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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
At the Washington Opera House Only.
HOLES IN ROADS

road is the means of transporta.
tion and upon the condition of the
surface depends the cost of trans.
porting materials; A great many
people think that when a road is once
built that it will stand for all time
and do efficient work without any re-
pairs but such is not the case. Rail-
roads, rivers, harbors and canals are
patrolled, and in as much as the high
ways are subjected to more severe
traffic than either of the above it
stands TO reason that they should re-
ceive constant attention. Besides If
the road is not smooth not only is the
cost of hauling Increased but vehicles
are caused to deferiorate most randi
ly.
Consider for example a large hole
in road. Everyone knows that when
automobiles wagons and buggies pass
over holes that considerable damage
is done. Suppose that the damage to
an automobile is only one cent and
that there were one hundred automo-
biles over the road in a day The
damage to the automobiles alone from
that one hole in one day is $1.OO. Sup
pose there are fifty such holes to the
mile of road. Then the damage would
be $4,000 per day of 81 500 per month
and for twelve months in the year
the damage to the automobiles alone
passing over a mile of such road
would be $4,000, which is a sufficient
sum of money to build in its entirety
mile of road and use an excellent
grade of materials. 1t might not be
necessary to rebuild the road and IN
that event it certainly should be main
tanned
1t would seem to me that it is now
high time that steps be taken to at
least see that all the holes in the
roads are kept filled. One way would
be to appoint a patrolman on ali the
main roads in the county.
| cannot believe that we will very
much longer be willing to see each
day thousands of dollars worth of
damage done to property.
The proposition is worth serious
thought.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
ALL THAT REALLY COUNTS FOR
EACH OF Us

Howard Wheeler, who has been in
France at the fronts where the
French and British and the Americans
are giving themselves to death and
agony in order to save what is left of
France and to save humanity, is writ
ing series of sketches of what he
| has seen there.
This is what he says about it:
81 found high inspiration in those
Impressions, awful depression. l
came home with the answer to moth
ing-only the deep conviction that for
each of us nothing really counts ex-
cept giving, striving, enduring, with
out regard to sacrifice"
Most of us are being gripped now
with that same conviction. The only
things that really count now for each
of us are giving, striving, enduring,
without regard to sacrifice" We have
passed that time when we wondered
why it all could be; and what would
come out of it all; and whether such
things must happene in the world
again. We will come to that time
again. We will sit dokn when it is
all over and try to do more than Won
der We will go to work ana bulwark
our great victory in battle by trying
TO make it impossible that such things
can ever happene again. That is one
thing we are determined that all sac
rifices shall have accomplished. 1t
must not happen again.
But now-just now, there doesn't
seem to be anything much we can do
about all that except give and strive
and endure without regard to sacri-
fee, so as to ensure victory, clean.
definite, complete. that shall make it
possible for us to work in security for
better international conditions in the
future.
We do not know just how long it
will take to accomplish that; we can
not tell. There are very bright streaks
in the sky right now that presage
hope and safe landing before so very
long But we do not know. These
red days may stretch into grim
months-or years-before the demo-
cracies of the world can burn from
the Prussian soul the lust of power
and the aloofness from all political
decency.
And that must be done before we
are really through.
All that we know now, all that We
can be certain of, all that we who are
at home can do to meet our part in
this war between opposing civiliza-
tons is to give and strive and endure
without regard to sacrifice.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
BRITISH AIRMEN
GROW EXPERT IN
NIGHT FIGHTING
Forced by Necessity, They Now Make
1t Hot For GOthas.

London-The activity of British air.
men in connection with recent air
raids on London indicates that they
are learning rapidly the art of fight
ing the Gotha in the dark. Until a
few months ago there was little air
fighting at night, even in France, and
raiding craft enjoyed marked adj
vantage because their object was sole
ly to avoid attack while dropping
bombs.
1t is evident that they are able no
longer to avoid attack. For one thing
the British pilots have learned to see
in the dark as result of numerous
night flights in search of enemy ma
chimes. Now they are able to So
Gothas at distances which would have
been considered impossible in the
early stages of night raids.
They have learned also how to take
the best positions for combating the
enemy and how to keep those posi-
tons The Gotha, being an extremely
heavy machine, is adept at slipping
away. BY a sudden plunge in front
of the attacking scout it can create
"backwash" and leave the attacker
struggling to right his machine.
The British pilots now know how
to cope with that trick and to keep
within thirty or forty yards of the
raider all the time.
There are many perilous positions
round the Gotha, whose two gunners
can fire in almost any direction. Only
highly skillful handling of the at
lacking machine enables the pilot to
place in which he can con-
tinue the fight until he hits the raid
er in a vital spot.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
CANADIAN FOUNTAINS HARD HIT

