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Evening journal., 1918-09-18
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pounds. It has an extraordinary air cooling arrangement for securing the continuous application of an air cur rent to the cooling surfaces of the barrel. Its air cooling device is the most notable part of the whole design and might be regarded as a separate invention. It is gas piston gun; the gas is taken from the barrel near the muzzle and actuates a piston in a tube lying close beneath and parallel to it.,
 and the whole action is very simple. It is light load for one man and can be handled from the shoulder The air cooling device is an arrangement for continually and rapidly changing the air inside of it. An aluminium casing is slipped over the barrel carry ing seventeen plates radiating from it about two inches across and running the full length of the barrel. The whole is encased in light steel outer casing. The firing of the gun produces a continuous stream of air from rear
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barrel being kept full of water So much heat is developed in the rapid fire of the gun that it's inventors have found the greatest difficulty in keep ing the water about the parts from boiling. The air cooling system was adopted by some, but with all it's diff culties the water cooled system ap- pears most satisfactory.
 Lewis Gun
 The famous Lewis gun Is the inven- ton of Colonel Lewis, who served in the United States Coast Artillery, and is, perhaps, the most popular gun now in use in Europe. It is the most mobile of all weapons of this class. It was refused for time by the United States Government, but after both England and France began to use them in great numbers our own gov ernment then put them in operation on the Mexican border and in our Army. The gun weighs only 25A
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 From the eagles of the sky, the American aeroplanes which are now soaring in greater and greater num- bers over the enemy lines, to the ships which are transporting the men and supplies to France: from the boards used in making trench mats" which are made into walks, to the heavy poles for dock and railroad construc- ton work; from logs which weigh many tons to the fine twigs which are fastened together for various uses, the American 1umbermen are devoting themselves wholeheartedly to the task of winning the war.
 A Mighty Work
 The vastness of the work is almost incomprehensible. When it is remem- bered that for one purpose alone, that of building warehouses in France which stretch for miles, millions of feet of lumber had to be cut; and that construction camps hospitals, railroads, trenches and hundreds of other kind of construction require vast amounts of forest products, some idea may be gained of the importance of wood.
 For shipbuilding in the United States alone during the present year.
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But the men are turning it out in rec ord quantities and in record time. They are making the fir fly" both in France and in America.
 A Race
 Speaking of the way "the boys" are going to it on the other side, Colonel Greeley says: Keen rivalry between the different companies has put much added punch into the game. The A and B. Company mills of the ........ Engineers, two of the first to begin running, were both rated at 10000 board feet in 10 hours. Once shaken down, both were clipping off from 10000 to 25,000 feet of lumber in two nine hour shifts. Then A Company put on three seven hour shifts and passed 29,000 feet. B Company came back with a run of 35, 500 feet of lumber and 1900 feet of ties in two nine hour shifts
 Much appreciation is felt by the American foresters in France for the benefits they receive from the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters, many contributions to which have been received at the Washington headquarters of the American For
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the greatest industries, yet he hasl been working on gun inventions sinceE he was boy, and many of these are found on guns turned out by variousB firms. Browning was honored with al title on the day his one-milliontn pistol was made in Belgium, wherel there was a factory turning out hiss work. He became a Chevalier de IT Order de Leopold, which entitled himI to call himself Sir John M. Browning, but the wizard gun man forgot all about 1t and went on making appli- ances to guns. Some ten years ago the Kaiser gave him an honorary dec oration, which the inventor has loCgl since trampled under his feet. His inventions have been used in every | land, in fact the half crazed Serbian, who killed the Austrian Archduke on that fatal July evening in 1914, used Ian automatic pistol of Browning's in- vention. Fire arms of his invention have played parts in nearly every great event in the world and it seems but fitting that an invention of his should end this awful conflict.
 The machine gun can be moved quickly from one place to another when any sort of cover offers. Each gun has a squad of about ten men and should they find themselves too closely pressed they pick up their weapon, fall back a short distance and then open up again.
 One military authority has declared that one machine gun is worth whole battalion armed with rifles. Few sol diers can keep up fifteen rounds a minute rapid fire with a rife, but a machine gun can discharge 500 rounds in se minute, and one of the machine guns can discharge 1,600 bullets with out stopping.
