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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-09-01
.Rejoicingin
Temptation
By REV. W. ". KETCHUM
Director of the Practical Work Course.
Moody Bible Institute. Chicago

TEXT-My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations
James 1:2.
This is rather a strange exhortation,
is it not? Joy is not usually associ-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-09-01
Board of School Estimates.

Thomas F. Crawford, Mayor; Wal
ter J. Anderson and Edward N. Me-
loney, Councilmen; Halvor L. Harley
and Mervyn Wilson, members Board
of Education.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
A Hard Knock.

During the cross-eXamination of a
young physician in lawsuit the plain
tiff's lawyer made disagreeable re-
marks about the witness youth and
ineXperience.
"You claim to he acquainted with
the various symptoms attending con-
cussiOn of the brain?" asked the law
yer.
81 do"
"We will take concrete case"
continued the lawyer. IF my learned
friend. counsel for the defense, and
myself were TO bang our heads to-
gether, would we get conclusion Of
the brain?"
The young physician smiled. "The
probabilities are" he replied, that
the counsel for the defense would"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
BRITISH OFFER LABOR ADVICE
Explain Their Experiences to Manu-
facturers in America.

Washington-Lessons drawn from
Great Britain's experience in dealing
with labor problems during the war
are being communicated personally to
American labor leaders and employers
by four officials of the British minis
try of munitions, who have started this
week on a tour of American cities, in
GLIDING Pittsburgh, indianapolis, st.
Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland,
Buffalo, New York and Boston.
The delegation, headed by Sir Steph-
eason Kent, director of the labor sup
ply department of the munitions min
Istry, makes the trip at the request
Of the council of national defense and
several state councils. to discuss par
dcularly the distribution and efficient
employment of labor and to answer
questions concerning British methods
II avoiding strikes, preventing excess
I;ve shifting of men from plant to
plant or industry to industry, and
Iuspending minor union regulations for
The war emergency, without sndangef-
Ing the labor movements future.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
5000 BOYS FROM
CUSTER GO SOUTH
WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS 5000
TO WACO, TEXAS, AND 5000
TO LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
ALL TRAINING CAMPS AFFECTED
Similar Orders Sent to Every Camp
Part Will Fill Guard Ranks.
Others Form New Divisions.

Washington-Three thousand Michi-
gan and Wisconsin selected men now
at Camp Custer are to be transferred
TO Waco, Texas, to fill the Michigan
Wisconsin national guard division to
war strength. An additional 5000
men from Camp Custer will go to
Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark, to form
part of the new Rainbow National
army division recruited from selected
men of northern and western states.
A complete division of troops still
will be left at Camp Custer.
The orders TO Gen. Dickman, at Bat
tie Creek, to transfer the troops was
issued in conjunction with orders TO
commandments of all of the 80 army
camps making similar shifts, the main
purpose of the general transfer is to
make room for training some of the
Negro troops of the south in north
ern camps. The orders provide for a
transfer of 7S,500 men from the var
ious environments.
None of the Negroes will go to Bat
tie Creek under present plans.
OF the troops transferred from Bat
tie Creek to Waco, 1925 will be taken
from the Michigan contingent and l.
375 from Wisconsin. II is presumed
that the troops shifted to Little Rock
will be divided similarly.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
CHAMPION ASKS COAL FORSTATE
Wires Washington That Michigan
Must Have Immediate Relief.

Lapeer-Failure of the government
to fix a price for Michigan produced
coal is blamed by Rep Champion for
the high prices at the mines in this
state in a telegram he sent to Harry
A. Garfield, national fuel Administrator
at Washington, in an effort to relieve
the shortage here.
Industries are threatened and in
many homes in my district there is
actual suffering because of the lack
of fuel" part of the telegram reads:
'Lapeer is typical of many small cities
in Michigan; not a pound of coal Of
any kind is available here for sale and
numerous homes are without fuel of
any kind. Michigan operators are
taking advantage of the necessity and
demand extortionate prices for their
coal, 1915 at the mine being a recent
quotation"
Rep. Champion suggested that IL
factional political fights is holding up
the appointment Of fuel administrator
for Michigan, factional politics should
be placed on the scrap heap. He stat
ed no section of the country is in
more dire need for fuel than this.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
P0LAND'SFLAGTo FLY IN FRANCE
Poles From All Parts Of World Asked
to Join Colors.

