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La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1919-12-21
FL ejereiso americana gano la guerra

IL cJcrcIto americana gano ia guerra
Lo que el general PerShing dice
en- sintesis, 0 mejor dicho, 10 cue So
Gesprende de SUI relate, pues el jete
americana no 10 expresa con palabras,
es que eI ejercito americana fue e.
que gano IA guerra.
Eel espiritu de firmeza ' dctermj-
naci6n que animaba a cada soldado
americana, dice el general Pershing
al referirse q Ia batal!a del MoSa '
Argona, 'fue 10 que hizo impossible
para eI enemigo mantener Ia Iucha
hasta 1919.
'Veintidos diviSiones americans Y
cuatro f~rancesas Sc hallaban empeha-
das en- esa lucha formidable ' de-ro-
taron decisiyamente a cuarenta = sic
to diviSioneS alemanas. que represen-
taban el veinticinco por ciento de to-
da Ia fuerza divisional del cnemigo en-
al frente occidental.
De las divisiones enemigaz VEIN
te habiaR sido Sacadas del frente fran
ces ' una del frcntc ingl5s y de las
veintidos divjsiones americanas. doce
habian estado varias veces durantc
este periodic. (dei % de Septicmbrc
al II de Noviembre), comoatiendo en-
otroS sectores distintos del nuestro
propio. E! primer ejercito habia ST.
frido bajas por cerca de 1l7.0OC
hombreS CT muertos Y her;doS Y ha-
bia capturado en- Gambia $4,000 ale
names, SAT canones, 5000 ametralla
doraS Y grandes ~cantidades de nate
rial de guerra.
Con el ejercito americana pozesio-
nado de las colinas que d~ominabar
= Sedan Y 0 la Inca a.emana de
comunicaciones difinltivamente divi-
dlda. Eel enemigo r~econocio que NADIA
podria salvar a suS ejercitos de IN
complete deSastre, como no fuera Ia
cesacion de las hostilidades y pidi6
IN Immediate araisticio Ell dia s de
Noviembre".
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24
Here's How War Risk Insurance
Bureau Operates At Washington

bags. The checks which had been
found incorrect were turned in to the
cancellation section where they were
kept on file and a notation was made
and returned with the award cards
for a new and correct check to be
written.
BY all of which it will be seen that
the method prevailing In the Disburs-
ing ONCE was intended to develop an
expert in whatever line of work the
girl might be assigned to. Each girl
had certain lines Of work and these
she did, day after day, day after day
Just one line and no other. This
same policy still prevails I'm the Dis
bursing once, but considerable i'm
provement in speed and accuracy has
been made by the Introduction of
various mechanical devices.
I As the work increased 1t was evil
dent that some method of producing
checks other than by typewriter must
be devised.
A battery of graphotype machines,
ninety-six in all and the largest num-
ber ever assent mbled for any one job
were installed These machines make
a plate, from which checks later are
printed on addressograph machines
The plate making is slightly similar
to the process of typesetting ma
chine, and these plates once cOrrectlv
made, the opportunity for error in
the check is at an end.
These plates are kept on file in ex-
lactly the same order that the award
cards are kept, so that il there is
necessity for change in the award
card with consequent need Of making
new plate, both are easily and
quickly turned to.
When the time comes for writing
the checks for the monthly payments.
the plates are put on the addresso-
graph machines which print from the
plate in duplicate. The check 10
printed and duplicate print is made
on q record sheet which later Is used
for checking up and which is kept on
file as q matter of record.
Just what q lessening of labor was
accomplished along with increased
accuracy may be comprehended in
the statement that one machine and
two girls turn out twenty thousand
checks O day and these two do work
which formerly required one hun
dred people.
II writing checks was a problem,
signing them was equally trouble
some. At first they were signed one
at o time Just as other checks were
signed. But to expedite matters q
device was installed by which five
checks could be signed by q single
process.
90 now q device has been worked
out by which the signing of the
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24
Athletics Developing Muscle And Pep
Among Members Of u. S. Forces Abroad
BY T.. A. BACHELOR

