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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

found the county firmly established
on war basis. Food substitutes
were becoming better known. The
local Red Cross Unit that had been
established early in the year was
sending regular shipments to the
hospitals. The whole county was
knitting sweaters, helmets and
other articles Of clothing for the
soldiers. This unit Of the Red
Cross will before the end Of the
war send in hospital supplys and
articles of clothing to the number
Of over ten thousand. The people
were contributing Loyalty to all
drives, Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A., and
the great government loans. Near
ly a hundred men were in the army
environments or behind the lines in
France The smallest county in the
state can indeed look with pride
on it's efforts in the first yeal Of
the war.
And now as to the men in the
army.
The life Of the men in the can
tonments if not exciting and full
Of thrills such as they had expected
was never monotOnOus. If a man
was lucky enough to be sent to an
organized division like the Thirty
second or the Fourth or some
other old established regular army
or national guard unit he was al
most Immediately swallowed up by
the army life. On the other hand,
if the new soldier was sent to a
national army division, either the
Eighty-ffth at Camp Custer or the
Eighty-siXth at Camp Grant, he
had to swallow the army. The
work was then a great deal slower.
The new hopeful arrived at the
sorting station and handed in his
papers from the local board. They
were hastily glanced over and he
was then consigned to a unit where
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use his talents. These units per-
haps had a skeleton Of some ten
or twelve men from regular army
camps. For instance, seventy men
from the 18th Ambulance Company
at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind,
formed the basis of the enlisted
personnel for nearly the entire
Eighty-ffth division, medical de-
partment.
The physical examinations came
next. 1t was almost pitiful to see
some Of the specimens that the
local boards sent to fight for their
country. Mostly by those boards
perhaps that were to be paid by the
number Of men sent to the army.
1t was however wasted carfare in
hundreds Of cases. Men without
teeth or fingers, men with flat feet
and hatter chests, men with horri-
bic diseases, any one of which
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27
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The Finish


1OHllnueu from page L
S38,250.0O had been handed in.
After this loan our quota will be
raised d little. The state has found
out what we are capable Of and
they will in the future take adj
vantage Of it.
Then came the questionaires.
People wondered what the poor
suffering registrant would undergo
next. BY the time he had finished
filling out the volume or so Of very
intimate questions about his habits,
health, weaknesses, blemishes, ma
tionality, number of children, num-
Der Of wives living, the exact rea-
sons why he should not be drafted
at that time, and all that line Of
stuff, his past, present and future
was about as open to the public as
a travelling library. A person who
did not have the privilege Of fill
ing out one Of these great pieces
Of wartime nuisance did not know
just how near General Sherman
was to the truth when he made
that famous remark.
1t took all the way from three
quarters Of an hour to an hour for
an attorney to get the dope on one
man. Even then lot Of it might
not be exact. There is a very good
example Of unjust claims for ex-
emption in the following story
told by one Of the board. A man
whose wife was living apart from
him but not divorced claimed ex-
emption Of the grounds that he
had to support their children who
are living not with him but with
his wife. His wife by the way was
in a different state. His question
ARE was sent to his wife for her
signature and came back unsigned
accompanied by the following let
ter Il am unable to vouch for the
answers given. have received to
date $4,000 and average Of $1,000
month for the children. My own
salary for the same time has been
$3.50 per month" AS a result of
this letter the man was boosted in
to Class Ia. The questionable
board was headed by Frank Carter.
He had his workers all over the
county. But with all the work it
caused the QUESTIONABLE board,
these documents were a godsend
to the draft board. When man
in the future came up for exemp-
ton they knew to a hair just how
much claim he had for considera-
ton.
The beginning of the new year
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