French Front in France-A new ma
tional flag is shortly to be unfolded
on the Allies French front-that of
Poland The silver eagle on a maroon
field is to take it's place beside the
French tricolor, the Stars and Stripes,
the union jack and the battle flags Of
the other Allies, and beneath its folds
will fight Polish volunteers from all
parts of the world. including thou
sands from the United States.
An automous Polish army is already
in course of organization on French
soil and its ranks have been opened to
Polish citizens who have wandered
abroad in search of freedom from
the oppression to which the Polish ma
ton has so long been subjected.
This force Is to be entirely indie
pendent of any other army, all its off,
GERS and men being of Polish birth or
descent The nucleus of the new army
is composed of Poles who have served
in the French army since the begin
ming of hostilities.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
7 OUT OF 100 SELECTS" UNFIT
Army Doctors Peeved over Apparent
Carelessness Of Local Boards.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-Camp
Custer is turning back more than
seven men out Of every 100 recruits
sent here by local examining boards.
So many cases are on record where
men who are absolutely incapacitated
for the life of a soldier, because CT
obvious physical disabilities, have
been sent on, that the authorities here
charge the local boards with passing
the buck" to the army in a shar.eful
manner.
Naturally II is impossible to quote
the authority for the figures or the
statements made, but they come from
a high quarter, and the records them
selves are enough to convince the local
boards of the charge made against
them. They show that men with one
leg shorter than the other, insane men,
men who had lost their fingers, men
with glass eyes, men in the last stages
Of tuberculosis, men with the most
active form of loathsome diseases. all
have been sent on to Camp Custer.
All of these things were obvious at
a glance to even layman. How
physicians could pass such physical
specimens, is beyond the understand
ing of the army surgeons.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
Mental Preparedness.

"Children trained from the very
start TO self-expression enter school
with invaluable mental preparedness
for the work to be done there. They
have a poise that keeps them from
being diflident in class. They are not
afraid TO ask questions, declares
prominent educator. They know how
to tell what is in their mind. In asso-
ciating with other children they get
more JOY from it because they know
how to make themselves understood.
Older people find them more charm
ing and interesting.
Effective training toward self-ex-
preston in the young child means that
characteristic for life, and there is no
training more effective than telling him
stories and teaching him how to tell
them.
Asking about q child's doings will
encourage him TO tell you about them.
For instance, when your little boy
comes home from a walk get him to
tell you all that he has seen while.
out. When he comes in from play
get him TO tell you all about the fun
he has been having.
always make him feel your vital
interest In his thoughts and actions"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
100000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN BURN
Intended for Shipment to Allies-In-
cendiarism Suspected.

New York. Eight Hundred thousand
bushels of grain intended for export
and valued at more than $4,000
was destroyed Saturday night by fire
in elevators owned by the New York
Dock Co.. in Brooklyn.
Reports of incendiarism in connec-
ton with the fire were revived when
Fire Chief Kenlon issud a statement
saying the cause of the blaze would
be rigidly investigated.
There have been Sc water front
fires in New York city lately and it is
improbable that all resulted from nat
ural causes" Chief Kenion said.
Supt Tommlins, in charge of the ele-
vator said that the fire was caused
by an explosion inside the structure.
He said that the nature of this explo-
sion warranted the suspicion of a
bomb planter" being responsible.
This theory was secuted by Fire Mar
shall Broppy who. after a preliminary
investigation, said that he believed an
explosion of grain dust" had occurred
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
What's the User

II have been rejecting" said an old
timer, upon the case of the average
man, ms his neighbors see him.
IF he is poor, he is a bad manager.
If he is prosperous, everyone wants to
do him a favor.
"If he's in politics, it's for pork. If
he is not in politics, one can't place
him. and he's no good for his country.
IF he gives not to charity, then he's
a stingy dog. If he does give, It's for
show.
IF he is active In religion, he is a
hypOcrite. If he evinces no interest in
matters spiritual, he's hardened sim
ner.
II he shows affection. he's a soft
sentimentalist. If he seems to care
for no one, he's cold-bloOded.
eff he dies young, there was a great
future ahead of him. If he attains
old age, he has missed his calling"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
FOOD PLEDGE WEEK OCT. 21-27
Postponed One Week So II Will Not
Conflict With Loan Drive.

