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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
FRENCH CEMETERY
TELLS WAR TALE

'Pauvres garcons, lis sont venus de
81 loinr
Il couldn't help it, went up to her
and shook her by the hand and
thanked her in the names of those
sleeping there and in the name of THEM
mothers and sisters and sweethearts
back home. If knew where to write,
would write to those % mothers and
tell them that their boys are being
well looked after.
Before l could say anything more
to the woman she was gone. She said
she must keep one bunch of flowers
for her mari over yonder on the other
side of the path. There were the ser
ried ranks of the French, on our side
Of the path only one little row, and
then off in a far corner away from
everything else little group of Ger
man graves, hid anong a cIump of
trees as If shrinking from the advance
ing hordes of French and their new
allies from across the sea. 1t all SYM
bolized so well the two armies, the
French and the American, one great,
the other small but growing, standing
side by side against the Boches who
lay in the corner against the stone
wall
I'm the upper part of. the cemetery
was group of workmen digging
They had been digging all day long
and for many days, for there were
many rows of graves yet untitled.
There must be room for those yet to
come.
Supplies for the Front.
Along the railroad that runs past
the cemetery train after train passes,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09

los.ded with supplies and nnnitions
End men. going up toward the front.
Could those sleeping here but know
/. i'll Gould they but know that France,
as ever since those terrible days Of
1914. is standing fast, holding the en-
envy at bay, and bearing the brunt Of
this terrific struggled They must
know it, for they all sleep so peace
fully. Their part Is done They have
given everything they had TO give and
unbegrudgingly. For them the distant
rumble of the cannon has no mIsgiv-
ings, for they sleep secure in the be-
lief that victory some day will be ours.
Sleep on, comrades-for / am, priv.
LEGGED to call you comrades your
work is over. You have well earned
your rest. Those of us who are left
will carry on the work you so well be-
gan.
"Just as left the gate, turning
homeward, a strange procession APP
peared down the lane, and l stopped 10
let it pass-a huge canton, painted
war gray, followed by eight grizzled
territorials, their rifles slung over their
shoulders poilu fashion. They were
dirty, unshaven, and their uniforms
faded and torn, Sut, OH so typical of
France, torn and wracked by -four
long years of war. On the truck was
painted the word Munitions 1t was
not mislabeled for 1t carried cannon
fodder that had served it's purpose,
and had beet used up In the struggle
Il came stuickly to attention AID sas
luted II is Il custom of the country.
often done without thought or feeling.
but this time my soul was in it. was
proud to thus render homage to one
poor common soldier as he passed on
his last, long march.
"Open wide the gates and give the
newcomer room Give him COM
Portable place in that furthest row, for
he must have rest and peace. The
leaves in the trees rustled, the torn
and faded flags fluttered and the tin.
tricolor cockades on each cross tinkled
thus was the newcomer welcomed
into his last earthly home"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
GET GOOD MEAL
FOR IA CENTS

beef, potatoes, buttered beets, currant
pudding. bread, tea or coffee. The
soups are not the dishwater type,
either, but of good stock. An Eagle
Hut shilling supper provides the
American fighter with meat pie con-
taining more meat than crust, or sau1
sage, potatoes. jelly, bread and butter,
cake and tea or coffee. Commercial
eating places charge two or three
times this amount, often as high as S5
cents, within governmental restric-
tons.
Variety to Choose From.
The American soldier or sailor also
can choose from extra dishes at equal
ly low prices. a choice of fish, pie, eggs
prepared in various ways, baked beans.
salads, fried onions, rice-and-marma-
lade. custards, jellies and other sweets
which are strangers to camp mess.
The prices charged at the Eagle Hut
are from two to six cents less than
the ordinary restaurant prices. In adj
dition, this is the one place where the
American boys can get that most typ
ical home delicaey, American pancakes
with maple strip, which the king and
queen sampled recently. Twelve
cents buys a brace of cakes with ma
pie strip, and the first half-montb's de
mand for this favorite totaled one or
more helpings for 6.124 men.
It is no wonder then that Eagle Hut
feeds between 1000 and $500 Ameri-
can fighters daily, and that the noon
hour is continuous rush which taxes
to the uttermost the efforts of the
mattresses, all women who volunteer
their services and minister with smIl-
ing patience and friendliness to the
appreciative lads from the United
States.
Eagle Hut dispenses other commodi-
ties, tobacco and candy topping the
list of favorites. A few Americans.
forgetting the many advantages and
economies found at the Hut, have COM
planned that their favorite br nds OF
American tobacco. If at all obhinable.
cost them more than 1t did at home.
They did not know that there is a
high import duty on cigarettes and
prepared tobacco for pipes and 'mak-
ingS" nor that there is a home tax
which is causing the English tobac-
coniSts TO revise their prices often.
Smoking imported tobacco in. England
today really is a luxury. The wise
stranger has given 1t up in favor OF
the brands the English use.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
American Soldiers and Sailors
Well Cared For by Y. M. C. A.
in London.
BOYS LONG FOR HOME EATS
Eagle Hut Represents Las+ Word in
Economical Eating in British Capt.
taI--Menu Shows Great Vari-
ETY. Of Dishes.

