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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-29

All in all the entire program is a
test Of training for the men now get.
ting ready for overseas service, men
who are taught to be on their toes ev-
cry minute of the time; 1t Is train
ing for the men now getting ready for
overseas service, men who are taught
tc be on their toes every minute of the
time; it is a training to make quick
minds and quicker muscles and will
show part of it's real worth in the VIC
tory Athletic Meet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
RECORD HOT WEATHER.
Many Deaths in New York-Thermome-
ter 1o2 at Chicago.

New York, Aug. Seven deaths and
score Of prostrations resulted yester-
day from a continuation of the heat
wave which Monday night drove thous-
ands of tenement jewellers to the parks
and beaches for relief.
Chicago, Aug, 7--Chicago's hot wave
continued yesterday and the weather
forecaster predicted no immediate relief,
-Four deaths and large number of pros
trations were reported, Monday the
thermometer registered l02 degrees, the
second hottest day she city has known.
Philadelphia, Aug. AT 3.l5 p. m.
Yesterday the government thermometer
here touched l0l degrees.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
NOT FIRST IN GERMANY.
(By Leroy Huron Kelsey of The Vigil
antes.)

dnlCS.I
The blatant claim is often made, with
brazen arrogance,
That German wisdom and research has
made the world advance;
But when we start to itemize the things
of greatest worth,
That benefit and comfort bring to people
of the earth,
We do not find them emanating from
Teutonic brains,
Although they quickly utilize whateer
another gains.
The telegraph, the telephone, the engine
run by steam;
Acetylene and kerosene, electric lights
that CLEAN;
The ocean cable, and the wireless, and
the photograph;
The motion picture, and in fact the
common Photograph
All these would still be hidden from the
races of mankind
If their disclosure had depended on the
German mind.
The telescope, the microscope, the anti
septic gauze;
The anaesthetic for relief of pain from
any cause;
The principle of vaccination TO prevent
disease;
The decimal and metric system, which
we use with easel
All these were given to the world by
nations now at war
Against Teutonie doctrines, which VIC
heartily abhor.
Our aniline for dyeing, and our rubber
vulcanized;
Our automobiles and pianos, both SO
highly priced;
Electric cars and airbrakes, and the
soft pneumatic tire;
The plate glass in our windows and our
fences of barbed wire
All these were ne'er discovered in the
land of braggard Hun,
Although they try to fool us as to what
they've really done.
Machines for reaping harvest and ma.
chimes for threshing grain;
The cotton gin, the submarine, the bird
like aeroplane;
Machines for sewing clothing, and ma
chimes to count our cash;
Machines to write our letters, all so neat.
ly, in a fash;
These also might have never come to
bless the human race,
If other folks had waited for the Huns
to set the pace.
Fen implements of warfare are not born
OF Prussian hands,
But they employ inventions that have
come from other lands:
Percussion caps, torpedoes, smokeles:
powder, dynamite,
And nitroglycerin or shrapnel, all 81
deadly in a fight;
The rifle or revolver, or the quick breech
loading gun,
While widely used, were none of then
invented by Hun.
The Germans are mechanics, and are
skillful in that line;
They copy someone else's work, anC
often do it fine;
But when ii comes to doing things that
never had been done,
They simply are not in it, and no laurel:
have they won:
They talk of German "kultur" and they
boast and strut about,
But yet their big achievements are then
pretZels, beer and kraut.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Topics of the
Home and
Household.

To remove fruit stains, saturate them
with glycerine, rub between the hands
and the stain will entirely disappear.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Attack on Self Government.


AntiSaoon
prohibition called
the responsibility the control of the with the where
they located
Since that time Vermont has usvey shown the her that
by the Ant-Saloon
of the ppe their theory prohibition
in the O he
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Judge Tyler Declines.

submitted situation
Tyler OF Batebo present the Vermont Local Option League wit
allow his reelection
lead campaign for the preservation the principles which the league
Judge Tyler answered follows:
"Your letter highly recalls
decline the another
the
take additional duties and would gladly unload
that have
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Ask Clement to Become President.


president
behalf of
nomination
the Sheppard
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
By Raymond Trainor Secretary.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
THE McDERMUT LAUNCHED.
Second of the Destroyers Under Con
struction at Squantum.

