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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
Skate Once In a While.

War department proposes to pro-
vide skating ponds for soldiers. A
little skate on, now and then, is rel
ished by the best of men.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
Golfer Is Made Corporal.

Tom Stevens, winner of the Mime
sofa open golf title last September
who was called into the National army
has been promoted 10 corporal.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
Bush as a Marksman.

Bullet Joe Bush has developed into
a trapshoOter. 1t isn't stated whether
he uses ordinary shells or just base
balls.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
MAND0T HAS Different IDEA
Former Crack Lightweight Boxer Has
System DissiniIa- to Other Army
Instructors.

Joe Mandot, former crack light
weight boxer, now teaching boxing to
Ohio boys Mt Camp Sheridan, Is adopt
ing different system Of teaching from
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
Costly CHANGE for preyfuss.

Barney Dreyfuss, II is said has lost
100000 since he allowed Fred Clarke
to give up the management of the Pk
rates.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12
U, s. Favors Trap Shooting.

The government has made arrange
ments to have trapshooting taken VI
at the various environments and avia
ton schools.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-12

Major leaguers, now unattached
who have gone to the front: Al Won
KOlnitz, Moose Mccormick, Sammy
Strang, Bill OHaro, Eddie Grant and
Steve Royce.
The sun., 1918-07-21
"Interned in Germany"

HE mind rebels al attempting to con-
L eeive of circumstances where one
would experience a sense of loss at being
turned out of a vacant horse stall, lately
occupied by its rightful owners; but this
is what 81. {. Mahoney felt when, on
his first night at the notorious Ruhleben
internment camp, he was sent TO loft
above TO sleep, in company with 400 un-
fortunates, on stone floor sparsely COW
cred by straw. And when you are told
that the favored ones who secured the
horse stall paid no less than Is for the
privilege you begin TO have some idea of
5000 prisoners have been and still are
suffering in addition TO the inevitable I'M
happiness of being separated from their
families and friends
Mr. Mahoney writes as one having au-
thority, after sixteen months spent in
four German prisons, Wesel, Sennelager,
Klingelager and finally Ruhleben. A
record of his experiences was published
year ago, and Interned in Germany comes
as its sequel. He has followed the efforts
of the prisoners after those first moments
of black despair when nothing seemed
worth doing, from game but feeble be
ginnings, TO the point when everything
reached degree of organization which
must have astounded even the German
guards who watched developments.
What has been accomplished is doubly
astonishing when the underfeeding and
lack of sanitary improvements are taken
into account Less than third of loaf
of the poorest black bread, one bowl of
soup and two cups Of acorn coffee con-
stituted the fare for the day, after night
OF miserable hardship, but the sporting
blood of the men overcame even acute
physical suffering. A few months saw
churches. theatres, stores. banks and
vast improvement in the sanitary condi-
tions well under way. followed by a
steadily increasing list of additions TO
the welfare Of the prisoners, due to their
own efforts, furthered by those of the
American Ambassador in some cases
A German internment camp would he
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lied in fact, waiting but for orders from
Berlin
Mr.. Gardiner diseourages any hope for
a revolution from within the German
Empire and declares that the utterances
Of the pseudo pacifsts, as exemphfed by
Scheidemann and Harden, are part Of the
inspired political propaganda from Great
General Headquarters.
"There is but one solution to the awful
problem which confronts us. Regardless
Of the cost in men and treasure this war
must 60 on and on until through victory
we can so dictate the terms Of peace that
Germany cannot fight again" We must
remember, Mr.. Gardiner insists, that Ger
many has never waged war for any
cause but profit. Never has she been
stirred to fight for national standards or
national ideals-because the only ideal
Germany possesses is profit. Germany is
the tabernacle of materialism, and the
Kaiser is its high priest. Germany repre-
sents not a powerful growth but steady
aecretion formed by preying on neighbour
ing States"
GERMAN PLANS FOR THE NEXT WAR
BY J. B. W. GARDINER Doubleday, Page
& Co. 81.
The sun., 1918-07-21
IS. 0. S. StandTo!"

