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Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
ATTACKING "sAUsAGEp BALLOONS

We called the Dig elongated gas bags (obsarva- ton baloons) "sausages," and the French did like wise-"saucisses" They floated in the air at any where from eight hundred to three thousand feet above the ground, and were held captive by cables These cables attached to some special kind of windlasses which could pull the balloons down in an incredibly short space of tme Sometimes they would disappear as if by witchcraft
 Wherever the sausages flew they were protected from airplane attack by heavy batteries of anti aircraft guns, and also by what We came to know as flaming onions." These flaming onions appear to consist of about ten balls of fire and are shot from some kind of rocket gun. You can see them coming all the way from the ground and they travel just too fast to make it possible to dodge them have never had an onion come within two hundred feet of mo but the effect of these balls of fire reaching for vo, IS most terrifyng-especally the first time you have the pleasure Of making their acquantance-William A. Bishop, V. C. D. S. O., M. C.. in the Saturday Evening Post.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
UNCEN SORED
By Remlik Takin' Chances

You know how it will grieve us; How we hate to have you leave us, And we hope you will believe us, When we say you are q brick,
 Sammy boy. It's q bran new trade you're learnin', It's new wisdom you're discerning, It's to you our eyes are turnin, For the strain of the kaiser,
 Sammy boy Long chances you are takin', And the home ties you're a breakin', Tho in this we're not mistaken, You're a givin' more than We are,
 Sammy boy. You are offering up your all; You're responding to the call, And we're prayin you won't fall, You're better man than we are,
 Sammy boy And it may be. perchance, That while you're there in France, If she gives you half a chance, You will go to makin' love,
 Sammy boy. If you bring her home with you, As we kinda hope youll do; We will learn to parlez vous And perhaps we'll love her, too: She may love us better'n you So you're takin' chances both ways,
 sammy boy.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
FINDING VALUE OF PROPERTY
 ENEMY ALIENS
lRepubIican A. P. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, May 2e.-Nine
 thousand business men have volun-
 teered to serve all departments of the
 government without charge for the
 duration of the war. They propose to
 save millions of dollars and prevent
 excess profits in the sale or leasing of property to the government in the great emergency.
 These volunteers are all members of the National Association of Real Es- tate boards and are known the country
 over as Realtors" which is synony-
 nous for expert knowledge and han ding of all realty problems.
 William M. Garland, president of the
 association in order to make the serv- ices of these men available came from i his home in Los Angeles, Cal, to Washington and is remaining here un- til the work shall have become fully organized.
 In the several departments where | this service has already been utilized notably the office of the alien property l custodian, the quartermaster's depart ment of the army. the shipping board and the bureau of housing and trans portation of the department of Labor, these men have saved thousands of uOIldIS III dppTdlSeIHelllS ana eI1GcIlnS economies of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the price of realty and space desired by the government.
 More than 130 real estate boards throughout the country, at the request of President Garland, have appointed special appraisal committees to serve the government without compensation as a patriotic service for the period of the war. These committees will, at the request of any officer, bureau or agen- 1 cy of the government make appraisals l of any property or do any other neces- 5ary service without charge that will assist in winning the war.
 l In order to facilitate appraisals, val
 nations and to secure other valuable 1 information for the government in any
 part of the country. committees have 1 been named and they have already fur nished the government important data 1 The members of the local board of appraisal for this district are George l E. Lilley. F. D. Lane and w. K. James
 all members of the Maricopa county real estate board. This board is the only member in Arizona of the nation 1 al association of real estate boards which will hold it's eleventh annual 1 convention in St. Louis from June + l to 20 inclusive. The local board has elected J. A. Moore of this city delegate | +o the convention.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
MILLION DEMANDED
 OF GENERAL MILLS
Republican A. p. Leased Wlre1

FL PASO, May 25.-Suit for ap- proximately s1,000,0O0 was filed against Brigadier General Anson Mills (retired). late today in the United States district court here by Nathan Boyd of Las Cruces, N. NJ. Genera
 Mills, with his daughter, is here from Washington. D. C., visiting the city which he first surveyed and named.
 The complaint alleged that General
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27

