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Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-23
DESTROYER SINKS
HUN U-BOAT IN
CONVOY ASSAULT
Local Boy, Writing From England,
Tells of the Success of American
Warships in Combating the Attacks
of Submarines.

News of sea "skirmsh" in which
an American destroyer, part of con-
l,oy for transport column, sank a
German submarine which sought to
send torpedo into the vitals of one
of the troop-carrying vessels, is told
in a letter received by Mr.. and Mrs.
B. 7. Cox from their son, j. {. Cox,
member of a United States division
now in England. The letter follows
Dear Father and Mother: | have
arrived across the water at last, COM
ing across safely. although one OF
our destroyers sank a German SUBJ
marine. We never knew anything
about it until we got on shore we
were about two weeks on the water
and it was the same old thing every
day-the tiresomest trip | ever saw.
II wasn't a bit seasick and never
even felt dizzy. No wonder through,
or the water was as smooth as glass
throughout the trip and our boat was
cavilv loaded. We landed at port
n England and marched through the
streets. Everything looked so old
fashioned, the women still wearing
heir black shawls around their heads
and shoulders.
! The people are sure hard up, Wom-
en- doing all of the work. Some OF
the women even act as street sweep
ers, some drive street cars, some are
working in the freight depots-well,
practically everything. You can't find
a young man. They are all at war
or on war work. Those you do find
are crippled. The eating question, l
guess, is something fierce. Can only
get certain amount of most articles
by signing up for them. You can buy
only ten cigarettes at one time, but
no pipe tobacco, no chewing and no
snuff.
II hear, though, that the soldiers
can get their tobacco over in France,
so | won't have TO do without very
long. l have managed to get few
'gars-enough to get along on.
{ "Money isn't of very much use to
one over here, although everything is
higher than cats back. You have
to get a permit from the Food Admin
istration to buy even a pint of milk,
but it won't be this way very long,
or we are doing to get Kaiser Bill
see.
] England is rather a pretty coun-
try, with big ash trees everywhere
Its of grass, but very rock land 1t
ruins every day, clouds up, rains and
clears all in ten minutes. | wouldn't t
live here if they would give me tho
whole country.
IF | ever get back to my beautiful
/ West | am going to say until my dy-
ing day, No Europe for me- 1t is
raining now and has raned every day
since we landed. We are supposed to
here at a rest camp, but my judg-
ment is that it is restless camp, or
at least that's the way l feel about
I it. | had rather be right up at the
front doing my country some good
Il haven't seen any of the boys from
kearney over here yet. / saw Benny
Young and frankie Ray back at New
York City. Don't know just how long
1t will take my letters to get home.
The very best it could do if it made
all connections perfect would be two
weeks from here and three from
France | haven't had any mail for
a month, but ! guess | will get it in
few days. Your loxing son,
JAMES cox"
tsa
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-23
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL.
(By Associated Prcss)

tBY ASs3cIat ed I'FcSSJ
Washington, Sapt. 23.-Thc Wai
Department has announced that a
1.000-ked hospital will be erected al
Whipple Barracks, Ariz., for tubercu-
lar patients. 1t will cost more than
S1.5OO,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-23
SOVIETS SLAY.
(By Associated Press)

Washington, Sept. 23-Stories of
wholesale slaughter of representative
people and former officers, because
they were dangerous to the Soviet
government, are related in further ac-
counts reaching the State Department
of the reign of terror in Russian cit
les against which America has called
all civilized nations to protest.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-23
FUGITIVES CAPTURED.

Panama, Sept. 23.-Robert and Ben
jamin Livingston of Los Angeles have
feen arrested after flight from Cal
il ornia through Central AMERICA to
Venezuela to evade the draft. They will
be returned to California.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-09-23

BUY YOUR FUEL NOW
Carload shipments are being re-
ceived of
BOTH COAL AND WOOD
and you will save money, as well as
protect yourself against the shortage
that is sure to come when the cool
weather arrives.
THE FEED AND FUEI, YARD
i5f Olive Street Telephone I'D
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Salute a Sign Manual of
Proud Friendship in Arms

