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565e00 additional hours per day, figuring just the owners, but with three friends to each car, would make IS, ,2s00Oo hours, or total of 3,232 o00 additional hours devoted to winning. the war during the daylight saving period
 If the work during this number of hours was worth, say 30 cents per hour to the government it would total s1,6l6- 0l000o. a sum nearly equal to the first Liberty Loan.
 MOVING FREIGHT
 Carrying our suppositon still further, undoubtedly the greatest results to the nation and the government, as well as to the automobile industry and allied in- dustries would come through the i'm mense saving motor trucks would ac- complish should they be used during the extra hour
 The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce estimates the number of mo- tor trucks used in the United States to- day of 43o,000 miles per day or a total Of 767, 000 miles these motor trucks could cover if utilized during the day light saving period At an average of two and one-half tons per truck, gives a tonnage of 1,0S7, 800 more tons of goods per day or 192, ,4S7 300 tons during the IT daylight saving days that could be hauled, and this is figuring on only two
 
 considered that the moving of supplies is one of the biggest problems the coun- Itry is now facing, the increased tonnage which the extra hour would accomplish | if devoted to this kind of work. would | mean a great deal to not only America. but to our allies abroad. EFFECT ON AUTO INDUSTRY | The effect of the additional hour on the automobile industry, providing the hour was spent in additional labor, would 2sooO0 workers employed in the motor car 1 industry as well as the 230,o00 workers employed at dealers garages, repair shops, etc, to 5100O0 working hours per l day or S,670000 hours during the day | light saving period, which, if figured at an average wage of 8 per hour. would i result in sl, GOO in increased wages per day or S270, SIC, GOO for the full IF ad ditional hours.
 l If invested in Liberty Bonds these ad- ditional earnings would purchase 5,416, 200 $50 bonds or 2.70S100 $l00 bonds. | In 1917 there were 1,977,1SS passenger cars and motor trucks manufactured. Deducting 50 Sundays and six holidays, 1 e.. Thanksgiving Christmas, New Years, Decoration day, Fourth of July and Labor day, gives Us 300 actual work ing days. Using the above productions as a basis each of these working days produced 639S vehicles. A 10-hour day gives us practically $40 vehicles per hour. 1 By working at full speed during the 171 daylight hours, 113 2S0 additional vehicles could be produced.
 GARDENS AND HEALTH Of course, the main object of the day light saving bill is first to create per-
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UNIQUE LIBERTY
 DEMONSTRATION Unfav0rable Weather Gives Car Test Which Buy
 CTS Appreciate

The intensely cold weather and the
 deep snow which accompanied most of
 the automobile shows particularly those
 at New York and Chicago, made it diff ficult matter to give satisfactory dem onstrations of most of the cars exhibited. Yet one firm. the Liberty Motor Car company, actually converted this disad- vantage into an asset in the demonstrat- ing of their automobile th4 Liberty
 Six
 The stove in the manifold. which has been Liberty feature for two seasons,
 made the starting of the motor an easy feature on the coldest day. After getting
 under way the flexibility and speedy ac-
 onstrated. The prospective buyer was
 hardly likely to lose sight of such ad- vantages.
 TESTED IN TRAFFIC Then, at undininished speed the car was sent ahead over the snow-filled streets. over car tracks, and over the
 bumps and ruts which countless vehicles had cut through the hard packed crust of ice and snow. The salesmen invited the attention of the pfospectsve buyer to the fact that there were no body squeaks and no objectionable rattles; that the fivc-inch frame and the wonder fully built body, which was mounted on it. were so constructed that every i thing fftted perfectly and. therefore. the rattling and scraping noises which marked many cars were consplcuously absent.
 The prospect was asked to notice that the car rode almost as easily over the rough spots in the road ns when 1t trav- cled the car tracks, or the smooth places in the pavement. The long, easy swing of the rear springs produced only gen. tie. swinging motion to the ear body.
 And it was also pointed out that with one passenger or with three in the rear scat, the easy riding of the car was, very much the same.
 This daiins demonstration, being made under the worst possible conditions, only served 10 accentuate the cars advant- ages. and usually converted the prospect ] Into favorable frame of rnind even bet I fcre he A,as made familiar with the cars remarkably simple control and the many other dlfferenences which serve to distinguish it.
 ] Only two of these popular cars are now
 in possessioas of the DeShazo Motor eom-
 pany. the local distribytors. although sev-
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than elsewhere, and where competition is the keenest, are just entering the na- tional field on a large scale. We are, therefore. quite naturally anxious to ex- hibit our product in competition with any other product of the world. as ln building a truck for the owner first we have succeeded in bringing forth prod uct, of which any maker might well be nroud.'
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A surgical glove has been invented when wlll enable man who has lost the use of the tendons in the back of the hand to write just as well as IF h. han rhpSa fendOIS
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eral shipments have been received late { ly. Many of the Liberties are now on Birmingham streets and southern roads and are giving uniform satisfaction
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One of the greatest stimulants that in- ter-citv motor truck transportation has received is the 750-nlile line inaugurateo by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber com pany, operating between Akron, o.' ana Boston. Mass. Since the establishment of this line. other firms have established truck lines, although all are considerably shorter than the original one.
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WANT EXHIBIT

