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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
COLLEGE BOYS FIRST.

well, sir, the first to voluntee1
were the college kids-and -Four.
Stripes gave them the Job.
BY squads of four, with a net+v
officer to each, they jumped into thar
hell. Shovel? You ought to havs
seen them! Three minutes a shift
they were to work, but they were
gased so quickly that eleven XII,
were carried out, one right after the
other, on the backs of their shin.
mates. Sawbones stood on deck with
the pulmotor and pumped them
through, but lot were caught
sneaking out of their hunks to 60
back and fight the gas again. It was
as tough job as I've ever seen al
sea, but those boys did it; they con.
quered the fire and saved the shin.
Since then, you don't hear much
laughing at the College Kids"
Somehow that quartermaster had
given me hint about himself.
What's your college7" 1 asked.
Yale, 'ninety-four." he said. But
I'm an old hand. It was these KIDS
l was talking about. Don't mention
my being a college man to ANYBODY
aboard. I don't want to seem to ts
putting on side"
That is one example. Here's al.
| other:
To an orderly entertainment at a
Y. NJ. c. A building came one night,
brilliantly illuminated boatswain's
mate. He was a splendid specimen
Of physical manhood, six feet three
| inches, and as hard as nails. But he
was intent on Starting something"
He stopped, with one believing
| command, the singer on the stage.
He knocked down two of his protest
ing friends, spilled a crowded bench
and staggered up to the secretary in
charge with the majesty of a breaker
sweeping toward the beach.
I'm going to break up this show"
he said.
1t looked very much as II h.
would, too.
Now, the secretary in charge was a
quiet and unassuming man. He had
done wonders in his work among orr
fleet in French waters, but he spoke
in small voice ard moved gently.
eff / were you" said the sccrc-
tary. II wouldn't interfere"
"The hell yon wouldnt!" said the
boatswain's mate and shook
mighty fist
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

Up at the front with the American army are two
jobs closely related they are one-the arullery'
mans and the Observers The first delivers the
goods the second tells him what doorstep to leave 1t
on and corrects any misapprehensions he may nave
as to where he is leaving it.
During the night there had been tremendous bar
rage Hundreds of guns OF all sizes and xolceS mao
made exceedingly uncomfortable for Fritze, VINO
is perched famous mountain which seems oniy
a stones throw away The guns had hTed 1or Two
hours and our fellows had gone over the top anu
come back with prisoners and captured macMne
guns. In the morning went back to the nearest pat
terry to ask how they went about it.
The battery consisted of French nineues and
seventy-fves They hidden away in bomb
nroof emnlacements of interesting construction The
construction had to be interesting tecause Fritz
knew the battery there, and paid 1t consider
able attention. Every once in while he would drop
she'll near by. -
general showed us his wall map Of the vicinity
on which was marked every German trench and post,
every stone and blade OF grass, II seemed anu lneh
explained the barrage.
PURPOSES OF BARRAGE
"The theory was to wall in that section of
trenches" he said Part OF the guns enclosed inc
the communicating trenches to keep reinforcements
from coming up The idea is to keep in the area all
the men who are there and to let nobody come In to
help them"
But you can't those trenches. How do you
know you hitting them?"
observers" was the curt answer. 1--WE know the
location Of the trench and then register it. The
observers correct our fire until we have the range
that there will be such and such barrage on ~
day and zero hour. And we are ready.
The thing that tapped one on the shoulder about
these boys was their attitude toward the They
seemed to feel toward them as person might feel
toward a splendid fighting bull dog.
The seventy-fves called out the highest esteem.
The nineties good; they did the business, but
the seventy-hves Now there were guns.
'They won't let fire but six times a minute,
a sergeant said with the air of who had been
personally offended.
TORN BY HUN SHELLS
All around the emplacements the ground was torn
and upheaved by Hun shells which had been sent
over as a compliment to this battery Out in the
field were two great craters sharply visible the
rest.
"Hey" called from the other end of the line
of bomb proofs here comes Y. NJ. c. A. man with
eats
Bows oozed out of caves and bomb proofs with their
tongues fairly hanging out. Their station is with
their guns, and their mess IS the spot SO they
have little chance to get to the canteen. The
"Y" man. being competent to fill his job. knew this,
| and made frequent trips over with a pack Of his
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
MANY DIFFICULTIES,