New regulations restricting the use
of sugar, wheat -four, and fats of any
kind in the manufacture of candy,
confectionery. and ice cream has Sc
verely hit the Canadian ice-cream and
confectionery trade. Since June 1 all
manufacturers of these articles or of
cake, pastry, biscuits, etc, have been
required to obtain a confectioners IL
cense from the Canada Food Board
unless they already held the bakers
or the public eating-place licenses,
The annual license fees are arranged
on a sliding scale from a minimum of
80, when the value sold does not eX-
coed $4,000 per annum, up to $40 when
the annual sales are undehr 100000
and $40 additional for each additional
$4,000 or fraction thereof of the an
nual value sold. Each licensee must
file monthly statement showing the
quantity of sugar used by him in the
manufacture of candy, and the supply
from May to August is restricted
to so per cent of the average monthly
quantity used during the year 1917.
1t is Illegal to use white -four in the
manufacture of candy or to use in
making ice cream more than 10 per
cent. of fats, whether of animal or
vegetable origin, or more than 6
pounds of sugar to 8 gallons of ice
cream.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
APTO JEHUS ARE UNABLE TO
BUY GAS IN FRANCE

Parns-So precious is gasolen in
France that American Red Cross am
balances measure their consumption
in blocks per liter, rather than miles
per gallon, and the most eXtraordin-
airy pains are taken to stop every pos
s!ble source of waste or inefficiency.
The French will not part with their
gasoline for money. They will let the
Red Cross borrow, but every liter
must be returned.
Ambulance drivers are experts at
getting the limit of "blockage' per
liter, and they have to be, for even If
they run but four blocks, the odo-
meter is read, the fuel measured, and
the figures compared when the car
returns. Poor work results first in a
warning, next time in few days for
the driver washing cars, while third
offense may lead him to the provost
marshal of the American army in
Paris as military offender.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
COLORADO GUARD CAPTURE
AUTO OF ROOZE SMUGGLEI

Denever, Colo.-The state constab-
ulary members stationed at Hereford,
Weld county, have in their possession
perfectly. good Overland automobile
and twenty-seven gallons of whisky,
along with mans coat, gold watch
and a bank book made out in the
name of Samuel Rollick, 1923 Federal
boulevard The machine is one of two
which they say crossed the Wyoming
line INTO Colorado south of Carpenter,
Wyo., late one night recently. When
they ordered the lone occupant of the
lead machine to stop the man shut off
tho power. applied the brakes. and
then leaped from the car.
Before the officers could stop him
the man had run back to the second
car and entered IT, The driver of the
second ear turned quickly ana speed
cd across the line into Wyoming.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
AMERICAN TROOPS DISPLAY
RECKLESS YALOR IN BATTLI

London - Comparing the work OF
the French and American troops in
the battle now going on, Reuters cor
respondent at American headquarters
writes:
"The French have had four years of
hard study and the lesson most laid
to heart is the value to France of live
Frenchmen and dead Germans.
when sacrifices are required they
are quite ready to make them, but
their pride is to kill and pay little for
killing.
"They admire the reckless vaior of
the Americans, but their own meth
DDS are somewhat slower and more
subtle. Each gets to his objective,
but the French leave fewer men be-
hind"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
FEEBLE AGED WOMAN
75 Years Old, Weakened by Pneu-
mOnla-VinOI Restored Strength

Winchester, Va.-"I am a farmers
wife, rs years of age, and pneumon-
la left me in a weak, rundown condi-
ton. so l could hardly keep about
and do my work. A neighbor brought
me Vinol and it has built up my
strength so fast that think it is the
best medicine l have ever taken."-
Mrs. Jennie Chapman.
There is no secret about Vinol-It
owes its success to beef and cod
liver peptones, iron and manganese
peptonates and glycerophosphates the
Oldest and most famous body building
and strength creating tonics.
John c. PecOr Drug Co., Maysyille,
Ky, and at the best drug stores in
every town and city in the country.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
CONVINCING TESTIMONY
Given BY Many MaysyiIle People.

