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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
Home Gardening
For The South
NEW BULLETIN ISSUED BY U. S.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-
CULTURE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-"Home
Gardening in the South new bull
letin just issued by the United States
Department of Agriculture for free
distribution takes account of the spe-
cial crop conditions Of the Southern
states and discusses them in a man.
ner designed to help in the utilization
for home gardening of land that here
tofore has not been productive of
human food.
Because Of the great necessity for
increasing the Nations food supplies
this year, the home gardening move
ment is expected to be of much great
er scope even than the campaign of
last year.
The bulletin for the South treats,
among other topics, the following:
Location Of the garden, plan and ar
rangemsnt Of the garden, Importance
of sunlight, succession and rotation
Of crops, methods of growing early
plants, tools for the garden, seeds for
the garden, preparation Of the soil
and improving its texture, cultivation
and irrigation Of garden crops, insects
and diseases affecting garden crops,
storage of vegetables for the garden.
Cultural suggestions are given for all
the common vegetables.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
DIR. Dernburg, among others, is of

DIR. Dernburg, among others, is of
this view.
The war party says peace can only
be secured by fighting. They promise
an early peace If the people will fol
low them.
Thus the offensive being prepared
by Hindenburg and Ludendorff is pos
itively Germany's last card And only
on the promise that it will bring i'm
mediate peace do the people agree
that it be played.
The French of Verdun, the British
of Ypres, hold the trump card.
Behind them, America has a fresh
hand. I repeat-the centrals must
have peace soon, one way or another
or the masses will force the govern.
ment's hand.
1t is up to France, Great Britain
and the United States.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
CLOSED DAYS SAVED
COAL IN TENNESSEE
ADMINISTRATOR MYER SENDS
REPORT TO FEDERAL ADMINS
TRAITOR ON EFFECT ORDER.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. S.-State
Fuel Administrator w. e. Myer, goes
to Knoxville Monday to discuss the
fuel situation with District Represen-
tative E. R. Clayton. Mr.. Myer
talked with Mr.. Clayton over long
distance telephone Thursday, and
each agreed that in spite of the
closing down orders and other efforts
that have been made to remedy the
fuel shortage, the situation in this
state is becoming worse.
Chattanooga was almost completely
out of coal Thursday, and Mr.. Clay
ton was asked to send coal to that
city to relieve the distress.
In response to an inquiry from DIR.
H. A. Garfield, United States Fuel
Administrator, Mr.. Myer sent him a
report of the effect of the five-day
closing down order and the first
heatless Monday in the State of Ten
nessee:
Saving in fuel during five days,
January IS to %, 100000 bushels;
saving of fuel as result of Monday
holiday, January 2S, $4,000 bushels.
In regard to the effect of Monday
holiday, January IS. and the fiye-day
order, in relieving transportation con-
ditions, the severe weather conditions
prevented fair test and no material
relief was seen. However, universal
opinion of railroad officials consulted
that manifest relief would have re-
suited if weather conditions had been
normal
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
"KWIT kUSSIN" is
Y. M, C. A. SLOGAN
LESS PROFANITY HEARD IN THE
TRAINING CAMPS NOW THAN
ON STREETS OF CITY.

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 12.-"Kindly
Kwit Kussin.' This is the slogan
spelled in whimsical fashion, which
the Army and Navy Y. M. G. A. huts
Throughout the Southeastern Military
Department are adopting campaign
to minamize profanity among our sol
diers and sailors.
ITO swear like trooper" or sail
orr heretofore has been featured as
the phrase in highest praise Of the
proficient "profanatic no long
er. The likening is obsolete, for ac-
cording to Religious Work Director
w. r. Dobyns of Camp Gordon:
LESS cussing is heard in the train
ing camps today than on our city
streets. The clean lives the men are
leading are productive of clean
speech"
The Army and Navy Y. M. G. A. is
doing its share to keep the thoughts
of the soldiers clean with its program
of physical and social activities, enter
tainments, educational classes and re-
ligious services. Many printed phrases
displayed conspicuously in the Red
Triangle huts serve as constant re-
minders to the men of the objection
able character of profanity. One of
these reads:
IF you curse at home, cure here.
1--WE want you to feel at home.'
They get good results; as the ad-
vertising man says. Recently sol
der at one of the writing benches in
a hut spewed forth a mouthful of
oaths which was overheard by uni
formed secretary:
| Just put 'em in letter to your
mother sometime!" suggested the uni
formed secretary. A few days later
the enlisted man laid a neatly writ
ten letter before the secretary with
the statement:
''That's to my mother-the first let.
| ter I've written her in seven years.
The hint you gave me the other day
made me realize my duty towards her
and I've decided to cut out the
cussin's, too"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
CAMP SEWER HAS
PERFECT RECORD
SOLDIERS ENJOY THEMSELVES
AT CHURCH OR AT THEATRE
COMMUNITY PLANS.

