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hundred men. The other night . Phil
adelphlA company Of about 160 men
had TO worry along on one small meat
cake and two -stewed prunes per man
for supper because the available trucks
were unable to haul rations to all COM
panies, and this one happened to be
left out The cooks, therefore. had
to utilize Ieftevers the best they could:
F: g: Fl.
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Another 100000 to Air Service.

The guard probably brousht into the
federal service q total Of not more than
100000 men, possibly less. 1t will take,
therefore. at least $4,000 National
Army men to fill up the guard divisions.
Another 100000 of the National Army
will go to the air service and certainly
as many moie to other special services
That would leave not more than ESQ.,
600 men to form the sixteen National
Army divisions, which should have an
aggregate war strength of $4,000
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T0EXAM|NE MORE MEN
SOON FOR NATIONAL ARMY
Large Deficiency Expected When the
First Increment Has Been
Mobilized.

Need for beginning work at once in
examining more men for the National
Army Is seen by officials today in au-
:. thoritative Information to the eject
that there is little doubt that large
deficiency of men will be shown when
the first increment of the National
Army-6S7, 900 men-has been mobil-
ised.
Seventeen National Guard divisions
must be brought up to war strength
and several special service forces or
Eanized out of this reservoir, so the
number of drafted men remaining at
the cantonment hardly will be suflclent
to organize the sixteen National Army
divisions at full strength basis.
Whether Incomplete divisions Will pc
formed or a call for more men issued
has not been indicated.
Secretary Baker said today that
definite figures as to the NUMBER OF
National Army men 1t would be nee
essary to transfer to the National
Guard were not available. A dual
process Of organization at the guard
oncampments serves to delay COM
iplete reports. Not only are these di-
visions being mobilized for the first
time. but in the midst Of that mobili-
xation the whole fabric OF the infan-
new trench warfare plan.
: The fighting strength of the new
division is now fixed at 27.500 men.
The seventeen guard divisions on that
basis will have total strength OF
437,500 men.
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SELECTED D. c. MEN
OF TWO DIVISIONS
REACH CAMP MEADE
Confined from First Page. }

left Washington putting away in rival
ry of the locomotive.
Entertainments yesterday and today
show that deficiency of men is being
entrained from here. in line with the
large deficiency of men which is ex-
pected to be shown when the first in
crement of the first National Army
$4,000 men-has been mobilized at the
camps.
Yesterday eighty-two men were
scheduled to go from Washington. and
today eighty-three men We're listed.
Seventy three men left yesterday and
seventy -one-actual District men--left
today. Instead Of 165 men scheduled
for these two days. 144 men have been
entrained. a deficiency of twenty-one
men
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been chosen to lead his comrades.
Accepted Men Number 1,472.

Figures obtained from local boards to-
day showed that 1,472 men have been
accepted for the Districts quota. Re
jections have numbered ,2,a63. Cases
pending number 10e. Detailed figures:
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DR.. Edward Miner Gallaudet, an or
ganizer and for many years presi-
dent of Gallaudet College of this city,
after an illness of two years. DR.. Gal
laudet's death took place in the city
where his father. DR.. Thomas II. Cal
laudet, instituted deaf mute instruc-
ton in this country in 1917. Word of
the death of DR.. Gallaudet was received
at Gallaudet College here this morning.
For fifty-four years DR.. Gallaudet
was active in the education of the deaf.
He also was an authority on interna-
tional law. Born in Hartford February
5, 1887, his father. when he was but
twelve years old, dedicated his son to
the cause OF the silent children" Of
the land, and while he was yet in his
teens he became an instructor in the
institution his father had founded, the
Hartford School for the Deaf.
Was Offered Superintendency
He was only twenty when he was of
fered the superintendency of the Column
bia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind in Washington, chartered in that
Kendall Green was known by that name
until 1864, when it became the National
Deaf Mute College, and III 1894 it's name
again was changed to Gallaudet College,
in tribute to the elder Gallaudet who
is memorialiZed by the statue by Daniel
|C. French, which ranks as one of the
finest works of sculpture in Washington
First as principal of the Columbia In
stitution. then as superintendent and
president of the college. DR.. GaIlaudet
directed the Kendall Green institution
until his retirement in 1911. At that
time he became president of the con-
ventfon of American Institutions for the
Deaf and even in retirement he con-
tinued his active interest in his life
work.
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d. c. Men Far Above Average.

