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into it. Those pants were "commy
fay" (you remember what told you
about the French stuff I picked up
in Paris, Bill; get this one).
William, there are at a close CEN
sus 1921 of these fatigue four
alarms in London this minute and
nobody bats an eye at 'em. But
the other day when I strolled down
Pail Mall with a yellow necktie my
wife's sister bought for me at the
Busy Bee emporium in Tucson.
Ariz., tied under my Adams apple
just a quiet tie like a moonrise
over Pumpkin Buttes, say-one of
these fatigue-pantsers got the range
of that tie with his monocle and
Just blasted it. I could hear the
report when his glance hit the mid
die of that necktie
I was FOUNDER" Bill, because I
sported three inches of what you
might cali color above my vest. But
that short-horn was fannin' down
quiet street with one-half of six
feet riot and a Sioux ghost dance
and a prairie fire all rolled in one.
When l see you again I'll tell you
just what the American for bound
er" is; you know, Bill, they're still
censoring letters out of here and
one can't be too careful.
Color is for Hind Legs.
Color round the neck's a crime in
London, but you can rig out your
hind legs like Sioux medicine pole
and be Willie Off the Pickleboat. So
remember that when you come over
here.
This is British conservatism-the
kind the sun never sets on. Let me
trot another sample out of my war
bag:
Other day I rose up hungry from
the place where | put on the, nose
bag at 8 a. m. That's my usual Gus
tom, Bill, to rise up from that place
hungry. You'd never even sit down
there-until you got used to it.
Well, sir, along about time for
somebody to bang the old wogon-
tire at II | softed into an eating
house on the Strand, and when the
undertakers assistant built up along
side me. | ordered three eggs scram-
bled with dash of sowbelly on the
side. Three because | was feeling
peaked over that slab of smoked
fish l didn't eat at breakfast.
An Orders an Arder.
Simeon T. Mould-the waiter guy
he looked like a jackrabbit some
body's flushed out of a coulee.
Thank you, sir" said he. "But
two eggs is an order, sir"
Not my order, Sinl," l came back
at him little brisk. three for
me, scrambled on both sides"
He edged off, talking to himself,
and l saw him go to the head pol
isher and give him an earful of con-
versation. Then the main guy shifts
over my way.
did you say three eggs, sir?" he
whinnied.
Three scrambled eggs" was
stenographer's report of my answer.
But, sir, two eggs is an order
(catch the guys bad grammar, Bill;
two egs isl Two eggs is an order,
sir, and we serve only an order, not
an order and half"
"Why not three eggs?" I asked,
wondering when Little Eva and all
the rest of the wheeze came into the
show.
at isn't done, sir mean to say
three eggs" (Get some sense out
of that, Jack Dalton, or unhand
med
There you were, Bill. They'd Al
ways served two eggs because most
likely King Arthur was light
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Scots ""Shorts" Proclaim His Family;
Made from An Old Comforter and Look
Like Sioux Map of Clusters Last Stand

Military Style of Hobbies British Soldiers Fatigue
After Eating More Than the Customary Two EOpen Season
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Three Thousand Mile Trip to Take 60 Days-No Motor
Transport Of Any Nation Has Ever Undertaken
Similar Task-Train to Be Heavier Than ANY,
Single Unit of Service That Supplied Allied Troops

