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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
TO HAVE MILITARY INIT

. Need of specialized training for
prospective soldiers is being empha-
sized by the government, and young
men are being urged to attend col
lege and join military units.
Details of the new plan are set
forth by Newton D. Baker, secre-
tary of war, and H. P. Mccain, adj
iutant general in communications re-
oeiled at o, A. c., where a military
unit will be established next fall.
The plan, according to details re-
ceived from II. p. Mccain, adiutant
general, calls for approximately $50
hours of military work each year on
the basis of 93 weeks for the acad-
omc year and siv weeks camp.
1T is expected" he said, that
this will qualify considerable per-
centage of the students to enter Of
ficers' training camps on being call
ed to the colors, and large percent
age of the remainder to serve al
Eoncommissioned officers. The num-
her to be certified for training as
officers from any institution will not
be based on an arbitrary percentage
1t will depend on the quality of the
men developed at that institution and
the necessities of the service at the
time
Not only will there be at least
three army officers in charge of the
training of the members of the mill
tary unit at the o. A. c., but the
six or seven officers of the detach-
ment of soldiers receiving training
in mechanics and military tactics
viii be available for this work. Mem
lers of the unit will drill while the
detachment soldiers are receiving
mechanical instruction, and thus the
military officers will be released for
additional duties.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22

ertion of thinking. He was watch
ing with eyes and ears and imagina-
ton, hoping to anticipate by a sec
ond or two the dread something
that he felt was sure to happen soon
in the mist of No Mans Land. He
thought Of throwing stone out into
the blackness, just to see what would
happen. Then he began to wish for
his boyhood slingshot, so that he
could catapult a nice round stone
right across the blackness into the
German line
"a little wind blew in the night,
too cold for the time of year, 1t
made for a moment lane in the
mist over No Mans Land. Cheeser
peered into it, but the mist closed
ground again. No, the night seemed
to say, you can't guess my secret. >
and the awesome hush intensified.
What are they up to now? thought
the sentry, What are those crafty en-
emies planning in all those miles of
silence?
Even the very lights were few
and far between. When one went
up, far hills Of shadow>seemed to sit
and brood over the valley; black
shapes grew up and vanished in the
shadow. The rocket faded and the
hills went back into mystery again,
and Cheeser still peered level over
the ominous valley.
"All the dangers and sinister
shapes and evil destinies that the
sentry faced that night cannot be
pictured or described in mere words.
1t was only two hours that he stood
there, and not shell fell in all
that time, not a German stirred.
1T is a weird and awful experience
that first night in the trenches. The
next time it is an easy matter"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
RESOURCES OF POWERS
ENGAGED IN CONFLICT

The entente excluding Rus
sic and including only those British
dominions which are self-governing,
and only the United States proper
Lave 100000 square miles of ter
ritory, SO3, 100000 people and S4S5,-
OCG, 100000 of national wealth.
The central powers have 1,25O,OOO
square miles of territory, 147,OOO'-
900 people, and $1S4,OOO,OOO, 900 of
national wealth.
The entente owe an aggregate debt
of S69,OOO,OOO,OOO, which is about
II per cent of their total assets. The
central powers owe 7OOO,OOO,OOO,
CT 2S per cent of their national
wealth.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
Is 1T WORTH WHILE
TO CONSERVE FOoD9

One of the first question facing
& woman who is running a home Is
is food conservation worth while?
Before giving the answer let 1t be
ssked, rs the saving of human lives
worth while?
If it is, then food conservation is
worth while; for the program of the
u. s. food administration for saving
food in American kitchens is the only
way to save the lives of millions of
people in Europe who might other
wise die of starvation.
Isn't this reason enough to put
aside everything else we are doing
at present, if it be necessary, rather
than to say, "No, | cant follow the
program of the food administration.
am too busy
Just half million more people
Lave died in the European countries
from starvation and famine in this
war than have been killed on the
attlefelds.
Is food saving worth while?
Dhonn Joh o,dorc 80 thn TIJIn ou
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
THE FIRST NIGHT IN
FRONT LINE TRENCH