Experiences told by Maysville peo-
pie
Those who have had weak kid
neys-
Who used Doan's Kidney Pills
Who found the remedy effective
Such statements prove merit
You might doubt an utter stranger
You must believe Maysville People
Here's Maysville proof. Verify it.
Read. Investigate. Be convinced
You'll find why Maysville folks be.
lieve In Doan's.
George H. King, Prop. grocery, 61S
e. Second St., says: II have used
Doans Kidney Pills Off ana on for
several years, getting them at CHAINS
lor's Drug Store and l have been
greatly benefited by them. Some
times my kidneys have been out OF
order and the kidney secretions have
been irregular in passage l have
suffered severity with aches through
the small Of my back When / have
been in that way, l have usea u pox
or two of Doan's Kidney Pills. They
have never failed to cure the attack
In great order"
Mr.. King is only one of many
Maysville people who have grateful
ly endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If
your back aches-if your kidneys
bother you, don't simply ask for a
kidney remedy-ask distinctly for
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS, the same
that Mr.. King had-the remedy back
ed by home testimony. go cents at all
stores. FosterMilburn Co., Props,
Buffalo, N. Y. when Your Back is
Lame-Remember the Name"
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
I ||'7IFl '||I|l| NJ

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. II leaves Maysville 5:s5 a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. Q leaves Maysville $40 D. m.
except Sunday.
No. zoo leaves Maysville $40 D. m.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives In Maysville s:45 a.
m'' daily except Sunday.
No. 21O arrives in Maysville 2:s6 D.
M, Sunday only.
No. 16 arrives in Maysville $40 n.
M, daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
NOTICE

will be out OF town on business
for few days. During my absence Mr.,
r. M. Gather and Mr.. u. l.. Willett of
he Farmers & Traders Bank will
look after my business. Come in and
ct them write you Hail Insurance
Policy on your tobacco
'"'' THoS l.. EVAN.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
Don't Miss This Great Picture
WANTED. SCRAP IRON

Highest Cash Prices paid for Scrap
Iron, Metals, and Feed Bags. Call
8. GREENWALD
Telephone BIS. Plum Street.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
WHEN OTHERS
MUST WAIT

Long party line conversations hamper
telephone service by making others
sharing the line to wait-they must
wait - TO SEND CALLS - TO RE.
CEIVE CALLS.
Because Others must wait, is a very
good reason why party line subscrib.
ers should observe the five minnie
limit for local calls.
Cooperation between subscribers
keep party lines open for both incom.
ing and outgoing service.
The telephone on party lines should
be used for reasonable and necessary
purposes.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-08-08
Chesapeake & Ohio Rv.

Schedule subject to cnan0e ~ithoui notice
Effective Sunday May 26th.
East Bound
No. will arrive 9:4S a. m
No will arrive 1850 p. m.
No. Is will arrive 1928 D. m.
No. Will arrive $40 p. m.
No. 16 departs 200 D. m.
West Bound
No. 10 will depart 5:25 a. m.
No. will depart 1900 a. m.
No. II will arrive 1000 a. m.
No. will depart $40 D. m. =.
No. will depart 1850 D. m.
trains No. 16, II, Is and 10 are
'aily, except Sunday.
W. W WIKOFF, Agent.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
PRONG TlONS MADE AND
MANY MORE EXPECTED

Second Iieutenants Floyd A Brad
street ard William T. Cutting have been
promoted to the rank of first lieutenants
and assigned to the 103rCl Supply Train.
1t has been indicated at division head
quarters that there would be a large
number of promotions announced soon
All officers, including the non-coms are
looking forward to these nrono+inns
eagerly. Quite a number of officers have
worked like beavers since coming To tlA4l-
cock, and the authorities feel that the
promotions to be made will be well de-
served Announcements in rank.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
MAJ. GEN. WOOD PASSES
PHYSICAL TESTS

Neutrality-suspicious. General Leon
ard Wood has passed his physical ex-
animation for active service at the
front and viii be returned to COM
mand his division at Camp Funston,
Kans.
In his 5Sth year, the former chief
of staff enjoys robust health and is
not bothered by the shell fragment
wound in the left arm he recently sus,
tanned abroad, while observing the
fire of afire of French gun.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
Desk Equipment.

