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Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
"JUST GOVERNOR" WAS
 AUTOMOBILE HOSTS NAME

E. A Purdy, postmaster of, Mime apolis, and his assistant, c. W. Kerr who are also volunteer workers for the War Camp Community Service, were working behind the desk in the Army and Navy Club House on one Wednesday evening recently. Automo- piles were reporting rapidly to take the men in uniform for ride. Mir. Kerr began taking the names of the various citizens who were loading and bringing back the soldiers and sailors. While he was thanking them personal ly for their hospitality one gentleman called out to him after unloading his car:
 "Glve me another jolly bunch"
 "Your name, please" said Mir. Kerr.
 "Oh, just Governor-Governo Burn- quist of Minnesota" was the answer.
 The Governors wife, by the way, is a wonderful waffle maker and is de- lighted to work In the clubs lunch room. So are the boys to have her there.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
NEW YORK HOTELS CUT
 RATES FOR oFFIcERs.

More than sixty of New .York's largest hotels have agreed to house officers of the Army and Navy at re- duced rates. When 1t was reported to the War Camp Community Service that officers on leave in the city were having difficulty in obtaining accom- modations at reasonable rates the or ganization began ten-day canvass, with the result that the hotels now in line will give a fifty per cent. reduc- ton on one per cent of their room ca pacity from Monday to Friday, inclu- sive, and on Saturday and Sunday will allow the same reduction on two per cent. of the capacity. This arrange ment provides two hundred and fifty rooms for the five days and five hun dred for Saturdays and Sundays.
 In addition to this the New York War Camp Community Service has more than two thousand beds availa- ble for enlisted men, the usual rates being twenty-five cents for bed and bath, with an added charge of from ten to thirty cents for breakfast
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
ALL ALIKE IN UNIFORM
You Can't Guess a Soldiers Past From His Clothes in
 This War.

"You can't judge a soldier by his uniform these days," said J. B. Zerbe, the Cleveland coal operator, in New York recently. "Col. Myron T. Her rick and were playing golf the other afternoon and on our return to the club house we overheard two ma rines-enlisted men, mind you-talk- ing about the game.
 "For fun Col Herrlck asked them If they would like to play, but both replied that they would but they had no clubs. I'll lend you mine,' prompt ly offered Col. Herrick, adding that I would probably be glad to do like wise. So we took the two sea-soldiers into the club house, fitted them out in golf togs, gave them our sticks and told them to enjoy themselves.
 Just as they were leaving the club house one turned to Col Herrick and said: I don't suppose you get to Chi cago very often, but if you do come out that way I'd be glad to give you a card to the Midlothian Club This brought about an exchange of cards and 1t developed that this marine was one of the wealthiest young men in the Middle West and an officer of the Midlothian Club, one of the most ex- elusive clubs around Chicago"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29

There is nothing in it." says the nited States Weather bureau to re- peated inquiries as 10 whether the war affects rainfall or any other weather conditions. There is a popular fallacy that concussions, explosions, and the liberation of gases in the European conflicts is having an effect on the weather. not only over the battle fields but elsewhere on the globe; but it is only a fallacy. say the weather specialists of the United States de- partmcnt of agriculture. even though it has existed almost since the begin ming of historic times. Before gun powder was used. the ancients had an idea that battles produced rainfall. which was caused by the clash of swords and the sweat of the fighters.
 Later. the same theory was trans forred to the noise produced by mus ketry: later still. 10 dust particles and smoke from burning powder, upon which the moisture in the air was sup posed Co be condensed and to afil as rain, and now to the gases freed by explosions and liberated in the new chemical warfare.
 These theories are not combated merely by other theories. but by actual observations made officially by several of tho belligerent governments. and the net result of these careful observa- tions is to refute the idea of any effect of war on weather.
 While the notion of this effect has been repeatedly exposed in scientific journals. the general press has from time 10 time printed articles in which The Idea of a connection between bat
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
W,C,C.S.SEENBY MAN IN LECC|NCS lieut.. Murphy, Once a Private, Tells What It Meant in
 Ills Life. COY OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP. War Camp Community Service, He says, 10 "the Most Smashing Ar. gument That the Nation A
 Behind Her eons"
COY OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP.

