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? Probably the most successful Sunday evening entertainment of the season was held a week ago Sunday. The program was the longest ever offered. ^m=One of the Knights of Columbus secretaries, formerly known as "Bill m q? Casey" on the vaudeville stage, was UrfZfcfefflfl perhaps the chief performer. All of fljj7^|VoVj| the entertainers were liberally apBVfl VhJ Tht* hol?^a>' dance given on the W I \ I ill night of July 3 was a ^u*?e success.; ill ill trie lighted outdoor garden and a brief IK! entertainment was given on the out Rf/Oni door platform. The dancers danced S. SI JO 01 with the spotlights throwing various l| colors upon them, ut U 'rhe rest,'*ctIon against going to ! Uf HTM? town has unfortunately compelled the ! I ffl-JeflU temporary abandonment of our town y$"Ki (Hw The'erection of the new building BJS=3?w which was delayed due to the scarcity . of material has moved so rapidly that mi(m now practically finished. The J Sj mRnMJI usual weekly and Sabbath religious I 3.K |P?I service were well attended. Tisha Be- j BB fl aj Ab services will be held on Wednesday H flflwol evening. July 17. An announcement ! BLUE [IE regarding these services will be made i on all company bulletin boards. O ; Tisha Re-ab (the ninth of Av) will , R iJ^V' full this year on July 18. This is the | great black fast in the Jewish year, I which, like the great white fast of the I P Day of Atonement, is observed from j sunset to sunaet. It will therefore, be-I gin on Wednesday evening. July 17. i at sunset, and will close on the folL/ lowing evening as darkness sets in. f This fast is widely observed by the othodox because of the threefold trag- j I J edv that befell the Jewish people on ,, ffy /, the ninth day of the month of Ab. 2504 ( IKkNl /"ELDER COBB" AND OTHERS j falllh>|/ / ENTERTAIN THE SOLDIERS / Featured by excellent numbers from some of the choice entertainers at I Camp Greene, the "stunt night" program at "Y" hut 105 on Tuesday evening was a tremendous success. An unusually large audience of soldiers enjoyed the program, part of which was rendered outside of the "Y" building and part on the inside. Preceding the stunt program the Camp Greene aviation band "gave aj concert in the open air just outside the hut. This musical organization, which has gained for itself a wide recognition of merit since its location here, is commanded by Lieut. Joseph Arndt and directed by Sergt. Joseph D. Reis. At this concert a varied program was rendered, consisting of selections that appealed to everyone. The remainder of the evening's program was given inside the build ing Sergt. Ben Bear of the Twentysecond aero squadron gave a number dTjOgflB* of recitations which were enthusiastically received. This was the first time that his clever work has been seen at camp. He was followed by "Elder Cobb." alias Jesse Gray, social ( imHQ secretary of the army Y. M. C. A. ; y Elder Cobb, one of the most popular j N. and clever entertainers in the camp. ' \ W created gales of laughter by his witty i \ sallies. songs and monologues. Dr. J fflHAvj O. Grogan. camp general secretary of ( the army Y. M. C. A., concluded with iTja} | a talk that reached the hearts and; I gripped the minds of the large nuni- I ber of soldiers present. As a whole, I Affn I tbe evening was voted by everyone S present as one of the most delightful spent in some time. GROWTH OF TILF ARMY. In compliance with tne request of | Chairman Dent, of the House com- j mitlee on military affairs. Secretary ifaker has written a letter sketching i what has been accomplished since the ; advent of the I'nited States into i the war toward organizing, arming j and equipping the American army. It is a splendid record, encouraging' to every patriotic citizen and inspir- J ing the conviction of triumph. In fourteen months the army has increased front 9.524 officers and 202.