What will be the first night in the
trenches be, is question that thous-
ands of American soldiers have faced
perhaps with some misgivings, GER
tainly with lively anticipation. The
experience OF many of them must be
like that of a British plow boy sol
der described by Lord Dunsany,
captain Of the Inniskilling fusiliers.
"a mans first night in the front
lines is an epoch making experience, "
he writes. 1T is like a mans first
vote, or his 21st birthday, it is a
milestone in his life, making the
change from the mimic warfare be-
hind the lines to the grim realities OF
actual conflict.
Perhaps | can best explain how
this experience affects soldier bv
telling you the story of recruits
first night in the trenches. Dick
Cheeser, one Of my men, was a plow
boy just past is when he enlisted,
and not yet 19 when he went on his
first sentry go in the front line.
1T was a quiet night, and dawn
was only an hour or so distant when
Cheeser took his post. The corporal
told him where to stand, warned him
TO keep a good lookout, and left him.
There was Dick Cheeser, alone in
TIE dark, with an army in front OF
him, so yards away, a resourceful,
crafty and desperate enemy. The
stiffness of the night only added 10
Cheesers feeling of responsibility.
The stiffness awed him. There had
not been a shell all night. He put his
head over the parapet gingerly and
waited. Nobody fired at him. He
felt somehow that the night was
waiting for him, that something un-
canny and unexpected would happen
soon. He heard voices in com
munication trench somewhere behind
Lin; there were a few sentences of
gruff, unintelligible conversation;
the voices died away. There was a
long silence. Cheeser fell to wonder
ing whether the night was black or
gray; he stared hard at the night TO
study it exact color; the night stared
lack at him; it was gray. gray and
artful, like cat or a fox.
"It was uncanny, thought Cheeser.
If shells would come, or Germans, or
anything at all, you would know
how to take it; but this deathly quiet
like mist over huge valley! Any
thing might happen. Cheeser waited
and waited and the night waited, too.
He felt that they were watching each
other, the night and he, both crouch
ing, ready to spring.
His mind grew so active that his
head throbbed with the physical ex-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
FIRST NEW LOCOMOTICE
IN SERVICE ON b. & o.

The first one or the railroad loco
motives recently ordered by Director
General of Railroads w. g., McAdoo
was completed and delivered on July
/, and on July 4 was placed in sery-
Ice on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road.
This engine is of the Mikado type,
with ~ wheels, including eight drlv-
iag wheels. The engine and tender
weigh 231 tons and are capable OF
hauling on a grade of two-thirds Of
one per cent IS cars, average load
ing. These locomotives have three
times the capacity of the locomotives
which was in common use in the ear
ly 90's.
The contracts for these locomo-
tives were let under date of April
20, 1918, and provide for the de-
livery of the entire order before the
close of this year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22
INTERURBAN AUroCAR co.

Leave Ashland for Medford, Tai
ent and Phoenix daily except Sunday
at 900 a. m. and IL a. m, and 100,
400 and 5:15 p. m. Also on Satur-
day night at 6:30. Sundays, leave
at 900 a. M, 1880, 4:30 and $50
i. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland daily
except Sunday at 500 and 10 a, m.
and 100. 400 and Sis p. m. Also
on Saturday night at 1915. On Sum
days 1890 a. M, 1880, $3.50 and
$50 p. III.
Fare between Medford and Ash
land, 80 cents. Round trip so cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-22

Cid papers for sale at Tidings Of
flee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-03-05
. pier anil dtsemYsrksd. I had a..

a pier anil dtsemYarked. I had at.
tanned another one Of my ambitions.
I was Somewhere in France" We
slept in the open that night on the side
ct the road. About six the next morn
ing we We're ordered to entrain. 7
locked around for the passenger
coaches, but all could see on the sid
ing were cattle cars. We climbed ints
these. On the side Of each car was
q sign reading "Honmes 40, Chevsasx
L" When We got inside Of the cars,
~ thought that perhaps the sign
painter had reversed the order Il
things. After 4e'hours in these trucks
We detrained at Rouen. At this place
we went through an intensive training
for ten days.
The training consisted Of the rudi-
ments Of trench warfare. Trenches
had been dug, with barbed wire en-
tanElements, bombing saps, dugouts,
observation posts and machine gun en-
placements. We were given smat-
tering of trench cooking, sanitation,
bomb throwing, accommodating, listen
Ing posts, constructing and repairing
barbed wire, carrying in" parties,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-03-05
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sIuIces of the system each
morning and wash away the ,
poisonous, stagnant matter.