the X. OF c.. went into overseas work,
one of It's first acts was to purchase
and ship tons of athletic equipment.
Up to the present the "Y" has provld-
ed hundreds OF athletic directors re-
cruited from the foremost athletes OF
earlier generations and tons OF sport
ing paraphernalia. The X. or G.,
starting a little later, Is developing
similar program. Directors use
every art to get the backward, the
shy, the non-athletic soldier into the
games for the good of his body and
his morale, q tremendous aid to the
winning OF the war. The "Y" and
X. OF C. men seek to enlist the great
est number of men in sports rather
than to develop q small team of
crack athletes.
The figures, based on the activities
of one unit, show the result. They
were taken in comparatively small
region and were selected at random.
Baseball engaged the attention OF
1.423 men of this region in o week.
The games were witnessed by $4,000
men, which would be considered o
very good weekly attendance for o
minor league club, and as many spec
tators as a big league team In the
second division often draws in seven
days. Here the proportion OF play
ers to spectators is one to ten, while
in league baseball it would be 1 to
400. figuring 80 players as the aver
age number appearing weekly on the
diamond.
Volley ball, probably the most pop
ular game for soldiers, engaged 1906
players with a large gallery. Boxing
ranked third in popularity, with 1927
men participating, while 5000 sol
diers looked on. Compare that one
to nine average with big fist fight
crowd viewing the efforts of two men.
Tennis exercised 227 men. while sos
participated in track and field sports.
Basket ball engaged 793 soldiers,
while indoor baseball, soccer and
rugby football worked the muscles
and minds Of hundreds.
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24

checks can be done after they are
printed, and sixteen Of them will have
the signature afIixed by one process.
The signatures in all cases are actual
Den signatures, but a mechanical at
tachment reproduced the signature
fifteen times.
AS times goes on and the last of the
hovs in service are returned to civil
life. the work OF handling allotment
and allowance checks will autOmat-
icalIy come to an end, and all of the
perfected organization and methods
developed during the stress Of war
will be utilized for handling the SOL
diers' converted insurance.
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24

An output Of checks aggregating in
sixteen months a total Of $432,255,-
b4a!
A total of 13,768,0S0 checks. which
IL placed end to end would make q
strip Of paper more than 1S47 miles
long!
II the $432,255,S43 were turned in
to ona dollar bills and these bills
placed end to end the result would be
. strip of green and white money
s2,S72 miles In length.
These are q few quickly computed
comparisons which convey c0ncretely
the idea Of the enormous amount Of
money which has been paid ont by the
Disbursing once of the Bureau Of
war Risk Insurance in the sixteen
months between the date Of its estab-
lishment, November I, 1917. and
March /, 1919.
Practically all OF this money has
been paid either to the families Of SOL
diers In allotment and allowance
checks. compensation or insurance
checks, or directly to soldiers them
6elves in compensation.
OF the 13,7e8.0SO checks issued,
fS,101,T24 were allotment and allow
hnce payments to soldiers dependents
which involved q cash value OF $4OO,-
S23.OA0. Insurance checks numbered
201.S93 with value Of $14,666,434.
While compensation checks tOtalled
SiO.679 and represented $13,6S4,-
sss.
when the Bureau was first organ
ized all the checks were written on
tyueWriters, the checks being made
In accordance with the award card.
This award card was that which stat
ed the amount of the monthly check
together with the name and the ad-
dress Of the dependent. When the
~fynist finished with the check writing
they were passed on to two other
Young women, one of whom held
LcOpy"-that is the award cards
and the other q proofreader. All
chacka which were correct were
NaaseA on to the check signers, and
thence onto the girls who placed
iham in the window envelopes in
which they were mailed out. From
this girl they went to an inspector
Tho noted that each check was 30
placed in the envelope that name and
address were i'm plain sight through
the "window," and from this girl the
checks vent to the sealers who closed
the envelopes. The next process waa
that of sorting according to states
&weww afafA bundles together and
nlacing the envelopes in the mail
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24

