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Evening star., 1917-09-30
Ne HUNDRED young members

~ NE HUNDRED young members
n of the American Society of
n ~ Friends have been in training
at Haverford, Pa, for the
purpose of creating a skilled unit to
go to France. They go to that war
ridden, heart-weary land to follow the
example of their fellows of Great Brit
ain. who have been quietly laboring
across the channel. in the wake of the
Huns, for two years and a half
A number of them, we'll equipped and
hardened to systematic outdoor work.
sailed u few weeks ago for France.
wound. but to heal" is their slogan.
and their work. in the language Of
the layman. will be to reconstruct
communities destroyed by the invad-
ing Germans. These young Quakers,
many of them students at Haverford
College, and others from as far away
as Maine and California, call themselves
the Americn Friends Reconstruction
Unit, No. /, which suggests that this
will not be the erd of Quaker en-
deavor in matters military.
If the advice of the Red Cross. cabled
them from France, be followed the
formation of a second unit will begin
at once This cable was source Of
great enthusiasm to Haverford. indi-
eating that their summers training
camp had not been in vain. and that
there was warm welcome awaiting
conscientious workers, Ihe capie cane hie
from Mr.. Morris Leeds. Philadelphia
Quaker. who has been in France for
some little time, looking over lne
splendid results of the English Quakers
efforts in this direction, and making
suggestions to Prof. Rufus Jones. head
of the Haverford unit. In one OF Mr..
Leeds letters he said that one OF the
principal good works which the Amer
lean organization might foiioW 70 soua ra
advantage was agricultural. There are
$50 men in the British unit-n1ty OIL
them not Quakers, but opposed to war
and in the teamwork they have been
chimes. Most Of these have been given
to various villages. where they are
intended to be used by the entire CON-
munity. while thirty of them are sun
retained and loaned directly. These
are All followed up to see tnat tney
are kept in repair and are really being
used Besides these. they have iorty
five reapers and binders, which are
used in a similar manner. and seFefai
very modern threshing machines.
The Quakers go out with the famiiies
for whom they are working some
where in France" living with tnem, as
we'll. For all of this work they charge
only for the gasoline used. Through.
out this region, which was devastated
during the German retreat after the
battle of the Marne. whole towns were
wrecked. but the people of France love
the very soil of their long established
homes, and they came back. and the
Friends who live beyond the chalk
cliffs understand. They do not say the
saddened. impoverished peasants should
do something else, but they bring them
the things with which they were IA
miliar. only very often in more modern
guise and they toll with them, recon-
structing.
Reconstructing is the watchword, ard
what Americans. training for it this
past summer and sailing for sunny
France go forth to do. They. like the
pioneers of the movement, will soon be
bringing seed and machinery to wait
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come. Raising his silk mask, the eos
beside the driver shouted At Judge Van
Worst. His throat was pArched, his
voice was hoarse and hot with anger.
"A gray touring car" he shouted.
1T stopped here. We saw IL from that
hill Then the id tire burst. and We
lost our way. Where did he goT'
Who" demanded Van Worst. stimy.
Capt. McCoy?"
The man exploded with an oath. The