would have barred them from ac-
tive military life at any intelligent
examination. Men with warped
conscience that curled up and
Whined at the mere thought Of
military life and who would rather
stand the rigors of a campaign in
LeavenWorth rather than the
thoughts of possible hardships in
France A man from Villas county
who wishes to remain anonymous
tells the following story Of group
Of Conscientious DIRECTORS. 1t was
at Camp Custer, Michigan. Some
sixteen men were introduced into
the service from a religious colony
that didn't believe in the cutting
OF hair on any part Of the head
That wouldn't have been so bad,
for although, he wouldn't be very
popular with the average West
Point man with hair and beard as
long as Samson, there was nothing
to prevent man from being an
Al soldier and still fight shy of a
Gillette. But these men also OBJ
jected so strenuously to being in
the army at all. They were first
placed in the Infantry. There they
had to handle rifles, weapons of
death. They would become defiled.
They objected. Alright. They
were transferred to the Quarter
master. There they had to handle
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

war stores that went to create
death. That was too much for
their finely tuned consciences. 1t
would never do. They objected.
Again it was O. K. They were
transferred to the medical depart
ment. There they had to care for
men who were wounded. They had
to handle bandages, splints and
tourniquets. If they cared for
wounded men they would become
detiled with filth and human blood.
They again raised an ear-piercing
objection. That was the last straw.
The long suffering army officials
transferred them to the guard
house and thence to Leavenworth.
There their objections had no more
effect than the winds across the
waste or the tinkling of the camel's
bell. for one hope that they are
still there.
Once the physical examinations
were over, the men were issued
their complete military equipment.
Then began the daily grind. Squads
east and west from seven in the
morning till five at night, for five
and maybe six days a week with
such rigid and hair-raising inspec,
lions on Saturday morning that it
would make you walk in your sleep.
With reveille at 5:45 in the sum
mertime and a half hour later in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

The trip from Southampton
Havre tn ough the minefaI3
rather something of a sens..
most soldiers. The big Amo. y
ships made for Brest. The ~s
cargo ships unloaded their mi "a
St. Nazaire or Bordeaux, On ',s'
from the ship the reclnit Y
climbing hills. 1t didn'r Ivan
whether it was at LeIIayro D "a
st. Nazaire or Bordeaux r. n'a
gineers who laid out the resi-
rested them on the tons = y
nearest and steepest hills
Nearly half the A. +. + ILL.,,
the hill at LeHavre. The ni+ -.'
an ordinary roof would be ', o...
slope compared with thar s sg
a zig-zag road up the faca ~.
cliff was windtaking effort
strong man; but for a gnr !.
hadn't recovered from his snor
seaslckness or his staryatio,
England and with that pack s+..-
die his shoulders, perhaps for ,' =.
first time he realized that III, \
a war Of exhaustion. And NJ "
the rest camp at the ton vS. IT,
you could do everything but r, ,.'
With fourteen or sixteen mon w.
a little tent sleeping with A..
feet to the pole, if a man t5o1 III
turn over he was out Of IucE /,
it came to settling back ia H.
again, his place was gone NJ
couch that you slept on was MIN
strips two inches apart, the soa.
to be familiar, duckboards T,o.
strips served variously as camo,
flage material, beds, sidewalks e.,
wood and in fact everything tbs,
a decent pine board would ordm,r
lily turn up its nose at. The mos,
at Le1avre was run by the Enc.
lish. They served tea instead 4
coffee. That fact alone was enoroF
to queer the English. One conf,
get ale at the canteen but thu
tasted worse than the tea ON
man went back in the line fc
times before he received an COZ
that didn't antebellum the Span
ish-American unpleasantness. Tia
night there was just as apt as no
to be an air raid. The tired NJ.
climber was forced to do a hur
dred yards in nothing flat to til
trenches dug along side the cam
and stay there till the whistle
down town told him that he couI
go back to his attempt at rest.
can be stated with absolute trut
that the soldiers conception
Sunny France was anything bJ
that.
At Brest it was just as ba
There too you climbed a hill TIL
started at the docks and didn't er
till you hit the camp some three
Continued on Page Six
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-27