Several members of the house were
in the republican cloak room yesterday
discussing the large number of army
reserve officers on duty in Washing
ton.
why is it," asked somebody, that
so fnany of them are wearing spurs?"
Uncle Joe" Cannon, of Illinois, looked
somewhat disgusted.
THE. reason is simple" said he. "The
spurs are to keep their feet from slid
ing off the desks
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
GEN. FERDINAND FOCH,
NEW ALLIED LEADER
Long Held German Aggression
Would Come.

Gen. Ferdinand Foch, new leader Of the
Allied armies. is OF Basque origin. He
was born at Tarbee. in 1851. but was
a German after the annexation Of Alsace-
Lorraine, Foch preferred TO return to
France and help to prepare France for
the present German invasion.
Foch began by mastering the strategy
of the war of 1870 in its minutest details.
Knowing the mentality OF the Germans,
he counted upon their repeating in flu
ture conflicts the maneuvers that had
succeeded. He also expected them to
make some of the old mistakes. In. his
teachings at the Superior War schoor and
in his writings he held always to the
idea of an inevitable aggression by Ger
after long Fermentation and most min
ute preparation-the swift thunderbolt OF
the opening to develop into q struggle
OF colossal proportions.
To parry the blow, Foch said repeated
ly, France must have staff working in
the same direction. .practicng the same
doctrines under vicious and audaeious
chief
Foch foresaw Joffre as clearly as he
foresaw the war 1914 arising from the
same objective-Paris. He thought he
saw quite as clearly as different issue,
value of the service he rendered to
France by communicating his confidence
to the young officers His work at, the
superior war school contributed largely
to the perfection of the French army
which, il less "dlsciplined' than the Ger
man army. was held by him to be far
better educated"
At Nancy.
The war found Foch at Nancy. the
headquarters OF the Twentieth corps.
His corps was attached to General Cas-
telnau's army and he was Selected to
command a new army concentrating be-
hind the center Of the forces marching to
,ntnntinnAd an nae4 st~4Ns
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
HANCOCK AGAIN
LEADS IN HEAL TIL
Latest Reports From Surgeon
Generals Office Show Sick
Rate 80 Per Thousand.

Camp Hancock again leads all camps
both National Guard and National Army
lin the country, according to the latest
reports issued from the office of the surg
con general OF the army. The health
rate is given as 81 per 1000, the lowest
reached since fall, when a record low
mark OF GA was chalked up. This is
the fourth consecutive week in which
Camp Hancock has led in the matter OF
health.
Health officers are confident that tRN
next report which is already in the hands
Of the surgeon general will show much
lower sick rate and be almost equal to
tkaA ~AS~-A $500
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
shELLlNG PARls.

When the announcement appeared in
the papers that the Germans were she'll
ing Paris with new gun of rs miles
range speculation was rampant. The
average cixilian as well as officer de-
elared that there was no such gun, but
the persistence of the Smelling and espe-
cialIy the catastrophe of Good Friday in
which rs people were killed has changed
opinion The gun. therefore is real.
What do the experts say about this
gum Jules Vernes. Frenchman. Is
declared by the petit Journal to have
stated that the gun is French inven-
ton. The secret of the gun in this case
is supposed to be the greater suppress
sion of the atmospheric resistance. Sir
Hudson Maxim recognizes that such a
gun could exist.
He declares that it is not new inyen-
ton, and that his gun which the Ger
mans are using probably weighs from 800
to q 1000 tons and Is about 100 feet
long. The. inventor of the Gathmann
gun on the other hand declares that the
gun is mathematical imposSibility
Other conceptions OF this new German
surprise ranges from shell with a tor
pedo like construction or a relay she'll to
an electrically magnetized cannon.
Whether the gun exists or not, will not
cause any great uneasiness because if it
does exist 1t costs too much and its ma
chlnery is too delicate to permit it to be-
come potent factor in actual warfare.
CONSERVATION.
Last Saturday night everybody lost an
hour OF sleep. The government under the
stress of war has found it necessary not
only to have meatless and wheatless
days but also as far as possible Tight
less davs. In short Uncle Sam has con-
cluded that It is cheaper to use an hour
of good sunlight instead of an hour of
lamp light or electric light as the case
may be.
1t is almost impossible to estimate the
actual amount of coal and oil which will
be saved by this plan. The coal how
lighting plants will be sufficient to pre-
vent another winter sGeh as we have
Just passed through. This alone would
Justify the change. Everybody will be
benefited by the new schedule. The
health and spirits of the workmen viii
be improved and the home garden will
more easily be given it's daily attention.
IN CONGRESS.
Criticism has Arrays been called
Democracy's friend. After Gen. Woods
report to the military committee Sena-
tor Lodge of Massachusetts, delivered a
singing grafton against the failure OF
Afnerica to Dranare herself for the great
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
A Perfect keystone.