Those of us who. are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stuffy from cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid
stomach, lame back, can, instead,
both look and feel as fresh as daisy
always by washing the poisons and
toxins from the body with phosphated
hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a glass Of real hot water with a tea
spoonful Of limestone phosphate in
it to flush from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous days indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
Ing, sweetening and purifying the
entire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. 1t cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one
splendid appetite for breakfast and
1t Is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin II appear in the
cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone
phosphate will cost very little at the
drug store, but Is sufficient to make
anyone who Is bothered with bilious
ness, constipation, stomach trouble or
rheumatism a real enthusiast on the
subject Of internal sanitation Try
1t and you are assured that you will
look better and feel better In every
way shortly.
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came four thousand miles from Ogden,
Utah, Just outside Of New York, to
fight for your king and country. Don't
be Stacker, buck up and get into uni
form; come over to the recruiting Of
fee and I'll have you. enlisted
He yawned and answered, II don't
care if you came forty thousand miles,
no one asked you to-" and he walked
on. The girl gave me a sneering look; !;
I was speechless. $685.. g.
recruited for three weeks and near
" got one recruit.
This perhaps was not the greatest
stunt In the world, but it got back at
the officer who had told me, Eyes, we
take anything over here" I had been
spending a good lot Of my recruiting
time in the saloon bar Of the Wheat
Sheaf pub (there was very attractive
blonde barmaid, who helped kill time
I was not as serious in those days as
was q little later when reached
the front)-well, it was the sixth day
and my recruiting report was blank.
was getting low in the pocket-bar-
maids haven't much use for anyone
who cannot buy drinks-so 1 looked
around for recruiting material. You
know q man on recruiting service gets
''bob' or shilling for every recruit
he entices into joining the army, the
recruit is supposed to get this, but ne
would not be a recruit If he were wise
to this fact, would he?
Down at the end Of the bar was a
young fellow in mufti who was very
patr.otic-he had about four "Old
Six" ales aboard. He asked me If he
could join, showed me his left hand,
two fingers were missing, but I said
that did not matter as "we take any
thing over here" The left hand is
the rife hand as the piece is carried
at the slope on the left shoulder. Near
ly everything in England is "by the
left" even general traffic keeps to the
port side.
took the applicant over to head
quarters, where he was hurriedly e1-
amined. Recruiting surgeons were
busy in those days and did not have
much time for thorough physical exam
nations. My recruit was passed as
'fit" by the doctor and turned over to
q corporal to make note of his scars.
was mystified. Suddenly the corpo-
raj burst out with, "Blime me, two Of
his fingers are gone" Turning to me
he said, "You certainly have your
nerve with you, not 'alf you amt, to
bring this beggar in"
The doctor came over and exploded,
"What do you mean by bringing in
man in this condition."
Looking out of the corner Of my eye
h. I noticed that the officer who had re-
cruited me had joined the group, and
could not help answering, swell, sir,
was told that you took anything over
here"
1 think they called it yankee i'm
pudence," anyhow it ended my recruit
Ing.
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enlisted. Why don't you join? Now

enlisted. Why don't you join? Now
Is the time
"This argument ought to get many
recruits, Empey, so 60 out and see
what you can do"
He then gave me small rosette OF
red, white and blue ribbon, with three
little streamers hanging down. This
was the recruiting insignia and was
to be worn on the left side Of the cap.
Armed with a swagger stick and my
patriotic rosette, I went out into Tot
tenham Court road in quest of cannon
fodder.
Two or three poorly dressed civil
ians passed me, and although they ap-
peared physically fit, I said to myself,
'They don't want to join the army;
perhaps they have someone dependent
on them for support" so I did not ac-
cost them.
Coming down the street I saw a
young dandy, top hat and all, with a
fashionably dressed girl walking be-
side him. I muttered, "You are my
meat" and when he came abreast Of
me stepped directly in his path and
stopped him with my swagger stick,
saying:
"You would look fine In khaki; why
not change that top hat for a steel
helmet? Aren't you ashamed of your
self, husky young chap like you in
mufti when men are needed in the
trenches? Here I am, IN American,
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iesk. I Immediately followed
ION BY throwing the kilograms
wastebasket. Then we looked
other in silence. He was
4g In his chair and I felt de-
and uneasy.
lephone rang and I answered
as a business call for me, re-
my services for an out-of-
kignment. Business was not
]. 50 this was very welcome.
tening to the proposition I
D be swayed by a peculiarly
zee within me, and answered,
ny that I cannot accept your
! am leaving for England
k," and hung up the receiver.
enant swung around in his
stared at me in blank aston
A sinking sensation came
but I defiantly answered his
"Well, It's SO. I'm going" "
ht.
b across was uneventful. I
Tilbury, England, then got
ring Of matchbox cars and
to London, arriving there
m. I Itooka room In a hotel
ancras station for "ave and
Itra." The room was minus
but the extra" seemed to
karm. That night there was
raid, but I didn't see much
use the slit In the curtains
hall and I had no desire to
ger. Next morning the tel
rang, and someone asked,
here?" I was, hardly. Any
med that the Zeps had re-
their fatherland, so I went
be street expecting to see
wful devastation and q cow
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CHAPTER II.
BIiqhty to Rest Billets.