IT is thrilling narrative which Seq
geant Reginald Grant of the First
Canadian Contingent relates in S. o, S.
Stand To! He gives his experiences dur
ing three years under fire in the front
line trenches. Serving in the artillery
branch of Canada's oversee forces Ser
geant Grant was in the second and third
battles of Ypres, at Givenehy, Sanctuary
Woods, the Somme and Vimy Ridge.
There is fighting or adventurous incl
dent on every page, for the author de.
votes little space to the routine of camp
life He heads us straight for the firing
line and keeps us there. The author was
detailed to the Sacrifice Battery, where
the casualties are greater than in any
other unit of the fighting machine, and
yet after serving in this branch of the
service nearly q score of times Sergeant
Grant had only disloeation and little
gassing to show for it. But time after
time he saw members of his gun crew
blown to pieces before his eyes. He es-
capped always by what his Major charac-
terized as damned horseshoe luck"
The book has plenty of incidents of hu-
NOR and pathos 1t records the audacity Of
German spies who walked leisurely around
in the front line trenches in the uniforms
of British officers during the first stages
of the war. Sergeant Grant was a wit
ness of the barbarous cruelty which the
Germans employed when it served their
purpose, and effectively contrasts it with
British methods.
S. o. S. STAND TO, By SERGEANT REar.
NALD GRANT. ID. Appleton & Co. $3.50.
The sun., 1918-07-21

the last place that one would expect to
contain pro-Germans, but several of the
most interesting chapters of this book are
devoted to a split in the camp resulting
from the openly expressed German sym
pathy of several hundred Of the prison
ers. Their celebrations after German
victories, particularly after the sinking of
the Lusitania, and the fact that they ac-
cepted eagerly money contributed ia
Britain for the needy at the camp, and
that many of their number were among
the first to be exchanged for German
prisoners in England, all served to anger
the loyal members Of the camp to the
point of frenzy.
The end of the book is disappointing
because, for some reason which he neglects
TO make clear, MIR. Mahoney fails to tell
the details of how. he managed to get out
of the prison. There are hints at "a deep
game Setting project in motion"
and various other expressions sim
ilarly vague; but no statement is
made as to, why the authorities
placed his name on the list of exchange
prisoners after he had been accused of
being spy and meyer acquitted, though
not pronounced actually guilty. This will
have 10 wait with those hundreds of Sc
crets until the war is over, but we would
have liked better explanation of just
why it couldn't be told US now.
INTERNED IN GERMANY By Fl. c.
MAHoNEY. Robert NJ Mcbride & Co. 81.
The sun., 1918-07-21
"The Fighting Engineers"

THE great war differs from all other
l. wars, says Francis A. Collins in
The Fighting Engineers. in that it is "pre-
eminently conflict of engineers. A loco
motive may prove more deadly than a
battery, while the building of a bridge
may decide the issue of q campaign"
The exploits of American engineers in
the first year of their participation in
the war are presented by Mr.. Collins
clearly and eomprehensively, and in a
manner which is fascinating and thrilling
10 degree and surprising in a work of
SO much technical significance.
At the time this book was written an
army Of $4,000 trained workers had been
recruited for the great engineering tasks
which lay ahead in road construction;
railroad and bridge building, quarrying
and numbering.
Perhaps the most noteworthy piece of
constructive engineering that has been
performed by American engineers was in
the British advance at Cambria, when
American engineers quickly extended
their tracks far behind the enemy trenches.
In the forward rush they suddenly came
upon q German railroad that had been
left untouched in the panic Of retreat.
The challenge was instantly accepted by
the Americans, who connected their own
line with the German system, building the
first connecting link in the service be-
tween Berlin and Paris sineethe outbreak
of the war, although the schedule of trains
remains 10 be adjusted"
The engineers job, Mr.. Collins assures
us, lis by no means bulletproof' one
Their work at the front is fully as haz-
ardous as the work of the artillery arm
known as the suicide battalion where cas-
ualties run higher than in the aviation
corps. when other troops cross an ex-
posed position, for instance, they usually
do so at the double quick and seek shelter
as soon as possible The engineers often
find themselves under fire at time when
they must stick 10 their work until it is
finished
THE FIGHTING ENGINEERS BY
FRANCIS A. COLLINS. The Century Com
pany. $l.30.
The sun., 1918-07-21
The Social Side
of Soldering

I p to the time our army went to the
~ Mexican border in 1916 there
never had been organized effort in this
country TO look after the moral and physi-
cal welfare of our troops in the field. In
all our previous wars, except for the
generally unsatisfactory efforts of the
Sanitary Commission in the civil war,
soldiers were supposed to 90 into camp
and from thence to the battlefield without
any provision being made for their moral
welfare or their amusement except such
efforts along these lines as could be made
by the few chaplains who had nothing but
their individual force behind them. Sol
dlers lived hard and died hard They
fought the civl war on "whiskey and
The sun., 1918-07-21
German Plans
for the Next War"

