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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
What Do You Know?

QUIZ
I, OF what committee In the House Of Rspse-
ssntatiyes is Hubert Dent, Of Alabama. the
g. What is the meaning Of Mardi Grass
3. Who was Clement L. yallaRdingham?
I. Mhat Is O mnIlinespike? NJ
S. What Is the distinsu sulshing characteristic Of
manx cat9
.. Where rs tine Assouan Dam?
!. What state Il, called the "Granite State?
4. What is q bulbul!
9. Who was the muse Of tragedys
"easus belli?"
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1, Lake BaikaI Is a large body Of fresh water
in south central siberia. The Trans
Siberian Railroad is built around the
southern coast. ~.
9. A pniiateiist Is collector Of postage and
other stamps.
g. Maurice Maeterlinck Is by birth DelEian.
T. Friday Is derived from the old English
Frigedaeg. named after friE. the northern
goddess. corresponding with Venus In Latin
s. Senator Vardaman Is from MissIssippi.-
g. Mark Twain, In "Puddin' Head Wilson'S
calendar" wrote difference Of o3inisn
l. A kermIs is q Dutch fair carnival,
8, Joyce kilmfr, o gifted young American peea.
was l lniIisS Y action on III. wsstera fFspt
.. CumSer!snd is the second isrssst civ -
10. n.raenHss !. sn.sAsr ns~s iss pisAhs
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Gone West

Gone West
TN NO MANS LAND he lies today
i That you and l might live.
With loyal heart he nobly gave
The best that man can give.
Undauntedly he crossed the top
And gallantly he fell
With yearning eyes upon the flag
He loved and served so well.
And though | sit at home bersft
OF all / held most dear,
Through the shadows of my grief
One thought shines bright and clear.
He followed but the precepts learned
BY him in early youth;
All glory to the lad who fought
For Honor. Right and Truth.
CARRIE Y FRAZIER.
Ocean City. N. j.. Aug. 81.
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pleted and we are enabled to survey that
eventful period not by days, but as a
whole glorious month.
Were it possible to confront any one
who had been deprived of war news with
summary of recent weeks considered
in the large aspect, it may be predicated
that the thrill of that super communique
would be hardly second to that conveyed
by the announcement that Foch had
struck the foe at La Fere Champenoise in
1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
RUBBER HEELS
Adventures Of q
Casual Of the Sea

THE tcriter OF the tollo,cino dispatch
(erclusire to Rubber Heels Is Dreris
Jonkers, a voung Dutch sailor 1cho has
been at sea since he ,cas thirteen. Drepis
is an old friend OF William McFee, the
author Of "CdSuals Of the Sea-" aud has
Scrred on ships ,rhere Mr.. McFee icos
engineer. Those 1cho hare read "CdSudls
Of the Sea" iriH be interested to knotc that
Dreris is the blue-eyed Dutch suilor-boy
"Tommy" Of that story.
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FRUITS OF UNPREPAREDNESS

