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Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
JOSEPH E. SHERWOOD
RETURNS TO MORRIS
Has Been Truck Driver Over Shell
Swept Roads in Verdun Sector
in France

Joseph E. sherwood, who has been
serving for sixteen months with
Company B, 3rd Corps, Artillery
Park, and who has spent one year
of that time in France, returned to
his home in Morris last Monday
night. sherwood was under all the
heavy firing of the battle of the
Argonne Driving truck filled with
ammunition over shell swept roads
was a dangerous practice to say the
least, and often the men could
only drive on the roads after dark.
Wire screens with grass interviewer
and other forms of camoufage were
used as a protection against Ger
man fire.
sherwood said the incest thing
about the signing of the armistice
was that all cars could carry lights,
and all the tents we're lit up at night.
Everywhere he looked he could see
CHEEKY illumination instead of the
darkness lit by bursting shells and
rockets he had experienced so long
during the war He was stationed
in England for three weeks before
going into the Argonne. IsherwOOd's
four sisters, Mrs. Charles Gaffney,
of Horton, Mrs. Earl Cook, Mrs. Gus
Pillen and Mrs. J. Foley have all
been to Morris to see him since his
return.
Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
FARMERS AND FRIENDS
VISIT MORRIS TODAY
President Burton and Commissioner
Holmberg Will Be Present and
Talk

President Burton of the University
of Minnesota and Commissioner N. ].
Holmberg will be in Morris today to
address the farmers and their
friends at the West Central School
of Agriculture, the occasion being
Visitors Day and the annual picnic
of the county farm clubs. The pro-
gram will begin at 2:3O on the cam
pus of the school. Members of the
Board of Regents of the University
will also be here, on their way from
CrOOkstOn to Minneapolis.
Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
WON CROIX De GUERRE
FOR HEROIC SERVICE
Finds Wounded French Officer in
Shell Hole. Bears Him to
Safety Under Fire

Joseph Guild, wearing upon his
breast the Croix de Guerre for brav-
cry, has been in Morris at the Nor
ris Hotel for several days. Sent out
on patrol one night in September of
1918 he was separated from his COM
rades forty yards from the enemy
trench. The band had split so that
they could be less easily seen when
the star shells we're sent up from the
German trench in front of them.
Attracted by groans, Guild felt his
way into shell hole. There he
Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
$4,000 FROM COUNTY
FOR SALVATION ARMY
Dr.. Caine Chairman for District and
Mr.. Nash for County Salvation
Army Work Appreciated

DR.. c. E. Caine, of Morris, has
gotten behind the drive for the Sal
vatiOn Army Home Service campaign
in district II and will lead promin-
ent men and women in the district,
including Grant, Douglas, Stevens,
and Pope counties, to work to put
their territory over the top ahead of
the other thirty districts into which
the state is divided. AS yet DR..
Caine has selected but one county
chairman, c. w. Nash, of Morris, for
Stevens county, but he is working
now on a list for all the counties.
The intensive stage of the drive
will come in Minnesota August 10
to 18 and will work to raise a state
quota of 100000. The various dis
tricts have special quotas, according
to counties. In. this district, Grant
has a quota of $1,000, Douglas of
$4,000, Stevens of $4,000, and Pope
county Of $4,000, making a total for
the district of $500.
Julius A Schmah1, secretary of
state, has accepted the responsibility
VI OLCLIO CACIA4 AAcbAIOh4p 4OA ChC CCb141-
paign which is a branch of the ma
tional campaign for SIS, 100000. H.
N. Jeffrey, state campaign director
for the Salvation Army, is organizing
the state and is working with the en-
dOrsement of many representative
men to put Minnesota on the map in
this campaign. In the districts in
which there are Elk lodges, the Elks,
under the supervision of r. F. Ell
bridge, st. Paul, state secretary of
Elks and editor of "The Jolly Elk, I"
will canvass and will arouse inter
:. est in the nation wide move. The
Minnesota quota has been set for
100000, which is part of the west
ern quota of $7,OOO,OOO. The east
ern quota is the same as the western
quota and was oversubscribed $4,-
100000 in the campaign which has
just been concluded there.
The United War drive quotas we're
followed in setting allotments for the
drive and are based on the peculiar
needs of separate communities. All
the money raised in any state will go
towards the furthering of Home Ser
vice work in that state. The call for
money so soon after the United War
drive comes because not cent of the
money went for Home Service work
but all for overseas work which made
possible endurance of adverse war
conditions for "our boys" and Incl
dentally won for the Salvation Army
the boost of every man returning
from the service.
Allotment for districts vary out Of
proportion to the difference in popu-
lation because of a plan which pro-
4ss4des buildings in some districts and
not in others with the exception of
one or two where the need is great
and the population sparse. The dis
tricts which will have permanent
equipment will pay for it with money
raised from their own territory. This
Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
Willmar to Celebrate

