Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-07-17
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WAR NOTES.

w. w. Peters, a noted evangelical
worker in China, states that 100, 900
Chinese are working back of the al
lied lines. The Asiastics are guaran-
teed not to be sent nearer than ten
miles of the battle front. They are Of
great help.
Three Whiteside, ILL.,, county boys
who recently came to Camp Grant
and who have refused to don the un-
form or become soldiers, were forced
into the army by surong-arm tactics.
The boys-Ezra and Daniel Deter,
Mennonites of Morristown, ILL.,, and
Prophetstown, ILL., were taken into
a room by Lieut.. Dusenberry, And
training battalion, 161st depot bri-
gade, and ordered to take off their
civilian clothing. They refused. In
five minutes time the officer had it
off of them. Then he ordered them to
put on the uniforms. Again they re-
fused. But with the same effective
methods the Lieutenant had them in
to their uniforms in short order.
Dressed finally as soldiers, they were
ordered into the hospital service.
Again they objected, but remembrance
of the speed and manner in which
their objections to the uniform had
been removed, they gave in and are
a part of the hospital service
of the depot brigade. Consequently
it will not be necessary to courtmar-
tial them.
Twenty-year sentences in the fed
eral penitentiary were given to four
conscientious DIRECTORS to army SER
vice at a court martial at Camp Grant
last week. All were from Chicago.
The sentences were read to $50 other
DIRECTORS now held in the guard house.
John ~Thadonsky, one of the DIRECTORS,
when he heard Of the heavy sentences,
begged to be allowed to don a uni
form which he had previously refus-
ed to YEA His request was granted.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has directed state army selection eX-
ecutives to have local boards call up
for physical examinations Immediate
ly all new r~egistrants who have been
placed in class one. 1t is planned to
have the men available for call to the
colors in August. A report of regis
trants brought into class n from de-
ferred classes under the work OF fight
order was also asked. Since relative
ly just a few men just attaining 81
have dependents it is estimated that
a large percentage of nearly $780, 900
men will go into class one.
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Compare the high prices" about
which Americans are grumbling with
current prices in conquered Belgium,
as announced by the Belgian legation
at Washington. These were the prices
of commodities, when they could be
secured last April: Coffee, per pound,
$3.50 to $6.40 sugar, sc cents; butter,
$2.38; tea, $40; rice, $1.38; soap, So
per pound; potatoes, Is cents per
pound; meat, $1.37 per pound; bacon,
$2.82 per pound; lard, 1898; eggs,
$1.56 per doz.; cheese, $1.64 per
pound; peas, $1.28; coal, $23 per ton;
thread, 60 cents per spool; cheap
stockings, So per pair; cloth, $12 per
yard; boots, SIS per pair. When col
sidering these prices, remember that
Germany burned 10000 homes in the
first four weeks of the invasion, killed
5000 civilians, has since taken prac-
tically everything of value from the
homes, churches and other buildings,
has taken three billion dollars, which
corresponds to a levy of 45 billion
on America, and has depOrted to Ger
many 125, 900 Of the ~able-bodied men
who might be helping to meet the
prices at home.