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torium is saucer-shaped and sloping, so that every seat in the house is a good one; the sections are so num- bered that seats may be reserved in advance. The theater is placed on the highest point in each camp and nearly are grouped the camp post office. the library and the hostess houses. making small town within itself.
 Nor is the utilitarian value of these theaters overlooked, for on the tall tower that comprises the stage loft, the training soldiers have point of vantage for wigwag sig nals, giving them practice in long distance signalling that is sure to prove useful in the practice of actual war.
 Each theater is provided with motion- picture booth, asbestos s-lined, and the stage of all of them has an asbestos curtain. The lighting ef- fects are similar to those used in city theaters.
 Ordinarily, the cost of operating such series of tlleaters, tents and auGitoriums would be prohibitive.
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From this time forth there is to be no lack of healthful and insprational entertainment at all the Army Can comments and National Guard camps. Under the skilled direction of the Military Entertainment Council" just appointed by the Secretary of War, ample provision has been made. not only to provide the leisure hours of the soldiens wich fine amusement of the higher class. but also to pro- vide way by which every friend of the soldier-and in these days and at such time these friends are legion may contribute toward the happi ness of the boys in khaki.
 The work of entertaining the sol diers has been consolidated under the Military Entertainment Council of which James Couzens, of Detroit, is chairman; with Harry P. Harrison, of Chicago, as chairman of the ex ecutive committee
 Under the Council, the Chautauqua tents and the Marc Klaw theaters are all to operate together. giving nightly entertainments. They will hereafter be known as Liberty tents." "Libcrty auditoriums. and "Liherty theaters."
 The Military Entertainment Coun- cil is composed as follows: James Couzens, Detroit. chairman: F. w Woolworth, New York; Asa G. Candler, Atlanta Mrs Josiah E. Cowles. Los Angeles; w. I. Dawes, f'"aro; James A. Flohcrtv Phia- delphia; Myron T. Herrick. Cleve- land; Mrs. Howard H. Snauldinr. Ji., Chicago; Otto II. Kahn. New York; Major Henry Lee Higginson, Boston. ard Dr. Frank w. Grnsaulus. Chi cago.
 Already the sixteen large Lib erty theaters, each sea tin2 three thousand men, are completed A tentative schedule for tho rotation ef vanous kinds of cntcrtanm"nt !ras been arranged. which provides in ,-Snera! that the-e sh; he nnc week of standard plays hv .rst c'oss ccrn- naN!es. followed by q wsek of q ,aii cellaneous program ef 'u,..,-'Tt>
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but the managers have met with such patriotic cooperation as to put these entertainments within the reach of every soldier.
 Operating expense has been re- duced to such a practical and patri- otic basis that the actual cost of these performances to the soldiers will range from five cents to twenty five cents seat, with a ma jority at ten and fifteen cents.
 Even at these bedrock prices it is realized that there will be many sol diers who cannot afford to attend many performances, but even this has been provided for.
 The Comunission on Training Camp Activities has devised a book of coupon tickets in two sizes. One book sells for $1, and contains twen- ty coupons good for admission; an- other sells for $5 and contains tick cts of admission to one hundred performances.
 They are called "Smileage Books" and the coupons they contain are good for seats at any performance at any camp theater.
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Thrilling Tale of Fight fUr
 Life with Sea by Subs Crew
British Commander Tells ow Little Craft Battered Shoal Afire and Leakn g, Tried to Dodge Cruiser Thought to Be Enemy

