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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
NEW TRAINING SCHOOLS.
To be Opened for Enlisted Men and
Civilians on December /.

Washington, Oct establishment
of an infantry officers training school
at Camp Fremont, California 10 open
December l, for enlisted men ard civilians.
was announced today by the War De
partment Graduates will be comT1is-
stoned second ieutennts Those eligible
are draft registrants between Is and 46,
who are physically qualified for ger
eral military service, except registrAnts
in class physically lalliied and who
registered prior to September II, and
registrants in deferred classification on
account Of occupation, industry or ag-
ricultural employment A high school
education or its equivalent is essential
Major Roy : Brown has been de
tailed at the War Department to receive
applications of civilians who wish TO be
admitted to any Of the Officers training
schools
Major RoyS = Brown referred 10 above
Is thought to be son Of the first military
officer detailed 10 Delaware College.
III 1855, then Captain George Leroy
Brown. since prornited number Of times
and retired tic had a son in the service.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
KAISER, MURDER ACCOMPLICE.
Held BIamable. With Leninc and Trot-
ky For Ex-CZar'S Death.

Washington, Oct. 22.-Vlnd,mir Bourt-
self Russian revolutionist and writer, in
an article published by the Paris Matin
on Sunday, accused Emperor William
of responsibility for the murder oi the
ex-Empcror Nicholas of Russia, according
to an official telegram from PARIS. The
dispatch in part follows;
I'm the Matin of Oct 20, the well-known
Russian revoutionist, Vladimir fourtscff,
accuses the Kaiser OF having been In some
measure an accomplice to the murder of
Nicholas III. He writes
Wilhelm III. did not hesitate IN using
all sorts of expcdierts, even the most
bominable and the most treacherous, as
long as they served his personal policy. TO
carry out his machavelian plan OF dis-
organization and destruction OF Russi
he has done all he had the power 10 do to
help Lenine and Trostzky IN making, on
the largest scale possible their anarch'ai
propaganda.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
SENATE WOULD BAR PEACE;
NOTES. UNTIL SURRENDER

Washington, Oct 22-Senator Poindex-
ter Of Washington offered a resolution
yesterday 10 make II unlawful for any
official Of this Government to answer IN
any way any note. message or representa-
ion from Germany as TO peace or an arms
tice until Germany Internationally sur
renders to the Allied Generals on the
fields
He made no comment upon the res
olution, which was referred 10 the
Foreign Relations Committee The motive
actuating the resolution, Senator Poindex-
ter explained later, Is to have the war 60
on without parley1ng through prolonged
notes
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
COAL FOR SUSSEX.
Senator WoIcott Given Assurance That
the Situation There Will be Relieved.

Washington, Oct 2l.-Senator VOL
colt has Just received assurance from the
fuel administration that the fuel situation
in Sussex county, which had become
serious. would be relieved Immediately.
In many towns in that county the coal
supply had dwindled to almost nothing
and complaint about the situation had
reached the Senator.
He is now assured that when it IS shown
that the supply OF coal in any community
now on hand is less than so per cent Of the
requirements for the winter, coal will be
allotted to that place up to half Of the
whole necessary winters supply.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22

for the winter arc being made supplies
are being laid in, for prohibitive freight
rates prevail on the stage lines which
serve the country IN the winter.
Fairbanks, Nome, St Michael, Ruby,
Eagle. Anchorage, Tanana, Nenana and
Fort Yukon are the largest points in
the section OF Alaska locked by winter
Seward. Cordova, Valdez, Juneau Skag-
wav. Netchikan, NrangeI and other
southern points are on open water the
wear round This year Anchorage, for
the first time will be IN touch with the
outside world by railroad. the government
line from Seward having been completed
a short Il, 20.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
Br razilian Balm Tor
Spanish Influenza
and Pneumonia

Dru ,oi.t. should supply themselves
Mia Il % bottles OF this invaluable
remedy during this time of epidemic.
We are receiving scores Of orders
daily for this size from families in
Wilmington. Delaware. and the PENN
sula complaining that the druggists
10 not keep il on hand and the small
bolt es do not contain enough. They
need 10 saiurate the system 10 kill
this tough germ. Take teaspoon
full every hour YOU can always get
90 bottles of Mir. Dani, rth or Viii
mington or any Philadelphia of Bait
more jobbers. Some retail druggists
have sent 10 Us for ! doy and then
doz 81 90 bottles.
B. Y. jackson q Co.. propriet0rs,
Avcad" y
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
FOR LONG WINTER NAP.
Nearly Whole of Alaska Making Ready
for Season of Cold and ldIeness.

