Newspapers / Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, … / Sept. 11, 1917, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
AGE TWO SALISBURY EYEING POST SAL ISBURY, N. C, SEPT 11. 1917. PATHFINDERS TO PASS THROUGH SALISBURY DISCOURAGING LETTERS F Boys at Fort Caswell Getting Along Fine Viaitora Allowed to Fort Thursday, Saturday and Sunday , Afternoons Hoys Working, Bafh-' ing and Playing Baseball. i i The following letter received by Pdstmister A. H. Boyden from Cap-; tain P. E. jrfurph, of the 4th Co., C. 1 A. C, at Fort Caswell, will be of in-! terest to Salisbury and Rowan peo- ; pie, especially those having relatives at the camp: I Fort Caswell, N. C. 1 . Sunday, !)-!)-17. ': Mr. Boyden, Dear Sir: We are very a I . J I . I cumoriauiy located nere in lenis and now are fairly well straightened out for practice. However, there is a lot m of construction work to do before camp is completed. New k i t chins with mess hall added are being built there. Latrines with running waterv will take the pluce of the old fire incinerators. We will then hnva a modern camp. Electric lights will be put in each tent as soon as material can be gotten. There is but little sickness in cump. I was very sick ' yesterday; they wanted to take me to the hospital, but I didn't go anl MY FOURTEEN MONTHS AT THE FRONT An American Boy' a Baptism of Fire WIHWMIROBINSON Copyright, Little, Brown 9 Co. ' Secretary Reuntree and Other Will . . Leave Waahigtoa .September 15th v Ge Over On Root and On Re turn Will Coma By Way of Char I krtt, Salisbury, and pa Through ' Lynchburg. , Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 10. Mr. J. A. Rountree, secretary of the Bank head National Highway Association, a government engineer and represen- , ative of the press, will leave Wash ington on September 15 for the pur pose of going over the proposed route it tha Bankhead National Highway f om Washington via Fredericksburg, Clarkesville, Baystone, Dinwiddie urthouse, Richmond, Petersburg, .Burlington, Graham, Hillsboro, D urham, Raleigh, N. C, Oxford am! .'.itermediate points in those two Mates for the purpose of perfecting Arrangements for the Pathfinders that vill go over the proposed Eastern routes in Virginia and North Caroli na in November. After Secretary Rountree and offi cial party have traversed what is known aa the Eastern route, they will traverse the ' Piedmont route via Greensboro, N. C, Danville, Lynch burg,, Vs., on through the Shenan (loan valley to Washington. Public meetings will be held, ad- we;fk io go anywhere. J the station yard nil vehicles carrying Presses delivered, and the people urg- Boys seem to be very well pleased the same kind of goods group t hom ed to put their respective roads in ! only once in a while do they complain. , selves together, so that when they final Supplies are brought across the cban nel dally. The railway lines run sirulght down to the docks, so the broken when a tin of petrol is Issued U a driver, or If It appeara to have been opeued fie may refuso It and demand . one with tbe sealintact. In this way , the chance of receiving- defective or Im pure petrol la avoided, j There are practically all known inukes of motor trucks add cars at the front, aa many of them were com niandaered at the begluulng of the war. ' Theu again, all the motor manufactur ers in Euglaud are "working day and night to keep the armies supplied wltb these vehicles. There are also a good many American makes lu use there. I The work of the chaplains at the front Is not spoken of very much, yet they work as bard and do as uincn good as any men In any other branch of tbe service. They are usually at tached to tbe royal srmy medical corps. I hare seen a chaplain holding ' service in a Held on a Sunday morn ing, and during tbe service the enemy commenced to shell some huts close by. I firmly believe that If it bad not been contrary to orders be would have con- tinned to worship Just the same as though nothing was happening. The royal army medical corps Is a 'tremendous unit, and there, too, will be found some of the bravest men lu goods are put on the trains as thev t I,,B Briuy eve" "ugu are non- are taken out of the ship. Each divi- ; combatant. This corps is always re- slon, army corps and urmy has its own j reneu lo 88 lne " M anu 1110 iiniiMU joiuiny speass or it us uio railhead, or. In other words each one of these units has its own station In which its supplies are delivered. Ev ery unit has its own supply column, which In made up of uny number of motor trucks, tbe total varying accord ing to the strength of the unit. These motor trucks pull up on each side of the tralu, and the supplies ure shifted in a very short space V time. "Rob All My Comrades." There Is a reason for this, of course, and as near as I enn make out it is 1 this: When a man Is sick or wounded and is obliged to go into hospital all his belongings are taken from