THE aircraft report of the subcommittee
of the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs is a shining exhibition of what
happens when a nation enters war with
out proper preparation.
1t charges that s64SOOo,O 900 has been
virtually squandered since April of last
year in an attempt to produce airplanes.
In the first place there was divided re-
sponsibilty. Then. there was no care.
fully thought out practical plan. Wine and
money were wasted in experimentation.
More than 1900 engines of one type were
built before any one found out that they
were dangerous They had to be dis.
carded Orders for nne.seat planes were
given and then countermanded. though it
was later learned that planes of that type
were in constant use at the front. The
lives Of several men were sacrificed in
flying a type of plane which was defective.
but Sc 800. 900 was spent on these planes
before they were abandoned
The failure of the program is said by
the committee to he due to the dependence
of the Government on automobile manu-
facturers who. knew nothing of aoronau-
teal problems, to the subordination Of
everything else to the production of a type
of motor suited to all kinds of planes and
to the neglect to adopt the policy of re-
producing at first the most approved types
OF European machines in great numbers
as possible while the work of improving
the type was carried on at the same time
This is the dark side of the picture
The committee has found that we are soon
TO he in shape to begin quantity produc-
tion Of acceptable planes and that col
craft were shipped to France up to Au-
gust l and that on August squadron
of eighteen of them flew over the Ger
man lines. The dispatches from France
yesterday reported that there was a strong
feeling of satisfaction among our men at
| the arrival of our airships and at their
participation in the fighting.
The country hopes that the time of
bMndering has passed and that from now
| on We shall hear that the air forces on
the other side are increased periodically
by the arrival of hundreds of machines
made here.
The committee has not touched on the
charges of misuse of funds which led the
| President to call upon Mr.. Hughes to
make an investigation under the direction
of the Attorney General. If there has
been anything worse than gross incom
petence Mr.. Hughes will discover it. We
can await his conclusions with confidence
in their fairness and justice
But if We had begun preparation in time
for participation in the war which the
Administration knew could not be avoided
much of the hungIing in the production
of aircraft could have been prevented Wher
the final reckoning comes the wasting O.
more than half billion dollars will ht
one of the counts in the Indictment agains
the men in authority. In the meantime
the men in charge of the aircraft produc
ton are expected to avoid the mistake:
of the past and to get the machines t,
Europe faster than they are needed.
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A Merchantville woman, caught In
boarding, now promises that she will eat no
more sugar during the war IL she Is not sent
to jail Whatever the law decides. 1t is quite
evident that she will hereafter have to con-
fine herself to the sweetness of adversity.
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Had the Kronprins
Wanted to

Translated from the French Of Theodore Botrel.
LAD the Kronprinz wanted to.
II Lanturlu.
Liege had been his without siege.
Lille had bowed to him. her Hege,
Any town that took his fancy.
Rheims, Scissor, Verdun or Nancy.
Even blithesome, gay Paree,
Had borne his yoke delightedly.
Had the kronprnz wanted to
tCan you doubt 1t,
Dare YOU 1out itD
To conquer France eight days would Go.
Had the Kronprinz wanted to,
Lanturlu,
France prone underneath his boot,
England must have followed suit;
Two days at most. for London town,
For Cardiff. Dublin, battered down,
For Britain overrun and shaken.
Ireland German. all France taken,
Had the kronprinz wanted to,
(Can you doubt it.
Dare you scout it?)
England had been German. too.
Had the kronprnz wanted to-
Lanturlu,
Returning home. but not in haste,
He'd turn to the Carpathian waste;
And ask, Say. Mr. Romanoff
What's there for me In Peterhoff'
Il think, Grand Duke, in Petrograde, r.
I'll rest moment in the shade"
Had the kronprinz wanted to
tCan you doubt II,
Dare you flout it?)
He'd licked the Russians black and blue.
Had the Kronprnz wanted to.
Lanturlu.
The Balkans in his pocket. far
1t would not be to Africa;
America the oceans isles
Had yielded to his guns and smiles,
To China, Japan with a jump,
The world were his in one big lump
Had the Kronprinz wanted to.
(Can you doubt it,
Dare you scout itD
Lord of Earths." his title due
All this the Kronprnz did not do,
Lanturlu
And why? He could not let his star
Transcend the glory of papa.
ITO you the victory, dear dad.
And all the glory: | am glad,
For your sake, losing ALL to sit
Secure in this deep bomb-proof pit"
To humble dad was not his cue.
Do you doubt il,
Dare you scout it?
But had the kronprinz wanted to!
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No matter how much the Germans have
altered the appearance of the fishing trawler
which they are using as a coast raider,
1t would be wholly infeIicitous to describe it
as a Converted" ship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

The recent defeat of General Bernhardi
suggests such absorption in Germany and
the Next War" that a little thing like the
conduct of this one has been neglected
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