the long journey will be the manner'
i'll which the long snake-like train:
of motor vehicles will wind itsI
heavy, humping way over the Rocky,
mountains. 1t will cross by way of
the continental divide. The engi-.
neering staff of the army has care-t
fully figured out the journey, so that
no mechanical or engineering obsta-'
Giles stand in the way of its success.
The start is to be made on the
morning of July 7 from Lafayette.
square in front of the White House.,
The van of the train will immediate
1y leave the capitol. heading forI
Pittsburgh. The course then fol-.
lowed will take the soldiers trucks.
through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,,
Iowa. Nebraska. Wyoming, Utah..
and Nevada. The transport trucks
will finally drop down the western,
slope of the Sierra Nevada Range,
to Sacramento, Cal, and then on tol
San Francisco.
For many years the Lincoln High
way association has endeavored toI
secure the backing of the govern,
ment in its project to build a thor
oughly sound ocean-to-ocean high
way. The proposed journey Of the
three miles of motor transports Isl
the first official assistance that it.
has received in it's project. In many
states good roads. have been CAM
paign slogans and many governors
and mayors have been made or un-
made according to their ideas on
this public question. The War de-
partment in its official statement to
the War Camp Community service
called attention to the political i'm
portance of good roads throughout
the country.
Establish Good Roads Day."
1t is planned to establish Good
Roads day in the various states on
the days the transport convoy is
passing through them. The schools
will be closed as on a holiday and
the train will be welcomed along
the route by various civic organiza-
| tons.
Because of the importance of
good roads the cross-continent
journey of the motor transport con-
voy will not only interest the ma
ton as spectacle of military eff
hciency and preparedness, but will
appeal to every business interest.
Good roads mean good business.
From a military standpoint the ne
cessity for good ocean-to-ocean
highways is incalculable.
The governors stats of each state
will greet the motor train and escort
it from the eastern to the western
boundary of the state line, where in
turn it will be met by the officials
of the adjoining state. When the
convoy reaches California, at the
western terminus of the Lincoln
Highway, arrangements. have been
made for Gov. Hiram Johnson to
preside over the elaborate welcom-
ling ceremony. The military effect
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Mapping Proposed
Air Route From U.S..
to Australian Coast

10. Angeles, Cal, July 5.-Dr
Ford A. Carpenter, meteorologist,
in charge of the United States
weather bureau here, is preparing
weather chart of the Pacific ocean
to be used by the Pacific Aero club
in mapping proposed aerial route
from Venice, Cal, to Sydney, Aus
tralia.
DR.. Carpenter undertook the
work at the suggestion of Thomas
H.. Ince, who has offered $4,000 to
the first aviator to fly across the
Pacific ocean.
DR. Carpenter is author of "The
Aviator and the Weather Bureau
and is said to be the first scientific
weather observer to make sys-
tematic study of meteorological con-
ditions in actual flight.
Il believe that weather condi-
tons are better on the Pacific ocean
for an airplane cruise than on the
Atlanaic." DR.. Carpenter said
There is less fog and the differ
ence in the day and night tempa-
lures is not SO RADICAL"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
BY ROBERT WELLES RICHIE
(Steff COrresnOndent Universal Seryice,)

staff Correspondent Universal Service.)
London, June 2S.-(By Mail.)-
To William Quick, Prop'r Occiden-
tai Hotel, Buffalo, Wyo,; Dear Bill:
You didn't say anything about
pants in your last; but there's moth
i'll the Defense of the Realm act,
made and provided, to head ME off
this important and informing sub
ject. Therefore, the text for the
day is pants.
Which it will not be British pants
in general, Bill, because this isn't
going to be an encyclopedia, but the
Scotch variety, with the accent on
the Scotch military style of leg hob
bles. I've been in London quite
some time now, but l go on the
stampede half dozen times day
when | meet up with a certain spe-
cies of pants native to these chimes.
They're called fatigue trousers,
Bill, by the soldiers who wear 'em,
and the bright mind who first roped
that name for them probably got
all F. R. G.. S. to wear like a lean-to
roof after his name.
You understand the regular pants
of the Black Watch or the London
Scottish or any of those alleged
Highland regiments are no pants at
all-at least none that are visible
to the naked eye, which amounts to
the same thing. Just kits. But
when the Scotch officer wants to
get out of his Sunday best and into
his fatigue uniform, which you
might call his chore clothes, he sure
does make up for that lack of pants
noticeable on parade.
Pattern Visible a Mile.
He first goes through the family
attic and finds his Mas old last win
ter's comforter made in the pattern
of the family clan-the tartan, you
know, by which you can tell Mac
lavish from a McWhorter away off
on the skyline, just as you can pick
out a Grow buck from one of old
Spotted Tails boys by the way he
wears his feather. He takes this to
his tailor and says, MY good man,
cut me fatigue trouser or two out
of this. Make 'em very roomy
around the waist and skinny at the
ankle, And, my man, don't leave
any OF the bally old tatting sticking
in them, for I'm going on fatigue
with these trousers, what-what?"
So the tailor doesa job of work on
that old comforter and when he gets
finished Willum Wallace McWhiff1e-
tree, leftenant of the Royal South
pays, put on his dinky Scotch bon
net and his regulation uniform coat
and Sam Brown belt-which is de-
signed, Bill, to support hi, dignity
and underneath those things he
buckles these fatigued pants.
They're colored in squares like the
map of the nesters' claims over
along the Crazy Squaw-here's a
square of green about 4x4, with a
yellow boundary line; there's that
new townsite the company from
Aurora, ILL.,, has got staked out,
with a red cross marking where the
courthouse is to stand; down the
right leg runs the map of Clusters
last hike over the Wolf mountains
the leftslegs just various.
Couldn't Find Answer.
First time | saw one of these loco
pants coming at me down good old
Picadilly-l being tenderfoot to
London then and not saddlebroke-
why, Bill, I just naturally looked all
round for the answer. You know, a
sign on the birds back, Eat Jazz
Jiggers" or withdrawing Neatly
Done" But nary joker was there
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
Newport A-Flutter,
as CountessIIs Soon
to Visit Her Mothe,

