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fCJIMP BOND CAMPAICN PRODUCES BIG RESULTS Subscriptions for Division Total $345,050, Averaging $24.50 for Each Soldier. With the Liberty Bond campaign at Camp Greene really only four days Ksnva under way. an average of $24.60 had been subscribed by each of the 14,000 jfi^9|>o0n soldiers of the forty-first division, according to figures made public SaturBf / I vft day n'Hht at lhe oT'ce of Major Bolles, JV I \ 1 It quartermaster corps, in charge of the 91 iff campaign. The total subscriptions for JH^ If | the division jumped to $345,050, with flngLtifcl* each successive day's reports showing 9 On Hi a COD3t;int'y increasing aggregate. S [ H B Government bond propaganda says the sale of a $50 Liberty bond will ffl Sr'gJl obtain money to completely equip and, afTFaia clothe one American soldier. I KB n?n Wilh a total of $ 1 SO,350 in submi Bft afTa scriptions for Liberty bonds reported i IW^gWjU Saturday morning at Camp Greene, the 41st division's campaign total Sat-| BJfeSlB urday jumped to more than one-third II of a million dollars, $345,050 exactly, j 9 MbJi 9 The Charlotte camp continued to , fV MPnrfl occupy 12th position in relation to ! Vi| the other naitonal guard and national army training camps, based on total i IU subscriptions reported to tne war ae- \ Jl |lfcS partment Friday night, according to yVjf figures made public late Saturday at! f the office of Major Bolles, quartera \ master corps, officer in charge of the I |V^ big bond drive of the division. |ft i Plans of Major Bolles to maintain IIIM ill interest-in the campaign include anwawr other great military meeting next Thursday, and the tinal drive will be | sttarted Wednesday, October 24, with ^ a third meeting a few hours before T "N the time limit of the campaign, set by the war department, expires. For I ll these occasions, the soldiers will be I Y excused from drill during the afterZyH The 147th field artillery, composed of Oregon and South Dakota troops, led all regimental units of the divillf^ sioti Saturday night In subscriptions fori 11 " Liberty bonds, with a total of $66,950x1 1.1 ft US passing the 147th machine gun bat-^ talion. leading Friday, which did not report any new subscriptions Satur-> In day and dropped to sixth place. The jvtt 162nd infantry, a close third Friday, Bdl B jumped to second place with a total ^Wm IP $55,550. and the 116th sanitary | overnight from fourth place, with & [ * total for Friday. reported Saturday I WJ Total subscriptions of the three yMJ ||[ leading regiments was about $8,000 I m| less than the division total Friday Jmorning. and represented 45.3 per I wvfl cent of the division's total, which, by peculiar coincidence, was the percent H I Ijf age of the division's Friday total repBJB-A yd resented in subscriptions of the three vjfAjl then leading regimental units. tl N JRI The following table shows under Btfu H heading "for day" total subscriptions of Friday, reported Saturday mornS3 S-a lng. and also the division total at S m-W o'clock Friday night. Headquarters 1WW',jTig each day can furnish reports only of subscriptions for the 24-hour period ending at 6 o'clock the previous day. H<v?ii<|uart<?ri troop?For day $2,700; to I STffiM One Hundred and Forty-.iUth Gun bat"WjaFW tatlon?For day $14,900; to date $22.SS0. ; v c '>nobu"u"jdrtd t"">i marhln'^ One Hundred and Forty-eighth Machincl One Hundred ^nd Sixty-third tngantry? wlr?1 For day $1J.So0; to date ?26,SiO. \ VWaM l,n*' Hundred and Sixty-fourth Infantry?; \Y1\ One Hundred and Forty sixth Field ar- I j. ||v littery For day $1?.!S0: to date $20,450. J\ one Hundred and Forty-aeventh Field ar- ! L 11 niter,--F?r day $42,000; to date 0$6fi.9&?. J A UF1 littery For day IT.nnO; io dale $$.050. For day Ji'S'l, to (lute $6 SO. , Separate Squadron. Oregon cavalry?To I || ft \ Third l? C. infantry?To date J2.750. Ill* I One Hundred and Sixteenth Regnuent enl| lj| and M i'.? For day 1200: to date S4.700. j One Hundred and Sixteenth Ammunition j G^Tl (>ne Hundred and Sixteenth Sanitary j l tain-For day Ji1.?00: to date 34,000. division totals?For day I1S0.350; to date j test reports front the war depart ment. showing total liberty bond subscriptions tabulated Friday night at the various national guard and naMHmIm tional army training camps have Kill tan MHI Camp Oreene in twelfth place. This HIU mil Uul urne the nnsitinn neennled hv the e?mn Ihere in previous reports. received Thursday, covering the period ending Wednesday night at 6 o'clock. The relative standing of the camps, based I on total subscriptions. Is furnished as follows to the commanding general at Camp Greene by the adjutant genii eral of the army: Headquarters Forty-first Division, D Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C., October 13, 1917. Tabulation of subscriptions to secEMiltl ond liberty loan of 1917 in different ^^^TREWNCII : |Mn.na frnm war deDart menC October 12, 1117. Camp. Amount Shelby .1 TCMM Funston - 666,200 Sevier 485,000 Grant ... ... ... 