Washington-Food pledge week, set
for October 81 to 81, has been post
poned to the week of October 2S to
November by Food Administrators
Hoover, at the request of President
Wilson, to avoid conflict with the final
week of the second Liberty Loan drive.
The president, in his letter to the
food administrator, said 1t seemed un-
desirable in "the interest of both
these capital matters" that they should
be in motion at the same time. and
laid emphasis upon the importance of
enrolling the people of the nation in
food conservation.
Plans had been laid by the food ad-
ministration to have its 100000 pledge
campaign workers assist in the fiota-
ton Of the Liberty Loan while enroll
ing families under the food admins
tration and these will be carried out.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
M. C. FLYER HITS
AUTO; KILLS SEVEN
MACHINE DRIVEN DIRECTLY IN
PATH OF TRAIN-DRIVER
WAS WARNED.
OCCUPANTS ALL DETR0ITPE0
Approach to Crossing Is Clear On Both
Sides-SimiIar Accident Occurred
Last Thursday.

Detroit-Seven Detroit persons were
killed Sunday afternoon when an au-
tomobile they were driving was struck
by Michigan Central passenger train
at Hartsig crossing, IL miles north
of Detroit.
The dead are:
Joseph j. Pohl, 40 years old; Mrs.
Joseph ]. Pohl, SO years old; Mrs.
George Harvey, 81 years old; Mary
Harvey, l year old, and Thomas Har-
vey, years old, children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Ralph Pohl, years old,
and Helen Pohl, years old, children
of Mrs Pohl
The party. which had left Detroit
in the afternoon to purchase poultry,
was returning to the city, and APP
preached the crossing from the east.
The car was driven by Mr.. Pohl.
Occupants of another automobile
preceding the Pohl car crossed the
tracks, and according to Charles Van
Dam. farmer lad who witnessed the
tragedy, warned Mr.. Pohl of the APP
preaching train.
/ The automobile continued, however,
at about 90 miles an hour, it is said
and ran directly into the path of the
/ flyer.
Supervisor Hartsig, whose home is
near the crossing says that the side
curtains OF the machine were attach
| d. He saw the crash and rushed to
| the scene
Mr.. Hartsig believed one of the wo
men was alive and rushed back to the
house for water. On returning he
] found her dead Three of the children
were taken from the pilot of the en-
CINE They died before reaching Mt
+ Clemens. Other bodies were picked
up 10 to IL rods below the crossing.
The crossing which is two miles
south of Warren village in Macomh
county. has a clear approach from
either side.
At the same crossing where the fatal
collision occurred Sunday, a truck
from Rosebud Creamery company was
struck by a freight train last Thurs.
day. Two men were seriously hurt
at that time.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
SLACKERS Fooled
BY APPEAL AGENTS
INVESTIGATIONS PREVENT MANY
EMISSIONS OF sELEcTlvE
DRAFT LAW.
MANY CLAIMS WITHOUT MERIT
Agents Make Formal Appeal Of Cases
Where Local Boards Appear to
Have Made Errors.

Lansing Many people do not rea-
lie how important to the draft sys-
tenn are the appeal agents, who make
formal appeal Of cases in which the
government has been worsted before
the local boards and conduct investi-
cations.
Investigations have prevented many
evasions of tie selective draft.
Colonel Bersey, several days ago,
received one of the most heartrending
letters a man ever had to read. The
writer, a woman with three children,
wanted the case of her husband re-
opened and his return from Camp Gus
ter to the bosom of his family ordered.
She had nothing to eat, the children
were not clothed, and she was so sick
that she could not work to bring in
enough revenue to see to it that the
children and herself were well taken
care of while the husband and father
was away fighting for his country.
Colonel Bersey asked an appeal
agent to investigate. The seriousness
of the situation dwindled in a moment.
The whole case was pure bunk.
The man had been called to the colors
August Ia single man. August IS,
and before he had been sent to Battle
Creek, he had married widow with
three children. The widow had fair
ly good income of her own, and, hav-
ing managed to live with her three
children before she had married the
soldier, could easily do so again.
The widow" was peeved because
the appeal agent notified Colonel Ber-
sey that he was in favor Of her hus-
bands staying in the army.
Other cases of similar nature have
been run down by the appeal agents.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
LIBERTY DRIVE MEETS SUCCESS
From All Parts of State Encouraging
Reports Are Received.

