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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
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THE RECRUIT.

used to wake up with sticky tongue
And an eye that was dull and red,
And the songs that the early birds sung
l heard on my way to bed;
But now jump with the reveille
And my eyes are bright and clear
And thank my lucky stars each day
That the government sent me here
/ used to be mean as hermit crab
Till I'd swallowed that morning drink,
But now I'm wearing the Olive Drab
I'm blithe as a bobolink,
For the fresh air thrills through my
throat and chest
And l just want to shout and roar,
And life has SAVIOR, a Zip a zest
That never have known before
used to be flabby and soft and white
When sat at desk in town,
But since I've been learning the way to
fight.
I'm husky and hard and brown.
It took a cocktail to make me eat
The choicest of food, but now
You watch me march to a mess-shack
seat
And wade through an army chow.
So smile sort of shame-faced smile
When think how I pied exempt,
And Pm glad that the board saw through
my guile
With a glance of cool contempt
And though may perish across the seas,
I'll be one of a splendid clan,
For the army's taken piece of cheese
And made it into Man!
I'm Camp and Trench: Songs of the
Fighting Forces" by Berton Braley
George H. Doran company
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Finding Fault.

Addison says, what an absurd thing
1t is to pass all over the valuable parts
of man and fix our attention on his
infirmities!" But that seems to be the
habit. About the first thing we try to
find in man is his faults. They are
apt to transcend his virtues, even if
the virtues are mountain high. It
is a deplorable habit, for it not only
does great injustice to the person critt
cized, but it hurts the critic himself.
1t lowers his views of life and confirms
the habit of seeing the worst side Of
human experience and losing sight of
the bright side. No man can be
moral man, or religious man of any
faith, who Is constantly searching for
the faults af people. The first duty
man owes to his neighbor is to look
for the bright side and he will then
find, in most cases, that the dark side
is much smaller than he suspected.
The thing to attack is the sin, for we
will discover that that is greater than
the man who is guilty of it.-Ohio
State Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
EVERY MAN POTENTIAL HERO
Records of American Soldiers in
France Seem to Show That Only
Test Is Opportunity.

From time to time we are wont to
ponder on ''the stuff of which heroes
are made" We reflect upon it SUBJ
consciously just as some of us rumi-
nate-or once did ruminate-on how
we are going to feel under fire. Psy-
biologists never have been able to
classify and catalogue the qualities
that go to the making of hero. There
is no way of telling one in advance.
Offhand no one would have said a
few months ago that dentist named
Aloysius Lucius Lamar Lyle would
be hero. Without passing an opin-
ion as to whether or not his mother
raised him to be soldier, 1t is fair
to assume that she didn't name him
for one.
And yet Aloysius Lucius Lamar
Lyle Joined the army and came to
France as a dental officer, and two or
three weeks ago was cited for unusual
bravery on the battlefield. Under
heavy shell fire he went to the aid Of
wounded man in peril of bleeding
to death. quenched the flow Of blood
and carried him to safety.
The only test for hero is opportu-
nity.-Stars and Stripes.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
DEMAND FOR HOLY PLACES
So Long as Religion Exists There
Must Be Spots Devoted by Men
to Xeneration.


AS long as religion exists men will
look for it's holy places. If they do not
find it's sanctuaries ready at hand in
the natural features of the country in
which they live, or If they are not pro-
vided with places consecrated by the
history of the past, they will make
them for themselves in their churches
and their shrines.
Men need some special place where
they can know that they are in the
Divine presence and can offer their
homage before his throne. The places
of mems yeneration are frequently i'm
pressive and beautiful, but, on the
other hand, they may be the barest
buildings, having nothing of grace or
beauty to please the eye. Yet the
meanest building becomes ablaze with
Divine glory to those who have met
God within it's walls. And where gen
GRAFTON after generation of men, each
in it's turn, has bent in reverence to
worship, or to listen in faith to the
word of the most high in warning, en-
enlargement or comfort as they most
need, they have dedicated holy places
with a reverence due to the honor of
God and the memory of his people,
London Times.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
The Ancient ouipu.