I've of the Acason Motor Truck com
 pany are naturally firm believers in such an exhibit, as the Acason, after three years of successful use in and around De- troft the worlds center of the auto mobile and motor truck industry, where buyers are considered more motorwise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
[EARD ABOUT AUTOMOBILES HERE AND THERE
Daylight SaUing BiH's
 Benefit of the Motor World
Amid Piles of Staggering Statistics It Is Seen That New Hours, Sufficient to Build 113,2sO Additional Ve- hices, Will Be Gained, Beginning Today and
 How It May Help Win the War.
By GEORGE \. KIsSEL President KisscI Motor Car Co,

adoption saving bill characteristic meet situations that call for prompt action.
 which the ahead branch of industrial patriotic activities would Irrls4n
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TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Times have changed since the agita- tion of few years ago for this exhibit and the motor truck has arrived and has become a very strong factor in the motor world. It's position in the business world is assured, and as means of national transportation of merchandise for both long and short hauls it is becoming rapidly inseparable from business. and as essential to the business prosperity of America
 Business men who have not been motor truck users in the past are all figuring seriously today upon their motor truck equipment, and the organization of a national motor truck exhibit would be to them a real advantage. The opportunity is being sought to inspect all of the great commercial cars on the market be- fore making a selection, and business men would be the largest class, as a matter of course, attending a national show
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-31
OF MOTOR
 TRUCKS FAVORED
 BY MANUF ACTURER
Times Have Changed, , Cites Detroit Manufac- turer Is Business
 Mans Proposition

J. F. Bowman, vice president and gen. eral manager of the Acason Motor Truck company of Detroit, is another firm be- liever in national exhibits of motor trucks, and believes that the time has arrived now when there should be a na- tional motor truck exhibit at some cen tral point in America.
 Ut cannot be clamed,H 7 said Mr. Bow man, that I am a recent convert to the advisabiity of these national exhibits of commercial wagons of every sort for I was a strong advocate of motor truck show several years ago, and spoke in favor of it at a time when the agita- tion for such an exhibit almost sue ceeded. Only a few were opposed among the motor truck makers, and those were large manufacturers of passenger cars as well as trucks. I believe that these firms would now be in favor of a national ex- hibit, as their business today is more largely the manufacturing of trucks than
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-05-30