1 tanks were holed, and the ship was leaking internally in about a dozen places.
 "It looked pretty hopeless, so as l started to destroy all confidential papers, charts and instructions. the most secret things being baked in the electric oven until brittle and then powdered up. Then held council of war upon what we should do if we could get afloat in the morning. l had enough faith in the German spy system to expect that we had been oh- served as were threshing about in the night and could expect trouble soon after day break.
 "When dawn came found we were barely fifty yards from shore at a point about midway along the island of TeNel, had a clear sea behind us without shoals, and that the sea had gone down a lot. We were leaking so ] badly that felt that diving would be $, risky experiment, only to be tried in the eXtremest case, with probably a , to chance against us. l was quite satisfied however that we could get back to England if the weather halu good and we were not interfered with About 9:45 we sighted cruiser com ing along the coast and steaming very fast. A rain squall was coming up behind her which plotted her out be- fore we could distinguish details. bue just before going out of sight.
 "The most hopeful scheme seemed to be to get straight out seaward, in hope of slipping away unobscrved in the mist. alt was painfully slow work ages passed, and we began to cheer up thinking all was we'll Then suddenly we stopped her. She had altered course again, and we was now driving up at great rate on a course that looked as if she meant ramming.
 Dives From Cruiser.
 When she was short half-mile away l made out the blurred outline of her guns, and immediately after ward saw them swinging forward. It , is an unwritten law of the sea never to train guns on warships of a nation with whom one is at peacc,--tor ob viouS reasons. Therefore her action in training her guns on Us at this mo ment seemed to prove conclusivelN that she was hostile and about to open fire. To stay on the surface seemed certain death. either from guniire O; | ramming, SO l took the to ! chance for life underwater.
 "1he moments following my order to dive were rather exciting. When tried to close the coming tower lid l found to my horror that it had jam med. By the feel of 1t fancy piece of waste or ropes end had fouled the couaterbalancc weight. The water was halfway up the coming tower. No time to do anything. 50 started down lagain with the idea of closing the tow
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man for that" .e
 Raymond E. Fosdick, Chairman ct the War Department Commission OH Training Camp Activities, IS enthu- siastic about this newly created en- tertainment plan. He writes:
 I remember standing on the streets of Columbus shortly after Villa had devasted the village, watch ing our 5000 soldiers come over the railroad tracks into town. in the evening. There was absoluteiy nothing for them to do there-no movies, no libraries, no place to Wrlte letters, no homes to which tney could go-nothing but saloons ana a well-organized Red Light district.
 s.In this war we are driving those vicious agencies out of business and setting Np clean entertalnment m their place. This has direct bear ing on the health of our army, and is an absolute necessity in maintain ing the morale of our men,"
 And this testimony is amply sup ported by Secretary of War Baker, who, writing to Chairman Fosdlck' declared:
 "A proper amount of clean, whole some entertainment contributes largely to the happiness of our sol diers in camp and is fundamental III supplementing their physical and military training.
 "To make such entertainment readily available for all soldiers is one of the most important duties of the War Commission for Training Camp Activities, and the work must be continued and extended.
 "I am glad to know that all enter tainment projects will be consoll- dated and managed directly by your Commission.
 "Your plan of selling smileage Books seems to be an admirable way of financing this worthy enterprise, oecause it gives to the individual citi- zen an easy opportunity of furnish, ing the means for numerous good times to his soldier friends.
 Very truly your,
 (Signed) Newton D. Baker,
 Secretary of War,
 So, the Military Entertainment Council, which has so successfully worked out a perfect coordination of all the entertainment problems at the camps, has done it's part. It will provide entertainments which, under
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lectures, motion pictures and local talent, of which plenty has been dis covered among the boys themselves. The third week will be devoted to vaudeville, two performances day, miscellaneous week.
 Four Broadway companies will present Broadway comedy successes, the plays already arranged for be- ing: "Turn to the Right" Cheating Chcc tars," "Herc Comes the Bride" ana "lnside the Lines" Plans arc already under way for the presenta- tion of musical comedies and light operas. those under consideration be- ing: "The Prince of Pilsen." "The Red Mill" "Thc Chocolate Soldier" Robin Hood," and the Gilbert and Sullivan productions. E. F. Albee. the well known general manager of tEc Keith Circuit, has arranged four special vaudeville bills whose rout- ings through the camps will be so arranged as to prevent an unvarcd succession in any camp of any one kind of entertainment
 Through Harry P. Harrison, the ChautauGuas have arranged to pro- vide their best talent and most at tractive features, including graphic lectures from men who have returned from lover there" The Chautauouas will also provide Jazz Bands. orchas- tras. the members of which will also sing and put on special stunts; his torical and patriotic musical reviews and so on.
 All this. of course, is going to cost money--a good deal of money Take the Liberty Theate+s, fer instance Their erection was paid for rom ap- propriations by the aoverunoent and supervised by the War Department Comr.ission on Training C. am D Astjvities Each is TO feet wi9e and i79 Nar They are built of pine boards. unnainted. but faced with heavy Erilding pe~er nl9kinG the sides wind t;"ht Complete vcntilat- inG systems have been installed and fnrpC the winter heat is supplied by steam and small stoves. Each fl' ater hes five aaae entrances and fftecn exits anh a building, which SC. ta ce,Nt"r'ah'v ? coo ,ncn. may ho o9N ~'io,' ,n %hort ona minute
 The st2"a cf "3eh tfaNte" ia c.>nl D!"te and mo,i""a: S;yty-tve feet r'fo ",,' 'o"'- o.,ar ,, ~ stage a~N r.7 '9 Ter i of tila aucj:
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Correspondence Associated Press,

