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Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
HIGH PRODUCTION OF
ARMS AND MUNITIONS

The attention of owners Of Liberty
bonds and war savings stamps is
called to the following. They are
financing the work:
On one day in June last approx
mately 100000 cartridges Of va
rious descriptions were produced in
the United States manufacturing
plants for the United States govern
ment.
The daily average production of
United States army rifles was broken
in the week ending June 20, an aver
age of 10,l42 rifles a day of a modified
Enfield and Springfield type being
maintained. In addition spare parts
equivalent to several thousand rifles
were manufactured.
The ordnance department has pro-
duced 2,014,s15,5s4 cartridges, 1885,
769 rifles, and $3.50 machine guns
since the United States entered the
war. The daily output of cartridges
is now 10000
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
"SOME KID, THANKSr SAYS THE U.S.A.
By Lutte JOHNSON.

ty-Mile Park, Routt county, Colorado,
fifteen miles from Steamboat Springs
as the crow flies; mere jog when
Victor had as boy to go that route
for the mail. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Chergo are his parents.
1t is $500 miles from Washington
to Twenty-Mile Park; 1000 miles
from Washington to n certain very
busy line somewhere in France. But
the bosses of that busy line in France
took few minutes Off the other day
to tell Washington about Victor Cher
go, and Washington thought so well
of the news that it stopped minute
or two to pass it on to Twenty Mile
Park, in Routt county, Colorado.
There had been lot of shooting
going on at the very spot on the busy
line somewhere in France where Vic
tor Chergo happened to be; Victor
hadn't noticed that n lot Of the other
fellows had quit fighting and that he
was alone, except that a bunch Of
Boches had him surrounded and in a
fashion roped and hogtied.
As prisoner he was to be taken
back Of the fighting line, and the
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
LUMBERJAcKs GET A RAISE
Men in Camps of Spruce Production
Granted 10 Per Cent More

Wage increases estimated at about
10 per cent on an average over those
formerly in effect have been awarded
employees of lumber and logging camps
thruout Eastern Washington, Central
and Eastern Oregon and Idaho by
Colonel Brice P, Disque, in command
of the spruce production division of
the signal corps.
The bulletin putting the new scale
into force was made publis in Spokane
by the Timber Products Manufactur-
ers. an association of lumbermen. Un-
der its terms, the principle of the basic
eight-hour day is reaffirmed with time
and half for overtime, and a six-day
week.
In another bulletin made public,
Colonel Disque calls a meeting of rep
resentatives of the loyal legion of
loggers and lumbermen from west of
the Cascade mountains for Portland
next Monday, and for a similar meet
ing here for those east of the noun
tains a week later to perfect organiza-
ton of the loyal legion.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
TASK OF EQUIPPING AN ARMY.
What Quartermaster's Department
Has Supplied American Soldiers.

(The Philadelphia Public Ledger.)
We have 100000 men in Europe
and another million or so in training
on this side of the ocean. 1t has kept
the quartermaster's department busy
supplying them with equipment. An
nouncement has just been made in
Washington that from the beginning
of the war to the middle of June the
department has provided:
27,249.000 pairs of shoes.
104 1888 900 pairs Of wool stockings.
2,34O,000 pairs of rubber hip boots.
4.4010,O00 pairs of arctic overshoes.
1922 900 undershirts.
103,02s,0 900 yards of denim cloth.
This is at the rate Of about ten pairs
of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, two
pairs of overshoes. twenty undershirts
and fifty pairs of stockings for each
man.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

Huns, after a good look at the kid,
decided that about five of their num-
Der would be the correct detail to go
along and keep him prisoner. Fortu-
nately, they guessed wrong; they
needed a whole lot more than five,
but the careless Huns had never heard
of Twenty Mile Park, in Routt coun-
ty, Colorado, where a boy spits in
the face of wildcat and calls the
bears by their given names.
Victor took glance at the situa-
ton and got busy. The battle was
still going on back there and Victor
had remembered several things he
had meant to do while it lasted. He
started in on the FIVE. There weren't
any live guards, only five dead ones,
after Victor got the "hang" of one
of their own smoke barrels, which he
took from the nearest man.
It was quite jog back across No
Mans Land to where the fighting was
good, but boy who used to trot fif-
teen miles over mountains to get the
family mail could make it in nothing
fiat, so pretty soon Victor was back,
taking fresh hand in the fighting.
Victor thought so little of it he for
got to write his mother that he had
their number decreasing, but the big
boss up at front thought it a pretty
neat bit of heroism, so he related the
tale to the war department, and the
war department sent special mes
sage to Mr.. and Mrs. Chergo of Twen-
ty-Mile Park to say that they had
raised "some kid" and "thank you
very much, in the name OF the U.
-. A.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
1t isn't all brag.

