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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20

ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT.
the devastated districts, for the chill
dren or for the aged, 1t is always on
the same plan of backing up the
French If they have any organization
or plan.
PoiIus Like oysters and Salad.
The canteen work is one Of the most
gratifying ways Of helping the men.
10 see those poilus enjoying the first
delicacies they have had for days ls a
soul-satisfying sight The English and
French maintain canteens where they
dispense soup, hot coffee and cocoa, to-
bacco, chocolate, ETC., but the Ameri-
can Red Cross canteens serve real
dinners at cost or under. The poilus
are Unfortunately fond Of oysters and
salad: when they can order plate
Of oysters or a dish Of salad In an
American canteen they are as happy
20 children. We have six canteens in
the French zone for the French army
France Is, of course, divided into
zones In one line Of communication
canteen we serve from 1000 to 5000
men a day. These canteens are near
the railroad stations for the benefit Of
the men going to the front, being trans.
ferred to some other section, or going
home on q furlough. In one section the
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20
THE RED CROSS
By EDGAR A. GUEST.

2 AM too old to share the fight;
Too many years have come and gone
Since first saw the morning light.
My youth has been and Travelled ont
am too old to Join the line,
Far-Hung today that truth shall lIvei
i may not die for what 10 fine,
But am not too old to give.
] am not yet 90 old that
Have drifted from the world apart
! still can hear the helpless cry,
And mercy still can reach my heart
] still can share from day to day
The burden that our youth must heah
End ! thank God that can cay
The Red Gross 10 my symbol there.
] am TOO old to bear lance,
Across the shelI.torn Flanders field
may not 90 whore troops advance
And deaths grim terrcrs are revealedS
But can hear the helpless call,
And | can serve them while ! live;
And | thank God that through Il aIl
| shall nos be too old to give.
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4 a 4 4 4 4 X 4 4 * ~ 4 =
SHOWER BATHS
FOR CHILDREN
---.--
Low Wash Basins and Little
Shower Baths Adapted fsf the
Use Of the Tots.
.----.
CHATEAU DIES HALLES
NOW CHlLDREN'S HOSPITAL
One Of the Most Complete Es-
tabIishments Of Ito Kind In
France, With Jolly PIayrocnns
and Toys to Amuse Patients.

Up In the mountains, where the
snow falls early and lies deep, 80 miles
from Lyons, Is the little French village
Of Les Halles-a story book village
with its massive stone church standing
sentinel over two long rows Of trim
blue-gray plaster cottages. And mile
farther on Is the Chateau des Halless
where your Red Cross has established
q home for 200 sick children.
Nanginl built the chateau. Man
gini was the man who built the rail-
road along the Riviera and many 9TH
or railroads il France. And thirty
odd years ago he built this castle up
in the mountains for his country Aome.
But soon after his two children died
Then he died. and when his widow fol.
lowed him she left the chateau to the
city Of Lyons to be used as hospital
for children. /.
The Wars Wreckage. +!
Then came the war. A little rivulet
Of the wars wrcckage began to trickls
in at Evian-"repatriea," elderly men
and women, children. even babies. who
had once lived In the parts OF France
engulfed by the German tides ana
whom the Germans. finding them use-
less, were beginning to ship back into
France by way Of Switzerland. Grad.
ualiy this rivulet sweiled, Soon 900
OF these unfortunatea were arriving
at Evian daily. AND ruby half OF
them were children. undernourisheds
thiniy clad, dirty, sickly and. worse
grim. spiriuess, with faces that had
forgotten now to smile.
To care for these children was the
task your Red Cross 1t once assumed
Working with the French auth0ritiess
the Red Cross secured permission to
make use Of the old and almost forgot
ten Chateau des Halles up there Ii
the mountains. For years the castle
had been closed No effort had eves
been made to fit It up as hospital.
Your Red Gross had to begin at the
very beginning.
anar. ala and .ial,v
Dut wnat = wSnuertu, task " -
accompished! Inc lOhateau 0es
haAes' transformed INTO cnildrens
nospitai ana rest nome 10 furious
haste under the terrible pressure @
war needs with little time 70 think
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20
HER WEIGHT IN GOLD.
An Avlator's Letter Tells what Rec
Gross Nurse 10 Wsrth.