ldm.. He Is supposed to get them buck when he 1 Is discharged from hospital, but when .'m-li one consiucrs tue tuousanus tuai arc motor truck Is loaded with only one ' am feeling a lot better today, only too kind of goods, and as the column leaves . good condition so that the Pathfind ers which will ,ba composed of two government engineers of three disin terested" reputable citizens and repre sentatives' of the American Automo bile Association that will star from Washington on November 1 to desi gnate one of these routes as the off I rial Bankhead highway from Wash ihgton tov Atlanta ' From the reports and ivitations that have been received at the head quarters, Secretary Rountree and party will be most cordially received by the people of Virginia and North Carolina, and every courtesy will be extended and an effort made to show the roads that the people in those states desire inspected by the official Pathfinder of the Bankhead Nation si Highway Association. Meeting of Sodality. V There will be a meeting' of the So dality of the Sacred Heart church in the school building at 7.45 p. m. to morrow, followed by an enteftaiftf : menc to Begin oout p. nr.. w Thi "members will render a program con sisting of an address, recitations, vo cal and instrumental solos, which promise to be highly instructive and dcught"uL Catholics as well as non Catholics will be warmly welcome. Woman suffrage beaten at the poles in maine 1 Portland, Me., Sep. 10. Woman suffrage in Maine was defeated, 2 to 1, at the special election today, if the voting ratio Indicated by news paper returns from approximately one-third- of the state prevailed in the remaining districts. 'Returns-from 275 election pre cincts out of 635 in the state, gave: Yes, 11,161; No, 22,296. "The tabulation included complete I have heard thnt they are writing to' move oft ten trucks of meat may be lonesome letters home, but these let- leading the column, followed by vail ters are only written after a lonesome 0lm numbers of truck loads of bread, letter is received with a lot of stuff , Brocerlcs, clothing, buy and grain, that should not be written to the boys. ' l'tro1 1,11(1 mechanical supplies. In this Tell the folks at home to quit writ- i tue H00 an' a" dumped together, ing such foolish homu-sick news, but'"" i""" epn.ie in to write encouraging and praise the! boys for their stand and what they are doing for our country and the ones- left behind. This will eliminate the dissatisfaction. Some parents write their sons as though they never expected to see them again and us if home rad lost one of its members and that there is a vacant chair never to-be filled. Such is poor encourage ment. Today there is no work to do and the boys are spending the day lying around and bathing there is to be a game of basball this evening had church this a.m. Visitors are only allowed on the Post Thursday evening, Saturday ev ening and Sunday, then they must secure a pass from headquarters. All men have been notified to ask for a pass for their friends if they know when they are coming so as to avoid the delay of being stopped at the guard house; ;also they are expected to meet the boat and present the pass to their friends and accompany them to the rest room if they arrive before hours allowed for visitors. The boys have always been allow ed to leave quarters every night if they wanted too, during summer en campment and now they can leave only the same time. Visitors are al lowed.. This has a tendency to make them a little dissatified. The great est trouble is, they dont realize we are in war but look at it as though we were at a regular encampment for a short while. Hope all is well in Salisbury. My best regards to you and all P. O. employees. Yours very truly, D. E. MURPH. tie stores for each article. The "first dump," as it Is called, Is a place cleared away on the side of the tuken care of by the hospitals it Is only reasonable to believe that a great many of the little bundles are bound to go1 astray. Tommy cannot see this, however, so he grumbles and growls and often refers to the corps lu uncom plimentary terms. CHAPTER V. The "Mad Major." THE nurses in the hospitals are worshiped und adored by the soldiers, and surely this is as it should be, for they are suffering al most as much as the men, and yet they rood where the men may deposit the ' koep cneerrill aild SUIpiy the tender returtis from- the principal cities, " SAFEST DBUGGIST SE LL E-EU-SA PILE CUBE. , Because it contains no opiates, no lead, no belladonna, no poisonous drug. All other Pile medicines containing injurious narcotics and oth ; er poisons cause constipation and damage all who use them. E-RU-SA t cures or $50 paid. PEOPLES DRUG STORE, SMITH DRUG CO, MAIN PHARMACY, Watch This Paper for Particulars $ DOLLAR DAY $ Thursday, CsO-. o : C s. 20th t SALISBURY" $ -A Pc:t As f or Dollar Bargains supplies so that It will be convenient for the horse