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Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23

loaded with supplies and munitio,s
ana men. going up toward the front.
you'd those sleeping here ou. know
1t! Could they nut know that France.
as ever since those terrible days Of
1914 Is standing fast. holding the en-
envy al ga. and bearing the Lrunt of
thls terrific struggle! They must
know it, for they all sleep so peace
fuily. Their part is done. They have
given everything they had to give and
unbegrudgingly. For them the distant
rumble of the cannon has no misgiv-
lngs. fol they sleep secure n the be-
lief that victory some day will be ours.
Sleep en-, comrades-for l am priv
LEGGED to call you comrades-your
work is over. You have we'll earned
Jour rest. Those of us who are left
will carry on the work you so we'll be-
gan.
Just as left the gate turning
homeWard. a strange procession ap-
peared down the lane, and stopped to
let 1t pass-a huge canton, painted
war gray, followed by eight grizzed
territorials, their rifles slung over their
shoulders poilu fashion. They were
dirty, unshaven, and their uniforms
faded and torn, but, oh. so typical OF
France, torn and wracked by four
long years of war. On the truck was
| painted the word Munitions 1t was
not mislabeled, for it carried cannon
fodder that had served its purpose
and had been used up in the struggle
Il came quickly to attention and sa
luted. It is a custom of the country
often done without thought or feeling
but this time my soul was in it. l wa
proud to thus render homage to on
poor common soldie. as he passed OF
his last, long march.
open wide the gates and give tn
newcomer room! Give him CON
Portable place in that furthest row, TO
he must have rest and peace. TIL
leaves in the trees rustled,. the tor
and faded flags tiuttered and the ii
tricOlOr cOckades on each cross tinkle
thus was the newcomer welcome
into his last earthly home"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
BASEBALL
STORIES

William J. Artz is new umpire in
the Eastern league.
So long as Shanks remains, the
Griffs will have utility staff.
When John McGraw is in doubt he
calls on Al Demaree and AL delivers.
Ed BarrOw's greatest weakness Is
a lack of reserve strength for his Red
Sox.
Charley Risberg doesn't seem to be
affected by the White Sox slump. This
player has been hitting the ball.
The idea that Walter Johnson was
losing his smoke has been revised.
Walter can buzz them over as fast as
ever.
Marty McGafigan got tired of being
called a Quaker and decided to go
into the army along with the Fighting
Irish.
| The Boston Red Sox have signed
Ford, an infelder from the Tufts col
lege varsity nine He is a shortstop
and second baseman.
The Tigers will try out First Base
man Graham, who played good ball
with Chattanooga, in the disbanded
Southern association.
John Beall, the Milwaukee man, who
has Joined st. Louis, has so much con-
fidence in his ability to stick that he
moved his family to the Mound city.
Hester June is the name of a Uni.
versity of Virginia pitcher who has
been taken on for trial by the Cleve.
land Indians. He is Highlander.
Fred Mitchell is making a strong bic
to swipe George Stallings' Miracle
!, shoes. George has 'em tied in hare
knot and is stepping out bit himself
The New London club has been get
ting some wonderful pitching, and tn
: average of runs scored against it!
. ! twirlers is the lowest in the Easter
> league.
3 Walter Rousch, brother of Eddi
= Rousch. leading slugger of the Ma
tional league in 1917. and Paul Cobt
brother of the famous Ty, are bot
members of the United States Marine
team of Quantico, Va.
q The French have taken a great inter
s est in baseball and already hav
r caught on to our set phrases and e,
d pressions. "Glisser au over mean
J. 1.-The runner slid home" "FOul' is tran
lated "poulet," and "fy'' is ''mouche
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
Leon Ames.

knows how to pitch. He doesn't cut
loose too early in the season, and he
saves his arm whenever he can. Pitch
ing with ones noodle as well as with
the arm is a secret that Ames learned
long ago.
Ames broke into the big show at
the flag end Of the 1908 season, but
did not really get his first tryout
until the next season, when he took
part in 16 games. The next year he
was ready for all the work McGraw
could give him and succeeded in win
ming % games and losing but eight.
That was his biggest winning year, al
though he always worked in many
games and for a number of years
ranked as the best pitcher in either
league to go in and finish a game that
was in danger.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
CONNIE is SWEET ON IRISH
Talent Possessing Reminders
of "OuId Sod"