What is putting the pep" into the
American Army of Occupation? Ath-
letics certainly are helping. How?
BY raising the morale and muscle OF
the American fighters. In one unit
and in one week. 6,SS5 soldiers par
ticipated in athletic sports. They
had 36,275 spectators, meaning that
for every six soldier spectators there
was one soldier participant. Better
record than baseball or football has
in the u. s. A., ne c'est pas?
How did the sports rank in pop
ularity among the soldiers? Volley
ball came frst. Baseball was second.
Boxing was on the limb. Track and
field sports were just ont OF the
money. Basket ball was nth. In
door baseball, soccer, rugby, tennis.
etc, were in the ruck.
Athletics surely are putting muscle
and pep" into the young men who
must handle the rifles. artillery,
grenades, spades and other imple-
ments of warfare. Besides this. there
is the high morale generated by tin
Cling high spirits and good health
which blesses the well-exercised body.
Contrast the figures above with q
worlds series baseball game, where
43, ,OO0 spectators watch Is men con-
test, or Yale-Harvard football game,
where the Yale bowl" held 10000
fans while 22 men struggled to up
hold the supremacy of Old Eli and
John Harvard. Contrast it with q
boxing championship match where q
gate" Of upward Of 100000 wit
messed q bout between two men. Con-
slider the greater advantage, the
widespread benefit of sports involv-
ing one contestant to every six spec
tators.
The figures are furnished by the
Y. N. C. A., one Of the organizations
which assumed the responsibility OF
spreading mass athletics among as
many Of our soldiers as would re-
spond to the opportunity. The Y.
N. C. A. was the pioneer to make
every one" get into the game. When
Trench and camp., 1919-04-24
SOLDIER-LABOR PROBLEM
SOLVED

A short time after the armistice
was signed two bucks" were dis
cussing discharges and future en-
ployment.
You know, Bill, when we get out
of this mans army and try to get our
old jobs back, we may nnd some
jane holding them down"
"Suits me-" was the ready reply.
"I'H marry the Jane and let her keep
the job.s-Judge.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26
COMPENSATION ACT
MUST Be WATCHED,
EMPLOYERS WARNED

Richmond people, who are employ
ers of labor. either by contract or
otherwise, have been very negligent
in complying with the provisions of
the new Workmen's Compensation
act, passed by the last legislat ure, and
effective on last May 16, and many
have made themselves liable under
the act, through having work done
by contractors who have not met the
requirements of the law.
Under the provisions of the new
law, not only the contractors are la
BILE to pay compensation for accident
or death to workmen employed by
them, but persons contracting for
work with men who do not carry suf-
ficient compensation insurance, may
be forced to pay for injuries or death
as we'll.
For instance, If a man hire con-
tractor to build a house, under the
new law, and the contractor is not
carrying compensation insurance for
his men, or is not financially able to
pay compensa ton. the person having
the house built may be forced to pay
for accidents in his place.
Must Comply With Law
The section of the new law, cover
ing this phase of compensation, fol-
lows:
Sec. 14-The State, any political di-
vision thereof, any municipal corpor-
alton. any corporation, partnership or
person, contracting for the perform
ance of any work without eXacting
from the contractor a certificate from
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26
Chautauqua Tickets Go
on Sale on July 20

Everything is in readiness for the
opening of Richmond's Chautauqua
for 1919 The camping ground has
been replatted and staked off, and
number of new and desirable lots
have been added, according to F. F.
Riggs of the Chautauque board. The
lumber for the floors has arrived on
the grounds and carpenters will begin
construction next week, Riggs an
nounces.
Printed programs including some Of
the best attractions ever offered are
off the press and will be distributed
as soon as possible. Season tickets
will be placed on sale at stores, banks
and business houses of the city on
Monday, July %.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26
World Patent Bureau
Planned by Inventors
NV Associated Preas)

BRUSSELS, Friday, July 25.-The
members of the patents section Of the
International Research convention
now meeting here reached an agree
ment on the establishment Of an inter-
national patent bureau for the protec-
ton of Inventors who are now handi-
capped by costly and widely differing
laws Of the various countries.
Under the new arrangement none
Of these laws would be changed so
far as native inventors are concerned,
but each country would subscribe to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26

