Williston graphic., 1918-05-23

! ton of lam for the wounded soldiers Of allies
! being the goal!
zone woman went through the county, speaking in
almost every town and village telling of the neen, read
no letters from France and appeals from workers in
hasa and field hospitals. Gallon tin secured
bv permission from the Government and distributed to
tho different towns from the Stamford Canning Kitch
| en- which became the center of the movement.
"The lam was made, rule in community kitch-
ems by the town Home Economics Committees, Suffrage
Leagues or local women organizations although there
were many cases of individual effort"
| G-R-A-P-H--C
WHEN THE ARIZONA FIRES BROADSIDE
Dr. George A. Dorsey in The New York Times
| Close proximity to turret salvo of 14-inch guns
aboard Uncle Sans latest superdreadnought Arizona,
is the most amazing and terrifying sensation have
J ever experienced. And l have experienced many
from being kicked by mule in Peru and scraped from
the back of runaway elephant in Assam to being lost
in snowstorm in the Andes at elevation of 1000
feet caught in storm in open fishing boat in the
North Pacific and shipwrecked in the South Pacific
and in the North Not one of the sensations from
| these holds candle to the one you get from close
range broadsde powerful battleship
The day set for broadside, before you are awake
in the morning, sailors enter your cabin close your
ports and screw them down. Mirrors apd pictures
the walls are taken down everywhere. Captain McDon
AIDS big cabin is devoid of wall decoration
the the canning tower. Even the vent
ators on the firing side unshipped. Searchlight
lenses and reectors high on the masts are lowered
to the deck and slowed below, lest they be smashed by
the conclusion of the guns Ladders and davs un
shipped and carried away. Nothing is left loose that
can be torn by violence from its moorings In spite
of all this broadsde is fired that doesn't crack
some headlight tear bolt loose from some hatch
During the first firing stood on top Of the coming
tower-that huge cheesebox tucked in behind the
ond turret and just in front Of the brdge-with walls
of solid steel, 10 inches thick The camera yank
ID fiohfo Anu 10
down the cold steel and wrapped myself around
the tripod. red flag is up-and we know that we
ION the range" and my breath comes shorter and
my heart beats faster, and bone in my body is
sensitive and every realizes that something is
about to happen.
We want tense alert, expectant! it seems ages.
Then the whistle blows. And while stop to draw
breath it is all over-after binding, terrifying over
wheming flash such eye could hold open upon,
and deafening that shakes the very marrow IN
your bones.
Then open my eyes. see three monstrous black
projectes roaring through the air. They go smashing
through the target torrent Of water shoots upward
and three shells 60 bounding along toward the
horizon like the shippers used to skip down on the
"creek."
myself because am still alive look tthe camera
man. There is sheepish grim on his face.
G-R-A-P-H-IC
OUTRAGES COMPRISE OUR COUNTRY
The New York World: Attorney General Gregorys
recent cdd"oss to committee Of the American Bar
associati tuororI tative delur ia ton Of law
les .: 1a..y syn. stl:zers. These outrages,
he poirt. IRE worse than criminal for they be-
lied the p,, 09c for which entered the war; but
put upon level with the desperadoes of autocracy,
and in stead of helping forces in the field exposed
them, capture, to reprisals.
In the of his speech he intimated that Ger
many already had under consideration the case OF
Prayer, who was killed by southern Illinois mob
few weeks ago. Thus the wicked folly Of a few IT.
responsbles in country town enables an outlaw gov
eminent which lynched Belgium, Serbia, Rumania and
Armenia and has the with innocent victims,
to present just grievance Already Berlin news
paper, long defender Of and pilage, makes
bold to address US in terms Of injury.
The president has spoken emphatcally on this sub
ject to the people At large, but Mr. Gregory appeals
from directly to members Of the legal profession, who
in most communities in . position to discourage
manifestations Of the mob spirit Hs assurance that
with laws the department Of justice il equipped
deal vigorously with sedition, and will do re-
moves the last poor anybody has offered for
lawlessness:
G-R-A-P-H-IC
SOME LIBERTY LOAN PURCHASES
1t is estimated that the Americans Of foreign birth
or extraction purchased Of the Third Lib
erty Loan the number Of such bond buyers is esti
| mated at 100000
| consular telegram from Shanghai China, states
that subscriptions the Third Liberty Loan in Shang
| hal amounted to over 100000.
The American Embassy in Mexico City states that
the subscriptions in that city than 1884 OOO
more than double the quota set for the Americans v
ing there.
The Shah of Persia purchased a 100000 liberty
] bond.