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The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
DESCRIBES LIFE
IN THE TRENCHES
Col. Carey F. Spence Writes Of His
Regiment, the Old Second Tennessee
Worried by Mustard Gas.

Knoxville, Aug. 5--The 117th In
fantry, composed of Tennessee troops
has been in the trenches in quiet Sec
tor, but under a grueling fire from
the German artillery, after being re-
viewed by Gen. Pershing, according
to a letter from Col. Corey F. Spence,
commanding the regiment, to his wife
in this city.
Col. Spence had a narrow escape
when eight boche shells burst about
the automobile in which he was riding
They moved out in good order with
only few scratches"
Sergt.- Major Frost of Nashville had
a narrow escape when shell burst IN
the front line trenches, killing sol
der standing near him.
Mustard gas is giving the men a
great deal of trouble, and they are for
ced to sleep in the daytime as the
bombardment is something terrific at
night, while the consequent hazard OF
being gassed.
The two letters, one scrubbed hasu-
ly on scrap of paper, evidently IN
the trenches and the other just before
the review by Gen. Pershing follows;
"We are having lots of rain and are
in mud and have been in the trenches.
We have been seeing bursting shells
all around us and sometimes very
close. We are all well, and while we
are not getting much sleep on account
of the shells, we are doing nicely. ]
was on the road in car, when eight
shells broke around US, but we moved
out in good order with only a few
scratches"
The other letter in which he tells OF
the gas attack says:
"In order to give you some little idea
as to what the front line trenches are
like / will say that each soioe
into the trenches for ten days before
being relieved. They do not even
take a blanket into the trenches, and
they never think of such thing as
taking off their clothes. The only
time they get sleep is in the daytime
as shell fire goes on all night"
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
MADE IN GERMANY

It is a maxim as old as warfare that
enemies should always remember that
they will by and by be friends, and
therefore, commit no act that VIII
make future friendship difficult OF
insecure. The Germans have deliber-
ately disregarded the maxim, and they
must take the consequences; for, how
ever the war may end, the conduct OF
it by Germany has built up the most
intimate national friendship among
all the peoples who are fighting against
Germany, and has earned for Germany
itself, the most intense adherence.
Do we hate the Germans? No!
hate is not the word. We do not hate
the wild beast that lies in ambush to
spring upon us and suck our blood
We do not hate the sneak thief or the
midnight assassin. We look upon
them without anger, but as something
that must be destroyed; and we do not
make friends with them even when
they profess to reform and to give up
their evil practices.
We shall not be friends with the
Germans. All such intimacies as ex-
change professorships, honorary de-
crees for their eminent scholars, naval
visits between their country and ours
all the official courtesies and hospi-
tality that in other days have been in
terchanged between Americans and
Germans-are things of the past
Perhaps the Germans will reconcile
themselves to the situation as con-
tentedly as we. But Kultur does not
dinsdain worldwide trade in articles
produced by German industry. The
movement to thwart the Germans in
anv conquest Of foreign markets has
made great progress and increases in
momentum every day. Through their
national organizations English and
French sailors have pledged themselves
not to serve on any ship engaged IN
trade to Germany or from it. They
first set time that the boycott should
last, and now they add month for ev-
ery new act of maritime brutality,
such as sinking hospital ship. Com
mercial bodies in. all the countries OF
the allies are making agreements not
to sell for export to Germany, and not
to buy German goods even after peace
is restored. Governments are consid-
ering by what laws they can encour-
age trade TO their allies and block
strade with Germany. Private citizens
everywhere are declaring for them
selves that hereafter they will neither
buy nor use articles made in Germany.
An such measures can be carried in
to effect if the Allies win. What If
they should lose? Even the most
overwhelming victory would not enable
our conquerors to control either the
sentiments of individuals or their
choice of those with whom they will
trade: therefore the ability to boycott
all things German would remain. In
deed. such a victory would intensity
The feelings that led to the boycott
Youths Companion.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
AMERICAN ATHLETICS
NEW TO THE FRENCH