Willmar is to have today a whole
program of thrills. Ruth Law the
noted woman f1ier will do her marvel
Gus stunts in the air and there will
be six big auto races and also auto
polo games between British and Am
erican teams.
Morris tribune., 1919-07-18
Sorlie Gets Promotion

I. M. Sorlie, local manager of the
Northwestern Telephone Co. has been
appointed district manager for the
company with headquarters in Nor
ris. He spent Monday in Glenwood
looking after the company's interests
there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
By JANE PHELPS

advantage of the fine weather.
go right along Mrs. Gray"
thought once more of that trunk In
the attic. IF should decide to come
home Hetty will wait upon me-"
Thank you. Then I think 1 will go
out for an hour or two
I would return. and soon- would
take the gum had secured and take
an impression of the peculiar lock 1
had noticed on the small black trunk
which had so piqued my curiosity.
But l was not to make my plans
come true.
We had gone but littleNways out of
town. and were on a lonely road when
suddenly around the corner dashed a
great high-powered car 1t looked
like some great black demon dashing
down upon us. 1 recall l screamed.
chung to Hetty, then shut my eyes. I
was sure l was either dying or dead.
I When I opened my eyes / was sitting
right in the middle of the dusty road.
in a very undignified posture, while
Hetty stood over me wringing her
hands. and the occupant of the big
was bending over my chauffeur lying
quite straight and still in the road
| about twenty feet away.
us he dead?" 1 whispered to Hetty
IT don't think SO. but he's awfully
| hurried" she eturned in the same con-
!
1--WE must do something for him.
/ Still my voice rasped in a whisper.
Are you hurt 20 Hctty turned to
me.
1T don't Know thought I was
! dead at first But I seem to be ali
, right. OH" / exclaimed as my foo,
/ bent under me- II guess have
sprained my ankle
Hetty helped me to get to the side
| OF the road. Then she took off my
shoe and looked at my ankle. l had
wrenched it badly; but after twisting
1T considerably. and hurting me mos
| horribly. Hetty said it was not broken
Just then the nice looking younf
man came over and asked IL he could
| be of assistance.
Your chauffeur seems to be quite
/ badly hurt. III park your car by the
side of the road and take him to 6
hospital. and you to your home-i
! you aren't afraid to trust me-"
Gladly 1 accepted his offer. and WI
soon were on our way home. HettI
| supporting Thomas on the rear sea
while I rode next the knight erran
who had succored us in our distress
That was the way l thought of him.
| 1t was the way they spoke of sucl
an incident in novels.
l (Tomorrow-A storm and burglar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
LETS GO.

The Salvation Army is erecting a
headquarters building in Topeka
which will be credit to the organiza-
ton and to~the city. The Army needs
$19, 900 to complete the structure.
This amount citizens of Topeka are
asked to subscribe. Everybody should
be ready, willing and glad to contrib
ute to this fund.
While the war was in progress all
felt it to be a patriotic duty to give
literally to funds designed to enable
various organizations to carry on work
for the welfare of our soldiers and
sailors. Activities along these lines
now practically have ceased. They
are no longer needed.
But the work of the Salvation Army
never ends. 1t goes on from day to
day and from one years end to the
next and we all know what it is. Our
duty to God and humanity demands
that we lend a helping hand to this
band of faithful workers. There is
none in the world more deserving.
There is scarcely a citizen who. If
appealed to in an individual case
among those constantly handled by
the Army. would not yield a ready
response in money. Surely few will
refuse to respond when the appeal
comes in this wholesale way.
To carry on its work thoroly and
economically the Army must have
proper facilities. Among these none
is more important than an adequate
OF income other than the voluntary
contributions of the people. Visits
by a soliciting committee should be
unnecessary and nobody should be
put to expense or loss of time in rails
ing this money. 1t is the business OF
the entire community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07

