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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-EVERYBODY READS IT E MONROE JOURMAL PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL 24. No. 60 MONROE, N. O, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918 $ 0 PER YEAR CASH. r HJNDENBVKti LINE WILL VERY 8HOKTLT BE NO MORE Washington Military Officials Fefl it la in Fair Way to Become Voten able 1 12,000 Prisoner ' alien. Washington. Aug. 28. Develop ments on the western battlefront dur ing the next 48 hours should deter mine the late of the much vaunted "Hindenburg line." in the opinion of tome military official; here. Wit!) the strength of the line already ma terially impaired by the British wedge driven around its left hunk and even more telling blows threatened by the steady advance of the Frencn through Nesle towards the Sonim and by the British east of Arras, observers here believed that scheme of defense popu larly held in German) to be the bul wark of the western tront is in a fair way to become untenabia before the main Teutonic forces have been driv en backto it. The impression prevailing in mili tary circles here is that General Koch's tactics have forced upon the enemy the necessity of making every effort along the present front to May the allied advance, without the option of withdrawing "unnoticed." For more than six weeks, they point out, the main German armies have been under ceaseless pressure which, dur ingthe last 10 days, has become so great as to necessitate a practically unchecked retreat on a 60-mile front. This withdrawal, hlle not precipi tate, has been swift enougn to bring their main concentrations withing the zone of allied fire with a consequent effect on the morale of the enemy's men. The longer the tactics of the past week are kept up, army officers declare, the more difficult will be the attempts of the German geueral rtaff to stop them. In view of these facts, the prevail ing opinion here is that German re sistance will stiffen within the next few hours and hard fought engage ments will ensue. Prisoners taken by the allied ar mies since July 1, General March, chief of staff, said today, total more than 112.000, while 1.300 guns of heavy calibre field pieces and larger were captured in the same period. It was ' understood that General March's figures included only prison ers passing through detention camps up to the beginning of the present week. Captures reported by the Brit ish and French since then, have aver aged more than 3,000 a day which would bring the total to date? to more than 130,000. Latest official dispatches reaching the war department did not cover the fighting today, apparently the most successful since the allied advance be gan. Starving Jew Fund. Rev. W. H. Ball, who Is, still col lecting, says, "This is an Investment you cannot afford to miss. President Wilson gives you a most excellent op portunity In bonds, United Statto of America security for principal and in terest. In the starving Jew fund Al mighty God is the secuttty for prin cipal and interest. Can you beat It; He would rather be bankrupt heie, than heieaJter. Wouldn't you?" Roll of honor, continued; J. M. Belk, $10.00, W. M. Gordon. $2. CO. W. J. Hudson. $2.00, Rudgo Co., $2, Albert Kedfern, $1, Julian Griffin, $1, F. B. Ashcraft, $1, lr. G. H. Nance, $1, Monroe Bakery, $1, K. W. McClol lan, $1, C. N. Gordon, $1, W. B. Bfown, $1. O. I). Davis, $1, Duncan Huntley, $1, Mrs. J. T. Shute, $1, Mrs. B. C. Hinson, 50c, Veil Fulen wlder 60c, J. L. W. 50c, W U. Wiggs 60c, Miss E. Gurney, 50c, cusn, Mat; 60c, R. W. Cunningham, 50, W. H. Hobyard, 60c, J. W, Laney, 50c. V. C. Davis, 60c, F. Woir. 50c, John Lathan, 25c, Lucy Helms, 25c, Mrs. H. Austin, 25c, C. Sander, 25c, J. F. McManus, 25c, R. F. Carnes, 25c, E. G. Faust. 