The quipu reached it's most elaborate
form among the Peruvians, from whose
language the term ''quipu," meaning
"knot," is borrowed. 1t consists of a
main cord, to which are fastened at
given distances thinner cords Of diff
fereut colors, each cord being knotted
in divers ways for special purposes,
and each color having it's own signiti-
canoe. Red strands stood for soldiers,
yellow for gold, white for silver, green
for corn, and so forth, While a single
knot meant ten, two knots meant TWEEN
ty, double knots two hundred. Such
simple devices served manifold pur
poses. Besides their convenience in
reckoning, they We're used for keeping
the annals of the empire OF the Incas;
for transmitting orders to outlying
provinces; for registering details of
the army.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Airnlane Mail.

1t is interesting to know that post
masters have been placing, with "a
rubber stamp, on the back of air-post
mail the following caption: "Send
letter by airplane, especially to one
over there 1t will be real treat"
What is the reason? Probably it rep
resents an endeavor by the govern
ment to popularize the use of the air.
plane post, which is certain, to be ex-
tended in coming months to all parts
of the country, says Kent B. Stiles in
Boys Life. The public is urged to
mail letters, via plane, addressed to
soldiers abroad, hundreds of thou
sands of whom left their own land
before the new mail service was in
augurated. The caption is interpreted,
too, as forecasting the establishment
eventually of transoceanic airplane
post.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
LATIN QUARTER OF TOKYO
All Kinds of Schools and Colleges for
the Seeker of knowledge to Be
Found There.

Tokyo, considered the educational
center of the country, vibrates with
student life. In addition to it's I'm
perial university, there are two large
private universities with over 10000
students, various technical schools,
commercial schools, normal colleges,
high schools, middle schools, a foreign
language school, Buddhist and mission
airy schools and 234 primary schools,
Gertrude Emerson writes in Asia
Magazine
The presence of thousands of young
students from distant parts of the
country who have answered the lure
of the capital has brought about
curious housing problem. Many
schools provide their own dormitories;
most of the provinces support one, and
certain philanthropic persons make
contributions. The greater number of
these Tokyo dormitories and boarding
houses are located in the quarter of
kanda, or the Latin Quarter" as the
students themselves euphemistically
call it. limbo Che, the principal thor
oughfare, with it's rows and rows of
little open-faced secondhand book
shops catering to the promiscuous stu
dent taste, almost rivals the Quais OF
Paris. A tour of inspection will throw
an interesting side light on young
Japan's mental furniture. There is
invariably a section devoted to foreign
books, most English TRANSACTIONS of
such writer's as Maupassant, lola,
Baudelaire, Maeterlinck, and the Rus
slams; Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Shaw and,
by the way of showing the open mind
edness of the age, Schopenhauer and
Conan Doyle very frequently side by
side on the same shelf. Then there
are volumes of theology and innumer-
able self Helps to Practical English"
1t is curious, indgestible, i'll assort-
ed mass of literary naterial-this
that the Japanese student avidly swal-
lows, like prescribed dose, convinced
that with one gulp he will become mas
ter of all Western wisdom.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
FORTS NOW BUILT IN EARTH
High and Strongly Made Walls Are No
Defense Against Modern Weap-
ons Of Defense.

The history of fertilization shows
that in ancient times the idea was
to make forts as high and conspicu-
GUS as possible. The walls of Nine
veh were made hundred and twenty
feet Nightly miles of them-so that
they could be neither shot over nor
climbed over. There was no fear
of their being knocked down.
But forts got lower and lower, as
catapults gave place to cannon and
gunpowder banished bows and springs.
And in this war we have seen the
forts sinking down to the level of the
ground itself and their defenders bur-
rowing in the earth, neither being able
to stand up against the increasing
storm, the ballistic hurricane! The
sand grit bosom of Mother Earth
alone can Withstand that tempest!
In other ways the new has driven
us back upon the old-upon first prin-
ciples, as we say. When Alexander
Of Macedonia went triumphant against
the East he was sadly held back by
the hedges that the Hyrcanians had
cultivated around their villages for de-
Tense. Today we have had to contrive
new military hedge, but still it is not
hedge-the barbed-wire entangle-
ment.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Our Sister in Tvphoid.