1t was ever the custom OF
and gallant knights, upon meeting, TO
raise their vizors and look each other
suuarely and fearlessly in the eye. On,
he road or in the arena before the
fitting match clicking up the yizor
was an indispensable courtesy, writes
Florence Particle Stuart in ST. Mich
olas. This custom has come down TO
MS in the form of the salute. We no
longer wear vizors covering our
faces. but we raise our hands to the
vizors of our caps and look sguarely
and fearlessly at the person saluted
The salute is a sign manual OF a
proud fellowship in arms, and not the
Subservient acknowledgment of a SUI
DerIOr officer. Our military reguia-
lions require all officers and soldiers
TO salute each other upon meeting,
and it is courteous for he junior in
rank to salute first. Courtesy Is an
indispensable quality of pride. No
one eaz re dkscUarteous and be proud
Of II.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
KIND TO PRISoNERs-GUILTY
German Women Warned That They
VIII Be Punished for LACK
Of If-Respect."

Women, even the miraculous Ger
man s~uperwomen, are incorrigible,
observes q writer in the Literary Di-
gest. The German government has
Just discovered to its horror that
Gretchen, in common with all the
daughters Of Eve, Is not insensible
to the charms of a well favored man,
and, If given the opportunity, even
she is disposed to flirt. The Franken-
furter Zietung Indignantly writes:
"Female inhabitants of houses ad.
jacent to camps Of officer prisoners
Of war have communication with the
imprisoned officers, and even throw
them things. Thanks, however, to the
sharp lookout kept by the authorities,
the attempts in each case were frus-
trated. The guilty persons, who be-
long to all classes Of society and are
Of various ages, were discovered.
"While the police authorities have
hitherto considered sharp reprimands
as sufficient warnings, In the belief
that such unconsidered acts were due
to q foolish desire for sensation, In
future such conduct will be visited
by very severe legal penalties and
public exposure. These penalties will
furthermore be imposed without dis
elimination on all who may render
themselves guilty Of such lack Of self
respect"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Burbank's Liberty Wheat
Gives Promise That Bread
Is to Be More Abundant

AS Luther Burbank has not beer in
the habit of indulging in baseless SEN
sations, the announcement from Santa
Rosa that, after eleven years of ex-
perimentation, he has evolved a wheat
plant which will yield an average OF
forty bushels to the acre of grain
possessing a high percentage of glu-
ten becomes news of first Importance,
asserts a writer in <the New York
World.
Although the wheat crop of the
United States is greater than that Of
any other nation, the average yield to
the acre has always been compara-
lively small. Some years ago it did
not exceed twelve bushels. Taking
into account what Mr.. Burbank has
done in the matter of potatoes, apples
and plums, to say nothing of flowers,
as to which he has almost wrought
miracles, we may easily accept at face
value whatever he has to say in re-
gard to cereals.
Wheat flour has become so vital as
a food of civilization that strenuous
efforts have been made to extend the
acreage and by more careful methods
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Ten Commandments Adapted
to the Soldiers and Sailors
in Service of Uncle Sam

The Lake Division News, official
publication of the Lake division of the
Red Cross, which includes Indiana.
Ohio and Kentucky, contains what
it calls "Uncle Sans Ten Command
ments" in a recent issue. The "com-
mandments," submitted by an Ohio
chapter, follow:
II. Thou shalt not evict for nonpay-
ment of rent a soldiers dependents,
under penalty of $4,000 fine.
"2. Thou shalt not cut off a soldiers
life insurance because of delayed pre-
miums.
"3. Thou shalt not foreclose a mort
gage on a soldiers property.
"a. Thou shalt not take away a sol
dier's home on which he has made part
payment.
"5. Thou shalt not sell q soldiers
the taxes, national, state or local.
SO. Thou shalt not settle a lawsuit
against a soldier in his absence.
"7. If a soldier is sued, the courts
shall postpone action until he can at
tend to it.
SO. If a soldier have q mine, timber
or farm claim, assessments on which
are overdue, it shall be held for him.
80. Honor thy soldier and thy sailor
that thy days may be long.
40. No man hath greater love than
that he offer his life for the worlds
sake, and 1t is commanded that law
yers, loan sharks and 1.-THE gatherers
shall not fatten on him."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Historic Forests Are Cut
Down to Supply the Many
Needs of Warning Nations