Connie Mack has a soft spot IN hfs
heart for ball players with Irish names.
He won the championship with Ed
die Collins, Jack Barry, Stuff McIn-
mes and other sons of Erin. These
stars have gone, but Connie has anoth-
er array Of talent that possesses good
old-fashioned reminders Of the "ould
sod"
There is Walker, Burns, Shannon.
Dugan, McAvoy, Geary, Shea and
Holmes, and others. When you remem-
Der Connie Mack's real name is Cor
nelius McGillicuddy, you won't be sur
prised at his fondness for the Irish
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
N. Y. AIR RAID GERMAN JOKE
Comic Paper Says American Women
Are Keen on Latest Paris
Novelties.

Amsterdam-A cartoon in the lat
est issue of the German comic paper
Jugend pictures German air raid on
New York. The scene is a New York
roof garden, from which the sky is
shown ablaze with bombs, shrapnel
and fighting planes An American
''multimillionaire' is shown escorting
his richly clad wife, who is said to be
shrinking in terror before the appari-
ton in the sky" He treasures her by
saying soothingly: well, my dear,
you have always been keen on having
the latest Partisan novelties. Now
you've got them!"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
fourteen YEARS OF
BIG LEAGUE SERVICE
"Red" Ames Still Good ENOUGH to
Hold His Meal Ticket.
Player Who Won Fame AZ Pltchersfor
New York Giants Is Depended
Upon to Do His Share of Work
for st. Louis Cardinals.

With fourteen years Of major league
pitching behind him, old Leon ("Red')
Ames, who won most of his fame as
a pitcher for the Giants, is still good
enough to hold a meal ticket in the
big show.
AS a member of the st. Louis Car
dinals, where he was sent in a trade
in 1915, Ames is depended upon to do
a share of the pitching, and. with
good support, he generally gives all
Corners battle.
Last season, when the Cards began
to look up and play some real base
ball for Miller Higgins, Ames worked
in total of 43 games and won Is.
He was credited with ten losses.
This season the red-headed finger
showed surprisingly good early sea-
son form, and in a game at Pitts
burgh, May 2, he held the Pirates to
two hits, both Of which were regis
| tered against him in the first inning
and netted Bezdek's boys the lone run
that won the game. That was some
thing Of a heart-breaker for a vet
eran like Ames-to pitch a two-hit
| game and lose it.
One Of the secrets Of Ames' success
as pitcher lies in the fact that he
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
YER DOLLAR IS BIG
ON A TRAINING TRIP

The White Sox were playing
long, extra-inning game at Chi
cago. The sun was setting-one
Of those great, round red suns.
It cleaned through the lattice
work of the upper stands at
Comiskey park and shone direct
~ into Right Fielder Shauno
Collins face. As the latter came
in for the last half Of the thir-
teenth inning he was stopped by
a fellow player, who asked:
"What does that sun remind
you Of, Shauno?"
Collins paused for a moment.
Then he said: ut reminds me
of a silver dollar on a training
trip; just about the same size"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
American Soldiers ard Sailors
Well Cared For by Y. M. C. A.
in London.
BOYS LONG FOR HOME EATS
Eagle Hut Represents Last Word in
Economical Eating in British Capt.
taI-Menu Shows Great Vari.
ETY. of Dishes.