-i 510 enlisted men to approximately' 160.400 officers and 2.010,000 enlisted! men. As has been shown in previous official statements from the Secretary ; of War. practically half of the present j military force is now in France. supplies for the army Is indicated by ihe purchases made by the quarter^ master corps. Some of these are: Horses and mules, 339,593; shoes, I IK || | 27.219.000 pairs; cotton undershirtsj 43.922.000; denim ctoth. 103.028.000 yards, and wool stockings, 104,333.000 I || I The health of the American soldiers j has been conserved and protected most efficiently. In 1898 the death rate per I U I thousand in the army was 20.14, in V I! 1900 it was 7.78 and in 1916 It was 5.13. For the week ended June 7 of | this year the death rate per thousand1 Ijfl |j among all troops?regulars, national army and national guard?in the j MUMw t'nited States was 3.16. Army hospitals in the United States i years ago. On the ninth day of Ab. | the city of Jerusalem was captured, the temple destroyed and the Babylonian captivity began. This event ; marked the end of the kingdom or Judea founded by King David, and, for the time, destroyed organized Jewi ish life and left Palestine denuded of j J ews. ~ * Six and a half centuries later, after ' a desperately and- heroically fought 1 war and a siege of protracted horrors, | Jerusalem fell to Titus, the Roman i conqueror, again on the ninth of Ab. ! The flames that consumed the temple wiped out the central organization of .Jewish religious life, and the sword that razed the city scattered the rem'nants of the Jewish peopleto the lands of thejr Golus (exile) where they are , found today. On the ninth, of Ab began that homelessness and restlessi ness of the Jewish people which have been the cause of the centuries of Jew' ish suffering snce Roman times. | Three score years later, the rebellion led by Dar Kochba ended in a blood bath on this fateful day. the ninth of Ab. With the collapse of this J last despairing effort of the Jewsih people to reassert its freedom from the yoke of Rome, the sentence of Jewry's exile and persecution was sealed. The fast of Ah ha?. therefore, voiced the cry of anguish of the Jewish people in the nineteen centuries of its scattered and martyred existence in the lands of its dispersion. The Jewish people that has lived through and that remembers the persecutions suffered from ancient Rome, from the barbarians, from Cossacks, from pogroms and from the agonies of this world war has consecrated the>e sorrows in the fast of Ab. on June 5 contained 72,667 beds, and new construction now under way will increase this capacity to 87.344 beds/ In France hospital facilities have been, and are being organized which will j provide Deas equal 10 a 10 iv per ceni ' of the number of men in the American j forces. The number of officers in the I medical corps has been, increased from | 900 to 24,000 and the number of en| listed men from 8,000 to 148,000. American engineers have constructed hundreds of miles of raili way in France. More than 22,000 I standard gauge and 60 C. M. freight cars and 1,600 standard gauge and 60 C. M. locomotives have been sent to France. The aircraft program is proceeding most encouragingly. Up to June 86,880 elementary training planes and 2,133 advanced training planes were delivered, more , than 2.000 Liberty Individual Wi) Event Place 50yds. 1st?Pvt. J. L. Sewell, ( 2nd?Sgt. S. Bishop, M 3rd?Ensign C. B. Hoyl ?Sgt. T. H. Jacksc ?Pvt. A. ,T. Rawlin ?Pvt. J. C. Browne, 100 yds. 1st?Lieut. Joe Loomis, 2nd?Pvt. C. D. Watson ?Sgt. T. H. Jacksoi 3rd?Ensign C. B. Hey I ?Pvt. J. Lfc Seweli ?Student O. Joe Lc 220 yds. 1st?Sgt. A. B. Mahafi ?Pvt. S. R. Pierson 2nd?Pvt. H. F. Nichoh 3rd?Pvt. J. T. Dowd, I i mile 1st ?Pvt. F. A. Drinkwj 2nd?Pvt. Frank J. Hin ! 