War, with it's greedy demands, is
fast sweeping away the carefully
tended forests of Europe. Even in
England, which has been protected by
its fleet from invasion, the Ak of the
woodman is making great changes in
the appearance of the landscape. Re-
ports say that the beautiful wood
lands, forests and groves that have
for centuries formed part of the
charm of rural England are disappear
ing.
1t is expected that by the middle of
this summer the British government
will be converting trees into lumber
mum. The old, careful methods of Eu-
rope, by which trees which had passed
their prime were selected and indi-
vidually chopped down, leaving the
forest undisturbed, are being replaced
by a style of numbering more familiar
here, says the Rochester Times-Union.
Canadian lumberjacks are swinging
their axes in the New Forest and
many other historic tracts, cutting a
wide swath in much the same fashion
as in the woods of British Columbia
or northern Ontario.
Over in France, American forestry
regiments are making a similar sweep
through the woodlands. In Great Brit
ain replanting has followed the lum-
herman, but 1t will take a century
fully to cover the scars. In France
there has been no chance to pay at
tention to anything but getting what
was needed for the war.
With European forests thus laid low
we should be the more careful to see
that our own great resources are not
recklessly wasted, and should follow
the example of the older countries in
making even private owners guard for
ests- against fire loss.
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Produce Food, MIR.
Town Man
Get Blistered and a Clean
Conscience
prepared by the United States Depart
nnent of Agriculture.O

ment OF Agriculture
Speaking of food-how much OF
what you eat do you help to produce
by your W work? Farms need labor.
The difficulty is not an insuf1iciency
of actual man power. There are plenty
of men to supply the farms with help.
But that man power is applied to
other things and the farms will not be
adequately supplied with help unless
men turn temporarily from their pres
ent business or employment and work
ON farms in their county during the
rush periods of cultivation and har-
vest.
If we were not at war you might feel
free to disregard this as your per-
sonal duty. But we are at war; this
is a war need, and you are not free
to disregard it.
II is the duty of every strong man
of farm experience or of farm apti-
tude, who is not now engaged in work
of war value, and not engaged in work
to which his personal attention is con-
stantly indispensable, to go to farms
In the "dSTlCultutdl tCIIiIOlJ OuJuSOhI
to his town when farm labor needs are
urgent and help produce the foOd
crops~which are essential to war win
ming.
You eat every day. Seine mans
hard work produced that food. Our
soldiers in France must eat and some
body's hard work must produce that
food. If you are so situated that you
can help produce this food it is your
duty to do so.
Get in touch with the county agent
of the United States department of
agriculture and the state agricultural
college or write the state agricultural
college if you cannot get in personal
touch with nearby farmers who need
help. Lay off your present job or get
away from your present business for
a few days or a few weeks as you
are needed. You'll lose money and
weight. You'll gain blisters, sore
muscles and a clear conscience.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
British Food Experts Tell
How Potato Butter Is Made

Butter, which formerly was an exclu-
sive product of the COW, will in future
be made from nuts and potatoes. The
latest substitute to compete with the
bovine nectar Of the meadow and the
silo has been announced by the con-
seryation department of the United
States food administration to be pota-
to butter.
From the home of the magma char
ia" comes a recommendation by the
British ministry of food that potato
butter can be made for ten cents a
pound. Here is the modus operandi :
"Peel the potatoes. Boil until they
fall to pieces and become ioury. Rub
them through a fine sieve into a warm
ed basin. To IA ounces of potatoes
add two ounces Of butter or marga-
vine and one tablespoonful of salt.
Stir until smooth. Mold into rolls.
Keep in y rool place. Use butter col
oring to Improve the appearance. IT
intended to be Kept more than q Jew
Gays. use hitter p~reservative."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Longest Submarine Cable
Is 3,458 Nautical Miles

The longest continuous stretch of
submarine cable nov working, that is,
without relay, is 3,458 nautical miles
that from Vancouver to Tanning is
land in the Pacific, and the average
distance without relay is much less
than this. 1t is evident, therefore,
that on the long -transoceanic cables
such as those across the Pacific, is
lands must be found for relay stations.
This explains the rivalry of certain
of the European nations for the pos
session of small, solitary islets, scarce
~ more than mere rocks, and useless
except for just such a purpose as this.
This was the tease for Germany's
acquisition of the Caroline and Mar
ianne islands and later of one of the
Samoan group, at the time of our war
with Spain. Similarly England is to
be found in possession Of conveniently
placed islands all over the world.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11

Automobiles Climb Fences.