"As for the American Red Cross
well. ! could never IN q thou.
sand years exp4s-s my apprscla-
ton and admiration OF those
American women. ! worship them.
! guess all the fellows do. The
first day l came into camp and
my morale was right low; I'll tell
you about It some time weil, I
went into the American Red Cross,
and there, standing behind 9 nice
clean counter, was q little round
faced Red Crossie She was Just
beaming on every one. imagined
! never came as near making 4
fool Of myself IN my life. / felt
ike throwing my arms around her
and weeping for JOY. AZ It was, !
managed to salt up my chocolate
. Bit only drop or two that ]
couldn't help rolling OF ny cheek
III Lever paint an angel 1t will
look Just exactly like that little
Red Cfossie. They would BE-
worth their weight 10 gold II they
did nothing but Just be here
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The Great American Dollar
Has a Great American Heart

p AM the Great American Dollar. !
was born Of Toll and Sweat and
sired by Human Endeavor. Treas
ured and trained by Thrift, grew
powerful and competent to perform
for my masters the duties Of willing
servant Apprentiead to Industry, !
earned wages that repaid my sponsors
for their care and self DENIAL. They
loved me-not for myself alone, but
for what | accomplished for human
good, for by tireless labor ! smoothed
the paths Of their lives and the fruits
Of my energy made sweeter their days.
A Sudden Awakening.
In piping times Of peace grew self
complacent, and, forgetting the Spar
tan character Of my upbringing. be-
came more and more the slave Of Lux
ury. Then suddenly came an awaken
ing. The forces Of Good entered into
conflict with the Legions OF Evil. and
battle ragged upon the earth. The
Land Of the Free. where had my be
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20

giving ease to MANNED bodies. relief
to limbs writing In torture. cooling
drafts to parched threats. And under
my beneficent ministrations the sons
Of my masters are rescued from agony.
the hero youth Of the land are re.
stored, or the last hours of the wound
ed to death robbed Of the grlsly hor-
ror Of neglect.
The flower OF our young manhood
80 In ever growing hordes TO right
the worlds wrongs. New legions of
the Great American Dollar must Be
marshaled to equip the army that fol-.
-lows-the Red Cross Army that wages
Its splendid fight against pain and
death behind the battle lines. Enlist
your dollars to fight under the Reti
Cross banner. you who would staunch
the wounds OF those who battle to
bring peace and safety to you and
yours ans your home land and to the
world. FOR thus Is the Great AmeTl-
can Dollar ennobledi
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20

w J HEN l left for Europe few
A months ago had no cast
f" iron reverence for the Red
Cross. When returned
from Europe brought home with me
unbounded belief in the organization.
had seen enough to make me realize
that this was the best method Of sery-
ing the soldiers and sailors. We are
waging an economic war. Therefore
the surest and most effective way to
help is through the established chan
nels selected for that purpose by the
government
The main work of the American Red
Cross. however, is, of course, carried
on In France. The policy of those
heading this work is to back up the
French in their own efforts and to
help them develop along their own
lines, not to root out French institu-
lions and transplant American ones.
Whether we work. then, in canteens,
in warehouses. In dispensaries, for
poilus or for refugees, in Paris or In
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-20
A MESSAGE FROM FRANCE
Spirit of This War Pictured BY French Schoolgirl
in Letter Receiued BY John III Finley.


IL universities
Education President
which he visited last May
which
brings America and France together.
"H only little riDer almost brook; called the
Yer One could talk from side the other Without raising
ones and the birds could fly Nth
uOgs And the banks there millions Of the
turned oward the other But the distance Which
them than the the
Which right from Injustice @s.7a s.4gF
"7he that the gus do dare
During days and nights the steamships Of America,
going full speed driUe through the deep before the light
houses of France into Uiew but side the
hearts touching. !" <.t& l84l E}~ESh% .l.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
D BOY,
FRANK DELMU$,
KNOWN HERE AS
'NCH|Ck', WOUNDED
IN France

A member of Company D appears
On today's casualty list--Frank Del
mus, better known as Chick" The
information is that he has been
wounded, degree undetermined.
Chick was member of the Lake
land Fire Department, and wherever
duty called or danger awaited, there
could he be found. His fearlessness
and bravery was carried to the battle
field, and we know that he fought no
bly, and we'll there, and his many
Lakeland friends trust he will soon
recover and again be giving the Huns
what is coming to them. Below Will
be found the report of today's casual
ties, in which appears his name:
Washington, Sept. 3.-The follow
ing casualties are reported by the
commanding general of the American
expeditionary forces with total Of
S34 names:
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
ARRIVAL OF AMERICAN
TROOPS In FRANCE, NO. Z
(By Associated Press.)

