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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30

and that we do not have a chance
unless we are fully qualified.
II have now completed my studies
in gas engines, wireless, machine
gunnery, artillery observation. theory
of flight. bombing. photography,
work along reconnaissance and con-
tact patrol. In about a month we
will so overseas and hope to see
active fighting with the Hun in the
air, and then l will feel that l have
won a battle worth while
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30

At this time there are also excel
lent opportunities for electricians
telephonemen and cooks. All stand
good chances of being detailed for
overseas duty. Eighty cooks are Ss-
quired every month for overseas
duty. These men have excellent
chances and will receive increased
spay when detailed to active service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
Sample Pairs Curtains

Curtains in net, scrim and mar
quisette. some slightly soiled;
one pair of a kind; $3.50 to
$500 values; special Friday
only ...75c to $3.50
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart,
... Third Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
The Requirements

Briefly. the requirements for en-
listment are as follows:
The applicant must be not less
than FIVE feet four inches nor more
than six feet two inches in height
weight not less than 125 pounds nor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
BIG DRIVE TO OPEN
FOR MARINE CORPS
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mobile and will establish, quarters
Immediately upon their arrival in
one of the prominent sections of the
city. The Marines will. remain one
week.
IL the drive msets with success, a
permanent recruiting STATEN may be
established here. Such was the case
in Wilmington, Del. where the party
completed a successful drive last
week. Nearly 100 men enlisted with
the Devil Dogs" among them some
of the prominent athletes of the city
and prominent businessmen.
Plan Mass Meeting
Throughout the week mass meet
ings will be. held in theaters and on
| street corners, when recruiting SER
geants will explain to the young men
the advantages accruing from the en-
listment in the lighting organization
and the many military scopes it
embraces. committee of prominent
citizens. headed by the Mayor. will
be formed for the purpose of CO.
operating with the men detailed to
this city by Captain S. A. w. Pat
terson, officer in charge of the Phil
adelphia district.
Particular efforts will be directed
toward the enlistment of men be-
tween the ages of Is and 81 years
and those within the jurisdiction of
the draft law. This is in conform
ity with the Instructions of Captain
Patterson, who believes that Young
men make the best fighters and the
best soldiers.
! II am very keen about having
young men in the organization" de-
clared Captain Patterson when the
| subject was broached. II find that
those between the ages of is and 81
make splendid soldiers and have an
easy time becoming acquainted with
military tactics. They are also
trained easily because they soon
adapt themselves to the life and are
happy in their environment
Registered Men May Go
.All men within draft age also will
be accepted in the Marine Corps, pro-
viding they obtain releases from
their respective draft boards show
ing that they are not needed to fill
any particular quota
The drive to be started in Harris
burg on Monday is part of a nation
wide campaign for recruits provided
for by the passage of a bill in Con-
sress recently that the strength of
the Marine Corps be raised to $4,000
to enable the Navy to put an entire
division of the First to Fight" body
with Pershing's Expeditionary Forces
on the battlefront in France.
The action was based on a rec
ommendation of General Pershing
that the brigade of Marines now at
tached to his force be raised to a
complete division. With $4,000 men,
the NaVy NOT only could ma aiptain q
division of $1,000 men in France, but
would be enabled to organize GER
tain advance base forces that have
been planned for some time. The |
total strength of the Corps now is
about $4,000.
The Requirements
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
Dives, Pon1eroy G. Stewart
Friday Specials Provide Savings of Substantial Character
Infants Shoes

s1.25 dark brown kidskin but
ton shoes with turn soles and
wedge heels; sizes to 6; spe-
cial Friday only ....... .9Sc
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart,
Street Floor, Rear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30

Continued from First Page
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21

any important vote Is taken. While
complaint Is not made very frequently
mbOut the pairs, II often happens that
IN injury or injustice is done To some
member by being paired wrong. Re
suits have not been affected very much
"a the house by pairs, although II was
aid that the woman suffrage amend
cent was aided TO a considerable ex-
.l'nt by the manipulation of pairs when
HAT close vote was taken. The jug
cling of pairs in the senate has on
several occasions affected the vote ON
very important measures. This mas
occurred also on occasions when two
thirds votes are taken. The question
of pairs prevented vote on the woman
suffrage amendment two months ago.
and as long as there are vacancies or
very sick senators 1t may cause delay
when the suffrage amendment is again
brought forward. But as the matter
of pnirs is one of personal arrangement
between senators and representatives.
there does not seem to be any way OF
remedying II.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21

During the debate on the extension
of the draft nearly every time when
II senator or member of the house
made n telling remark about 'babies
of eighteen years" being thrown into
the battle front. the women In the
galleries would applaud. THAT is the
hest argument against woman suffrage
that has been made" remarked mar
in the gallery. at goes to show thn
II women had control they never wou'
allow war because 1t would mea'
the sacrifice of their sons and rela
tfves."
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21