Newport, R l.. July s.-New-
ports villa colony was in futter
of interest over the report that the
Countess Lazzio Szechenyi, for
merly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, is
coming to the United States when
the peace treaty between the allies
and Austria is signed. She will
visit her mother, Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt at the Breakers.
The Countess Szechenyi was last
in the United States about seven
years ago.
In January 1918 the alien pro-
perty custodian took over nearly
100000 worth of stocks and
bonds and property owned in this
country by the countess. At the
same time the various properties OF
Countess Anton Sigray, a sister OF
Mrs. James w. Gerard, were seized
The Countess Szechenyi was one
of the most enthusiastic war work
ers in the Austrian Red Cross
Her handsome palace in Budapest
was turned into an orphanage, with
800 inmates. To them the countess
became known as Mother Gladys
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06

Washington, July s.-By order Of
the War department the motor
transport train, three miles long, to
cross the continent to the Pacific
coast, reaching San Francisco over
the Lincoln Highway, will leave
here July 7. This long journey is
to be made in 60 days. 1t will
serve as a test of efficiency of the
army's transport service, but what
is considered more effective, will
demonstrate to the nation the in
estimable value of a system of ma
tional highways.
The plans for the adventure have
been completed by the War depart
ment. All equipment has been as
sembled and the personnel detail
assigned. This transport train will
be the heaviest in the history of any
army. 1t will be even heavier than
any single unit of the huge trans
port service used to keep the ar
mics of the allies supplied along the
French front. No motor transport
train of any nation has ever before
attempted a continuous journey Of
5000 miles in so days with full war
equipment.
Average rs Miles Daily.
The motor trucks will carry not
only their own supplies to last the
entire journey, but will carry supply
and repair units, as we'll as full
compliments of men and officers.
The marching orders call for an av-
erage of IS miles a day. This sched-
ule necessitates speed of IS miles
an hour all the way from Washing
ton to the coast, no matter how I'M
favorable the weather or geograph-
ical conditions.
The War department, through the
chief of the motor transport corps,
Brig.-Gen. Drake, has officially mott
fled the War Camp Community
service of the departure of the trans
port train and requested it to care
for the men all the way from Wash
ington to San Francisco, sending
the itinerary of the line of march
The War Camp Community service
has been authorized to make Official
4 announcement of the event for the
War department and has already
dispatched special letters with in
structions to all of its organizers
and field workers 'along The line OF
march. Plans for the mems care
and recreation during their brief
evenings in each community have
already been perfected.
The decision to serd three miles
of army motor trucks across the
country was reached several days
ago, in Washington after consulta-
tions between General Drake, in
command of the transport service
Col. Owen Seaman and Lieut.. Col
J. M. Richie working in close col.
liberation with the Lincoln High
way association.
] The most picturesque features Of
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Army Transport Train, Three Miles Long, tC
Pass Through Nebr. on Cross Country Trip