3rd?Pvt. Paul Koelinuj % mile 1st?Pvt. F. T. Illsley, 2nd?C. Q. M. G., Attla 3rd?Pvt. P. O. Fallon Running 1st?Sgt. H. A. Stucke j Broad 2nd?Corp. C. T. Taylo Jump 3rd?Pvt. A. E. Propst ?Pvt. C. Ellis. O. ' Running 1st?Pvt. R. G. Letlck, High 2nd? Ensign B. H. Crig Jump 3rd?Pvt. Ted Reynolds Semaphore 1st?Pvts. A. Morski, J. Signaling 2nd?Sixty-first, Fifth I Contest 3rd?Radio School, Pari) Litter 1st ?Pvts. C. R- Franks, 1 Bearers' 2nd?Hospital Corp. Apj Race "?107th Squadron, Ci ?A- D. G., Oglethon 3rd?282d Squadron, Par I Relay 1st?Pvts. Fred Martin, Brigade, Can 2nd?Forty-fifth Infantry |3rd?O. T. 8., Camp Se^ engines.have bnn delivered to th army and navy and 27,250 machin guns have been delivered for use o aeroplanes. More than 1,300.000 rifles were pre duced In the United States and de livered between the declaration of wa and June 1 of this year. During May more than 000 heav Browning machine guns and mor more than 1,800 light Brownings t\er delivered. American engineers have so In creased the port facilities of Franc that during this month it will be possl ble to handle 750,000 tons at the port used by the American army. These arc some of the more strllcin accomplishments In war preparation during the last fourteen monthi They are enough to demonstrate th efficiency that has been reached an to dispel any gloom which the trouble of the period of the war may hav created. America has struck he stride, and will go forward swiftly an surely to victory. The resolution o ! congratulations to the War Depart I mont. which the House committee o military affairs passed upon considers tion of Secretary Baker's letter, wil be approved by the public generally Y. M. C. A. LEADERS AT CAMP AT BLUE RIDGI Rev. T. W. Daviear, Y. M. C. A I secretary at the base hospital, am [ Religious Secretary Groubb at "Y I 106, have been transferred to Cam; . Jackson. Harry K. Grausnick, physi cial director at "Y" 102, has hef camp to enter the army. J Camp Secretary Grogan, Religiou ; Director Thompson, and Rev. Theo dore Partrick. Jr., are attending a con I ference of the camp secretaries a j Blue Ridge for 10 days. , Secretary "Billy" Stevens, who ha ! been doing physical work at the Y. M C. A. in Charlotte, has been trans | ferred to the camp secretarial force I At present Secretary Stevens is takini ' the place of Secretary McCreery a j the base hospital. Mecretary Mc Creery is to have charge of "Trend and Camp" during the absence of thi editor, Partrick. / ? / / Give Long Concert. A most intere.iting and appreciative program was given to the soldiers a j "Y" 102 Friday evening before thi j usual moving picture show. The program consisted of musica ! numbers by Mrs. McRae and Mis Georgenia Caldwell. Mrs. McRae sang some Irish mel I in q mnuf nlAnctincr manner am i was 'forced to give several encores j Miss Caldwell, slnging^a repertoire o I humorous selections. Just carried th< j audience ofT Its feet. Her first selec j tion. "Naughty." called forth roundi ) of applause and she had to give sev i eral encores before the boys were sat I isfled. | Mr. R. Brooks Thomas, acting build Ing secretary, had the program ii charge and he was assisted by Mr j Stevens. mers of Victory Athlei Name?Organization?Camp Cadet Detachment, Carlstrom field.... . R. U. 306, Fort McPherson t. Naval School, Charleston Navy Ya in, 252 Aero Squad, Payne field b. Officers' T. S., Camp Sevier U. S. Naval A. S.. Miami. Fla First Brigade F. A. R. D . Fifth Company C, A. C., Fort Morg 1, 252 Aero Squad, Payne field t. Naval School, Charleston Navy , Cadet Detachment, Carlstrom field >ckwood, U. S. Air Station, Miami, J y. Base Hospital, Camp Jackson , Company B, M. M. S., Georgia Te j, 29th Company, Camp Johnston.... 