CIT HE new Germany" according TO
L J. B. w. Gardiner, in German
Plans for the Vert War. came into exist
enee under the guidance of Bismarck.
He saw as an end only the agrandize
ment of Germany. He saw in the United
States only a step by which Germany
might rise to still greater power. Amer
lean wealth was to him part of the poten-
tial wealth of Germany. which when the
time was ripe she would reach out her
hand and take. His whole philosophy
about America was summed up in his re-
mark that the United States was fat
hog waiting to be stuck"
That Germany has BY no means aban-
doned her plans for the sticking of the
fiat hog Dir. Gardiner gives US timely
warning. and submits evidence of the sys-
tematie devastation and removal Of the
economic machinery from the occupied
territories, the removal of civilian and
war prisoners hundreds of miles from
their home frontiers. with the object Of
preventing them from making their way
back after the war. Mr.. Gardiner warns
especially of the German menace In South
America, where there are hundreds of
thousands of armed and highly organized
German settlers. These numbers are not
scattered over the various States, be it re-
membered; they are concentrated, mobii-
The sun., 1918-07-21
"The First Shot
for Liberty"

nF the many tales which have been
" told Of soldiers personal reaction
to the war, Corporal Osborne De yarila's
The First Shot for Liberty is unique in
its viewpoint. In the first place we have
tale told by lad in his teens, in which
Is embodied an account of the firing of the
shot, as historic in its significance and as
far reaching in its reverberations rs the
one fired by the embattled farmers at
lexington. This war, we have been told
repeatedly, is war of young men, and
here we have an account of it written
by boy in manner which will appeal
to young boys and old boys.
1t was big moment of history when
thus young artilleryman jerked the lanyard
of the French IS which was to fire the
first shot for liberty, and Corporal De
Varila tells about it with a youthful ex-
ubcrance that is refreshing, and without
the least affectation of modesty. He did
it, Is mighty proud that the honor should
have fallen to him, and is not one whit
ashamed to adEit it,
On both sides Corporal De Varila can
show records Of fighting ancestry His
grandfather on his fathers side tonight
with Stonewall Jackson, and his mothers
father served the Union under Grant.
Young De Varila's father was an Indian
fighter. and as a United States cavalry
scout helped TO round up the Apaches in
Arizona. The Indians dubbed him Red
the Brave. Every one of the fighting De
Varilas had freckles as well as red hair
"God bless them ALL says this young De
Narila, who is likewise topped and
speckied like trout.
In his breezy chronicle Corporal De
Varila begins with his enlistment at the
age Of Is. and describes life in a Western
trimming camp, the passage over the water
with Pershings army, the finishing touches
in the French camps, life in the trenches
and deeds of daring and tragic happen
ings on the firing line. He exhibits humor
and gift for adventurous anecdote The
story is worth reading. and will send the
red blood tingling through the veins of
every American boy who can lay hold of
the book
THE FIRST SHOT FOR LIBERTY. By
CORPORAL OSBORNE DE yARILA. The John
{. Winston Company. $l.25.
The sun., 1918-07-21

Major Ian Hay Beth, author of The
First Hundred Thousand and Al In IL,
who has returned to England, had an
amusing experience on his war lecture
tour last winter when he entered a bar
ber's shop in a small town to have his
hair cut.
stranger in town, sirf" the barber
asked.
The Major replied that he was, and
asked. "Is there anything going on here
tonight"
The barber replied. "There's a war lee
ture by an English fighter named Hay,
but if You 60 you'll have to stand, for
every seat in the hall is sold out
Really now" said Major Beth, "pro-
voking isn't itf It's always my beastiy
luck 10 have TO stand when that chap Hay
lectures
The sun., 1918-07-21
A New Drive to Cross the Readers Marine