driver. with a shove Of his elbow.
yes, Capt. Mccoy" assented the
driver, eagerly. which way did he
go?"
ITO New York." said Van Worst.
The driver shrieked at his companion.
Then he's doubled back" he cried.
Hes gone to New Haven" He stopped
and threw in the clutch. The car
lurched forward.
A cold terror swept young Van Worst.
What DO you want with him?" he
called who are you?"
Over one shoulder the masked face
glared at him. Above tho roar Of the
car the words of the driver were hun9
back We're secret service men from
Washington" he shouted. He's from
their embassy. He's a German SPY"
Leaping and throbbing at sixty miles
an hour the car vanished in a curtain
of white. whirling dust.
CTHE END)
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of our Molly CottontaiI being able to
thrive on greens.
.'In all this work the Friends already
there and at work have struggled
against the handicap of strange
people and a strange tongue" one OF
the Haverford men stated to corre-
spondent, coupled with the unlimited
red tape necessary in war times, the
overstrain of the French railroads. and
a certain very natural suspicion of pa
cifsts and men of military age engaged
in civil work. But they have won the
confidence and admiration of the people
for whom they have been working
Therefore American Quakers have the
road prepared for them in one sense
The first step they may take in some
districts is to provide clothing for the
people they are to aid. Working as
they will in conjunction with the Red
Cross, the details of definite plans were
not at hand when the unit sailed, but
this at time of leaving seemed likely to
be the first step taken. A little furni-
ture, as the next offering, Is probable.
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threshed on the big Haverford farm.
Quite a number of the latter were no
doubt thinking many an afternoon of
the harvest fields. the poultry yards and
Belgian hare hutches which their ef-
forts would contribute to in trampled
France, where thrifty farmers despair
of ever havin the old home like
home again.. The British workers there
had found that seeds. chickens and
rabbits provided to peasants who had
lost their all in the invasion served as
a most practical combination, rabbits
forming more important source of
meat supply than the chickens, grain
being scarce, and this particular cousin
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;np fields and homes to waiting hearts.
Doctors. engineers, archltects, teachers,
farmers. newspaper men, insurance
brokers. every variety of occupatlon ~
renresented in the unit trained at HaV-
erford. Theirs is a vigorous daily rou-
tine If they have to get up ana go
ont with a motor plow OF some very
scientific thresh.ng machine, at anout I
4 m. the hardship will be less than IL
might have been last spring, when they
were softer and muscular action was
not safe bet For 5:45 was the hour
when sleep fed from Haverford Unit
No. /. There were setting-up exercises
and two hours of lectures on SANTA :
ton. hygiene first aid, housing. etc;
French manners and customs then MED
in for attention. followed by breakfast.
which directly preceded two hours
more of stiff drill in French.
Tn the afternoon the men were divided
into four squads, one mending ROADS
under the supervision of the township
commissioners. one, acting as automo-
bile doctors at a time when there was
every complicated disease known to
flivver or fashionable cars right there
to baffie regular experts. one squad toll
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The Prehistoric PesSimist.

