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large part Of the office offfiieessIFzs y Heetied for
the national army. It understood
that at least four oi ~ tiraesi III
many officers viii be feduired as the
total number of students who will
graduate from all American colleges
and universities. Enlistment in the
Studenes' Army Training Corps, there
fore, while it does not hold out any
promise of an officers commission
is at the present time the plainest
road leading in that direction.
The student who shows no ability
for special service in his college and
military work, will be ordered into
active service as private when his
doy of reckoning comes. Enlistment
is for the duration of the war. If,
however, the student fails TO improve
his college opportunities, he may be
dismissed from college by action of
the college authorities and discharged
from military service by the military
authorities. He would then be sub
ject to the operation of the draft. His
enlistment may be cancelled for other
sufficient causes such as sickness,
lack of funds, etc, upon recommenda-
ton of the President of the college
and the military officer in command
at the college.
Opportunity will be given for the
enlisted student, who so elects, to
transfer from army to navy, and vice
versa, and to be assigned to active
service in one of the various corps of
the army upon recommendation of the
college President and the proper mill
tary authority.
Regular uniforms, including hats,
shoes and overcoats. will be furnished
all members of the Students Army
Training Corps by the Government.
Should Congress lower the age of
liability to immediate military SER
vice, men of the new ages not already
enlisted may find difficulty in enter
ing the service otherwise than thru
the Draft Boards. In view of this
possibility, all men expecting to en-
list at all in the Students Army Train
ing Corps would do well to enter
promptly.
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STATUS OF A STUDENT
ENLISTED IN THE STUDENTS
ARMY TRAINING CORPS

A student enlisted in the Students
Army Training Corps is IN military
service of the United States. Because
he does not receive pay, he is classed
as on inactive service but in a ma
tional emergency the President may
call him at any time to active service
He is called to active service each
summer when he attends camp for
six weeks and receives the pay of
private.
His relation to the draft is as fol-
lows:
Any student so enlisted, though in
the military service of the United
States, is technically on inactive duty
and therefore must register after he
has reached draft age and upon no
tice by the President. Upon stating
on his QUESTIONABLE that he is already
in the military service of the United
States, ne will be placed automatically
by his local Draft Board in Glass VD,
as provided by the Selective Service
regulations. The Draft Board will not
call him for induction so long as he
remains a member Of the Students
Army Training Corps.
In order that the college student
may not even appear to enjoy special
privileges, it is agreed. however, that
when the day arrives on which ac
cording to his order number he would
have been drafted, had he not already
volunteered, the fact is reported to
the president of the college, and to
the Commanding Officer at the college
who in turn reports it to the Adjutant
General. This is the day of reckon
ing for the college man. The Presi-
dent of the college and the Command
ing Officer will then report to the
Chairman of the Committee on Edu-
cation and Special Training of the
War Department, for what form of
military service the individual is III
their judgment best qualified. They
will recommend either that the stud
ent should continue his studies to
prepare for work in medicine, engi-
neering, chemistry, psychology, eco
nomics, ETC., or that he should go at
once to an officers training camp to
prepare for an officers commission in
the infantry, artillery, ETC., or that he
should be assigned to work in the
ordinance, quarter-master or other
Staff Corps or sent Immediately to a
division at one of the camps. Col.
Rees, commander of the entire Stu
dents Corps, has authority to dispose
his men in the way best suited to
Dieet the emergencies of the military
and national situation at the time.
The presumption is that, for the next
year, the largest proportion of the
student body reaching twenty-one
years will be required to supply a
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BY The Associated Press