483.350 Undecipherable 403,850 Meade 348,650 Kearney.. .. ? .. .. .. 200,150 Taylor .. .. .? 271,200 Upton ... ... ... 257,300 Bowie .. 178,800 Jackson... 170,560 Greene 164,700 Logan 162,800 Gordon... 160,100 Wheeler 131,350 Custer... ? ? 128,450 Devens 98,000 Sherman 78.850 Lee 66,150 McArthur. ... . 65,250 Travis .' 50,300 Sheridan 12,500 Dodge -. 2,500 Wadsworth 6,400 Hancock 5,650 Lewis 4,700 Total for 26 camps $6,700,000 "The three hundred and forty-third infantry at Camp Grant leads all regiments of the army with t subscription of two hundred and twenty-two thousand, eight hundred amd fifty. En each of six companlesyat Camp Shelby, every officer and man has subscribed for a bond." / . / ^HOTCC CDOM 1AflfT+i FIEU^XRTILLERY Private Louis Maritan, of Battery ! A, is teaching French in one of the Y. M. C. A. classes. I Privates H. A. Gooding and A. I. Worrell of Battery A. have been transferred to the band. Lieutenant Cross, of Battery A, is acting battalion adjutant. Lieutenant Whitehouse, Battery A, has been promoted to regimental veterinarian. j Battery B boasts of a string orchcs[ tra. The members include: Sergeants GofT, Gaynor, White and Defoe; Privates GofT, Miller and Craig. Charles | Riblett is the director. The boxers in Battery B are Cor'poral Anderson,. 145 pounds; Serjeant Kesson, 133 pounds, and "Mls'souri Kid." who is none other than Bethel. The Y. M. C. A. hopes to have these men perform at building 108 | in the near future. The Battery C quartet is made up of Corporal Runyon and Privates McGlinn, Whittenberger and McCuan. I They can surely sing. I The Battery C football players are I excused from drill at 3 p. m. to practice. Among the football stars are: | "Mai" Graham, quarterback on last year's Colorado college eleven; "Ike" Nifong, halfback and captain of ColI orado college: and Corporal Ballowe, all-state center of Texaa | Battery C is particularly proud of ! having received the highest mark for neatness in their camp during the I past ween. Frank Souls. Battery D, has been on the sick list but is improving. "Pat," the Battery E bull dog, chal- ( lengea any dog his weight. Sergt. J. T. Adams has already won; quite a reputation in camp as a boxer. Sibley stoves are being placed In all the tents of the field artillery. I Private L. M.> La Font has consenti ed to teach French in one of the Y. M. C. A. classes. Wanted, a private secretary for Bugler Vaterlaus to handle his incoming mail. A Sergeant Radrord has been starring ras a movie operator for the Y. M. C. A. since coming from North Dakota with the 116th trench mortar battery. ? Private Radschweit, of the 116th 'trench morta battery, has the reputa tion of being the best wrestler in his outfit It Is hoped to see him in action before long on one of the Y. M. C. A. "stunt night" programs. Most of the boys of the 116th trench mortar battery have at last received heir uniforms. It is some husky looking bunch and Kaiser "Bill" had -better beware when they land over there. FORTY-SEVEN INDIANS IN ONE DAKOTA COMPANY Company two of the 148th M. G. Bu. (the old Company I of the Fourth South Dakota Infantry) is boasting of fact that there are more Indians in this company than in any other company in the cam p. Company two holds the distinction of having 47 of these red skins, and they're all after the Kaiser's scalp, according to what I Lynn Eagle Feather and James Stiff Tail have to say about the matter. With one or two exceptions these red skins are from the old Sioux tribe, and like their forefathers, they are real "scrappers." The greater part of them have attended the Rapid City Indian school of South Dakota. When the company was first transferred to the machine gun battalion, the red men didn't think so much of the idea, because "we want to go out and get 'em," they said. However, as they are given more of the drill in machine gun formation, they are learning%to handle themselves as they did when they were "dough boys." One of the men, Joe Crazythunder, has already been made corporal, and it is expected that many of the others will