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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Six Men seriously Injured in
Tragedy That Ends -Expedi- ::
, ton Into Cherokee County in
Search of DeSerterS
BY WARD MoREHcUsE

The expedition into Cherokee county
which was made by fifty picked men
from Camp Gordon in cooperation with
the United States government authori-
ties, to roundup several seIective
service law resisters and arrest
number of alleged deserters IN
the county, came to a tragic conclusion
at lis o'clock Sunday afternoon when
an army truck, loaded with soldiers and
supplies. dropped through Steele's
bridge into the Etowah river, killing
three men, seriously injuring six, and
injuring several others. The scene of
the accident was eight miles from Can
ton, the county seat of Cherokee county
Those killed in the accident were:
SERGEANT ABE L. MARQUESEE,
of Syracuse. N y.
= CORPORAL SAM F. SMITH, Charles
town, Mass.
PRIVATE ERNEST RHINEsMITH
Englewood, y. j.
The six men seriously hurt, and who
are now at the cantonment hospital at
Camp Gordon, are:
Harold II. Secor, Watertown, y. Y.
Alfred Trip, Richmondsville, n. Y.
Sergeant Harold Burton, Elizabeth.
New Jersey.
Charles j. Kennedy, Troy, n. Y.
A. g. johnson, NOrcross, Ga
Corporal George w. Schmidt. New
York.
others injured were Corporal Edwin
+. Brindley, William S. Ormerod, Fall
River, Mass; Sergeant Samuel S. Miller,
Denver. Col; Hugh J. Fitzpatrick, Wal
than, Mass. The injuries of the latter
four consisted mostly of bruises.
Men From East
With few exception, all of the men
who were picked for the expedition were
fasteners, having been. at the canton
ment since last fall. They came to Camp
Gordon from Camp Dix and Camp Dew
ems. Every one Of the fifty men was
selected from the depot brigade, and
were considered to be among the best
soldiers in camp.
The fatal accident occurred several
hours after the party left Woodstock
en- route to another spot in the county,
where. it had been reported, a moonshine
still was to be found and a number Of
selective service resisters were hiding.
There were four automobiles and two
trucks in the procession when Steele's
bridge was reached. Three trucks had
been brought along, but one of them had
been left behind to pick up a soldier
who lost himself in the mountains near
Alabama road. The leading automobile
was occupied by revenue agents, and be
hind il came the machine of Howell
jackson, of the department of justice
With him were Major Joel B. Mallett
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
AMERICAN TROOPS WILL
co TO THE AID OF ITALY
Washington Is Well Pleased
With Defense Being Made
Against AuStrianS

WASHINGTON, June 17.-American
troop aid for Italy will be forthcoming
soon
With the Austrian offensive under
way, this fact developed today. In line
with the pledges of President Wilson
and Secretary Baker, United States
forces will take their places along with
the Italians and other allies. They Will
not be vast in numbers; their purpose is
to show Italy, concretely, that the Unit
de States is backing her. American avl-
ators and forces of other kinds have
been in Italy for some time, but there
has not yet been any announcement of
United States soldiers in the Italian
trenches.
The initial stages of the offensive
caused no undue alarm here today.
The Italian embassay's first messages
indicated that, while the Austrians had
made some progress, the counter attacks
had developed quickly and satisfactorily.
1t was deemed too early, though, to make
very definite predictions as to obJec-
tiveS or outcome.
The Enthusiastically reassuring thing
about the struggle thus far was the
splendid resistance of Italians and Brit
isb There will be no great yielding
such as accompanied the previous leu
ton smash. it is felt. italian authorities
said that quite naturally an offensive
force would gain for a time, but they
forecast that this drive will be stopped
in a reasonably short time.
The Italian morale is satisfactory. In
fusion of British and French; and the
promise of early American troop par
ticipation have had stimulating effects
Authorities here differ as to the COM
pelIing causes of the new offensive. The
first conclusion in many quarters was
that unrest in Austria forced the war
lords to strike blow which might give
them grounds for talking successes to
their peoples and promising early and
victorious conclusion of the war. Other
quarters believed that much of the I'M
rest talk of late is part of the propa-
ganda offensive which has preceded all
military efforts. 1t was pointed out that
similar talk of revolution and disorder
has been heard many times before. It's
purpose is considered to be that of con-
vincing the enemy that he ought to re-
lax his watchfulness in view of Teu-
ton weakness"
Military men say. too, that the Teu-
ton directors of this new offensive I'M
doubtedly are striving to cause diver
sion from the west front Italy, how
ever, has sufficient manpOwer, it is
said, so that more troops are not needed
now.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Wood Is Reassigned
To Camp Funston