transport to come nnd get them. Here the lavods are unload ed, and the motor column returns to headquarters. After it Is dark the horse transport comes down from tho trenches, loads Its wagons and imme diately returns to the trenches, where the supplies nre issued to each unit for distribution to tin; smnller units. The motors complete their work In nn Incredibly short time. They have seven or eight miles to carry their loads and lu some cases even farther, yet within two or three hours from tho time they leave their eauips in the morning they are back, again, and tbe army lias been provided for another day. ' To each motor vehicle three men nre nsslgned. They are known as the first, second and third drivers and are all of them qualified chauffeurs. In case any thing happens to the first driver the others are there to take his place. The first driver has the care of the engine and tho' driving of the truck, while the other two men have the greasing and oiling and cleaning of tbe vehicle, and they also assist lu the loading nnd un loading of supplies. The motors are in spected daily, and if not In perfect running order they are at once taken care of by the column workshops. These workshops "are very efficient, and it is remarkable what thorough work they can turn out. They are each fitted with a lathe, forge, benches, etc., the lathe being run by n sinnll motor cycle engine provided for thut purpose. If for any reason Nthe column is un able to repair a motor, that vehicle is sent to one of the buses where there nre stationary workshops, and n new truck Is sent back to replace it. The mechanics In these workshops are all trained men nnd nre obliged to pass severe tests before being accepted for the work Many of them are men who have worked on the building of cars in the factories In England, nnd in cases like this they are allowed to specialize on the cars they are familiar with. The only other mechanics who can claim to bo their superiors aro those of the Itoyal Flying corps, and they are nbso lutely tire cream of the mechanical world nnd are one of. the highest paid bodies of men in the British army. Another brnncli of the mechanical transport which Is very mwh up to date is the deimrtmeiit of 'stores and accessories. The men in this depart ment are not necessarily trained men. but they must be pxxl managers, as they keep lu stock all spare parts which are likely to le called for. Be sides this, tney have charge of the petrol oil, grease, carbide, tires for light cars and, In fact, everything that is likely to be used on an automobile. The petrol Is all sent from England tn two gallon ttns. Tbese tins aroNealed when they are filled, and If a seal Is womanly sympathy which means so much when In physical anguish. "They are a wonderful body of women, and their work is appreciated. Some of f bp sis B.D STOMACHS THE PENALTY. Stomach sufferer should ' take warning. Gall Stones, Cancer and Ulcers of the Stomach and Intentines, Auto Intoxication, Yellow Jaundice, AppendioUis, and other dangerous ailments are some of the penalties. Most Stftmaeh, (Liver and Intestinal Tsoubl art quickly overcome with Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. This fa vorite prescription has restored mil lions of people. Let one dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy prove to day that it will help you. For sale by- Leonard Drug Co. Whan a Man Has Been Killed Hi Let ters Ar Marked "Killed." ' them are close enough to the front to be tiuder Are, and they are as brave as the meu when it comes to facing dan ger. During an aeroplane raid last fall I had a chance to watch some of tbe nurses. We had about thirty German aeroplanes over our encampment drop- jrfng bombs. As they went back to their own Hues they flew over a hos pital located in an open field. There were huge red crosses painted on the. top of every tent, so It would seem that any mistake as to the nature of the camp would be Impossible. Never theless us the taubes passed over they dropied several bombs in the hospital and killed quite a number of the poor chaps who were already wounded. The nurses worked as hard as they could trying to quiet the rest of the men, and it Is no easy task, for, while a sol dier may face almost anything when he is'well7 It la a very different matter when he is lying helpless, wounded and tn pain, on a stretcher. I was very much Interested to learn how a man's mail, was taken care of when anything had happened to him. It seemed to me that the chance of his letters being returned before his iwoplo could be notified was very great. On asking about this I found that when a man has been killed his letters are marked "Killed," but instead of be ing sent directly to his people they are returned to the war office and are sent from there, after the casualty has been made known, to bis relatives. In this way many ople are saved a great rlpul of nromatnre worrv