London, Dec 15.-Death in varied forms menaced and played for many hours with the crew of the British sub marine E-17, wrecked and finally sunk, after a gallant fight for life, off the story of her commander. His account gives a vivid picture of an all night struggle to save the submarine and her company from the battering of the waves which hammered the little yes se upon the shoal, of a fight with fire in her hold, against leaks that threat ened to fill her with water and to catch and secure torpedo thrown from it's lashings with it's warhead in place, menacing all With instant destruction.
 Freed from the shoal only to be con fronted by an apparently hostile cruis- CT bent on their destruction, the sub marine commander tells how he was oriven to the desperate resource of submerging in d waterlogged craft and of the suspense of the critical mo- ments when he discovered that his vessel was filling at the bottom of the ocean and of fight back to the sur face to face the guns of the cruiser.
 Writing from Dutch ntcrnment camp, the E-17's commander, after tel ling of the standing of the submarine and tho vain struggle to float her adds:
 "The antics of the boat proved too much for the lashings of one of the spare torpedoes; the tail held firm, but the nose, with the heavy warhead in place, commenced threshing about in the boat, and would have done lot of damage if it had not been rapidly rc-sscured.
 Large quantities of water had come down the coming tower and made an awful mess of things. It got at the electric light switchboards. fused the nolice-lights, and started fire be hind the switchboards, which had to bc put out with one of the patent fire extinguishers. The resulting fumes of burnt rubber and fire eNtinguisher, made most unpleasant combination, with which we were bottled up for the rest of the night.
 Terrible Wait for Dawn.
 'It was terrible time. that period of waiting for the dawn. None of Us thought that the boat could last out, and take my hat off to the men that made her: it was simply wonderful the amount of hammering she took. My inspection showed that the ruddar had gone, and the after compartment had large direct connection with the sea probably through the hole where the iudder had been. The bulkhead of this compartment had also been strained and was leaking. Both pro ueller shafts had been slightly bent by the Jumping, and both main en- zines had got damp and were full of electric leaks; six of the big main
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These books, which are to be placed on sale the week of January 28 all over the country, offer to those who are obliged to stay at home a fine chance to contribute to the camp life of the soldiers wholesome and cheerful entertainment. As gifts these "Smileage Books" will possess distinctive character.
 Each time the soldier tears coup ons from his book he will in a sense touch hands with the person who sent it to him, and, of course, in great many cases the donor will re- main an unknown henefactor though there is place on every coupon for the giver to sign his name, thus add ing a personal touch to his gift.
 No doubt, of course, the most popular soldiers will receive the most "Smileage Books. but this should not matter, for it is charac- teristic of the American soldier to share his abundance with his mates. It is, indeed, an army axiom that everything is common property around camp except money, and all you have to do is to ask the next
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NATIONAL MOTOR BOAT SHOW.