tumhlcd of the step, fell into the mud
at the bottom Of the trench. and lay
Still In huddlcd heap with II bullet
hole in his forehead.
At about the time he expected 10 ar
rive at Waterloo station he was laid
To rest In little cemetery behind the
lines. He had gone 10 BliGhty.
In the trenches one can never tell
II is not safe to plan very far ahead.
After "stand down" the men sit on
the fire step or repair to their respec-
tive dugouts and wait for the rum is
sue" tn materialize. Immediately fol-
lowing the rum comes breakfast,
brought up from the rear. Sleeping Is
then In order unless some special work
turns up.
Around 10 80 dinner shows up.
When this Is eaten the men try to
amuse themselves until "tea" appears
at about four o'clock. then "stand to"
and they carry on as before.
While In rest billets Tommy gets up
about six In the morning. washes up,
answers roll call. is inspected by his
platoon officer, and has breakfast. At
;I5 he parades (drills) with his COM
pany or goes on fatigue according to
the orders which have been read out
by tie orderly sergeant the night pre-
vious.
Between IL 80 and noon he Is dis
missed, has his dinner and Is ION his
own" for the remainder OF the day,
unless he has clicked for a digging or
working party, and so II goes on from
day to day, always ''looplng the loop"
and looking forward to peace and
BlIghty.
Sometimes, while engaged In a
"cootie" hunt. you think. Strange to
say, but II is fact. while Tommy is
searching his shirt serious thoughts
come to him. Many a time. when per-
forming this operation, have tried
to figure out the outcome of the war
and what will happen to me.
My thoughts generally ran In this
channel:
VIII emerge safely from the next
attack? II do will skin through the
following one, and so on? While your
mind Is wandering into the future II
is likely to be rudely brought to earth
by Tommy interruptlng with, whats
good for rheumatism
Then you have something else TO
think Of. VIII you come out OF this
war crippled and tied into knots with
caused by the wet and
mud Of trenches and dugouts7 You
give II up as n bad Job and generally
sumter over TO the nearest estaminet
To drown your moody forebodings in Il
glass Of sickeninc French beer or to
try your luck NJ the always present
game of "hOuse." You can hear the
sing-song voice Of u Tommy droning
out the numbers ms he extracts the
little squares Of cardboard from the
ha- between his feet.
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relax his watch for second. II he 10
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders. he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex
panse Of dirt In front Of him. The re-
malnder Of the occupants Of his trav'
erse either sit on the fire step. with
bayonets fixed. ready for any emer
pens 10 be In the near vicinity Of the
traverse. and II the night Is quiet, they
are permitted to 20 to same and try
and snatch Il few winks of sleep. Little
sleeping Is done; generally the men sit
around. smoking flags and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some of them.
perhaps with their feet In water. would
write home sympathizing with the
governor" because he was laid up
with n cold. contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work In Wool
wich arsenal. II u man should manage
with n start as the clammy. cold feet
Of u rat passed over his face. or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentrss In the trench.
just try to sleep with belt full OF
ammunition around you, your rifle bolt
biting into your ribs. intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back, with tin hat for n pillow and
feeling very damp and cold, with
"cooties" boring for oil In your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil of
grimy human bodies and smoke from a
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos
trils, then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes turn In
the trench for n rest.
While In front-llne trench orders
forbid Tommy from removing his
boots. puttees, clothing or equipment.
The "cootles" take advantage of this
order and mobilize their forces, and
Tommy swears vengeance on them and
mutters To himself. Just wait until |
hit rest blllets and am able to get my
own back"
just before daylight the men turn
to" and tumble out of the dugouts, man
the fire step until 1t gets light, or the
welcome order "stand down" Is given.
Sometimes before "stand down" Is or
dered, the command five rounds rap
Id" is passed along the trench. This
means that each man must rest his
rifle ON the top and fire MS rapidly us
possible five shots aimed toward the
German trenches, and then duck with
the emphasis on the "duck"). There Is
"A great rivalry between the opposing
forces TO get their rapid fire all of
first. because the early bird. In this In
stance. catches the worm-sort OF gets
the jump on the other fellow, catching
him unawares.
,'e had sergeant In our battalion
named Warren. He was on duty with
his platoon In the tire trench one after
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would stop to cough. cough, cough. hut
II was good Illustration ~ Tommy's
cheerfulness uadcr such conditions.
A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me hard look. I
snrukcd past him. sliding and slipping,
and reached my section Of the front.
line trench, where ! was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me. "Where
In - ave you beenT"
made no answer. but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later I
teamed ~ with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. AZ ten O'Clock was
relieved and resumed my sitting post.
ton on the fire step. The rain sud
denly stopped and we all breaihed a
SIGH Of relief. We prayed for the morn
ing and the rum issue.
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SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER I-Fired by the news OF me
sinking OF the Lusitania by n German
submarine. Arthur Guy Empey. an Amert-
can. leaves his office In Jersey city and
goes 20 England where he enllsts In the
British army.
CHAPTER IT-After a period OF train
ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv-
Zee and soon nnds himself 10 res, billets
makes the acquaintance OF "a ever-pres-
CHAPTER IIT-Empey attends his FIRST
church services at tho front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER Iv-Empey's command goes
into the front-line trenches and Is under
FIRE for the first time.
CHAPTER v-Empey learns TO adopt
the motto OF the british Tommy. III you
are going 10 get II, you'll get II. so never
worry"
CHAPTER vI-Baok In rest biiiets. En-
pey gets his nrst experience rs n mess
orderly
CHAPTER vII-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER vIII-Back In the front.ine
trench. Empey sees his first friend Of the
trenches go West"
CHAPTER Ix-Empey makes his FIRST
visit to "A dugout In suicide Ditch"
CHATTER x-Empey learns what con-
stitutes a days work. In the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER xI-Empey goes cover the
top" Tor the first time In charge on the
German trenches and Is wounded by
bayonet thrust
CHAPTER xII-Empey Joins the ''sul-
eide club" as the bombing squad Is called.
CHAPTER xIII-Each Tommy gets an
official bath.
CHAPTER xIv-Empey help. dig an
advanced trench under German nre.
CHAPTER Nv-on listening post" In
No Mans Land.
CHAPTER xvI-rwo ar,iilcrymen put
one over. on Old Pepper. their regmental
commander,
CHAPTER XviI-Empey has narrow es-
cape. while on patrol duty In NO Mans
Land
CHAPTER NvfII-Back In rest billets
Empey wri'se and stages farce comedy.
CHAPTER NIx-soiiiers have many
ways 10 amuse themselves while "on their
own"
CHAPTER xx-Empey volunteers for
machine gun service and goes BACK into
tho front-llne trenches.
CHAPTER NNI-Empey again goes
over tho top IN a charge which cost his
company II killed and 81 wounded.
CHAPTER NNIi-Trick with a machine
gun silences one bothersome Fritz.
CHAPTER XNiII-German attack. pre-
cedei by sas wave. is repulscd.
CHAPTER NNIv-Empey Is forced 20
take part In an execution as a member
OF the nring squad
CHAPTER NNN-nritish prepare for
the Big Push-the battle OF the sommc.
CHAPTER NXvI-In a trench raid
preceding tho bg Push. Empey IL des-
rerntely wounded and lies unconscious In
No Mans Land for IS hours.
CHAPTER NNVIf-Arer four months
in a British hospital. Empsy 10 discharged
as physically unit for further war s'rN-
ice"
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MARKSBUKY