DR.. George Meylan of the National
War Work Council, Y. M. c. A., has
just returned from France. He found
a virgin fild for athletics in the French
army. He modified the rules of base
ball, volley ball, indoor baseball and
ouoits, which games took quickly
with the Poilus. They enter into the
sports, new to them, with spirit
Teaching the French soldiery how to
play and forget the horrors Of the
trenches, while at rest bitlets, is the
work of the American Y. NJ. c. A.
physical directors assigned to the
French army at the request OF the
French Government.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
BASE BALL IN GAS
MASKS over THERE

A full nine-inning baseball game
with players wearing gas masks, and
the spectators as well, is the latest
sport arranged by an Army Y. M. G.
A. physical director "over there" who
brought the bats, mits and balls by
automobile truck to the men near the
front lines in France. An indoor base
BAH was used to guard against injury
to the gas masks. The size Of the
score was not kept, due to the scarcity
Of adding machines.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
NOTICE

There is a law in our city requiring
all patrons of the water plant to pay
their water bills at the Recorders Of
flee between the 1st and 10th of each
month. This law will be rigidly en-
forced in the future, and those failing
to comply will have theirfwater sup
ply cut off. The cost is 81 for cutting
off and 81 for turning on again.
All owners of double tenement hous-
es will be required to pay the water
rent or put in separate line for each
tenant. This rule will be enforced
for the reason that when there is only
one line and one tenant pays while an
other fails to do so, the one paying has
to suffer for the ither's failure to pay.
BOARD OF MAYOR AND
All nERMEN
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
HOW BIRDS SLEEP.

Birds generally sleep with their
heads turned tailward over the back
and the beak thrust beneath the wing.
Storks, gulls, and other long-legged
birds sleep standing on one leg.
Ducks sleep in open water. To
avoid drifting ashore, they keep pad
ding with onegfoot, thus making them
move in ciIyie.
Owls, in addition to their eyelids,
have a screen that they draw sideways
their eyes 10 ,-ovt the hight
for they sleep in the daytime. Sci
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
49, ANAsNA N4Ns
NOT TO BE IGNORED.

The kidneys are as important to
good health as the heart, lungs, stom-
ach or any organ of the body Lame
back, swollen joints, sore muscles,
rheumatic aches and pains, are most
often signs of kidney trouble. Foley
Kidney Pills give relief to kidney trou-
bic sufferers. They Danish bladder ir-
regularities. J. D. Curtis Drug Co.aug
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
OUR COUNTY SOLDIERS

A card received by DR.. and Mrs. j
r. Clowers announces the safe arrival
overseas of Private Richard Clowers
Wesley Walker, one of the ten Hay
wood county boys who are members of
Dr. Malone's hospital unit, has an hon
cradle discharge on account of i'll
health and is at home on a few weeks
furlough. He is stationed at govern
ment hospital at Waynesville, S. c.
Sergt. A. Eugene Richardson has
landed safely over seas, according to a
message received recently.
Privates Burchet and Arnold Craig,
who left the last of June for Camp
Gordon, have been assigned to their
companies and are doing fine in the
army. Arnold has been made compa-
ny barber and bugler.
Eugene Wills has been promoted to
the rank Of sergeant, and is in charge
of the hospital launrdy, base hospital
No. IS, France.
Richard Anderson, who is attend
ing the ground school at Princeton,
writes of a very pleasant weekend
spent with friends in Philadelphia. He
is much pleased with his work and is
anxious to get to flying.
billiard Coppedge Of los Supply
Trusk Co., has landed safely in Eng
land.
Sam Bacherig is at home this week
for visit to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Baeherig. Sam is fine loking sol
der. He is stationed at Camp Joseph
E. Johnson, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr..
and Mrs. Bacherig viii soon have the
honor of having four sons in the army.
Gus is in the limited service at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, having recently gone;
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
SPECIAL SESSION OF
COUNTY COURT CALLED


A special session of the quarterly
county court Of Haywood county,
Tennessee, is hereby called on the Sec
end day of September, 191 at 10
o'clock, a. M, for the purpose of elect
ing a chairman of said county court, a
chairman pro tenn of said county court
and for the purpose of passing on and
approving the bonds of all county off,
cias elected on August LIST, 1918. This
the 9th day of August, 1918.
JAMES Upton,
Chairman of the County Court of
Haywood County, Tenn.
N. B. KEATHLEY,
County Court Clerk.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09

one, and that if it did American men
would not fight, since they were thor
oughly femininized by the women
school teachers who taught them in
their youth, and by the influence of
their wives and daughters, to whom
they deferred so weakly. Let us hope
that that officer, if he is still alive,
was serving in the neighborhood of
Chateau hierrw during the first three
weeks in July.-Ex.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09