WASHINGTON, June 17.-JRevoca-
ton OF orders assigning Major General
Leonard Wood TO command the western
department and rcassignment Of the
general 20 Camp Funston, Kan, was an
nounced today by the war department.
When General Wood recently was
withdrawn from the division that he
had trained at Camp Funston, on the
eve of its departure for France, he urged
strongly that he be given some more ac-
tive duty than he would find as depart
mental commander.
No explanation accompanied brief
announcement by the adjutant general
that the assignment had been changed.
There have been limitations that the
war department contemplates giving
General Wood some special assignment
of great importance. and that he goes TO
Camp Funston only temporarily until
the plan can be worked out.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Three Gordon Soldiers Killed
As Big Armoy Truck PlUnges
Through EtoWah Rlver Bridge

officer in charge of the selective service
law for Georgia, and representatives of
the marShaHS office. Directly behind
this car crept the car of First Lieuten-
ant Mark o Kimberling, commanding
| the Camp Gordon troops. With him were
First Lieutenant L. NJ. Blenner, second
in command; Tracy Mathewson, newspa-
per photographer and motion picture
man, and The Journal correspondent
These three machines crossed the bridge
safely.
A Scene OF Horror
Just after the car of the command
| ing officers passed over the bridge,
Lieutenants Kimberling and Blenner de-
cided to wait for the two trucks to
catch up. The trucks had found some
! of the Cherokee hills hard to climb, and
| progress was slow. AS the first truck
disappeared through the bridge, which
| is an inclosed, tunnel-shaped affair, fifty
! feet above the water, it was hidden by
a cloud of dust. The next time it was
seen it was lying upside down in the
Etowah river, with the soldiers pinned
beneath it, Lieutenants Kimberling and
Blenner rushed to the scene and worked
! heroically to aid the victims. Ten sec
onds after the heavy truck had crashed
through the wooden structure the scene
was one of borrow. The uniformed men
were writhing and Laundering in the
yellow, muddy water, those who had
been pinned beneath the huge vehicle
were moaning and grooming and the wa
ter became crimson
Battle With Death
The truck fell after it had. gone about
twenty feet from the entrance, the rear
end crashing through first. AS it plunged
downward it turned upside down and
there was a wild scrambling of men as
the soldiers realized what had occurred.
Some chung to the sides of the bridge.
others jumped to safety and others, less
fortunate fell beneath the vehicle and
were killed.
The second truck was just a short
distance behind the first truck. With
a throbbing engine. thus truck was wait
2 for the nrst to pass across the
stream. When the first vehicle tore
through the boards of the structure into
/ the yellow stream below, the men on
the second truck slid down the slip
merry banks into the water and began
to battle with death.
II was Just that-nothing more. The
men of the second truck found them
selves in n mass of floundering, strang-
ling victims. most of whom seemed to
be dying. working feverishly and with
all possible speed, they dragged the vic
TINS from the water to the Shiny shore
where soldiers formed a human rope
and pulled the sufferers to the top of
the bank, which was a distance of at
least forty or fifty feet.
Heroic Rescue Work
Had il not been for the heroic work
of the rescuers others would have died
During the entire scene, as the men
were bearing bruised bodies to the
bank, Corporal Schmidt, who is perhaps
the most seriously injured of all those
who did not die, was moaning, please
kill me, boys, please kill me. Put me
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Work or Fight Order
Not Modified-OfficiaI