The next morning the captain sent
for me and informed me: "Empey, as
a recruiting sergeant you are a wash
out" and sent me to training depot
After arriving at this place, was
hustled to the quartermaSter stores
and received an awful shock. The
uuartermaster sergeant spread a wa
terproof sheet On the ground and conf
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-03-05

methods used In attack and defense,
wiring parties, mass formation, and
the procedure for poison-gas attacks.
On the tenth day we again met our
friends "Hommesf 40, Cheveaux g."
Thirty-six hours more Of misery, and
we arrived at the town Of r.
After unloading our rations and
equipment, we lined up on the road in
columns Of fours waiting FOR the order
to march. =.
A dull rumbling could be heard. The
sun was shining. I turned to the man
,on my left and asked, "What's the
noise, Bill?" He did not know, but his
face was of'a pea-green color. Jim,
on my right, also did not know, but
suggested that I "awsk" the sergeant.
Coming towards US was an old griz-
zled sergeant, properly fed up with
the war, so "awsked" him. -
"Think it's going to rain, sergeant?'
He looked at me in contempt, and
grunted, "Ow's it a-goin' ter rain with
the bloomin' sun a-shinin'?" I looked
guilty.
'aThem's the guns up the line, me
lad, and you'll get enough Of 'em be-
fore you gets back to Blighty."
My knees seemed to wilt, and I
squeaked out weak "Oh!"
Then we started our march up to the
line in ten-kilo treks. After the first
days march we arrived at our rest
billets. In France they call them rest
billets, because while in them Tommy
works seven days a week and on the
eighth day Of the week he. Is given
twenty-four hours ION his own"
Our billet was a spacious affair, q
large barn on the left side Of the road,
which had one hundred entrances,
ninety-nine for shells, rats, wind and
rain, and the hundredth one for Tom
my. T was tired out, and using my
shrapnel-proof helmet (shrapnel proof
until a piece of shrapnel hits it), or
tin hat, for a pillow, lay down in the
straw, and was soon fast asleep. I
must have slept about two hours, when
I awoke with prickling sensation all
over me. AS I thought, the straw had
worked through my uniform. I woke
up the fellow lying on my left, who had
been up the line before, and asked
him.
"Does the straw bother you, mate?
It's worked through my uniform and I
can't Sleep"
In a sleepy voice he answered,
"That amt straw, them's cooties."
From that time on my friends the
"cooties" were constantly with me.
"Cooties," or body lice, are the bane
of Tommys existence.
The aristocracy Of the trenches very
seldom call them "cooties," they speak
Of them as fleas.
To an American flea means small
insect armed with bayonet, who Is
wont to jab it into you and then hop
skip and jump to the next place to be
attacked. Inere IS an advantage Ill
having fleas on you instead of "cooties"
in that in one Of his extended jumps
said flea is liable to land on the fell
low next to you; he has the typical
energy and push of the American,
while the "cootie" has the bulldog
tenacity of the Englishman; he holds
on and consolidates or digs In until
his meal is finished.
There is no way to get rid Of them
permanently. No matter how often
you bathe, and that is not very often.
or how many times you change your
underwear, your friends the "cooties'
are alws.s in evidence. The billets are
infested with them, especially so II
there is straw on the floor.
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CHAPTER I.
From Mufti to Khaki.

