Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-12
CANADIAN ARMY
 OFFICER TELLS
 0f WAR IN WEST Lieut.. J. D. Sharman Gives Rotarians Vision of Sol
 dier's Work.
ROTARY CLUB NAMES FOUR NEW DIRECTORS
Five Members of the Board R".EIrct. ed for the Next Ycar-Capt, A. T. Flagaler of T.. $. Army
 Among the Guests, 2

Lieut.. J. D. Sharman of the Cana alan army, who spent three years on the lighting front in France, eraphi- cally described what the war means to the soldier lover there" in an ad- dress before the Rotary club at the Hotel Pines yesterday at noon. He sald that after a man has gone out in to No Mans Land, seen half of his comrades drop, used the clothing from the dead, their rations, their ammuni- tons, and then, when finally relieved. mas gone out on all fours because he's too tired to walk upright like a man, and has met among the relief soldiers wearing two, three and four gold stripes, indicating that have been wounded as many times, all the man hood Ill that creeping soldier is arous- ed, and he is better soldier and a better man. Lieutenant Sharman. who came to Pine Bluff to speak at the chautauqua last night, gave his hearers a better realization of what the war means, and what effect it will have than any speaker who has ap- peared before the club. He declared peace cannot come until the forces of
 
 flict with all those of America and other democracies, had been crushed and declared that the time is near when 'the line will be drawn between men who did their duty and when who did not He said the soldier does not want sympathy; that what he wants is to know that he is not going to be without shells, without guns, with out food, and without medical atten- tlon-in other words, that the people at home are going tos tand by him as he is standing by them
 Capt. A. T. FagaIer, who will be in charge of the physical welfare of the l24 colored men to be trained at the Branch normal here, was another guest at the meeting. Captain Flagal- CT found an old friend here, in the peson of Dr. E. c. McMullen, county health officer and member of selective board No. 3. The captain said he had been in Pine Bluff but a few hours, but had seen enough to make him feel that he is going to like the place and the people.
 New Directors Named
 Four new directors were named in the election of nine for the ensuing year. The new members of the board are George H. Adams, T. J. Collier, H. c. Cough and Dr. J. I. Norris. The directors reelected are Leo M And rews, A. D. Foster, Sam B. Russell H.. Kemp Toney and Sol Klarberg. The officers are to meet within a week and elect 9 president vice president. treasurer, secretary and sergeant-at- arms.
 Sam B. Russell, vice president, had charge of the meeting l nthe absence of H. K. Toney, president, who is in Pennsylvania. MT. Russell called on Mir. Klarberg to preside at one time, and the latter took accosian to eX- tend thanks to Mrs. Walter Wilkins, Jr. for the manner win which she had arranged for the decorators of the Hotel Pines dining room at the editors dinner the preceding evening. Walter J. Wilkins and Roy M Kemp were the committee on decorations. Mrs. Wilkins, who was anon g the guests, responded briefly saying she was glad to help the Rotarians.
 State Fuel Administrator H. c. Couch called attention to the predict ed shortage of 100000,000 tons of coal; declared this quantity could not be mined, and that it will he neces- sary to save coal that the ''boys over there" are supplied, because c2al is required for the warships and trans ports. He urged that people of this section use wood instead of coal, and that they lay in their winter supply now.
 Other guests at the meeting includ- ed Gus Remmel of Little Rock, Oli- yer Cook, general superintendent of the Redpath-Horner chautauqua sys- tenn; N. R. Patterson of St. Louis Tracy Mills, Brooks Fletcher, editor and lecturer of Ohio, Frank Loda of Camden, travelling with Lieutenant Shaman, and Albert Klarberg, who will soon enter the United States ar