King Albert of Belgium is deserving
OF all the honors that the American
lople can bestow upon him. He has
proven himself to be a real man as
We'll as a real King. He must ever
Stand out in history as the man who
primarily saved the world from Ger
man domination. He might have
chosen the easier way and sacrificed
honor for a temporary advantage by
allowing the kaiser free passage thru
his country. Had the Huns once es-
tablished themselves on the western
coast of France. it is doubtful that all
the powers of the world could ever
have driven them back. For main
tanning the right Belgium paid fear
ful price but she and her king
emerged from the conflict covered
with glory. and remain the creditors
of the civilized world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07

jewelry is beyond anything in the past.
The sales ofa bar gold by the United
States assay office. New York. to man
ufacturing Jewellers. in the first six
months of 1919 amounted to s26,91s.-
07s against s15.s77.e2s In the first six
months of 1914. All this is net the
luxurious living of an aristocracy. of
wealth. but free spending by the great
body of the people. Ask any mer-
chant in Topeka If this is not true.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07

with cups Of cold water" and that the
weeds and tares are kept rooted out.
Great characters from little kind
neeses grow.
And as one works patiently toward
better things, overcoming and con-
quering the things that disturb and
lessen the strength of triumphant
life, so does growth creep on its way
and become an influence and a power
wherever it is stationed.
What a fine affair IL is to do a
noble thing just for the sake of doing
it,
Back OF this philosophy Is the es-
sence-beauty of doing little things in
the right way--so that they may be-
come GREAT. From little acorn
planting TO becoming men and women
who stand in builded he1pfulness as
shelterers of the needs of otherst -
How great are the results that arise
from little acorns!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07

"A Vienna newspaper. commenting
Oh the illness of President Wilson, ex-
presses the view that If Mr.. Wilson
should be separated from his office
tiie treaty Of Versailles would fail of
ratification. Thus is illustrated anew
European ignorance of American pol
tiles. There is no serious opposition
to the treaty. The apparent opposi-
ton is directed at the president and
the party of which he is the leader.
With the possibility OF harming the
president politically removed the
treaty would be ratified in short order.
without amendment or reservation. as
will be done ultimately in any event.
The senators who are making a show
OF opposing the treaty understand very
we'll that to amend or qualify would
be equivalent to absolute rejection and
few If any are willing to go so far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
Swimming

swimming
Nuthing is so useful TO people in
deep wattir as knowing how to swim.
II a person is drowdning, no matter
how many o:her things they know.
unless they know how to swim they
will keep on, drowndins. Meny of the
smartest people have bin saved frum
drownding by ignorant people jest be-
cause they dident know how 10 swim
and the ignorint people did.
Keeping up in the wattir all depends
on wat motions you make. Sumtimes
drownding people make more motions
than any other kind. ony they amt
the rite kind of motions, meny OF them
meerly being motions for help. A
persin that don't know how to swim
is jest as anxious to stay on top of the
wattir as enybody elts. but that don't
say he will This proves that noliege
is more powerful than hope.
A good swimmer wouldent care how
wffen he fen in the wattir II IL wasent
for his clothes
Most people don't mind trying to
swim in shallo wattir because 1t ID q
' CRATE comfort to know you cant go
down fertilizer than your neck II you
go down. Meny people who seem TO
beN swimming in shallo wattir RELY
have one foot on the bottom. This
proves that appearances is deceetfili.
Altho a persin cans dive without
knowing how to swim. they awtent to
for their own safety.
A diver who goes in lest rite with
out hardly making hole gets the
most Enjoyment out Of IL, but one tina {
goes in flop on his stnmniick, with a
| big splash gives others the most in
| joyn emit
4 Good reasons for knowing how TO
gswim is fer-'t. 50 you can save your
own life. End. SO you can save cher
peoples life. 3rd. SO you can wawk on
the edge of a river and don't care wat
happens, and 4th. SO you can say yes
I In case enybodY asks you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07

himself well for any one Of. the learned
professions, including teaching, can
hardly begin to support himself be-
fore he Is twenty-seven years old. :"
This argument was considered very
potent. but as neither colleges nor
high schools ever agreed to shorten
their courses or lessen their require
ments nothing came of it.
The conference of 1892 did, how
ever. lead to the junior high school
which has in the past few years be-
come so popular. In 1899, the first
junior high school was introduced,
and ten years later there were only
nine in the country. But since then.
the project has grown rapidly until
now junior high schools are in oper-
alton in all parts OF the country.
The change in, organization is too
new and the schools are too scattered
for any up-to-date nationwide sta
tistics to have been collected. But
whenever the new system has been
put into effect comparative figures
and instances show that a large per-
,centage of pupils who otherwise
would have obtained no high school
education are sufficiently interested
by the Junior high school course to
complete 1t, and often go on to the
senior high school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
Hapinr. aonnired the hahi, Of :