Ryle Isom sold 80 shoats for17c.
Green Estes sold COW and calf
for $50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Chestnut of
Fayette county, are visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Bogie.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ryle Ison. motored
to Harrodsburg, Sunday and were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. JONAH Marsee
Phone Walton Moss for a crate of
Strawberries.
Mrs. Jesse Sanders had her car
injured when another car run into
it, while she was backing out of the
garage.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. C. Clark enter
tanned several friends at a Chicken
Fry" Sunday. Mrs. Clark always
gets ahead of her neighbors some
how-they wonder how she does it?
Mrs. Ella Cecil, and Miss Annie
T. Cecil, of Danville, are visiting
her mother, Mrs. Fanny Pollard.
Miss Cecil was the guest for several
days last week of Mrs. Morten Pol
lard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason Pollard were
hosts at a splendid dinner Sunday,
Mr.. Jack Bourne and son, Mr.. Cleve-
land Bourne, of West Lancaster,
Mrs. Ella Cecil and Miss Annie T.
Cecil, of Danville, were the guests
from a distance.
Thru difficulties many and trials
sore, the inside repairs of the church
are completed with the exception of
a few minor touches. The new
metal ceiling, the newly papered
walls and carpet stand as a monu-
ment to the best efforts of the COM
mittee, Messrs Ed Sutton and Dick
Burton, Miss Sue Sutton, Mrs. Jas.
Turner, Miss Eugenia Pollard and
Mrs. J. W. Mahan, Miss Sutton act
ing as chairman of ladies'. The
church members and some who are
not members responded most nobly
to the call of the committee in these
strenuous" times.
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noon when orders came up from the
rear that he had been granted seven
Gays leave for Bllghty, and would be
relieved at five O'Clock to proceed to
England.
He was tickled to death Mt these
welcome tIdlngs and RECALLED his more
or less enylous mates beside him on
the fire step with the good times In
store for him. lie figured 1t out that
In two days time he would arrive at
Waterloo station, London, and then
seven days bllssl
At about five minutes 10 five he
started TO fidget with his rife, and
then suddenly springIng up on the fire
step with muttered, IN send over
n couple Of souvenirs to Fritz 81 that
he'll miss me when | leave" he stuck
his rife over the top and fired two shots
when "crack" went bullet and he
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nag.drnped s,re,cher, cnrrled by four