rRANK SCOTT of Cleveland. head
of the new war industries board.
said of pessimism. In a discussion OF
the last British victory In Flanders:
"Pessimism is as old as the eternal
hills. You say that this victory was
very costly reply that your pessimis-
tic words remind me of the Babylonfaa
farmer.
"a farmer on the outskirts of Baby
lon was a confirmed pessimist. HIS
August day.
"Uncle.' said the nephew. pointing to
the rich, heavy and golden fields OF
grain that spread 2s far as the eye
this year. You can't grumble about
crops this season. eh?'
mo whined the prehistoric Dsesia
mist. but q crop like this b terFiblD
wearin' on the soil.
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ing into new districts. live for a time In
tents. Canned goods will be taken
over with the unit; potatoes and other
vegetables can be bought anywhere
Every town, however small, has it's own
public bakery and the same grade of
semi black bread obtains all over
France"
Which statement recalls a notable re-
mark of DIR, Wiley, who went up to
Haverford to talk to the unit before
they sailed. "I believe white -four is a
greater curse to our country than aIco-
hol, though I'm a great prohibitionist."
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he said. "One of the curses of this
country is feeding children and mothers
on food that has no tooth-building
capacity Every bag of white flour. and
the candy and cake a child gets, is a
curse. Let me feed the children of a
nation, and 1 don't care who makes its
laws. I read in the paper that the
American troops in France have at last
got their white bread. Those soldiers
thought the dark bread of France a
hardship. but it was the greatest bless
ing that ever happened to them. Brown
bread is best
The Quakers are great believers in
wholesome diet. even in their own
homes whether in peace times or war
They have been studying dietetics tins
summer, and practicing what they shall
preach in France. With plain, simple
food for themselves as well as the
people they go to aid, the French peas
ants and our American Friends VIII
have a good basis for the immediate
future they are trying to make for
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or villages out of 29S are completely
destroyed. 107 are partially destroyed
and 81 have not been injured. No civ
il:an is allowed to go back to his VII
lage unless he has place to stay, and
in cases of total destruction, therefore,
there are no civilians at all-only SOL
diers. who are camped near or who
have built temporary huts or are using
built-up stables.
The civilians frequently crowd into
the large towns or cities nearest their
homes so as TO return and start work
on their land as soon as possible
Chauny, where several factories OF va
rious kinds were wrecked by the Ger
mans. was the largest town destroyed.
Its population was 10000. All the fur
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ground preparatory to the coming OF
the Haverford unit told the young men
of the fields the returned farmers were
trying to cultivate in mo mans land"
He spoke of the work the American
boys would have to do, where the land
had been cut up by trenches and she'll
ed. though this was one of the last
things to do. The food. houses and fur
niture were first. He said that he saw
waving fields of grain this summer in
the midst of which great strings OF
barbed wire defied the most wary.
The minister of the interior. who has
recently opened up a special depart
ment for reconstruction work. assign
ed the British Quakers to the utterly
ruined villages of st. Simon. Tungy.
Bray-St. Cristophe in the Noyon-Ham
district, as one field. and Aubigny and
Villers-St. Cristophe. where the girl
mayor managed things, as another. for
their labors. Exactly where the Amerf-
can boys will go first will be determin-
ed largely by the Red Cross, which
welcomes their coming
One thing is certain, they will wear
the Red Cross uniform, and wherever
they appear 1T will soon become known
that they stand for sympathy and
practical help to exhausted France.
France We shall build in the hearts Of
men the first rude huts Of the future
spiritual city Of brotherly love-" They
say that they know they face task
with less of romance and less OF adveh.
ture, with more Of suspicion to be met
and more distrust of motives, perhaps,
than we expect. Our only Justification
will lie in the manner in which we 60
about our work. We have not yet risen
to the height which our task demands
of u.s."
The American Friends service COM
mittee of No. 20 South 18th street,
Philadelphia. is financing the work.
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niture. garden tools and agricultural
implements in the whole district Of the
Somme were carried off by the Ger
mans. Fortunately, in some places. be-
fore their retirement the invaders
planted crops. and these are being
gathered this season by the army. Most
of the fruit trees have been cut down
as an act of pure vandalism. Dynamft-
ing and burning We're means to the end
very frequently. and in the town OF
Villers-St. Christophe wells were filled
UP with offal and bricks, so that ty-
phoid developed.
There had been no fighting in this
little town. no bombardment even. but
the people who fled before the mad
Huns came back to find the old familiar
places in ruins. A young woman was
first to work her way back, and she
acted as mayor for two months, manag-
ing things so well that the subprefect
of the department sent materials for
building and erected a large hut to pro-
vide shelter for old villagers who re-
turn to hunt up possessions. Many of
them had buried their money, and there
were touching scenes when they were
permitted to return to hunt for it. The
center for relief and reconstruction
work done by American Quakers in
these villages will be at Ham, and
shipments of material will be carried
on trucks to the places of construc-
ton"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
NO AUTOS OR BADGES
IN OFFICERS TRAINING CAMP