London.-Fourteen cents for sat
isfying meal. Twenty-Five cents for
superlatively filling repast. These
prices reveal that the high cost of eat
ing should have no terrors to the
American soldier or sailor ION his
own" in London. It represents that
last word in economical eating even
for the English capital, where prices
are uniformly moderate. Even the big
ger public eating places, where large
turnover allows low charge, the low
est price charged for modest meal
is tenpence-2O cents, while the meal
which costs the Yankee fighter shil-
ling costs the civilian as much as 80
cents.
Moreover it is American food. Not
every American boy in olive drab or
navy blue who lands in London has q
! literary tourists ambition to eat at the
Cheshire Cheese or the Blackfriars OF
ahy of the other quaint inns made ia
nous by Dickens or Thackeray. Many
of our fighters do not care for the pom
derous dishes Of the two-decker nov
| els, Out ycdIu AOA AAONOAA "O
Where King Ate Pancakes.
And they get it, at II to Is cents
at Eagle Hut, the famous Y. M. q.
center. where King George and Quee'
Mary recently enjoyed pancakes Il
American.
The accent rate is cheaper evel
than that charged at the national moo
. o, kitchen. where a three-course mea
of SOUP, beef and pudding costs l
: cents. Mrs. Arthur Coke OF Londol
who makes out all the Hut menus, nc
only meets all government require
= ments, but sees to it that there Is prol
, or and attractive variation IN tn
\ dishes from day to day. The food
+ Main. to be sure, but it all Is OF mig
n quality, and the portions show q
o stinting.
breakfast and supper each cost
4 con+s A breakfast consists of cerea
q sausage or bacon, bread and tea.
d recent supper consisted OF sausag
It we'll done, thick slices of bread VII
v butter. marmalade and tea. The san
q food costs from Is to 80 cents at u
J. West-end restaurants. !,
" A typical shilling dinner 1ncluu
Scotch broth, stewed steak or co
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
GET GOOD MEAL
FOR IA CENTS

beef, potatoes, buttered beets, currant
pudding, bread, tea or coffee. The
soups are not the dishwater type,
Hut shilling supper provides the
American fighter with meat pie con-
tanning more meat than crust, or sau-
sage, potatoes, jelly, bread and butter,
cake and tea or coffee. Commercial
eating places charge two or three
times this amount, often as high as S5
cents, within governmental restric-
tons.
VARIETY to Choose From.
The American soldier or sailor also
can choose from extra dishes at equal
ly low prices, choice Of fish, pie, eggs
prepared in various ways, baked beans,
salads, fried onions, rice-and-marma
lade, custards, jellies and other sweets
which are strangers to camp mess.
The prices charged at the Eagle Hut
are from two to six cents less than
the ordinary restaurant prices In adj
| dition, this is the one place where the
American boys can get that most typ
ical home delicacy, American pancakes
with maple strip, which the king and
queen sampled recently. Twelve
cents buys a brace of cakes with ma
pie strip, and the first half-month's de-
mand for this favorite totaled one or
more helpings for 6124 men.
It is no wonder then that Eagle Hut
feeds between 1000 and $500 Ameri-
can fighters daily, and that the noon
hour is a continuous rush which taxes
to the uttermost the efforts of the
mattresses, all women who volunteer
their services and minister with smil-
ing patience and friendliness to the
appreciative lads from the United
States.
Eagle Hut dispenses other commodi-
ties, tobacco and candy topping the
list of favorites. A few Americans,
forgetting the many advantages and
economies found at the Hut, have CON-
planned that their favorite brands of
American tobacco, If at all obtainable,
cost them more than it did at home.
They did not know that there is O
, high import duty on cigarettes and
prepared tobacco for pipes and max.
> ings" nor that there is a home tau
! which is causing the English tobac
conists to revise their prices often
Smoking imported tobacco in England
today really is luxury. The Wis.,
stranger has given it up in favor o.
the brands the English use.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
No Soft Job for Foil.

It's job that requires overalls and
hard work that Lee Foil, manager Of
the Cleveland Americans, will assume
when the baseball season is ended in
October. "No soft job for me during
the winter months" Foil said. 81 am
well over the draft age, but am husky
enough to do my share of hard work.
specially as th, government needs
,.!!e-bodied men in the shops"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
Faeth to Continue Playing.

Tony Faeth, Milwaukee pitcher, has
gone into the army school for training
mechanics near st. Paul and TN visits
OF the Milwaukee team to st. Paul or
Minneapolis he will get furlOughs and
nitch for the Brewers until he COM
,letes his course and is sent abroad.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-08-23
Has Eight Sons in Service.