What Speaker Clark terms 'nn ex-
crescence upon the "body polite" is the
pairing of members of congress when
The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21

In the debate on the extension of
the ages for the draft the following
interesting figures were brought out
in regard to soldiers who served
In the Union army during the Civil
war: Under twenty-One years of age,
2.159.7gS; of these 1.551.43S were un.
der eighteen years of age; S04.991 were
under seventeen years. while 231, ,O51
we're under sixteen. And what is still
more surprising. there were 1O4.9S7
under fifteen years.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

He had with him some souvenirs
in the shape of noses" from eXplo-
sive shellsI They resembled very
large, blunt-nosed bullets, as large,
almost as ones fist. He informed us
before handling them that they were
still dangerous, since one fuse was
still intact. His nephew, with an ex-
pressive grimace, made a motion as
If dropping something, and then
tossed his hands upwards to signify
our ascent heavenward in case one
should be dropped. No one appeared
to be much concerned, and tried to
give a good imitation of y. II, South
ern registering Indifference.
He had some wonderful photo
graphs taken in Italy, most of them
from his machine. There were three
from Venice which made my fingers
itch. They are the best pictures OF
the city that | have ever seen, all OF
them taken while flying at different
distances above her. No land was
visible; the city, as compact as II
cut from single block, appeared to
float on the still sea.
Another picture which he did not
show, his dear old French mother in
sisted on my seeing. 1t showed him
being decorated by the Italian KING
Then we all drank glass of deli
clous Burgundy, and hurried back
to camp.
| like France. However, ] am not
going to write a book interpreting
the soul of France, for ! think a
three months acquaintance hardly
entities one to soul-relationships
with countries, at leasD, and my
impressions of this land are a series
of mental snapshots, memories OF
detached little episodes, or of inter
estng scenes.
remember the green rolling
meadows and fields of Brittany, cut
into checkerboard squares by hedges
where old men and women and little
boys and girls were cutting the ripe
wheat with sickles. remember the
high perched ruins of an old castle
destroyed in the frighful days of the
clad stones are slowly rotting. Near
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

Jacquerie. That was six hundred
years ago. The few remaining vine
It Is the parish church, n large and
graceful stone structure of late ORR
gin, not more than a couple of hun
dred years old, What symbol.
these two, standing side by sldel
The temporal passes, the eternal
rises, ever new.
have another snapshot, too, one
that | got not long ago while coming
back one Sunday afternoon from La
Rochelle. must digress for a mo-
ment. Did you know that in 1860
Rochelle was ceded to the English as
a prize of the disastrous first period
of the Hundred Years War, but for
whole year refused to open her
gates to the English king? And that
twelve years later, in 1872, bravely
rebelled and returned to her French
allegiance? To resume; The tram
cars which run only every half hour,
are always crowded. AS on almost
all such lines in France the conduc-
tors are conductresses. For crowd,
this Sunday was no exception; the
cars were iammed. There were
American soldiers and sailors, French
soldiers and sailors, civilians, Off
GERS, privates, men and women,
priest, French territorials from An
nam and Algeria four continents
were certainly represented, and it is
not impossible that all may have
been. 1t was inevitable that some
body should not pay his fare, and
the conductress decided that that
person was one of the Algerians. In
stantly the air was filled with vehe-
ment denials, charge and counter
charge, ardent protestations of inno-
cence, shrill accusations of guilt.
Everybody craned their necks, and as
many as could made remarks, offered
advice, sought explanations. The
accused ones comrades rallied to his
support, increasing the quantity OF
sound even If not clarifying the situ-
alton materially.
Such a row would have tried the
Continued on Page Six)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03
Albums. The Camera Exchange
October 5, 1918.

Mrs. A. c. Spencer,
Ashland, Oregon.
Dear Mother and All:-
Yesterday l received your letter Of
August 80. Say, you sure did have
some time at Portland, didn't you :
Thought | was doing the travel TO.
the whole family-but you can still
go some.
Started this last night but had tc
stop and work on our new books
We worked until after midnight as
we have done for several weeks. II
is great, mother, and I'm mighty glad
to put in this work for the good re-
suits. Today / received your letter
got four from Hazel from datei
Aug. 80 to Sept 5. Give me james
Fitzgerald's address in Washington
| may go there yet and do not wan
to overlook any one If do. / want
all the addresses possible of people
in the service because of my oppor'
tunities and might be in the samt
place with many of them often anc
not know it.
Where is Bill Hurn's branch of the
tank service. Also Carl Grubb anc
Bing Spencer, and Frank?
Bob Willett is in Co. D, 54th Art
o. A. c. Latest address A. P. o. 71s
and is a Sergeant now. He will gel
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