Fairbanks. Alaska, Oct 22- Most Of
Alaska is about TO enter its long half
light winter semi-hibernation when ice
and snow lock almost everything in
their grip with a wintry clamp.
Already last steamboats, making con
nections Tor the outside world are leaving
the northern inland river towns. In a
short time. Alaska big inland summer
water highway, the Yukon river. will be
sealed tight with seven months ice.
Throughout the country preparations
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
Serb Troops Pressing on.

London. Oct 22-Franco-Serbian
troops have entered Zaietchar, IS miles
from the river Danube at Negotin and
As miles northeast Of Nish, according
to L Serbian official statement issued
Sunday. West Of Zaietchar the allies
have captured Bolyevats The state
y..r~f r,oa.i de-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
Auto Kills Pei Dog.

An automobile run over and killed
Brownie, q water spaniel owned by Miss
Mary Camille. Of Mechanic street. at
Seventh and Market streets yesterday.
The dog had been great pet.
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THE END.
ROMEO WAS CLAD IN KHAKI
Played the Popular Game, Choosing
the Dinner Table to Work on At
lection, of Waitress.

1t is natural that we should be eager
to do whatever we can for the boys
in khaki; but sometimes, when the pa
triotic zeal is not accompanied by a
sympathetic imagination, the benefi-
ciary may pray to be. delivered from
our friends, writes "An American
Woman in the Outlook.
A homesick lad is likely to want
either an atmosphere like that of his
own home or else the exotic flavor the
expectation of which has helped him
to undertake the great adventure so
cheerily.
In one family among my neighhors
the son of the house was Scandalized
when one of their guests at Sunday
dinner made the perfectly simple and
natural reque~t that he be permitted
after the meal to repair to the kitchen
where the pretty waitress was. Per
mission was denied, but young Romeo
was not discouraged, and this letter
came, "To the. Girl That Waits for Mrs.
SO-and-SO:' You are the best ever.
Are you keeping company with any
bOdy?" He added his name and a few
personal details, and this delicious bit
of identification: eff you don't know
which soldier wrote this, it is the one
that touched your hand under the dish
when you passed the potatoes"
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And for a week every time | passed
patient he would call. swell, well,
here's the Yank. Hope you are feel
ing well, old top"
The surgeon in our ward was an
American, a Harvard unit man, named
Frost We nicknamed him Jack
Frost" He was loved by all. If a
Tommy was to be cut up he had no OBJ
lection to undergoing the operation if
"Jack Frost was to WELD the knife.
Their confidence in him was pathetic.
He was the best sport / have ever met.
One Saturday morning the command
ant and some 'high up" officers were
inspecting the ward, when one of the
patients who had been wounded. in the
head by a bit of shrapnel, fell on the
floor in fit. They brought him round,
and then looked for the ward orderly
to carry the patient back to his bed
at the other end of the ward. The or
derly was nowhere to be fOund-like
our policemen, they never are when
needed. The officers were at loss
how to get Palmer into his bed. Doc
tor Frost was fdgeting around in a
nervous manner when suddenly with
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q muff1ed "d--n"h and a few other
qualifying adjectives, he stopped down
and took the man in his arms like
baby-he was no feather, either-and
staggered down the ward with him, put
him in bed and undressed him. A low
murmur of approval came from the pa
tents. Doctor Frost got very red, and
as soon as he had finished undressing
Palmer, hurriedly left the ward.
The wound in my face had almost
healed and I was notwithstanding
sight-the left cheek twisted into
knot, the eye pulled down, and my
mouth pointing in a north by north
west direction. was very downheart-
ed and could imagine myself during
the rest of my life being Stunned by
all on account of the repulsive scar,
Doctor Frost arranged for me to go
to the Cambridge Military hospital at
AlderShot for a special operation to
try and make the scar presentable.
I arrived at the hospital and got an
awful shock. The food was poor and
the discipline abnOrmally strict. No
patient was allowed to sit on his bed,
and smoking was permitted only at
certain designated hours. The face
specialist did nothing for. me except
to look at the wound. / made appli-
cation for transfer back to Paignton,
offering to pay my transportation.
This offer was accepted, and after two
weeks absence, once again [ arrived