fag-drnped stretcher. carrled nv four
soldiers. I WINS one OF the four. Re
hind the strctcher. in column OF TOURS,
came the remainder OF the section.
To get 10 the cemetery. we had TO
pass through the little shcll.dcsiroyed
village. where troops were hurrying
10 and fro.
As the funeral proccssIon pass.J
these troops cnme 10 the attention"
and smartly salutcd the dcnd.
Poor Pete was receiving the only 81.
lutte n private Is entitled TO "somc.
whore In France-
Now and main n shell frnm the Ger.
man lines womb go vbls,Iin- over ,ha
Village 70 burs, In our artillery lines
I'm tho rom
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CHAPTER X.
"The DAYS Work"

I was fast learning that there Is a
regular routine about the work ~ the
trenches. although It Is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work In the fire trench
commences nj shutdown. Tommy Is
like n burglar. he works nj night.
just MS II begins to get dark the
word "stand to" Is passed from trnv-
erse TO traverse, and the men get busy.
The first relief. consisting Of two men
to trnverse, mount the fire step, one
man looking over the top. while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or 10 inform the platoon off,
Ger Of any report made by the sentry
Ms TO his observations in No Mans
Land. The sentry is not allowed to
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CHAPTER *.
Suicide Annex.

SUICIDE annex
was In my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door Of
same was a little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" one Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called "Suicide Ditch" Later on
learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept In mud. washed In mud. ate mud.
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that 50 much discomfort and
misery could be contained in those
three little letters. NJ U u. The floor
Of the dugout was an inch deep In
water. outside II was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rlyulets were trlckling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came drip,
drip. drip. Suicide Annex was n hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. II was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; nj least there
were twenty steps leading down to H.,
ihfNf Nl'liN WIZ Aul illlb lhf fAIlllt
but at that time were muddy aud slip
perry. A man had Ia be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chuteS."
The air was foul. and yoI could cut
the smoke from Tommy's flags with n
knife. II was cold The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven Into these timberS. on
each nail hung n miscellaneous assert
ment of equipment The lighting ar
engagements were superh-one candle
IN a reflector made from an ammuni-
ton tin. My teeth were chattering
from the cold, and the drip from the
alrshaft did not help matters much.
While was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the firesiie at
home. the fellow next 10 me, who was
writing letter, looked up and limo
Gently asked. "say, Yank. how do you
spell 'conllagration'f"
I looked at him In contempt and an
swered that did not know.
From the darkness In one of the cor
ners came a thin, piping voice singing
one Of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles In your Old Kit
Bag. and Smile. Smile. Smile"
Every now and then the singer