New York, Jan. 19.-"How the mot or boat is helping to win the war is the keynote of the fourteenth an- nual National Motor Show. which op'
 cned in Madison Square Garden to- cay for weeks engagement. Speedy high bowed craft Of the type used in guarding the coasts are displayed in large number on the main floor of the garden. The display of war craft does not comprise the whole of the exhibition, however. for there arc wide variety of other power boats to Dc seen. ranging in type fro nthe sea flsherman's dory tothe Limousine" launch with rosewood panels and silk velour cushions. The exhibit of mot ors is most complete. Every con
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CT door. l had barely got to the edge of the hole when the water came. The first wave hit the lid a great smack, and luckily broke the obstruction and closed the lid with a bang, although, an avalanche of water got into the boat first.
 "I found things pretty serious in- side, for as soon as the pressure came on the leaks had opened up, and the boat had taken charge of itself, sink ing like stone. The water inside had run aft, depressing the stern to such an angie that it was impossible to stand without holding on to some thing.
 Ut was out of the question to re- main submerged, the question was rather whether we would be able to get back to the surface at all. The boat had gone right down until she touched bottom with her tail As she did so the door of the after compart- ment commenced to gape and give. If the boat had stayed at that depth, it would have gone. But immediately on touching the bottom she commenced to rise again, because the water blown out of her tanks was sufficient to give her a slight buoyancy as soon as her downward momentum was stopped. "There was tremendous lot of free water in the interior. Some of the men were literally washed away from their stations. Those who were wash cd away stayed near their billets as possible, ready to dive back and work their valves if it required it. They might have been doing routine prac- tcc in home waters for all the differ- cnce it made.
 "Wc were now rising very slowly. when suddenly the port motor blew out, wate r have reached it and short circuit ad it. This happened at 45 feet, then stopped and commenced sinking again slowly The dial pointer crept round to As feet, stopped, then went to i9, then to 49 l-2 and there for a lonv time and then started to rise again.
 Cruiser Dutch Ship.
 This was the critical moment. If she had gone down instead of up, noth- could of have saved us. Once she made up her mind to come up, she came with rush. We emerged ready ready to torpedo the German cruiser if we could, and the men standing ready to swim for it as soon as we had fired. When we broke surface, three was the ship, lying motionless 400 yards away, d beautiful shot. But it had stopped rainine. and l was as tonished to find at first sight, that she was a Dutchman. Her ensign was clearly visible and her silhouette. which I now saw for tho first time Was unmstakablc.
 My boat was practically in sink ing condition and l signalled to the Dutch cruiser for help. Boats were sent over with the utmost promptitude and We shortly found curse Ives aboard the Noord Brabant, of the Dutch RoN- al Navy, stationed at tho lieider, w were received and treated most warm heartedlv l went up on tho bridce and watched my boat take its last plunge. As she went down a bug' sounded the Attention and the Nocld Brahant saluted her while she died.
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ordinary circumstances. wo,,ld u $1.50 or $2.O0, and the highest r,;s .GA charged the soldier will be ' 95 cpr. pr,ss To make this possible the cit;,aS it.',S do their part by providing the hbeA heu of the camps the Smileage e pooIn poon that will admit them to the sbom Ibovn
 There are sixteen theaters s o., seating 5000 soldiers, nightly, mi, mi, calls for 48,0OO coupons of adm;. ' sion a night, or 336,O00 coupons ''' week. Very largely, these must bs the gift of the civilians to s' ths ss ts diers. That is why the Military Es SS' tertainment Council looks forwsrd l.. !. the sale of at least 1,000,OOO S Sm;,s " age Books when once the camna;s ,s, has started. At least so prsa masa books must be sold in the week % 7 January 28, which marks the fl frs. st drive, but hereafter the Smiass,, s1,, Books will always be on sale l'ss1 asi any time a stay-at-home thinks os the hard work that our boys arc co ~ ing through to fit themselves to feS, st our battles ill the greatest war SI' ;a history, he can purchase a book \, a handful of books and send them ts the nearest camp-even though fs hasn't boy of his own in the SOY. . vice-certain that he is adding to N. joy life; helping some soldiers I ts go about their work the more cbeer. fully and gladly, because knowinp that back of them, outside the cams is a great body of patriotic citizenT eager and willing to do all that may be done to make the training perod less arduous, less nonctonous aM more healthful.
 The sale of the Smileage Books will be carried on throughout tie country. In the cities the work will have the assistance of members o the Rotary Clubs, Rotarians repra senting nearly fifty cities havia. recently met in Washington to offer their services to the Smileage cam paign.
 In the smaller cities, towns and country districts, the work will have the organized assistance of the y ceum and Chautauqua manages who are prominently represented or the War Service Committee, q which Harry P. Harrison is executive chairman. The Committee is e. operating with the Entertainmen Council in charge of the campaip for the sale of Snl;leage Books.
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HONOR LEES MEMORY.