One of the officers. commenting to The
Stars correspondent, said the men from
the District were far above the general
average for the@camp In physique, ap-
pearanoe and general intelligence.
These men are going to make crack
evident that they have been doing lot
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Active in Literary World.

He found time to be active in literary
and social activities of the capital. He
was a member of the Literary Society,
Of tho Columbia Historical Society, the
Sons of the American Revolution, the
Cosmos Club, serving as president of
that club for two years. and for twenty
years was president of the American
Instructors of the Deaf. the largest or
ganization of teachers of the deaf in
the country.
He Is survived by six children. three
daughters and three sons They are:
Mrs. William b. Closson of Newton.
Mass; Miss Katherine Gallaudet of
Hartford; Mrs. John Warren Edgerton
of New Haven. Conn; Denison Gallau
det and Edison Gallaudet. engaged in
engineering projects at Norwich, Conn.
and Rev Herbert Gallaudet. who re-
Gently received a commission in the Of
ficers Reserve Corps.
Though the influence of DIR. Gal
laudets father upon his career was
tremendous. that of his mother also was
potent. She was deaf-mute. a woman
Of remarkable spiritual and intellec-
tual qualities, and for forty years she
worked with her husband in the Hart
ford school for the dumb.
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Insured 5000 Annually.

In 1858 Congress insured the future of
the institution by guaranteeing it an
nually $1,000. Thus it became the first
federally supported education along
peaceful lines, and. it might be noted.
Columbia was associated with West
Point and Annapolis by a provision
which offered free tuition to deaf-mute
children of the Army and Navy.
Creation Of Gallaudet College in 1894
marked the founding of an institution
unique in the world. in that 1t was the
only college for the deaf and dumb in
the world. and the only institution
which offered complete education.
from elementary subjects through those
usually given in colleges.
Through all this development DR..
Galiaudet was not only the titular head
OF the institution, but a pioneer in each
stage Of its growth. He was married
twice first to Miss Fessenden of Hart
ford. and after her death to Miss Susan
Denisnn of RoYalton. VT.
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T'tls.1.o24 4,12o s.74s 1.472 s.sss 1os
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of the newly created
Columbia Institution by Amos Kendall
who gave house and lands to the lnstl-
tuition. and later built a schoolhouse In
1857 there were five pupils By 1858
laudet undertook the organization OF
with the establishment Of the college.
Given Collegiate Power.
Though the attention of the nation
was focused on the great civil struggle,
Congress recognized the work Of the
Columbia institution by increasing It's
appropriation to nearly $4,000 and be-
slowing upon it full collegiate powers.
Men of national note turned aside from
the pressing problems OF politics TO
befriend the institution. Among these
were Thad Stevens. Henry L. Dawes
and Rufus P. Spalding.
In the sixties there ragged a contro-
versy over the two methods of instruc-
tfon, termed the natural or pantominic
and the artificial DR. oral Though DR..
Gallaudet's father had been an expon-
ent of the natural method, his son con
sidered Both In a liberal spirit and
studied varying methods of deaf-mute
instruction in Europe. This resulted
in the Introduction of a combined meth
cd at the Washington institution. From
Columbia and Gallaudet have gradu-
ated men who have won recognition in
business and in the professions-ed-
itors. teachers, professors, architects
and scientists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
PENlTENTIARY FOR Man
WHO DESERTS Children

The bill provides for a compul-
sorry penitentiary sentence for
every deserter brought back to
the state. 1t leaves no loopholes.
The intercessions of a soft-heart-
ed wife who might try to get him
out of jail will have no weight.
Provides For Mother.
Heretofore the offense has been
a misdemeanor, punishable by q
short Jail sentence or fine.
When the bill comes up for
hearing Selden intends to go to
Olympia and tell the legislators
the reasons why 1t should be pass
ed. He is confident of its pass
age.
If the husband is sent to the
penitentiary, the mother will have
the right of mothers pension to
help support her children while
he is there.
The bill also provides for sim
liar punishment OF q VINE VINO
deserts her children.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