1t isn't all brag.
Life out of doors, the tusslc with na-
ture, the life training one gets from
contact with first principles, does put
something in the heart and the bone
that isn't acquired in the older,
crowded, time-worn earth sections.
Victor Chergo gives concrete case.
We who know the West and under
stand how Victor Chcrgo grew up not
to be afraid Of bears, or wildcats, or
mountain lions, suspect that he was
familiar with the mechanism of rife
by the time he knew his A B Cs; that
he could "coon" fallen log or jump
across creek, climb n cliff or ride a
snowslide almost as soon as he could
walk; rough it with the best of them
at 10; sleep out of doors, ride horse,
rope n steer and round up wild mus
tangs before he was out Of his teens !:
could bluff n cattle rustler or stand
off a gunman before he could vote.
Therefore, his friends are not sur
prised that Victor Chergo has made
Uncle Sam something Of first class
fighting man.
Victor is 20. His home is in Twen-
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
ORIGIN OF THE MOVIES.

A movement to honor the man whose
experiments led to the first motion
picture has been started by Maurice
Tourneur. This, according to Tour
neur, was Edward Muybridge, who in
May, 1872, began his experiments in
instantaneous photography.
THE popular idea credits Thomas
Edison with being the creator of the
motion picture" said Tourneur, while
as a matter of fact animated photog-
raphy dates back to Muybridge. Out
in California this man began his ex-
periments, which were later carried
on at the University of Pennsylvania.
That university provided him with
grants amounting to over 10000, the
first instance of scientific investiga-
tion financed by a college which de-
veloped business of pratical and
commercial Importance.
"Muybridge did not have the photo
drama in mind when he started expert
menting. He wanted to study animal
movement for the use of ar t and
science. In fact, his first experiments
are said to have been backed by a
California governor, who wanted pic
lures of his race horses in action.
''Muybridge built a shed, which he
paiHNeu piaCh, anu WAS 1Su Ieet long
Opposite the shed he constructed a
camera house with twenty-four came
ras, each having a lens three inches
in diameter. In front of these came
ras a horse galloped. The black shed
was theb background. The cameras,
operated first by strings, which were
broken by the horses progress, caught
successive exposures. Later a motor
operated the cameras. Thus a series
of successive movement pictures was
obtained.
Muybridge not only took the first
photograph of moving subjects, but
he also projected them on a screen;
leading directly to the exhibition of
motion pictures. He lectured and pre-
sented these pictures, beginning in
1880, and at the Chicago exposition
of 1898 in specially constructed
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
STAND BY WILSON WIN THE WAR

Congressman Scott Ferris of Oklahoma. when in Denver
couple of weeks ago. made this ringing declaraton
There is but before the nation this day That
lift aloft the banner democracy the freedom
of mankind and for all German mitam and
German There be other achieve this,
but know of only this That by regularly
constituted officers of the stand by them the end
Stand by the President should and will be the shbboeh
of this campaign Stand by the flag by the
by the President for these during times
During the civil President Lincoln his every
tcal adviser sad Stand by the President the flag
and stand by the country The nation obeyed
During the Spanish American President Kny
dore Roosevelt and political adviser said Stand by the
President and the country obeyed the
To-day, in that is ar-reaching rest
when the nation in which live trembling
foundation there but appeal should be
and needed by citizen of the land political
party of whatever creedSand by the ag stand by the
try, stand by the President"
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
LIBERTY LOAN, SAVINGS BANKS