Denver, Colo.-Thomas D. Cain,
Denver jeweler, holds the record for
the Rocky mountain region for number
of sons in military service. Every one
Of his eight sons is in some branch of
the military service. Five Of them
have gone to France, and the three
othc~s are in different Cantonment
camps.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15
THE WOMAN'S SALUTE

American women should salute the
American flag.
They want to salute 1t.
When the flag passes or the Star
Spangled Banner music rings down
the street, men bare their heads, and
women in the crowds thrill with the
same desire to show their patriotism.
They long to shout or wave, or bow
their heads in reverence.
But no woman does any of these
things-because waving and shouting
in public simply isn't done!"
In the unwritten laws Of conven-
ton there is no provision for wom-
ans gesture of salute.
Everyone expects man to remove
his hat when the flag passes-and he
does it. Everyone expects a woman
to do nothing when the flag passes
and she does it.
But that does not alter the fact
that women wish to salute the flag
and should salute it. An appropriate
gesture must be found.
Women, as well as men, are active
American citizens, with a real part
in the war and a real stake in the
country. Not all of them have a
voice in government, but most OF
them have a relative in the army or
navy, and most of them have fam
lilies, or jobs, or both, or all three
The American flag is their flag, and
they want to acknowledge and accept
! its responsibilities as we'll as claim
its protection and glory.
From the American flag women gel
the same benefits as men, in larger
sense they give the same service tt
II and feel the same devotion to it
All that is lacking is a formal, uni
versal gesture which shall expires:
women's loyalty as the lifted hat ex
presses the loyalty of men.
1t is suggested that all womeI
adopt as this formal salute the fol
lowing attitude: Attention, heels to
gether, eyes front, right hand PLACED
on heart.
The flag is passing by Womel
ealute,-Jackson (Mich.) Patriot.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15
DO IT FOR BABY
Our Second Line Of Defense
(Rv Ruth Danenhower Wilson Oh in'
Vigilantes.)

fRv Ruth Danenhower Wilson Oh ivy
Vigilantes.)
c,,nnoso von we're Red Cross
Nurse in charge of the diet Kitchen -
one Of our convalescent hospitals II
France On you would rest 'ne l'
.norsibilitv of seeing that the 1000
was properly prepared for our boys
who were trying to get strong enough
n 90 hack to the firing line.
How tirelessly you would study the
nreparation Of their food HOW re-
morseful you would be II through
vour ignorance or neglect one soldier
,,,as made worse or retarded IN MS
struggle for health Can't you imagine
what an enormity 1t would be II you
gave any Of them the wrong fooa' OF
meals improperly prepared? How inc
other nurses would talk, Perhaps you
would be reported and sent home for
having failed in your duty.
We mothers must consider our duty
of feeding our babies and children
inst as sacred as if we were that he2
Cross nurse. She is nursing Amer
ica's first line of defense. We are
bringing up "the second line. II
,our ignorance or carelessness retards
our babies development we are just
as culpable as nurse who fails III
her duty.
So many infant deaths are directly
due to faulty diets.
"My baby eats everything we do"
many a mother says proudly OF 2
white, fabby baby that is ready to
succumb to the least illness. Let me
quote Mrs. Max West, one OF the
specialists of the Children's Bureau at
Washington.
"The digestive machinery of .
young child is no more capable o.
dealing with all the foods which az
adult may eat than are their muscles
and brains capable of doing the worl
of a grown person.
The question of what to feed babe!
and children is a complicated one t.
which doctors have given much study
The results of their work with die
lists for various ages are freely at tn
disposal Of every American mother
Our government is teaching us +
bring up our Second line of defense.
(Any mother who does not know
what to do for her baby has onl
to write to the Childrens Bureau O
the Department of Labor at Washing
ton, and helpful pamphlets, written b
!, specialists, will come to her at once.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15
Three Million Books
For Arn1y's Readers
THE MAN BEHIND

The same bull-frogs are croaking IN
the reeds along the slough,
The same brown thrush is clucking to
the cricket in the dew,
The morning sunlight glistens on the
fields of golden wheat
And the wild rose by the worm-rail-
just as fragrant, just as sweet;
And behold, diwn in the timber where
the shadows come and go,
Where the rifles in the willows still
are singing-soft and low,
Just above the moss-grown boulder
and the eddy and the shoal,
Is my little bit Of heaven. It's the
same old fishin' hole.
Here I sit today in dreaming where
I've dreamed for fifty years.
Something seems to blur my vision in
mist of scalding tears.
There's a something gone forever,
something vague yet strangely
strong
And I find it is the cadence of the
plowboy's cheering song.
Far across the waving corn fields !
can see the old roam mare
And the blackened furrow rolling and
the flashing Of the share,
There's a certain vigor lacking
something lost and underlined.
In the motion of the plow-man of the
gaunt old man behind.
There's service flag at Hanley's
weather-stained and somewhat
Where a single star is cleaning in It's
center, all forlorn.
There's simple little story, often
dreamed but seldom told
How that single star at Hanley's
turned from faded blue to gold.
Guns may roar in distant Flanders
men may die and men may kill,
War has lost its grim attraction a
the farm house on the hill
/, Yet upon the door post yonder-I cal
see it's crimson glow
Is the symbol to the honor Of the bo
used to know.
Suddenly west wind caught 1t, lift
ing high its crimson fold
, AS triumph, great, undimming, tina
the whole world might behold,
One more life on Freedoms altar. on
more star to fifty shine,
One more thread to weave the fabrl
Of the flag we hold divine.
|, And the mother in the garden and tn
:. father in the field
Pause to gaze upon the emblem wit
the lone star on its shield
And I note an added vigor, somethir
:. proud yet underlined
= In the motion Of the ploy-man--of Il
. gaunt old man behind.
" will Ferrell..
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15