in Munsey ward all hope gone.
The next day after my return Doc
tor Frost stopped at my bed and said:
"Well Empey, if you want me to try
and see what l can do with that scar
I'll do it, but you are taking an awful
chance"
answered: "Well, doctor, Steve
Brodie took a chance; he halls from
New York and so do l."
Two days after the undertaken
squad carried me to the operating
room or pictures" as we called them
because of the funny films we see I'M
der ether, and the operation was per-
formed. 1t was a wonderful piece of
surgery and a marvellous success.
From now on that DOCTOR can nave my
shirt.
More than once some poor soldier
has been brought into the ward in a
dying condition, resulting from loss of
blood and exhaustion caused by his
long journey from the trenches. After
an examination the doctor announces
that the only thing that will save him
Ms a TRANSMISSION Of blood. Where is
the blood to come from? He does not
have to wait long for an ansWer-sev-
eral Tommies Immediately volunteer
their blood for their mate. Three or
four are accepted; blood test is
made, and next day the TRANSMISSION
takes place and there is another pale
| face in the ward.
Whenever bone is needed for some
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special operation, there are always
men willing to give some-a leg if
necessary to save some mangled mate
from being crippled for life. More
than one man will go through life with
another mans blood running through
his veins, or piece of his rib or his
SllinbOne in his own anatomy. Some
times he never even knows the name Of
his benefactOr.
The spirit of sacrifice is wonderful.
For all the suffering caused this war
is a/blessing to England-it has made
new men OF her sons has welded all
classes into one glorious whole.
And can't help saying that the doc
tors, sisters and nurses in the English
hospitals, are angels on earth. i love
them all and can never repay the care
and kindness shown to me. For the
rest of my life the Red Cross will be
to me the symbol of Faith, Hope and
Charity.
After four months in the hospital,
went before an examining board and
was discharged from the service of his
Britannia majesty as physically unfit
for further war service"
After my discharge / engaged pass
age on the American liner New York,
and after stormy trip across the At
lantic one momentous day, in the haze
of early dawn, ! saw the statue of lib
erty looming over the port rail, and
wondered if ever again / would go
lover the top with the best of luck
and give them hell" =.
And even then, though it may seem
strange, was really sorry not to be
back in the trenches with my mates.
War is not pink tea, but in a worth
while cause like ours, mud, rats, COO
ties, shells, wounds, or death itself, are
far outweighed by the deep sense of
satisfaction felt by the man who does
his bit.
There. is one thing which my ex-
perience taught me that might help the
boy who may have to go. It is this
anticipation is far worse than realiza-
ton. In civil life man stands in awe
Of the man above him, wonders how he
could ever fill his job. When the time
comes he rises to the occasion, is up
and at it, and is surprised to find how
much more easily than he anticipated
he fills his responsibilities. 1t is really
SO "out there"
He has nerve for the hardships; the
interest of the work grips him he finds
relief in the fun and comradeship of
the trenches and wins that best sort of
happiness that comes with duty we'll
done.
THE END
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When Horses Get dipped"

When an army horse is wounded
about the face or jaw it is not sent
down to the veterinary lines, but is
kept to be tended by it's driver
Then it is that good drivers care
comes in, for the men tend them most
carefully, feeding them by hand boil
ing their oats, making them mashes.
and spending most of the day with
their charges until they can feed in
comfort again. 1t is this personal
care of the man for his horse that has
been the cause of the new order that
all horses have to be returned from
hospital to their own units again; for a
mans care is by no means transferred
to the same extent to new team Of
horses.
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SCRAPS

A diamond factory for the employ
ment of disabled soldiers has been
opened at Brighton, England.
More than 100000 women are at pres
ent working the land in Great Britain
compared with $1,000 last year.
Girls employed in the British NUM-
ton works in some districts cultivate
the waste ground around the hOstels.
MINIS of the United States are 10.
Gated at Philadelphia, Pa, San Fran
cisco, Cal, and Denver, Colo.
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-Four O'Clock Breakfast.