find themselves wearing stripes before many more weeks. ^ N D C A M P HBl SOLHJO W BONDS Declares Call for Loans Is as Sig nificant as uau to Arms. The following memorandum -was recently issued from headquarters off | the 116th engineers, at Camp Greene: "Memorandum: "1. Under orders from headquarters, forty-first division, based upon instructions from the war department, | it is proposed to invite and encourage every man in this division to purchase bonds of the second liberty loan is-1 sue. " I "2. A healthy rivalry will spring up between'organizations as regards the size of total subscriptions, and it is believed the 116th engineers will not lag behind. "3. Maj. H. A. Brandon, first battalion, 116th engineers. Is hereby designated to handle the matter of subscriptions In this organization, and those desiring to subscribe should take the matter up with Major Brandon direct. "4. Attention is called to the circular, 'The Call for Loans.' prepared by Major Brandon and issue to the 116th engineers today. I "By order of Colonel Walker: "LEONARD LUNDGREN. "Captain. 116th Engineers. Acting Adjutant" Pursuant to his selection to handle the subscriptions, Major Brandon Issued the following appeal: The Call for Loans. "The troops at the front, and those shortly to Join them, must havo funds and yet more funds, and the government's fundamental reason for appealing for such funds is due to the fact that, without them, the war cannot be successfully waged against the most relentless and unprincipled roe the world has ever produced. "For obtaining foods, munitions and all the manifold necessities required to vigorously prosecute the war, money must be provided in vast ?,1 nrAmnllv "You men of the west know how the 'call to arms' was answered by you, how the appeal for the first loan was responded to, how the Red Cross campaign was met, and how the entire situation when summed up proved that, the northwest had given by voluntary accord almost all its eligible men. and that, without the suggesting of draft. How the first liberty loan was oversubscribed and how the Red Cross funds poured in, beyond the expectation of the most sanguine. Following hard on the heels of the first appeal for funds, comes another. This is evidence of what your country needs and the unlimited faith it has in your patriotism and asslsta?"Shall we permit ourselves to prove laggard in the cause? "Such a situation is inconceivable and not to be contemplated. Kipling's description of a 'non-com "who could drill a black man white or make a mummy fight' is equally I applicable to you. "You possess the same spirit or determination to complete what you have commenced, and although you may not have to convert black into white, as Klpling-s sergeant did, jiet you can aid In extracting light from the darkness which now pervades the world, and make It bright and happy for those to whom we are now lending our services, not only by fighting, but by helping to furnish the means to fight. "It surely is in a noble cause that your sympathies are enlisted, and such being the case, we must enter into it with a whole heart, and a fixed determination. "No half measures will suffice, no stone left unturned to insure victory; for a nation that will in its madness forget all the laws of civilisation, and ignore the mandates of tfce God we have been taught to revere, and. wantonly seek out and destroy the mothers whose love and responsibility never ceases, with their babes at their breasts, will stop at nothing In Its I fixed desire to rule the world with its fist of steel and its scientific brain, ' devoted to symbols of slaughter. I "On behalf of our government then, and those we leave to keep the fires i hnminr w? must once more volun teer, and do so without considering It a sacrifice. "As a nation, we have been too prone to indulge in luxuries and overindulge in pleasures. Let us for the present abandon these and deal only with necessities. "The harvest will be all the greater when the time for garnering arrives. "Let us provide a nest egg for the future. It will be to our benefit, and that of our country whose flag is the emblem of freedom. "One dollar invested today, nine more from our November pay, $10 from the rolls of December, January, February and March, will not be missed, and yet provide each participant with a $50 bond bearing 4 per cent interest, an investment that would be hard to equal In any other way. when the reeourcee behind it are considered, and the cause for j which it la made, pi at tidp be obtainable In the tarn* rati# and . j the purchase of them recommended "fe to all who wish to make provlslQtt ^'(Jc for the futnre of themselves or their dependents. "The 'call for loans' Is as signffl- -|K cant as the 'call to arms., Men, the . assembly sounds, It is for us to respond, remembering that oar coun- 5 try, with all Its latent and growlMBaB a military strength, asks, not co?