At a dinner party in Berlin in the
days before the war Germa officer
by way of making himself agreeable
to an American woman who sat next
him, remarked that the United States
would never have an army because it
would not go to the trouble Of making
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
FAMED PAINTING FOR "Y" HUT,

A panoramic painting Of New York
harbor by Robert Chandler, famous
American artist, forms the stage cur
tain for a new double Red Triangle
hut just opened at Tours, France. The
American ''Y" provides the stage at
fractions also through its Americas
"over There" theatre league, Of which
George NJ. Conan is president.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
MYSTERY SHIPS
ARE ACCOUNTING
FOR SUBMARINES
Interesting Revelations Are Made a
to Methods Being Used in War

London, August 6-Interesting rev.
Citations regarding the work Of Brit
ish mystery ships which have played
an important part in anti-submarine
warfare are made by the naval cor
respondent Of the Times. They show
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
RED CROSS IRONATED HERBS
with PEPSN

If you don't feel well or if you wake up
tired and all run down with headache,
biliousness, Indigestion and feel all out
of sorts, take a bottle of IR0NATED
HERBS with PEPSIN. Guaranteed to
put you in the pink of condition. This
and more than one hundred other Red
Cross Remedies and Toilet Preparations
sold and guaranteed only by
BYRN STURDIVANT DRUG COM
PANY, Brownsville, Tenn.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-09
PILES! PILES! PILES!
WILLIAMS PILE OINTMENT

WAAA-lfANAo TILL OhN NEINL
For Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles
For sale by all druggists, mail SOC and 81 90.
WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Props, Cleveland, Ohio.
GLASS DRUG COMPANY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Allied Military Strategists Now
Confident of Holding 1t.
German Punch Is Gradually
Growing Weaker.
STRATEGY OF 1914 REPEATED
Allied Counter Attack Waits on
German Failure.
Counter Blow VIII Come Only
When Allies Are Ready.

Washington. April 12.-Germany
will not push her way thru to Calais.
That was the view of military
strategists today, based on the brief
developments of the Flanders drive,
coupled with experience of the past.
While still making progress and N
a tactical position to continue it for
stubborn resistance than in his
pounding for Amiens. There are
some evidences, too, that his punch
is weaker
The thought here is that he may
run d line out farther across the map
pointing at Calais, just as he did at
the outset of the war, but it is re-
garded certain now that he cannot
reach the channel port that is his
objective.
In the 1914 smash he ran two dag
ger points across France, one aimed
at Paris and the other at the chan
mel
Aimed at Calais and Amiens.
In this battle, the daggers point at
AmienS and Calais. The overnight
news on the battle line gave a tone
of some encouragement from the gal
liant lefense of the important points
along the Flanders sector.
The frequent question, WY have
the allies failed to counter-attack ~
is best answered by Lloyd Georges
recent speech, military men say.
They point out today tho the
Versailles council saw to mathe-
maticsl nicely what would occur in
the German push, the allies then
lacked unified control and dared not
do too much massing of reserves at
any one point. This has been true
ever since the struggle started. The
uncertainty as to the German Strik-
ing points made the shifting of re-
serves a risky venture. And the vio-
lence of his prodiga1 human onslaught
made it necessary to use a vast force
merely to check him.
However, some Strategists say that
with Americans, British and Irish
strengthening the reserve, it will still
be possible to make trouble for the
boche. He has been drawn on and
on, and if the reserve is strengthened
fast enough, the time will come when
a blow can be dealt against him at
Vulnerable point, it is believed. This
may be some months off, but in the
meantime the allies and America will
be able to check him before he reach
eS vital SpOtS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Thursday Baseball Results.
At Wichita, Kan.-Wichita =, White
Sox 8.
At Dallas, Texas-Cubs 8, Dallas 0.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

are indicative of the uncomfortable
spirit of the British defenders and
which bear further testimony to the
terrible toll the Germans are paying
for every foot they advance. The cor
respondent says wounded soldiers
agreed that the Germans outnum-
bered the defenders at least two to
one.
Aye, we're never far away"
wounded Highlander replied to the re-
mark of the correspondent that the
Highlanders seemed to get into all the
battles. He proceeded to tell how his
regiment was on a canal bank when
the Germans tried to cross.
They advanced on both flanks,
coming up on either side in the at
to hold our fire and waited until they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
BASEBALL is POPULAR
Doniphan Soldiers Are Having Some
Big Games These Days.