The effect of the Liberty loans and
the war savings stamps on savings
banks deposits has been watched with
keen interest by economists and finan-
ciers. The experience of England
was very encouraging; in the year
1916 the English small depositors pur-
chased billions of dollars of war
bonds and at the same time increased
their deposits in savings banks over
$50 100000. The belief is entertained
that the result in America has been
very similar to that in England, and
that despite the purchase by the Amer
lean people of some $4,000, 900 900 of
Liberty bonds and $500 ,00O, 900 of war
savings stamps, a very fair proper
tion of which were purchased by saw
ings banks depositors, savings banks
deposits have increased. Full reports
have been received from the savings
banks in New York state. They show
decrease in deposits for the last
year of only SS,000,000, but an in
crease of 21 ,252 depositors. The loss
in deposits is insignificant; the in
crease in the number of depositors is
very significant With increased cost
of living and other war conditions, the
decrease in deposits might well be ex-
pected; the increase of depositors
shows that the saving habit is greatly
growing in our country.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

building showed motion pictures of
birds flying, athletes wrestling, etc.
Here was the real beginning of
the motion picture, later given splen-
did contributions by Edison, Eastman
and others here and abroad. 1t is sin
gular that all the elements of motion
pictures developed wholly in the allied
countries in the United States,
France, Italy and, in measure, in
England. Germany has contributed
nothing, unless perhaps a certain de-
velopment of the lens."-New York
Tribune.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

Tho the place to start a war gar
den is in the mans head, it must not
stop there.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
MERELY AS A SUGGESTION.

One of Doc Evans patients wants
to know how TO get rid of ants in
his pantry. 1t might be accomplished,
suggests Sib, by withdrawing to ones
vestry. Or by joining the kilties.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
RECRUITING OF
LABOR FOR WAR
IN u. S. SERVICE
SECRETARY w. B. WILSON
WRITES MESSAGE ON
THIS IMPORTANT
CHANGE.

All Government Departments and
Boards Are Behind the U. S.
Employment Service; Short
age of Unskilled Labor
Calls for Careful Hand
ling of Man Power.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

Some of the desk warriors may de-
eide to ask to be transferred to Eu-
rope to escape the excitement.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
FOUR MILLION ARE
NEEDED To BREAK
GERMAN LINE SAYS
CROWDER TO PRESS
IMMEDIATE EXTENSION OF DRAFT
AGES NECESSARY TO INSURE
SPEEDY WINNING OF WAR
THREE MILLION MEN TO BE IN
FRANCE NOT LATER THAN JUNE
3Oth.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August b
In reporting the administration man
power bill extending draft ages today,
Chairman Chamberlain disclosed to
tie senate that General March told
the m. litary committee it was up to
the United States to put enough men
in France to win the war On the west
front. and he expressed the belief that
4,I3G,GG.' Americans under one COM
innnder could go through the German
lines r;hehever they pleased.
Immediate extension of the drar
ages was declared by he army repre-
sentati1 cs TO be imperative in order
that the United States may throw IFS
full strength in the struggle and win
The report also revealed that the
new American war program calls TO"
eighty divisions, or something over
3.nuC coo men in France by June 30
next year with eighteen more diviS-
ions in training at home then.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16

A1iERICUS, Ca, Aug 16.-Special
Ten young wlrte men must go from
Americas to Camp Gordon during the
5-day period beginning August 26th,
and there will also be further drain
upon the man-power of the country
August %, when twenty-five negroes
will be sent to Atlanta for induction
into military service.
Chairman Maynard and Secretary
Nesbit, of the Sumter County Local
Board already received orders to for
ward the quotas given in the fore
going paragraph, and are busy nov
preparing the list of those who must
go.
The men to go, of course, will al
be selected from those in Class One
A, and as a result, it is very probable
some of those young men who regis
tered for military service in June 5th
last, will be included among the num-
Der sent to Atlanta this month.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
AGG|E SCHOOL IS
LIKELY To CLOSE
FOR YEAR ANYWAY
HON CRAWFORD WHEATLEY,
CHAIRMAN OF TRUSTEES, BACK
FROM ATLANTA. SCHOOL DOES
NOT GET APPROPRIATION.