, Gratitude is the universal reward of War Camp Community Service given by the enlisted men for whom 1t cares. But rarely Is this gratitude 90 feelingly expressed as in the follow ing letter written by Lieut.. Dempster o. Murphy, Company c, 3S1st Battal- ion, U. S.. Taub Corps, at Camp Colt, Pa, to Charles ". Dawson, field rep resentative, W. c. c. S.:
 q left you a civilian and thought: {: The War Camp Community Service Is unquestlonably a good and necessary thing. l write you now a soldier, an officer, 1t is true, but began an en- listed man and for months lived and breathed and thought and cursed and prayed as an enlisted man. Tonight, then, l have a different viewpoint-a more comprehensive viewpoint-than l had as the youth who saluted you in farewell last Saturday before Christ mas. And tonight say: The War Camp Community Service Is the most smashing and convincing argument thus far disclosed that the Nation Is behind her sons in the war
 q have known the isolated feeling that goes hand and hand with the pri- vate's uniform, and I have felt the well, people won't understand If I go to this party, or to that theater, or to the other dance, in canvas leggings. l have known these things-but, oh, Charlie, I have known also the great Joy that comes to a man of this sort when sweet, gracious women throw open their homes to him, ask him to sit and break bread with them and, with their men, extend to him the de- cent hand of good fellowship
 Tn Atlanta I was a sergeant. l knew not one person In that city. Without ever coming Into direct con- tact with a War Camp Community Service worker came into daily touch with their work-I rubbed elbows with their personalities. relaxed and wrote letters home in the charming club operated by the Rotarians under supervision of the War Camp Com munity Service. I met worth while people of Atlanta there in an easy way-for 1t is easy for one to meet another on common ground. At their dances I saw only the highest type of American womanhood. At church was invariably asked home to dinner by some one. Every other soldier with whom I talked reported the same ex- perience. I asked my hostess on each occasion the reason for this perfect hospitality and usually came the an swer: The War Camp Community Service workers keep after us through the papers and in many other ways They are educating us to the fact that you soldiers are not more nor less than distinguished guests within our gates'
 T want to help, and if can add any small bit l shall welcome the op- portunity gratefully"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
HE JOINED THE NAVY
 JUST TO GET A Ro6M.

The War Camp Community Service appointed by the War and Navy Do partment Commissions on Training Camp Activities to stimulate the morale and preserve the physical we'll being of our fighting men in the com munities surrounding the great traln- ing camps occasionally achieves some unexpected effects.
 During the temporary occupancy of the city Y. NJ. c. A. building by our Soldiers and Sailors Club" writes De- Witt c. Reed. community organizer for New Rochelle. N. r.. i've did not have the use of the upper two dormitory floors, and few young civilians stay ed in the building. Then we took over the entire building. One about eight cen, who had a room and habitually viewed the boys in khaki and blue in their daily recreations in the club, sur rendered his key and departed-very reluctantly. Greatly surprised were we when he reappeared two evenings later decked out in a sailor suit and beaming with joy.
 "'Give me room,' said he, and my old room at that if you will, for I can't keep away. made up my mind had to be in this club or bust, 50 went and joined the Navy. Now I can get room just like any other sailors, can't IT."
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
There Was Something Doing.

One afternoon recently a United States ship manned by a crew of boys recently from a naval training station dropped anchor in the harbor of Southport, s. c. The boys were long, ing for shore leave, but there ap- peared to be little opportunity for en- tertainment in the small town that stretched along the water front. At one of the wharves was a patrol boat. One of the bluejackets waved his sig nal flags. A sailor on the patrol boat answered. The following conversa- tion was wigwagged back and forth:
 Anything doing in the town?"
 Sure"
 "Any chance for any funr'
 "Yes. We've an Army and Navy Club"
 "Then we are coming ashore"
 A little later every man who could get shore leave was headed for the Army and Navy Club of the War Camp Community Service. There they sure ly did have fun, afternoon and eve ming; not only fun but an opportunity for shower baths and letter writing. For two days the Army and Navy Club was home to these boys. Without 1t there would have been nothing for them to do but wander in the streets.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
BANKER, WAITER, COOK
 IN WAR's MELTING POT,

