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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09
(Signed) E. l, Philip, Governc
Memorandum No ll2S Feb 4. 1918
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS TO Fill
DEFERRED pEPFENTAcC

j
EXAMINATIONS TO FIJI
DEFERRED PERCENTAGES.
We have just received the following
telegram from the Provost Marshal Gen,
eral, Washington.
Direct each local board 70 proceed
with the utmost expedition to examine
physically sufficient number of class !
men in order of liability TO fill deferred
percentages OF their current quotas bnt
not to proceed beyond that number plus a
Reasonable surplus to care for cases that
may be rejected on appeal.
These examinations NAV be conducted
under the old regu' tons until the new
regulations arrive.
II the examination OF a sufficient nur,.
Der IS completed before arrival of new
regulations. then examination of other
men IN class / should be DELAYED pending
arrival Of new regulations.
1t is OF the utmost Importance thar
examination OF sufficient number to I'M
deferred percentages Of current Quota h.,
completed as rapidly as possible.
Crowdsr"
FteSSe be advised accordingly
tSigned) ( l. Phlipp Governor
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

America viii need many things dur.
ing the dark days of this winter. men,
money, munitions and food, but above
all she win need optimism. Cheerful
ness at home as Well as courage at the
front is essential. Therefore the coun-
try should encourage, within reason
able hints, the lighter and pleasanter
features of life TO inspire hope and
strengthen confidence. says The Bell.
man. Gloom Is n very bad weapon to
make war with, and Its apostles are
in sorrow business when they endeav-
or to disseminate It. for It does not
help, II only demoralizes and weakens.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

In Great Britain they are conserving
wool by sending TO one great factory
the uniforms discarded by the army
had navy to be repaired as good as
new, or TO be reduced TO material from
which military cloth may be manurac-
tureG. More than 10000 tons of rags
Il year are being saved for useful pur-
poses ut thu great Dewsbury center.
There is HAT FOR the United States
In this scheme.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

American naval officers and men In
Europe have been ordered not to bring
their wives from the United States and
the war department is discouraging
relatives of soldiers from undertaking
TO live In the vicinity OF the training
camps. II is natural that those who
are SO deeply interested IN each other
should want to be together, but apart
from the fact that war service demands
undivided attention, there are practical
d.N"ulties in the way.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

verbal tips" safely landed them in
the soft snow drifts. No harm result
ed, however, and the only regret eX-
pressed by one of the number was
that no one had kodak to perpetuate
some of the laughable scenes enacted
in trying to right overturned cutters.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

The income tax. reaching incomes
exceeding $1,000 for the unmarried. or
5000 for the married, applies to
"eyery individual, citizen or a resi-
dent of the United States" and many
mechanics and artisans will have to
pay tax. while some college gradu-
ates viii not be subject to taxation.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

sun, ia 1920 there will not be very
many candidates VINO VIII stress as
the first plank % their platform: an
the sreat war which has just closed.
] Joined strike every time got g
sob in an industry that was essential
20 the winning OF the war;
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09
THE SELECT!yf SERVICE LAW

series Of Memorandum from the Office Of
Co. +. l., Philip regarding the admnistra-
Of the Selectve Service Law
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Maple Street

Maple Street
Sunday Services.
Sunday School 1000 A. NJ.
Preaching Services HOO A. NJ.
Epworth League 6:l5 Z. NJ,
Preaching Services 700 .
Wednesday.
Ladies Aid 2:3O.
Prayer services 1870.
Choir practice Thursday $50.
Girls Sewing Circle Friday 1880.
rev. j. Z. Kundert,
experimenting Pastor.
The Girls Sewing Club of the Me.
church vii! meet at the home of Miss
Hattie Hubbard on Friday evening,
Feb. s. A full attendance is desired
Her Idea.
II understand the average inhabitant
of this earth probably uses more than
two pounds Of provisions a day." said
the caller.
is that a fact?" said the boarding
house keeper.
How is it with your boarders?"
"Oh, they're ali above the average"
st Louis st-Dispatch.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09
February l. 1918
TO ALLLOCAL BOARDS.