the winter it was no wonder that
the bugler was the most unpopular
man in the service. From then on
till retreat at five or fve-thirty it
was steady, one, two, three, four
till the corporaPs or sergeant's
voice gave out. After retreat the
recruit was willing to seek his vir-
tuous couch. All lights were out
at nine o'clock. Stragglers if they
had pull with the Supreme Being
known variously as the Boss, the
Old Man, His Nibs, the C. 0. or the
Company Commander, might have
pass until eleven o'clock. After
that only the officers, the privileged
class Of the service might be about
with immunity.
1 he grind went on for period
Of from three to nine months. The
outfit was then ready fer overseas
service. The recruit was as near a
soldier as he could be without front
line service.
The first months Of the new
year Of 1918 found half a hundred
Villas County men in France. These
were men who served in the End,
Bind, 4th, and 33rd Divisions. At
least twelve men unattached to
divisions but with Independent
units were also in France.
The much discussed bridge to
France was not foot bridge, al
though it is estimated that some
Of the Villas County veterans
walked enough on shipboard to COW
er the entire distance to the battle
front. | for one don't take much
stock in the story for unless they
were able seamen, they wouldn' t
have been able to walk much after
leaving Hoboken.
1t took all the way from seven
to seventeen days to get across. If
you were lucky and drew a fast
transport like the Leviathan, Olym-
pic or Mauretania you could prob
ably be in England before the week
was up; but on the other hand if
you were sent in the slow and
crowded conveys and circled
around Ireland a couple Of times to
give the submarines the slip or
around the Azores for the same
reason and then your destroyer es-
cort held back on you and didn't
arrive anywhere near where you
expected it would, it would prob
ably be two or three weeks before
your stomach felt the least bit sat-
isfied and stationary.
The men arriving in France
landed invariably in one Of these
four ports, LeHaVre, Brest, st.
Nazaire or Bordeaux. If you went
over on an English ship you prob
ably landed at Liverpool and slid
rapidly through England to South
ampton and thence to LeHavre.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
HOLLAND OUTBREAKS
TAKE MILITANT FORM
Protests Against Militarism At
tended in Instances by Burning
of Army Store Sheds.
oordencs Of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, February 4.-lso-
lated outbreaks of -militarism in
Holland are occasionally taking q
militant form.
At Spaarndam and Overveen re-
Gently army store sheds were set af1re
and a number of people of anti-mili-
taristic tendencies were arrested as
suspects This led to a big protest
meeting of anti-militarists at SAINT
poort, at which the authorities were
severely scored for alleged brutal
treatment of the persons arrested.
Recently the Marine Weekblad. a
naval service weekly, printed spe-
cial report from Villefranche, France,
where the Dutch battleship Tromp
was making d visit that extensive
damage was done to delicate parts of
tho machinery in the ships engine
room, parts of guns were missing,
and a red flag was one morning found
fioa ting from the gaff.
So far there has been no official
confirmation of this report. which re-
mains more or less a mystery, and no
further details about 1t have come to
hand.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
DRY NET CATCHES
HIGH SOCIETY MEN
Warrants Accuse PhiIadel-
phians of Champagne Party
With Women Present.

BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February al
Warrants for nine men, several of
whom are socially prominent, were
sworn out today as an aftermath of
police investigation of private
party at the Stenton Hotel on Feb
ruary IL. Three of the men upon
whom warrants were served were
Martin v. Bergen, SO, a lawyer, who
resides at the Racquet Club; Edwin
Hance, 81, president of a firm of man
ufacturing chemists, and Robert Page,
"a, a resident at the Racquet Club.
They were released Immediately by
police magistrate pending a hearing
on March 2.
According to a report filed the day
after the party by detectives, who
were present while 1t was in prog
ress. champagne flowed freely. One
of the detectives, in his report, said
that one of the women present en-
hraced him and asked him If he
wanted bottle of champagne.
Director of Public Safety Butler
to whom the report was made, sent
a letter to Gov. Pinchot drawing his
attention to the report and asked that
the hotels license be revoked under
a State law, but the governor in
formed him the State could not act
Evening star., 1925-02-22
ASSERTS JOURNALISM
Is "NERVE-W -WRACKiNG"
Lord Burnham Sees Attractions in
Profession, With "Vast Amount
of Wear and Tear"