Every day shows progress in shaping
and finishing our keystone Division.
Straight lines, clean cut edges. true
surfaces and no flaws are the quail
ties that are needed for the keystone
In the arch that is to withstand the
German pressure.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
Poiaon.

Polluted water is POISON! Lately
at the Divisional Trenches a guard had
to be placed on the polluted springs.
Better keep reckless impulses for raids
in mo Mans Land" The vile stuff
sold the men is the dirty novels just
outside our camp is little better.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03

sets pleaded for an amendment to the
draft law providing for the training of all
boys between IS and 20 years of age.
Senator Hitchcock joined with Senator
Lodge in exposing the failure of the
manufacturers of aeroplanes to even APP
proach the estimated and promised pro-
duction,
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
Camouflaae.

There is no reason why a fighting
man should not love flowers. When
fighting the scout may find it useful to
camouflage tree trunk, but even the
savage warrior does not use garlands
Of flowers on his headdress-he wears
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
IN CONGRESS.

Criticism has Arrays been called
Democracy's friend. After Gen. Wood S
report to the military committee Sena-
ter Lodge of Massachusetts,. delivered a
singing grafton against the failure OF
America to prepare herself for the great
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Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03

Look the Whole World in the Eye.
When we salute officers look them
frankly in the eyes, head UP and man
to man. You are saluting your gov
eminent through them and recognizing
the discipline and organization that is
to win this war.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
THE NEW SERVICE STRIPE.

Congress has recently authorized q
new service stripe consisting of an in-
verted chevron worn on the left sleeve.
Major General Peyton C. March is among
the first men ia the army to wear this
new stripe
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03
CURRENT EVENTS
German Offensive. New Allied
Commander. German Big
Gun. Notes in Congress.
sy ?. A. 6. MAcAEMER.
A SECOND MARINE.


The greatest battle of the world as the
long heralded German offensive in Pic
ardy has been termed has safely passed
through the first part of the game which
make sit a potential Allied victory. The
great question which concerned the
French and English strategists was, will
the Allied line hold not whether this
point or that be retained, but whether the
continuity Of the line which is protecting
civilization would hold. This moment
Gus question has been aswered in blood.
The Allied line has maintained its con-
tinuity. The line is not broken as a
whole and just so far has Germany fall
ed and the price of her failure has been
greater than the price of a true victory
But what of the counter offensive? AS
Germany has long foretold her offensive
SO the Allies have spoken Of the count
er-offensive and their giant mobile re-
serve ARMY. In vain have the Huns their
their men to their death against che thin
line of the British In the hope of caus-
ing this reserve arm yto be thrown into
the melting pot to be wasted away Here
again Germany has failed.
Nevertheless these achievements of the
Allies cannot take the place of the count
er-offensiye. The question is now wheth-
err the exhausted Boche hordes cannot
only be pushed back but also decisively
defeated as they We're at the battle OF
the Marine. The counter offensive has
begun according to the papers at this
writing, but as yet 1t has not assumed
the proportions which Will develop during
the next few days. Nav the coming
week bring to pass kuch victory
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-03

r. E v E r IE S,

his flowers at the Hula Hula dance s,
Feasts and Funerals.