To cheer up his countrymen, Herr SoIf,
the Hun Colonial Secretary, quotes Kant.
And yet the significant sound of that word is
what particularly distresses them whenever
they think of Paris.
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1t can be mathemstically demonstrated
that the winter quarters toward which Foch
is driving the Germans will compose an ex-
ceedingly uncomfortable hole.
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He died game. He had his rife in his
hands, and there were seven dead Germans
in front of him." Is the message a Pennsvl
wanna boy sends to his father about his
brother. This is the kind of gameness that
will teach the boche that Americans know
how to fight
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

Even the Huns most carefully compiled
statistics concerning the declining popula-
ton of France have been upset The repub-
lie now contains nearly million and a half
men who were not there a little more than
wear ago
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
HAS GERMANY FORGOTTEN?
Facts From, american Military History
By Samuel Abbott

fifteen minutes. And Kaiser take notice,
this loss represents killed and wounded
Fhere was no man missing"
The Twentieth Massachusetts. at Fred
ericksburg. lost 6s.4 per cent in one day and
again there was no report missing"
The First Maine Heavy Artillery at
petersburg. lost over 20 per cent of it's men
in seven minutes of fighting
The 14lst Pennsylvania, at GETTYSBURG
lost 10 per cent of its roster of officers and
men.
Nov for the boys in Gray. All four of
~ the percentages that follow represent
actual losses In killed and wounded with
not man "mssing"
First Texas. Antietam, s2.3 per cent
Twenty-hrst Georgia, Manassas, IS per
cent.
Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Gettysburg,
III per cent.
Sixth Mississippi. Shioah. 7O.5 per cent
To give one an idea of the savage intensity
OF the fighting during the closing year of the
civil War. ii is recorded that Lee. with
o5'ooO men, disposed of 81 900 of the Army
OF the Potomac before he was crushed into
submission.
Ell us go back to July, 1863 and imagine
IL a great Northern daily appearing with
the casualty lists of Meade's army alone with
no mention of Lees sacrifice at Gettvsburg
~ Would require all the columns of the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER to give the Union
names Has Germany forgotten that story of
hero!sn? And those furious weeks in Nav
ana June, 1864. when for days the two armies
were locked in bitter battle near Richmond
DAYS that shape themselves in. the words
me Wlidnerness." "Spot;sylvania" Gold
iiarbor, when shadowed in the names of
the boys in Blue and in Gray that went
down never to rise again. should make the
shiver of fear chill the marrow of the most
Prusslan of all the Prusslans. For America
repeats herself under the Stars and Stripes
NERMANf may have forgotten the years
~ of 1876. But the sons of the men who
shook hands at Appomattox will write a
chapter in the history of the world that
future Prussians will read with awe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

"The Brest-Litovsk peace declares
Herr Solf. German Secretary of State for the
Colonies, lis framework and the picture
which is to appear within is only sketched
in rough lines" Rough" is the word
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

Chairman Dent. of the House Commit
tee on Military Affairs, is likely to discover
that obstruction of the Administration war
program Is not profitable.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

Happily the oystermen are promising
that the way to bivalves will be made easy
with reasonable prices.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

The Huns in Noyon
Keeping Posted have been cnveloped,
and all that is now
necessary is for them 10 be stamped upon
In other words, the mailed fist is to be
mailed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

In these days of imminent dollar hair
cuts Delah would probably be dismissing
Samson with a resounding Next"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

There is a delightful paradox in the fact
that while the new street market at College
and Ridge avenues eurbs the food, it has
quite the opposite effect on our enthusiasm
over reduced prices
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

Jay Cooke is still finding persons guilty.
of boarding sweetness, but he has not vet
arrested any of the pretty girls on Chestnut
street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

The news that the French have taken
Cuts may impel Ludendorff to describe It
as one of the unkindest of all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

Metal will win the
A Mettlesome war. Mr.. lnterlocutor"
Fellow well, suppose il
WILL Mr.. Bones" Had
YOU any particular kind in mind? ." We'll
yes. l had. OF course, | may be wrong, but
it did somehow occur to me that the French
were winning their latest victories with
Mangin-ease'
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Brooklyn. y. Y, 18th August.