AMERICUS, Ga, Aug. 16.-Special
1t is probable that the Third Dis
trict Agricultural and Mechanical
school will be closed for the duration
Of the war, at least for one year
This is the suggestion of Hon.
Crawford Wheatley, who will recon-
mend such action to the board OF
trustees at a meeting which he, az
chairman, has called for tomorrow.
Mr.. Wheatley has returned from
Atlanta where he worked for sever;
days in an effort to get through the
legislature an appropriation Of $780,
900 for the school He lacked only
one vote in the Senate of having
enough to put the appropriation
through, it having been passed by the
House already.
THE annual appropriation Of $751;
600 from the state for maintenance
and support is inadequate" says Mr..
Wheatley, "to take care Of the school,
and, besides, we have $45, 900 build
ing in progress of erection without
money to further proceed with it"
To add to the troubles of the school
FIVE members of the faculty have re-
Gently resigned.
Mr.. Wheatley himself has advanced
money to the school in recent mon
to tide it over during time of finan-
cial stress, the school running sew
eral thousand dollars behind.
1T is Mr.. Wheatley's opinion also that
the new draft law, calling bows O
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
lOSCOWEvACUATEO.
by THE BOLSHEV|K|-
GOLD IN KREML|N
ALREADY IS STOLEN
AND LEVINE HAVE GONE
AND SOVIET TROOPS ARE ABAN-
DOMINO CITY TO ADVANCING
CZECHO-SLOVAKS WHO ARE
STRONG IN VOLGA REGION 800
MILES EAST OR MOSCOW.

AMSTERDAM, August 14.-Soviet
.roops have begun to evacuate Mos
cow. The gold reserves which had
laen in the basement of theKremlin
.eady have been removed to an I'M
4own place.
/, Dispatches received in London on
b onday reporting that Premier Le-
fine and War Minister Trotzky had
III TO the naval base at Kronstadt
led that all the government de-
. rtments also would be removed
! ere.
Whether the soviet troops were
breed to depart from Moscow is not
lear. hut the loss of the city to the
bviet government undoubtedly will
,e serious blow to their cause.
Moscow. the ancient capital of Rus
sja, WIS made h esoviet capital in
Garch.. ~ u
& Czecho- Slovak troops have been re-
lortcd in force along the Volga, about
pc miles cast of Moscow.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16

LEEsBURG. LEE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1918.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
!: s:7AL STATISTICS
!: ! Be COLLECTED
.ANDPRESERvEDBY
!. CITY AUTHORITIES
kE HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR
APPROPRIATED TO DEFRAY Elk.
'PENSES OF THIS WORK AND
PHYSICIANS WILL BE REQUIR-
ED TO REPORT ALL BIRTHS
AND DEATHS PROMPTLY.

NJ AMERICUS, Ga, Aug. 16.-Special
M The vital statistics question which
HAS been agitated more or less con-
stantly by Americas physicians and
others during several years, appears
nearing solution.
The board of health here has long
sought to have all births and deaths
zFegisteredahere, but always the prop
eDsition to establish the Office of reg
istrar of vital statistics has met OPP
position, and it has seemed impossi-
Bile to have the work done efficiently
otherwise.
Council at its last session, how
ever, determined to settle the ques-
ton once and for all, and appropriat-
ed $500 annually to defray the ex-
pense of keeping such records. In
addition physicians will be paid %
cents for each report of births or
deaths they make, and these are re-
quired to be made promptly Failure
to report either birth or death sub
jects the attending physician to pen
atty for violation of the ordinance
The ordinance was passed by coun-
Gil at the request of the United States
public health officers here, and is
considered model one. The result
Of It's enforcement will be the COM
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
WEDNESDAY WAS
HOTTEST DAY IN
AMER|CUS DURING
PAST FOUR YEARS
JOE ". BRYAN WEATHER OBSERV-
Ed REHE. GIVES OUT INTEREST
ING STATEMENT REGARDING
RECENT UNUSUAL WEATHER
1Ol WEDNESDAY AND 80 TUES.
DAY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES.