25c, W. H. Eubanks, 25c, F. NassitT, 25c, Miss Jean Austin, 25c, C. L. B., 25c, Snook, 10c. Any person wishing to help will please hand or send their money to Mr. Ball. He cannot promise to make . any more visits. McADOO INVITES CRITI CISMS AND COMMENDATIONS FjftUblMieft Bureau of Suggestions And Complaint In Washington Aik That Communications Be Brief "Give Exact Time and Num ber of Train' Name of Employe Complained of or Commended Should lie Mentioned Write Plainly Washington, Aug. 29. If you have a "kick" against the railroad service under government control, Direct General McAdoo wants to know about it. Also be would like to hear any thing commendatory people say about it. To handle this he Is establishing a Bureau of Suggestions and Com plaints In his office He calls attention to the fact that the first need is to win the war and that it Is the desire of the railroad to do everything incompatible with the main purpose of the administration, to make traveling comfortable. Write your ideas to the Bureau for Suggestions and Complaints, office of the Director-General, U. S. Railroad Administration, Washington. "It la requested that all communi cations be brief and explicit "and that the nam and address of the writer be distinctly written," Mr. McAdoo states "Also give the time of day or night, the number of the train, the name of the railroad, the name of the em ployee whose conduct Is complained, together with such other Information as will enable me to take appropriate action." Iieath of Mr. Dargaa 8. Liles. Mr. Dargan S. Lilea died yesterday morning at his home at Pee Dee, An son county. Mr. Liles formerly lived in Monroe and for a long time work-, ed for The Monroe Enquirer. Mr. Liles was carrier on rural route number one from Pee Dee, and was merchandising and farming. Hie health failed over 2years ago, but he kept on with his work and would not give up until disease had so fastened itself upon him as to make it impos sible for him to go about his duties. He married Miss Mimie Griffin daughter cf the late Mr. John H. Grif fin of east Monroe township. She died reveral years ago. leaving two small children, Flossie and Ely. Mr. T. B. Liles, of east Monroe township. Is a brother of the deceased. The other members of the family are Messrs. Marshall Liles, of Pee Dee; William Liles, of Arzona; Henry Liles of Lilesvllle, and Binford Liles, of Rochinghaiu; Mrs. Bettie Shores, of Rochirigham; Mrs. William Babbs, of Richmond county, and Miss Sallie Liles, of Pee Dee. Mr. Liles was about forty-eignt years old. He was desperately injur ed in a gin accident when he was a young marf and had many reverses, but he- fought his battles well, main tained his fine Christian character through the whole fight and died a gentleman unafralid. The I'nlon County Y. M. C. A. The various commitees of Union county are being canvassed in the in terest, of the Y M. C. A. organization perfected last week. A budget of $2,500 was authorized to run the or ganization one year two-fifths of the budget has been subscribed and the canvass will continue until the le mainder has been secured. The response has been gratifying and the committee has confidence in the total amount being subscribed. In a few days a county secretary will be employed to give his whole time to the organization. Virginia'! First ldy to Become Mu nition Worker. Richmond, Va., Aug. 28. Vir ginia's first lady, Mrs. Westmoreland Davis, will don gingham, carry her own lunch and Journey to thv United States bag loading plant No. 3, ut Seven Pines, tomorrow morning to enter the training school to be made a full fledged munition worker. As president of the woman's munition reserve. Mrs. Davis feels that 'she should lose no time in becoming an expert in sewing raw- silk bags and filling them with unokeless powder. The governor's wife will he accom panied by Mrs. James Cannon, wife of State Senator Cannon, who Is a member of the personal staff, of the woman's reserve. They will Join the third unit, the members of which started their class work today. GIBSON AWARDED VERDICT OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS The lee Cae Postioiied I'ntil Ooto- In-r Term of Court Tony Howl I Now n American Citizen. Mi. C. A. Gibson was awarded a verdict for ten thousand dollars dam age for personal injury received while in the employ of the Seaboard Airline Railway, In Superior court for the trial of civil cases Wednesday after noon. The case was begun at the re-convening of court Monday morn ing and consumed most of the time until Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Gib son nvas suing for forty thousand dol lars damage for personal