London.-Fourteen cents for sat
isfying meal. twenty-five cents for a
superlatively filing repast. These
prices reveal that the high cost of eat
ing should have no terrors to the
American soldier or sailor ION his
own" in London. 1t represents that
last word in economical eating even
for the English capital, where prices
are uniformly moderate. Even the big
ger public eating places, where large
turnover allows low charge, the low
est price charged for n modest meal
is tenpence-20 cents, while the meal
which costs the Yankee fighter a shil-
ling costs the civilian as much as 80
cents.
Moreover, 1t is American food. Not
every American boy in olive drab or
navy blue who lands in London has a
literary tourists ambition to eat at the
Cheshire Cheese or the Blackfriars or
any of the other quaint inns made ia
nous by Dickens or Thackeray. Many
of our fighters do not care for the pom
derous dishes of the two-decker nov
els, but yearn for hcderH home eats.
Where King Ate Pancakes.
And they get it, at IA to p cents,
at Eagle Hut, the famous Y. NJ. c. A.
center, where King George and Queen
Mary recently enjoyed pancakes a la
American.
The l4-cent rate is cheaper even
than that charged at the national mod
el kitchen. where a three-course meal
of soup. beef and pudding costs IS
cents Mrs. Arthur Coke of London,
who makes out all the Hut menus, not
only meets all government require
ments, but sees to it that there is prop
er and attractive variation in the
dishes from day to day. The food is
plain, to be sure, but it all is of high
quality, and the portions show no
Stinting
Breakfast and supper each cost IA
cents. A breakfast consists of cereal,
sausage or bacon, bread and tea. a
recent supper consisted of sausage,
well done. thick slices OF bread with
butter. marmalade and tea. The same
food costs from % to so cents at the
West-end restaurants.
A typical shilling dinner includes
Scotch broth stewed steak or cold
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
N. Y. AIR RAID GERMAN Joke
Comic Paper Says American Women
Are Keen on Latest Paris
Novelties.

Amsterdam.-A cartoon in the lat
est issue of the German comic paper
Jugend pictures a German air raid on
New York. The scene is a New York
roof garden, from which the sky is
shown ablaze with bombs, shtapnel
and fighting planes. An American
"multimillionaire" is shown escortina
his richly clad wife, who is said to be
shrinking in terror before the apart.
ton In the sky" He treasures her by
saying soothingly: well, my dear.
you have always been keen on having
the latest Partisan novelties. Now
you've got them -
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
The Padre Scores.
Icacies, awaiting the

Now and again a guy will take me
Oft TO one side and fix it up with me
to write his girl or his mother after
he is bumped off. promising to do the
same for me.
Yet they joke about it, too. Pop
said 10 the chaplain today:
''You won't forget that little matter,
padre, will you?"
What little matter is tha4?" asked
the chaplain.
why, ny tombstone y
The chaplain looked surprised.
You never mentioned a tombstone
to me-" he protested.
Sure I did, Don't you remen1b -?
A bottle of rum at head and feet :"
But the chaplain came back ut him
80" he said gravely; for then you
wouldn't lie quiet. George Patullo in
Saturday Evening Post.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
Flour Little Hurt ~ Sea water

It is widely known fact among
sailors that flour win not only 'oat
after immersion in sea water, bur suf-
fer very little damage To ascertain
the actual damage a baker in New
SoDCn Wales submerged bag Of ''our
in the ocean and left II in the water
81 hours. A 9s-pound weight was nee
essary to sink 150-pound bag, WHEN
would have supported IS pounds on ioP
Of the water, it is estimated. or haii IL
own weight. When lifted and weighed
the bag scaled 155 pounds II vas
dried for four days and yielded ~
pounds OF perfectly dry -four, the oas
and waste weighing IS pounds BsEs@
into bread, it gave perfect results
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-08-09
Has EIGHT Sons in Service.