SIuctlon at Squantum.
Squantum, Mass, Aug. T. The McDer
NUT, second of the destroyers under con
struction at the Squantum plant of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation tc
take the water, was launched to-day.
Mrs. Eugene G. Grace, wife Of tbs
president of the corporation, christenec
the vessel
President Grace made this the occasion
of his first visit to Squantum and wal
accompanied by Joseph w. Powell, vice
president of the Bethlehem corporation
Charles M. Schwab, director general o.
ship production, also was present.
The McDermut was named for Lieu
tenant Commander David A. McDermut
of New York, commander of UnioI
gunboat, who was killed in action off Sa
bine Pass in 1868
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
MR.. CLEMENT ACCEPTS.


ton the campaign for sound legislation and good which the Local Option
headed by NJ
that he cannot continue at this time president Of the league hope may benefit
his advice and
III should consult wishes entirely too should decline the position
although
pon the demands Of native and of the state Of Vermont when called
public another
pain along the lines its ideals Of government shall accept the presidency and go
conceive that this not the best time enter fully into the situation but shall
opportunity
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07

If cake cracks open when baking, it
is either because the oven is too hot and
cooks the outside before the inside is
heated, or else the cake was made too
ntiM
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Would Surrender Self-Government.


United States adopt the
will eficacous.
faster prohbit this Jun foreve
The situation therefore serious and demands thoughtful consideration and
republican this
yours
PERCIVAL W.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07
Danger of Minority Rule.

The the state legislatures
through
Yet
legislature
its merits
the Perry act because where the struck
the rights Of the the Sheppard strikes the right of the
regulate its own affairs
possible the minority the nations
of
New York and Nevada, equal footing
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-07

A teaspoonful of lime water will cure
the worst case of collie This is some
thing every mother should know,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
FINDING FRITZ OBSERVERS JOB
BY CLARENCE BURLINGTON KELLAND

wares his pack-cakes, cookies, canned stuff,
cigarettes.
Much obliged for running over said the leuten.
ant I'VE sure appreciate it,
That seems to be the attitude OF the officers and
men at the front towards the Red Triangle. Much
obliged and we appreciate it-Say If it wasn't for
the "Y' we sure would be up against it..
I'm going ahead to some of the observation posts, "
the "Y' told me. Want to take chance?"
We arrived at town and found a lieutenant sit
ting down in trench Before him narrow slit
opened into pile-and into utter blackness.
HOW OBSERVER WORKS
Conservation post" said my conductor
The lieutenant glad to US, especially when
I told him recently from home, and took
us within. There in a little in which could
barely stand upright, the paraphernalia by which
the Hun is supervised in his goings and comings and
by which our artillery is informed If 1t is hitting the
mark.
Facing the Hun narrow horizontal slit across
the wall. Over this hung curtain because Fritz in
his observation posts across No Mans Land might
see that slit through his glasses If light allowed
to through it and then very shortly there would
be observation post Provided it suited Fritzs
humor abolish 1t.
We looked through the glasses at the beautiful
mountain slope opposite, famous in the history of
the war, and which is the most formidable bar
in the way of troops they set out to take back
from Germany a city which France claims for her
own With the naked eye this mountain slope seems
quiet and peaceful. There is sign of life, not
even of smoke from fire. Through the glasses,
they directed by the lieutenant barbed wire
placements and what not can be sharply dstin-
guished
WHAT FRITZ is COiNG
Look along the top of that ridge. What do you
make out?"
Nothing
Right under the hair in the glass now. Sharp.
The hair is touching the top of it..
Still made out nothing.
"Camoufage."
Just then shell over and burst on top of
stone wall behind U.S. Maybe it was intended for
US, and maybe it was just a warning for us to De-
have ourselves Anyhow was impressed
"See" said the lieutenant, They could get US ii
they wanted to- Say, Wharton Wharton was the
"Y" secretary, "Give can Of peaches on the
strength of that
High in the air our heads we could hear the
planning mill hum of couple of American aeropanes
taking look-see. They were not fighting planes,
but observation planes. Their duty to get more
direct and accurate information than could be had
from any listening post
This morning the Boche got out there" said
the lieutenant "They were after him with machine
guns / saw he in trouble and saw him coming
down His machine was on fire and he jumped on
with his hands up. He hadn't chance And they
came out and got him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
where TO GET GOOD MEAL

His auditor happened to be salts
factorily fresh from another sort OF
restaurant Il Just now had good
dinner at the Y. NJ. G. A." he ven
tured.
"Oh, therel" said Aston. "Of course
you did The Y. NJ. c. AS the best
eating place in town"
Mr.. Astor ought to know, because
that eating place is of his wife's
making. She bought and turned over
to the association the one really good
restaurant that could be found, ard
she has ever since been personally
active in its arrangements.
"You get real food there" sailor
recently told me. "Real food. You
know what I mean-ham-an'- eggs an
steak an fried onions"
It is said that Mrs. Aston used to
help wait on table when the service
was shorthanded, and that one of the
first persons upon whom she waited
was a newly enlisted man in the
United States Navy who. until a
month previous, had been the dining
room steward on Mrs. Astor's own
yacht.
Gee" the steward 10 reported to
have commented, "when I used to
wait on her, had to wear evening
clothes"
The sort of men, then, with which.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
WITHOUT A WHiMPER.

