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DYNAMITE SUBSTITUTE.

TT was during the World War that
many by-product coke plants in the
United States recovered quantities OF
trinitrotoluol, or more popularity
TINT" for manufacturing munitions.
Its superiority to picric acid was
demonstrated early in the war: and
since then it has been simply ques-
ton whether the INT that Is re.
covered by coke plants cannot be sold
in competition with dynamite as a
commercial explosive.
Indeed, in many ways It Is much
better commercial explosive than
nitroglycerin. It does not freeze, does
not melt until a temperature Of III
4.5 degrees has been reached, does
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affable young ladies-who reminded
him more vividly than the French
maidens of the girls in Texas and
Vermont, and whom it was hard to fit
into any picture Of unalloyed bru-
tality. These Rhineland women did a
lot to remove the stings of war. In
a few weeks the doughboys not only
had come to the conclusion that the
Germans were rather human beings,
after all, but were becoming quite
friendly with them.
In fact, all the brutality reports of
fighting days began to have bad
reaction
At this stage division commanders
got alarmed. They began sending out
general orders against fraterniZing
with the enemy and warning Of the
insidious propaganda of the fiaXen-
haired sirens. But the picture comes
to mind of hard-boiled old captain
vowing that he'd like to have an
other war so as to get crack at them
frogs"
Then there was the susceptible son
of a Midwest millionaire, captain
and aide to a major general, who
wrote to his, father things the aver
age man would not dare put on paper
in those suspicious days. The anti
determination order" he wrote, lis
all right so far as the German men
are concerned. They are crude and
greasy. Nobody would want to fra
ternize with them, anyway. But as
for the women. it's an outrage. The
girls here in B are the lr'el!est
/ ever have seen. Nothing in Chicago
could touch them"
There" he said as he threw the
letter into the outgoing basket.
THAT line knocking the men ought
to get me out Of it If the general gets
look at this letter. Not that /
think it's true, but we have to be
careful in this mans army"
He spent his money freely among
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that il a boat unable to defend it.
self-sent against them merchantmen
to outward appearances. 1t was a
stroke of genius.
Imagine the aStonishment of the
German submarine crews. used as
they were to sinking utterly defense
less merchant ships, when suddenly
the false fronts of the freighter were
thrust aside, guns appeared, and the
submarine received a broadside of
shells that riddled its hull like a
sieve.
The Q-Boats put to sea. Never
in the history of the sea had ships
looked so slovenly. And never. in
any navy at the same time. had crews
contained so many distinguished men.
Admirais. captains of ships, captains
of destroyers, and petty officers had
volunteered as able-bodied seamen or
as stokers, abandoning rank and title.
and putting away medals and braided
uniforms. And what sailors they
were. these 'trampmen"-the lowest
and most undisciplined class of men
to be found anywhere afioat.
r HAPPENED to be on a mission in
England and had chance one day
to lunch with friend at Q-Boat
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MEDICINE ROCKS.

NEAR the eastern boundary OF Mon.
tana is a little known locality
that travellers frequently declare is as
interesting as the Garden of the Gods.
It is a country of strange rock forma-
tions. From a distance the Medicine
Rocks, as they are called, resemble
nothing so much as the ruins of an
ancient city rising from the level prai-
rie in abrupt disorder. There seem to
be fortresses and towers, pinnacled
temples and sheer walls with windows.
The rocks are cream-colored and stand.
glaring and fantastic, in bold relief
against the sky.
The inspection of almost any rock
shows that one side is smooth and the
rest Of it is pitted with innumerable
holes ranging from tiny pockmarks %
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man families held basket picnics on
the hillsides that May day and the
frauleins invited the "soldaten" to
come along.
To find a comparable scene In Amer.
lean history one must go back TO
Comdr. David Porter's occupation or
one of the MarQuesas Islands in the
Winter of 1914. All the memories OF
war there in the Rhineland dissolved
in love-making.
THE girls of Luxembourg repre-
sented both French and German
types, with the latter predominating.
Their ingratiating ways made thou
sands of friends for their little coun.
try during the Winter and Spring OF
occupation. The German type did not
have to overcome the preliminary
prejudice which confronted their sis.
ters across the Mosel. Many Of them
spoke English, which was a standard
course in the high school at Luxem-
bourg City.