Denver, Colo.-Thomas d. Cain.
Denver jeweler, holds the record for
the Rocky mountain region for number
of sons in military service. Every one
Of his eight sons is in some branch of
the military service. Five. of them
have gone TO France. and the three
others are In different cantonment
camps.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE
PART IN GREAT BATTLE
Weekly Review of the War Depart.
ment Makes Formal Announce
ment of Fact.

Washington, May 2.-Formal an
nouncement that American troops sent
to reinforce the allied armies nave
taken part in the fighting is made
by the war department in its weekly
review of the situation.
"Our forces have taken part in the
battle,' says the statement briefly.
American units are in action east of
Amiens. During the engagements
which have ragged in this are they
have acquitted themselves WELL
The review, in emphasizing the i'm
mediate need of fresh men to with
stand the German onslaught, adds that
Americas imperative duty is to pro-
vide replacement units for the French
front.
"In addition to those already called
to the colors." says the statement,
"and those in training at our canton
ments or already selected for service,
very large quotas will be required in
the immediate future TO fill the gaps.
In this connection the review points
out that ''the enemy is seeking a de-
cision that will end the war and the
outcome of the present operations de-
ponds upon man power"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
THREE BILLS OFFERED TO
INCREASE NATIONS ARMY
Number of Men Provided for in Meas
ures Varies From Million and 4
Half to Five Million.

Washington, May l. = Three bills
to increase Americas man power in
the war have been introduced in the
senate. Senator Poindexter of Wash
ington offered one authorizing the
president to call Immediately 1900
600 men under the selective draft law;
Senator Reed of Missouri offered one
to, add 100000 men to tie army, and
Senator Smith of Georgia introduced
a resolution proposing to raise the
army to 100000 men.
Immediate action TO increase the
army, Senator Poindexter said in q
brief address, is necessary.
Secretary Awaits Action.
81 understand the secretary of war
is considering this NATTER he said,
"and is holding conferences. with con-
gress waiting, presumably for SOME
body in the department TO prepare
the bill. Congress should act imme-
diately. There should be no delay in
increasing our army. There ought not
to be a day-an hour-lost. Destiny
and opportunity are marching by while
we hold conferences"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
SAYS WAR is LIKELY TO
LAST LONG TIME YET

London fvia Ottawa), May 4.-Sir
William Robertson's warning that the
war is likely to last for a long. time
yet is commented upon in London as
timely. 1t Is pointed out that one
reason why American Intervention did
not sooner, become active in some
fields is because America made ar
rangements for Intervention on an i'm
mense scale. and she realized that a
successful offensive against Germany
might be necessary to win the war.
The Times refers to dispatch from
Washington stating that diplomats an
ticipate peace move, but that no
offer of mediation. even from the pope.
will be considered. Any proposal OF
peace must come from Germany, the
Times declares, and the allies will meet
any such move with the same unbroken
front as they met the latest offensive.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
CROWDER WOULD NOT PUT
REGiSTRANTS AT BOTTOM
Provost Marshal Thinks 1t Fairer to
Distribute Youngsters Through
Glasses by Lottery.

Washington, May Provost Mar
,hal General Crowder has requested
congress TO eliminate from the bill ex-
tending the draft TO youths now Il
years of age, the amendment putting
at the bottom of the eligible list those
who would register under the mea-
sure, and has asked that the bill bas-
ing drfat quotas on the number OF
ing draft quotas on the number OF
its operation retroactive.
General Crowder made his request
in letters to the chairmen of the SEN
ate and house military committees.
OF the proposal to put the new reg
istrants at the bottom of the list of
eligibles, General Crowder said:
1.-The plan proposed by this office
would result in the registrants being
given order numbers scattered through
out the entire list of order numbers.
proposed by the amendment The re-
suit of the house amendment in many
jurisdictions will be TO delay the call
ling of these young men for con-
siderable time. In the meantime
their status will have changed; they
will have married or become inte-
grated with the industries of the coun-
try
The plan to make the quota law ret
roaetiye would apply it to men of the
new draft called while the legislation
is pending. Delay in enactment of the
legislation. General Crowder wrote, ne
cessitates the retroactive feature.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
.66 LOST IN wreck
WHEN SHIPS CRASH
FRENCH CRUISER RAMS AND
SINKS AMERICAN coASTWIsE
VESSEL IN DENSE FOG.
PEOPLE TRAPPED IN BERTHS
Accident Occurs off Delaware Coast
Cruiser Launches Lifeboats and
Sixty-eight Persons Are
Landed by Warship.

