Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-21
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And now the report comes that
Quentin Roosevelt, whose tragic
death in the latter days of the war
saddened the whole nation, was not
killed by being shot down from
the air by German aerial oppon-
ents, but was the victim of Ger
man firing squad after he had
landed safely within tue German
Eres. Official German and Ameri-
can dispatches at the tine said he
met death in battle.
Can't. Chas. G. Dodd. son Of
Brig. Gen. Geo. A. Dodd. retired,
of Enfield. O.. told of the new de-
tails day or two ago in'Syracuse,
N. Y. Photographs taken hy an
official German photogra cher and
sold by him to American officers
with the Army of Occupation
vouch for the veracity of the story
told by German soldiers, claimed
to have witnessed the incident.
"Quentin Roosevelt was shot by
German troops upon making safe
landing in an airplane near
Boche camp, according to the Ger
man photographers tale" Cap
tain Dodd said.
81 talked with Germans who saw
him come down after being sepa-
rated from a formation of Ameri-
can planes. His machine was pot
ted by Boche aviators but he land
ed uninjured into the midst Of
German soldiers"
Just another example of the bru-
tality of nation that makes war
ON women and children-the ma
ton shot Edith Cavell--but which
Senator Knox, colleague of Lodge
and foe of Wilson, says was pun
ished too severely in the peace
treaty.
A late report regarding economic
conditions in Germany is to the eff
feet that the situation there has
greatly improved during the last
few weeks, due to the fact that the
workers are not only returning to
work, but they are doing so with
a determination to avoid strikes
and there is a growing feeling that,
in order to save Germany from dis
astrous results on account of the
war, it is incumbent upon her peo-
pie to work more than eight hours
per day. 1t is further said that the
workmen now realize that condi-
tions due to the high cost of living
cannot be improved merely by
higher wages, but that the real
need is for greatly increased pro-
duction. In this connection it is
stated that the workmen in some
industries have voluntarily under
taken t. work an additional ten
hours each week. The shortage
of workers is, however, so great
and the reed of increased produc-
ton SO urgent that the government
is said tC be seriously considering
the question of enacting a law re-
curing Il ten-hOur working day and
providing for compulsory labor.
The Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical college has made a big
step forward IN technical educa-
ton by the establishment of
course of instrdctIcn in the va
nOus branches of aeronautical en-
gineering. The course is to last
one year and will loclude ground
instruction, pilot training, radio
work, aerial photography and air
gunnery and bombing The in
stitution has secured from the air
service section of the War De-
partment $4,000 worth of aviation
equipment, and its course of in
structiOn will, it is said. be COM
prehensive and thorough The ex-
tension of this plan to other edu-
cational institutions throughout
the country is strongly favored by
War Department officials as a
means of supplying the steadily in
creasing needs of the government
and various private industries for
trained aviators.
A national union of employers
embodyng all that the trades un-
ions do for labor was organized in
Chicago few days ago with Chas.
Plez of the Link Belt company, as
chairman.
Fifteen employers organizations
IN the country are represented.
The organization, when complet-
ed, will present the views of the
managerial interests collectively at
Washington, it was stated by Piez.
Manufacturers are awakening
to the fact that they have got to
present their own views collective
ly at Washington if they are to get