While the frauleins, aided by sloppy
beer and fairly good Mosel wine, were
making friends for their race among
the divisions sent to sit tight in the
Rhine area, the mademoiselles to the
westward were drawing still closer the
bonds which had drawn America and
France together. The Winter Of 1918.
10 was long and monotonous. Dis
quieting rumors were thick as fieas
on a monkeys shins. Early Spring
came slowly along the Meuse and the
Mosel. Henry Morganthau came over
and proposed that the Army be kept
in France to clear up the debris and
restore the battlef1elds to cultivation
for the sake Of the ruined peasants.
For q few days he was the most un-
popular man in the world. Some said
four or five divisions were going to
Russia to fight the Bolsheviki.
The French girls in the villages
made life more endurable. Lots of
them came back to the United States
as brides
So when the boys went back there
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deck concealed by netting. Now
they have become suspicious and 1t
is necessary to conceal the guns in
the matches and the life-boats. BY
means of very simple mechanism
they may still be uncovered and fired
in jiffy. To all appearances the
only gun on the boat is the one in
the stern, such as all freighters carry.
If we did not have that, the submarine
would be suspicious. Seeing that
from distance, they are sure that
we are just frcighter, as we hoped.
"As soon as they come within
range, we fire a few shells, taking
good care to make no direct hit.
They become self-confident. They
continue to approach and taking us
for neutrals before they were sink
ing neutrals. tou1, order us to pre-.
pare the 1ifeboats and to take the
crew off. We obey. merely taking
the precautfon of turning so that our
guns are in perfect position to open
fire. Approaching confidently with
the intention of taking possession OF
our belongings, our provisions, or
our papers, the submarine finally gets
within good range. 1t rises to the
surface and, when its gun is ready,
it fires shell. usually aiming 1t at
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represented in their time and place
the opposite extreme in war.
In France they helped to soften the
disgust of simple men who arrived
among an idealized people to find
them very ordinary human beings,
who drove sharp bargains and lived
without bathtubs. The newspapers
and orators back in America had
painted altogether too heroic pic
ture of the glorious Frenchman. I'm
fortunately for inter racial amity at
close quarters, the French and the
Americans have somewhat different
thinking processes-which by no
means is derogatory to either of
them. But where people think in
different channels they don't love each
other.
But the girls somehow bridged the
gap. They are responsible for most
of the personal friendships the n. +.
F. brought back with it. Most of
them wore black dresses on Sunday
and had pale faces, even though they
worked in the fields. Presumably.
their beaux and their brothers were
at the front. They were gay and
friendly in spite of it.
MOT a few of the Legionnaires will
take a train going in the dlrec-
ton of the Rhine. In Germany the
feminine effect was more marked
even than in France. The men who
made up the army of occupation
crossed the Mosel in muddy weather
with the picture firmly fixed in their
minds Of a German monster who de-
lighted to toss infants on the point
of his bayonet and who used to boil
prisoners in oil just because his de-
praved nature found delight in seeing
| them squirm. The soldier was sullen
and resentful.
But he never met the monster He
encountered instead his sisters and his
daughters-often pretty. cultured and
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the stylish German girls in B.
Once the general got mad and con-
fined him to quarters for two weeks.
His father, who was on some war mis-
sion in France, cara up from Paris.
took the general Tor a ride toward
Coblenz and talked The boy out of it.
Whether or not it was intentional
propaganda, the Rhineland maids had
got in their deadly work and they
succeeded in making many firm
friends for their country.
Few of the soldiers ever succeeded
in getting much of an objective view
point toward the war. The anti-fra-
termination orders never accomplished
anything. The soldiers were too busy
flirting with the frauleins and holding
little toWheads on their knees to pay
any attention to them. Even some
of the cOl2nels were calling of eve
nincs on the better families, and the
old general was seen to smile at one
of the Mattresses when he passed
through the Kaiserhof.
When the bars were let down there
was u flood of marriages, and it is
likely most of the Rhjneland war
brides fitted into the life of the United
States without much difficulty. just
as did their French sisters. Tne Ger
man girls who came into the lives OF
the soldiers generally were not so
pretty or so vivacious as the French
girls. but they often were more sub
stantial and sensible. Besides, the
doughboy learned to talk with them
quickly. Spoken German never was
so mysterious as spoken French. The
words sounded more like English.