and uneasi ness. I shall never forget the'tlme I saw I the Royal Horse artillery go into action, for a more thrilling sight would be bard to imagine. I was out alone in the car, and I had been doing patrol duty. I went rather closer to our fir ing line than I Intended to. but decided to push on until I struck tbe "route nationale," so I mould hare a good road all the rest of tbe way back to camp. I had to go through the village of IHckebusch, and as I came to tbe cross roads just outside the village a sentry stopped me and said I could not go on. It seems that some Germans had got a machine gun lu the steeple of tbe cburcb mud were cleaning up every thing that tried to pass. The bora artillery hadbeen scut for, and I leurn ed that they were ou their way eveu I decided to wait around and see what happened, so I pulled lu to the siik) of tljo road. I hud hardly stopped when I heard a rush and rattle that souuded like an old flivver lu the dis tance. Around the curve dashed eight horses ou tbe dead gallop, pulling an eighteen pounder behind them. They dashed by, but about fifty yards ahead of me they swung around and trained thut gnu on the church. There wus a moment's pause, and then she spoke, and away went steeple, Germans, machine gun and all. The first shot had been a direct hit, and it couldn't have been better if they bad tried a thousand years. It was the very next day after this event thnt I got Into as tight a fix as I ever care to find myself. I wus order ed to take three officers to a place call ed Kemmel. I hud been there before, and from what I hud seen then I wusn't eager about making the trip attuin. We sturted off about I o'clock ail expected to bo buck by ft. I noticed ns I came to the Kemmel road that there were two sentries on duty there, but as i hey only saluted the officers and didn't say anything I thought no more j about it. Now, Kemmel lies at tl)e foot I of a 1)111 and Is tucked in lietween Mount Nolr nndMoiiut Kemmel. I would bo a cozy HttleNploce In peace time, but it is an awful trap to get caught In when there is u wnr on. I sent the car up the hill as fast she ' could go, and it was u long climb. As 1 we went over the brow and started on ! the down grade we ran right under the 1 nose of the German artillery observers, i This road was officially closed, and 1 those sentries should have stopped us. I Well, it scared me so that I went j down that hill so fast thse officers must have thought they were in a parn I chute. As we entered the village the 1 shells commenced to drop in on us, and we run for the nearest shelter, which happened to bo a brewery. There wasn't much left of the pluce anyway, as it hnd been in German bunds, and we bad shelled them out of it. and when we bad tuken it they had shelled us out of it. Anyway, we left the car and crawled Into the cellar. It wus wet nnd filthy, but It locked -just like heaven to me that day. ' We lay there iu nil this Dlth hour after hour, while the shells literally i poured In all around us. They cer tainly wasted n lot of good ammunition i trying to get us, but the best of it was thut they didn't succeed. Une of the officers remarked during a moment's silence that the crown prince of Ger many must have made bis headquar ters iu the place when It wns in Ger man hands. Another officer replied, thnt he w'.shcd the crown prince Was there now. TAX MEASUISE IS PASSED, BY THE SENATE Largest Ever Put Over Congress Is That Which the Senate Passed on Monday Night. ' , Washington, Sept. 10. The war tax bill the largest single taxation measure in American history was passed tonight by the senate. It pro vides for a levy somewhere under $3,400,000,000 aa compared with the 11,867,870,000 proposal in the bill as it passed the house May 23. The vote was 69 to 4, Senators Horah, Gpmna, LaFollette and Nor ris being recorded in opposition. The great bill, nearly four months in the making will be returned to the house tomorrow and then goes to conference with enactment within ten days or two weeks probable. Senators Simmons, Stone and Wil liams, Democrats and Penrose and Lodge, Republicans,of the finance committee, were appointed the sen ate's conferees Awaiting the senate in the final struggle over war fiscal policies is the 11,500,000,000 credits bill, which passed the house unanimously and upon which work will be begun to morrow by the senate finance com mittee. Of the $2,4000,000,000 new taxes provided in the tax bill for the du ration of the war, $842,200,000 is to be taken from incomes, corporate and individual, and $1,060,000,000 from war profits. Most of the remainder is levied on liquor, tobacco and pub lic utilities. In tonight's clean-up, the principal eleventh-hour actions of the senate were elimination of all provisions for taxing publishers and increasing sec ond class periodical postage rates and all consumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa, the