In many parts Of the West and
Southwest where automobiles are nu-
merous it Is becoming common to
drive ones car over a fence instead Of
stopping to open a gate, drive through
and then shut it. The. new and quick
err method is made possible by the
construction Of inclines which make 1t
an easy matter to mount to the top
of the barrier and then descend on the
other side. The inclines are usually
composed of two tracks, set the prop
er distance apart for automobile wheels
and supported by posts.-Popular Me
chanics Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
OUR LITTLE HOUR

Our little h~our-how swift it flies
When peoples flare and lilies smile;
How soon the 1eeting minute dies,
Leaving us but a little while
To dream our dream, to sing our song,
To pick the fruit, to pluck the flower,
The ~gods-they do not give us long
Our little hour.
Our little hour-how short a time
To wage our wars, to fan our hates,
To take our fill of armored crime,
To troop our banners, storm the gates.
Blood on the sword, our eyes ~blood-red,
Blind in our puny reign of power,
Do we forget how soon Is sped
Our little hour?
Our little hour-how soon it dies;
How short a time to tell our beads,
To chant our feeble ~litanies,
To hin sweet thoughts, to do good
deeds.
The altar lights grow pale and dim,
The bells hang silent in the tower
So passes with the dying hymn
Our little hour.
Leslie Coulson. in London Poetry Re-
view.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11


mans mitts, $1,000 base bags, more
than 10000 fielder's gloves and thou
sands upon thousands of baseball
guides, score cards, sweaters, boxing
gloves, shoes and countless other ar
tieles. In all, it has furnished a great
er part of the baseball goods that
have been sent over there.
Clark Grifith's appeal to President
Wilson and the secretaries of the war
department and the navy, as well as
other men of influence is largely re-
sponsible for the interest that is being
taken to keep the soldiers physically
at by athletic sports.
IA soldier is only half a soldier I'M
tl he becomes athletically trained"
This is the note of thanks that Gen.
erai Pershing sent TO Mr.. Griffith for
the work that he has done for the
American Expeditionary forces.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11

of tillage to increase the average prod
uct. Thus far, however, In spite of
agitation and instruction, such results
as have been gained must be attrib-
uted more to favorable seasons than
to intensified cultivation. What a
wizard of horticulture has achieved in
the wonderful climate of California
may not be repeated by everybody else
under less favorable conditions, but
his discovery Is full of promise that
some day the bread of the world is to
be more abundant. The man who wins
that triumph will be entitled to stand
in the front rank Of those who are to
conquer the earth for liberty and de-
mOcracy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
WAYS With Vegetables.


We tire of certain vegetables be-
cause they are served so often In the
same way, until we grow to dislike
them. variety is the spice Of life,"
and every housewife should endeavor
to put a little Of this spice into every
thing she does. The individual Is
unfortunate who has been spoiled by
a monotonous diet, for enjoying all
kinds of foods, especially vegetables,
which are so valuable to keep the body
in good health.
Simple Cabbage Salad.
Shred a small cabbage, add a small
amount of celery and a bit of chopped
onion and pour over the cabbage the
following dressing hot: Beat two egg
yolks, add two tablespoonfuls of wa
ter, a tablespoonful of butter melted,
q dash of salt and cayenne, and "A
quarter of a cupful of vinegar. Cook
this over hot water and pour over
the cabbage, stirring it over the heat
until well heated, then serve hot.
Onions Stuffed With Rice.
Parboil q sufficient quantity of on
ions of even size, remove the centers
and chop fine mix the chopped onions
with cooked, seasoned rice, season with
butter and salt with a few dashes OF
cayenne, stuff the onions and bake,
basting with good stock or butter and
water. Serve as a garnish around q
platter Of chops. Any sweet butter
substitute may be used in place OF
butter, in cooking. Sausage, leftover
meats of various kinds, bread. crumbs
and nut meats, as well as cheese, all
make good filling for stuffed onions.
Cabbage cooked with ar onion fine
ly chopped and served with a white
sauce, is a good dish to add to ways
of serving vegetables.
Onions and cabbage have the largest
share of abuse given to the ordinary
vegetables, as there are ome who fail
to digest them, while others object to
their strong flavor. They are both
rich in mineral salts, and acids, give
bulk to food, as the roughage is neces-
sary to aid in digestion, and are all
round desirable foods to serve, worthy
Of more attention.
Stuffed Cabbage.
Remove the heart of a small cab
bage head, drop into boiling water and
cook until tender. Cut in to the CEN
ter in triangular pieces and pour over
the well-drained vegetable q white
sauce made rich with a cupful or moro
of finely chopped rich cheese.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11