 A machine gun hidden in a shell hole can do valiant work against a German airmap. At the beginning of the present war the British had only two machine guns to each infantry battalion, while Germany had at least a dozen. Today both the Allies and Central Powers have special machine gun corps besides those belonging to the infantry and men thoroughly trained for the work. The machine gun is now the most deadly weapon . both for land and air warfare.
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Kaiser May As Well Car Quits

If lumber will win the war, the Kaiser may as well call it quits" writes Lieutenant Colonel w. B. Gree ley, who succeeded Colonel Graves in France. "The American lumberjacks are on the job in France, barring the Tuscania. Their April drive netted 14,S00,O0O feet of lumber, 153,0OO standard railroad ties, 1O3,0O ties for light railroads and 316.0OO pieces of piles, poles and small round products; and we have hardly gotten started. AL ready the shipping office which has the hardest car supply job a lumber man ever tackled, is working nights to keep the loading ground cleared. As a business concern we have an organization which might draw the envy of a Minnesota line yard com pany''
 As to the great variety of material which they must supply, Colonel Greeley says: ''They range from 100 foot poles to fascines of six foot tvfgs: from bills of dock and bridge timbers totaling five million feet to basswood cants for the manufacture of artificial limbs by the Red Cross. Construction lumber for barracks and warehouses, standard gauge ties, and cordwood are , the great staples, of which we cannot produce too much. Then come the heavy plank for artillery roads, tele- phone and telegraph poles, short ties or light railroads and corduroy and wire entanglement stakes by the hun dreds of thousands of pieces. It is a l strenuous game, where lifelong train ing in business efficiency and economy must be subordinated to the one goal ] of speed But the American ln1n her
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to muzzle of the gun through the channel of the cooling arrangem ments. The Lewis gun is much used in aero plane work.
 Benit-NIerc.e
 The Benit-Mercte, an automatic ma chine gun or rife used in the United States Army and Navy, is one of the general types of gas operative guns and the maximum rate of fire is about 400 shots per minute. It is effective at about 1.5O0 yards. The gun is air cooled. It weights twenty seven pounds and with a tripod about fifty pounds. It is usually carried on pack mules, being especially popular with the Italians in their mountain fight ing.
 Browning's Great Work
 The Browning gun, recently tried out, is expected to prove the greatest of all machine guns and is the work of John M. Browning, whose patents are on nearly every machine gun al- ready in use. Two machine guns of the Browning invention were recently tried out at the various cantonments | and proved such a success that the manufacturers cannot turn them out fast enough. The Browning guns to be used by the United States Army are two different types. One is known as heavy, weighing thirty-four and one-half pounds, including the water for its cooling system. It can be used ] both on the ground and in aeroplanes, where the high speed keeps it so cool | that the air jacket can be discarded as we'll as reducing it's weight to only twenty-two pounds. One of the things which makes it effective is it's sim plicity and the number of shots per minute which are six hundred. Its construction is so simple that any set of workmen can make three of these guns to any one of other types.
 Browning also has a light weight rapid fire gun, which weighs only if, teen pounds and can be shot from the shoulder like an ordinary rife. By simply pressing button one magazine can be detached and substituted fo1 another. Each magazine carries twenty rounds.
 The inventor is, known to his friends as "old J. M," and was born in Utah where ordnance making is not one o1
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estry Association. In a letter to the Association, Lieutenant Howard Y. Williams, chaplain of the Tenth Engi- neers (Forest) says:
 "The Welfare Fund Is surely help ing out great deal. Have been able to buy athletic equipment, etc, for the men, make short loans to men going on leave and help in many lit tie ways. Now that packages do not come over from the States such fund is even more necessary, and we thank you very, very much for your energies in our behalf"
 No Waste
 In the forestry work being done in France there is absolutely no waste, for all slabs and limbs are cut into fuel wood," according to Lieutenant R. H. Faulkner, who tells of what the 20th Engineers (Forest) are doing there.
 Could any operator today in the United States of America,'' he writes, make a tour of the numbering opera tions of the Forestry Regiments, 10th and 20th Engineers, in France, he would see economical operations car ried out to the minutest details. And this is not fantastical conservation, it is not conservation that adds exces- sively to the cost, but it is due to an entirely new spirit in numbering, the spirit of the American forestry troops, ;oI. 4-I. \. -4n # any material which can be of use. And when this is said, in France, 1t means the utilization of every part of the tree, down to branches only one and one-half inches in diameter"
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manded the battery claims that it was this heavy machine gun fire which made it possible for the assault on the hill to be carried through successfully in few minutes.