Having acquired the habit of wise
spending, elimination Of waste and
regular saving of some amount of
money no matter how small, the peo-
pie must learn tie meaning OF sound
investment, says William Mather
Lewis. director savings division United
States treasury. In a time of high
prices the desire for money lures peo-
pie to invest in >all sorts OF get-rich-
quick schemes. hoping thru them to
find a short cut to opulence. Today
thousands of people in the United
states are being urged by unscrupu-
lous brokers to exchange their liberty
bonds and war savings stamps for
stock which they are assured will yield
five to six times as much as the
bonds pay. The man who listens to
their argument is likely to find him
self the possessor OF gold brick. Ev-
cry man who holds on to his govern
inent securities unless absolutely
forced 70 sell them is benefiting him.
self financially and aiding the STABILIZE
ing OF business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
worlds Highest Paid weAan wsites.
How To Avoid Being a Bore

How To Avoid Being Bore.-f.
Do you ever wonder if you are as
great a bore as such and such a man
and woman you know, who go their
devastating way thru society, mar
tyrizing all they meet with their dull
ness and stupidity?
DO you ever speculate as to whether
people look forward with pleasure to
your coming. or II they nerve them
selves to enduring your company with
what fortitude they may?
1t is a CHASTITY thing to realize that
we may be bores without knowing it,
and that those about us do not enjoy
us. They only suffer us for the sake
Of business or out of kindness of their
hearts or because we were wished on
them by nature and they can't help
themselves.
The worst part of 1t is that there
is no infallibIe way for ascertaining
whether we are bores or not, because
good manners demand that our fell
low creatures camouflage their feel
Angs while they are being bored to
death and perish, like the Spartan
boy, without making an outcry of
agony Still less can We apply the acid
test for bores to ourselves with our
own hands, for we are all so eveElast-
ingly interested in our own little per-
sonal affairs that we cannot realize
thrilled by every detail of our per-
sonal experiences as we are.
How then are those of us who are
human and who desire to 60 thru life
affecting others as little as possible.
to save ourselves from becoming
bores? It is no easy matter. and re-
quires courage and self-abnegation
beyond any possessed by. any except
the strongest souls. yet it may be
done, and while the results are not
guaranteed TO produce spellbinders,
they will, at least, save anyone from
becoming an understudy to a twelve
inch auger.
To avoid being bore is not so much
question of doing as of don't-ing,
and the very first don't is; - pftf
Don't talk about yourself. OF
course this is hard thing. because
the only subject that most of us really
enthuse over is the eternal /, and II
seems beyond credence that the world
Is not waiting with baited. breath 10
hear the most minute details of what
we had for breakfast. and where we
spent last evening. = e.
Nevertheless such is not the case,
and nobody cares rap about what
we said to the boss. or what the boss
said to us, or whether our baby cut
one tooth or a whole set, If you viii
make an ironbound rule and not
break it, never to talk about yourself
or your relations, or your business or
your automobile or your golf. you
will have gone long way towards in
surfing yourself against being bore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-07
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

O. Is there anything objectionable In
addressing business letter Dear Mrs.
A. This is correct under any circum-
stances. Dear Madam" is more formal
my dear Mrr.. smith, indicates better
acquaintance. In no case. however. Is there
anything personal in the use Of the term
dear 1t is n mere form of salutation.
Q. Is 1t true that when an automobile
hour there IS a portion OF 1t which does
not move Mt all?.E. g. b,
Nj ar that how Ssrt fast sf tn fre %he
instant stationary At the same time the
part of the wheel that is highest is travel
ing at an accelerated speed. 1t is moving
twice rs fast as the machine Itself
O.. why does the Gull, Stream exert n
greater influence on the climate of Europe
A. The winds that most affect the
Europe are from the west. Thus woaid
they blow off shore in the United States
and fail to bring the warmth Of the Gull, Gulf
toward the shore and warm IT.
O. Who was responsible for the pur-
chase Of supplies for the navy?cT: W
of the bureau Of supplies and accounts.
was purchasing agent OF the navy during
the war He had been In the paEmasteT5
thru all the grades Before that he was
n newsnnper reporter in South Carolina;
the railroad administration &C. c. 4.
A. When the government took over the
railroads IL encountered many dffficufti' 8
due to the fact that there wcrn m"nv
makes of engines. and that different sots
Of sparc parts had to be- kept for erch
make. 1t decided to staniardize tho new
engines II bought. Earlv In 1918 1t iesu"d
specifications and purchased. for S60.60]
apiece. 1925 engines with interchs n~enbf"
narts. All engines bought since that time
have conformed to this plan.
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question by writing The To'eka STATE
Journal Information Bureau. Frederic ].
Hs skin. Director. Washington. n. G. This
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to settle domestic troubles. nor to Under
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