latter reducing the bill $86,000,000. The senate also struck out the clause proposing re peal of.the "darwback," or re-export allowance given sugar refiners and defeated proposals to add inheritance taxes. In a last effort of the high tax group to increase taxes, the sdnate rejected 65 to 15 the LaFollette sub stitute bill to raise $8,500,000,000 more taxes. Thosfe supporting it were Borah, Brady, Gore, Grona, Hardwick, Hollis, Hunting, Johnson, of California; Jones, of Washington; Kenyon, LaFollette, McNary, Norris, Reed and Vardaman. y Passage of the bill was devoid of the' usual stirring scenes marking such an epochal measure. At 4 o'clock today, under the agreement which ended the cloture fight a fort night ago, debate was shut off and a tedious series of a dozen roll calls brought the bill to paseage. . A parliamentary snarl and amendment made fight on the second class postage provision furnished the most excitement. After the McKel lar substitute zone postage increase provision, applying to 'publications sent ..beyond 300 miles, had been re jected, 40 to 34, Senator Hardwickrs substitute zone plan applicable to advertising portions only was beaten 48 to 20. Senator McKellar attempt ed to offer another substitute , with a maximum rate of four cents a pound instead of six cents, but Sen ator Saulsbury, presiding, held that the house one provision had never been formally eliminated. Then the senate made sure of its determina tion to eliminate all postage in creases and special levies on publish ers by adopting Senator Weeks' mo tion to strike out the entire house clause, 59 to 9. The only postage feature left in the bill are provisions for free trans portation of letters from American soldiers abroad and for a cent stamp tax on parcel post packages, raising about $4,000,000. , The consumption taxes, of 1-2 cent a pound on sugar, two cents on cof aa fivo rpnti nn tan. thren cantd on cocoa and from one to two cents a gallon on molasses went out by over whelming majorities. JC final vote on Senator Broussard's motion to eliminate them all was 52 to 28. (To Be Contiued.) When-the Kaiser get ready to ab dicate he shbuld-iak along nis junl kers and other remnants of fuedal-ism. Tome; There' a lot of difference be tween Toric Lenses and Flat Lenses besides their. slight extra cost. They give you cxtto vision and extra comfort They are better looking, too. Come and see ua about Toric Lenses. Ask STARNES & PARKER Jewelers and Optometrists 115 South Main Street SALISBURY, N. C. We've Got the Goods NEW-TOPS COMPLETE. TOP COVERS. SEAT COVERS. CURTAINS AND ENGINE HOOD COVERS. WB BUILD A HIGH GRADE PANEL TOP COMMERCIAL BODY For Ford Cars WE DO ALL KINDS OF WAGON AND BUGGY REPAIRING. WE GIVE THE AUTOMOBILE SPECIAL ATTENTION WHEN IT COMES TO PAINTING. Holshouser Bros. EAST LIBERTY STREET. PHONE 456-J. urn- FROM NORTH CAROLINA INTO TERMINAL STATION NORFOLK WITHOUT TRANS FER FREIGHT SERVICE If you value quick trans porta ties route your shipment via Norfolk Southern Railroad. Watch the time made by their pack age cars, and you will find that yoaf interest are beso served by patron. ADVANCE FALL STYLES Just in. Beaut they arc Bell Shoe Store School Days Are Here Again Your pride in your children's appearance, naturally prompts you to start the little ones tpr school looking their very best and there is no one article as you yourself will v undoubtedly recal, in which children take so much pride as their "new shoes." Brovyifs New SchooL Shoes Are Ready firing or send the youngstersm and in a very few minutes we will have them fitted property with shoes that are-jieat and the same time ser,vicable. 'brown shoe company North Main MOST WORKERS READ WANTS WILL BE REPAID FOR THEIR WORK. Women everywhere suffer from kidney troublebackache, rheumatic pains, swollen and tended muscles, stiff points and it is to help those who suffer as she did that Mrs. C. J. Ellis, 505 8th Av., Sioux Falls, St D writes: "I feel sure If. any one both ered as I was will give Fole Kidney Pills a fair trial they will be repaid for their work. It seems foolish o neglect an ailment when there is such a remedy to be had." They correct bladder . diatrubancesi too. Sold Everywhere. Norfolk Southern Railroad SHORT LINE BETWEEN CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, NORFOLK, VA AND FOR POINTS EAST. Through Sleeper leaves Raleigh daily 9:20 p. m., arriving Norfolk, 7:55 a. m. - Through Train leaves Rleigh daily 2:05 p. m. for Wilson, Greenville, Washington, New Bern, Morehead City hnd Beaufort Ask any Norfolk Southern Ticket Agent or write to W. J. WILLIAMS,, G. B. UNDERWOOD, Commercial Agent, Commercial Agent, Raleigh, N. C. Charlotte, -N. C. J. F. DALTON, General Passenger Agent, Norfolk, Va. VI AA'WV1M1 READ TSfi POST ' WANT ADS. " POST WANT ADS GET RESULT
Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 11, 1917, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75