At no one place are there often
more than three hundred men ashore
at a time, and so it is easier to
establish the personal relationship
between the association worker and
the sailor than between worker and
soldier in the soldier huts at the
American camp. But the ports are
cities, whereas the camp stretches
among mere villages, so that the
forces against which the naval
branch of the Y. NJ c. A. has to
contend are the stronger.
I went to an evening entertain
ment given by the British Y NJ. c. A
for the American Y. M. G. AS
patrons in the rooms of the French
equivalent of the association. There
was reading room full of magazines
and q growing library, free writing
materials, a piano around which was
grouped a day-long chorus of sailor
men, moving picture shows, hall
for basket ball. a baseball grounds,
fifty clean beds at franc apiece a
highland a clean bed is a luxury
as we'll as a moral force-an apart
| mcnt house for seventeen petty
officers permanently employed ashore,
photograph over which I've seen q
| lonely lad sit all afternoon running
off songs reminiscent of his child
hood, n cantecn that sold chewing
gum, and candy These may sound
| like trihes to Americans at home, but
to the American sailor abroad, to
whom only the Y. NJ. c.. A. provides
them, they become something large
and vital They become America.
There's good grub on our tub, but
not enough that's sweet. Gimme
some more of those gum drops"
whats this? Lemonade3 Yes,
but what's it made of? Citron-
syrup and settler! And you call that
lem onades Oh. well. give us another
glass of it: it's as close as fellow
can come to it over here. When are
you goin' to be able to afford n
soda -fountain!"
MEETING FRENCH GIRLS.
If I heard those comments once
during an afternoon that l passed in
a naval Y. NJ. c. A., heard them a
dozen times. Unbelievable quantities
of chocolate are sold in a form that
may be easily heated and drunk
during night watches at sea, and the
millionaire that wants to do effective
work against alcoholism could do
none more effective than to donate
soda fountains and hot chocolate ma
chimes to the association in these
ports.
One innovation introduced recently
is thus far working well: parties OF
young French women of the best up.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

Boys of Mosquito Fleet, Who Find
French Ports Dreary and Full
of "Homesickness GERMS" Go
Back to Their Ships Cheerful
and Ready for Anything after
Meeting the Women Workers
Who have Gone "Over There
to Make France Look as Much
Like Home as Possible.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20
THOUGH he was q mere |
lad-he didn't look day
over seventeen-he wore the
nniforn, Of a sailor in the |

~ lad-ne ClQnt look Gay
1 "A over seventeen-he wore the
uniform of sailor in the
United States Navy. He had come
into this little room, opening off the
main street of the dreary French
port, with just bit of swagger.
"Des cigarettes" he said, and flung
upon the counter a fiftyfranc bill.
What brand do you PREFER! asked
the girl-behind the-counter.
Instantly, that faint hint of bra
vado passed from the boyish face,
leaving it clean and manly-glad, too,
and yet wistful.
"Gee!" he cried. you're an
American, aren't you? Great guns,
but it's good to hear American talked
in this town."
He drew out, as long as he dared,
the details of his purchase. He went
away slowly, and presently returned
and bought some more cigarettes. He
hung about the room, and then
bought still more. He ostentatiously
pulled out a shining cigarette case
from a pocket, and filled it.
The clerk couldn't help a smile.
'"You must smoke q great DEAL" she
said
The sailor blushed. "It's not that"
he confessed, "but-well, just to
hear you talk is like home!" He
fumblcd with the cigarette case.
"Sce that?" he said. II got it to-
day from my folks in Boston. That
monogram-they're my initials. l
guessed maybe they'd send me ciga-
rettes, but I didn't expect the case.
AS it was, the case came alone"
cts very pretty" said the clerk.
"It's the first word I've had from
home for three months" said the boy.
They don't writer
lie turned away. II guess the
mails are oil balled-up."
"Still, you did get the case"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-20

been shower-water causes such
fires, you know-and now, away a.
the bottom of the pile, that coal was
white hot. All we could do at first
was to play the steam hose on it and
hold it from gaining for twenty -four
hours.
Il was on the bridge at 2:3o next
morning-had the midnight to 4
A. NJ. watch-when the starboard
bunker blew out. The FIRE had
crossed the ship. We did our best.
but before 4 o'clock there were three
explosions on the port side, and then
we knew that it was time for des.
perate measures.
The captain called for volunteer
He said he wanted men that won
go down into that furnace bulg:n~
with fatal gas--fellows that would
walk straight into those lungs Of
death and shovel away the TOP coal
80 as to uncover the burning core
That was the only way to save the
ship.
Evening star., 1918-08-30
What They Approve.