American Port, Western France,
Sept. 3.-There is the crash and bang
OF a great cannonade, like a battery
of trench mortars In action. But this
Is not the cannonade of the battle
front one hears here, but another kind
of cannonade, almost as fierce and
ear-splitting, of trip-hammers, giant
sledges and electric rivetters in the
gigantic American construction camp
which has suddenly sprung into exist
ence here.
Standing in the vast workshops,
about the dimensions of the capitol
in Washington, with the throb of a
great work going on inside and miles
of activity stretching away outside in
railway yards, warehouses, docks and
camps, one feels this is after all
quite an essential a part in the win
ming of the war as the struggle going
on further forward, for here is the
very fountain head of material for
winning the war. There are great
800 miIlimetre cannon like the 12-inch
monsters on American battleships,
with all their ponderous mountings
and trucks, huge cotton locomotives
which are turned out with the incred-
ible speedcof six to ten day, exceed
ing the output Of the great establish
ments in America, and fiat cars,
freight cars, box cars, tank cars, and
all the other forms of railway trans
portation turned out by scores and
hundreds daily as a baker turns out
cakes from his ovens.
What has been most astonishing to
the European observer is that all this
vast storehouse of American energy
and production could be created in a
few months out of practically nothing.
Last fall the site of this present plant
was a vast marsh with the sea water
over it at high tide. It was neces-
sary first to raise the level of the
ground five to nine feet. This was
a huge engineering undertaking in It,
self. When it was done, instead Of
marsh with the sea tapping Il, the
astonished townspeople saw a high
and level plane adjacent to the city,
with big ocean piers beginning to
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
ENEMY HAS NOT
TRIED 70 RETAKE
the DR0C0URT-
QUfANT LINE
BESIDES LENS, BRITISH HAVE
TAKEN TOWN OF QUENT AND
MANY OTHER IMPORTANT VII.
LAGES
(By Associated Press.)

London, Sept. 3.-1:00 p. m. y
The British have captured the city of
Liens. The town OF Quent has also
been taken. The British moved into
Lens as the Germans evacuated the
city. In the push behind the Drocourt-
Queant line the British advanced to a
point just west of Buissy, two and a
half miles northeast of Queant, and
occupied Pronville, mile and a half
southeast of Queant. More than ten
thousand prisoners were taken yester-
day, and more were added to the
catch this morning. The British also
held Doignies, Velu, BertincOurt and
Rocquigny, representing an advance
to maximum depth Of four miles on
twenty-mile front effected this
morning. In Flanders the British
captured Wulvershen, two miles
southeast of KENNEL. Contrary to ex-
pectations the enemy has not reacted
strongly with a view to the recapture
of the Drocourt-Queant line.
The British found Doignies and
Velu unoccupied. The situation on
the southern part of the battlefield is
said to be extremely interesting, but
nothing more can be said at present.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
WOMEN ARE CANDIDATES
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
OF NEW YORK TODAY