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Persistent
reports that the provost marshal gem
erals Office has decided that the work
or fight" regulations shall not be al
lowed to intefere with major league
baseball players this season led TO an
authoritative statement today that no
ruling on the subject had been made. 1t
was stated that Provost Marshal Cen
cral Crowder adhered to his original an
nounccment that the question would be
passed upon by the president in the
regular way when the occasion arises
on an appeal from a local boards deCi-
sion. The work or fight" order be-
comes effective July l.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
NEW ARMY AGE
BILL MAY PASS
AT. THIS SESSION
General CroWder viii Lay Be-
fore Congress Plan to Extend
Age From Eighteen to Forty
five Years

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Provost
Marshal General Crowder will lay be-
fore congress-probably at this session
suggestions for legislation widening
the scope of the present army law to
include men over thirty-one years of
age.
Following communication between
General Crowder and Secretary Baker,
it was learned today, the secretary sug-
gested that General Crowder explain
the situation to the congressional mill
tary committees and make such recon-
mendations as he saw fit General
Crowder did this Saturday.
Secretary Baker will not oppose extern
sion of the age limits The new legis-
lation which may now come up this
session as an amendment to the army
appropriation bill is expected oinclude
men between the ages of Is or q and
As years.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
u. S. Troop Arrivals
Eclipse All Records

LONDON, June 17.-"Arrivals of
American troops in the past few days
have eclipsed all records" the Post de-
clared today.
Considered purely as a shipping feat,
it is something hitherto never accom-
plished in maritime annals. Weekend
scenes at one army post were amaz-
ing"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Stuart on Board

WASHINGTON, June 1t.-Henry Z.
Stuart former governor of Virginia. and
a large live stock producer in the south
west, will hereafter represent the de-
partment of agriculture on the war in
dustries board, the department of agri-
culture announced today.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Two Norwegian Ships
Sunk Off u. S. Coast

WASHINGTON, June 1.-Two more
ships, both Norwegian, have been sunk
off the Virginia capes by the German
raiders which have been off the At
lantic coast for three weeks. The latest
vessels lost were the sailing ship
Kringsjac and the bark Samoa. These
brings the total of victims to twenty.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
Would Call All Men
In the Military Age

WASHINGTON, June Unanimous
approval of the house provision author
izing the president to call all men Of
military age who can be trained and
equipped was voted by the military sub
committee considering the appropriation
bill.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18

ment of which was permitted Saturday
night--tney repulscd a German raid Fri
day morning. Only one American was
captured and the enemy suffered severe
casualties.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18


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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
Household Management

In the task ahead of us of pro-
ducing and using foodstuffs so as
best to conserve health and mater
ials, this country needs the help of
the humblest householders. But how
is that help to be enlisted? Every
one who goes in and out of small
income homes on any social service
errand can repeat the message. 1t
muse be clearly prepared, however,
in advance. Florence Nesbitt does
this very thing with telling force and
a wealth of practical illustrations in
a small book of attractive appear
ance entitled Household Manage
ment, just issued by the Russell Sage
Foundation (cloth, 172 pages, price
rs cents). This is the second vol
ume in their new Social Work Series,
edited by Mary e. Richmond.
There are many books on the gen.
eral subject of homemaking, but
none like this one, which is written
from intimate knowledge of the
drawbacks and Inconvenience of
housekeeping in cramped quarters
and with cramped means. Those
who are far removed from depend
ence can take this little volumes s
lessons to heart. but to the social
worker, the Red Cross visitor, the
public health nurse, or any volunteer
visitor in city neighborhoods, it will
be indispensable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22

to vote may exercise that privilege
without hindrance from local legis-
lation.
The number of States where
voters of undoubted right are pre-
vented from exercising the franchise
which Congress has granted them
and which has been confirmed to
them by Constitutional amendment
is as large as the number of States
where partly naturalized aliens are
permitted to vote; and the number
of voters who are not permitted to
go to the polls probably exceeds by
far the number of aliens who vote.
We refer, of course, to the negro
ingenious local legislation has sue
ceeded in multiplying provisions Of
the Constitutions; and we hope that
Mr.. Floods bill will pass and that
it will be amended so as to correct
ell the evils which local legislation
has thrust upon the ballot in any
State. Northern Republicans in
Congress should join with the emil
nent Southern Democrat who has
opened this subject for discussion
and they should help him take the
ballot away from men who are not
entitled to it; while he should help
them restore the ballot to men whose
privilege it is to have it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
FARMERS AND POTATOES
INC Editor of He Telcgrdph:

10 the Editor of the Telegraph:
We see so much about conserving
food andiwe farmers have been
wondering why there is no govern
ment agent buying the potatoes at a
hvlng price and shipping them to
the Allies. Here is my experience
in the potato proposition: 1 paid
four dollars per bushel for my seed,
potatoes, and went to extra efforts
to get a good crop. 1 ran short of
help and left the weeds and tubers
grow together, and so got about one
fourth my crop. 1 offered three
dollars and board for help to
take them out in the fall, but
failed to get the help, so had to get
them out as best L could. without
help. With the ground freezing at
night we hustled them into the cell
lar. L had no time to even think
about selling them, although I'd
nave been very glad to do so. There
was no one who seemed to want to
buy potatoes so l waited, as thous-
ands of other farmers did, and am
still waiting until the government
puyS lHef. VIII the government
buy them or will we throw them
out? And if we cannot sell them,
will the farmers raise more? Would
you?
VIII potatoes be cheap next fall?
If they are scarce will you blame
the farmer? These are vital ques-
tions. Suffice it to say, the farmers
are getting a slap, the sting of which
Will be felt for some time to come.
One thing is sure, the potato ques-
ton does not seem to be in the line
of food conservation" Are potatoes
not food? The farmers are paying
$3.50 hundred for COW feed. What
pity potatoes are not good for
COWS. Will some one please say
what we should have done instead of
what we did?
U. G. LEEDY,
f.. MELVILLE .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
DOLLARS OR BUSHELS

Secretary Houston, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has called my
attention to how we all are fooling
ourselves to-day. The newspapers
are boasting that the corn crop is
the greatest in history. when in
bushels it is less than in 1915. The
South think they are rolling in
wealth, when in bales it's cotton crop
is less than in 1915. Paper prices
are no good. It's more bushels and
bales that we need in order to reduce
the cost of living.
Some people pretend that our ma
tional debt is small by comparing it
to the crops. What is $20,000,000,-
000," they say, why, that is less
than the value of one single crop of
the farms of America!" This is true;
but we eat up most of these crops in
a year, while the debt remains with
us-S200 for every man. woman, and
child in the United States.
AS the farmers are fooling them
selves by thinking of prices and dol
lars, instead of bushels and bales, so
industry is fooling itself by looking
to profits and wages instead of pro-
duction and saving.
The ending of this war and our
future prosperity after the war de-
pends upon producing more and
wasting less. Only in this way can
Kaiser Bill be put out of business
and will the workers of America
come to their own.-Roger w. Bab-
GOn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT

We are waiting to hear Germany
say that she invaded Russia to pro-
tect the Bolsheviki from Japan
st. Louis Star.
The Germans continue to indicate
that in their opinion lootless peace
would be bootless peace.-Omaha
World-Herald.
In the saving of daylight we can
set the clocks ahead, but what are
we going to do with the sun-dials?-
Arkansas Gazette.
1t has long ceased to be remark
able that so small a country as Japan
could be victorious over so big a
country as Russia. - Washington
Star.
Investor Hohenzollern, Emperor
and King, purchases five million dol
lars worth more of Krupp securi-
ties. Who wants war?-Wall Street
Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
Little minds are tanned and sub
dued by misfortune but great minds
rise above h-WAsHINGToN IRVING.
COMMUNITY SINGING