This will furnish proof that the EN-.
ployes are covered by compensation.
Failure to comply with this section of
the law is punishable by heavy fines
ranging from SO to $50 a day for
each day after September 1 of each
year, that the registration is not
made.
Another section of the law. dealing
with agreements, provides that en-
ployers shall not enter into agree
ment with their employees waving
the payment Of compensation, and
such agreements, II made, are not
valid. The law also makes numer-
Gus changes in the amount of COM
pensation to be paid for permanent
injuries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26

the Industrial Board showing that
such contractor has compiled with
Section SO of this act, shall be liable
to the same extent as the contractor
for compensation, physicians fees,
hospital fees, nurses charges, and
burial expenses on account of the in
jury or death of any employee of such
contractor, due to an accident arising
out Of and in the course Of the per
Torrance of the work covered by such
contract.
The law also provides that all en-
ployers of labor, other than domestic
servants, or farm labor, be required
to register with the state Industrial
board, annually and will be granted a
certificate of registration from the
board.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26
Volley Ball Series at
Y. M. E. A. on Thursdays

A recreation volley ball game has
been instituted at the Y. NJ. c. A. by
a group of Richmond men for each
! Thursday afternoon at o'clock, since
the closing of many business houses
on that day. Nine or ten men have
been on the floor in a series Of lively
turns for three meetings, and others
are invited to join at any time.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26

an international arrangement protect
ing foreign inventors. Thus an Ameri-
can inventor would take out patent
in Washington to protect him in the
United States and then would apply
to the international bureau for pro-
lection in every other country instead
OF having to apply separately to each
of the forty-ffve nations now having
patent laws
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26

was recommended today by the house
ways and means committee. Some
Democrats Joined with Republicans in
voting for repeal, but others said that
action should be deferred pending
further investigation.
The committee also voted to recon-
mend the repeal Of the 10 per cent
soft drink war tax, though no record
vote was taken, Democratic members
urged that all repeats be deferred un-
til means for replacing the lost reve-
nue. was found.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26

Australian engineers have invented
switches for the use in railroads where
three rails are laid to accommodate
cars OF different gauges.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-26
House Committee Fauors
Repeal of Canada Act

(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 60 Repeal of
the Canadian reciprocity act OF 1911
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
PALISADE GIRLS TO
HAVE fine SHOW AT
CARNEY HALL JAN. 81

Make way for the girls of Palisade.
Meaning the Girls Patriotic League.
They are going to give their first
play and they're going to give it in
Carney Hall on the evening of jan
uary 81.
Just remember the date and come.
The boys of Palisade gave their min
strel show The tiremen of Palisade
gave their minstrel show and used to
give an annual ball. That was before
the war.
Now that the war is over the girls
are going to give play, "Fads and
FancieS," one long scream of mirth
and they're going TO give Il dance too.
It's the first play the Girls Patriotic
League has given, at least since the
open air pageant several months ago,
and it goes without saying it will be n
dandy The cast is Il large one and
the talent great. Come to Carney Hall
January 81 and see.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
OLD BALL PLAYER
and fine ATHLETE
KILLED ON N. Y. CEN. RID.

Howard d. Terhune, cashier of the
Hackensack National Bank, is deeply
grieved over the news of the death of
Thomas p. Cunning. who was killed in
the New York Central train wreck at
Batavia, N. Y, on Sunday. Cunning
was catcher for the Oritani Field Club
when Mr.. Terhune was the team man
ager, and the latter says that Cunning
was the greatest all-around athlete he
ever knew, starring as football player
as well as baseball expert. Tommy
Cunning played in Hackensack when
Leo Fishel pitched, Tommy Brush at
first, Tommy" Morehead at second,
Mike Leonard at third and Fred Van
Zant at short-one of the greatest in
fields outside of the big leagues.
Cunning married Il daughter of Delos
Bliss, a lumber merchant, and lived at
Highwood His wife died a few years
ago, and her father died later
The funeral services We're held Tues
day afternoon at the home of eX-MayOr
Dan Fellows Plat in Englewood, who
was a brother-in-law of the deceased
Record.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
ITALIANS SHOOT BIRDS
FROM HOUSE WINDOWS