A man is going to think a long
time before he deserts his wife
and children and skips the state,
If bill being drawn Tuesday by
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
James Selden is passed by the
next legislature.
The bill makes such desertion
Ia felony, punishable by not less
than year in the penitentiary
and not more than 10 years. 1t
also provides for the extradition
lof the husband from any other
state to which he may have gone.
The increasing number of FAM
lilies which have been left strand
ed in Tacoma and other parts of
the state without a provider, led
Prosecutor Selden to prepare the
measure.
DesertiOns Increase.
He estimates that the number
of assertions has increased at
least one-third in the last couple
of years.
Something drastic has to be
DONE" said Selden. ."It has been
all too easy for a man to leave a
family of children dependent upon
him and escape to some other
part of the country, and there has
been no means of bringing him
back and Furnishing him.
81 consider man who commits
this offense just as much an en-
envy to society as the man who
holds up and robs person on the
streets. His offense is even more
harmful to the community, for he
leaves his family in a position
where 1t is continual struggle
for the mother to provide for her
children.
Families Left Stranded.
II know of at least so families
right now in Tacoma with from
one, to six children, which have
been left stranded in this way"
said Selden.
The penitentiary is not too bad
place for the man who will will
fully abandon his children and let
them shift for themselves, Selden
thinks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Eat Belgians
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
l believe in the assertion that
II is possible to reduce the cost
of living by eating Belgian hares
instead of high priced steaks and
chops and eggs. We ought to be
raising more of them. Here is a
good recipe for rabbit pie:
Stew and remove the bones, cut
the meat in bits, thicken with
flour. Line deep dish with pie
crust, put in the meat and add
gravy. Add butter and cover with
a top crust. Bake in a hot oven
about 20 minutes. Serve with
cranberry jelly.
Broiled rabbit, too, is good.
Prepare as If to stew and broil
over hot Goals, turning the meat
often. Season with butter, salt
and pepper. Garnish with slices of
lemon.
Planned rabbit makes an appe-
thing dish for a cold day. Pre-
pare as if to fry, placing in bak-
ing pan, spread with butter and
dust with salt and pepper. Bake
three hours. Basic with butter
and water. When done lay in a
heated dish. Add a teaspoonful Of
Drowned flour to the gravy in the
pan, half a pint of cream, season
with salt and pepper and pour
over the rabbit.
MAY MEINTNER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
VOTE
IS PREDICTED

The last week of the army post
election campaign is going with
a rush. Meetings have been
scheduled in various parts OF the
county for each evening, so that
all voters may have an oppor-
tunity to become fully conversant
with the project.
A large vote is predicted by
those who are volunteering their
services to make the army post a
success.
One of the interesting meetings
was held in the council chambers
at the city hall Tuesday after
noon, under auspices of the Ma
tional Council of Women Voters.
Among those on the program for
speeches were B. E. Coiner, May
or Fawcett and G. r. Reeves.
Other meetings announced
Tuesday follow:
Tuesday night, s o'clock
Oakland school, w. d. Askren
speaker; Buckley, H. II. John
ston speaker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDllOh L HE I'm Ed.
Scientists talk of the missing
link, and their search for it shows
what a crazy idea the theory of
evolution is.
AS you can't have the cake and
eat it too, so If the link started
evolution millions of years ago, il
ought to have got too far to catch
up with 1t these days.
If the scientists found a skull
and jawbone Of an ape the other
day, what proof is there that man
graduated from it?
AS far as a common sense view
OF 1t goes, may just as we'll be said
to be an evolution from the
donkey. There is Just as much evi-
dence one way as the other, only
the monkey being nearest to man
makes 1t appear more plausible.
With other branches of knowl-
edge, results are handed down and
gradually accumulate from age to
age: but what data has the evolu-
ZIONIST to work on?
No one has ever seen a case OF
evolving or a thing evolved, and
their deductions are proved to be
merely guesswork and hardly any
two agree.
One says 1875, 900, another 2O0,-
900. II someone else said 5000
he stands as god a chance of being
right as the others.
OF course those who prefer the
pithecanthropus erectus for an an
cestor have perfect right to lay a
claim on him, but l prefer to be-
lieve that the Lord created man
and finished him in one job, and
that the first pair were worthy of
their Maker and the most superb
couple that ever appeared on this
earth.
J. CHUDLEiGlI.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
NAB BOOZE--ALMOST