Speaking of melting pots that have nothing to do with the weather, a banker, . cook and . waiter recently sat on one bench in the St. Paul (Minn) House of the War Camp Con- munity Service. Before they donned uniforms they had all been at the Wal dorf Astoria Hotel in New York slmul- taneously-the banker at the table signing the check, the waiter back of his chair and the cook concocting the food.
 Italians, Bohemians, Jews, Syrians, Greeks and many other nationalities meet and mingle at this clubhouse. Often when their friends and families join them the different groups chatter away in their native tongues, making a modern Babel that is mighty inter esting to the chance caller. Yet they arc all Americans in spirit as in uni form, and bringing them together is exactly what the Commissions on Training Camp Activities asked War Camp Community Service to do.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
Conscience Money Her Bit.

The last word in conscience money has been received at the War Camp Community Service headquarters in Minneapolis. Directly after boxing benefit recently the following note was received from . woman whose address located her across the street from the boxing site:
 Kind Sir-This dollar is for my gallery seat at your Army and Navy benefit show of last evening. Nr&
 This illustrates the quickenins of the public conscience through these war days" remarked the Minneapolis Community Organizer. There's wo- man who wants to do her bit Wonder If we'll collect from the other roofs in the neighborhoodi They were all full"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
AN "ALL-HANps" cANTEEN.

New Brunswick N. Us first Soldiers and Sailors canteen opened on Satur. day. August 10, at D. m., according to an announcement made by the War Camp Community Service. It will con- tinue to be open daily and sell many delightful foods and hot and cold drinks to men in uniform. This can teen might be called an "AlkHands" canteen, as 1t has been contributed by bits from various individuals and firms, one firm contributing a barrel of glasses, another a complete set of dishes, church lending the silver, etc. until even the matter of food is disposed of in much the same way. Certain people volunteer to supply all the sandwiches every Tuesday, and thus the good work goes on. With such a cooperative spirit New Brrns- wick is sure to have a highly success full cautesn
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
TO REBUILD WOUNDED
 MEN AT Fl. SWELLING
War Camp Community Service Wiv Play a Large Part in
 the Work.

Since the announcement by the War Department that Fort Smelling, in Min nesota, was to be vacated by troops, plans were made to turn the training station into a reconstruction camp where wounded soldiers whose homes are in the Northwest will be cared for and fitted for their return to civil life.
 In the proposed change the War Camp Community Service is to play a large part, although the camp itself will, of course. be in charge of army of1cers and conducted along strictly military lines. The Community Or ganizer has already been called upon to assist in plans for the men. A more ideal spot for reconstruction work than Fort Smelling can hardly be imagined. It is just the place for men to recover from wounds and from shell shock, . process that often takes months. It Is probable that men who have lost legs will be fitted with arti- ficial limbs here as . part of the work. All of the men received at the fort must be of the fable to travel" class, as the long Journey from the Atlantic coast would prohibit the treatment of more serious cases there.
 Nearly two battalions of United States guards are now at the fort. These men will remain on guard duty after the establishment of the recon struction work, 1t is believed, and the War Camp Community Service Or ganizer and assistants intend to stay on the ground and make ready in ev- cry way possible for the new demands.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
-O- sPRAT FISHERS GET stoo DAY
Detroit News)

Detroit News)
 Meat scarcity in England has re- suited in unprecedented prosperity for the fishermen along the Fay in Scot land. Sprat fishers are making as high as Sf00 and $500 a week-and it is a iour-day week at that.
 The run of sprat has been unusually good this season. The work of netting them is simple. Two men go out in a boat. put down their small mesh nets near the mouth of the harbor and sit in the boat smoking and awaiting de- Nelopments. They plan to stay on the grounds during an ebb tide. flow and part of another obh. Most of the work is done at night. but it is not heavy work. one or two hauls of the small net being an that is required.
 Tho fish are shipped to the London market from Dundee. The price before Inc war was usually about SO cents q r'rtn-a cran is thirty-two galloas Now it is often as high as S27 cran
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
WAR CAMP COMMUNITY WORK.