The ma jor part of the army of occu-
nation was in the Coblenz area during
the Winter and Spring of 1919. 1t
was d country of ruined castles on
terraced hilltops and fiowery hamlets
with moss.covered churches hidden in
secluded valleys. May strolled over
the low mountains with such wealth
of soft moonlight and apple blossoms
as never before had Illuminated a page
of American history. The stout Ger
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not ignite until a temperature of 572
degrees is attained. and even then
does not explode. Moreover, it does
not give out gases that produce
severe headache. as in the case of
dynamite, and does not deteriorate un-
der water.
The only serious objection to its use
is that the explosion produces a large
volume of carbon-monoxide gas. How
ever. that is also the case of nitro
glycerin: and dynamite used for tun-
mel driving is mixed with nitrate as
an oXidizer. to prevent the formation
Of the carbon monoxide. The chief
feature that remains to be worked out
Is method of packing the explosive
in convenient form for handling, as
nitroglycerin is packed in dynamite
sticks. III
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huge caverns. If you climb high
enough you perceive in the larger for
nations heaps of bleached bones-the
kill. .lerhaps. of some bird or beast dt
prey years ago.
Among the most imposing piles are
Castle Rock md Masoni Temple Rock.
Castle Rock Is massive and precipitous
Inside a low natural door is a roomy
hollow known as the Sheep Herder's S
Cave. The herder, according TO local
tradition. dwelt there for several years
in complete solitude and eventually
went insane. AS memento he left
the profile of woman with an elabo-
rate coiffure carved in low relief on one
of the walls. Masonic Temple Rock
is an impressive monolith set well
away by itself; it Is elaborately pitted
at the top.
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In the meantime the admiralty de-
cided to make general use of the trap
boats, generally known as Q-Boats.
Although the Q-Boats were authen'
tic enough warships with defenses
against both torpedoes and cannon,
they didn't look the part at all. The
inventor of them tand / suspect that
It was Gordon Campbell, although he
denies the charge vigorously, work.
ing on the theory that the Germans
would always rely upon the same
methods in sinking merchantman-
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-
of the secret service of the
Reich, the German spies met
~ their masters in the wartime
operations.
By the middle of 19l7--in April, to
be eXact-German had the upper
hand and was on the verge or VIM
ming the war. Perhaps you think that
a rash statement. 1t is not! can
prove it by citing unimpeachable au-
thorities.
On April 90. 1917. Admiral Jellicoe.
A telegram TO the English naval at
tache in Washington which contained:
You must make plain TO the Ameri-
can officials the true gravity OF the
naval situation. During the last week
we lost SIS boats With q gross tonnage
OF about $780, 900 tons and there has
been no let.up in the rate OF our
losses. Our new defenses will not be-
come effective until July. The critical
period is from April until July.
(Signed) "JELLICOE.
Here is another, even more force
fully stated.
on April 27. 1917-the day after the
above had been sent to Washington
MIR. Page. the American Ambassador
in London, himself sent the Secretary
of the Navy telegram, fro.A which
also quote:
VERY confidential for Secretary and
President.
alarm about the issue of the war
caused by the increasing success of
the German submarines. l have it
from official sources that during the
week ending 22d April. SS ships of
237 900 tons, allied and neutral, were
lost. This means practically
million tons lost every month till the
shorter days Of Autumn come. BY
that time the sea will be about clear
of shipping. This seems to me
the sharpest crisis of the war. and the
most dangerous situation for the al
lies that has arisen or could arise. |
cannot exaggerate the pressing and
increas sing danger of this situation.
. There Is no time to be lost!
tSigned) PAGE"
These two documents. the authen-
ticity of which cannot be questioned,
establish definitely enough which side
had control OF the seas at that time.
Then Admiral William Sowden Sims,
In command of the American naval
forces in European waters. tele-
graphed Washington several days
later:
THE situation brought about by the
enemy submarine campaign is not
merely serious. 1t is critical.
In a word, I am convinced that at
this instant we are losing the war.
-. (Signed) SINS"
y
HOWEVER, Germany did not win!