February /, 1918
TO ALL LOCAL BOARDS:
Where Government Appeal Agents have
not entered an appeal in cases of mar.
riages since May eighteenth which have
been granted a deferred classification by
the local board. please direct the clerk TO
enter the appeal by direction of the Gov.
ernor's Office and forward the cases forth.
with to the proper District Board.
Very truly yours.
lSiGnedl Z !. Philinn. Governor
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1918-02-09

Prepared by
Miss Della Emunson, Co. Supt. of Schools and
Miss Agnes Boyington. Supervising Teacher.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

not see me. and doing it we'll; for in
order to try to stay behind him when
was IN plain view, to maneuvre so
as to give him long, hard right angle
shot-almost an impossible one-I had
to fly further than he did and, accord
ihgly, could not catch him. did get
up to his level, though (4,7OO metres) J,
and when he finally started back for
his own lines l got directly behind his
tail and put after him as fast as my
bus would travel
When I got within one hundred yards
| tried to lay my sights on him, but
being directly behind him the back
draft from his propeller made my ma
chine unsteady, so that accurate shoot
ing would have been impossible.
dove down ten metres so as to get out
Of this and tried again. After my sad
experience with the monoplane, which
wrote you about (and which. think.
went down, but was not contirmed), I
tried my best to shoot most carefully
this time. All the time the boche had
not fired a shot, and from the way he
acted | think he must have lost track
Of me behind his tail.
Anyhow, I turned both my machine
guns loose, and thought I saw my bull
lets going about right. My left hand
gun fired only about dozen shots and
then broke, the boche at the same time
giving a twist to the right to get me
out from under his tail. l kept or
plugging away with my other gun,
shooting for the place where the pilot
sits, and again l thought l saw the
bullets going into the right spot After
possibly thirty shots, however, my
right gun also broke and left ne with
nothing, and at the same time the Hun
started to join in the shooting, firing
perhaps twenty shots. By this time
we were, suppose, about fifty or sixty
quickly to get out Of the way so that
| could not see just where the boche
was shooting, but am sure he came no.
where near me.
There never was truer saying than
that there is nothing which upsets q
mans accuracy 80 much as having the
other fellow putting them very close
to him. That is, think. one of the
principal reasons why accurate, quick
shooting is SO important, not only for
the damage it does, but because to
come very close is one Of the best
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Our Daily Bread

H. W-What is meant by the term
"Our daily bread? When, where and
how did bread originate?
iguratively, the term means food
or sustenance in general; in a more
restricted sense it is that more par
ticular article of food upon which the
existence of a people actually depends.
Vhi. article of food will, Of course,
vary, according to the climate, customs
and historical development. The daily
bread of the Chinese is rice; of the
Hyperborean it is dog fat and whale
blubber of the West African the fruit
of the bread dtree (Artocarpus incisa).
The South Sea Islander depends for
his sustenance on the cocas (cocos
mucifera); on the Orinoco and Ma
ramon they live on the farinaceous yam
(Dioscorea batata), and the life Of the
Bedouin is unthinkable without the
date {Phoenix dactylifera). In it's mar
rowest sense. however, bread" is the
well-known article of food prepared of
-four Of meal or Of some species Of
grain by kneading it into dough.
The origin of this most important
victual is lost in hoary antiquity. Even
the original home of the cereal plants
of which bread is being made is not
known, all the researches and hypo-
theses Notwithstanding. Where wheat,
spclt, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, etc,
first offered man their grainy ears for
food is an ,msoved problem. But that
originally bread was not roasted or
baked, but eaten as dough or paste,
may be inferred from its relation with
the word BROTH" both Of these words
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Queries and Answers