Mills, then United States boundary commissioner, was responsible for the wrecking of an English irrigation company formed in 1883 to build an irrigation dam at Elephant Butte, N. M. Dr. Boyd claimed he had 00,000 shares in the company valued at 100000 pounds sterling. He asked for s4S7,000 damages, together with inter est for 21 years and other damages.
 At his hotel tonight General Mills said:
 "All my acts in connection with the water problems of the Rio Grande while I was United States boundary commissioner, were official acts of Q government agent, and done with the approval of the state department. under which I served. If any action for damages lies in this instance, f properly lies against the United States government and not myself, since I was acting in an official, not a personal capacity.
 --O-- Use Republican Classified Ads for PaS1Jts-Read for Profit
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
Cowboys "Punchinan Riyits.

Cowboys who tackled shpbuding at Orange Tex. when cattle punching became unremuneratiyc in the dry season last year have found their new work so pleasing that they have induced scores of men who formerly rode the to join them- Daily Marine Record
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
DISAPPEARED

Not only the. cloven hoof, but the cloven breath as well, seems to have disappeared from our ltera- ture-Judge.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27
By JAMES H. COLLINS

The business conducted insufficient depost bal ance is pretty certain be which the probabili ties correctly figured out foreseen and provided for Slack trade will find it laying off and increasing costs by rise in overhead Prosperity will find it nsuffcenty equipped to make the most Of de- mand At all times it's profits haphazard because guess-wor instead of knowledge is the basis of costs A business with good bank balance, on the other hand is one where sound knowledge prevails and with that knowledge the proprietor to his bank and get money on a
 Banks and trust companies paying great deal of attention matters nowadays. They find that
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27

recently derived any comfort the results of that criticism, which though bitter and unpleasant has been honest and constructive.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27

Use Republican Classified Ads for Results-Read for Profit.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27

it is good banking to look the shoulder of business in their community, see how each conducts his af fairs and make wider market for loans by selling money to those who know how to use it.
 Better look into bank balance today what the
 has been for the past two note whether there emergencies that caught short and figure out how to divert percentage of receipts toward the building of adequate That will be beginning in the budget habit and go and transactions according to the budget plan you will fail lack of capital' For your methods will be improved to such degree that your banker will be able to help you take of that.
Arizona republican., 1918-05-27

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

UP at the front you hear Mn rn,
called by the nickname by which ey..
po't~ knows it. The word pinord is NM
the best Americanese.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
SUMMER DAYS Up At The FRONT

"Say," said an infantryman, "do you
want to hear about the worst piece of
out-of-luck that ever happened in the
A. E. F.? A pal of mine went into the
fight with 1000 francs in his pocket
you know.
"NoW he's reported missing"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

voy of sergeant. They swung ~.
little audience of Yanks. roy
Hello, boys" called one gleefn,
tive in regular English. And M; a
to the line, he added just as elees's a
Its hell up therer' ut9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

they are the poets Of that region at the
heart of the country which is known as
Isle de France, the poets whose work, in
its simplicity, it's modesty, its eternal
common sense, gives to the French spirit
its finest, it's purest expression
La Fontaine at Chateau Thierry
The French of all ranks and ages love
their poet of Chateau Thierry. When,
in the early stages of the Revolution,
the Infatuated mob in Paris gave them
selves over to the September massacres
of bloody memory, and thousands of
prisoners were butchered, one woman
was spared for no other reason than be-
cause she was the granddaughter of La
Fontaine. French children hear his
fables in the nursery and know them by
heart; their fathers and mothers find
summed up in them all their philosophy
of life
1t was at Chateau Therry that La
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
-Uraaun By Wallgrem

And the cant-hook of logger,
He will do his best to viscerate and
MAIN.
Since the days of ancient Rome,
The human body's been his home,
A sort of perennial sacred niche;
And he chuckles with great pleasure
AS you dance the cootie measure
10 the geeful time of his eternal itch.
He dotes on Yank and French.
And the English in the trench;
He cares not for a permanent location:
But when he finds human,
All his friends and he start roomin'.
And establish a splendid habitation.
And when it seems that Goals of fire
And that flaming darts aspire
10 seek an inlet to your very heart.
Stop your scratching just to reason
That this is cootie season,
And your body's now busy cootie mart
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