GREENvILLE, S. c., Feb. ~
Girls, s:apely girls, yiyacious and
pretty, the tulle-skirted ballet of must
cal comedies warbled and danced to
the delight Of thousands of Sammies
who crammed the seats and lined the
walls of theaters which were running
full blast at Camp Sewer Sunday
| from the time the city church bells
began to chime in the morning until
10 at night. If several hundred of
these so-called broadway Beauties"
Sunshine Girls" Garden Bells and
others SO named did not have an over
work husk on their voices tonight it
was not the soldiers fault, for at
times the APPLAUSE, yells and foot
stamping was tumultuous. Once or
twice the order of the enthusiasm was
broken when an egg, hurled from the
audience, interrupted the pitiable
efforts of a German comedian. The
shell exploded overhead. He escaped
unsplattered.
Sunshine, rest and revelry held
sway most of the day at the camp
while sea of olive drab uniforms
moved in waves up and down the
streets in the city. 1t was spring
like day, fair and warm, and girls ar
rayed in stylish spring costumes turn
ed out in full force, their dresses
commingly in a riot of color with the
military brown.
The churches were all crowded with
soldiers and civilians, and at one
house of worship the pastor delivered
strong sermon condemning the open
ing of theatres on Sunday at the camp
or anywhere. The loyal ministerial
uniform recently went on record as
strictly opposed to the opening of
amusement places on Sunday, and
local agitation for "Open Sundays"
soon expired.
Approximately $250,O0O,OOO in war in
surance has been taken out by sol
diers of the Thirtieth Division, accord
ing to the compilation of figures to-
day. Ninety-eight of every 100 men
have been insured and now that the
time limit for subscribing has been
extended until April IL, the belief was
expressed by Maj. Hoppe that Camp
Sewer will be able to show a perfect
record. Practically every man from
Tennessee at Sewer has been insured,
and good percentage of them have
taken out the full limit $4,000 poll
cies.
The death of Fred Barnett, a mem
Der of Company L, 10th Infantry, was
reported today. He died of tubercu-
losis. His remains will be shipped to
his home at Cosby. Tenn.
The second of the concerts held
here under the auspices of the Green
vile Committee of War Camp Com
munity service was featured this aft
ernoon by the programme rendered by
the 120th Infantry Band, conducted
by Chief Musician Harry Blk of Men,
phis. This band was organized at
Memphis and originally attached to
the Second Tennessee Infantry.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
A HOOVER SONG FOR CHILDREN

The lad who eats fine wheaton bread,
And will not have corn muffin,
Resembles far too much the pig,
That's in the trough a-puffin'.
Take another model, lad,
Nor waste your time in stuffin'!
The lass that spends her idle day,
In eating sugar candy.
And while she reads, declares that she
Must have a package handy
Such lass should banisled be
To any desert sandy!
The children who lament for meat
And frown at beans and fishes,
Are like to have much less to eat
Before they have their wishes.
Skip their supper now and then,
And serve them empty dishes.
For the orphan child across the sea
Has need of all of saving.
While dress he lacks and food he
lacks
And hunger he is Drawing,
Hold, to him helping hand,
Like brothers true behaving.
Nora Archibald Smith
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
OMNIBUS UNREST
!. THROUGHOUT THE
/. CENTRAL POWERS
If ALLIES STAND PAT ON WILL
SONIAN PROGRAM END OF
WAR IN SIGHT.
GERMAN MASSES SEE LIGHT
Offensive Being Prepared BY linden
murg and Ludendorff Is Said to Be
Germany's Last Card-TWo Parties
Are Contending.