By lHe ASSOCluICu GTeSS
The fighting on the Somme-Oise
battlefield still continues of minor
character compared with that of the
early part of the week, when the Ger
mans reinforced their line and stop
ped the eastward sweep of the allied
forces.
Nevertheless the British and French
again have been able to gain ground
on two important sectors--the British
d short distance west of Roye, where
they took the villages of Damery and
Parvillers, and the French on the
southern wing of the battlefront. were
they have captured two farms in the
process of clearing the hilly and wood
ed district around Lassigny of the en-
emy.
North of the Somme, between Albert
and Arras, the Germans are continu-
ing to fall back ana the British are
keeping in chose contact with them.
Thus far the Germans have definitely
given up the towns of Beaumont, Ham
ell, Serre, Bucquoy and PuisieuX-Au-
Mount and at several points have
crossed the Ancre river, with the
British following closely on their trail
No official explanation has yet been
advanced of The retrogade movement
OF the Germans over this front, but
1t is not at all unlikely that the OPP
erations on the Somme front and the
harassing tactics the British recently
have employed made the enemy de-
sirous of establishing himself on new
ground eastward, with the Ancre river
a barrier between him and his foes.
At any rate. the HcbuteFne salient
-sliss Ysrtualis beea gbliterated By tue
retirement Of the Germans. and seem
ingly they now will be compelled to
make readjustment of their line be-
tween the Somme and AITas.
In the week Of fighting on the Pi-
cardy front 30,244 prisoners have fall
en- into the hands of the British and
French armies, according to an Off
cial announcement. OF this number
the British captured PISA. Unofficial
reports, probably complied since the
official data was sent from the front,
given the number of prisoners in the
Allies hands since August 8, as $4,000
and say also that 670 captured guns
thus far have been counted.
The situation in Russia again is
looming large. Soviet leaders have
fled from Moscow, the Bolsheyik cap
itol, to Kronstadt, and the soviet
troops now are declared to have begun
the evacuation of Moscow. American
troops have begun to disembark at
Vladiyostok to aid the C2echo-Slovak
army in it's campaign in Siberia, and
Allied force is chasing the enemy
more than a hundred miles south of
Archangel on the railroad, further al
lied troops have made landing south
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BATTERY sC'' Is
HIGHLY PRAISED
Maj. Roy v, Myers Refers to the Or.
ganizatieH as one OF the Best
in France

The following letter, republished
from the Knoxville Sentiuel will be OF
special intrest to our reader, on ac
count of the johnson City boys who
are members of Battery G, Rob. Lyle
Carrick Weatherby, Leo Taylor ane
Will Lacey.
Praising the members Of the 114tl
Field Artillery, of which Battery &C.
recruited in Knoxville is part. Maj.
Roy V. Myers, writing from some
where in France" to William Whaley
of this city, shows his elation over
the wonderful advance made by the
Knoxville boys during the past year
Major Myers in his letter says his
brigade has proven so efficient that
they will go to the front some weeks
ahead of schedule.
He adds that his organization of
fighters is one of the best on French
soil and that, although the members
of Battery &C" were considered fine
body of men last year, they are from
ten to forty pounds heavier, with bulg
ing muscles and that they look likt
real gladiators.
Major Myers says that the men
treat with indifference the inconveni
ences of the soldiers lot, and that as
a result of their fine training that
any feat they may perform would be
no surprise, unless to the arrogant
Hun.
Major Myers letter follows:
Il crossed France twice since arriy-
ing My thirs trip will put me to woIl
in the big game for which / have been
preparing for over thirteen months.
Have been directing the fire of my
battalion Oh terrian with targets quite
similar to those on the villages
trenches. outposts, moving targets. etc
The French gun is wonder. l can
now appreciate the trite remark Of
French officer which translated, is "A
battery seen is battery lost
"The Fourth of July was celebrated
here in France and England in a re-
markable way. Review was followed
by banquet attended by French no.
tables and officers of the American
biOha1, offioarS
Our brigade goes to the front some
weeks ahead of its time due 10 the
advanced stage of our training. My in
structor told me my battalion was the
farthest advanced of any unit that has
thus far taken training in this camp
This surprised me; because the near
er one approaches the ultimate goal,
the fighting sector, the less inclined
is he to overestimate the estimate OF
his unite.
81 have been noting with a critical
eye the individual members and small
CONTINUED on Page Three
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PLANS FOR REFINING
OF HEAVY GUNS

