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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23

The Oconto Enterprise complains
that pictures of the kaiser are still
permitted to hang on the walls Of
OcOnto homes and condemns the al
legged dislOyal tolerance in an editor
ial from which the following is an
excerpt: wake up, you pro-Germans-
if-you-dared-to-be Come out Of your
trance. Put on the armor of loyalty
to the country that feeds you, that
clothes you, that protects you. Uncle
Sam has reached, is reaching out a
protecting arm to you; is giving out
a protecting arm to you; is giving
you and always will give you a better
chance to live and learn and accumu-
late wealth than you ever had in the
country you came from. In these
good old United States you are not
burdened and depressed like III Ger
many till your soul crieth out oh.
God, show me a free country Then
come out and show your colors, the
red, the white and the blue"
Wisconsin has furnished a larger
percentage of medical officers for the
Medical Reserve Corps from it's med
ical population than any otner state
in the union with the exception of
the state of Pennsylvania. This is the
substance of report just received
by Governor Philip from the Sur
geon General Of the Army In a list
of twenty-one states having $500 or
more physicians, Wisconsin stands
second only to Pennsylvania. DR.. Rock
Sleyster, the medical aid to the gov
ernor, in discussing this report, said:
when it is considered that Wiscon-
sin has an average of 906 population
per physician to $50 in Pennsylvania,
that Wisconsin physicians cover an
average of twenty square miles to
four square miles in Pennsylvania,
and that the density of population is
54.3 in Wisconsin to 1901 in Pennsyl-
vania, | think the Wisconsin profess
sion can claim first honors for 10y
atty"
Wisconsin has done it's full share in
furnishing trained leaders Of agricul-
tural college and experiment stations
institutions now considered unusu-
ally vital parts of the nations de-
tense. In their last issue the editors
of the Wisconsin Farmer list six Wis
consin trained educators as heads of
as many important agricultural in
situations. These are: H. L. Russell,
native of Columbia county, who is
the dean and director of Wisconsin's
college and agricultural experiment
station; Alfred Vivian of Iowa county.
dean of the Ohio state college of agri-
culture; Charles L. Beach, Walworth
county, president of the Connecticut
agricultural college; Martin Nelson,
Vernon county, dean and director of
the Arkansas institutions; Charles S.
Knight, Mineral Point, dean of Neva-
da agricultural college and Ralph
B. HentZel president of the New
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23
ONLY PLEASURE LINE ON
BIG RIVER CLOSES DOWN

The Streckfus line Of steamers, the
only concern operating on the Missis-
sippi between st. Louis and ST. Paul
will not run it's passenger craft next
year according to a recent announce
ment made by the president, Jos.
Streckfus. Mr. Streckfus offers his
entire equipment to the government
to be used in freight service.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23

Hampshire state college of agricul-
ture. Each of these men has gradua-
ted from the University Of Wisconsin
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23

Bring your hide to us for tanning.
1t will not be wasted or shrunk with
alum. Well get you much larger
robe and Life Time Guarantee
Theo. J. Wenzell & Co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23

Try a Want ad. They pay.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-01-23

cnps bu apples Deerng binder nearly new disc
p rake section harrow section harrow last spring.
endgae seeder high wagon; low iron wheel wagon cutter
horse clipper tool chest with tools Deava separator bs
ten gallon and gallon poplar lumber
chairs; 80 yards ingram carpet Many other articles.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Gen. Wood Reviews
Men He Trained
And Says Farewell
"These Orders Stand, and
We Must Do the Best
We Cam" He Says
Returning to Kansas
Troops He Expected TO Lead
Are Soon to Sail
for France
Returning to Kansas