New York, Sept. 3.-For tho first
time in the history of New York
State women will figure at the prim-
aries today as candidates for politi-
cal Office. From present indications
at least one woman will be elected to
the State Senate from the Twenty
third District, where Mary G., Brewer
Of al Hamilton Avenue, Richmond,
and Helen F. McKelvey of Monsey,
N. Y, are contesting the nomination
for State Senator on the Republican
ticket, with no male interference, and
with extreme likelihood that the Re.
publican vote will be strong enough
to elect either The district takes
in Staten Island and Rockland Coun-
ty.
Mrs. Brewer has been very prom
inent as a suffrage worker. She Is
a graduate of Wellesley College and
has been exceedingly active In the
fight which preceded the passage Of
tho suffrage amendment. Ever
since the war began she has been
an active worker for the Woman's
Over Seas Hospital, making tour
of the State for the collection Of
funds in behalf of that enterprise
Mrs. Clara A. Rodger of STA
1920 Street, in Queens, will be can
didate on the Republican ticket for
County Clerk. She is the wife of DR..
David Rodger and Borough Chair
man of the Woman Suffrage Party
of Queens. She ran its campaign so
successfully In Queens that she car
ried every Assembly district for the
suffrage amendment last Fall. Mrs.
Rodger has also been active in the
Liberty Loan and Red Cross cam
paigns.
Mrs. Sadie Kost of 472 East 134th
Street enters the primaries for the
Republican nomination to Congress
from the Twenty-second Congression-
al District. Although not generally
known as. a suffrage leader, Mrs.
Kost has done considerable local
work within her district. Anthony
]. Griffin, Democrat is the present
member and the district is heavily
Democratic
On the Socialist ticket in the State
seventeen women will enter tho pri-
maries, on the Dmocratic ticket, IL;
on the Republican ticket, eight, and
on the Prohibition ticket three. No
women appear on the Democratic
ticket in those districts that are
certain to go Democratic.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
POPULAR IDEA OF
PERISCOPE is INCORRECT;
is VERY SMALL INSTRUMENT

An Irish Port, Sept. 3.-If the pop
ular conception Of the perscope and
the manner in which it is brought to
the surface and lowered, were accur-
! ate, chasing submarines would be a
much easier task than American de-
stroyer commanders have laid out fol-
them. They do not see a pipe four
or five inches in diameter with lenses
al the top swishing through the wa
ter or disappearing during the rather
slow process of submerging a U-boat
Instead, they see, il they are for
tunate enough, a slender pipe not
more than one and one-half inches in
diameter shoot up above the surface
land disappear within few seconds
1t is the telescope peroscope that
may be operated from a depth of sew
eral feet. All underwater craft now
are equipped with them rather than
the old type which, through photo
graphs and drawings, has been i'm
pressed upon many people.
The operation Of the periscope is
controlled to large extent by very
delicate instrument which denotes to
the U-boat commander the condition
of the sea at the surface. II 1t is
comparatively smooth which euhanc-
es the danger of detection he need
raise the periscope only few inches
above the surface. If 1t is rough he
must raise the "eye" higher but he
really Is in not as great danger as il
the water was calm because ii is diff
lfcult for an observer on another ship
to see the small instrument in a
heavy sea.
The instrument is controlled by wa
ter pressure which varies with the
height and violence of the waves and
shows surface conditions on an in
dicator in the ship.
In one successful fight with U-boat
H. was estimated that the periscope
was visible less than ten seconds. It
came up very close to a destroyer,
doubtless a great deal closer than the
submarine commander had reckoned,
and when he realized his peril he at
tempted to scurry away. But depth
charge was dropped and German sub
marine power decreased by one boat
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
$l,7l4,0O0,OO0 Was
War Expenditure OF The
United States During August

stretch out seaward for the incoming
migration Of American men and ma.
terials. Soon thereafter rose like
magic the huge buildings to carry OF
the infinite diversity of activities OIL
this hive of war industry.
Under the escort of Baron Dornes
lone Of the chief French officials con.
nected with the institution the Associ.
ated Press correspondent had an op.
portunity today to see the huge en-.
terprise in full swing. It was like
going through the Bethlehem or Car
negie works, with the same roar oi
production on giant scale, with fur.
naces glowing, hammers and riveters
beating, and armies of workmen-en-
listed American soldiers In their blue
| jeans and overalls-in their many
branches of work. Inside the main
building was like being inside the
Pennsylvania railway station in New
York, enlarged several times over.
There are 1,400 men at work here,
explained the Baron, "all of them
lskilled American mechanics enlisted
as soldiers, working in three shifts
continuously for "a hours"
To the left big trench mortars
weighing a hundred tons each were
being picked up by the giant fingers
of a derrick and landed on their train
of trucks ready to be moved forward
to the front. To the right another
huge crane was bodily picking up a
locomotive and passing it around to
its proper place. These locomotives
come from the United States in parts
packed in crates. Looking at the long
rows Of these giant crates, they
seemed to be streets of cottages OF
shacks, and one wondered how they
could ever be brought across the
ocean with all the shifts and storing
between docks.
We watched one of these locomo-
tives as it was taken from its seven
giant boxes, and gradually grew into
a massive engine Soon thereafter
this locomotive was moving through
the yards on its own steam, and soon
after that it was on its way to re-
equip the State Railway of France,
which is one Of the vital links OF the
war game. First of all the American
double track road up to the front was
eunipped, and then the French state
railway took its turn. for they are all
part of the network of feeders for
the Allied war service.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
CzECHO-SlOVAKS
RECOGNIZED BY
j. 5. AS Enemies
Of GERMANY
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, Sept. 3.-The United
States has recognized the Czecho-
Slovak peoples as co-belligerent ma
tion in the war against Germany and
Austro-Hungary. Professor T.. G..
Masaryk, president Of the Czecho- -Slo'
yak National Council, commander in
chief Of the Czecho-Slovak armies
fighting with Russia, France and Italy
met Secretary Lansing Of the State
Department at noon today, and was
formally notified Of the Presidents
action.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