In his Past and Present" that open
ing gun of the midnineteenth century
radical campaign, Thomas Carlyle tells
Il grisly story of poor Irish widow
in Edinburgh, who begged for help.
"She was refused, till her strength
and heart failed her; she sank down
in typhus fever; died, and infected her
lane with fever so that IL other per
sons died of fever there in conse-
duence. The forlorn Irish widow mp
plies to her fellow creatures, Behold,
! am sinking. | am your sister; one
God made u.s. They answer, No, i'm
possible; thou art no sister of ours
But she proves her sisterhood; ner
typhus fever kills them; they are actu-
ally her brothers though denying it,"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Sizino un the Load.

1t was dark night in the rear of
the lines. A Tennessee colored team
ster had just been loaded up with big
mess of supplies to be toted to the fir
ing line in the form of ammunition,
etc. The big mule leaned up against
the collar and tested the load and re-
fused to bulge; the skinner got
down off his load and looked the har-
ness over carefully, then climbed up
on the cart again and dropped the
heavy whip on the mules back with a
crack-with no result. He climbed
down again; the mule after the man
ner of her kind had swung her head
around and was looking back at the
load as if estimating whether she had
been overloaded or not. The skinner
walked around in front and addressed
the mule in disguised tone as fol-
lows: "Looky yere newell! Whaffer
you come over var to this yere France
fer? To do bookkeeping"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
New Cotton Plant.

"The discussion regarding cotton
and the fixing Of its price by the gov
eminent reminds me of the excite
ment caused among the cotton growers
of Egypt some time ago by the story
of the discovery of a new cotton
plant" said Robert G. Horner of New
Orleans. "a man living at station
on the Cairo railroad noticed in his
cotton field a plant that differed con-
siderably from the others. He collect
ed the pods, separated the seeds and
carried on the cultivation until he was
convinced that new kind of cotton
plant had been found. In appearance
it was described as being ten feet high
without branches and only few
leaves. The ordinary plant in Egypt
is shrub about four feet high with
spreading branches. The discoverer Of
the new plant calculated that by
steadily propagating its seeds enough
would be produced in year to plant
all Of the cotton land in Egypt"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
LAND WAS LONG UNExPLo RED
Tasmanians for Centuries Unaffected
by Influences to Which Other Abo-
rginals Were Subjected.

Probably the best illustration of an
island population unaffected by out
side influences was afforded by tho
Tasmanian aboriginals. They wan
dered from the mainland before the
sea (Bass straits) cut the Speck off.
1t may be that the aborigines cut off
were not disturbed by an outside in
fusion until the arrival of Tasman,
and he did not get on speaking terms
with them. The Frenchman, Marion,
had an argument with them, and a
couple of natives were killed before
it concluded. Furneaux and Cook
also had some slight intercourse with
these blacks. Labilardiere saw good
deal of them. He reported that in a
party Of 40 there were eight men and
seven women. The rest were chill
dren. In another party 4S strong
there were 10 men and IA women,
which shows that the families had
n good average number Of children.
When the island was colonized the
native population, on the most reIi-
able estimates, ranged from 1000 to
1000. There is nothing to show that
the tribes fought much against each
other until the white man pushed
some of them off particular hunting
grounds on to preserves of other
Tubes. Anyway, If they did fight they
couldn't have done much damage.
The spear, their best weapon, was
only a pointed stick. They had no
spear-thrower to give it extra force,
and two black fellows might throw
spears at one another all day without
a hit-not that the aim would be bad,
but that the target would not be there
when the missile arrived.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Brass Production Made Costly.

Up to the time of the hostile out
break nearly all brass was made in
costly crucibles of imported clay and
graphite Since the war it has been
impossible to obtain the imported ma
terials for crucibles, and manufactur-
ers have had to put up with crucibles
of much poorer quality, and at cost
many times that of prewar prices.
With the huge tonnage of brass needed
for war purposes, such as shells for
cartridges, manufacturers have been
anxious for solution of the crucible
problem.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Man Has Much to Learn.