AN AMERICAN CITY, June o
"Thcse orders stand, and the only thing
to do is to do the best we CANAL of
us-to win the war" were the words
Of Maj jor-G General Leonard Wood in a
farewell address to the officers Of his
late command, the S9th Division of the
National army, which he trained at
Camp Funston for overseas service
General Wood had expected to go to
France at the head of this division,
but at the last moment was ordered to
Camp Funston to train another d;vi-
sion.
At the request of the troops, it was
learned to-day, General Wood, before
departing for Camp Funston, reviewed
the division at an army camp here and
made brief speech to the officers.
~ will not say goodbye" he told
them, and those who heard him said
his voice trembled with emotion, "but
consider it a temporary separation
at least hope so. I have worked hard
with you and you have done excellent
work. had hoped very much to take
had no intimation, direct or indirect,
of any change of orders until we
reached here the other night.
"The orders have been changed ard
I am to 60 back to Funston. I leave
for there tomorrow morning. l wish
you the best of luck and ask you to
keep the high standard of conduct and
work you have in the past. There isn't
anything to be said The orders stand
and the only thing to do is to do the
best we can-all of us-to win the war
That's what we are here for, that's
what you have been trained for.
shall follow your career with the deep
est interest, with just as much interest
as though | were with you. Good luck
and God bless you"
Those who witnessed the review said
the troops were never more on their
mettle and gave an exhibition of per-
tect marching for the benefit of their
former commander
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
lest System to Speed
Training of Troops
Especial Dtspdtch to Th,, Tr1bunel

L
WASHINGTON, June ITO speed
up the training of troops for replace
ment units to fill the gaps Of the
American forces now in France, the
training and instruction branch of the
Army War College has completed an
elaborate standardization and test sys-
tenn to be applied to all camps as
quickly as General Staff officers can er-
plain the details.
Under the new test system tho
maximum progress in fitting troops for
service as replacement units is ex-
pected to be attained. Just as scien.
tific developments have been intro.
duced in the manufacturing field, it
has been realized by experts of the
War College that definite standards in
training the human machine ara
necessary.
The training manual prepared by the
War College prescribes certain marks
OF excellence to be attained at specific
periods in the training.
The Standardization Of training re-.
suits from an exhaustive study Of tn,
systems in the French. British and
Italian armies. To this American Mil
tary initiative has been added. Where
the lack Of maximum speed is noted
soldiers found inept will be tran sferred
to other branches.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Negro Draft Troops
To Get College Course
Especial Dispatch to The T,1bune)

WASHINGTON, June 2.--To provide
technical men for the engineer, signal
medical, quartermaster and ordnance
branches of the negro regiments to be
formed in the new draft the War De
partment to-day announced that negro
so!olers Will be sent to schools and
colleges this summer for special train
ing IN radio engineering, general en-.
glneerlng. electricity, auto mechanics
blacksmithing and the operation OF
motor vehicles.
1t is expected that eight regiments
OF fighting troops will be made up Out
OF the negroes subject 10 draft ir
the calls to be made this year. Al.
ready there are two divisions of negro
troops IN the service, commanded by
Major General C. C. Ballou and Brig.
adler General Roy C. Hoffman.
Four thousand will be sent to How.
ard University, Tuskegee Institute
Hampton Institute, the Negro Agricul-
tural and Technical College, Prairie
View Normal and Industrial College
tne Colored Agricultural and Normal
School, Branch Normal School, Georgia
State Industrial College. Florida A
and M. College, Atlantic University
and Western University.
Close to $4,000 negro soldiers are
now in the National Army. OF these
1000 are line officers holding com
missions of captain and first and sec.
ond lieutenant. There are approx.
mately 200 negro officers in the medi.
cal and dental reserve corps.
Ihere are now openings for negroes
IN the veterinary corps of the National
Army Two thousand volunteers be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty
not subject to the draft, are needed.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Falls to Death in
Airplane Crash
At Baseball Game
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune !


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June BE
fore crowd of several thousand snec-
tators at the American Association
Baseball Park here this afternoon, Cap
tam Il. =. Webb, post adjutant and
commander of the 821st Aero SQUADRON
stationed at the indianapolis Motor
Speedway, lost his life when the Cur
'iss machine in which he was a passen-
ger dlved 500 feet to the ground and
landed back of second base. Major
Guy l.. Gearhart, commander of the
aero camp, was plotting the machine
and was seriously injured.
The baseball players had just An
'shed their practice and Captain Webb
was in the act of throwing a baseball
to the field when one of the streamers
is said to have become tangled in the
machinery, causing Major Gearhart to
lose control of the plane A team com
posed of soldiers from Captain Webb's
command were to have played a local
semi professional team and the aero
plane stunt was to have been an added
feature of the game.
Captain Webb was forty-six wears
old. He was an old army man, having
served twenty-five years, part of the
time in Cuba and in the Philippine
Islands. He retired from the army
about year ago, but was called back
into service and commissioned a cap
tain in the aero service on February |
last. At the time he was commissioned
he was serving as adjutant general of
New Mexico.
This was Captain Webb's first trip in
an airplane.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Auto Owners Go
To Aid of Stranded
Upton Pilgrims
Give 40, Whose Machine
Had Broken Down, Free
Lifts to Camp