Detroit-From all parts of the state
come reports that the intensive cam
paign for the second Liberty loan is
meeting with unqualified success.
"A Liberty bond Cor two) in every
home in Detroit" is the slogan of the
factory salesman, and they say they
mean just that, and will accomplish
just that before the campaign ends,
October 81.
Detroit is included in the coast-to.
coast air raids" to be made by army
flyers in airplanes and balloons in be,
half of the Liberty loan, October 20.
From Selfridge field, Mt Clemens
eight airplanes will fly to Detroit and
two to Camp Custer by way of Bat
tie Creek.
Over all cities, towns and villages
during the fight, red, white and blue
bombs will be dropped, containing Lib
erty loan literature. There will also
be a special bomb, red in color, with
long ribbon attached, addressed to
the mayors.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
WITH THE B0YSAT CAMP CUSTER

The old days when a sergeant
"cussed" a recruit for not getting the
drill regulations have gone.
Two men in each company are being
selected to take instruction in first aid
work. Later they will act as instruc-
tors.
Steamfitters working IN camp who
have been drafted will probably be
excused until camp is finished.
1t is possible American soldiers in
France may be quartered in houses
manufactured in this country, knock
ed down and sent abroad.
Men OF the next increment will be
urged to give their civilian clothes.
when they discard them, to the Bel
gian relief commission for shipment
10 Belgium. Clothes will be collected
by companies, sent TO a central point,
sorted, and shipped to Belgium via
Holland.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
1%OF GUARD HAS TUBERCULOSIS
Many Michigan Men, Touched by
White Plague, Discharged.

Waco, Texas-One per cent OF the
guardsmen of Michigan and Wiscon-
sin have manifest cases" of tubercu-
losis. This is the finding Of the board
of experts, sent here by the govern
ment, after examining men of the 32d
division, under the direction of Capt.
A. c. Morgan. This same percentage
obtains in camps all over the coun-
try.
In cases of suspicion there is Sec
ond examination. An immediate dis
charge for the man is ordered If his
case is positive. The examination in
cludes officers also.
These discharges are for the good
of the man and for the protection of
other members of the army" said Mr..
Morgan. "If he has tuberculosis he
will be unable to stand the hardships
of a campaign. Also it would not be
fair to eight or ten other mCn living
in the same tent with him to expose
them"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
eenesss County Plans County Farm.

Flint-Genesee supervisors have
named a special committee to plan
for placing all institutions on sec
ton OF $40 acres Of land which II is
proposed to buy. The farm would be
worked by the prisoners from the coun-
ty workhouse, which IL is said II will
soon be necessary to construct because
OF the overcrowded condition OF the
county Jail and the fact that the De-
troit house Of correction has served no
tice that II may be forced at any time
to cancel it's contract with the county
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
USE FOR OLD PACKING BOX
One Woman Found That II Made. an
Altogether Satisfactory Desk for
Her Typewriter.

The important thing about II Is the
fact that If she had not had TO sell
her conservative mahogany typewriter
desk she never would have discovered
what a satisfactory sort of typewriter
desk packing box may be. The
packing box must be, of course, of
convenient size and of some stability.
Then, with the open side toward you,
the typewriter on top and your knees
inside, you may be very comfortably
fixed. 1t is plain TO be seen, of course,
that when you are done writing you
remove your knees from within the
box and put the typewriter In their
place. II is the same idea as n type
writer desk I'm which the machine is
shut when not in use. The thing is in
itself remarkable discovery, and, like
most remarkable discoveries, 1t came
In the nick of time. A trunk is no
sort of place for typewriter at all,
and chair is not any better. There
are always possibilities In dining
room table, but one can never feel
that a dining-room table is all ones
own. and then where would you be
putting the typewriter at meal times
all provided, Of course, that there was
dining-room table and not just n
white enamel sanitary restaurant af-
fair or dairy-lunch chair?
At any rate, the important thing
about the discovery was, as has been
said, the fact that II was the necessity
of selling the mahogany desk that
and cleverly arranged hinges exists
made II possible. 1t is only by neces-
sarily having to do without n lot OF
things that we can discover the adj
vantages of a lot of other things-a
vague and ambiguous statement but a
comforting truth. The typewriter desk
Is only an example of the obvious fact
that the value of mahogany and glue is
largely in our imagination, or perhaps,
more truthfully, In our lack of imag-
I inatiOn. We think we have to have
them, but we only think so because
others think so and because, as far as
furniture and things like that are con-
cerned, we are accustomed to think
what other people think.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
Too Busy Fighting.