She did not win because of GER
tain energetic men and thu daily
deeds Of supreme f1eroism. know
OF none more glorious. May l here
mention the name OF the most heroic
: of them? Capt. Gordon Campbell.
What our wonderful soldiers
began at Verdun, Gordon Campbell
and llis men finished on the high
, seas. Without theHi--we must admit
it tranlsly-the warswould have been
7losti a
But there was one reason behind
the extreme ruthiessness OF the sub.
marine warfare. with. which the
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You may be sure that our crew
Is much larger than that of the usual
merchantmen; but while we are at
sea there must never be more men
on deck than there would be on
freighter.
ION land the orders are the same.
We are absolutely forbidden to aban-
don our pose. There might-as you.
better than any ne else. should know
be spies Watching. If instead of
hanging about in sailors saloons, we
went to clubs or first-class hotels,
you can we'll in1cine how soon we
should be found out. That must
never happen. Consequently. all of
us, regardless of rank, have : to
give up the pleasures of f. life
upon entering this service. & h of
us is married: we all have C.4.-Iren.
Yet as long as the war lasts none of
us will see our wives or our little
ones.
H A S with our persons, so with our
boats. They are camoufiaged
And it is so we'll done that scarcely
a day passes that we are not hailed
by French or even by English war
ships At first our guns were on
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This article continues the amaZ.
ing disclosures begun last week OF
an ace of the allied counter-espio-
mage service during the war
In the previous installment, NJ.
Luoieto related how, when the al
lies. were threatened with demorali-
zation by the first German gas at
tacks, he was ordered to find out
what he could about the enemy's
plans, and succeeded in making his
way to the heart of Essen. where
he witnessed an experiment of
new and more exterminating gas
shell under the very eyes of the
Kaiser. He succeeded in returning
to France with a piece of this shell.
which enabled the allies to con-
struct a special gas mask with
which to meet it.
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base. Despite the fact that he was a
lieutenant commander attached to the
general staff. he was for the moment
quartermaster on Pargust, command
cd by Gordon Campbell.
Campbell himself was not there.
but around the table there was ranged
the strangest assortment of men l
have ever seen. They were dressed
in second hand clothing and almost
no one had shaved for a week: their
language, their attitude, their man
ners certainly gave one the impress
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BY CHARLES LUCIETO.

~ ESPITE the formidable system
of the secret service of the
Reich, the German spies met
~ their masters in the wartime
anarhginnS
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typewriters through use Of surplus
property for other disposition under
the law. with the possibility of such
new typewriters becoming non.se,v.
iceable through deterioration while I'm
storage-there being no true need for
their immediate use.
THE transaction represents a sale
of Government property rather than
an authorized purchase in which an
unserviceable article Is given i'm ex-
change or part payment. The So
called exchanges as made being un-
authorized. the amount allowed for
each of the old typewriters under the
schedule of allowances. as printed In
the general schedule of supplies for
the fiscal year 1927, should be charged
against appropriations of the War De-
partment available for the purchase
of such supplies at the time the trans
action was effected, and tha total of
said amount covered into the Treas.
ury to the credit of miscellaneous re-
ceipts, as required by section 361S,
Revised Statutes"
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ton of household essentials. The
book begins with the simplest working
units and leads up progressively and
with a thought to avoiding uneco-
nomic requirements until complete
lighting, heating, cooking. sanitary
and labor-saving plants have been dis
cussed.
In the matter Of running water, the
kitchen drain or sink Is first discussed;
then the water source, pump or well;
next the windmill, motor or engine;
the piping of the house and the run
ming of the water to the kitchen sink.
and lastly. in turn. the bathtub. the
wash bowl. the laundry tub and the
water heater. In each step sugges-
tons are made preparing for the next
, advance, without replacement OF origi.
nal equipment. An idea of costs
high, low and average-is given on
each necessary piece of equipment.
The heating problem Is similarly
| treated. Dustless, odorless units that
heat the whole house uniformly.
either from the basement or the main
| floor, are encouraged on account OF
their sanitary advantages and their
convenience.