The spirit Of assistance developed
by the war in general and the Red
Cross drive in particular, went to the
rescue Of the American Automobile As
soclation's free transportation service
to Camp Upton yesterday and saved
forty persons from being stranded
somewhere on Long Island.
The rest Of the city, or most of It
was still trying to sleep yesterday
morning when 100 grateful relatives
of new National Army men in train
ing at Yaphank were started on the
journey to the cantonment. Forty OF
this number filled huge bus, the
same one which has made the trip for
six successive Sundays.
But even on the Greensboro Bridge
usually easily surmounted, the power.
tul engine began to succumb to the
oppressive heat. 1t wheezed and com.
planned its way into Queens to Hill.
side Avenue, and finally to the Mer.
rick Road
Rockville Centre and Lynbrook were
passed, but just beyond Baldwin the
passengers began to detect an odor OF
burning paint, wood and rubber. The
bus got no further. The bearings
had been burned and the subseouent
friction had ignited the wheel
Momentary CONSERVATION was sun.
planted by hopefulness, when one OF
the women passengers hailed a pass
ing auto, speeding toward Camp UPTON
and was invited along.
rms was taken as a precedent bv the
other members Of the party, all OF
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Officers Learn to FLY
BY Dead Reckoning
Especial Dispatch to The Tribunal

WASHINGTON, June "A detach-
ment Of commissioned officers OF the
american air service has just com
pieted special courses in compass ad-
Justment and air navigation, the De-
partment of Military Aeronautics an
nounced to-day. The department re-
Gently organized school at Camp
DICK, Dallas, Tex, for this instruction.
nc two courses were conducted at the
same time and completed in two weeks
nc instructors, two British officers,
have expressed themselves as pleased
with the results and the spirit of the
men.
Captain S. T. Fripp, Royal Air
Forces, was in charge Of the course de-
signed to give engineer officers special
instruction in the adjustment and COM
nensatlon of airplanc compasses.
These instruments get out of order be-
cause OF the local magnetic fields set
up by magnetics and engines and
from the jarring due to rough land
ings. The students who took this
course were selected from graduates
OF the engineering ground officers
school at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The course in navigation was con-
Quoted by Naval Instructor ". r. Farr,
X. A. f. 1t consisted of instruction in
air navigation. or flying by dead reck-
oning. This method of flying is fol-
lowed when the ground is not in view
Each OF the air service schools in this
country was represented in this course
by an officer who had had charge Of
'cross-country flying. The officers who
finished this training will return to
their respective fields to instruct
cadets.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Soldiers Get Drinks;
z Bellboys Arrested
District Attorney Dis
covers Price Is IS Cents
for Whiskey or Beer

Pursuing his sociological investiga-
tions early yesterday in the vicinity of
Times Square Assistant District Attor
ney James E. Smith discovered that
when the drinker is in uniform the
price of a drink IS rs cents, whether it
be whiskey or beer. He arrested two
bellboys, who were charged with sell
ing intoxicants to soldiers.
The soldiers in question were acting
under Mr.. Smiths instructions and one
was waiting for him in a room in each
Of the two hotels where arrests were
made. The first had bought a bottle
OF beer for IS cents and pointed out
the bellboy from whom he said he got
it. The second had bought a bottle Of
whiskey for the same price and like
wise pointed out the bellboy
In both places the management de-
clared that they had no license to sell
liquor and knew nothing of the trans
action. The discovery confirmed Mr..
Smith in his conviction that bellboys
and elevator operators in many hotels
are exploiting soldiers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Soldiers Abroad Need Play to
Keep Sane, Says Y.M.C. A. Man
DUTY or hose at Home See That Men Overseas Have
Livery Possible Chance for 1ealthful Recreation
Declares Herbert l.. Pratt