From Muft to Khaki.
1t was In an Office in Jersey City.
was sitting at my desk talking to
lieutenant Of the Jersey National
|uard. On the wall was a big war
|ap decorated with variously colored
ktle dags showing the position Of the
bposing armies on the western front
France. In front of me on the desk
y q New York paper with big flaring
eadlines:
DsITANIA sUNKI AMERICAN
( LIVES LOST!
The windows were open and feel
- Of spring pervaded the air.
kough the open windows came the
rains of a hurdy-gurdy playing in the
reet-"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be
Soldier"
Il 4Lusitania Sunk! American Lives
Pstp-"I Didn't Raise My Boy to
q Soldier" To US these did not
em to jibe.
The lieutenant in silence opened one
the lower drawers of his desk and
k from it an American flag which
solemnly draped over the war map
the wall. Then, turning to me with
rim face, said:
How about it, sergeant? You had
ter get out the muster roll Of the
united Scouts, as think they will
heeded In the course Of a few days"
Ve busted ourselves till late in the
h1ng writing out. emergency tele-
ms for the men to report when the
should come from Washington.
10 we went home. iG%.
crossed over to New York, and as
ent up Fulton street to take the
pay to Brooklyn, the lights in the
buildings Of New York seemed to
|urning brighter than usual, as If
too, had read 'Lusitania Sunk!
rican Lives Lostw They seemed
glowing with anger and righteous
nation, and their rays wigwagged
Message, "Repay!"
bnths passed, the kilograms lying
y, but covered with dust. Then,
nomentous morning the lieutenant
q, sigh Of disgust removed the
from the war map and returned
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-11
= M GU a r u

AT this time Of the year people fec
weak, tired, hstless, theft blood is. thin.
they have lived indoors, and perhaps
expended all their mental and bodily
energy and, they want to know how to
renew their energy and stamina, over
come headaches and backaches, have
clear eyes, smooth, ruddy skin, and
fsel the exhilaration OF real good health
,ingling, thru their body. Good, pure,
rich, red blood is the best insurance
against ills OF all kinds. Almost all
diseases come from impure and impov-
erished blood. It is to be noticed in the
pale or pilnply face, the tired, haggard
appearance or the lstless manner. a
Drink hot water q half hour before
meals, and for a vegetable tonic there's
nothing better tn n DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, the old-fashioned
her5al remedy, which has had such a
fine reputation for fifty years. 1t con-
tains no alcohol or narcotics. 1t is
made :from Golden. Seal root, Blood
root, Oregon grape root, Queen s root,
Black Cherry bark, extracted with gly-
cerine and m ade into tablets and liquid.
Tablets sixty cents, at most drug stores.
~ Tn order to insure pure blood and to
build up the system try this tonic known
as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov'
!. -, C,nt, it. now " tsa.. .s.s. (
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-11
FIND K0RNEMANN
GUILTY ON FOUR
COUNTS. UNL0YAL
South DakOta German Editor ard
Alliance President Violated
. Espionage
ROASTED HE WAS TRAITOR
BOASTED HE WAS TRAITOR

Sioux Falls, S. d., April 1O.-Con.
rad korneman, president OF the South
Dakota branch of the German-Amer-
can alliance and editor of a German
language newspaper here, was con-
victed by a jury on four counts of
an indictment charging violation of
the espionabe act, in the United
States district court here tonight.
Letters which K0rnemann had writ
ten to business associates and friends
constituted the evidence presented
against him at the trial. The letters
were seized several months ago. in
raids on German newspaper in Aber-
deem, S. D., and on Kornemann's news
paper Office and home here.
In letter written to +. w. Sallet,
editor of the Aberdeen paper, who
was taken into custody at the time,
on a charge of failing to. file correct
translations of articles appearing in
his papers, Kornemann declared:
20 have never given any decoration
Of loyalty and will never do it, nor
subscribe to any liberty loan (the
name is to me already an emetic be-
cause, hypocritical and misleading)
~. IT was developed at the. trial that
later Kornemann purchased $4,000
worth of liberty bonds.
Judge J. D, Elliott, deferred pass
ing sentence @1 1885,.