cratizing the camp were taken
through an order forbidding the wear.
ing of all college, club and fraternal
decorations, or civil badges or medals.
Another order was issued, forbid
ding college yells. Not that it might
disturb the camp, but that it might
lead to "ruction" with members OF
a rival school.
The rockies are so enamoured Of
their new guns that hundreds of them
spent all their spare time last night,
after the completion of routine work
in familiarizing themselves with the
mechanism and laboriously going
through the manual Of arms.
There was a let up in the usual
grind today while the camp under
went its first weekly tnspecdon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
National Capital Experiences
\ Real War Thrill Today as
Plans Are Being
Rushed.
PERsHING IS TO LEAD
Army Of $4,000 Seasoned Troops tq
60 at Once and Plant tho
American Flag In
tho Trenches.
[By Robert J. Bender, United Press
Staff Correspondent

Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. May 19.-
M Pershing's $4,000 and the
'sESA call of the president sums
moning the nation to arms.
gave Washington real war thrill to-
day
On June five all men Of the country
between 21 and so will answer the|
call for selective service. The first
nation will come on that date.
It has been announced that the first
army Of 100000 that will be chosen
from the millions who will answer the
call, will not be summoned before
September. But the official announces
ment of the Intention to despatch a dis
vision commanded by General Persh1
| ing to the fighting front at the earlies1
possible moment, makes it certain the
American flag will be seen on the nr1
ing line, probably long before the sex
lective service army Is ready for ac<
ton.
Colonel Roosevelt's division is now
definitely declined by the governmen entS
Seasoned veterans of the regulars
army will be with Pershing when the
American flag is carried into the
trenches.
At the war department all hands
turned today to rounding up the sup1
plies for the expedition. Congress-
and all departments responded to the
announcement made at the whites
house last night
It seemed to put new life into the
war machinery ION the h1lp' where's
weeks have dragged along in prepar~
ing emergency measures for the gov1
10
gle against Prussianism and autoc-
racy.
With the army bill out Of the wayS
the Increase navy bill, boosting tha
number Of enlisted men from $1,000 to-
900 and the marine corps from
II 900 to 10000 will be ready for thA
presidents signature late today.
"Spy bills" should be cleaned up
early next week The war budget bilE
may be disposed Of today in the sens
ate. Furthermore congress promises
to get down to hard work on the rev-
enue and food bills before next weeks
is over.
= The president last night made per1
sonal appeal to Senators Knox, Lodge
and Gallinger, all republicans, to ges
behind the war program and push lS
to fruition with all speed possible4
The president apparently is counting
on republicans as much as democrats
if not more. to hasten through the pro-
gram Today activity at the war de1
partment redoulSed. The work or
assembling the part Of the war MAJ
chine congress finally has given the
nation, brought department officials
down at unheard Of early hours-for
Washington
There was unbounded np-to-np
speculation regarding the Pershlng eS-
pedition. ...
There was particularly at the capf-
fol some commendation and some
frontinued on page 2)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
BRAZIL is OUR ALLY
AND NO LONGER NEUTRAL

was "unoff1cially allied with the
United States and therefore did not
consider herself entirely neutral" :"
One other fact was that Brazil Is
now sending a military mission to
Europe.
The Buenos Aires conference was
announced last week by Argentine, 1t
being stated that practically all Latin
American nations bad accepted In
vitations to meet probably in Sep
tember, to discuss unity of action in
maintaining neutrality.
Nicaragua JONES Allies.
WASHINGTON, May 19-Nicarag-
ua has broken relations with Ger
many. the state department announc-
ed today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
Fdes 25,O00 Soldiers, Regi-
hent of 1900 Men From
Battleships Are to be
Sent to France.
80
AVIATION SQUAD
U, states Uniform Will Soon be
lIJmlnentIy Seen on European
Bloody Battle
fields.
|ited Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, May 49,

tied Press Leased Wire Service.] j
WASHINGTON, May 19.--
A regiment OF marines
"a about $500 men. under com.
~ mand of Colonel Charles A
on. Of the Washington barracks.
accompany the first American
v expedition to France.
(he regiment will be composed
hcipally of organizations which
Fe recently seen active service In
hi. San Domingo and Cuba, ac-
ding to official announcement from
navy department today.
hey will be armed, equipped and
Rnized similar to the army with
ch they will serve.
plonel Doyen will be under conf
Of Major General Pershing and
marines with him will serve as
aiers in the trenches of France.
[fter making verbal announcement
the dispatch OF the marines. Sec
AIRY of the Navy Daniels made the
lowing official statement:
A regiment of marines, consisting
$500 men will accompany the first
rendition to France. The regi-
nt will be commanded by Colonel
aries A. Doyen and will be COM
Fed principally Of organizations
ich have been serving in Haiti.
Domingo and Cuba. This force
| be armed, equipped and organic
In exactly the same manner as the
Eiment of the army with which they
| serve"
Doyen is now commandant Of the
Pshington marine barracks and
fsldent of the examining and retir-
; board Of marine corps. He has
fn real fighting service. having
fn IN command of marines aboard
E Hancock, stationed in Dominican
PIERS in 1914. Doyen has also seen
Pny years service on the west coast
q IN the Philippines. The marines
u live UP to their tradition In ac-
Fnpanying the Pershing forces. They
we always been known as "the first
fight"
reports to the war department to-
y showed that two out Of the nine
glments of engineers for French
rVice have been raised and that in
pittsburgh district more men
We applied than could be accepted.
Marine recruiting elsewhere is go
along satisfactorily, it was said
a partial list Of acceptances to the
corps, follows:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
Conscription Proclamation
Sets June s for Registration
All Men Between Ages Fl ars 30 InclusiUe Must Regi-
ster Patriots Obligation
A. - -