EDITORS NOTE-William Philip
Simms, United Press staff correspon
dent, who has been on the battle
fronts in Europe since the war began
was recently assigned to make per
sonal investigation of conditions in
the central empires through the best
possible sources of accurate informa
ton. His report cabled from Zurich
Switzerland, will appear in The Her
aid in four dispatches of which the
following is the first:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
AMERICAN BOYS IN
CAMPS WRITE LETTERS
WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, THE BOYS
WANT THEM DAILY,
SAYS Y. M. C. A.

The American boy in camp is
great little letter writer, according to
statement just made public by the
National War Work Council of the
Y. M. C. A..
In the Central Military Department
alone total of 3,672,701 letters were
written during the last month, in the
% training camps and naval stations.
With over 100000 enlisted men stat
toned within the department, the
average would be close to one dozen
letters to each man.
The great majority OF these letters
are written in Y M. G. A. huts and on
Y. M. G. A. stationery. Paper and en-
velopes, pens and ink are furnished to
enlisted men free of charge. The Red
Triangle buildings are fitted with
desks running their full length. Hun
dreds of men use them at the same
time.
All the Y. M. G. A. huts in camp are
placarded with such signs as: Don't
Forget to Write Home" and "Remem-
Der Mothers Letter First"-which has
a great influence for good. Likewise,
the receipt of letters from home does
more than anything else to keep a
soldier boy happy and cohtented.
A new poster is going up in the huts
this week: write to Father" Sun
day February 10th, has been set
apart for this purpose. Army Y M.
c. A. secretaries found that boys
were continually urged to write to
mother, and did so. At the end of the
letter, they frequently say: "Remem-
Der me to father" or TELL dad so and
So" write to Father" Day will help
to really get the sons into writing
their fathers. The week of February
10th to 18th is National "Father-and-
Sen" Week.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy says Nothing will do more
to keep our soldiers straight and clean
than the right sort of home ties. The
plan of the Association for a Ma
tional 'Father-And-Son Week will
help to serve the spiritual interests
of our enlisted men.
"In these days of stress and sacri
flee, when our sons are being called
upon in great numbers to carry on
for us the battle for freedom across
the seas, it is especially important
that the ties hold them to their homes
and to an intimate and sympathetic
relation with their fathers"
OF "Father-And-Son" Week, Newton
D. Baker, Secretary of War says:
''The stress of international circum
stances, and the call Upon all Of us tt
defend what we have long held dear
adds another to the reasons which
have always existed for making
Father-And-Son Week an occasion to
which every one might render cooper
alton and participation in ungrudgins
measure"
Entertainments, lectures, athletic
contests and recreational games under
Y. M. G. A. auspices serve the boys in
their leisure moments and keep them
from getting homesick. An effective
work is being done, the report says
for the men in the hospitals. The
secretaries read to those who cannot
do so for themselves, and write let
! tiers for those who are too i'll tc
write. They also organize educa
tional classes and conduct religious
services for the men in the hospitals.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15

has direct responsibility supplying with
surgical dressings nothing the
important standard dressings in millions
sent possible speed this is done done
medae calamity and national disgrace inevitable
"The American who compose the Red Chapters
should prepare the enthusiasm possible
dressings life death
question deals with the most vital thing that the
women Of America for the soldiers in this war"
should strike responsive chord in the hearts of
the women Columbia the number
has Many needed The work in
the Maury Dry building daily
help enroll Immediately The demand is imperative
daily in they
They need the surgical dressings that Columbia
l"f#E
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
IN WASHINGTON

They say jobs are plentiful in
Washington now"
SO ] hear. / Judge the plum tree
grows a new crop over night.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
MUNICIPAL COAL
PILE NEXT PLAN
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1--we have
with us next the municipal coal
pile" Assistant Fuel Administrator
Snead has launched call for the
mobilization Of ideas and plans for
the establishment of municipal coal
piles in all cities.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-15
AN ODD LOT.