being derived from the root "breowan,"
"bru," to brew. In all probability it
was originally the boiled coarse meal
with nothing added to it but salt. The
leavening and baking Of the bread was
a later development. The origin Of
these processes is matter of specula-
ton; but so much is certain that bak-
ing preceded the leavening Of the
bread that causes it to rise; also that
the original form Of the bread was not
the loaf, but kind of thin, fiat cake
Ike the matzoths, or unleavened bread
of the Jews, or the tortillas of the
Mexicans. Like these, it was probably
roasted upon intensely heated fiat
stones.
With the discovery Of the leaven the
hat cake increased in height until it
assumed the form of our loaf.
OF what great Importance the loaf.
which before 1900 was the mama Of
bread: was as a daily food can be in
ferred from its relation with the word
lord" For lord, A. S. hlaford (hlaf.
bread, loaf; weard, keeper, is prob
ably contraction of hlafweard, liter
ally, "loaf-ward." and, therefore. Orig
lnally signified the keeper or dispenser
OF hread-in short, the breadfather to
whom the members of the family had
to apply for their daily bread. even as
to-day the whole American people have
to apply to our food dictator, Hoover.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Their Interests
Being Consolidated

They meet in London, in France, in
all the great bases of military activity.
Even finance is consolidating their in
terests. I do not intend here to dis
cuss the thorny subject known as
reciprocity, for that word in itself
throws Canadians into opposite camps.
For better or worse, your country and
theirs have been divided, this fifty
years, by an economic barrier which
mas forced the Northern population to
push their great railroads east and
west, where under a different fiscal
policy these routes might have run
north and south. That is history, and
the interchange by which Eastern Can
ada sells goods to Western Canada and
buys corn with the money is one Of
the most perfect examples of internal
free trade anywhere to be seen. But
the war has reduced European shipping
along the Atlantic route and has thus
forced Canada into n larger volume Of
commerce with yourselves. She has
been buying your goods, and, with a
reciprocal embargo on gold holding up
currency, her exchange has suffered.
That was the reason Of Sir Robert Bor-
den's visit to Washington, which
indicates landmark in the financial
relations between the two countries.
The fact that Canada has dealt with
you instead Of with London is some in
dication of the sacrifice of prestige
which Britain suffers under the stress
of war. On the altar of this fearful
struggle we have laid many cherished
things, of which one has been the proud
prominence of the London money mar
ket. Better things may come to US in
compensation-mone markets are not
all that nations should live for-and I
suppose that, strictly, no nation should
cling to any such material preeminence
over others, still the London money
market was a not ignoble achievement,
and if we now share its fruits with you,
frankly recognizing that a new day has
dawned, you will pardon US if some
times we turn our faces to the past
and remember what splendid past it
has been.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

sible! The city Of Montreal would have
to be severed clean in twain. The
British Canadians would be barred
from the Atlantic Ocean. And the
French Canadians would find them
selves bereft of all that sturdy enter
prise which, largely through Scots
men, has made Canada what she IS
to-day.
Like yourselves. Canada must look
long way ahead and build for the
future. In the fine banks of Montreal
and in the magnificent railroad sta
tlons you see that spirit at work.
These massive ediices are not meant
for to-day alone or even for to-mor-
row. A century hence they will be
valued and admired. Similarly with
her French Canadian problem. At the
moment it looks insoluble. But if both
sides work sincerely for the future.
then slowly but surely the hardy Mo-
neers to whom Professionalism appeals
will appreciate the garnered traditions
IN art and poetry and symbol which
are the glory of Catholicism, while on
their side Catholics will find in the
simpler worship of their friends a sim
cere reverence and guarantee of a
sound and we'll ordered home life. In
the meantime the war must inevitably
draw together Americans and Cana
dians.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

Dominion in advance of white settle
ment throughout the West 1t is not
easy to link up these misgivings with
Japan's proposal to advance in Siberia,
which might actually divert migration
westward, to Asia and therefore away
from America. But the whole situation
tends to draw this continent into one
diplomatic ambit, and there is no doubt,
so far as Canada is concerned with the
yellow races, Washington understands
the position a good deal more clearly
than scribes in London who have been
ready, at safe distance, to encourage
the japanese to conquer half of North
ern Asia.
At the same time I am not certain
that Canada fully appreciates what l
take to be the Presidents especial diff
fculty over Japan's proposals. This
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

