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Miaul Army as s truthful portrays1
hi to eokHera of "the fluest amy era
{ The writer la Ted Wallace, a luxarj-lo'
St.- M settled coaricttona, except ssHMi
Rf |?r|lH process of war lute a red-Moo
August 15, 1917. I
There has been a lot of stuff In the
payers lately about patriotism end
there la a great deal of spreadeagia
oratory. Also there la a new word
that I don't like the sound of. K ie
another thing we have borrowed from
the BBgitsh. The word Is "sleeker."
T5 Is ml - T tioard Xffqrrv_
i: ~ iv ao uwm * uvvo nuiu? a hwi ? i j
Mala Mi tt yesterday. She did not
Wlj It to me. But I had a ranting
Idea that she was directing It at me.
Bh? was telling about a young man
aha knew who bad not a care or a
responsibility In the world and still
wanM not go to war. 1 malted aa
she spohe that tha description applied
to me just aa much as it did to him.
Do yon suppose she has caught the
contagion, toot I always liked Mary.
' In fact, I thought I might ask her
K toa-but what's the nae of all that
now? I will nat go to see her again.
K It makes ms uncomfortable. She
hams some sfckenlngiy silly song all
the time, and every now and then
murmurs,
"Yam do your bit,
ntia m
L And her fingers just work all the
v time. I askad her haw she liked my
new suit. She studied It closely for a
\ minute and said, "I don't like It at
? all!"
"What's wrong?" T asked her.
"The color," she said.
^ "Everyone says blue always suited
? ', ine." I put in.
M Then she answered, "But not
Marly so well as olive drab." .
? . 1 did not stay long after that. It
j would have seemed rude to go right
. away, so I stayed a little while for
^ appearance's sake and left. It's funny
"I Dont Like It At Alt"
a about that girl. I thought she cared
] for me. But she did not seem to
Bind, my going. And just as I reached
I*t the door that conceited cousin of here
I came la. He is a lieutenant in the old
I Grays and he was in uniform. Mary
. seemed ever no much more pleased
V- to see him than she did to see me.
BjtV There Is no one yon can talk to
r nowadays except that queer Harold
I/.- (Mhfes. I never used to like him. But
I find we have much la common. He
Q$?tklHl? war is abooluteiy wrong. And
[' I agree wrtn mm. w eat gooa u? ?
X do people to go oat kilting each other,
St. anyway? Surely la this enlightened
; age there onght to be some other
k:_ wy of settling our differences.
. to "T mall last night there was a
card to report at the exemption
t./ Bear J. I don't quite understand It.
I hope It does not mean that I hare
-h?go now. I have not had any chance
to arrange my affairs. 1 can't lire
wo the army pay after what I hare
been earning. One of the newspapers
published the drawings and my name
gft pas pretty far down on the list. Some
P. man I met told me I stood a good
piyehance of being called. A good
fc! etamce. What do they mean? Well,
HOW TO CL]
r;-\ The best way to clean a rifle barrel |
"MWt snooting is tu run autuui Loiicmr
j;' ffumel patch through, using either a
bm Jointed, steel or hardwood rod
With a swivel handle. But always
clean from the breech, never from
the. muzzle. When a gnn la so coaV
atrncted that it cannot be cleaned
from the breech, a wooden or hard
'J&MjMer protected red should be used.
After the first clean patch has been
MlBlt through the barrel several oil:
uaturated patches should he run
mum
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diary entries written by a young man gt
the operation of the selective draft, gj
own feelings, thoaghtg and emotions, ur
other American men now overseas or
s commended to the soldiers of the he
of the yi un? of converting el iglens Ka
called to the colors by any nation." ,i,
ring yonng man, who, at the I all 11 has Uf
ones, and who la transformed by the
ded patriot.) ^
ka
at anj rate there is a night to sleep ti(
in peace. And what of to-morrow? ^
August It, 1917. ^
I hare bees to the draft board. 1 ^
asked if there were any chance of my q,
being called. It was the same man w,
-g CO
f ' ce
"I've Been Celled Ted" J*
, P*
that I had met before; bat he did not
recognixe me, I think.
11 Yea," he said, "there's a good
chance." Why do they speak of it |
that way?
Then he told me of the many exemptions
that had been given and said
I should be prepared for a call at any
time. I would be among the first.
I did not wait to hear any more. 1
just rushed oat into the street and
walked and walked and walked. It
did no good. It was like a nightmare.
in the first draft f I don't
want to go.
Just as I was coming down our
street Walter Nevins rushed up to me.
"I've been called, Ted!" he shouted.
For a minute I could not speak.
He seemed to have the same enthusiasm
that everyone else had. What is
It? Am I different from all the others?
Or are they just putting ft on? Walter
did seem in earnest, though, and
the next thing he llred at me was.
"Perhaps you'll be called, too; and
we'll share the same tent."
"Perhaps," I muttered. Walter
looked at me queerly, just as father
does sometimes, and turned away. 1
don't understand the attitude of some
people.
I did not want to go home. I would
have to tell father sooner or later, and
I knew there wouTd be a lot of adI
vice. So I went to a moving picture
[show. In the middle of the show a
man stood up and urged the appointment
of a committee to'arrange a big
parade for the Selected Men of the
district.