The War Camp Community Service seems to have Justified itself abundantly No doubt some mistakes have been made here and there but the enterprise as whole has been, and is, benefcent. It sends the men away with feeling that the country solidy behind them. Local cordiality and the touch of personal, human interest is of importance
 The critics who think that the boys being "pampered' haven't much to go Certainly the men now at the front show signs of being soft One fancies that the Boche finds them anything but eete, pampered darings. And the aspect of the average youth in unfor usiby presented to the naked eye. does not suggest that he has been rendered mushy by any little courtesies and entertainment that may have come his way.
 The statement of Corporal Guy Smith, ono of Pershings men, is conclusive as to what the boys themselves think of it. Said he:
 Until came back to America and saw the ders which War Camp Community Service had accom- pshed in making right the attitude of the town for the soldier and the mental attitude of the soldier toward the town, never would have believed it pos sible that much could have been done. In my opinion there is nothing directly affecting the morale of the troops the community work of the War and Navy Departments shown in their Community Service and when go back the other side am going to ask permission to tour the camps and tell the men over there how America is behind them"
 That seems to the pretty conclusive ly.-From the New York Evening Sun.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
ONE PArHER's VIEWPOINT.

Tho value of War Camp Community Service is well illustrated by ono or. ganizer, who said recently:
 "A business man has said to me: I enlisted in the Navy during the Span. ish-American war. I remember spend- ing my last quarter once to get ashore. When I got there the only places that had . welcome for me were the saloon and bawdy house.
 "'Now you Community Service peo- pie have changed all that sort of thing, My boy is in France. They are talk ing care of him over there. I want you to take care of these other boys over here. I am going to support you no matter whether your canteen hurts my business or not. You are takins care of the boys. and that is what l an interested in.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
MAKING USE OF THE HUNA

At the old Hotel Burlington, Unit No. 5 of the New York War Camp Community Service, there is some very satisfying furniture. Why espe- cially satisfying? Ask any soldier, sailcr or marine who has followed the invitation of the sign "W. c. c. S." over the hotel door. He will promptly tell you that it is real luxury to sink down into chairs and dlvans from the Vaterland and other interned German ships, and when it comes to playing quiet game of pinochle on Hun poker tables-well, 1t is returning to days Of zeal sport
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
MADE SONG BOAST GOOD
Man In Khaki Put the Mar. seiIIaise Into His Hearers
 Hearts.

In the town of Deming, ". M, there is a Soldiers Community Club, con ducted by the War Camp Community Service. Like every other club for the enlisted men in towns near a camp this one Is used to unusual demands upon its hospitality, but. like the oth- ers also, 1t is never faxed by any de- mand- This time 1t was eight o'clock in the morning, and the calling squad contained . dozen or more men in uni- form.
 "We want to hear . feller sing" explained the leader as the others crowded in. The organizer explained hastily that they had . lot of good singers who had been up late the night before entertaining . lot of sol- diers, etc.
 "It's all light, boss. You don't get us yet. We don't need any singer cause we've got him with us right here. That's the guy there." The speaker pointed to husky lad with a satisfied and confident grin on his face. Hes been boosting he's a won- der with his voice and we want to sec him do it."
 The men gathered in a circle around the singer, who had been born in a small town in France and was now 6 naturalized American. The babble ceased when he lifted his voice.
 In rich, resonant, powerful tones he sang the words of the French nationa! song, La Marseillaise." His strong. full notes seemed to shake tho very rafters and to seek out every nook and corner in the building. With head erect and eyes aflame, his hands at his sides, in true soldierly fashion, he breathed forth the words of life and love and liberty for France.
 Every man in the crowd stood at attention and all eyes were on the singer. His words seemed to carry inspiration into the hearts of his hear CTS. When he reached the great cli- max of the final lines and his last note died away, the men made a unanimous rush. pounded him on the back. and shook him fervently by the hand.
 You're all right ]" We're for you l" "Goodl" "Fine work. old scouti" was the gist of their musical criticism. Then they trooped out of the building. thanking the attendant for the per mission to "see him do It."
 Fall in Column right by squads -Marchl" shouted the corporal who had been the first to bang on the front door. They were of. Down the street with heads erect and eyes glis- tening with pride The men had been detailed to do some special work in Deming. and had stopped at the Sol diers' Community Club to hear their comrade sing. They knew that War Camp Community Service is always ready and willing to serve.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
LIBERTY BELL IN VIEW DAILY.