Dear Aunty;
Your interesting and delightfully."-
characteristic letter came today. a
preceding one must have gone astray,
tho it may come yet. The mail sys-
TEN, considering the circumstances,
is usually very efficient.
One day goes by much like anoth-
err Our work just now is somewhat
less arduous than it has been, and ]
hone it never increases. We have
been having some fine late October
days which have done the whole
camp good The last two mornings
the fog has rolled in off the bay
densely thick, but Is gone before
noon. 1t gives hint, tho, of what
we may expect this winter
The other evening a young frienu
of mine asked me to spend the eve
ming with him and see his uncle, a
French aviator. This man is now at
tached to an American unit, but had
been for three years and a half on
the French and Italian fronts. AS he
said, he felt that he was entitled TO
a little rest, tho it isn't as exciting
for him now. He speaks English
quite well, having been French mas
ter in an English school before the
war. Therefore we did not have to
trust to my fragmentary French
which is all right in spots, only the
spots aren't very close together.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03
BARLEY AND COTTON MEAL
FOR BRAN AND SHORTS

A mixture of barley and cottonseed
meal is an excellent substitute for
bran and shorts-mill run-so ex-
tensively used as stock feed and now
difficult to obtain, points out e. b.
Fits, extension specialist in dairy
ing at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege.
This mixture costs more than the
wheat feeds but its feeding value,
pound for pound, is 1S1s per cent
greater says Professor Fits, 1T
also provides greater certainty OF Sc
curing uniform value than the mix
lures of bran and shorts sold by the
FIGURING mills as mill run.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

thru o. X. as he is a mighty fine fell
low.
No, have never received any Of
those pictures and do not think Guy
had, either, tho | have not gone thru
all his letters yet.
LIEUT.. d. NJ. SPENCER.
Bob Willett went out as private
with the first company from Ashland
with the o. N. G. first call and his
many friends will be glad to learn
that he has Non Com warrant now.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

Miss Helen Pygall is in receipt OF
the following letter from her nephew,
Verne Blue, of the United States air
station in France:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

No omoreExeuse TOR Corns or Sorn'r ans NoWI
won't finally have to gouge, pick.
jerk or cut out your corns. II you
want the pleasure of getting rid
Of corn. be sure to. get. Gets
It." 1t is its wonderful formula
that has made "Gets-It' the corn
marvel that 1t Is. used by more
millions than any other corn treat
ment on earth. A few drops on any
corn or callus, that's all. 1t can't
stick. It is painless. eases. pain.
You can kick your "corny" feet
around, even in tight shoes, and your
corns won't cruelty you. You can
go ahead and work, dance, live. love
and laugh as though without corns.
"Gets-It," the guaranteed, money
back corn-remover, the only sure
way. costs but triie atRny drug store.
M'f'd by Il. Lawrence &Sb., Chicago, Ill.
Sold in Ashland and recommended
as the WORLDS best corn remedy BY
Bros.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

Framed pictures. Studio Ashland.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-12-03

Co. C, 31S Engineers,
American E. F., France.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21
Wrist Watches AfIoat.

Wrist watches Mt sea, with theIf
luminous dipls, are at once convent
ence, q safeguard and peril, You can
tell the time without tearing your
clothes to pieces or going TO light.
When you walk along the deck at night
you can hold your forearm so that tho
dial CLOVIS In the sight Of all who are
passing along the deck and thus pre-
vent collisions. II you don't play up
your wrist watch, you are supposed to
whistle sweet and low" in the dark as
you pass along. But II you are not
passing along the deck, only lingering
along the deck rail, and are fortunate
In having one Of the few women who
are crossing as your companion In that
lingering, your luminous dial at rest
on the deck rail Is apt to wreck the
wonderful sense of seclusion that dark.
ened decks give these war times. One
heartless patrol trip or two ago step
ped to the rail and asked dlsmayed
subaltern not to have his wrist watch
quite so far around" whatever that
meant, because 1t might be detected By
a STANDARDIZATION Collins In the
Century Magazine. n
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21
CHAPTER XVI.
All Quiet (7) on the Western Front.

All Quiet ~ on the Western Front.
At brigade headquarters happened
to oyerhear conversation between our
G. o. c. general officer commanding)
and the divisional commander. From
this conversation l learned that we
are to lombard the German lines for
eight days, and on the first of July the
"big push" was to commence.
In few days orders were issued to
that effect, and 1t was common prop
erty all along the line.
On the afternoon Of the eighth day of
our "strafeing," Atwell and we're sit
ting in the front-line trench smoking
Tags and making out our reports Of the
previous nights tour of the trenches,
which we had to turn In to headquar-
sers the following day, when an order
~as passed down the trench that Old
Pepper requested twenty volunteers to
20 over on a trench raid that night to
try and get few German prisoners for
Inferma ion purposes. | Immediately
volunteered foi this Job. and shook
hands with Atwell, and went to the
rear to give nay name to the officers In
charge Of the raiding party.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21
ITALY HAD FIRST PAWNSH0P
From That Country the System GraduE
ally Spread Over the Rest of the
Civilized World.