bacon" as the editor Of the Infantry
Journal boosted not long ago. And only
very small minority of military men
nowadays think they were the better SOL
diers for it.
But the work of the Y. N. c. A. and
the Knights of Columbus with the troops
on the Mexican border in 1916 brought
about marked change in our Govern
ment's attitude toward the soldier. As
matter Of fact these organizations we're
applying on land what far seeing United
States Navy officers had been applying at
the naval training stations and on the
ships of the feet for some years. Navy
officers were the first to realize that all
work and drill could make Jack a dull
boy; and few civilian friends Of the Of
fcers and men of the Regular Army had
been trying for years to provide the SOL
diers at our army posts with facilities for
healthful recreation. But now all that is
changed. Under the initiative of Secre
tary Baker, backed up by Secretary
Daniels and President Wilson, there were
created the War and Navy departments
commissions on training camp activi-
ties for the purpose of seeing that our
fighting men in the army >and navy
should have wholesome and varied recrea-
tions and opportunities for self-improve
nent to aid in ''baek firing" the insidious,
evil elements always working to profit by
the weaknesses Of men. never SO pro1e1O
spring into active being as when sepa-
rated from their ordinary environments.
Just what those dual commissions have
done toward this end is fully and admir-
ably set forth in the pages of Keeping
Our Fighters Fit, by Edward Frank AL
len. The text, which was written under
the supervision of Raymond d. Fosdick,
chairman Of the dual commission, with a
special statement by the President, is
really an informal report" on what has
been accomplished by all the organiza
lions working under the direction of Mr..
Fosdick's commissions. 1t describes Club
Life an the Cantonments, Athletics, The
Fighters Who Sing, which tells of the
musical activities of the services: Host
esses' Houses, The Post Erchdnge-mili-
tary for camp department store: and
E.d,tcGt ional Work IN Camp among other
topics. If there are any fathers and
mothers "back home" who doubt that
their bows are well looked after in our
army and navy in so far as their morals
and pleasures and education are con-
cerned this book will cure that unhappy
idea. Its pages make most inspirlting
reading. And if there are still some re-
calcitrant souls who believe that soldiers
in particular are better fighters without
such "softening" THAT is their word in
huences we will suggest a certain cure for
their moral myopia. 1t is to read the
chapters in Upton's Military Policy Of the
United States devoted to the first years of
the Revolution. the War of 1872 and the
civil war, and contrast the behavior OF
the American soldiers of those days with
The men of to-day.
KEEPING OUR FIGHTERS FIT. By Ed
WARD FRANK ALLEN. The Century Com
many Al 81
The sun., 1918-07-21

We have canned our strawbcrries and
cherries, but we have yet to can the
Kaiser, so We shall consult instantly a
copy of Home Canning. Preserving and
Drying by A. Louise Andrea, which has
Just invaded the Office.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17

pany against D. l.. Morrison. a mining
engineer. in which the validity of a
certain contract will be adtudicated.
Judge Cooper was accompanied by his
c'erk and reporter. c. Arthur Fred
rickson. On the same train for the
same destination were Judge J. G..
Schweigert of Denver and Geo. H.
Wilkes of Florence. Judge Schweig-
ert came down from Denver last Sat
urday and remained here over Sunday
for the purpose of renewing associa-
tions with his Canon City friends.
DIR. DUNCAN AT UNIVERSITY
CLUB TONIGHT.
DR.. David Shaw Duncan of Denver
University who will be the principal
speaker at the University Club dinner
at the Strathmore this evening. ar.
rived in Canon City this afternoon
He spoke before both Canon City and
South Canon High schools at special
Chapel periods.
Dr. Duncan is an authority on the
history of the World War and no
doubt will tell the club members some
interesting facts tonight.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17

changed conditions very cheerfully.
Only one pound of sugar is allowed
each family per week and coal is very
scarce. altho Nanticoke Is close 20 tie
coal fields.
DIED AT coALDALE WEDNESDAY.
A telephone message was received
here this morning from Miss Martha
Philips at Coaldale announcing the
death there on Wednesday of Miss
Mary Pauline Zdenic from uremic
poisoning. The deceased was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Zdenic and was aged % years, 5
months and days. She was young
woman of admirable traits and char
acteristics and was highly esteemed
by all who knew her.
The funeral will take place from
Coaldale at O'Clock Friday afternoon
and win be conducted by Rev. Elmer
w. Harner. pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church of this city.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17
Wounded Soldiers Will
Hear of Canon City