More than half the recommenda-
tions relate to measures which al
ready have been embodied in the new
revenue bill by the House ways and
means committee. The proposals as
approved are as follows:
Exemptions allowed before war
taxes are imposed should be adequate
for the safe conduct of business enter
prises and power to make adjust
ments which will prevent inequali-
ties should be given to the admins
tration authority. In general the bill
as drafted provides for these condi-
tions.
Liberal provisions for amortization
Of plants used on war work should
be made, with opportunity for subse-
uuent readjustment to correct errors
The bill provides for certain degrees
of amortization
A few regional boards OF review ap-
pointed by the administrative author
ity should be authorized, with power
to make recommendations on appeals
from preliminary assessments. The
bill is silent on this proposal
Evening star., 1918-08-30
DIED

1ADoocK, On Tuesd.y. August y. 1918. Hrs.
KATE ": BABCoCK. widow Of the late
Hon. J. W. Babcock.
saturday. August 81, at 1:so pm. Immediate
family only.
1AYLy. On Thursday. August ., 1913. At
the fesidence Of her brother, W ]. ". Bay
" IeeMst ayenue. Hyattsviile. Nd. f.
ses1iees and interment at Emanuel Church.
BLAND. On Friday. August 80. 1918. $50
an. at her residence. $50 G street south,
daughter Of Edward r. and May A. Bland
tnee Ludlsm). aged fifteen years and eight
months.
CnBsElL. Departed this l,fe on Thursday. Au-
gust %; 1918. at 1:ls O'Clock, JEREMIAH
Funeral services will be held at his late res
idence. % Virginia avenue southwest. on
Sunday, September 1, at pm.
DENIsoH. On Wednesday. August 2s. 1918.
at 80 pm. after q long and painful ILL
ness. ETHEL N. DENISON, beloved and de-
voted daughter of jamie N. Curry (nee
Raynor) and stepdauGhter Of Norman o..
Curry, aged eighteen years.
A precious one from us has gone.
A voice we loved is stilled;
A place In vacant In our home
Which never can be filed.
BY HER PARENTS
Funeral services at her late residence. 2915
Olive avenue northwest. on Saturday, August
81. at 2:30 pm. Interment at Congressional
cemetery. Relatives and friends invited to
attend. so
DUNN. Suddenly. on Wednesday. August IS.
1918. at 1:30 p.m., EDITH MCKEE. the only
daughter of Charles C. and Carrie L. Dunn
inee Cleveland and sister Of Goodwin p.
Dunn. in the eighteenth year of her age.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
Funeral from the residence Of her uncle.
William T. Padgett. 9e3 X street northeast.
Saturday August 81, at pm.
ETTER. Suddenly. Tuesday. August II 1918.
at 10 p.m., EMMA CLEMENTISA ETTER
(nee Petersen). beloved wife of Robert T.
Funeral from her late residence. 1902 Belmont
street northwest. Friday. August 80. an.
KEEGM. On Thursday. August %. 1918.
EDWARD. beloved husband Of Annie hein
Keegin.
Funeral saturday morning at $50 from st.
Jerome's Church. Hyattsville. Nd. (Nor-
folk papers please copy0
LUcKETT. On Wednesday. August %. 1913.
at 10 an, JAMES MATTHEW LUCKETT.
beloved husband of Charlotte Cook Luckett.
Funeral from his late residence. 1873 18th
81, at $50 o'clock; thence to st. Augustine s
Church, where requiem high mass will be
sung at 10 O'Clock Am. for the repose of his
soul. S0s
NoCCIoLINo. On THURSDAY. August .. 1913.
at the Children's Hospital, LOUIS. beloved
son of Lorenzo and Selesta Soccioiino.
Funeral from his late residence, 1411 ID street
northwest. Saturday, August 81. IL am.
o'BRIEH. On Friday. August so. 1918. at her
residence, 3517 Prospect avenue. MARIA A.
0'BR1EN, widow of the late Edward A.
OBrien.
Notice Of funeral later.
POLLARD. On Monday. August 20. 1918. at
her residence 522 18th street northeast.
MARY ]. POLLARD, the beloved wife Of
R. D. Pollard, mother of william +. Pollaro
and eldest daughter Of John W. and Cath
crime Work.
Funeral from her late residence Saturday morn
ing at $50. Mass at Holy Comforter Church
At o'clock. philadelphia papers please
copy) 3Os
Evening star., 1918-08-30
EACHMAN TOKNOW
WHERE TOREG|STER
Draft Officials Planning the
Enrolment Under Proposed
Man-Power Law.
CARDS FOR CITY HOMES