One chapter Is devoted to lighting
and modern equipment. The tendency
Of the campaign Is toward the use of
| gas or electricity from commercial
plants and stations or from home
units. The simplest working installa.
tions for home plants are described
| and the subject is developed up to
and including the 'tying-up' OF the
home with commercial service. The
use of electric current for power
driven home labor-saving devices Is
discussed and demonstrated.
|
| xx ~
tCLUB women interested in the fem
~ mist movement have been invited
to make use Of the temporary head
quarters of the international Alliance
of Women for Suffrage and Equal
Citizenship, which will be held in Ge-
neva from August 29 to September II,
on the occasion of the meeting OF the
Assembly Of the, League Of Nations.
1t, is hoped that these headquarters.
to be located at the Foyer Feminin,
IL Cours de Rive second floor; tele-
phone st. 003D, barely three minutes
walk from the Sale de la Reforma-
ton. in which the Assembly OF the
fLeague is held, will be used as the
center Of the international women s
movement and the meeting place for
feminists who are passing through Ge'
neva and for all who are interested In
the movement.
The headquarters will be open evory
afternoon Except Sunday from II 4
o'clock, and ii will be possible to have
tea there, to read the newspapers and
other current publications, to make
appointments for meeting people. to
obtain useful information, to learn OF
the whereabouts of well known fem.
inists who may be In Geneva at the
time, etc. In addition, members OF the
alliance will be able to obtain, as far
as circumstances permit, cards for
the Assembly Of the League.
On each Monday afternoon during
this period, at S o'clock. the alliance
will serve tea informally to all of the
feminists who are In Geneva for the
League sessions. At these teas Sc.
!, ries of talks will be given on questions
Of international feminist interest.
! Members Of the board Of alliance
who will be in Geneva at the time.
especially the president. Mrs. Corbett
Ashby of Great Britain. and the Sec
lretary. Mile. Emile Gourd of Geneva,
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District National Guard

Division: Percy E. Poole. 3145 Mount
Pleasant street, Headquarters Detach-
ment. goth Division; Howard l.. Peter
son, 816 Sixth street northeast. Com
pany A, 121st Engineers; Irwin H. G.
Mcconnell. 212 Fifth street northeast,
Goth Military Police Company; Charles
II. Drexilius, 442 Manor place. Quar-.
termaster Corps Detachment; Harold
Minerd Ayers, 500 Florida avenue,
Battery C. 260th Coast Artillery; Will
liam Mills, 524 Eleventh street south
east, Company B. 121st Engineers;
Vincent H. Williams, 237 Willow ave-
nue.. Takoma Park, Nd, Company B,
121st Engineers; Earl M. Meiners, 303
Ethan Allen avenue, Takoma Park,
Nd, Headquarters and Service Com
pany, 121st Engineers: Wesley w. viii.
liams, 311 Pennsylvania avenue, Head.
quarters and Service Company. 121st
Engineers; John E. Minnick, 1903 Bilt-
more street, Headquarters and Service
Company, 121st Engineers; Charles w.
See, 1920 A street southeast, Head
quarters and Service Company, 121st
Engineers. and Edward r. Devers,
319 C street, Headquarters and Serv.
ice Company. 121st Engineers.
The promotion of Second Lieut.. lie
Roy S. Mann, Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery, to the rank Of first lieu.
tenant, and his assignment for duty
to the same command was announced
by brigade headquarters.
Capt. J. c. Jensen, Ordnance De
partment. in charge Of rifle practice
of the local Guard, reported the fol-
lowing qualifications on the range at
Camp Simms, Congress Heights, D. c..
last week: Sergt. E. d. Andrus. Com.
pany r, 121st Engineers, expert rifle
man, score, 241; Sergt. E. G. Wheeler,
Company E, 121st Engineers, sharp
shooter score, ZIG; Staff Sergt. B.
Smith, Company E, 121st Engineers,
expert rifeman, score, 24O: Pvt. C. C.
Williams. Company A, 121st Engi-
neers, marksman, score, 191. Pvt.
w. M. Slavik. Company z, 121st Engi.
neers, qualified as a marksman with
the pistol, score. 68.
Pvt. Leo Fl. Roche has been ordered
transferred from the reserve list of
Company 3 to the active list of Com
pany e. 121st Engineers.
Pvt. Herbert E. Smith. Company E,
121st Engineers, has been ordered
honorably discharged from the local
Guard to enlist in the Regular Army.
The honorable discharge from the