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 4.-"Journalism
is a nerve-wracking profession" Lord
Burnham told the guests at a news
paper press fund concert.
Although our profession" he con-
tinued, has a great deal of attraction
superior to any other, it involves a
vast amount of wear and tear. There
are very few who do not suffer from
it. Some times, looking back at the
years Of the war, / am surprised that
we were not broken down by the
anxieties and responsibilities we bore
Those anXieties and responsibilities
may not be recognized SO much ir
Downing street as we know them ir
Fleet street. You know the stress
and strain we went through in oul
different capacities to serve the com
monwealth to the best advantage IL
It's hour of desperat tion."
Evening star., 1925-02-22
TREASURY OF ARGENTINA
TO HAVE BRANCH IN U. S.
Significapce of Unique Scheme to
Have Gold Here Is Explained
by Buenos Aires Bankers.

By the Associs ted Press.
BUENOS AIRES, February 21.-The
Argentine government virtually has
authorized the opening in New York
of a branch office of its Gaia de Con
version, or treasury. where gold Is
kept as security for paper currency
and which issues currency in eX-
change FOR gold. This, in effect, is
the significance, according to brokers,
of the unique scheme which will per-
NIT the Buenos Aires banks to have
gold deposited in New York ear
marked to the account of the Argen-
tine treasury, against which the
treasury will issue currency to the
banks here to relieve the serious
money strfngency that has developed
in this market.
The gold will be purchased in New
York on behalf of the local banks by
their New York correspondents, or,
in case of an American branch bank
established here. by the American
head officer of that branch.
Evening star., 1925-02-22

had been mentioned to him by John
7. Nolan, national commander of the
league.
On February 13, Biggs testif ed at
today's committee hearing, Nolan
had told him 1t would cost $11 900
to fix the committee" This state
ment. the witness said, was made in
Biggs' office. He is connected with
the p. G. Smith Co., which he said
had conducted a mailing campaign
for the league, through which he esti-
mated that return of $60C a day
was produced.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
U. S. AIDS IN DISASTER.
Sends Food to Families of Victims
in German Mine.

DORTMUND, Germany, February 81.
The American Central Committee for
the Relief of Distress in Germany and
Austria sent $50 boxes of food to the
families of the victims of the recent
mine disaster here in which 1876 men
lost their lives.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
MINNESOTA DELEGATION
TO HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN
Party Coming to Inauguration
Will Arrive March 3-Dinner
Planned Here.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, February
21.---A special train will carry
the Minnesota representation 10
ths Coolidge inaugural, leaving g
Minneapolis February 2S. An
nouhcement has been made that
the party will be under the di-
rectlSn of the Lincoln Club of Mime
apGIfs. The train will arrive In
Warrington March 3. and under the
present arrangement will leave
March s.
William F. Brooks, national COM
mitt@eman for Minnesota, and Mrs
ManiAS L. Fosseen. national com
mitteSNomaA. will head the delega-
tIon.
Fifty reservations have been made
and replies are coming from all
parts of the State. Plans are being
made for Minnesota dinner at
which Minnesota representatives in
Congress aid others living in Wash
ington viii. be guests.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
Vienna Clothes Still Gay.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
VIENNA, February 1.-Vienna can
not lose it's reputation for gayety.
Some one in the garment trade has
estimated that during 1924 the dane
ing Viennese. women and men, or
dered 10000 new dresses and $500
new dress suits in which to go to
balls, and that together they called
on the shoemakers for 100000 pairs OF
dancing slippesM
Evening star., 1925-02-22
$4,000 FUND ASKED.
Deficiency Estimate for Bureau OF
Standards Sent to House.

Deficiency estimates for $4,000
for additional land for the Bureau
of Standards on Connecticut avenue
were submitted to the House yesterday
by the Budget Bureau.
Last week the House passed the
bill favorably reported from the
committee on public buildings and
grounds authorizing the purchase OF
this land at that price. The estimate
Evening star., 1925-02-22
H. M. DAWES HONORED.
Former Controller of Currency Re
membered by Associates.