proved filings for teeth, and %inventing
new appliances, Doctor William L. G.
Morton, a Boston dentist, robbed sur.
gerry of much Of it's horrors by intro
ducing the use of ether in operations.
This was In 1914, a few years after
the first dental college in America was
founded in Baltimore. Doctor May.
nard was also the inventor of the
breech-loading Maynard rifle patented
in 1851, which was the forerunner OF
the modern rifle. He died in Washing
ton in 1891.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Tobacco the Only Luxury
Poor Man Has Ever Known

From government records it is
shown that only Is per cent of the
cigars consumed in this country are
ten-cent cigars or better and that 70
per cent of American smokers do not
smoke cigars at all, but conine them
selves to the cheaper forms of tobacco
little cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing
tobacco and cigarettes. Verify, those
who regard tobacco as a luxury must
perforce admit that it is the luxury
not only of the rich but of the COM
NOR people as well, and, indeed, the
only luxury that the poor mar has
ever known.-Edgarton Tobacco Re-
porter.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11

many towns and cities have begun to
enforce laws to the same effect.
But the idea that superfluous and
unnecessary work is worse than idle
ness does not seem to have made SO
much progress. Yet it is patiently
true, writes Frederick j. Haskin, in
Springfield Union. The flunky wastes
not only his own time but often also
the time and money of those he serves.
The man who takes a job that a wom-
IN could hold is not only neglecting the
work he should do, but is d~epriving
some woman of the Independent in
come that might release another nan
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Baseball Equipment Aids in
Making Athletes of Soldiers
of the U. S. Now in France

Three months ago an earnest appeal
from a second lieutenant of an engi-
neer regiment doing duty at a perma-
nent post back of the lines in France,
for athletic equipment to outfit five
teams was mailed tolClark Griffith. Mr..
Griffith responded to the call.
Up to the present time the Griffith
Bat and Ball fund has given the boys
about $4,000 balls, $4,000 bats, 1000
eatcher's masks, 1000 catcher's mitts,
1000 chest protectors, 1000 first base
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11

fractional part thereof charged for
such transportation, to be paid by the
consignor. No such parcel or pack
age shall be transported until a stamp
or stamps representing the tax due
shall have been affixed thereto" This
is not an amendment of the postal
laws but a special war tax based on
postage rates. There is no wal tax
On parcel post packages on which the
postage is less than Is cents.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
FIunky Wastes Own Time
as Well as That of Others

The feeling that idleness is a crime
under present conditions is rapidly
spreading all over the country. A sher-
if in Sherman, Tex, recently an
nounced that every man in his juris-
diction would either go to work or
so to jail. The Ku Klux Khan recent
ly r%eappeared in Birmingham. Ala,
with a warning to all idlers. Sew
eral states have recently passed laws
providing that every able-bodied man
must work so many hours a day, and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Facts Worth Knowing.

Chinese raise stays for their
horns, which are cut off when
soft and used In the manutac-
ture of native medicines.
Dogwood root is said to be the
source Of the "Indian Red"
which the original Americans
used for dyeing their feathers
and plumes.
A Swedish engineers stocking
device makes 1.3 tons Of pulver-
lied peat produce as much pow
err in locomotives as a ton OF
coal.
The peanut is a substantial
food, six ounces Of shelled pea :
nuts being said to possess q
food value of 2.3 ounces Of round
steak, five ounces Goldfish, one
ounce rice, AZ ounces rye bread,
35.5 unces spinach, 81 ounces
apples, or six ounces bacon.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-11
Soap and Fertilizer From Insects.

Locusts are plentiful in Uruguay
and the farmers of that republic are
compelled to keep up a constant war
against them. Millions of these de-
structive insects are killed every year.
Recently it was learned that soap,
fertilizer and lubricating oil may be
obtained from the dead locusts. and in
the future they will be utilized.-Pop-
ular Science Monthly.