injury sus tained in a wreck near Matthews In December of 1917, as was stated In a previous issue of The Journal. Counsel for the railway company gave notice of appeal. The case of Mr. A. M. Lee against the Seaboard Airline Railway, suit for forty thousand dollars damage for personal Injury sustained while in the employ of the railway company was postponed until the October term of court. About six o'clock yesterday after noon Judge Adams ushered Tony Rossi, the Italian Ice cream vender. Into American citizenship. Tony had been endeavoring to secure naturali zation papers for sometime. Wnen his case was first mentioned yester day afternoon Judge Adams -aid that he had received a commiinlca'on from the department of Justice o-der-ing that all judges should refuse to Issue naturalization papers to aliens until their Intellectual attainment;, knowledge of our Government and character In general had first been in vestigated by an attorney or other responsible person. Tony and his friends were not a little disappointed at this; thinking that It would have to come up at the next tern; of court. Hope revived, however, when Judge Adams, appointed Mr. J. C. M. Vann to examine him. This he proceeded to do In short order tnd reported that he found him competent to become an American citizen. AH the men who had come to the C"urt-hou'j to ap pear as character witnsse.i for Tony lad left when the Judge made the statement as above, thinking that the "ase would be postponed. Jutlae Adams then called for volunteers on Tony's character. lmntH.i'utelv about fifteen of Monroe's-promlnent citizen moved forward, to give the little ice cream vender a good character. And the words were soon said that made Antonio Rossi a citizen of the Amer ican republic. This little Italian by his habits of thrift aid honesty has won a place In the hearts of the people of Monroe. As an American citizen may he en joy the benefits of our democratic Institutions. REGISTRATION NUMBERS AS SIGNED TO LAST. CLASH Number an Aligned by Adjutant General Young Prepared by Local Board WUI Soon Begin to Sum mon Lat Claxs of RegrWranU for Physical Examination. Obeying instructions from Adju tant General Young the local board of exemptions has prepared a list assign ing regristration numbers to those who registered for military service on Saturday. Aug. 24. The last regris tration number assigned to a regris- trant in the June 5 class was 247. Therefore the next number, 248, con stitutes the first regristration number for the August 24th class and was as signed to Samuel S. Tyson of route 6 Waxhaw. Mr. Murray Clark, clerk to the board, stated Wednesday afternoon that the work of notifying the last class of regristrants to appear for physical examination would probably begin as soon as the questionaries were returned. Following is a list of the regrls trants with the regristration numbers assigned to them; 248 Samuel S. Tyson, Waxhaw, 5 249 Palmer McGuirt. Monroe, 6 250 Jame3 Nash, Marshville, 7 251 Vance Simpson, Monroe, 6 252 Edd Manus. Matthews, 18 253 Hight W Helms, Matthews,18 254 Icy Z. Clontz. Unlonvllle, 1 255 Geo. W. Medlin, Monroe, 2 256 Edd Plyler, Pageland, 2 257 Ellis H. Bass, Marshville, 7 258 Henry Jenkins, Monroe, 8 259 Clayton L. Guin, Monroe, 2 260 Floyd Clontz, Unlonvllle, 1 - 261 Clem Brigman, Monroe, ( 262 James I. Orr. Indian Trail 263 Bunyan Rape, Monroe, 7 264 William Plyler, Monroe, 1 265 Randolph Rushing, Marsh ville, 1 266 Holmes Morris, Waxhaw, 4 267 Lum Love, Monroe, 6 68 Clyde Williams, Monroe 269 Dock Love, Monroe, 6 270 Willie Phllmon. Unionvllle. 1 271 Fletcher Jordan, Marshvllle.l 272 Jack Brewer, Marshville, 7 273 Clegg W. Vaughn, Marsh ville, 4 274 Vanco Pierce, Monroe, 7 275 Darf Rape, Monroe, 4 276 Oscar Byrum, Indian Trail, 1 277 Webster Page, Cabarrus, 1, 47-f-CUnepce Kiser, Cabarrus, 1 279 Byron R. Nash, Monroe, 3 280 John R. Rollins, Monroe, 1 281 John A. Blvens, Wingate 282 M. K. Armfield, Marshville 283 Floyd Mack Gordon, Mat thews, 18- - 284 Hiram Samuel Lemmond, In dian Trail 285 Johnny Byrum, Waxhaw, 4 286 William H. Harkey, Mat thews, 26 , 287 Ze'.ou A. Huneycutt, Union vllle, 2 288 Thomas Godfrey, Waxhaw, 2 289 Arthur Bingham, Waxhaw, 4 290 George H. Levy, Monroe 291 