bIOOkINll, ~. l., lolH Aususl'
You will be surprised to hear from me
so soon, after me telling you that | was
going as second mate on the Nj to
Brazil. Well, I surmise you have already
read that we got summarized, didn't you.
We left Sandy Hook on the 1lth Aug. and
on the 14th at 7.20 AM were she'll
fired. The first shot was fired over the
poop and just missed the chief officer by
a hair
| happened to be in my bunk fast a
sleep. and did not hear the first shot but
the second one bursted 12 feet away from
my bunk in the ships side Up jumps.
looked around and hear was the third
mate twho was sleeping in the top bunk)
dressing, and | then realised what was
the matter. | slipped on my pants and
my coat. grabs my papers and ran for my
license which was in frame, and knocked
ii clean out.
Then | cut the boats lashings and low
cred the boat away, and while doing so
an other shell bursted right next to me,
splnters flying around my ears, Oh it was
some picnic believe me.
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Girls, It's a Serious Matter

The scarcity Of men at summer resorts
used to be joke, 1t has passed that stage
now.-Birmingham Age Herald.
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We were in the boat for hours. when
We're picked up by a Norwegian fruit
boat, SIS. r of kriStiania and landed
the following morning in y. V. bear
footed Naval authorities came on board
and asked our heads off how everything
happened. When we got ashore all hands
jumped on captain for money. and he
shouted back What am | going to do"
he phOned up the owners and they told
him to get the men 10 dollars each till
Monday. so tomorrow W. will be paid off
but our pay seized as soon as the ship
was sunk. All my clothes are lost and we
won't get cent for them for we did not
sign on for that. had at least over 200
dollars worth. Oh amt this war hell.
now wish it was all over.
Tomorrow We are all going mp to the
office to see if they won't allow us some.
! thing. ! came across a friend of mine
who had joined the navy he gave me
| his suit. I forgot to tell YOU where it
happened it was miles : S.S.W. of Winter
| quarter Shoal lightship, just miles of
| Norfolk Well. | have told YOU all that
| has happened to me, please write me as
| soon as you get this story.
DRENIS JONkERS.
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ErdcHtW the Germans Wcre not an.
cHOred to the Ancre.
Doctor Solf. the German colonial minister,
asserts that Germany has won the moral
right to be a colonial power-News Item
What Germany wants evidently, is Solf-
determination for her colonies.
Those loud detOndtiOHS yoH near are not
necessarily depth bombs or spies signal
ing to U-boats. This is the hay terer
season.
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The captain. A. r. is his name ordered
the wireless operator IA navy NAM to call
for assistance and was almost the last
man in the boat. After we got clear of
the ships side the submarine came sneak
ing slowly under the Ms stern. and
fred two shots in the stern. but still she
would not sink (for she is a strong wooden
vessel only year old so they got on the
port side and fired two more shots in her
forehOld which caused an explosion and
put her afre and then the submarine
went around her bow and cleared off.
When we were about 4 miles off the
Nj turned over to starhoard and went
down stern first for she had two hic Fair
bank motors in her.
The last we saw of the Nj was her
bowsprit and she sank in 90 foot of water
! estimated the submarine to he about
$50 feet long. I am sure il could not he
much more. for when she was alongside
Of MS we could see that she was not much
longer for the Nj is 2lO feet She had
two guns. The forward one was siX-inCh
and the stern one was it looked to me
Quickfiring gun: a coming tower and over
it wireless. from bow to stern. We all
were scared that she might turn that gun
| on the lifeboat, but fortunately they did
not.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

The beauties of the
Also smash crash and parry sys-
and Tarry TEN are being daily
eXempifed in Picardy
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

CSINCE Eylau no single battle in history
- has equaled in percentage of losses the
American casualties at Chickamauga. We
give the percentages of losses of the Victors
in three great Civil War battles:
Antietam, % per cent; Gettysburg, 20 per
cent; Chickamauga, ~ per cent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