Independence Hall, famed as a shrine of patriotism, has been opened continuously so that soldiers, sailors and all other Philadelphia visitors may enter the old building and see the bell which rang out for liberty. Hitherto 1t has been the custom to close the building on Sundays through July and August, but 1t Is Sunday, according to the War Camp Community Service, which takes the most soldiers and sailors to the city, and Independence Hall Is their first choice of sights to see. When the War Camp Community Service discovered that the obstacle was the twelve dollars day expense in providing guards for the place this difnculty was removed in short order.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
One Soldiers Prophecy.

The War Camp Community Service for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities has its files full of tes. timonials from soldiers, sailors and marines, from commanding officers. colonels, captains, lieutenants, noncom- missioned officers and men in the ranks, but none received recently has pleased its executive officers as much as that from a private in the 306th Engineers, who was entertained at the Enlisted Mems Club In Jacksonville, Fla.
 "The same spirit which is backing this Club" he wrote, lis going to back the Hindenburg line into Berlin"
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29

tho favorable coincdences, he says, ignoring the many circumstances that do not bear out the theory, and thus to become more and more confirmed in the opinion.
 It has been maintained that recent severe droughts in the western part of this country have been due to eX- cessiye rainfalls over European bat tleefields. The idea was advanced that so much rain has fallen in Franco that there was not enough to go around, su the folks in other quarters of the globe had to do without. The weather bureau says that all such theories are in the same category and all are equally unworthy of belief.
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29

an examination recently made of the records of local distribution of rainfall over England during the first 22 months of the war made by the British meteorological office resulted in strengthening the evidence against the theory.
 Old Theories Die Hard
 The director of the French meteor ological bureau. NJ. Ango. practically says that the wish is father to the thought and that an idea that is deep seated and of long duration dies hard. The survival of the fallacy is due to the suggestion constantly given by an instinctive belief. Possessed of such a belief, one is inclined to note only
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29
FRISCO" NOT TO BE USED.

Bulletins have recently been sent out by the War Camp Community Service in San Francisco requesting soldiers and sailors to refrain from using the term Frisco" so odious to native San Franciscans. The notice has been posted on the bulletin boards of the various Army and Navy clubs and '. M. c. A. headquarters at differ snt pests around the bay citieG
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29

broken in the natural course of events. In short, moisture would fall when it was present; if it were not present, all the concussions that could be de- vised by man could not make rain.
 Results of Actual Observation
 Actual observations by French, Brit ish and American observers have failed to establish any relationship between storming the enemy and storms from the skies. Careful studies show that rainfall and battles do not coincide enough to give the basis for theory of cause and effect. The great battles in France in the spring of 1917 failed to interrupt the long spell of fair weather ' that accompanied them. Furthermore,
Arizona republican., 1918-09-29

crash of thunder is supposed to be an example of the same cause and effect. This theory was partly back of the rain making attempts formerly tried ir Kansas, Texas, and elsewhere to break droughts by 'bembardnsent of the skies.'
 The weather specialists point out that in all such cases. even when rain has followed such bombardments, the moisture was there and was due to fall anyhow without mans intervention and that in few cases where rain has fallen it has been mere coincidence, the rain being due to natural causes, and the drought was broken because it was time that it would have been