The campaign for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan begins Sept 2S and closes
Oct. 10. While the amount has not
yet been announced, 1t is generally
conceded 1t will be for a larger
amount than any Of the preceding
loans. The American people, there
fore, are called upon to raise larger
sum of money in a shorter length of
time than ever before. There is need,
therefore, for prompt action-prompt
and efficient work and prompt and
liberal subscriptions
We have great inspiration for d
great effort. The news from the bat
tile front inspires every American
heart, not only with pride and pa
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03

of the Berlin vorwaerts to have ap-
,,;od the method to the defensive
6ghting just before the great Allied
offensive began at he Marne salient
in July. -,
The method is described as a WIN
drawal Of troops from the first line
and n,acing the main force on the
.ooo,d line This weakened the ef'
fort os the German artillery.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
Many villages Taken
(By Associated Press.)

With the British Army in France,
Sept. 3.A(12:3O 3 p. m.)-In the heavy
lighting last night beyond the Dro-
Court-Queant line, the British are re-
ported to have made further progress
on front of thirteen thousand yards.
The villages of saudemont and Res
court, more than a mile and hall
beyond Dury, are reported to have
been taken. Etaing, Villers-Les- Gag
nicourt were taken late yesterday
As far as is learned no organized
counter-attacks have been developed
by the Germans. The British today
advanced we'll to the east of Paronne'
making steady progress.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03

Army
Killed in Action-Private Howard j
Sands. next Of kin McGregory SANDS
West.
Died of Disease-Private Benjamin
Small next of kin Mrs. I. Henderson
Jacksonville.
Wounded. Degree Undetermined
Private Willie l. Benson, next OF KID
r. A. Hendrix, Cantonment; Private
Frank DeImus, next of kin Mrs. F,
Delmus. Key West; Freddie R. Wal
,oco next of kin Sylvanis Wallace,
Pensacola.
Missing in Action-Private Bert
Higginbotham, next OF kin E. Higgins
botham, Arcadia.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03

BY nine O'Clock the next morning,
two trains had been derailed, one am
munition train was on fire and still
exploding, and two railway stations
lay In ruins. The infantry, thanks,
in part. to the work of the airmen in
hampering the movements of the
German reserves, had advanced q
mile on ten-mile front.
The official aviation report for the
day said: zone of our machines is
missing; two German machines were
destroyed.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
A DAYS WORK IN
THE BATTLE ZONE

An A merican Aerodrame Some
where in France, Sept. 3.-Twelve pi-
lots stood in a semi-circle around q
desk on which was spread a large
map.
"The push starts tomorrow" said
the Colonel. I'VE have allotted to
us this zone 1t is our job to wreck
stations, trains and bridges in there"
The pilots saluted and filed out.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
(By Associated Press.)

Washington, Sept. Government
war expenditures in August broke all
monthly records by more than one
hundred millions, amounting to ST.
714,000,000, on reports today. Later
reports may raise this by fifty mil.
lions.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
COTTON ADVANCES
$ll PER BALE
(By Associated Press. J

New York, Sept. 3.-The govern
ment cotton report was considered
sensationally bullish and caused a
swift advance Of approximately $11
bale in the price of futures, as com
pared with the closing quotations on
Friday.
The advance continued until some
positions, notably October has risen
260 points or $13