Every man in the District who
should register in the draft under the
man-power bill will know before
hand just exactly to which school
house he is to go. according to plans
being worked out by local draft au-
thorities.
Letter carriers of the city post Of
fee will deliver individual cards to
every household in the city few days
before registration day. the exact date
of which has yet to be determined. In
dications are that September 10. II or
IL will be chosen.
City Postmaster Merritt o. Chance.
chairman of local board No. 3 and
head of the subcommittee on advising
registrants where they must register.
has this work well in hand.
Instructions to Letter Carriers.
Members of the letter carrier force
of the city post office today began to
receive instruction as to the proper
disposition of the cards on the date
to be selected for their deposit along
with regular mail at the homes of the
city. The cards Will be delivered Ell
ther five or two days ahead Of regis
tration day.
A big map. showing the District
divided into registration precincts,
with the schoolhouses which are to
be used as registration places In each,
has been hung where the carriers can
study 1t.
Oficiais are at work on determining
Just what cards to give to each car
rier One, for instance, may have
sevanty-two stops on his route. all of
which may be within one registration
precinct. This man will be given,
therefore, seventy-two cards. each ad-
vising that all male persons of the
household between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five years. inclusive, should
register at such-and-such a school.
This information will be entirely
Evening star., 1918-08-30
T0SEEMR. M'ADOO
ABOUT REVENUES
Ways and Means Subcommit-
tee Will Discuss His Pro-
posed Amendments.

The House wxys and means COM
mtttee, rs a final step IN drafting the
So, 10000 revenue bin preparatory
to its introduction in the House. sent
a subcommittee today to confer with
Secretary McAdoo on the list Of ad-
ministrative suggestions submitted to
the committee by the Secretary
Wednesday in a letter. Mr.. McAdoo
requested the committee in framing
the bill to guard against imposing
burdens of too onerous a nature on
business.
The subcommittee which conferred
with Secretary McAdoo and Treas
ury Department tax experts was COM
posed of Chairman Kitchin, Repre-
sentatives Garner of Texas, democrat.
and Longworth of Ohio. republican
Hearings Postponed.
Hearings on tha bill before the
Senate finance committee scheduled
for next Tuesday will be postponed
on account of delay in presenting the
bill to the House
Senator Simmons was ADVISED late
yesterday by Chairman Kitchin that
tho bill could not be introduced in the
House before tomorrow and probably
not before Monday.
Not Important Amendments.
Chairman Kitchin said last night
that the ways and means committee
had been going over the long list of
suggestions made by Secretary Nc
Adoo.
Mr.. Kitchin summarized them thus:
IAN Of them arc Of minor nature,
some of them merely textual correc-
tions and none of them of general in
terest. We have adopted most of
them- Some Of them we did not
adopt
~we have the bill about completed.
We may report 1t to the House to-
morrow"
Secretary McAdoo has practically
abandoned his plan for q or 8 per
cent differential against unearned in
comes IN the normal tax. Chairman
Kitchin and others Of the committee
say the IL per cent normal tax on
incomes win stand for both earned
and unearned incomes.
This means the normal tax on small
Evening star., 1918-08-30
WHO MUST REGISTER

persons shall have attained their eighteenth
birthday shall have STAINED their birthday
before by the President, register The
only already registered and in the mill
tary and naval service of the United States
Prospective for the registration September TO- II
Suppose September II is the date selected If are eighteen
years you register But lack day
being eighteen old do not have to register If are
foysix old you become SO on
that day, you do have register.
Persons whether they come within the
age of eighteen orty6ve inclusive should
possible clear the doubt between and
the date which registration Provost Marshal
General Crowder warned today -.
Those to whom day more or less will mean that
they will register until the President definitely
the
Evening star., 1918-08-30
Work Rapidly Progressing.
CURTAMED VOTE, BE SAYS.
Mr.. Huddleston, Although Renom-
mated. Blames the President.