Henry M. Dawes, former controller
of the currency, who recently resign
ed to become president of the Pure
Oil Company, with headquarters at
Columbus. Ohio, was presented with
a. solid silver punch bowl Thursday
afternoon, in the controllers Office, by
the chief national bank examiner In the
Evening star., 1925-02-22

field and others who were associated
with him as controller.
The presentation speech was made
by J. w. Pole. chief national bank
examiner, who declared the gift was
made to Mr.. Dawes as a token "of
their high regard and affection" Mr..
Dawes responded briefly.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
Given Army Commissions.

Edward B. Hesse, SOC A street
southeast. has been appointed cap
tain in the Finance Department, and
James ]. McGuirk. 1901 Massachusetts,
avenue, a first lieutenant in the Dem
tai Corps, both in the Officers Reserve
Corps of the Army.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
Officer Goes to Alaska.

Capt. Richard c. Stickney. u. S. In
fantry, military instructor at the Kan
sas State Agricultural College, Manhat-
tan, has been assigned to the Sd Divi-
sion, with station In Alaska
Evening star., 1925-02-22

submitted today will probably be in
cluded in the second deficiency blu,
which is to be reported to the House
Monday and taken up for considera-
tion Tuesday.
Evening star., 1925-02-22
TESTIFY TO PROPOSAL
FOR "COMMITTEE FIXING"
Witnesses Allege Suggestion Was
Made by Commander Nolan of
Disabled Soldiers League.

Members of the House committee
Investigating the National Disabled
Soldiers League were told today by
c. c. Biggs of New York that the
possibility of fixing the committee"
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-04-09
Understood Pullet Will
]. Make Poorest Egg LAYER

Experience is the keynote In profit
able egg production" declares J. @.
Haipfn of the University OF Wisconsin,
poultry department.
AS in many other things. 1t is easy
20 say It should be done, but quite
a different matter when II comes to
doing It. II is just like feeding cat
tle--twO men may divide herd equal.
". and both feed the same kind of
feed yet one win lose. while the other
wa make a profit.
NImmature and underslzed .pullets
are the cause OF low egg production IN
many fiocks,s continues Halpin. "some
people try to make themselves believe
that they have q flock OF good-sized
puiists BY Weighing the largest ones.
A pulIet which ls undersiEe or imma
ture viii not lay enough TO be profit-
able. What one man considers small
pullef. may be considered large enough
by another man. But there are stand
ards OF weight which are about right
for esq production"
The time which the chicks should
be Matched depends upon the man who
Is doine the feeding. Chicks under one
mans care may mature much earlier
than under the care of another. Puliefs
should b0smatured at a time when they
will come into laying in the early wlna
ter months when egg prices are high
est advises the poultrynfan,
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-04-09
e

rT>HB season Of the Resurrection
= story has come again Throughout
the Christian weird the minds and
hearts Of men are turned 10 dwell
upon fact which no nafuralistic
critic Of the gospels has ever succeed
I'd IN explaining away.
Faith may differ over whether the
reported resurrection experiences Of
the followers Of Jesus were objective
or Subjective but history records be-
yOnd effective contradiction the com.
peIling and transforming result upoh
life and character OF those expea
encea. whatever doubt may be held
as 20 whether the men end wom@h
who testified 10 seeing the risen Chria8
looked with the eyes OF the BODY upsaa
aH actual physical mandsesfaffoa ~
their MssesFs there can be no asabt a
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1925-04-09

A ray Of light would travel seven
times ar6und fine earth between two
ticks Of the penuuiums srd with that
enormous velocity II requires about
eight minutes for the llkfft 10 reach
us from Me auns From the nearest
star II takes four years. and from
some Of the farther stars ~ takes 30
coo years. There are stars so far
away that II Is not at ali unlikely
that e takes something on the order
OF a million years for light to reach
MS going at the terrific pace Of IL. OO0,-
600 miles d minute.