look more than a hundred different inspection duties on the Overland Light Four model alone. All told there is an inspection force of more than 250 men in the Willys- Over land factories in Toledo on whom rests the responsibility of seeing that all Willys- Overland cars are turned out in conformity with engineering speci- fications.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
|M|[ADY MUST bE
 THIN THIS FALL
She must be thin next winter. And hipless-absolutely so.

But mOre-Sne must De yOulH1ui.
 It's Q next winter fashion tip-just out It was decided when the high commissioners of clothes sat in solemn conference in Cleveland and decided the fate of fashion recently.
 Yes. it's a bit cruel to 'em the wom- en- we mean, after allowing them all kinds of liberty with their figures and sanctioning the fat ones among them. to go jumping back to the sylph-like figure again.
 But that's just what's happened. Here we are in the midst of the barrel skirt, full gathered around the waist. And then there is the flare hip and the shirred yoke and the bouffant and the hustle effect.
 And these are positive boon to her whose avoirdupois is a bit over the line, you know.
 But these happy days will be over soon. gone forever and ever And in stead will come mealless days and meatless nights, the annoying neces- sity of giving up candy and cake and bread and potatoes and pie and, oh, everything that's good and makes life livable.
 For of course next winter every
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
GIRL FLYER W0N
 14G0LD MEDALS

Miss Katherine Stinson, 19-year- old air woman, slipped quietly into Chi cago the other day with fourteen new gold medals in her grips. She's just back from China and Japan, where she made daring flights and where for the first time in their lives, she says, the Chinese and Japanese had to look up to a woman.
 "The Japanese are really the most polite people in the world" Miss Stin- son said, and the Chinese were just lovely, but I'm certainly glad I'm an
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24
0F
 CARS INIT PRESSES
 EXPERT. AUT0|ST

A visitor of the immense Toledo fac tory of the Willys- Overland company had just finished his tour. He was a mechanical expert with more than a smattering of motor knowledge-one who had visited scores of automobile factories in this country and in Europe
 He had been impressed with the giant cranes and presses; the mountain piles of material waiting their turn to be forged or turned into required shapes; the vast conveyor systems which frightened the toll of the work ingmah at the same time multiplied the output He had the highest .,Ii,.se for the efficiency of each labor and time saving device which the exigen- cies of enormous production had created
 But what was it that impressed you what operation or what machine will you remember longest after you leave here?'' he was asked.
 Your inspection" came the qLick reply.
 T have seen the manufacturing methods of some of the highest grade cars of two continents, but the pains taking care and the accuracy of the manufacture of all your models is something that outdoes any previous similar experiences. Builuing your motor cars seems just one inspection after another. Tell fne, do you ever make a mistake?"
 The visitor picked out the feature of the Willys Overland factories on which particular stress has been laid and on which additional respona Dinty is being continually placed in an en- deavor to turn out 8 product as nearly perfect as human endeavor and me chanical accuracy can make it.
 most rigid system of inspection has been established throughout all de- partments, both in the manufacture of the many units that go to make up a completed car, as well as in their as- sembly
 The raw material is careful, checked by heroic physical, painstaking chemical and minute microscopic tests to see that it tallies with the specifi- cations.
 After the foregoing, comes the ma ehining, grinding and surfacing opera tons. Although the machines which do the work are minutely accurate, the accuracy is constantly checked by the operator with delicate micrometers. But even this is not sufficient. Al the parts-particularly those that pla, more delicate role in the operation ol the motor car-are again carefully in. spected by men who do nothing but that-for hardness, for proper size and surface, for quality Of material-lr snort for every detail that can impair the efficiency of the product.
 After the manufacturing operation, nave been carefully inspected the parts are taken to the assembly rooms Here again each step-whether in motor as.
Arizona republican., 1917-06-24

woman, be she fat or thin, tall or dumpy, young or old, will be slender. hlpless and-youthful Wait and see. They do it every time.
 or course. women haven't even bought their summer wardrobes yet. ana here We are talking winter things It does seem bit premature, doesn't it?
 But that's the way Lady Fashion and her makers work it-always ahead of time. way ahead you know. no sooner settled on one season than they're off to change it as much as possible for the next.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-17

HENRY.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry, of Clark, Sun
dayed at the w. B. Andrus home.
Mr.. Smith left Tuesday morning fol
st. Lawrence after a few days visi
with his son, Leo, and wife.
Mr., and Mrs. Harold Lewis ant
children and Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Wac
ner and daughter, of Garden City
Were visiting relatives here, Sunday
Citizens State Bank, Will Aldous
Albert Kettleson and John Curle!
purchased new Ears last week.
Mrs. H. H. Hilliard came home Mon
day evening after a few days visi
with home folks at Gary.
Mrs. Alton Lewis is spending thu
week with her folks in Clark.
Mrs. e. N. Cosgrove and daughter
of Watertown, visited at the Cosgrovt
and Boyd homes, Sunday.
Mrs. DEUCE Kelton went to TurtoI
Monday evening, for a short visit Will
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. White and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Phillips and children
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. En-
nest Schoonover.
C. w. Page returned to his home il
Waupun, Wis, Monday evening, afte.
a couple weeks visit with his broth
er, Warren Page.
DEUCE Kelton left Monday nigh
for Yankton to attend the 1. o. o. F
convention.
Miss Tessie Lamm visited Wednes
day and Thursday with Mrs. Will:
Schoonover near EIrod. M
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-05-17
GROW N VARIETY.

There are many reasons why an en-.
tire neighborhood should grow the
same kind of wheat. There are too
many mixed varieties and the danger
is to get all varieties SO badly mixed
through the elevator, or through the
thresher or through volunteer. that it
would be difficult to tell what, if any,
variety, Is predominant. The mix
ture Of varieties is always bad because
when planted in the field it grows to
different heights, natures at different
times and thus causes under-ripe or
over-ripe waste at harvest.
A badly mixed wheat is also inferior
for milling on account of the different
hardness or softness which makes it
impossible to have the same machin-
cry get the best results. 1t is hard
to do anything in the way of separat.
ing wheat after it is once mixed.