Camp Doniphan, Ok, April ~
Baseball, wrestling and boxing are the
sports enjoyed by the men at Camp
Doniphan. Baseball games are played
Wednesday, boxing bouts are held
Saturday and wrestling Sunday. The
Field Signal Battalion won from the
11eth Sanitary Train in the first series
of championship baseball games, 9 to
5. Company H of the 138th Infantry
won from Company D of the same
regiment. score 6 to 6.
Saturday the 10th Sanitary Train
will meet the Field Signal Battalion.
while 129th Machine Gun Battalion
will oppose the Military Police in
boxing contests. Sunday, the Trench
Mortar Battery will meet the Head
quarters Company. while the 128th
Machine Gun Battalion will contest
the both Machine Gun Battalion in
wrestling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Is YEARS AGO In Topeka
From the columns of
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL



The board of railroad assessors has re-
turned from tour of the Santa Fe lines.
The party left Topeku Monday morning
1t was comprised of Mr.. and Mrs. Percy
Daniels, Mr.. aud Mrs. Van &. Prather,
Mr. and Mrs. Leweiling, Mr.. and Mrs. J. I.
Little, Mr.. and Mrs. Osborn and little
daughter, and ''Rrigadier General Sears,
of Lawrence. Miss Pauline Lewelling join
ed the party at Wichita.
George NJ. Stone: the artist has COM
which represents that character standing
near the entrance of a dugout, bucket in
hand 1t will be sent by IL Wyandotte
county club to be placed in the Kansas
building at the Worlds fair.
Frank Scott, foreman of the Capital com
posing room, is now in New York City iu-
vestigating the new typesetting machines.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease was entertained at G
o'clock dinner yesterday by DR.. and Mrs.
II. w. Roby.
Miss Maud Pack has gone to Chicago to
assist in decorating the Kansas Worlds
fair building.
Sam Radges says that only three bust
ness houses are left in the city that were
in Topeka in 1869. when the first directory
issued. They are S. Barnum. Burg
hart & Oswald and John Kaczynski.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

were we'll in view. Then there were
hundreds before us before we let fly
Man, it was murderous
A Yorkshire man who was standing
near by broke in:
THAT may be but that was mo bet
ter than when we saw them along the
side of a hedge. They did not expect
US to be so near. We pumped bullets
into them with Lewis guns until our
bodies ached."
AS an illustration of the GOODNESS
and confidence of the British troops
the Daily Mail correspondent says
some HiGhlanders told him how they
found quantity of food in trenches
which some other troops had been
forced to evacuate before heavy Ger
man attacks. The Highlanders said
the first thing they did was to sit down
and eat the food.
I'VE fried their eggs and frizzled
their bacon. We never miss a chance
is our motto. We had a fine feed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
STORY. FROM FRONT
Soldiers Tell How Huns Were Slaush-
tered in Late Drive.

London. April t2.--You could have
shot them down with your eyes shut
said a wounded machine gunner in de-
scribing how the Germans attacked on
the western front, according to the
correspondent there of the Daily Mail.
I'VE fired straight into them and they
went down in heaps, vet we could not
stop them. 1t was one down and an
other come on.
The correspondent quotes other re-
marks from wounded soldiers which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Miss Maud Pack has gone to Chicago t
assist in decorating the Kansas World
fair building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
LABOR FOR VICTORY
American Labor Leader in London
Pledges Full Support.

London, April 12.-"American labor
is ready to extend its hand to German
labor as soon as peace is signed-not
before James Wilson, American
laborite, declared here today.
up to that point, America will
spend its last dollar and shed its last
drop of blood"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
GREAT ALEX DRAFTED
Star Pitcher of National League Com
ing to Camp Funston.