10 prevent thousands of American
soldiers from returning home mentally
deranged physical and mental recrea-
ton must be provided for them. accord
ing TO Herbert l.. Pratt. vice president
OF the Standard Oil Company, just
pack from seven weeks in France.
where he was Y. NJ. G. A. secretary.
During the first eighteen months
OF the war" said Mr.. Pratt, there
were as many English and Canadian
soidlcrs returned to England because
OF mental arrangements as there we're
because of wounds"
10 prevent the same conditions here
Mr.. Pratt said that we must plan now
TO enlarge our facilities for taking
care Of the meh when not actually
fghtlng. "The American soldier" he
SAID, is naturally higher strung than
other Allied soldiers. He's dynamo
OF energy. When he is not actually
hghting he seeks an outlet for that
energy, and it is OF vital Importance
mat his energies be directed rightly"
Mr Pratt pointed out that the war
IS most depressing He said that he
marvclled at what the man have en-
dulcd and are enduring "And that"
he continued, "is all the more reason
why everything that will result in
cheering up our men should be done
now.
I. S. Troops Arc Confident.
Don't think that our boys are down
hearted or discouraged. Their morale
Is excellent; their spirits high; their
courage just what it ought to be, and
they are absolutely confident. But
they want that hit Of cheer that ,noLos
them forget some of the crue'ties of
war. We folks at home must see that
they get it,"
Serving as Y. NJ. c. A. secretary
in France is a hard job, according to
Mr.. Pratt. The esponsiblitics, he
said, are tremendous. at isn't merely
selling chocolate or cigarettes" he
said; chat is merely incidental. The
Red Triangle man is the soldiers pal.
And good pal must always be there
with smile or word of cheer or a
warm hand clasp or just whatever is
needed. That may sound easy, but it
isn't"
America. said Mr.. Pratt, must wake
IN to the genuine need for big men to
serve as Y. M. c. A. secretaries over
seas. This service. he declared, is
what frequently reclaims a soldier on
the verge Of breakdown because of ner-
vous strain.
"Our boys overseas" he said. "do
not sing enough. The only time !
heard the American boys singing was
ST q religious service and then those
hymns had me and many others crying.
Only a Temporary Condition
81 am not sure but what the whole
American nation needs more than any
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Hospitals Sought in
New York for $4,000

Hospital accommodations for at least
$4,000 wounded soldiers, doctors, nurses s
and orderles are being sought in New
York or close to the city, according to
"The Real Estate Record and Guide. v
Colonel II. II. Rutherford and Major E.
j. Barrett, of the Medical Corps.
L. S. A.. are here making survey Of
available buildings and sites for hos
pitals
That these officers may have the as
sistance Of men most competent to ad-
wise them, there has been formed an ur-
official committee Of members of the
Real Estate Board under the chairman
ship of Pell Thompson
Loft buildings. Areproof and with the
latest improvements and convcniences,
arc considered the most adaptable for
military hospitals. They must have
ample elevator service and means Of
fire protection. Automatic fire sprink-
lers are not mandatory. but highly de-
sirable
Preferably the buildings should be
located so that two or three are in close
proximity to each other and they
should be in easy distance of the water
front.
The authorities have no desire to use
drastic measures in obtaining the
needed facilities. They expect that
owners of property that could be con-
verted to hospital uses will come for
ward and make the offer.
Under consideration by the Medical
Corps as structures suitable for the
hospitals are hotels, apartment houses,
Office buildings and others, where par
titions may be readily removed and the
floors thrown into large spaces for use
as wards. The chief idea is to handle
as many patients as possible with the
minimum of obstruction and confusion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