Fontaine was Master of the Waters and
the Forests. 1t was there he made
friends with the wandering dog, the toll
ing ant, the mounting lark-all the ami
mails of the countryside that move in his
fables. 1t was there he wrote "The
Wolves and the Eve" of which the
moral is the motto of his people in this
year Of trial.
eve can conclude from this that one
must war continually with the wicked.
Peace is all very we'll in itself, admit,
but of what use is it with enemies who
are faithless?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
WARTIME SEESAWS

The Tommies describe those big BE-:
CT steel that are sawed in half to nai
arched roofs for dugouts as "elephsn
iron" The French gamn describes thsn
as rockers" Whenever two youths
France discover one of these half SCI
tions on its back with the ends sticEn
up, they balance plank across 1t an
merrily proceed to seesaw.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

Written down by the soldiers of the
ing for the first time in the pages of
American history the names of old
French towns. They are towns rich in
the memories of thousand years and
SCARED with the halfforgotten wounds
of hundred wars. Theirs are names
that French children have conned for
centuries and which now your children
and your children's children will read in
the school books of America.
Such a name is Chateau Thierry. It
was there that the German armies in
the great thrust for Paris they began
Yankee troops.
Chateau Thierry is little town on a
hill. Past it's foot flow the slow, un-
troubled waters of the Marine. From the
gray stone, red tiled outskirts on the
other side of the river you cross a
three-arched bridge Of stone to mount
by winding paths to where the ancient
church lifts it's sixteenth century belfry
to the heavens. House by house and
street by street, the town has grown up
through the centuries around squat,
deep-dungeoned chateau. Of this cha
teau only two vine hung gates and the
fragments of a thickset wall are left
to tell the story of many a bitter siege.
Built by Charles Martel
The chateau was built in 720 by
Charles Martel, the great Hammer Of
the Franks and grandfather of the still
greater Charlemagne-the same Charles
Martel who saved Europe for Christen-
dom when, twelve years later, he met
and vanquished the turbanned hosts of
the all-conquering Saracens in the bat
tie of Poiters. Little remains of the
castle itself, but you can still see the
base of the tower where one of his fee
BILE successors, Charles the Simple, was
held a prisoner.
1918, men once more fought hand to
hand in the narrow streets of Chateau
Thierry and the thunder of the guns
stirred ancient echoes in the crumbling
ruins of the castle. history was but re-
peating itself. The river valleys, con-
verging upon the plain of Paris and
finding there a barrier of hills, have
ever turned that basin into the final
battlefield of an invasion, with the CAPT
tai as the goal. That is why around
Chateau Thierry, reared like stub
born bastion on the rim of that basin,
the soldiers of many forgotten cause
have fought and died. 1t has always
blocked the path to Paris
Now held as a watch tower by the
dukes of France, now as an outpost by
the counts of Champagne, the castle
changed hands again and again through
the early centuries.
English archers took and held it in
1921, toward the close Of the weary
Hundred Years War between England
and France, the interminable war which
finally brought Joan of Arc up out of
the fields of Lorraine to lead the armies
of the King and which, at the end, lost
to the English crown all it's rich French
jewels save only Calais.
In the first half of the sixteenth GEN.
fury, while adventures on the other
side of the Atlantic were exploring with
fear and wonder the mysteries of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
AMERICA IN FRANCE
Chateau-Thierrv