An automobile load of Tacoma
policemen nearly captured an
auto load Of booze near Glover
creek, outside the city limits, Mon
day evening.
The reason they failed was be-
cause someone had beaten them
to 1t" and stolen the liquor cache.
Motorcycle Officer Howard re-
ported to headquarters Monday
evening that a man named Sam.
suspected by the police as MEM
Der of the booze ring, was starting
towards the south part Of the
county In machine.
Five cop sjumped into police
car and started off. The mount
ed man followed Sans car, and
the police car followed the motor
cycle.
20 Cases Transferred.
At Clover creek Sam met an
other machine. It was here that
the transfer Of 20 cases of whisky
was supposed to take place. The
copa hid behind trees and waited
for the nnoment to make the raid.
som6body's stolen the cache"
they heard the second man tell
The cops waited until the two
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Meath for Post
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
have consulted with most OF
the Pierce county citizens who
are in the state employ and
find them very enthusiastic over
the prospects of obtaining the
army post at American lake.
When you stop to consider that
this would add to the population
of our county about $4,000 PEG,
pie and that there would be ex-
pended in our community $780,
900 annually, with the many 9TH
err benefits to be derived at q
cost of only 28 cents additional
for each $40 in taxes which we
pay. It seems to me that this is
Pierce county's golden oppor-
tunity.
We should all get together and
work to obtain the post.
Yours respectfully,
EDWARD MEATH,
State Treasurer,
Olympia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

j. LIS argument can per-
haps most effectively be an
swered by carrying his reason
ing to it's logical conclusion.
Substract one group of local
consumers after the other
from Tacoma's present num-
Der.
Then the farmers who till
Pierce county soils would have
less market for their produce,
would they not, than at pres
ent?
Local factories would have
less market, would they not,
and consequently would hire
fewer men?
Local stores then would
gradually lose their trade and
would lay off employees; is 1t
not true?
In short, Tacoma would
steadily go to the bow-wows.
Reverse the process, and
the opposite result will OBJ
tain. In other words, increase
TacOma's consumers, and
things will boom.
Right there Is where j. L.,
the central labor council and
few other opponents of the
project err in their reason
ing; they talk as If the post
would bring to Tacoma 49,
600 additional producers.
Instead of that, these SOL
diers will be CONSUMERS.
EDITOR.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
A Tip for Clerks