The Somme battlefield Is described
as "a veritable junkman's paradise"
Mountains of wine bottles are piled
high along the roads, and in the billets
formerly occupied by German officers.
These bottles are worth % TO 30
cents each. Old iron, steel and lead
are being permitted to rust, with no
attempt to salvage IL, because the adj
vanclng allies cannot spare the time
and men. Thousands Of miles of
barbed wire are intact, not even
ruSted
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
Upper Michigan Called Goddess"

Niles-Michigan north of Bay City,
including the upper peninsula, was
declared to be the most goddess
territory in the United States by
the "lumber-jack sky-pilot," Jack
Mccall, and the synodical super
intendent OF home missions, the
Rev. George w. Benin. at a SEES
sion OF the Michigan state synod OF
Presbyterian churches which was de-
voted to an exposition Of the mission
airy activities OF the denomination in
the state and In the foreign field.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
Good Potato Crops Reported.

Traverse City-The great potato
harvesting season in northern Mich
igan has arrived. In all parts
OF the region are farmers roll
ing their wealth out of the ground.
In some localities near here potato
vacations" have been declared in the
schools that children may help dig
the produce. The crop is as good IL
not better than normal. farmers. hav.
ing fortified themselves against the
shortage OF last season In anticipa-
ton OF last seasons prices.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
GREAT FOR ECZEMA
AND OLD SORES
! Guarantee My Ointment, Says
Peterson.

."If you are responsible for the health
OF your family" says Peterson. Il want
you to get a large 25c box of Peterson's
Ointment today.
Remember, l stand back of every box.
Every druggist guarantees 10 refund the
purchase. price if Peterson's Ointment
doesn't do all claim.
II guarantee it for eczema, old sores,
running sores, salt rheum, ulcers, sore
nipples, broken breasts, itching skin, skin
diseases, blind, bleeding and itching piles
as well as for burns, sealds, cuts, bruises
and sunburn.
81 had 80 running sores on my leg for
Amputation was advised. Skin grating
was tried. ] was cured by using Peter
sons Ointment. Mrs. F.. Z. Root, 2S7
Michigan St., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
ESQ DIE ON ToRPEDoED SHIP
French Steamer With 500 Passengers
Aboard Sunk by U-Boat.

London-Two hundred and fifty lives
were lost when the steamer Medic
was torpedoed September 23. in the
western Mediterranean, says a Reuters
dispatch from Paris, received Tues
day.
The explosion of the tordepo de.
tonated the munitions in the ships
cargo. There were more than 500 pas
sengers on board the steamer includ-
ing soldiers and prisoners of war.
The Medic was a French vessel of
4,470 tons. She was built in 1912 and
her home port wos Marseilles.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
OHIO TOWNS ARE SEEING COAL
Shortage Forces Drastic Steps to Sup
ply Fuel for Householders.

Akron. Ohio-One hundred cars Of
coal consigned to lake ports for ship
ment to the northwest were ordred
seized here Saturday by Mayor w. J..
Laub to alleviate the serious local
shortage.
The cars contained about 5000 tons
of coal and are being distributed in
Akron through local dealers.
Mayor Schrantz of Canton also
seized 1000 tons owned by the Central
Power Co. which furnishes that city
with electricity.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-18
The Retort.

1.-TWO wrongs don't make a right.
Still"-
A senator was discussing the food
control bill.
while the bill has it's drawbacks"
he went on, "there would be worse
drawbacks without it, and so we can
face our opponents like the lady.
"My love- her husband said to
this lady, you spend all your money
getting your palm read
"She smiled sweetly.
land you, dear she retorted,
spend all yours getting your nose
red"