w. A-On what occasion did Kosci-
uszko utter the famous words, "Finis
Polonie"?
Like most sayings attributed to great
men, also this "Finis Poloni@," the end
of Poland, has no historical foundation
whatever. 1t was put into the mouth Of
Field Marshal Tadeusz kosciuszko
(1746-17S1) in No. "a OF the Official
"Sud-Preussisch Ieitung" of October
25, 1894 It was said that Kosciuszko
on his fight in the battle Of Maciejo-
vice got stuck in a sandhill; the Co.'S
sacks had shot his horse under his
body, and when he jumped from his
horse he was wounded in the back of
the head. The Cossacks then carried
him on four poles into their camp,
where he handed over his sword with
the cry, "Finis Regni Polonia."
In letter to Count Louis Philippe
de S6gur, of November y, 1903, who
Incorporated it in his "Tableau His
t,rique ct Politique de pEurope dc
17s4-96,' Paris, 1900, kosciuszko en-
phatically denies having. uttered this
cry.
The Poles replied to this spurious
cry of lament with the famous Dom
browski march Of an unknown author:
"Jeszcze Polska ME zginela' ("Poland
is not yet lost"), first sung by the
Polish Legion organized by Dombrowsk kl
under BonaDarte in 1895.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
The Crown Not
Badge of Servitude

To Canada the Grown is not badge
Of servitude or dependency" or mutt
lated and subjugated nationality. 1t
signifies the deliberate self -determina-
tion of free people
This loyalty to distant and merely
emblematical throne-for no King of
England as King has ever set foot in
Canada-nakes it little difficult for
your neighbors to appreciate the inter-
national terms in which President Will
son states the aims of this war. Can
ada did not thus reason when, with tout
debate, she dispatched her army Of
about 400 900 men across the Atlantic
To her. it was enough that England
was in deadly danger, and to Eng
lands help she came. The impulse was
instructive, not reasoned, and it fol-
lows, inevitably, that Canadians find a
hero in Colonel Roosevelt, who wanted
you to enter the war when the Lusi-
tania was torpedoed.
Indeed, Canada cannot even yet quite
"place" President Wilson. 1t will take
time and careful explanation to bring
her into close touch with the ideal Of
an international league of peace, and
much Of what I said on this subject.
both in public and in private, seemed
to strike Canadians as a new idea. At
any rate, many of them had not taken
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

difficulty is believed to be that if
Japan advances against Russia on one
side, we have no reason for opposing
Germany's advance against Russia on
the other side. The symmetry of the
long distance negotiations would be
seriously injured while Russia is irrev-
ocably alienated from the Allies.
The impulse of Canadians would be
to dismiss the theory of the matter
and get at the blunt fact that the Boil
sheviki have let us down badly, that
Japan has helped US and that Germany
must be beaten, whatever happens af-
terward. That only prompts me to say
one thing as friend and real admirer
of Japan. l am told that her people
are split up over this Siberian busi-
ness. If that be so, then let US look
at the choice. Militarism and aggres-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Friends Meet
At the Border

In uassing, may mention the great
.aurtesy OF the customs officials on
ho.h sides who defend US all against
,rdue economic determination. These
Imuortant gentlemen could cause much
.r;ction between the two countries If
.bss 40 desired, but, while doing their
du.y with all vigilance, they endeavor
"a make legitimate intercourse as easy
a. possible, which is surely a very
wise policy to pursue. I am told that
there used to be periods when boun-
d.ry disputes occupied the diplomats
seriously for years at time, and on
the merits Of these controversies
Americans will argue with Canadians
to this day.
One story is good until another is
told but the Canadian view is broadly
that influences in America which,
doubtless with excellent reason, dis
liked Britain made it awkward for
Canada, in the belief that Canada be-
lcnged to England"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
The Mischief Made
By Pin Pricks

Whether that was so or not l am un-
sble to say, but l may remark in gen.
eral terms that politicians, whoever
they be and wherever they live, who in
dulge in pin pricks against the neigh
hors OF their country are SHINING
against their own children. If Ill feel
ing results it Injuries both sides equal
lY. And to foment Ill feeling, or even
to risk il, is downright mischief, on
which public opinion should stamp the
iaot-and hard. In your case with
Canada this is all the more important,
because undoubtedly there has been
irritation over various matters, some
great, some small.
When Lord Bryce returned from
Washington TO London he spoke at our
Lord Mayors Mansion House on Anglo
American relations. Among other
things, he described the difficulty of
working frontier which cuts in a dead
line through cities, severing houses, di
viding the mill from the millrace and
the homestead from the farm. These
little problems are seized on by lawyers
and, regret to add. by US newspaper
men, and may become very interesting.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