Representative Huddleston Of Ala
bama, who was recently renominated
after President Wilson had expressed
his opposition to him. speaking In
tho House yesterday. said he had been
opposed by q ''holier than thou ele-
ment In his district. and declared he
would have received so per cent of
the votes in the primary had 1t not
been for the Presidents opposition. AS
it was, he said. he received go per
cent.
Mr.. Huddleston denied an imputa-
tion made in the House on Tuesday
tives Dewalt of Pennsylvania and
Green of Vermont that he had been
aided by the liquor element in the
primary. He reiterated his stand on
the prohibition question. declaring
he had supported dry measures in the
House.
Evening star., 1918-08-30


dwellings on this site, which would
be q convenient residential location
for hundreds of men and women
working in the big temporary once
buildings In the vicinity OF Potomac
Park.
whether the selection Of this site
would result IN abandoning the site
bordered BY 18th and 18th streets.
b street and Ohio avenue northwest
is not known. but It 10 possible that
both sites may be used.
Work Rapidly Progressing.
Work II progressing rapidly on the
dormitories on the Union station
plaza. which will accommodate ap-
proximately $500 workers. Ono Of the
buildings on the plaza will be operat-
ed as a hotel, where q government
war worker may find comfortable
quarters between the time he or she
gets OF the train and gets q perma-
nent room.
Evening star., 1918-08-30
Advocate Heavy Tax.

Income tax rates should be raised
and unearned incomes should be taxed
at least as much as earned. The bill
provides for higher income tax rates.
but the question of rates on unearncd
incomes has not yet been decided.
Heavy taxes should be imposed on
a few articles Of widespread consump-
tion. This was understood to refer
to such arcles as sugar and coffee.
The bill does not provide them.
Heavy taxes ought to be imposed
on a selected list Of luxuries. So
called luxury taxes have been imposed
in the bill.
Heavy taxes also should be laid on
q selected list Of war extravagances.
Some new levies answering this de-
scrfption, such as those on articles Of
clothing costing more than specified
amounts, have been established In the
bill
Evening star., 1918-08-30
OPEN PRICE ON HEMP.
Fixed Figure on Philippine Product
to Be Removed Tomorrow.

The tentative price on manila hemp
fixed July s by the War Industries
Board will not be continued In erect
after August II. 1t has been an
nounced.
The decision Of tho board is based
upon evidence and recommendation
submitted by the PHILIPPINE govern
ment. including the governor general,
it having been determined at the same
time that the war needs and COM
will not suffer by the relinquishing
of price control.
Evening star., 1918-08-30
S|TE|SSELECTED
FORDORM|TOR|ES
Entire Square Is Secured for
Buildings to House War
Workers.

The square bounded by 21st and
ed streets, B street and New York
avenue northwest was reported to-
day as having been decided on as an
other site on which to erect dormi-
tories for war workers being brought
here by the government
Omcial announcement Of the eeleo-
tion OF this site has not been made
by tho Department Of Labor, but 1t
has been known for some time that
mi. Mot Of ground was under con-
siderasion by the housing bureau OF
the Labor Department
There arc only a few occupied
Evening star., 1918-08-30
Stand for Equalization.

Some system should be devised for
equalization of federal taxes SO as to
protect taxpayers against overpay-
ment of assessments through error or
ignorance without their being re-
ouired to make specific claim for re-
fund. The bill does not provide for
this.
In computing taxable income. cor
porations should be permitted to de-
duct interest and charitable gifts.
The new bill allows this
A war-profits tax at q high rate
should be imposed. and should be
levied when 1t would exceed the ex-
cess profits tar. with opportunity for
proper exemptions and adjustment.
The bill provides this.
The excess-profits tax should be In
creased on the present general basta.
but with Inequalities removed. High
er rates are included in the new bill
Evening star., 1918-08-30
Other Suggestions.
Constantinople Again Bombed.

BASEL. Switzerland, August 2s.-A
Turkish communication dated August
20 announces that sirplanes rsided
Constantinople on tho night Of the
9th. They dropped bombs and mani
festoes. One person was killed and
eleven wounded
Constantinople also was attacked
Sunday night and tho previous
Wedn esday night by airNen.
Evening star., 1918-08-30
s4ooooo,Oo0 More for England.

An additional credit of 100000. 900
@r Great Britain has been established
6y the Treasury. This brought the
total of credits to Great Britain to
S3,725. 0o0. 900 and Of credits to all the
allies to $7.09z.040.000.