St. Paul. Neb.. April 12.-Grover
Cleveland Alexander pitcher of the
Chicago National league baseball
club has been selected by the draft
board of Howard county as one of
twelve of the county's quota of drafted
men to go to Camp Funston during the
five days beginning April IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Mrs. Mary E. Lease was entertained at
o'clock dinner yesterday by DR.. and Mr.
II. w. Roby.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

Frank Scott, foreman of the Capital com
posing ROOM is now in New York City in
yestigating the new typesetting machines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

L. S. Labor Delegates in London.
London, April 12.-The American
labor delegates to the interallied la
borite conference have arrived in Lon
don
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
$500. GOO Firc in Wcstcrn Canada.

Nermilion. Alberta, April 12.-Fire
swept the main business section here
early today doing 100000 damage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

St Louis. Mo-, April 1.-THE
Browns and Cardinals expected to re-
open the spring city series today with
warmer weather promised. The sec
ond game has been postponed daily
because of cold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-20
CAMPAIGN TO-DAY
 FOR RECRUITS FOR Y.M.C.A. WAR WORK
Dr. J. A. Derbyshire, Just From France, Will Lee
 ture at Tabernacle.

A one-day recruiting drive in Pine Bluff for Y. M. c. A. war workers today will end tonight with public meeting at the Tabernacle, Tenth and Main streets, when Dr. J. A. Derby shire of Brooklyn, orator, lecturer and traveller, who has just returned from the western front where he was engaged in Y. M. c. A. war work, will tell of his experiences on the bat tie line.
 Dr. Derbyshire is touring the country under the direction of the National Y. M c. A. war work coun- cil in drive for recruits. He has spoken in Little Rock and Fort Smith.
 J. H. Kirkpatrick of Little Rock, chairman of the war personel recruit. ing committee; John L. Hunter, of Little Rock, state secretary, and E. F. Dennison of San Antonio, Texas. district chairman of Y. M. c. A. war work, also will be in the Pine Bluff drive, and it is expected that several Pine Bluff men will enlist in the work.
 Three Pine Bluffians already are in the work. They are Prof. M. D. Me- Neill, who is now awaiting his pass port to go to France, and A. G. Whid- den, former editor of the Graphic, and A. Frank Hayes, who are now at the Y M. c. A. training school at San Antonio.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-20
BRITISH TRANSPORT
 SUNK; NO LIVES LOST
Steamer Carpathia, 13,OOO Tons, I. Torpedoed by a Submarine Off
 Irish Coast.

New York. July 19.-The British transport Carpathia, 13,603 tons gross has been sunk by German submarine off the Irish coast while outward bound from a British port, it was learned here. So far as known here no lives were lost.
 The Carpathia was owned by the Cunard Line. Prior to the war she was engaged in trans Atlantic ser vice.
 It was the Carpathia which an swered the wireless s. o. S. call of the White Star Liner Titanic in April 1912 when that vessel hit a
 submerged iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York and was sunk with a heavy loss of life. The Car pathia picked up and landed at New York 866 survivors of the Titanic.
 Although in the service of the British government for several months, the Carpathia has been used as an American troop transport. Her last departure from an American port was in June.
 The Carpathia sank after she was torpedoed, according to the Central News. The survivors will be landed tomorrow, it is added.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-20
RESTRICT IMPORT LICENSES.

Washington, July 19.-Because ad- advantage has been faken of the blanket license permitting goods to be imported from Canada into the United States, this license has now been revoked as to shipment of ar ticles on the list of restricted i'm ports on and after tomorrow. The inn portance of keeping ocean, going ton- mage for war purposes and the more essential imports has shut off, to a large extent, the importation of many commodities formerly brought into the United States from foreign coun- tries. To evade these restrictions, im- porters have been shipping exten- sively to Canada and Newfoundland whence these goods have been ship ped, with those of true Canadian ori- gin. into the United States. The new ruling, which was adopted after con sultation with the Dominion govern ment, will require special import IT, censes for the shipment of all articles the importation of which from other countries has been restricted, when brought from the United Syates from Canada and Newfoundland.