There are varieties of spinach, one
of the best known crops for greens,
and it should be-found in every Flor
ida garden. 1t belongs, according to
botanists, to the goosefoot family OF
plants. So called owing to the shape
of it's leaf. 1t can be grown in the
open in Florida in the fall,winter and
spring, and there Is no more palatable
form of greens for table use. On the
menu cards of the large city res
taurants, spinach is usually listed al
high prices.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15

A man in the audience jumped up ON
his seat and yelled: "Say, professor.
I'll give you $1,000 If you'll show me-
how to do that"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15

A magician was playing a small
town in Pennsylvania last week. He
did an illusion act with his wife in
which he made bis wife disappear,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15

Peach trees will bear quite
within two years from pl
Quicker returns can be bad
them. than from any other tlu|
cept figs. The South chance W
peaches seem to do better Ar|
other, being earlier to ripen
quality and stands rough halah|
shipping. Every farmer and aT|
owner should have a few trees
must be carefully guarded agn|
ease, but no good thing can Y
without labor.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-07-15

Spain registers greater percentage
of sunshine every year than any other
nation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-05
BUILDING PERMITS.

Eight building permits were grant
cd by the Building Commissioner at
their meeting yesterday afternoon and
among them was one-room building
for the Remington Arms-U. NC. Co.
on the East Side of Asylum street.
The permits granted amount to ST.
$50 and the list follows:
Reinforced concrete retaining wall
on the west side of Central avenue
for the Electric Cable Co.
Two story brick and frame build
ing, with stores and residence, on the
north side of Spruce street for Charles
Mallitz.
One-room building on the east side
of Asylum street for the Remington
Arms-U. NJ. c. Co.
+, Private garage on the north side
of Arcadia street for Annie Teny.
+ Two-family house on the north
side of Boston avenue for Mary P.
Della.
] Additions and alterations, 2255
Main street, for J. D. Budau estate
: Addition on west side of Hancock
avenue for John Rosa.
= Two-family house on the north
side of Beechwood avenue for the
First Swedish M. E. church.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-05
HAMILTON COMMANDERY.
NO. 5, KNIGHTS TEMPLAF,

Conclaves of Hamilton Command
cry will be held in the Asylum Ma
sonic Temple, during the month of
June, July and August as follows:
Thursday evening, June 6, stated
conclave at 8 o'clock. The Illustrious
Order of the Red Cross will be con-
ferred by Sir William E. Parker, gem
gree of st. Paul and theO
eralissimo The essentials of the De-
gree of St. Paul and the Order of the
Knight of Malta will be conferred by
Eminent Sir John A. Gorham, P. c..
Thursday evening, June 20, stated
conclave at o'clock. The Valiant
and Magnanimous, Order of the Tenn
pie will be conferred by the Emin-
cnt Commander. Es-
Thursday evening, July II, stated
conclave at o'clock. Business only
Thursday evening August s, stated
conclave at o'clock. Business only.
Plans for Commandery Field Day
are being considered, due notice will
be sent to members later if desirable
arrangements can be perfected.
At the stated conclave, May Is.
Hamilton Commandery voted $3.50 rs
it's contribution to the Red Cross War
Fund from the Masonic Fraternity of
Bridgeport.
The total contribution to the second
Red Cross drive from. the Masonic
bodies of Bridgeport was $4,000.