 The records of the South African War show that comparatively small numbers of machine guns were used. The armored train which took part in the defense of Mafeking, the first sortie against the Boers, was armed with two machine guns, a Maxim and a Hotchkiss, but only a few other times were machine guns mentioned.
 Machine Guns In Present War
 The Japanese-Russo War was the first conflict in which machine guns played a large part for the Russians had Maxim guns, while the Japanese had the Hotchkiss guns. of much the same type as are now used by the French Army. It, however, remained for the present war to bring out the real value of the weapon.
 Most of the guns are water cooled by means of the metal jacket sur- rounding the greater part of the gun
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ing; but no matter, a standing order was issued that no man should return to mess" without all the stakes he could pack on his back. In short or der stakes were pouring out of the woods in endless ant-like streams; stakes were moving forward from ev- cry quarter. That the job was we'll done was told in the wire which soon came back from the front: "Stop sending stakes; can't use any more" !" This was before the rest of the Amer ican Expeditionary Force knew what the forestry troops were capable of doing. The same thing happened when an order came for poles. The boys started to beat the Kaiser with poles; and after about two days of the deluge, the dispatch came: Flooded with poles, cancel further shipments. D
 Colonel Henry s. Graves, Chief Forester of the United States, who went to France to organize the Amer ican forestry forces and who spent eight months there, said of the Ferest Regiments upon returning to this country: "They are working to win the war. Nothing else enters tAeir thoughts. | can't say too much for the spirit of the officers and the men. We are going to unify our every ef- fort and do our part in the inevitable victory for freedom"
 To show the spirit of these men lover There" they tell Of one group of twenty-five men of one of the oom panies, who went out one evening without orders and on their own free 1 initiative and cut one hundred and twenty-five ties. That is the way ir which the linen behind the axe" are working to help win the war witt | wood
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machine gun companies, for only cool reliable soldiers can be trusted with these weapons to get results. A man must know his gun just as bird man must know his aircraft. When and how to shoot means much and this old idea that you must wait for your opponent to open fire is now regarded as obsolete.
 Many kinds of machine guns are used In the present war and it is nec- essary to go back through centuries to find their origin. A Chinese gun taken as a prize in 1860 was found to have been made in 1900 and consisted of four barrels fired simultaneously.
 The "matrailleuse" : twenty-five bar rels (hand operated) was kept as a great secret by the French until the Franco-Prussian War, when it was en- larged and used as piece of artillery.
 Kaiser Has A Maxim Patent
 Sir Hiram Maxim travelled over Flu rope showing his gun to officials of various governments and when the IAelDSI 0GtW l1IC 5 LII III Su Oll lll0 1lEGO outside of Berlin he at once exclaimed, This Is the only gun," but all his military men did not agree with him and the machine gun used by the Ger mans is only part Maxim. Maxim patents are now being used on the Vickers guns by the Allies.
 As early as 1891 England began to use Gatlings, Nordenfeldts and Gard ners. Even before this time Calling guns invented by Dr. R. J. Gatling, of Indianapolis, were used by the Peru vians in the War with Chilli. There was a battery of four Calling guns with General Shafter's Army during the Cuban campaign of 1898. They were improvised after landing and the gunners had only few days training. Nevertheless the guns did some ef- fective work At critical moment of the battle before Santiago the guns were pushed into the firing line and opened fire on the Spaniards on San Juan Hill. Three guns fired 5000 rounds each and the officer who com
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N F ALL THE weapons used in the
 present war the machine gun has unquestionably proved itself " the most efficient" says a prom inent military expert in his review of the weapons used in the present war.
 When the casualties are summed up this is found to be true, as statistics prove that the greatest proportion of losses, especially during the past few weeks, have been caused by machine guns. Any type of this weapon in the hands of skilled operator has the same effect upon men moving in mass formation that keen edged scythe has in a field of ripened wheat. It cuts broad swaths; nothing can stand against 1t.