'.How shall list this broken lot of
Shakesperean plays?"
List it as Romeo and Julietcetera."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
Continued on Page H.
Ex-senator Hiram Peoples
Dies at Lancaster Home

Lancaster, Sept. 4.-Former Sen
ator Hiram Peoples, for five terms
a Republican State SenGtor, died
suddenly this morning at his home
at New Providence Lancaster
county. at the age of 81 years.
Death was due to infirmities Incl
dent to old age.
Serving in the Legislature during
the period between 1877 and 1898,
he took an important part in the
deliberations of the Fish Commits
sion during that time. Since 1900
he has lived at New Providence
where he has devoted much of his
time to fish culture, having at the
time of his death some thirty fish
ponds wherein were bred black bass,
blue gills and gold fish. He was
known throughout the United States
as fish authority. While in the
Legislature. he served on other i'm
portant committees. his member
ship on the Committee of Agricul-
ture being one of the most i'm
portant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
TOMORROW FIRST
OF REGISTRATION
DAYS FOR VOTERS
Two Others, Sept. II and Oc-
tobcr ); All Must Be
on Record

The first OF the fall registration
days will ne tomorrow, registrars
sitting at the polling places in each
of the city and county voting dis
tricts. Two more registrations viii
be held. September II and October
5. All electors in order to vote at
the general election November )
must register on one of these three
days.
Assessors in the city and county
districts sat to-day for the last time
to assess voters who because Of
change OF residence or for some 9TH
er reason received no tax notices and
are not assessed. In the county the
assessors sat at the polling places in
the city 1T their residences. Asses
sors in the city wards follow: First,
John w. SIoathour. 5S7 South Front:
Second. Elmer F. Compton, 42S
South Thirteenth; Third. Harvey j.
Miller, iO7 South River street;
Fourth, William a. Leach. 404
Spring: Fifth, John +. Adams, 11f0
Green; Sixth. Robert +. Mcintyre,
l, 500 Penn; Seventh. Albert a. Poist,
1913 North Sixth; Eighth, Milton c.
White. 1904 Walnut: Ninth, Bertor
II. SALESMAN, 72-A North Eighteenth;
Tenth, Henry G. Peters. 211S Moore;
Eleventh. James A. Rankin. 1912
Penn Twelfth. James f.. Seal. 1913
North Third: Thirteenth, =. l.. Mich
ener, 747 South Twenty-tirst; -Four
teenth, l.. g. Dapp, 1880 North Third.
Hours for registration OF voters to-
morrow will be from o'clock in the
morning until 10 O'Clock in the sven-
ing. In two city districts polling
places were changed by court order
to-day rs follows: Seventh ward.
Fourth precinct. moved to United
Ice and Coal Company office. 1721
North Sixth street; Ninth ward. Sixth
precinct, moved to 1908 Regina
street. Harold Yaple yesterday was
named majority inspector by court
order for the Seventh ward. Fourth
precinct
Registrars named by the county
commissioners to fill vacancies in
clde: Ninth ward, First, Harry 3.
Iisncr; Second ward, Fourth, Aug.
w. Ahlborne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
BOSSES HERE TO
PLACE BONNIWELL
ON SLIDING BOARD
Palmer-McCormick Faction to
Run State Committee Meet
ing With High Hand

Federal officeholders from all over
Pennsylvania gathered at the Board
of Trade building this afternoon to
make an effort to cover. HRathe trou-
bles in the Keystone State Demo-
cracy. There We're men from Wash
ington, too, and a fair sprinkling of
men who would like to be there.
Democratic National Chairman Vance
G. Mccormick, otherwise chairman
of the war trade board; A. Mitchell
Palmer, Joseph +. Guffey and others
hand. Their faction was in over
whelming force and it was very ap-
parent that the fictions of the last
half dozen years would all be parad-
ed again.
Most of the men here professed
ignorance when the name of Eugene
G. Bonniwell, the party's candidate
for Governor, was mentioned and as
for the Fair Play party it was all
newspaper talk. The program was to
be Wilson. 1t is Il big subject and
safe.
No Platform To-day
Indications are that the Demo-
cratic State Committee will not
adopt any platform to-day. Lawrence
II. Rupp, the chairman, could not get
here for the meeting and the COM
mittee in charge will likely be di-
TConfiuucd On Pace III
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
CITY'S HOUSING
MAY HOLD BACK
WAR CONTRACTS
Harrisburg Escapes Drastic
War Department Ruling
Hitting Other Cities