An Atlantic Port, May 2.-Slxty-siN
persons lost their lives when the steam
ship City of Athens, bound from New
York for Savannah. was rammed and
sunk by French cruiser off the Del
aware coast. The missing included
10 men and two women, seven out of
"a United States marines who We're
on board, IA out of 20 French soldiers
and 33 members of the crew.
All the passengers and many of the
crew were in their berths when the
bow of the warship plunged into the
side of the 2,3O6 ton coastwise vessel
Fire broke out almost Immediately
afterward in hold No. 1, but it had
no bearing on the fate of the ship
for the flames were quickly quenched
by the rush of water which poured In.
Captain J. Forward, one of the vet
eran commanders in the service of the
Ocean Steamship company, owners of
the vessel, did his best to avert a
panic and man the life boats. So.
quickly did the doomed vessel sink.
however, there was no time TO get the
boats away, and many of those who
persisted were trapped in their berths.
Those of the passengers and the
crew who were able to reach the deck,
all Of them thinly clad and many with
out life preservers, plunged into the
sea.
The cruiser launched life boats i'm
mediately after the crash and turned
its searchlights upon the waters in
which men and women We're strug-
Cling for their lives. Sixty-eight per-
sons We're picked up and brought back
to this port by the warship, which was
not seriously damaged.
Both ships were carrying running
lights because of the heavy fog which
hung over the sea.
F. j. Doherty, the wireless operator,
was able to send out only one rs. o.
S." call, after the warship's Dow
plunged into the City of Athens side
near the bow. There was no response
to the appeal for aid and the vessel
sank so quickly Doherty had no oppor-
tunity to repeat the call. He is be-
lieved to have been drowned at his
post.
One of the heroes of the sea tragedy
was Harry A. Kelley of New York, an
Oiler, who swan to an overturned life
boat and dragged up on the bottom of
it four persons who We're struggling
in the sea. He held them there until
they were taken off by boat from the
French cruiser. II
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
ALMOST TO THE TOP

Washington, May with only one
day of the third Liberty loan cam
paign remaining the total of subscrip-
tons last night rose nearly to the
three billion dollar level, leaving big
task for loan workers today to gather
in enough eleventh hour pledges to in
sure the billion or two over subscrip-
lions sought by the treasury.
Official reports last might showed
S2,94O, $40, 400, an increase since the
previous day of $1S9, 2S3.7 700. the big
gest days business ever recorded since
the third loan campaign opened -four
weeks ago. 1t was said additional sub
scriptions obtained after reports were
filed might send the total above three
billion.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
TEA HOUSES INDICTED

Washington. May 2.-Twenty-three
tea and coffee companies are charged
by the federal trade commission in
formal complaints just filed with vio-
lating the federal trade commission
act by trying to obtain patronage
through giving coupons or certificates
redeemable in prizes Of unequal value,
the distribution Of which is determined
by lot. Among the firms are: Sioux
Falls Coffee and Spice company, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, and j. s. Allen
and company, ST. Paul.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
MUST. SEND FIVE MILLION
MEN ACROSS THIS YEAR
Senator McCumber Of North Dakota
Minimizes War Activities of v.
S. up to Present.