The War Department authorizes
the following from the Ordinance De-
partment
The Chief Ordinance has approved
plans for the manufacture of the ma
chine-tool equipment which the Unit
ed States Government will install in
France for the refining of the heavy
railroad guns in use by the American
| forces.
The project for this refining plant is
one of the largest undertaken by the
Ordinance Department, and calls fer
the expenditure of between $25,0UO,-
600 and S30,000,0O0. In size it will be
comparable to the Krupp Works at
Essen, Germany. The machine tools
alone will cost between $12.00O,00O
and $15,0O0,000, and will consist of
gun-boring lathes. engine lathes,,
rifling machines, and grinders.
Cost of Giant Planers
A large number of these gun-boring
lathes are designed for a 102-inch
swing. To make these lathes there is
under construction at one of the ma
chine tool factories in this country a
giant planer, the base of which is so
long that the curvature of the earth
has to be taken into consideration
N hI1ildinur . ir
nearly the length of the Washington
Monument or the battleship North
Dakota. This planer alone is to cost
S450,O00 and the lathes it will help
make will approximate, in the aggfe-
| gate, S6.500,000. Prior to the war the
longest planer ever built was not
more than 50 feet So long a stretch
of ground will this greater one COW
er, that in order that it's two ends
might be in perfect alignment, a cor
rection had to be made in the design
| to take care of the earth's curvature.
Plant TO BE Erected In France
In addition to the machine tool
equipment required the refining plant
in France will include extensive
shrinkage pits, giant 240-ton travelling
cranes, an electrical generating plant
of several thousand kilowatt capacity
a large battery of boilers to generate
horsepower required in operating the
factory, and suitable buildings to
house the entire establishment
Engineering work by the Ordinance
Department in the development of the
entire project was completed in less
than 80 days after its inception. In
that period the plans have been re-
viewed and approved by the Chief Or
dnance the project has been passed
by the Clearance Committee of the
War Industries Board, negotiations
have been concluded with machine
tool builders, and procurement orders
have actually been issued for produc-
tion of the gun boring lathes of vali-
Gus types required.
Important Salvage Operations
The refining of big guns is one of
the biggest salvage operations in the
war. Several times the value of these
big guns is saved by this process.
Owing to the tremendous heat gen
Grated by the charge when the big
guns are fired, their accuracy can not
be assured after few hundred shots
unless they are refined, notwithstand-
ing the fact that all other parts ex-
cept the lining are practically as
good as new.
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PRESIDENT WOULD END
. THE WAR QUICKLY

american soldiers can defeat tho Cor
man army is the belief of General
March chief of staff, and present p,an
Vi lhe war Department call for moro
than that number under arms nov+
summer with some 100000 of them,
or eighty divisions, in France by Juna
30. ~ JUNE
These and other facts concornino.
'ne nations effort in the war as given
70 the senate military committee bv
General March, Secretary Baker and
PROVOST Marshal General Crowder
were revealed today by Chairman
chamberlain in presenting to the son.
ate the administration man-power hin
extending the draft ages to include all
men between the ages of Is to AZ
years.
president Wilson is determined f.
Dflng the war to a conclusion bv CON
centrating all forces on the western
'front.' including Italy, Secretary Ra-
Ker told the committee, and General
March supplemented this by STATING
II was the purpose to end the great
world struggle quickly and decisively
for the nation not to put forth its
maximum effort at once the chief of
staff declared, would be but "plavine
GermanV'S pana
Thirty-one American divisions or an
proXimately 100000 men now are in
France, with as many more in camnS
IN this country as a reservoir. Sec
retary Baker said today that the ac.
celerated program of troop movements
overseas which has enabled General
Perlshing TO organize his first field
army of some 1,250,00O men will be
continued because of the generous ac-
ton of the British government in sup
plying shipping.
To carry out the present program of
eighty divisions overseas by June 30
nearly 100000 men must be sent to
France in the next eleven months
Mr.. Baker would not be drawn into
any discussion of the country's abili-
ty to transport men, but it is known
That many more than that number
could be landed in the war zone at
the present rate of shipments.
Epnpra1 NJnrob fol1 H.
according to the report to the senate,
that he was in favor of young men for
the army and that the youths of IS
registered Under the new draft law
would be in France by June 80. He
estimated some 100000 men qualified
for full military service would be Sc
cured from the new registration aud
he outlined the calls for the next year
or more as follows:
August 250,OO0, September 100000
October $4,000, November 100000, De
cember, 100000, January 100000, Feb
ruary 100000, and 100000 monthly
thereafter until the end of the next
year.
These calls would aggregate 4,205,-
600 against the estimate of 100000
to be had from the new registration,
but no explanation was made of this
and other discrepancies in the draft
figures General Crowder has said the
present reservoir in class one will be
exhausted by next October ], but Sec
retary Baker made it plain today the
reservoir of men now in camp in this
country is sufficient to keep up the
present troop movement overseas.
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Remember! the men in our Army
and Navy do not expect luxuries.
Should we at home expect them? Buy
necessities and War Savings Stamps.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17