Officials of munition and other war
material plants in the city and vi
cinity. together with businessmen
and others interested in the develop
ment of Harrisburg as a great in
duStrial center are showing in
creased concern because of the lack
of housing facilities since the gov
ernment has just issued a decree
that war orders to sixty cities in the
country are to be cut TO a minimum
because of Congesting housing and
transportation conditions.
That such an order may include
Harrisburg is the fear of officials un-
less something is done at once to
relieve the situation here. In all the
munition plants workmen in some
instances come from as far as York
to their work. Philadelphia is one
of the large cities included in the
government order and even Bethle-
hem. where the large Bethlehem
Steel Company plant is located, is
cited. Chester, Easton, Erie, Eddy
stone, Milton, Butler and Sharon are
other Pennsylvania cities named.
Plants ut Capacity
Officials of local plants said that
at present they have war orders
Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
GERMAN ARMIES UNABLE TO CHECK
ALLIED ADVANCES AT ANY POINT
First Registration
Day Is Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the first day on
which voters can register for the
fall election. Unless they COM
ply with the personal rcgistra-
ton act, either tomorrow or on
Tuesday, September IL. or SAT-
urday, October >, they will be
unable to cast their ballots for
any officer mt the fall election.
All previous registrations are
void. An clector desiring to vote
must appear at one of the poll
ing places on one of the three
days. No person can vote who
has not paid state or county
tax within two years.
City assessors are sitting at
their homes for the purpose of
registering voters. County as
SCISSORS will also sit tomorrow
for the same purpose, all of them
having been mt the polling place
to-day to register voters.
The hours on which the poll
ing places will be open to-mor-
row and the two succeeding reg
istration days are from s II. III. to
1 p. m., from . u. M. to q. p. III.
and from p. m. to 10 p. III.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
YOUR OLD RUBBER IS
NEEDED BY RED CROSS
Great Pile to Grow on Post Office Lawn in Three-Day
Campaign to Open Tomorrow; Valuable as War Aid

week rubber may be thrown on the
triangular glass plot in front of The
painted bulletin on the Postofice .,or-
ner. Third and Walnut.
Contributions are asked consisting
of old automobile and bicycle tires,
rubber boots, rubber shoes, inner
tubes, steam hose. garden hose, rub
Der gloves. hot water bags, gas he SO
anything and everything that is
rubber.
When the three Gays are over ;hc
Red Cross will have an auction.
Junkmen will be asked to bid on the
pile. Rubber sells at from 4 to 80
cents pound. 1t should be possible
to secure many hundreds of dollars
for the Red Cross. Reading several
weeks ago solo rubber enough to net
the Red Cross $1,739.36. Harrisburg
should surpass that figure.
The committee in charge of the af-
fair held it's first meeting this morn
ing. 1t is composed of Mercer y.
Tate, A. 5. Patterson, l.. f. Neefe.
Ezra Hershey, +. A. Downey. J.
Clyde Myton and M. H. James.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-04
GRAVES ARRIVES
AT VLADIVOSTOk
TOLEAD YANKEES
More Than 100000 American
Soldiers Now on All
Fronts
SOUTHERN TROOPS LEAD
Michigan and Wisconsin Sol
diers Participate in Cap
ture of Terny-Sorny

Washington, Sept. ARRIVAL cf
Major General William S. Graves and
his staff at Nladivostock to take conf
mand of all American forces fighting
on the new eastern front, was am
nounced to-day by General March.
General Graves took with him
from the United States forty-th"ce
officers and 1,SSS men who will JON
the regiments from the Philippines
already on the ground.
General March announced that the
total embarllltion of American SOL
diers for all fronts, including the ST.
berian expedition, had passed the l.
600,000 mark August 81.
250.O00 to France in August
In answer 10 Il question, General
March said il was estimated that
more than 100000 had landed in
France during August. Tho record
for monthly shipment, he added, was
cS5,O00
The chief of staff identified The
American Init which participated in
the Flanders aG"ance as the Th;r-
tIeth division composed of troops
from Tennessee, North Carolina ard
South Carolina.
The French advance north. of S0is-
sons. resulting in the capture cf
Terny-Sorny was participated in BY
posed of Michigan and Wisconsin
troops, under Major General Haan.
Cambrai Canadian Objective
Taking up the military Ituatinn,
General March said the object of .ho
Canadian drive across the old
Queant- -Drocourt switch line was
Cambrai. which now was within
seven and ohe-half miles of the Brit
ish advance according to official ad-
vices