^ ; mands." WHUT ONE GERMAN THINKS nr uic i n n dt r n niin ll Ul III J II U U I ILU UII1U Enlists to Fight Under Flag of Land That Gave Him ! Freedom. # | To those thinking that the 162d:i&!^ ! fantry is made up entirely of Oregoniborn men, there awaits a real 'prise. For down at the biackomltb/; : shop there may be found, as the bojTW:. say, a real German, "working a*;*?! horseshoer. His name is Rudolplggj Buddee. Rudolph first set foot American soil in 1906, and since thitt time has been working in California-, and Oregon. He is 29 years of ?ln|j| and it's a safe bet that he has with ihim that "hefty" German look whlo^;: ? he backs up with every ring ?f, anvil. That he has a real love "old glory" he demonstrawa uj ?*jpra swering the first call of the President:^; for volunteers. He enlisted Third Oregon Infantry March 26, year, and has been with this btlfi&Gggl since his enlistment. He says that there are four chlJdi^^j* in family. Two brothers and .omJmBEI ter are now living In Los Angeles. The father and mother still live in Munieh, Germany, the birthplace of the chil*;- ?jj dren. As to what he thinks of America compared with the Fatherland V , clearly shown In the following, which , y; he writes: "Cpmrades and Brothers: As I a? . one of the few men in this army whh^ SC was born in Germany, and for 18 years !V. a German subject, it Is my desire.wgfl tell you just a few facts about the German government. I was born'hl Munich, Germany, and until I was 18 years old-1 went to school there, andA also worked as an apprentice, - wjgii?-.? learning my trade, as blacksmlth AfiftfeM horeeshoer. Then, when I had finish- _ ed school and learned my tradej T gan to look around and think Ot inMpI future. I knew that I could not much ahead of me there, for X "QHy^,1 ,s at this age be drafted in the German : army, and I would not be fre? ipjlg until I was 23 or 24 year? old. I w couldn't see any freedom in it of any kind; that even air would be if there would be any way to measure it. A man there hasn't any rights f or freedom at all. He can't even qhhJF press his opinion about the govern- ' ment or the kaiser. If be doe? he WfU* 1 be put in Jail. I read In the maga- * zines about this country, and one day I went to Hamburg, with the intention of coming over to this country. There" I talked to a Norwegian captain.' the bark 'Aros,' who told me that. I ' could come to America on hie shlnjff if I would work my way. He did not tell me which America, and I landed , in Chile In South America, instead of j in the United States. This wasn't the/ home I was looking for, and ! foundj. another shin which brourht me to Seattle. When the ship. the George E. Billings, sailed Into Paget sound,. j the first thing I saw on shore was a < school building with an American flag ! on top of it I could not explain-to you how good 1 felt to see the land j of liberty and the 'Old Glory.' . I landed In Seattle I felt Just like a ' new-born child, and satisfied that I , was walking on the soil where I had i long desired to be. It didn't take me J very long to decide to make my home here, and I don't think that there is j a man in this hall, or in the whole J United States who has learned tn love J the flag any more than I do. When { President Wilson called for 30,000 vol- * unteers. some of the young men were j very slow to realize the condition of ! the war. 1 was the first one. who locked up the doors at home and an- f swered the call from Rainier, Washlngton. Immediately afterward 4S-1 young men followed me. { "Afterward, when I was on guard f duty at Roseburg, Oregon, the first i liberty bonds were Issued. I at on'Ofi* i bought one of the 31,000 bonds, and I it was the first liberty bond bought f through the postofllce at RoMburmvl Now I am going to tell you'Wurarcr' think about the second liberty boadaij I bought $250 in these bonds-had wlU< be taking $25 a month out at toy ) wages, and I believe that every of this camp would be doing a gpo&s thing for himself and for the cottjuaw too, If he would buy all the bonds \ he could afford. I hope that -eear^ j soldier will buy one of these bonds. /;i
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