TTAS Germany forgotten? We invite her
i to turn to the records of losses in battle
suffered by Federal and Confederate regi-
ments:
The First Minnesota lost SO per cent of its
men on the second day at Gettysburg In
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

longer referred to as problem, Its an
enigma. SOCRATES.
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A FREE SHIP FOR FREEDOM

PhiIadelphia. Friday. August %. 1918
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23

GERMANY may have forgotten the years
VI of 1876. But the sons of the men who
shook hands at Appomattox will write a
chapter in the history of the world that
future Prussians will read with awe
Williston graphic., 1918-06-13
SAGE TEA bEAUT|F|ES
AND DARKENS HAIR
Don't Stay Gray! It Darkens
So Naturally that No.
body can Tell.

You can turn gray, faded hair beau
tifully dark and lustrous almost over
night if you'll get 50-cent bottle OF O.!
"Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound
at any drug store. Millions Of bottles OF
this old famous Sage Tea Recipe, i'm
proved by the addition of other ingred,,'
ents, are sold annually, says we'll
known druggist here, because it darkens
the hair so naturally and evenly that no
one can tell it has been applied.
Those whose hair is turning gray or
becoming faded have surprise awaiting
them, because after one or two applica-
tions the gray hair vanishes and your
locks become luxuriantly dark and beau
tiful.
This is the age of youth. Gray'haired,
unattractive folks aren't wanted around,
60 get busy with Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound toni ght and you'll be de-
lighted with your dark, handsome hair
and your youthful appearance within
few days.
This preparation is a toilet requisite
and 10 not intended for the cure, mitigs'
ton or prevention of disease.
Williston graphic., 1918-06-13
PUPILS FINAL EIGHTH GRADE
EXAMINATIONS JUNE 27.28

State Superintendent Macdonald has
set June 9th and 2sth, As the dates
for the eighth grade final @xamina-
tions. AS most Of our schools are
closed at this time, the examinations
will be held at the Courthouse in Will
liston and also in the following
places.
The names of schools are given
with the special examiner for each:
Springbrook- Sigrid Sorem.
District No. 80, Formosa - Mr..
Lloyd B. Dorman, school No. 1.
Tioga-Mr. Roy Divers.
Ray-Mr. E. c. Qvale.
Epping-Miss Annie McCradie.
District No. 89-Mrs. A. E. Axel-
District No. 25, Wheelock-Miss
Mary C. Lynch.
District No. 4, Grinnell-Miss Lii
lie B. Truax, Strom School.
District No. 20, Freeman-Miss
1nea Dragseth, School No. 2.
District No. as, Cedar-Mrs. J. A.
Carlson.
District No. 43, Scandinavia-Mrs
Lena P. Jacobson, school No. 2.
District No. 81, Sandy Creek-Mrs.
Maria Pitkin, School No. 3.
Zahl-Mrs. Clyde Kenney.
District No. 81, View-Miss Nina
Nelson, Nelson School.
District No. SO, Bigstone-Mrs
Ebba Yount, school No. 2.
Trenton-Spec. Examiner.
s1.3t. Anna NJ. Peterson.
Williston graphic., 1918-06-13
WOman's Statement
Will Help Willist0n

II hated cooking because whatever
bloated feeling. l drank hot water
and olive oil by the gallon. Nothing
helped until tried simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Ad-
ler-i-ka." Because it fushes the EN-
TIRE BOWEL tract completely Ad-
ler-ika relieves ANY CASE sour
stomach, gas or constipation and pre-
vents appendicitis. The INSTANT
action is surprising. Williston Drug
Co.
Williston graphic., 1918-06-13

that the above named Company 10 fully
empowered. through it, o0tAoee0o0
business Of Authorised In0uIa1oo .
this state according to the laws there-
Of. until the 31st day OF March, A. d.
1919.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and seal at Bis
marck. this lst day OF April. A. D.
1918.
(SEAL) $. A. OL.SNESS
5l-3t. Commissioner OF Insurance.