Of the journey will Be even greater
than the civic lesson that it will
teach. 1t will demonstrate the prac-
ticability of getting a huge army
across the continent in 90 days.
1t is also proposed to have the
president dedicate tablet in Lafay-
cite square marking not only the
starting point of the cross-continent
army jaunt, but also serving as the
original point of all the national
highways in the country. The tab
let will consist of an engraved map
of the United States. All the ma
tional highways, now and later au-
thorized, will be filled in in gold.
The official itinerary follows:
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for his experiences, but made clean
through.
He was so eager to get back with
his comrades. So eager was he
that the day the armistice with Ger
many was signed he was aboard a
transport at New York waiting to
sail as Red Cross Secretary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-06
Little Canada"

Brussels,-Maple trees and Cana
dian flowers are to be extensively
planted in Ypres as a memorial to
the Canadians who fell here. A
museum and library are also to be
erected. ,.
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The Washington times., 1919-12-12
PASS ABSENT VOTER BILL.

BISMARCK. N. Oak. Dec. 12.--
North Dakota voters living more than
one-half mile from their respective
voting places may use an absent
voters ballot under the provisions of
a senate bill which was passed by the
house. The vote was SO to 10.
The Washington times., 1919-12-12
TALLMANK|LLS
| D. c. LAND GRAB
Decision of Land Commissioners
UphoIds Titles On Capital
Property.

General Land Commissioner Clay
Tallman's decision on the title valid
ity of Washington real estate called a
complete halt to the efforts of those
who had undertaken to claim much
of the valuable land in the District
of Columbia.
No further applications for land
patents have been filed at the Land
Office, and Washington bankers, real
estate operators, and attorneys. sur
prised but not frightened by the at
tempt to claim title to much of the
best business and residential prop
erty in the District, are satisfied that
the scare" has blown over.
Leaders OF the enterprise filed
applications for patent to many
parcels of land in the District under
an ancient law enacted by Congress
in 1907 and long forgotten.
After consideration of the case,
Commissioner Tallman issued a decis-
ion upholding the titles of local prop
erty and refusing to heed the claims
of the aspirants. The decision, which
bears the indorsement Of Secretary Of
the Interior Lane, deals extensively
with the law under which the applica-
tions were made and with laws subse-
quently enacted which invalidated the
law Of 1907.
Commissioner Tallman also cited
several decisions of the United States
Supreme Court with regard to land
titles in the District, supporting his
decision.
So far as Washington property
owners are concerned, the matter is
now q dead issue unless the appli-
cants seek to override the decision Of
Commissioner Tallman and carry their
case into the courts. A legal battle
would be the result, but real estate
operators insist property owners
have nothing to fear.
The Washington times., 1919-12-12
PURITANICAL SABBATH
FOR DISTRICT URGED

In an effort to preserve the Amer
lean Sabbath as far as possible in
accord with the Scriptural command
ment, the Lords Day Alliance OF the
United States is holding its thirty
hrst annual convention in Washing
ton, with headquarters at the Foun-
dry Methodist Episcopal Church.
A movement for a Sunday rest law
in the District, which will be pro-
posed in Congress at the present
session, Is among the principal mat
ters to be considered. 1t will be dis
cussed tomorrow morning.
Bishop W. T. Mcdowell, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, will
preside at a meeting tonight. known
as National Night" Among the
speakers will be John Koons, first
assistant postmaster general: c. L.
Franciscus, president OF the United
National Association Of Postoffice
Clerks; Congressman Martin y. Mad
den, and Ernest A. Eggers, a New
York letter carrier.
The convention will continue to-
morrow and Sunday.
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A|RPLANES SEARCH
/. FOR NEGRO SLAYER
Pair Escape on Freight Train
and Seek Safety in Mary
land Woods.

ELkTON, Nd, Dec. 12.-Lawrence
Beers, aged twenty-three, son OF
Thomas Beers. of near Elkton, was
shot and instantly killed yesterday by
an unidentified negro. Beers. who was
an officer of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. while on duty at Swan creek,
observed two negroes acting sus-
piciously. and when he approached one
drew his revolver and fired, the bull
let passing through Beers mouth.
Imediately after the shooting, the
negroes boarded a freight train. and
after riding over the. SusQuehanna
river bridge. jumped of and escaped
into wood.
News Of the shooting caused great
excitement and soon a large posse of
citizens, aided by a squad of soldiers
and two airplanes from the Aberdeen
proving grounds, began a search for
the pair.