Yet all that Is borne without
Skinner. The sailors read, now and
then. stray home paper and see
the accounts of cheering crowds bid
ding Godspeed to this or that depart
ing regiment they feel that all the
public's heart is going out to the
army. They don't at all realize their
own devotion, and their attitude Is
almost that of apology for not more
intellectually serving their country.
They will tell you that they are glad
they Jumped to the guns but every
mail brings news of friends that
STAYED behind and have won commits
sions at the Reserve Officers Train
ing Camps.
And then the ship comes back to
port, and there are liberty parties
going ashore. ..
The British sailor is given his
drink ration; the British Y. NJ. G. A.
serves light beer. 1t isn't thus with
orr men. At sea there obtains only
Tho taut rule of fat virtue, and the
n,ou that goes ashore is his own
master.
Do you begin to see now the prob
len that our Y. NJ. c. A. has to face
ANY American sailor man will get
honcesick after a week here. and it's
Ara. Inconsistencies that's the matter
VIII most of these kids: if they
cast be cured of it, they'll DO some.
thing to forget 1t"
To be homesick-and, If you re
member your first boarding schoo
dsy. after your mother'd kissed you
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

bringing are formed, under maternal
chaperonage, to meet sailors of their
own sort that have some knowledge
of the French language. 1t is at
these gatherings that the sailor talks
most freely, and most lightly, OF his
work.
Looking for subs?" 1 heard one
say to his newly met companion. Il
am going blind doing it! There is the
sub that makes up to look like sail
ing vessel, and the one that hides its
periscope behind an imitation shark
fin, and now they've got one that
spouts water like a whale. The por-
poises drive us crazy: something
came dashing at our boat the other
day; it's track was exactly like a tor
pedo's. Humphrey saw it first. He
pointed it out to me. We're gone
this time!' he yelled. Then it jumped,
and we saw it was a porpoise. We
call porpoises Humphrey torpedoes'
now"
The French girl wanted to know
about rescues at sea.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
WHY SAILORS ARE WORTHY.

"But, yes, monsieur. They were
all that was left of a family. The
father was killed at Verdun, the
mother died in an accident at a fac
tory of munitions; so that good sail
ors upon one of your country's little
ships have adopted them, and are
keeping them, and will educate them.
They have rented for them rooms in
this house, and they have employed
me to keep them, and, whenever their
ship is in port, these sailors, they fail
not to come here and receive word
of their wards, and they give them
chocolates till the little ones are ILL.,"
What do the chocolates matter ?
There is something worth doing for
men who will take upon themselves
such obligations as this.
Something worth doing-and the
Y. NJ. c. A. is trying to do it. There
are a headquarters and other build
ings in every French port that is
used by our navy-ffty buildings in
all-conducted by workers whose pay
does not quite meet their expenses
and whose tasks continue from sun
to sun,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

lot of college men aboard. They've
volunteers. Of course, they've all
had yachting experience, but the
bred to the service fellows laughed at
them till certain little thing hap
pened on the voyage over.
"a fire started in our port coal
bunkers when we were three days
out of the port we were bound foc
A hatch d been left open and there d
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
BY REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFMAN

goodbye and cried a little and told
you to send home all your socks for
mending, and your father'd shaken
hands with you and cleared his throat
and said you'd be coming back to
put him out of business, and you'd
held your head high and joked-if
you remember that, you will agre4
with me that to be homesick is tt
be as miserable as it is possible for
the human being to become. But
be homesick and yet to give a homo
to the homeless is to be something
very nearly heroic. OF that l saw, in
this port, a recent instance:
l came across three little children
-boys-standing in a doorway on q
quiet street, the eldest perhaps
twelve years old, the youngest not a
day over FIVE. They would have been
remarkable among the other children
of this somewhat rowdy port if only
for their cleanliness and for the
cleanliness of the elderly woman that
was manifestly caring for them
They We're the more remarkable be,
cause each wore a sailors cap, on
the band of which was inscribed the
name of certain boat in the Mos
quito Fleet, and because they were
all dressed in an infantile replica of
the uniform of able seamen in the
United States Navy.
They were shy little boys, but the
woman in charge of them explained
their habiliments:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

at our navy's ports in France, tho
Y. NJ. C. a. has to deal, is all sorts.
They are of the two extremes and
every grade between, but once they
are in Uncle Sans navy there is no
distinction. Each man is offering all
he has to his country; that makes
them kin. Let me eXemplify:
I was just coming in from my first
cruise with the Mosquito Fleet. The
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
BOATsWAIN's APOLOGY.