Did you ever see anything like in
your iifeg
Ask the people OF this community to
do something along war lines and sec
the spirit they manifest. They don't
do II by quarters or halves. they go
the limit and then double that When
we received word from Mrs. Good'oe
that Evacuation Hospital No. would
he In need OF Treasure Bags 10 hold
the effects OF the wounded soldiers.
we appealed to the !oyaj women TO
make them.
was asked how many We ought TO
send. I thought 1t beat to set a high
mark and stated we ought to have
one thousand. Here and there little
groups of women got together and
formed Sewing bees" or something
of that sort and got busy. What was
the result? Well. guess. You cou-d
not do IL. They are still coming in
today and SO fast can hardly keep
track of them but the count shows
that we have not only enough to make
the one thousand. but there will be
more than eighteen hundred of these
bags that will go to our Boys "over
There"
Such loyalty and patriotism makes
you feel proud OF Canon City and it's
people. II is no use for me to say
Thank You" Our boys on the field
will say God Bless them
e. A. BRADBURY.
Secretary Chamber OF Commerce.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17
MARRIED eY REV. EtsEA
TUESDAY EVENING.

Miss Nellie M. Howell and Karl l..
Meiggs. both OF this city. were quiet.
ly MAJ ried by Rev. d. J. Elsea, pastor
Of the First Christian church. at the
parsonage, I'LL Greenwood avenue. at
7.30 Tuesday evening in the presence
of few intimate friends. The bride
was attended by Mrs. l.. G. Bogardus
and daughter, Miss Pearl. OF 1913 River
street. AT whose home she bad been
staying since her arrival In Canon City
In June OF last year. The bride lie an
accomplished and attractive young
woman and has made many friends
during her sojourn In this commun-
~ She is a member OF the Christian
church and came here from southern
Illinois.
The groom Ia a successful and pros.
porous young rancher on East Grand
avenue. Lincoln Park. and commands
the respect and esteem OF his neigh.
bors and OF the public generally. Mr,
and Mrs. Melggs have already gone
to housekeeping on Lincoln park.
where an attractive home was await
ing them at the time Of their marriage.
Their friends unite In congratulations
and best wishes for happy welded
life
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17
Walter Kearney
making Good

In the course Of an interesting let
ter dealing with the welfare Of "the
boys In khaki" at Linda Vista. Call.
fornia. published In the Denver Post
on Tuesday OF this week. ia the fol.
lowing complimentary reference VI
one OF Canon City's contributions to
the National army:
Camp Kearney has become the fit
ting residence Of, Walter Kearney
regimentaI supply seageant for the
One Hundred and Fifteenth supply
train. Among other duties. Sergeant
Kearney is handling the postofYice
for the One Hundred and Fifteenth
He was ono OF the instigators' Of the
Second Colorado infantry, the only
regiment organized wholly of volun
teers since the outbreak OF war. A
few months ago the Second Colorado
was turned into supply and ainmu
milton trains"
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-17
Snowfall in
December was
Unusually Light

The monthly bulletin OF the climatic
logical division Of the weather bureau.
recently issued by the Department of
Agriculture. shows that the snowfall
in the mountains Of Colorado was CON
siderably less than normal for that
month. II says:
December was drier than common.
and the prevailing mild temperatures
and bright sunshine have not been
conducive to the conservation of the
snow that feils The deficiency, which
was marked In the plains counties.
was fully as marked in the high noun
tains with the greatest deficiencies
in the southern half of the state-Ar-
kansas. Rio Grande. Gunnison and San
Juan watersheds. 1t is reported from
the northern part of Gunnison county
that the lack of snow is unprecedented
and from the western part of Chaffee
county that the amour. of snow is
the least in Sc years. From the reg
ular observation stations in the noun
tains. more than the normal precipi-
tation for December is reported only
from the eastern part OF Routt coun-
ty. the western part of Boulder county
and the northern part OF Lake county.
At the close OF December the av-
erage depth OF snow. with its water
content. on the different watersheds.
was as follows: South Platte. Z
inches and o9o: North Platte. inches
and 1 "a: Arkansas. I inches and 0.67;
Rio Grande. inch and 0.15: Grand.
L. inches ard Isl: Gunnison. in.
and 0.39: Yampa and White. i2 in.
and 1.55: San Juan and Colorado. I
inch and 0.07.
The water content a year ago was
as follows: South Platte. 1913; North
Platte. 4.51: Arkansas. 1872; Rio
Grande. 1.50; Grand. 3.79: Gunnison.
344: Yampa and white. 4.3o; San
Juan and Colorado, 1913 inches"