Are you doing your bit" in saving
food for our allies and our soldiers
and sailors?
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17

A Wisconsin Airdale dog, valued at
800, killed not long ago 5000 worth
OF puebred sheep.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17

Tennessee farmers produced more
of practically every food and feed
crop this year than last.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17
BRITISH Capture DANNY AND
PARVILLERS NORTHWEST, ROYE.
French Clearing Wooded District Around
Lassigny

west of Archangel to cut off the re-
treat of the soyiets, while British
troops have arrived at Baku, in the
Caucasus on the Caspian sea, to as
sist the Armenians in defending this
important seaport against the Turks.
to whom it was given by the Brest-
Litovsk treaty in the attempt made by
the Teutonic allies to dismember Rus
sia Thus it was seen Allied forces
now are operating jointly on three
important sections of Russian terri
tory-on the north with base in the
White sea, in the east with base in
the Sea of Japan, and on the south in
Trans Caucasia.
Probably realizing the seriousness
of the situation as it now effects the
central powers with defeats on the
western front and their military po-
sitions in the other theatres none too
secure-with the feeling in Russia
daily growing more intense against
the Bolshevik and Germanic rule, and
with the spectre of the more than
million Americans already in France
and the more millions of them soon
to be in readiness for overseas duty,
important conferences are in progress
at German headquarters. The Ger
man and Austrian emperors and their
suites and Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg and General Ludendorff are the
main conferees.
FRENCH MAKE FURTHER GAINS
Paris, Aug. 15.-Further gains have
been made by the French in the wood
ed region between the Matz and Oise
rivers, and just north of the Oise near
Rtpeoeart according to tie French Of
ficial communication issued this even
ing. For the most part, however, the
operations have been of a minor
character.
The communication follows:
During the course of the day minor
operations have enabled us to make
progress in the wooded and hill region
between the Matz and the Disc. We
have captured to the northwest Of
Ribecourt, the Attiche farm and the
Monolithe farm, which were energeti-
cally defended by the enemy. We
made prisoners.
Army of the east: On August 14th
there was moderate artillery activity
On the whole front To the west of
Porocau the enemy attempted new
attack which was repulsed."
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promptly.

Store the farm machinery so that
the weather will not destroy even the
paint on it.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17

In the South, $50 county agents
were at work last year helping to
increase crop production.
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America
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to all ofwhih
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07
Reason