Man thinks he is a pretty smart fell
low now. And so he is, but it must be
somewhat of bump to his pride when
he considers how long it took him to
learn the few things that he knows.
For 1t is really only few things
that man yet knows compared to the
things that surely he is destined yet to
know. 1t is true that he has invaded
both the kingdoms of the fishes and
the birds, that he can navigate the I'M
der waters of the seas and the upper
winds of the air, but these are prob
ably small achievements in view of
that which it is possible for him to
achieve in the future.-Les, Angeles
Times.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
SPOILED HIS LITTLE TRICK
Well for Americans That Texan Had
Properly Sized Up Preacher
GUS Boche Prisoner.

They had taken their first Boche
prisoner and were marching back to
the rear. He was a German who had
been long time in the United States
and he insisted on being sociable.
"Well, boys" he cried, ignoring the
grim silence with which they received
his jocose remarks on the war, "Have
cigarette all around on me and let's
forget all about it,
His hands moved toward his pocket
when
Islands up!" said a voice behind
him, and "Texas," real cowboy from
the Lone Star state, presented an argu.
ment sufficiently strong to make him
elevate his arms above his head in true
"Kamerad' style.
Search him, boys. I think he's got
a grenade in his right hip pocket
A grenade! Upon investigation, II
turned out that he had six concealed
about his person. These they judici.
ously dropped all together into the
slack of his trousers.
Snow, boys" said Texas" ''run like
hi"
He pulled out the pin of one gren.
ade and took to his heels like coyote.
A mile farther on, somebody picked
up bit of bootlace and offered it to
anyone who wanted souvenir Of their
first Boche prisoner-From a Red
Cross Scrap Book.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Liberty is Responsibility.

Peace and order and security and
liberty are safe so long as love Of
country burns in the heart of the peo-
pie. 1t should not be forgotten, how
eves, that liberty does not mean law
lessness. Liberty to make our own
laws does not give us license to break
them. Liberty to make our own laws
commands duty to observe them our
selves and to enforce obedience among
all others within their jurisdiction.
Liberty is responsibility, and RESPONSE
bility is duty, and that duty is to pre-
serve the exceptional liberty we en-
joy within the law and for the law
and by the law.-McKinley
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20

the assistant proceeded to wait upon
the newcomer. Finally a perfect fit
was secured.
"Now, what make are these Shoes"
inquired the man. "They fit me like
a glove. Just write down the make,
with the exact width and length"
The salesman did as required, and
the man drew on his old shoes and
started for the door.
'Don't you want the shoes, sir?" in
quired the surprised assistant.
ooh, no." responded the man; II just
wanted to get my size. have friend
in the wholesale business who can get
them for me at a good deal less than
your price"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Individuality in Groves.

To many people grove is grove,
and all groves are alike. There is as
marked difference between different
forests as between different commune
ties. A grove of pines without UNI
derhrush, carpeted with the fine-fin-
gered russell leaves of the pine, and
odorous of resinous gums has scarce
ly IL trace of likeness to a maple
woods, either in the insects, the birds,
the shrubs, the light and shade, or the
sound of it's leaves. {. AT any
rate, the first pines must have grown
on the sea shore, and learned their
first accents from the surf and the
waves; and their posterity have borne
1t inland to the mountains.-Henry
Ward Beecher.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Artillery "eums the eame.p

"Funnier than any stories 1 ever
could tell are some of the tales the
boys tell of their own experiences.
One little fellow, with both legs gone,
told me how he had crawled up hill
to where he could see the Boche plain
": but all of sudden it occurred to
him that if he could see the enemy
they could see him. But, I says to
myself, they won't waste shell on
just me- Just then bunch of artil-
cry guys came up. Hey yells, 'getta
hell outta here. Youse'll gum the
game,' and sure enough I'd hardly got
ten the words out of me mouth when
-blooie land finds myself in the
hospital with both legs gone. Elsie
Jsnis, in Red Cross Magazine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
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ENGLAND TAKES OFF HER HAT.