''Are you going to take any summer
bOarderS this year?"
IF any comes along I'll take EN-"
said Mr.. Cobbles, but one thing has
got to be distinctly understood"
'Yes?
me an my hired man are goin' to
be powerful busy this summer. There
amt goin' to be but one call for break
fast, and that will be at a. mir
mingham Age-Herald.
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Club Women Urge
Sh0r7 Course Of Fed
era/ Education for
I'LL Before Voting.

ARLY this year a few Chi
cago women, following sug-
gestiOns made by Mrs. JO-
seph IT. Bowen, the chair
man of the woman's COM
mittee of the Illinois di-
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Iona Loaves Are Most Economical

A loaf weighing one pound contains
II per cent of water if it is round
and only "a per cent if it is cylindrical.
gets 40 grammes more actual food for
her money than she who buys round
loaves.
The reason for this is that the
sphere is the figure that contains the
largest possible volume under the
smallest possible surface. and, as evap-
Grafton is a matter of surface, this is
greater from a cylinder than it is from
a sphere of the same weight
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British railway unions have a mem
bership of $4,000.
In the first year of the war possibly
100000 working days were lost by
strikes of organized labor workers.
Two policewomen are employed by
Hendon (England) district council to
patrol the streets and the public park.
In England all private employment
agencies have been discontinued since
the outbreak of war;.
One thousand nurses applied for en-
rOllment in the first four days of New
York'S Red Cross drive for 5000
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Poor PLAY.

Actor-We've had very poor houses
lately.
Friend-Owing to the war, sup
pose.
Actor-No, I'm afraid it's owing to
the piece.-BOSton Transcript.
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Retired in Bad Order.