family of Italians living in Abbott
boulevard east is liable to get into
trouble with the Audubon Society.
Some one in the house in question
owns rifle and insists on shooting at
bluebirdS and other birds from raised
windows of the home In addition to
having no sort of right to shoot in the
village of Palisade at all, it is clearly
against the law to shoot song birds, to
say nothing of the great danger of
shooting through some neighbours
window and causing injury. 1t has
not been so long ago when a little
GrantwOOd boy standing in the front
door of his home near the Episcopal
Church ran suddenly to his mother in
side with one eye shot out by some
thoughtless person with rifle. This
particular family will sooner or later
have to give an account of itself, it is
said, for other social derelictions.
Some people do not know enough to
refrain from running around their
premises in their undershirts, another
thing to be tabOoed:
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
N. j. BUDGET ABOUT 100000
FOR COMING YEARS EXPENDITURES
INCREASE OF JUST $444, 5000
New Wing for State Capitol to Cost $3.50 O00Exa Rent Now
$1,000 Year-Baance in Treasury Now 100000,
Most Unusual Happening-New York's
Annual Interest S8841 900.
YET TAXES IN new JERSEY ARE HIGH

Trenton, Jan. 14.-In his budget mes
sage Governor Edge recommends an
appropriation of $1000,O00 to acquire
by gift, purchase or condemnation a
strip of land / 900 feet wide from Rari-
tan bay at Morgan to the Delaware
river at Bordentown for the cross
state ship canal The recommends
ton is contingent upon the federal
government appropriating money for
the actual construction of the canal
The governor also recommended an
appropriation of $350,000 for new
wing to the state capitol 1t cost the
state $1,000 for rent for offices in Tren-
ton for departments that cannot be ac-
commodated in the state house. The
total for salaries for state employees
suggested is S3,S46, 124, an increase of
$751;, no. the bulk of which is for bet
ter pay for the teachers in the normal
and Institutional schools.
The total recommended in the budg-
ct is $9.930, S60.14, an increase over
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
.ENCLEWOOD CLIFFS
fire Department
HAS ANNUAL ELECTION

The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Englewood Cliffs Fire
Department was held Monday evening,
January Ii. The following were nomi
mated and elected to serve for the year
of 1919:
Mr.. r. III. Houghtaling, president :;
Mr.. Halvar Enger, vice president; Mr.
Harold G. Houghtaling, treasurer; Mr.
A. Florehinger, secretary; Mr.. Frank
c. Rose chief; Mr.. Joseph Desato, as
sistant chief Mr. Emil Vyborney, fore
man.
After eight years of faithful and
constant service as treasurer Mr.. John
Wunsch refused to accept the re-elec-
ton of treasurer for the coming year,
which was offered him unanimously, at
which all the members present were
very much disappointed, for they all
have soft spot in their hearts for
him. Thereafter Mr. Halvar Enger
vice president, paid a very beautiful
tribute to Mr. Wunsch. and it was
agreed that at the opening dance in
the new firehouse on Washingtons
Birthday eve, February 81, the firemen
will present Mr. Wunsch with a beau
tiful fountain pen as lasting remem-
brance for his services.
After the meeting some of the men,
berS inspected the new firehOuSe, To-
Gated just off Sylvan and Bayview
avenues
The installation of the fire apparatus
in the new firehouse will be made by
the COytesville firemen at very near
date.
Don't forget the dance!" Tickets,
50 cents.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-01-18
.PALISADE COULD
PROFIT BY BOCOTA'S
TOWN MARSHAL WORK


The efficiency produced by the dis
tricting of the borough marshals by
Chief of Police William Lockwood of
Bogota and the interest taken by the
marshals in their districts was ably
demonstrated early last Sunday MORN
ing, when within ten minutes after
they had been called from their homes
four very suspicious looking charac-
ters We're in the clutches of the law.
1t was . O'Clock yesterday morning
Lockwood and informed him that the
four men were acting suspiciously near
Il house on West End avenue He
quickly phoned to Policeman William
H. Muller and Marshals A. A. tDessow,
Charles J. Williams and Edward Frick.
who in no time located the men walk
ing single file along West End ave
nue. and arrested them. Before Re
corder Peck they gave the names of
William Neumer, Joseph George, John
McAllister and Peter McDermott and
their residences as in the vicinity of
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street.
New York. They We're rough looking
and their talk was equally so. They
claimed to have been summoned to
the borough early in the evening to
locate a woman, but couldn't explain
why it took until , a. m. to find her.
They had no shields or credentials as
detectives and carried no weapons.
The recorder adjudged them guilty as
disorderlies and fined them $40 and
costs, which one of them paid. They
were then "seen out of town" 1t was
. o'clock before the marshals again
turned in, having acquitted themselves
with credit-Record