England takes her hat off to our lads, SO
she cries;
England takes her hat off to their brave
cry, SO she signs.
England takes her hat off
For the way they met that hour
And we doff our hats to England
And we thank her for her flower.
England takes her hat off to our boys,
the way they stood
And in that awful hour of danger with
the touch of fortitude.
England takes her hat off
And we're proud to hear her say
That our soldiers, like her sailors,
Met their fate the proper way
England takes her hat off to our boys
SO do we,
And it's hands all around once again
across the sea,
And it's hearts and hands together
Where all races for the right
Shall stand up before the Terror
Till they've stripped him of his might
-Filger McKinsey, in the Baltimore Sun.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
"AIex the Great" on Passport.

Among the countless passport sto-
ries now current in Europe one is told
by the newspaper Novy Kurier Of Ora
COW, Austria. A Polish princess want
ed to cross the frontier from Russia
into Poland with her son. The bolshe-
vik authorities refused her passport
and claimed the son for military serv-
ice. With much trouble and aNliberal
use of money, she obtained bogus
passport, an important looking docu-
ment bearing many seals and sigma
lures, one of them being that of "Alex-
ander the Great, king of Macedonia" 1t
secured her a safe passage and has
now found place in her family ar
chives.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20

your great-aunt's wedding today, is
it?"
Faith, no, sorr." replied Pat, with
grin. ITS no so bad as that. It's
-bedad, OF hardly loike to tell yez,
sorr!
ooh, come now, Murphy" said the
captain, grimly, 'Ill try to stand the
Shock
"Well, sorr, it's loike this intoirely.
Oh had the misfortune to have BROTH
err born blind, sorr Heaven be praised,
he's got his soight, an wants to see
me, sorr."
Leave granted!" snapped the cap
tain, as he burst into uncomfortable
laughter. Tit-Bits.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Spanish LANGUAGE.

Probably the most promising field in
the world for trade expansion is South
America, where the Germans had OBJ
tanned footing before the war came
and their shipping was driven off the
seas. The United States should
obtain a portion of that trade, and in
order that young men may be qualified
TO take part in it, the teaching of the
Spanish language in the high schools
is recommended. Spanish is the Ian
guage of all the countries of South
America, except Brazil, where the
Portuguese language is used.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
EIiyuers of the Air.

The newest airplane is a "hyplane"
which is fitted to the aviator's body.
The wings are locked on in such
way that the airman bears the weight
of the machine on shoulders and hips.
In flights he feels no weight but seems
rather to be sitting on the machine.
If these machines prove practicable
they will be very useful, as they are
so small that at a height of ten thou
sand or more feet they cannot be seen
by the naked eye.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Considerably softened.

"This war is dreadful"
$50 it is" replied Mr.. Dubwaite, "but
It has made better neighbor out OF
me-"
GLOW is that?"
'The young man who used to prac-
tice on the cornet morning, noon and
night in hall bedroom across the
street has been decorated for gallantry
in France. If he ever comes home and
wants to resume practicing won't say
a word" -Birmingha Age-Herald.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Economy.

paper is getting scarcer," exclaim.
ed Doctor Dumkopf.
"Have you any suggestions?" in.
quired the Berlin official.
eyes. In making agreements we
should write our agreements with a
slate and pencil. We could clean off the
slate as much as we like without waste.
fulness."
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Increased Burdens.

"Why should these railroads keep
charging more money! asked the man
who had just came in from Baltimore
"Dey's dom more work." replied the
tired porter. spears like every suit
case weighs three times as much as it
used to-"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
CAUGHT MAPPING,

A soldier was dreaming of the Won
derful time he hsa ,..;.c G.. 60
Tough. He dreamed he was out in
boat with his sweetheart fishing. Get
ting excited over a good catch, he
called to her: II got bite" Just
then some one shook him and said:
"You needn't wake up the whole camp
about it. Why don't you scratch it?"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
Doing Her Bit.

"see here, l thought you agreed to
be my little lump of sugar"
II did, Ferdy, 1 did,
"But last night Algy was abiding
to you as his lump of sugar"
well, we must conserve sweets
make the sugar go as far as it will."-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-20
ResourcefuI.

"What are you going to do when
your share of sugar is gomez"
"Oh," said the girl whom nothing
troubles. "I'll simply send to the con-
fectioner's for few extra boxes Of
candy" -