It does not matter where you go.
You can't escape it. Ifs just war
talk, war talk, all the time.
Father was sitting up when I
reached home. It seems one of the
members of tie Eremptlen Board Is
,#, friend of his. He called at our
house and told Father that I would be
among the first to go.
Father's face was beaming. He put
his arm on mine and said: "Laddie.
Laddie! Now is your chance! And
[remember, you're my son. Do your
best. Serve your country and your
God and do nothing that you would
be ashamed to have God aad your
father know about. It's wonderful,
boy! wonderful that you can go and
I can give!"
[ I did not say anything. I can't
understand it yet. Here I am, getting'ready
to go out into that awful
stench and strife, and Father says It's
wonderful for me to be able to go
and for him to be able to give. I
' don't understand it. BAN
A GUN
through until the last one comes out
; clean. Then it win do no harm to fit
a brass wire or bristle brush to the
tij> of the rod, dip in oil and scrub
rigorously.
, Nest dry out the bore with clean
patches and then finally run tbroogh
| an oily patch and the gen may be laid
| away for a day or two; then repeat
the performance, for the barrel will
| sweat some of the powder residue j
| oat of the pores of the steel and this I
you wfTt get on the second cleaning.
-eat Britain Sent 7,000,000 I
To Various Fronts in 1917
Vr. MePhergon, Under Secretary of
ate for War, to presenting the Brit- ]
1 Army estimates, offered some fig- i
es that are of great interest to i
nerlca. Mr. McPherson said the '
alth in the army was good. He J
ye the following tabulation of the i
ie of the British armies in the field i
i to December fl, 1917:
In tea months 48,452 commissioned I
leers and 6.435 warrant odicers I
ire been appointed; 25,090 promo- I
as hare been gazetted from second
first lieatenant; 15,100 officers and t
',100 men hare been mentioned in 1
e honors lists; 600,009 men have i
en given leave in the last four i
onths and 209,000 la the last fonr 1
mks. During 1917 there had been '
nreyed to the various fronts: t
000,000 men, 500,000 animals, 1
>0,000 vehicles, 90,000.000 tons of t
ares. I
Pay.?Minimum for all arms. Is. '
i. a uo;, uiiuiuiuui iwi uimna, xvo. <
[. a day; women and children on j
rmy pay Mat aa widows and dependta,
about 10,000,000. \
New Services. ? Women's Army <
niltary Corps: Over 20,000 en- I
lied, of whom 6,500 were abroad, i
500 were waiting to be drafted ?versa,
and the remainder were eraoyed
at home. Labor Corps: 350,10
men of all races and colors.
Captured last year.?168 heavy
twitters, 68 heavy guns, 437 field I
ins, 1,055 trench mortars and 2,843
achine guns.
The total saving of tonnage in the
>ming year is estimated at 2,000.000
TMk Wood-pulp has been eubstltu- i
d for tin-platea for packing food 1
tpplies for the armies. Crude glyxine
at the annual rate of 1,800
ns had been recovered from byoducts
alone, and sold to the Mintry
of Munitions for the manufacre
of 18,000,000 shells
miGi
I "Heavy, bea
your nead."
"0,1 know w
You held it
smeil it?it's
tfnjj "Righto, son
appetite an
H|jgh treat while
r^j sweet tooth.
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Embryo "Holy Joes" Taught f H
By Senior Army Chaplain t Ju
Chaplain C. C. Bateman, of the EafiNKBH* f
L4th United States Cavalry, is the
nstructor at the school for chaplains |
it the 90th Division, San Antonio, f |
rexas. Chaplain Bateman, who en- ^
)oys the distinction of being the se- '
lior chaplain of the- Army, both in
^oint of years and service, has made J T^>
It plain to the new chaplains that
their office is one of no mean impor- jJy j\ ,
;ance. The schedule of dectures em- /|J ^LX i
Draced the following topics: "The /J v jPJ i
:haplain as a man among men and a
gentleman"; "Finding his Held of userulnesa";
"Faith and works"; "The
chaplain as an example of the morale I
ia well as the morals"; "Chaplains L- I
rho have helped in time of stress";
'The chaplain in work of identifica- J pi
ion and correspondence"; "The chap- fj ?E|
lain as legal counsel for the accuse l
iflfnra rnnrln-m?rti?l"- "Thp rhanlain
U Postmaster and exchange offlcer";
The chaplain as mentor of diversions _>%J
ind sports"; "keeping yoang among
Schools for chaplains are to be es- KMpw
lablished in many of the divisional
camps where ministers with no milltary
experience have been called to
serve the army. BUTCH
Kit BUX - .
Advices reaching the United States ? r
Forest Service show that Emperor f
William of Germany up to 1908 had
killed 61,730 pieces of game. ^ la
"According to one German forestry 3^
journal," the Forest Service says, I
"the Kaiser in 1908 killed 1995 >
pieces of wild game, Including 70 VSbZIIZJaMy
stags, elk and roebnck. At that time
be had slaughtered a total of 61,730
pieces of game, more than 4,000 of
which were stags, and was the leading if HLEj^krift
exterminator of wild life in the
The Kaiser holds the world's rec- ^(JD\ Jw
ord as slayer of game?and men.
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vy hangs over |
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too dose and I pBfTl
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