Vernon M. Pigg, Monroe, 7 292 F. Bert Henry, Monroe, 6 293 Levy W. King, Waxhaw, 1 294 Garfield Marshal, Monroe, 1, Col. 295 Jas. Jackson, Monroe, 4, Col. 296 Harrison Watts, Waxhaw, col 29 7 Johnnie Champion, Mineral Springs, col. 298 Lafeytte Standi, Indian Trail col. 299 Brown Massey, Mineral Spgs. Rl. col. 300 Robert Perry, Monroe, 7. col. 301 Elijah Leo Faulkner, Win gate, 1, col. 302 Edgar Rodgers, Wingate, l.c 303 John Bivens, Waxhaw, 5, col. 304 Vernon Blount, 'Winston Sa lem, col. 305 Jas. Caudle, Marshville, 4. col 306 Monroe Redfern, Marshville, 1, col. 307 Ernest Reld. Marshville,4,col 308 Rhonla Chambers, Marsh ville. 3, col. 309 Ellis Chambers, Marshville. 3, col. 310 Connie Sullivan, Waxhaw, 2, col. "Colonel" Crowell. To the Editor of The Journal: Of the many thousands of people that constitute the splendid citizen ship of this county, there Is not one that would out-rank Thomas L. Crow ell in devotion to duty, principle and friends. These are facts that are known to the great body of the coun ty's citizenship in a general way, but to the people of 'Monroe, with whom he has come In dally personal con tact, for the past ten years, this pro verb has long since crystallzed Into a proverb. And now that he Is about to retire from the service of the city it Is but fitting that this old veteran, in further compensation for faithful and efficient services, be breveted, unani mously and, suggesting rank, that it be Colonel. So from hence let th'S old soldier be saluted. Col. Thomas L. Crowell. Recompense. Marriage of Rev. S. F. love. The many friends of Rev. Swindell Love, president of Loulsburg Female college will be Interested to learn of his marriage Tuesday In Nashyille. Tenn. to Miss Phala Hawkins. The marriage occured at the home of a sister of the bride in that city. The groom Is the son of Mr. T. L. Love and a brother to Mr. W. B. Love of Monroe. He Is the president of Louls burg Female college, Loulsburg North Carolina, and one of the strongest ministers in the State. The bride is a daughter of Rev. Charle W. Haw kins, a prominent Methodist minister of the Missouri conference. She l a lady of the highest character and edu cational attainments. NEGRO SOLDIERS CALL KAI SER'S MEN BrSH-GERMANS. Irvin Cobb Tell Some Stories About the Southern Negro on the Firing Line and What He will do to the Em-iiiy One Black Boy Who Was , Whetting up hi Cutlery. Irvin S. Cobb" Tolls in the Satur day Evening Post some fine stories about the negro soldiers in France. The black boys call the Germans, "Bush-Germans." They pronounce the word Hoc he that way and tack on the German to fill out a mouth full. In his article Mr. Cobb says: ' As we passed along we heard one short and stumpy private, with a complexion like the bottom of a coal mine and a smile like the sud den lifting of a piano lid, call out to a mate as he fitted bis jr eased rifle together: "Henry Johnson, he done right well, didn't he? But say, boy, often they'll jes gimme a razor an a arm lbad of bricks an' one half pint of qust-haid llker I kin go plum to Ber lin." The most Illuminating insight of all, though, into the strengthened am bition that animated the rank and file of thwe men wag vouchsafed to us as we three, following along behind the tall shape of the colonel, rounded a corner of the trench and became a ware of a soldier who sat cross-legged upon his knees with his back turned to us and was so deeply In tent upon the task in hand that he never heeded our approach at all. On a silent signal from our guide we tip toed over the bent shoulders of the unconscious one, and this then was what we saw: A small, squarely built Individual of the color of a bottle of good cider vinegar, who balanced up on his knees a slab of whitish stone it looked like a scrap of tombstone, and I am inclined to think that is exactly what it was and in his two hands, held by the handle, a bolo with a nine-inch blade. First he would anoint the uppermost surface of the white stab after the ordained fash Ion of those who use whet-stones, then industriously he would hone his blade. And all the while, under his breath, he crooned a little wordless humming song which had in it some of the menace of a wasp's petulant bnzalng. He- was