 The machine gun Is a man saver in warefare, not, perhaps against the mans own death but one man can do the work of many men, as one of these weapons can do the same work as one hundred men armed with rifles. That is, it can bring the same amount of fire to bear as one hundred rifle men and will take up considerably less room. Consequently, it is possible to bring tremendous fire to bear from a very restricted space Imagine a machine gun which is capable of do- ing the work of one hundred men and requires a frontage of only about a yard as reserve power. To bring one hundred men across communication trenches takes time and causes some confusion. The machine gun mounted on tripod remains inanimate during the excitement of the men in action. Machine gunsmen are trained special ists for their work and keep their weapons concealed as far as possible. They are known. as weapons of oppor- tunity and surprise and their hitting qualities under skilled men are very remarkable and are fired to the front only when favorable target offers. A volley from machine gun will hit a man several times whilst he is fall ing, in the case of a gun catching men obliquely. Recently special training has been given to men who compose
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GRAYHoUNDs THE OLDEST DOGS

The grayhounds of Altcar and, Wa terloo Cup are the oldest of domestic dogs, and they can be traced back by sculptures and frescoes for thirteen centuries before the Christian era. A fine group of grayhounds fondling each other at the British Museum is claimed to be more than two thousand years old, and some of the dogs de- picted iii hunting scenes on the Egyp- tian monuments are of the greyhound type. Grayhounds have been popular in England since King Canute's time, but nobody but a 'gentleman" or freeholder was allowed to keep them. Even so recently as 1853 a license to keep @ greyhound cost six dollars in England, which was nearly treble tho tax imposSd by the state on othe docs
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N F ALL THE weapons used in the
 present war the machine gun
 has unquestionably proved itself " the most efficient" says a prom
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100000 feet of fir from the forests of the Northwest and more than 375,- 000,000 feet of yellow pine from the forests of the South, will be required.
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Copyright, 1918, by The International
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~RASH, down falls an ancient NY monarch of the forest. This one " Is in oregan, that one in the vel %> low pine belt of Louisiana, an- other in the forests of France. All are intended for use in the war.
 Stretching away half way around the globe American foresters and lumber tackles are editing and saving logs, driving spikes and shaping tim bers, guiding them to the mills and through the mills, and turning them into all sorts and sizes. They are getting the material needed for ships and for aeroplanes, for railroad ties and for camp construction, for trench walling and for dock piles, for artifi- cial limbs and for wire entanglement stakes and for thousand other uses to which forest products are being put sto help win the war. There is no other substance that is being utilized in such a variety of ways in the war as wood.
 Both here in the United States and in France strong, stalwart, untiring American workers are felling the trees, hurryIng them to the mills by stream and wagon road, rail and truck; and rapidly whipping them into the desired shape.
 Order Quickly Filled
 Send us some entanglement stakes quick" was the wire which was flashed recently from up Front" to an American contingent of foresters who had just arrived in France The ooys started in. They tackled the job with mighty little equipment; wagons, horses and motor vehicles were lack
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-03-14
The Third Liberty Loan


The campaign for the Third Liberty
Loan will be opened on the 9Th of
April, the anniversary of the declara-
tioD OF state OF war between .he
United States and Germany.
The amount. terms, and conditions
of the loan are dependent upon furth-
ell legislation and will be announced
as soon as Congress has granted the
necessary powers.
Secretary McAdoo chose the 9Th of
April as the day to open the cam
paign as the most fitting date to call
for a patriotic response to the sum
mems 20 duty to every American, to
ask from the people at home the
same Prevent patriotism that actuates
our gallant sons on the battlefields
Of France and on the waters of the
Atlantic.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-03-14
SCHOOL NOTES

Another number on the business
Mems talks, that the scholl has been
enjoying, was given by Mr.. Quinn
last Monday morning at the usual
period. Mr.. Quinn explained the
rift Stamps and War Certificates,
made striving appeal to the
boys and girls to help the govern
ment in this way. He stated that the
Bank has bought over $500 worth
OF these stamps on hand sell. At
the close of his talk Mr. Quinn made
an offer OF $500 to the class that
would the most stamps by the end
of the school year. The school is
taking great interest in this offer,
and 1t is expected that many stamps
will be bought in the near future.
The work Of the school has been
greatly interfered with on account
OF SO much sickness, most all ofSthe
classes are more or less behind in
their work. There is still ime, how
ever, to make all Of it up before
school is out, but it was thought
best to give up theHigh School play
for this year.
The school has been taking every
precaution possible to prevent the