a m
registration
Is
city
honor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
Weekly Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, May 19-The weekly
bank statement today showed the fol-
lowing changes:
Surplus decreased $444,58O.
Loans decreased $37,537,O00.
Reserve in own vaults Increased
S14,429,OO0
Reserve in federal reserve banks de-
creased $7,730,000.
Reserve in other depositaries IN
creased s66S,000.
Net demand deposits with United
States deposits deducted increased
$44,052,o00.
Net time deposits decreased s2.oSO,-
900.
Circulation decreased $4,000.
Aggregate reserve S770,451, 900.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
OFFENSIVE IN
DEADLOCK AGAIN
British Unable to Make Gains
Today Against Stone Wall
Defense Of the
Teutons.
ATTACKS ON FRENCH
For Three Days Heavy Blows Have
Been Struck to Wrest Ground
From General
Nlvelie.
ATTACKS ON FRENCH

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
LONDON. May 10 The British
offensive was apparently deadlocked
again today with Hindenburg's mass
ed reserve forces. Field Marshal
| Haig reported merely a number OF
rafding encounters ani no actions OF
major Importance.
Northeast Of GOuZ eamcourt we
carried out successful raid last
night and brought back prisoners and
machine gum" the statement said
East of Loos, northwest of Armen
there's and east of Ypres hostile raids
were repulsed."
French OFFICIAL Report.
PARIS. May 19.-Renewal of Ger
many's concerted counter offensive In
la formidable drive northwest OF
Braye was announced by the French
official statement today. The attack
was over a wide front. 1t was smash.
ed by the French artillery except at
one point to the west where few
German groups succeeded in gaining
French advanced positions.
The Braye attack was one OF the
two assaults In force which the Ger.
mans flung against the French along
the Scissors Rheims front. The 9th.
er was northwest of Rheims. There
the enemy utilized liquid fire and pre-
ceded the attack by a tremendous
storm of artillery.
For three days now the Germans
have striven vainly around the Brye
and Craonne sectors to force relin-
uuishment by the French Of some of
the ground gained by General Nj
velle's offensive. Their losses have
been tremendous in these struggles.
"On Friday evening following a
heavy bombardment. the Germans
launched an attack northwest OF
Braye on a wide front" the statement
said. Their assaulting waves were
smashed by our artillery without at
tanning the French lines, except at a
point west, where few groups gain
ed French advanced positions.
Northwest of Rheims a German at
tack with liquid fire and artillery was
checked"
First Shot In Balkans.
PARIS, May 19.-The first shot fir-
ed for America in the Balkans was fir
ed by a former American artillery Of
ficer, now a worker with the American
relief fund, according to word received
today from Salonika. A five inch gun
of a Serbian battery on the Macedon-
ian front was used.
The American, whose name was
not given, asked permission to start
the offensive py this shot. 1t was
granted. He donned his American
uniform and fired six shells into the
Teutons' trenches while Serbian SOL
diers cheered.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
'lggest South American Coun.
Try Refuses to Take Part
IN Coming Conference.

onited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
i'io DE JANEIRO, May 19.-Brazil
iliormed all her South American
Ee,shoors that she is unable to par
,pate mp In the Buenos Aires Latin
brs,ln ican neutrality conference, ac-
n to reliable information today.
was stated President Braz ad-
SOU other republics that Brazil
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
College Yells Also Prohibited
in Effort to Make Camp
Entirely Democratic.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
FORT SHERIDAN, Ill, May 10
A score of pet automobiles were
languishing in their home garages
today. They had been banished from
the officers training camp by Colonel
"Slic'er BIZ Nicholson, who ruled
that they were undemocratic and oc-
cupied too much of their owners
time. Further steps toward demo-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
To the jury Todav

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
NEW YORK, May 1s.-The case of
Captain Franz VonRintelin and his
six co-defendants on trial here on
charges Of attempting to foment
munition plant strikes, Is expected to
go into the hands of the jury today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-19
Iowa Supreme Court Decisions.

Especial to The Gate City]
DES MONIES, May 19-WeIty VS..
Sparks, appellant, Fayette county, re-
versed.
Richards ct al, VS.. Crosby ct al,
appellant, Linn county, affirmed