, thing else is the realization that even
II this war lasts ten years longer it
is only temporary condition of af-
fairs, the normal being one of peace
and happiness.
I'm saying this. | have fully realized
the danger Of criticism; that some peo-
pie will say that it sounds like Ger
man propaganda; that I fail to realize
the seriousness of war; that at tho
end of a whole year America is not
awake. But there is such a thing as
getting so morbid over a condition that
you lose the proper perspective
WI ny cannot we take a leaf out Of
Englands book of experience? Why
are the English women abstainng
from mourning? Why is every en-
couragement given to getting officers
and men during their leave periods at
home? Because the English women
don't mourn their dead as others, and
the English people don't know and
realize the seriousness of war? Not
TOR one minute. 1t is because they
realize that unless they do something
to break the seriousness that natur-
ally possesses mems minds in time of
war they will have nation of lunatics
on their hands"
Mr.. Pratt stated that one Of tho
worst catastrophes suffered by the Y
NJ. c. A. abroad was the loss by sub
marine of 100000 worth of baseballs,
bats and other athletic material. It
has been impossible, he said, because
OF lack OF tonnage, to make it up.
Thousands have been deprived of their
ball games, and that he said, is what
Is needed more than anything else.
Let Soldiers Have Good Times
Mr.. Pratt pointed out that the
American soldier has his hours when
he wants to play; his army experience
is giving him hours for serious
thought. "Let it be the work of the
Y. M. C. A. to give him his full meas
ure Of the Joy of living. Conditions
arc so different in France! Every
thing is strange to him. Every ten
dency is to make him an old man be-
fore his time. Don't let the war rob
him Of his boyhood. Let him have his
good times. Give him his recreations.
"Of course the American people are
overseas. But they can be more inter
ested. They can provide the means for
looking after all the wants of the
soldier and sailor and that means more
than equpping and feeding him.
"They must be interested in his play
as we'll as his fighting. Help the
American soldier to play more and
he'll fight harder and better. And that
means Fastening the day of victory"
Mr.. Pratt will speak to-day to the
prominent business men from all parts
of the country who are here for the
annual meeting of the War Work
i Council of the Y. M. G. A. at the Bank
ers' Club, 12o broadway.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Camp Greene Turned
Over to Flying Corps
(specia, Dispatch to The Tribune

WASHINGTON, June "A general
concentration camp for the division Of
military aeronautics, whore $4,000 avia-
ton men will constantly be held either
country or for dispatch to France, is to
be at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. c.,
Secretary of War Baker announced to-
day.
The camp has been found unsatsfac-
tory as divisional training camp. A
special board, made up of Surgeon Cen
eral Gorgas, Chief of Engineers Black
and Inspector General Chamberlain,
recommended the change. The board
also recommended the remount station
be removed.
Vigorous protests have been made
against Camp Greene because Of sani-
tary conditions.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Plattsburg Course
Will Open To-day

PLATTSBURG, n. Y, June q
Seyenty-five officers who have been de-
tailed to Plattsburg barracks for the
reserve officers training camp, and
many Of the 5000 college men who are
TO take the training, reported to-day
to Colonel c. +. Dentler, the com.
mandant. Tomorrow Will be given
over to assigning the men to com
pahies, and instruction will begin to.
morrow night.
The camp is to last only one month
and the work will begin at a. m. and
cantinue until p. m. every day, with
intcrmission of one hour at noon and
orc and one-half hours in the even.
ing. No student will be admitted
unless he has had minimum of a
years military training at college.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03

whom, except three. were women
Automoblists were Intercepted, and
almost in every instance the vacant
seats were filed with members of the
stranded party.
There was a surprised set Of rockies
at camp who expected TO select their
relatives from a bus load only to find
them riding into camp in an assort-
ment of motor cars that varied from
twelve-cylinder limousines 10 four
cylinder -pringless fours.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
24,674 for Special Work
Drafted Men To Be Sent to
Training Schools

WASHINGTON. June "A call for
PASTA draft registrants of grammar
school education, to be sent to special
training schools. has been issued by
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
The men will be taken from thirty-six
states.
The order directs the mobilization
of all but 1900 of the men on June
is. The 1900 are to go on June 20.
q and 20. Local boards were in
structed TO accept volunteers until
June T. Afterward the quotas will be
filled by draft
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Legion Of Honor Award
For American Aviator

PARIS, June 2.-Sergeant Frank l.
Raylies, OF New Bedford. Mass, was
to-day cited for first leutenancy in
the French army aviation service and
awarded the decoration of the Legion
Of Honor.
The official compilation credits Bay
lies with bringing down eleven Ger
man machines
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
4 Officers, 20 Men
Reported Missing
From the Lincoln

WASHINGTON, June -Four off,
GERS and twenty men are believed to
be missing from the torpedoed Ameri-
can transport President Lincoln, the
Navy Department was advised to-day
by Vice Admiral Sims.
The message, which said that no au-
thentic list of the missing was yet
available, did not specify whether the
men were of the army or navy.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Western, Union
Rejects IT, S.
Labor Ruling

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