T T GOES without saying that DR..
John c. Freund, editor of Mu-
sical America ard Music Trades
and president of the Musical AL
lance, will be given a great recep-
tion when he comes to Harrisburg
during the three days of the city's
initial community singing festival
the first week of April. Community
singing is sweeping the country. 1t
is recreational and elevating. 1t
has been very helpful in cementing
community ties and drawing the
people more closely together in
many cities, and doubtless it will
have that result here.
Some writer's deplore the growth
of community singing at the expense
of the choral societies that f1ourished
here and in countless cities the
country over for many years, but
there is really very little justification
for such misgivings The COM
munity chorus is merely the primary
class from which the more talented
oll6Clo SllO6lb bS 1ItO TIE
more advanced music of the choral
societies and kindred bodies. So
far from being a demeaning in
fuence, community song should be
distinctly the opposite. Thousands
upon thousands of people who could
not meet the requirements of a
choral or concert society would
readily take part in community sing
ing. In that way scores and hun
dreds would find themselves" and
be led to the serious study of music
and the development of voices they
had not previously realized they pos
sessed.
But that is only one phase of
community song. The greater bene-
fit lies in bringing the people to-
gether to sing. Band concerts are
all very well, in their way-enter-
tanning, elevating and educational,
but merely listening to music can
not have the inspirational effect
upon the individual that participa-
ton by the very nature of the case
must have.
The Telegraph believes that COM
munity singing will do much for
Harrisburg. 1t has offered to bear
the expenses of band at Reservoir
Park next summer to lead one of
the open-air concerts that are being
planned. 1t renews that proffer and
promises whatever support it can
give to make the coming festival an
unqualified success. Those who are
supporting the movement are en-
titled to whole-hearted assistance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
HunnishneSS of the Hun

1t is now and then worth while to
recall a bit of history, to point a
present moral. We now and then
meet with someone, good, easy
man." who is so forgetful of the
not distant past that he regards the
present perversity of Germany as
quite a new thing, and the moral
degeneracy of William the Damned
as an unprecedented phenomenon;
and without being unduly pessimistic
we are inclined to fear that great
many of our complacent and more
or less oblivious fellow citizens cher
ish that some delusion; the fact be-
ing that the turpitude Of the Kaiser
and his Huns in our day is nothing
but the logical and consistent cul-
mination of a policy which had its
origin at least as far back as that
Great Frederick who, with his
grandfather and himself constitutes
the trinity of the Kaisers alteration.
North American Review.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
PERFECTING FLOOD BILL

II REPRESENTATIVE FLOOD, of
X. Virginia, has introduced a bill
in Congress which looks to-
ward depriving aliens of the right
to vote, which they now possess in
certain states in virtue of local leg
islation. There are ten such States;
and in them the possession of first
papers only is sufficient to enable
a prospective citizen-though he is.
in reality, an alien-to take part
in elections. Mr.. Floods bill, of
course, cannot curtail this right, so
far as it relates to voting for State
officers, and it will apply only to
the right to vote for Senators and
Representatives in Congress, and for
electors of President and Vice
President. The proposal is, of
course, eminently proper. The
right of franchise should be granted
only to full-fledged American citi-
zens who owe no divided allegiance.
But Mr.. Floods bill does not go
far enough. It is not sufficient for
the protection of the ballot in Con-
gressional elections that the right
to vote should be withdrawn from
those who have no clear title to
it. If the ballot is to be safeguarded
by Federal statute. proposed by a
Southern member of Congress. so as
to take the vote away from those
who are not fully entitled to 1t, there
should be provision made also to
ensure that those who are entitled
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-22
Over tie 1oh
;~ Pex~a.

Most men do not regard marri-
age seriously" says Professor Elkus.
He might change his mind, if he put
a day in the divorce court of Dau-
phin county.
Your modern schoolboy is as
smart as the grown man of a few
years ago. Asked who was the
first man" by his school teacher a
lad in a western Pennsylvania school
insisted that it was George Wash
lngton. TRY to get this once for
all' rasped the teacher. adam was
the first man." "Oh, you're talk
in about foreigners" grinned Ros-
coe.
We have some slight suspicion
about the genuineness of this COM
munication, although the hand writ
ing indicates sincerity. Dear edi-
tor" asks a love-lorn youth "please
tell me why girl always closes her
eyes when a fellow kisses her" One
could, no doubt, answer this at
length, but the quickest way would
be to get a peek at the guys photo
graph.
If all the hot air wasted over
telephones was done away with,
there would be time saved to raise
an additional billion bushels of po-
tatoes in the Keystone State alone.