Washington, May Alive million
men must be sent on the battle front
by the United States within year,
Senator McCumber Of North Dakota
declared in an address to the senate,
which reviewed Americas first year
in the war. The results of America
efforts have been almost negligible
up to the present time, he said Six
months have been wasted by the ship
ping board and S640,000O00 for air
craft "has been worse than squan-
dered."
Must Send Men.
eff we fail to put 100000 men on
the fighting line. before the end of
another year." he continued, 1--WE will
again have grossly failed to measure
up to our moral duty. We will have
charged to our discredit another year
of colossal blunders."
Senator McCumber contrasted a
statement of President Schwab of the
Emergency Fleet corporation that the
United States would produce ship ton
mage of only. 100000 dead weight
in 1919 with estimates of U-boat losses
of 100000 gross tons in 1918 and
said:
"TrifIing Program"
ga program that contemplates but
100000 tonnage is trifiing with the
most serious question that ever con-
fronted the people of this country. 1t
is worse than trifiing. 1t is suicidal.
"Our only hope of winning this war
is in being able to keep our allies in
the field another year. That means
that it Is incumbent upon us to supply
them with food. If we can't get ar
mics into the field. let us at least
feed and send munitions to those who
are fighting our battles"
Senator McCumber asserted that
what we had lacked most was the
foresight and determination to get up
and doing when the flying sparks of
that great world war threatened to
produce a conf1agration that might
force us on the firing line
Raps Shipping Board.
ave seem to have gotten so be-
wildered in maze of little things
that we have lost sight of the great
requirements" he said. 1.-The failure
of our shipping board is the most ag-
example of failure to grasp
a big situation"
Unparalleled national extravaganza
was another reason of failure, he con-
tended.
"We have been literally burning up
the money which the taxpayers have
cheerfully paid to create and support
a fighting army he charged. while
we can't win this war without buying
liberty bonds, neither can we win it
by making bontires of the money re-
ceived from liberty bonds"
The buster of the public press, he
said, which has grossly exaggerated
everything in our favor, has been ali
other factor in the delay.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
No Profiteerina Ia Ice.

Washington, May 4.-Formal notice
Of It's determination not to permit prof
iteering in ice this summer has been
given by the food administration in
milking public telegram sent to state
food administrators. Ice dealers will
be required to file with the locad adj
minfstrator any proposed schedule Of
Increased prices before they are put
Into effect, and where local authorities
are unable to prevent unreasonable
charges the administration 10 prepared
to uSe al IT. powers under the food
control law.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-10
Y MEN SAVED ON
TORPEDOED SHIP
$50 PERSONS ON BOARD ORISSA,
SENT TO BOTTOM BY
GERMAN SUB.
SHIP WAS BEING Conveyed
Only Three Men of Crew Are Lost
Ships Officer Says Americans
Conducted Themselves in
Admirable Manner.

London, May "A party of 81
American army Young Mems Christian
Association workers under Arthur T.
Hungerford has arrived in London.
The ship on which they sailed was
torpedoed and sank in II minutes. All
the passengers and all but three of
the crew were saved.
The passengers were picked up in
life boats and landed at British port
The Americans are all safe and well.
The number of persons on board the
vessel was about go. One of the
ships officers told the Associated Press
that the Americans conducted them
selves in an admirable manner. They
had spent most of their time aboard
the ship in military drills and daily
and nightly life boat drill and every
man knew his station and duties as
though by instinct.
Rescuers Are Quick.
Destroyers were sent Immediately
to the rescue and all the lifeboats
were picked up within half an hour.
The vessel was struck amidships
while in a large convoy under the pro-
lection of destrOyers. 1t was proceed
ing at about 10 knots in bright moon
light when struck. There. was an i'm
mediate heavy list and three minutes
later the boilers blew up, extineuish-
ing the lights all over 'the ship.
"The Americans behaved like veter-
ans and were of the greatest assist
ance in launching the lifeboats and
handling them" said one of the Off
GERS of the ship.
Two of the crew who lost their lives
were caught below and went down
with the ship. The third man lost
was the ships baker, who went back
for his money belt.
The discipline on board the ship
was excellent. Although the time was
brief, all the boats were launched sue
cessfully. Most of the Americans had
but little clothing and no baggage.
The submarine was not seen at the
time the vessel was torpedOed but
several survivors told story of a
periscope appearing for a moment in
the midst of the lifeboats.
sit was said the periscope was seen
from nearby torpedo boat destroyers,
which however. did not dare fire for
fear of hitting the lifeboats," said the
Rev. Charles Vickery of Salina, Kan.
'If the periscope did appear, it was
only for Brief moment. While the
lifeboats were being picked up one
American and one British destroyer
circled the spot, dropping several
depth charges"