IN view Of what is happening to-day all
over ehe civilized world, Americans and
canadians are wise in avoiding what
children call playing with fire"
for behind these pyrotechnics there
IS real dump of explosives. No areu-
neh' VIII alter the fact that the great
Republic which broke away to inde-
pendence must look occasionally little
askance at 'the colonies" which re-
NAMED within the bondage-as it has
been regarded sometimes-of the Rrit-
ism yoke. This habit of thinking gals
.he canadian bitterly and is response
Die Tor whatever GOODNESS remains be-
tween him and Americans. Speaking
as third party, quite detached from
e'lner OF the other two, NAV suo-
gest that whether or not Canada
mas been we'll advised in holding to
Britain instead of cutting the painter
one thing is certain - she so acts
Oh her own free will. Tomorrow
morning, if she wishes, she can saw
Goodby to the mother country. She
has in full measure ali the rights
the full status-of nation that, num-
pering seven million to-day, will num-
Der fifty millions in fifty years from
now. And the passionate devotion
which Americans rightly lavish on "Old
Giory"-in the workshops of Schenec-
tady saw your flag displayed on every
crane and girder-is paralleled by the
almost religious loyalty of British
speaking Canadians for the Crown-not
because the Crown is hereditary, but
because, like your Stars and Stripes, it
unltes many races, symbolizes a COM
mon destiny, is emblem of one pur-
pose.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10

II YOU should ask any kindergart-
/ ner what punishment she relies
On in all cases needing instant
.ssn.ion she would invariably answer:
aoiatng child from the group and
exciuding him from all work Or play
i'r short time Usually putting John
one side, where he can see what he
u missing, will be sufficient, and the
question, after few minutes, as to
snether he is row ready to join the
CLASS again will meet with a ready &C
aulsscence.
Does this plan work as well in the
asrae az in kindergarten? 1t certainly
aoss, bEt il must be differently man
sssa- Since there ia not so much def
sue work Or play going on in the home
!" IN kindergarten, exclusion has to
more complete to be noticed by the
'"Ha- That is 70 say, something more
s4a Dc neeesgary than simply having
eraw Mis- chair to one side Of the
.s.1' sun' II must be "Co away by your
~, 1onn, until you are ready to be
peasant companion again" Danish
~ IsaI must be complete, even 10 clos
~ hs door. OF course, cries Will
sae, sometimes screams, but they
n. caused by no physical pain, and
-. Mental shock Of being entirely
sss she and cut of from the family is
sss.aiiy Ali that is needed 10 stop
nsstinsss. 4" After the tempest is oyer
- moshsf will 90 TO her little one and
~. ne want you when you are your
H.. again, John. Can we have you
s,.ly LlAhy Of the minor naughtinesses
ssss.as ~ whining, teasing, mimicking,
ssss'hgs snatching and stamping, are
managed In this simple way.
.assfuI In Choice Of Words
n,ss @ hese let me say, ne mothers
b. a.. 20. oe careful In our choice Of words
a .Ieax actions. Let w not call all
esssa sshSn bad, or even naughty. II Il
ny = disazfeeabIe or ankind when
s. used We shouldn't tell him that
70 y Dad. gaye that worst word Tor
lsssas sxengs, like siappiag, xnsaking OF
y snd the Ike. Then it will
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Laurier Was Their
Greatest Hope

With the defeat of Sir Wilfred Lau-
rier the French Canadians have lost
the commanding figure through whom
they governed the Dominion. They are
solid, but they are isolated, and where
Laurier failed none expects that Bou
rassa, with his newspaper "Le Devoir." :"
will succeed. For what is it that the
extremists really want? They dislike
England, but, then, England is thou
sands of miles away and has nothing
to do with them. If they are against
Canada, yet they are equally against
incorporation with the United States.
Total Independence appears to be the
only solution left, but how impos-