The French call them monts-de-piete,
but no satisfactory explanation for this
nomenclature is Forthcoming. The es'
tablishment of municipal pawnshops 10
France was attended with more difii.
Guilty than was the case In other coun.
tries. j
1t is from italy that the idea of mu'
nicipal pawnshops spread over the rest
OF Europe. A municipal pawnshop was
set up In Madrid In the year 1905,
when a priest with very little capital
opened up as an uncle" The system
was tried at Ayignon In 1877, but 10
was not until the year 1777 that Paris
itself was provided with q mont-de;
piete. The national assembly upset the
monopoly and the business passed into
private hands. The extortions OF the
pawnbrokers In time led, however, to
a demand for the re-establishment OF
the governmental institutions. In 1900
Napoleon re-established the monopoly,
regulating 1t by laws that are still Ia
force. The interest charged amounts
to about per cent. 4
In Paris the mont-de.piete Is In effect
department OF the administration,
but In the provinces 1t is municipal
monopoly. =
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21

able to tape. These guns command the
sector where two of our communion
ton trenches join the front line, ard
as the brigade Is to go ever the top to-
morrow morning want to capture two
or three men from these guns crews,
and from them may be able to obtain
valuable information as 10 the exact
location of the guns, and our artillery
will therefore be able to demolish them
before the attack, and thus prevent
our losing lot of men while using
these communication trenches to bring
I'D re-enforcements."
These were the instructions he gave
Us:
"Take off your Identification disks,
strip your uniforms of all numerals,
Insignia, ETC., leave your papers with
your captains because don't want the
Boches to know what regiments are
against them as this would be valuable
Information to them In our attack to-
morrow and don't want any of you
~ NC ldhtu ullNc. Whit WhnL ID TWO
prisoners and If 1 get them l have
way which will make them divuIge
all necessary information as to their
guns. You have your choice of two
weapons-you may carry your per-
suaders' or your knuckle knives, and
each man will arm himself with four
Mills bombs, these to be used only in
case of emergency"
A persuader is To.amys nickname
for a club carr1eu Dy the bombers. II
is about two feet long, thin at one end
and very thick at the other. The thick
end is studded with sharp steel spikes,
while through the center of the club
there Is a nine-inch lead bar, to give
it weight and balance. When you gss
prisoner all you have to do Is just
stick this club up in front of him, and
believe me, the prisoners patriotism
for Deutschland ueber Allies" fades
away and he very willingly obeys the
orders of his captor. If, however, the
prisoner gets heightened and refuses to
follow you, simply persuade" him by
first removing his tin hat, and then
well, the use of the lead weight In the
persuader Is demonstrated, and Tom
my looks for another prisoner.
The knuckle knife is dagger affair,
the blade Of which is about eight
inches long with a heavy steel guard
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21
(To BE CONTINUED
Is Anyone Old In New York;

In Bruce Barton's novel, 1.-THE Maxi
ing of George Groton," the author
saysg "No one is old In New York.
They drain in every year from all
parts Of the country-million of men,
young and vibrant. They stay and
work, and grow into middle age; and
then suddenly they vanish. One may
walk for blocks on Fifth avenue or
Broadway and hardly see anyone over
fifty. Where do they go TOT No one
seems ever to die; no funerals clog
the traffic. There are plenty of fu-
nerals, Of course, but you don't notice
them as you do In little town. |
have wandered for hours In the big
woods, wondering where the birds 20
when they die; and never yet have
/ run across the body Of a dead bird.
Whst becomes Of old birds7 What be-
comes of old New Yorkers2 These are
twin mysteries to me. cannot unrayei
them"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-09-21
"The FOOL Hath sald.v

This Is message from one who
overwhelmingly Dawson--to those
who do not realize. II is a message
direct from the trenches In France by
soldier and writer to us behind the
a,
lines. He siiys:
life has swung back to a primitive
decision since the war commenced.
The decision Is the same for both
men and nations. They can choose the
world or achieve their own souls.
They can cast mercenary lots for the
ralment Of crucIfied righteousness or
take up their martyrdom as disciples.
Those men and nations who have been
disciples together can scarcely fail to
remain friends when the tragedy Is
ended. What the fool says In his
heart at this present moment is not
Of any lasting importance."-Red
Cross Magazine.