What was man given reason for if
he is not to use it under all circum-
stances and conditions. Without it,
man would be at sea in all his eff
forts. Now we are told that God made
man, and that said man broke down at
the first trial. Now, If make wagon
out Of basswod and it breaks down at
first load, who is to blame, the wagon
or L? Then the thing for me to do is
to make a new wagon out Of stalwart
oak Now we are told that God in
stead Of letting them die at once, and
making new and worthy pair, he
kept right on using the Adam failure
until the world was filled with abom-
nation and must be destroyed. And
curiously enough He selected Noah
out of that same Adam failure and
got him to build an ark with one little
window and no ventilation, and put
in it all kinds Of life. Then he
drowned the world (and no one knows
whether those people are now in hell
or not, for Immortality was not consid-
cred till some time after Moses day.
and strange to say, this wonderful
Noah. as soon as he found dry land,
planted a vineyard and got beastly
drunk on wine and cursed his son.
And this wonderful God still persists
in making the type of Adam with all
its failures. Now it is supposed that
Moses wrote this story. Moses was
very ignorant Of natures laws, and
believed he could command God with
an Egyptian divining rod to do his bid
ding, and with so little sense of right
and wrong as to believe that his God
could harden Pbaraoh's heart and then
punish him and his people, just the
same as if he and they were to blame.
Now these are Bible facts. How then
can anyone help thinking that Moses
did not know, and that God made man
exactly as he meant him to be; and
that man by his own efforts must
climb into the true glory Of life? That
he must through good and evil, learn
the true value Of virtue and true life?
No time in the history of the world
abhors war as the present time, the
world over. And the quicker we learn
that mankind is it's OWN SAVIOUR,
the sooner will peace on earth be pos
sible. It would seem that if all ma
tions would do as they would be done
by that war would cease, and not till
then. So we must fight.
1 BENZ SIMONDS.
! BarabOo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07
USE "CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER AND BOWELS
WHEN CONSTIPATED
WHEN BILIOUS, HEADACHY, SICK,
FOR SOUR STOMACH, BAD
BREATH, BAD COLDS
Get a 10-cent box.

Get a 10-cent box.
Take a Cascaret tonight to cleanse
your Liver Stomach and Bowels, and
you will surely feel great by morning.
You men and women who have head
ache, coated tongue, a bad cold are
bilious, nervous, upset, bothered with
a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or
have backache and feel all worn out.
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets-or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil?
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the sour,
undigested and fermenting food and
foul gases; take the excess bile from
the liver and carry off the constipated
waste matter and poison from the
bowels.
Remember, Cascaret tonight will
straighten you out by morning. A
10-cent box from your druggist means
healthy bowel action; clear head and
cheerfulnses for months. Don't forget
the children.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07

cination, or something along that or
der. He showed how free examina-
ton in an eastern city had put $4,000
children on the American Medical as
ISOLATION roll, and within two weeks
10000 parents had been visited by doc
tors stating that their children were
in dire need of medical attention.
"You see how it works." he said,
"but remember in this examination,
the recognized greatest diagnostician,
Richard Cabot, states voluntarily that
his diagnoses are only 81 per cent cor
rect. How much less chance has some
quack in your nefghborhood to tell
you offhand what you should do to
your child?"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07
Little Scraps Of Paper

By n. G. Abbott Of Eureka Springs
Ark
Little scraps of paper
Are thought by Kaiser Bill
OF no account whatever,
And he can think so still.
But when this war is settled
You bet your bottom dime
He'll not be asked to sign then
Nor any other time.
In settling with the kaiser,
1t would appear to me,
He should be given passage
To Washington, D. G.
And with his near relations
And that old "Hinderbug
Should each be given lodging
In a Washington stone jug.
And fed on bread and water
Until they're fairly meek,
Then chuck in some breadleSS days
About three times a week.
Their menu for the off days,
Lest they should get too fat,
Should be some scraps OF paper
To show them where they're at
N. G.. ABBOTT.
Eureka Springs, Ark.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07
LEGAL NOTICE

STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY
Court for Sank County. In Probate.
In the will of Theron Case, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That on the first Tuesday (being the
5th day. of March, 1918, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, at the courthouse in
the city of Baraboo, in said county,
there will be heard and considered:
The application of Nina G. Jones to
admit to probate the last will and tes-
lament of Theron Case, late of the
City of Baraboo, in said county, de.
ceased, and for letters testamentary
thereon to be issued to James H. Hill
And
On the first Tuesday (being the End
day. of July, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, at said courthouse, there
will be heard, considered and adjusted
all claims against said deceased. And
NOTICE is HEREBY FURTHER
GIVEN:
That the first Tuesday (being the
4th day. of June, 1918, is the time
fixed within which creditors of said
deceased may present their claims
TO said court, or be forever barred.
Dated January "a, 1918.
EsE BY thg Court,
w. T. KELSEY,
County Judge.
(First Publication Jan. 81, 1879
Bentley, Kelley & HILL, Attorneys
FOR notiti0ner