EDITOR THE TIMES:
There is one failing nearly all
our clerks seem to have and that
is to show customers the most ex-
pensive articles in their respec-
tive departments.
This causes not only trouble for
them, but lot of embarrassment
to the purchaser.
The other day / approached a
young man clerk in one of our de-
partment stores and told him
what I wished, STIMULATING very
specifically that / did not want an
expensive article.
However, he paid not the
slightest attention to my request
and showed me everything but an
inexpensive article.
At first didn't become pro-
voked, but when he tried to
thrust something onto me which
Il could not afford and did not
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
From Calexio
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
| received my copy of The Times
this morning, and 1t made me
think of the days when | used to
sell them. Which wasn't so very
long ago. In fact just before |
joined the army. / was very glad
to get it. And also were. some of
the troopers.
I think everybody in Troop B
is reading it this afternoon. 1t is
going from one tent to another as
soon as it is read. You can read
! lily see how much us boys appreci-
/ ate 1t.
Private Rex Miles, of the signal
corps, has written a poem entitled
1.-The Plant of the National
Guardsman." 1t seems to hit the
boys from Washington as being
kinda true. We all wonder when
we will get that long looked for
order that sends us home. Troop
B and the signal corps have Just
come off the target range where
they have made as good record
as any regulars in camp could have
done.
The two Washington organiza-
lions are drilled to such profile
iency that they are the best any,
where on the border The signal
corps have quit drilling and are
building stables for their horses.
Troop B will soon follow. They
have little more monkey drill to
go through yet, and when Captain
Palmer and Captain Jackson re-
turn to American Lake they will
bring with them some of the best
trained men of the U. s. army.
And If another call were to come,
Tacoma could put her troop with
the best of regular cavalry and
they would be just as efficient, If
not better.
Yours truly,
PRIVATE FRANK DOWNS,
Co. A, Signal Corps,
Calexico, Cal.
Your Old Times Boy.
l used to sell on 18th and Pa
cific av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
J. LIS Mistake
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
beg space in your valuable
paper for a few remarks regard
ling Mayor Fawcett's appeal to
workingmen to vote for the army
post.
shall not attack the soldier
because he is merely an innocent
product of the present system,
neither will l say that / am OPP
posed to millitarism at this time
because | realize the present gov
ernment's effort to make ready
for eventualities caused by pro-
fessional politicians and big In
terest.
i fully realize that there is
danger ahead.
What l want to say is this: Ia
coma and Pierce county taxpayers
should do their own thinking, and
especially l want to say to the
workingman who is a taxpayer,
Think this over we'll before you
vote Yes.
AS a voter, a taxpayer and a
workingman, ! want to say to Mr..
Fawcett and other proponents of
the bond issue, that it is an I'M
just method of raising the money,
and especially so to the working
man as compared with the profes-
sional and the businessman.
II the bonds carry, eyerybody's
taxes are supposed to be higher,
directly portion goes to pay in
terest and provide for the princi-
pal.
The merchant with large stock
of merchandise is not assessed, be-
cause merchandise is not real es-
tate.
assume that through higher
taxes the landlord raises the rent
on the merchant and in that way
he pays his share, but the mer-
chant will assess this back on the
consumer and being a working
man / am forced through addi-
tional cost of living to pay the
merchants tax indirectly and be-
sides pay my own tax directly l get
a double dose, because as work
ing man ! have no chance to pass
| 1t on.
My employer will not stand for
1t because labor In these coast
cities, especially Tacoma, Is too
plentiful and will become more SO
when the army post gets going,
consequently my employer will buy
his labor like the merchant buys
his wares-as cheap as he can.
In fact. the payment Of the
whole thing falls on the laborin
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
January Clearance Housewares

Willow Clothes Hampers,
slightly shop worn, $1.65 to
1895 values, choice Half Price
lie Hardwood Salt Boxes
and Knife and Fork Boxes; spe-
clal .iOc
-25c Rolling Pins, white Hol-
lywood; special ....... .19c
-25c Alcohol Stoves, with can
of solid alcohol; special. 15c
soc Round Bread Boards,
hand carved; special -. SOC
Sc pkg. Crepe Toilet Paper;
special, 25 for ........$1.OO
--Percolator Insert, to make a
percolator out of any coffee pot,
made of aluminium, 35c value;
Sic white enamel Dish Pans.
oval shape, small size; spe-
cial $3.50. .49c
1916 Wash Boilers. copper
bottom and rim; special. $40
$500 dozen Water Tumblers,
bell shape, cut vintage pattern;
special set of for. ..... .69c
-29c Coal Holds, black ia
PANIED iron; special ..... Ice
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

-15e and zoe Brass Curtain
Rods, adjustable, with knobs;
special ............ DC
$500 Tea Kettles, heavy
cast aluminium, with sliding
cover: special .........$ $500
400 can Thurston's Floor
Wax, Glib. cans; special. SOC
-50c size, lib. cans; spe-
clal ...... ..... .S0c
-25c cans Hypol Furniture
Polish; special .........1 loo
-25c Tin Coffee Pots, got.
size; special ...........f 5c
--15c Waste Baskets, folding
cardboard; extra special. DC
-15c Wire Potato Bakers, hold
IL at a time, bakes them even
ly; special &c
-25c Clothes Drier, with s
arms; special ........... 10c
-$1.65 Clothes Baskets, heavy
willow, largest size; very spe-
Clal 49, .ooC
-$2.25 Bamboo Waist Boxes
with hinged cover; special $3.50