AMERICUS, Ga, Aug. 16.-Special
Joe M Bryan weather observer
here. has answered the universal
question. He says if it isn't hot
enough for anyone, then it hasn't been
hot enough during the past four years.
and that some people are hard to sat
.sfy anyway
The government thermometer in
his office registered 101 Wednesday
and TUESDAY the mercury in the tube
ther4 crawled up to SO, which in iselft
is "scme weather" for this section.
The weather during the last few
days has been unusually oppressive,
and it was the universal complaint
registered that impelled the Times
Recorder to inquire concerning u
maximum temperatures registered b
the government thermometer.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
|. H. K|MBROUGH
PASSED TO GREAT
BEYOND At HOME
IN AMER|CUS, CA.

Lucius H. Kimbrough, until very
recently business manager of the
Americas Times-Recorder, is dead.
Monday night at his home in Brook
lyn Heights the end came after long
illness, during which he suffered sill
emily, being due to tuberculosis. With
his family gathered at his bedside, he
passed quietly away at 9:45 o'clock,
the end being not unexpected
He is survived by his wife, former
ly Miss Mary Long, of Leesburg, and
one daughter, little Juanita Kim
brough, who have the sympathy of
many friends in their bereavement.
The Journal feels that in the death of
Lucius Kimbrough this paper, and
the community, has sustained a dis
tinct loss.
Few men connected with the news
paper fraternity in Georgia in recent
years were better or more widely
known than Lucius Kimbrough, and
deep regret will be caused by the an
nouncement of his demise. He was at
one time or another employed by
practically every newspaper of prom
inence in the state, and by reason OF
his connection with the circulation
department of so many newspapers
he enjoyed wide acquaintance with
travelling men, among whom he was
universally esteemed. He was circu-
lation manager of The Macon News
during several years and was later
connected with the Columbus Ledger,
the Montgomery, Ala, Times, and Tiff
ton Gazette in the same capacity. He
was for number Of years travelling
representative of the Atlanta Journal
in this territory and also in north
Georgia, being considered one of the
best circulation men in the state.
A few years ago, when his health
first began to fail he retired to Lees
burg, where his relatives reside, and
remained there a brief while, going
afterward to The Times Recorder, and
assuming charge of the circulation de-
partment Under his direction this
department of The Times-R Recorder
prospered exceedingly, and in recog
milton of his good work there, he was
promated to business manager This
position he held until his health nee
essitated complete retirement from
business life.
Genial and courteous always, he
possessed many friends, and when he
was taken seriously i'll, hundreds of
these inquired daily concerning his
condition. All who knew Lucius Kim
brough esteemed his friendship, and
though many of these knew the end
was near, all will experience a pang
Of regret when appraised of his death
The remains were buried at Lees
burg Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. Mr.. Ford, of Smithville, CON
Quoting the services. The pall-bearers
were as follows: Messrs. D. w. Tison,
G. A. Wallace, Tom Love, r. r. Green,
z. B. Lee and S. D. Hall.
Mr.. Kimbrough has hundreds of
friends throughout the state, and was
very popular in this. his native town.
Besides his wife and little daughter
he is survived by one son, Mr.. Troy
Kimbrough, of Lnmpkin; two sisters.
Mrs. H C. McMath, of Macon, and
Mrs. r. A. Forester, of Leesburg,
and one brother, Mr. G. D. Kimbrough
'of Leesburg.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
Government May Locate
BalIOn School Here

BallOn School Here
II is rumOred that the Government
is contemplating establishing a bal
Ion school at the theological Station
here. This means that soldiers will
he sent here to learn observation
balloon work, and will be quite an
addition to Leesburg.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16

pilation Of vital statistics which
future years will be Of almost in
calculable benefit to the health au-
thorities here.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16

is to the colors will deprive the in
atitution of number Of students, and
still further reduce its income
view of all Of the circumstances, hc
thinks it advisable to suspend the
school for a time.
In the meantime the appropriation
OF $4,000 will be received, and after
ali debts are paid the surplus will ac-
cumulate for future fund.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1918-08-16
SUMTER MUST
FURNISH MORE
MEN FOR ARMY
DURING AUGUST

TEN WHITE MEN WILL GO TO
CAMP GORDON AND TWENTY
FIVE NEGROES WILL BE SENT
To ATLAN.A AUGUST ORE
CENT REGISTRANTS AMONG
THOSE WHO MUST GO THIS
MONTH.