Every man in the room fell silent.
The boatswain's mate adcTe5eoi
them:
Il want to tell ycu fellows lie
said, chat l was a fool last night,
and got what was comin' to me; but
I'm not such a fool but what / can
learn lesson. I'm cuttin' out tho
booze. That man there treated mo
square, and saved me from trouble
aboard ship, and after tonight If any
slob tries to get fresh around this
place, why any such guys got 10
tackle the two of us"
Some college men and some me1
that have hardly been to school 1T
all. a group of millionaires and a
scattering of rough-nccks, but every
one sound at heart and brave II
action-these make up the Mosquito
Fleet. The worst aren't bad, they ara
only lonely. The best are enduring
danrerou. and, what is more,
hideousIy monotonous, life afoat all
one beset with the temptation OF
emotional reaction ashore. For both
sorts the choice lies solely between
the sordidness Of . foreign port AID
: he Y. NJ. c. A.
+. Which are you for-the Y. N. c. A.
| or the port!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
PICK UP SURVIVORS

'Iast trip" she was informed, eve
picked up three small boats with
fifty-nine men in them. About half
of those men were from a ship that
had been torpedoed the day before.
They got away and were taken on a
passing steamer, and they hadn't
been aboard her for twelve hours be-
fore she was torpedoed, too. We got
those fellows into the drum-room and
laid them over the boilers. When
ever we sight a life boat the com
missarv steward starts supplies OF
soup and coffee, so we had plenty OF
the warm stuff ready for them, ana
we lent them our clothes while Their
own were drying
His companion laughed.
"Why don't you tell the rest?' he
asked.
"Oh, what's the use!" grumbled the
first sailor.
"Then I'll tell It," persisted the
second. "Our crews clothes were so
much better than the Stops the
rescued men had come aboard in that
some of the rescued forgot to change
back to their own buds before they
went ashore. If you see any stray
uniforms walking around this town,
they're ours"
However, if good company is a
moral force not to be neglected, so
is good food, and in that particular
the Y. NJ. c.. A. has thus far been
fortunate. There is story told IN
one port, where Vincent Astor has
been staying when on shore leave, to
the effect that he was complaining Of
the restaurant in his hotel.
"You can't get really good meal
there" said Aston.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

quartermaster leaned against the
starboard rail.
That boy" he said, as he nodded
to blackened, barefoot lad emerging
from hatchway, got honors in
French at Harvard last spring"
And he's here as common sea-
man" | wondered.
LAS a coal HEAVIER" the quarter
master corrected me. We've got a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
A MISS AND A HIT.
please DON'T" said the secretary.

"Please DON'T" said the secretary.
The big fist shot forward
1t didn't hit anything. It was
shunted aside as a little twist of the
slim switch stunts train of coal
cars. 1t dragged the boatswain's
mate after it into vacant space-and,
something caught him-something
uncommonly like an express engine
on the point of the jaw. and sent him
smashing to the floor.
Then the quiet secretary picked tho
giant up in his arms and carried him
to a back room, Of which the two
were the only occupants.
II hope I haven't hurt you" said
the secretary. Il tried not to-"
The secretary was a Presbyterian
minister. lie was also a Colorado
rancher. And also he had been the
best boxer in Princeton during his
day there: his nam. is 0. T. Gardner.
He nursed that boatswain's mato
back to sobriety and got him on mis-
ship in time to escape reprirland.
The next night the sailor turned up
again at the y. n. c. A. building.
give come here to apologize" be
said
That's all right" said the .ecre-
tarv.
NO, it amt" the sailor persisted
81 made a nuisance of myself bcfo,s
all this crowd, and it's before this
whole crowd that I've got to apoio-
gize. Here, you sw;pes!" he bel.
lowed
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
LETTERS, THE DEMAND

"Sure; but I'd rather had a letter
than 4 hundred cigarette cases. or
course I'm glad I enlisted; but, gee,
II the people at home knew how bad
US fellows wanted letters, they'd
write every day, even if they didn't
have nothin' to say except Yours
truly If they only KNEW
That sailor was a fair example of
our young seamen in France: unfal-
teriog 10 his determination to do his
duty, but unremittingly homesick.
The room in which he revealed his
leart was one of many such rooms
where, daily, many of our enlisted
men are moved to similar confessions ::
their one healthy substitute for home,
the Y. NJ c. A. headquarters at a
French port.
These boys are the keepers-up of
commerce, the foodbrinsers, the
sleepless guides and guardians of our
troops that cross the sea.
1.-The work of the Mosquito Fleet
IS nothing short of wonderful" a
French admiral recently declared.
"In the last report Of two hundred
and Fifty ships conveyed, only three
losses were reported: since the Mos
quito Fleet came here, the s. o. s.
calls due to rnipes and submarine at
tacks have decreased fifty per cent
These results are achieved only by
labor that is hard, dangerous, and
without recorded praise. There are
days when men have to stand on
watch for fourteen hours without re-
lief: whole voyages when the gun
crews have never moved more than
ave feet from their guns, snatching
slceo on the cain-washcG decks !;
cruises when the men in the fire room
and before the engines have never
Cncc been able to come up for a
breath of fresh air.