324th Infantry, Camp Sevier iter. Second Brigade, F. A. R. D.. Ca ies, 252 Aero Squad, Payne field I, 113 S. E., Camp Shelby First Brigade. F. A. R. D., Camp Jac! , Naval Aero Station, Miami, Fla , Dental B. T., Fort Oglethorpe y, 139th F. A., Camp Shelby r, 317th F. A.. Camp Jackaon , Q. M. C., Fort McPherson r. S., Camp Sevier tX , T"? _I J ? r * t) n Pomn Too' riroi Diigauc, r. n. i\. i/., ?u? hton, U. S. N. Air Station. Miami, F , 326th F. A. Btn., Camp Wadswortb Friday. W. Fraley, J. Simon, 4th Infant teglment, iCamp Green......... ... s Island * IVm. F. Rogers. J. C. Pulliam, Base Hosi i., Paris Island arlstrom Held ketieid" Lonzo Holt. David Drayden, Sgt. B. . lp Gordon , Cajnp Sheridan rler~. J ' MINNESOTA REGISTRANTS n ARRIVE AT SPARTANBURG ? r Ten Thousand Selectmen From r the Gopher State Will Train y at Camp Wadsworth. e ? Special to The Observer. Spartanburg:, S. C., July 15.-?Special ..v^l e trains are arriving: every hour . Camp Wadsworth today, bringing TrJ a 10,000 drafted men front the state of .^1 g Minnesota and 4,000. from South Caro? Una for military duty in the national * army. -Six thousand men from Penn- t :"rSI ? sylvania are also due to arrive during ' 4 the month and a statement issued at J a the camp today says that August will J e bring another 10,000 soldiers to camp, * J| r although it has not yet been deter- fj 1 mined what states they will come Wl ' from. With this number of troops .; *1 - arriving in July and August, military VfiSS n officials think that Camp Wadsworth ^ - will be the largest military camp in U the United States. ? WARNS NEW REGISTRANTS TO VOLUNTEER AJ ONCE Warning that all young men who - registered June 5 with the Mecklen? burg county local board and who, Afj from their knowledge of the selective r ?-j P service regulations know they will be - placed in class one. should volunteer s t for navy or marine corps service at J once, if they prefer to serve in one s of these branches, said Chief Clerk SiA - Cheek of the county board, yester- v~B| - day. Mr. Cheek added that the rea- mj t son he gave out this warning-ds be- _, $? cause every indication now points to i s | the drafting, perhaps during August, 1 j of a relatively large number of these - men who have been or will be placed .*j ?. I in class one. He pointed out that the" g | regulations prevent a registrant enlist- "j t; ing in either of thes branches of serv- '.i - I ice after the calls for entrainment of a M 11 number of men are sufficient to reach a his order number. * :m SOLDIER REMINDS FRIEND 4 ? THEY THINK OF CHARLOTTE M b Corporal Thomas Jordan, of a provisional replacement battalion of , / 1 the Third American army corps, wrote y 3 Mrs. James Hudson, of 22C North Col- -r/Sj lege street, about June 26, stating' - that he had been wounded but that 1 he is now waiting for his compan?:&&M ?L,monHor tn rApflll him into service. f "We boys who have been In North I 5 Carolina send out thanks to the pea- V-j!p3 - pie of Charlotte for what' they have .:< &? j done for us," said the corporal. In. -V3& - a postscript he asked Mrs. Hudson. 10 - submit His letter to The Observer for publication "so the people of North '" - Carolina will see" we have not for-' 1 gotten fhem." Corporal Jordan is one . of the boys stationed at Camp Greene - during last winter. 7c Meet, July 4 Record Points Tj 5 2-5 sec. 5 14 101-6 sec. 5 .l 119 an 11-2 11-2 igSj Vard 14 Mi 1* ! ia 14 24 sec. 21-2 ;-&ch 214 *&& 3 ' i 1 m imp Jackson 5:13 5 3 1 kson 2:13 5 I I 3 -*i ;. i 21 ft. Vi In. 5 v 3 \ 1-2*.]!. 1-2 1? kson 5 ft. 11 In. 5 'la 1 " 3 ry, Camp Sheridan 2:22 2-5 5 ). 65, Ft. McPhorB'n 10 sec. 5
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