wilderness known as America, the old
world shook with the tramplng armies
of Francis I, King of France, and his
enemy, the mighty Charles V, Emperor
of Germany, who had made pact with
England for his undoing.
Then-and not for the last time-the
jewellers along the Marine saw an army
of Germans march upon Paris. For,
leading his troops through Champagne,
Charles pressed his invasion to within
twenty-four leagues of the capital, and
in that invasion the Germans took Cha
teau Thierry.
half century later the Spaniards
sacked it in the course of the terrible
Wars of Religion, when Catholics and
Huguenots fought such bitter battles
for the control of France that, in the
course of thirty years, million French
men persisted Spanish troops entered
France as allies of the Catholics Those
were the days when Spanish garrison
held Paris, nor, for all his sieges, could
the Protestant chieftain, Henry of Ma
varre, enter its gates till he had marched
through crowds of joyous people to the
Church of Saint-Denis and there, in the
presence of the prelates, asked to be
received "into the pale of the Catholic
Apostolic and Roman Church."
Greatest Battle in 1914
1t was in 1891 that the Spaniards fell
upon Chateau Thierry, but it's greatest
battle was fought in that desperate
February of 1914 when England, Prus-
STA, the German States, Spain, Portugal,
Russia, Sweden and Austria-a crush
ing alliance-joined hands against Ma
poleon. From the south and the easr
they invaded France, and, hemmed in
on all sides, the little Emperor was
forced for the first time in his life to
fight on the defensive
Fighting with only 10000 young and
untried conscripts, he fell upon and
smashed at Chateau Thierry all army of
$4,000 Russians and Prussians 1t was
final flash of the old success, shining
victory in the midst of a disastrous
~-Ni'iEesio'i, AOA VII oiC 10SI Ncty I'll MARCH
Napoleon's enemies entered Paris, and
before many weeks had passed he had
been eXiled to Elba.
Chateau Thierry was taken and re-
taken in 1914. Just a hundred years
later its walls looked down upon the
retreat of the enemy before the victors
of the Marine.
Visiting there in the spring of this
year, you would have found Chateau
Thierry a town set in fair and peace
full countryside, proud of it's sheep
crowded pasturage and rich in it's vines
and cherry trees-a little town of 1000
people, no larger than Rochester, Mimi,
or Red Bank, N. j.
And this town is shrine for French
pilgrims, not because of the battles
fought in it's streets, but because it was
the home of the master of fables, La
Fontaine. Very much as it was in the
seventeenth century, you can see to-day
the house, with it's outside staircases and
It's moss grown we'll, where this most be-
loved of French poets was born.
Walk an hour or so up the road that
leads to the northwest, and you come
to La Ferte-Milon, the home of Racine.
Jean de la Fontaine and Jean Racine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

want to hear about the worst piece of
out-of-luck that ever happened in the
A. E. F.? A pal of mine went into the
fight with 1000 francs in his pocket
you know.
"Now he's reported missing"
An ancient French schoolhouse, de-
serted in the flight of the villagers, was
taken over by the Americans as part of
the headquarters of field ambulance.
The interrupted lesson could be read
upon the bulletin board by the Yankee
wounded, carried through, and Daudet
among them could have woven a master
piece from it. The moral that the teach
err was intoxicating when he held his
"der7lie1e classe" was this:
"The free man obeys his conscience
and the laws Of his country"
And the phrase set before the pupils
for their composition exercise that day
the date was written on the board,
20 Maj, 1918-was:
"Un jour de grand GENT"
They might have written it: "The day
of the big wind"
Don't carry anything in your gas mask
bag that doesn't belong there. That
isn't general order, but the fruit of at
least one mans experience.
He had gone over the top on patrol
Somebody smelled gas; on went the
masks. He bit into it, clamped his nose
soht cfo toI %o hot
is, he tried to. For several agonizing
minutes he struggled to get wind through
it. And then he found it was false
alarm.
Thanking his stars that it hadn't been
real attack to be endured with safety
appliance that was as dangerous as the
German pizen itself, he went to his lieu
tenant at the first opportunity and told
him that the thing didn't work.
The lieutenant looked at it,
"What's this?" he asked
From the slot at the base of the res
pirator he drew postcard that had
stuck there.
"Now try it." he said.
1t worked. That man isn't using his
mask bag as a mail pouch any more
The top sergeant of a field hospital
was tenderly Strengthening out the
papers-clippings, letters, photographs
that had been found in the pockets of
marine from Philadelphia who had
died from his wounds on his way to an
evacuation hospital. II see he got his
man first" said the top, and showed
among the papers there a muddy two
mark note.
Major, er-1 mean Colonel-no, par
don me, Major''-
You really can't tell the difference
after the ma or or the lieutenant colonel
has been hiking few kilometres along
the dusty roads away up beyond the
sprinkling cart zone. The gold leaves
and the silver leaves lose all their CLINT
and glamour beneath a coat of gray
brown dust. So it is perfectly permits
sible to make Mistakes
If you are wise you will say colonel
If it is lieutenant colonel, you're right,
and if it's major it makes him feel
good.
A batch of German prisoners was be-
ing marched along the road under con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
THE COY AND PLAYFUL C0OTIE