Richmond. Va, Jan, l9.--Jhe one hundred and eleventh anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Les vas observed as legal holiday today in Virginia and other States Of the South. Exercises in honor of the memory of the great Confederate chieftajn were held in many cities un- dc rthe auspices Of the United Con federate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confedcracy and Sons of Con- fcderaie Veterans.
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FIRE AT FINES
 DAMAGES PAPER

Fire was discovered in a bale of paper in the basement of the Hotel Pines yesterday afternoon. The fire companies made a quick run and the small blaze was eXtinguished in short order. The large amount of smoke caused considerable excitement bat the damage was very slight.
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under a $5O,OOo bond by Federal jsa| Hand here today, pending outcome his appeal from conviction on chai1 of conspiring to fomcnt strikes amyI munition workers and long shorcna
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celvable type of medium horse-pow- cred light motors Of one7to four cylin- dcrs are displaysed and several are show rin operation.
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WOLF OF WALL ST"
 RELEASED ON BAIL

New York, Jan. 19.-David Lamar, one time Wall street financicr, was. re leased from @ New Jersey pcnitentia1y
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Lines to Be Remembered.

l pack my troubles in as little com. pass as can for myself, sud never let them annoy others.-Southey.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-07-18
Fifty Years Ago, 1868.

Married on the 18th inst, by Rev. j.
Lawson. Mr. o. S. Davey, late of this
city, and Miss Jennie Hitchins of this
city.
Five hundred Mormons arrived in
New York from Europe on the 18th,
enroute for Utah. 1t is said that ten
thousand of the same sort will soon
follow.
A trip through the county has en-
abled US to note the condition of grow
ing crops and we are gratfed in finding
them unusually promising.
The enthusiastic Democracy prepared
for a grand ratification bonfire. torch
light procession, & c., on Saturday night
last. The cannon, which was kept
locked up during the celebration on the
4th, was got out and the services of
the band secured, but the people did
not turn out. Not discouraged, they
have large posters out for a meeting on
Saturday, the 25th
Weather for the past week has been
hotter than the "oldest inhabitant" can
recollect.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-07-18
Fifteen Years Ago, 1908

| A force of men have been busy the
past week cabling preparatory to re-
move the telephone Office from the
Gundry & Gray block to the Coad block.
The extension of the Illinois, Iowa
& Wisconsin electric road!fro Platte
vile to Mineral Point is contemplated.
Ed. Jenkin, son of Mr. andIMrs. D.
Jenkin of this city, died at Belmont on
Sunday. Deceased was reared in Min
eral Point, but for the past four years
has been established at Belmont as
jeweler and watch repairer.
The excursion train to the Dels on
Sunday morning left this station with
twenty eight passengers, which number
was swelled to six hundred at James
Vile.
Last week two very beautiful life-s size
statues of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Blessed Virgin Mary were
erected in St. Paurs church.
Unless weather conditions during the
next few months are absolutely disas-
trous, this year will break all records
in the amount of grain. produced in this
country
Hereafter students who desire to en-
ter the University from the high schools
and other preparatory institutions of
learning, must present higher creden-
tials than in the past.
Shullsburg Pick and Cad Mineral
Point has fire company worth having.
AT recent fire they saved poor wom-
ans house, except that it would need a
new roof, and then took up a subscrip-
tion among themselves to pay for the
roof.