Judge-The complaint against you
is that you deserted your wife.
Prisoner amt a deserter, Judge;
I'm a refugee. Look at these welts on
my head and this black eye.-Boston
Transcript.
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NdIIOHdl w oman outrage ASSOCIATION. .
day and, in addition, this peace-lovlng
nation must never again bear the great
penalty of being wholly unprepared to
meet an unexpected violation of its lib
erty. Young men and women trained
to promote their own welfare and that
of their communities and the nation
should also be qualified to respond
promptly to the call of their country in
its hour of need"
Mrs. Philip North Moore of st. Louis, .
president National Council of Women
U. S. A., which includes leading great
organizations of women, says:
'The war has caused us to take
stock of ourselves and has thus reveal
| ed our deficiencies. Constructive
thought and determination to urge fun
damental changes supremely vital to
our welfare should supersede former
assurance and self-contdence.
1.-THE physical survey and the Won
derful regenerating capacity of the
training camps have suggested rapid,
comprehensive and democratic method
as a model upon which to prepare a
plan for short courses of federal train
ing for all young people.
'''The highest aims for America can
be realized if the nations leaders pre-
pare adequate. selective courses or
study, development, discipline and
service and the federal, government
-, Al oo,,rco, ~ oil
81 heartily indorse the PLAN"
The committee has received express
sions of approval from prominent
women in all parts of the country.
These include suffrage leaders, bust
ness women, officers of fraternal and
patriotic societies, writer's and profess
sional women.
Leading Women Express Views.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association, wrote:
II am very glad to be one of the
founders of the movement for federal
training and agree with all points
made by the committee.
Like searchlight the war has
pointed out all our weak spots. We
are a brave people and strong. There
is nothing which we will regard as inn
possible to do While it is a tragic
price to pay, the war will leave us bet
ter Informed and more alive to the
needs Of our country than before"
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, acting
chairman of the New York State Wom-
ems Suffrage party, expressed her
views in the following statement:
ITO inform our electorate and our
prospective electorate; to give them
the tools of citizenship; to equip them
to use these tools to the full efficiency
of citizenship in Herculean task, but
completely possible one,
LET the great plan of federal train
ing once be made operative and be-
lieve great army Of citizen workers.
men and women, will rise to cooper
i ate.'
Mrs. Frederick Schoff, president Ma.
tional Congress of Mothers and Par
ent-TeacherS' association and director
home education division United States
bureau of education, Washington, said:
Education for citizenship is of vital
! Importance if the ideals of the found
ers of our country are to be maintains
ed. With hearty approval pledge CO
operation in the idea and suggest that
a committee be formed to sconsider
what definite measures will be most
practical and effective for realization
of the desired purpose"
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plan for federal training provides, and
we shall not be leaving them at the
mercy of demagogues within or foes
without"
Mrs. Juliette Low, national presi-
dent Of the girl scouts, says:
"The greatest need of our nation to-
day is definite training which will
draw us together and give us common
ideals of citizenship. The training pro-
posed supplements the scouting pro-
gram and adds the final touch which is
required to make our boys and girls
into good citizens"
Decision Most Vital
The statement of the committee of
fifty womens organizations referred to
says. in part:
''The stability and progress of the
nation and even the preservation Of
our civilization are involved in the de-
cisiOns of the present period and all
should share the obligation to aid the
government in reaching sound conclu-
sions based upon experience and to de-
mand action of the most fundamental
character.
| "Short courses of intensive federal
training for all young people before
they vote appear to offer the only solu-
ton. 1t is our conviction that such
courses, covering at least six months
life in the open at government ex-
! pense under military discipline, ac-
centuating physical economic and civic
training, in accord with plans to be ap-
proved by the nations ablest leaders,
would qualify our young people eff
GENTLY to discharge their family and
citizenship obligations and prove of in
estimable value to the nation.
"The beneficial results of training in
the environments demonstrate what can
be done under a broader educational
plan, when young people o. all nation
alitieS, from all parts of the country
and all classes, widen their horizon
through intensive training in the es-
sentials of life and government upon
equal terms.
"In addition to making strong, alert,
clean-cut, thinking Americans, the
! u dlA1uS Will CISdLC SCASC VI HUI
vidual responsibility, strengthen char
acter and promote a higher regard for
each other, for their country and the
cooperation necessary for the welfare
| Of all.
Red BIooded Missionaries.
Preparation for the training can
not wait until after the war, as the
responsibility for wise government will
more than ever fall upon the new vot-
ers from all environments during the
reconstruction period and they should
be the wholesome, red-blooded mission
aries to carry the message Of orderly
progress and cooperation into every
neighborhood in the land. There is a
deep conviction that the benefits of
the proposed training will reach the
heart of every home, lend constant in
spiratiOn to our national life and mean
much to pOSterity.
"This is the most important move
ment before the American people to.
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LIEUTENANT LONGSHORE.

Mr.. E. H. Longshore has received
a letter from his son, Lieutenant
Furman B. Longshore, written on
November goth. The letter tells OF
he serious fighting in which the regi
ment has been engaged; Lieutenant
Longshore stating that every COM
missioned officer in his company ex
cept himself, was killed. This lef
him in command of the company
and he led them through the battle
When he wrote he was still in com
mand of the company, and had been
promoted to First Lieutenant.
He encloses to his father copy
Of the citation for Croix de Guerre
awarded to 369 Regiment of Infan
try, of which his company forms a
part. The citation is in French, but
he English translation is added.
Lieutenant Longshore writes tina
he is in sight of the Rhine as he
writes, and that he is on his way to
Berlin. .
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MIR. GUY PooRE DEAD.
Well Known Railroad Man Died
From Pneumonia.

Well Known Railroad Man Died
From Pneumonia.
Donalds, Dec. 24.-A message
from Pinehurst, N. c., to Mrs. G. E,
Sharp of Donalds this morning, con-
veys the sad news of the death Of
Mr.. Guy A. Poore of that place from
pneumonia, following influenza. Mr.
Poore had been desperately i'll, but
had gotten much better, so much SO
that a letter yesterday said he was
able to sit up in bed and take nour-
ishment. When the message of his
death came it simply prostrated his
friends and relatives here.
Mr.. Poore was about forty years
old, and prominent railroad man
He leaves a young wife, who before
her marriage was Miss Marian Sharp
and three children to mourn his loss
Mr.. Poore was a splendid gentleman
and very popular with everyone.