With manner quite invidious,
And an attitude insidous,
He will plant himself upon a mortal's
frame,
And with gimlet, pike and augur
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

, roy ol d sergeant. They swung pat
little audience of Yanks. roy
Hello, boysw called one ploos.,
tive in regular English And MY. a.
to the line, he added just as elests
Its hell up therew 'uNl
A lean young infantrymar b,..
across France with his regiment =
flung into fight near Chateau NJ: Ss
with scanty sleep and short rot:
went over a crest with the first No.
assault, emerged from a mix-un ,rs
German bayonet none the worse a.. ~
for tear in the seat of his breechss y
capped by a miracle every blast !, a
murderous crosstire of German m.,,
guns and finally came out one of tbs :.
unscratched ones in his platoon W
dropped on the ground, doubly tbs,..'
for the promise OF few moments, ~.
but he bounded up again in all ~
agony of his first wound. His facs l.
landed in bunch of nettles.
A marine confded to the surpeo, =,
was dressing his wound that h;s ,.1
pany had, at one point, swarmed nm !,
the German artillery and taken tbe ,,.
Were you able to bring them bs.ts
the doctor wanted to know.
Bring them back? He'll, WE'RE o,,.
ing there" ''''S
UP at the front you hear nm r,..
called by the nickname by which eys-
po't~ knows it. The word pinord is M,
the best Americanese.
Two marines on the outskirts Of Chi;
teau Thierry made a dash at Germs,
machine gun that was coming into nj,
on their bunch. The first nrv,,,
grabbed the mouth of the gun with i,
hand and showed it UP in the air. ty
most blew his hand to bits. but the fin.
he remembers best was the wav his \,
the corporal, laughed as he iabbed i,
bayonet through the four Germans VI,
were behind that gun.
When one division moved up to me-
headquarters it took along with it sci
geant in the Q. NJ. C. who believes !
being as comfortable as the exigencjs
of war will permit He was one of thry
'''sleek-headed men, and such as sIeepd
nights" and straightway be began b
look around for a bed. In a barn d
found the village hearse, which by sonl
oversight had not been evacuated. An,
there he lies nightly.
Somebody else liked the idea and
tried to bunk on the roof. But thu
hearse wouldn't stand it. 1t threaterA
to collapse all over the sergeant al
after a council of war it was decidg
that the hearse had been CONSTRUCTED Al
a one-man basis and ought to stay TILL
way.
cts very comfortable" the sergeat
explains. "And if they ever shell hi
barn, here am, al ready for EN-"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1918-10-19

brought back with me to England and
1t Is still in my possession.
When / escaped from the train I still
had the Bavarian cap Of bright red in
my pocket and wore 1t for many
nights, but took great care that no
one saw 1t. 1t also had proven very
useful when swimming rivers, for l
carried my map and few other be-
longings in it and / had fully made
up my mind to bring it home as a
souvenir. But the farther / went
the heavier my extra clothing became,
SO I was compelled to discard even
the cap. I knew that it would be a
tell-tale mark If I simply threw 1t
away, so one night after swimming a
river, dug hole in the soft mud on
the bank and buried 1t, too, with con-
siderably less ceremony than my fly
ing mittens had received perhaps; so
that was the end Of my Bavarian hat.
My experience at the Belgian's
house whetted my appetite for more
food and I figured that what had been
done once could be done again.