making war medi cine. A United States soldier whose remote ancestors by perference fought hand to hand with their jungle ene mies was qualifying to see Henry Johson and go him one better. A PRIVATE CELEBRATION. "They're all like that boy with the bolo, and some of them ere even more so," said the colonel after we had tramped back again to the dugout in a chalk cliff, which he temporarily occupied as a combination parlor, boudoir, office, breakfast room and headquarters. " We were a pretty green outfit when they brought us oy er here. Why, even after we got over to France some of my boys used to write me letters tendering their resig nation, to take effect immediately. They had come into the service of their own free will as volunteers In the National Guard so when they got tired of soldiering, as a few of them did at first, they couldn't un derstand why they shouldn't go out of their own free wills. "They used us on construction work down near one of the ports for a while after we landed. Then here a couple of weeks ago they sent us up to take over this sector. The men are fond of saying that nil they had by the way of preparation for the job was four days' drilling and a hair cut. "Did I say Just now that we were green? Well, that doesn't half de scribe it, let me tell you. This sec tor was calm enough, as front-line sectors go, when we took it over. But the first night my fellows had hardly had time enough to learn to find their way about the trenches when from a forward rifle pit a rocket of a cer tain color went up, signifying: "We are being attacked by tanks.' "It gave me quite a shock, especial ly tLn there had been no artillery pre paration from Fritz's side of the wire, and besides there la a swanp between the lines right in front of where that rifle pit Is, so I didn't exactly see how the tanks were going to get across unless the Germans ferried them over In skiffs. So before call ing out the regiment I decided to make a personal Investigation. But rifle pit at the left of the first one, and according to the code these rock ets meant: 'Lift ypur barrage we are about to attack In force.' Since we hadn't been putting down any barrage and there was no reason for before I had time to start on it two more rockets went up from another an attack and no order for one this gave me another shock. So I put out hot-foot to find out what was the mat ter. "It seemed a raw- recruit in the first pit had found a box of rockets. Just for curiosity, I suppose, or pos sibly because he wished to show the Bush-Germans that he regarded the whole thing as being In the nature of a celebration, or maybe! because he Just wanted to see what would happen afterward, he touched off one of them. And then a fellow down the line seeing this rocket decided, 1 guess, that a national holiday of the French was being observed and so he touched off two. But, It never will happen again. "The very next night we had a gas alarm two miles back of here In the next village where one of my batta lions la billeted. It turned out to be a false alarm, but all through the camp the sentries wre sounding their automobile horns as a warmUg for, gas masks. But Major Blank's or derly didn't know the meaning of the Signals, or if ho did know be forgot it in the excitement of the moment Still he didn't lose his head altogeth er. As he heard the sound of the lootings coming nearer and nearer he dashed into the major's billet the major Is a very sound sleeper and grabbed him by the shoulder and shook him right out of his blankets. " 'Wake up, major!' he yelled, try ing to keep on shaking with one hand and to salute with the other. 'Fur Gawd's sake suh, wake up. The Ger mans Is comin' in automobiles!' "Oh yes, they were green at the start; but they are as game as any men in this man's army are. You take it from me, because I know. They weren't afraid of the cold and the wet and the terrible labor when they worked last winter down near the coast of France on as mean a job of work as anybody ever tackled. They were up to their waists in cold water part of the time yes, most or the time they were but not a one of them flinched. And believe me there's no flinching among them now that we are up against the Huns! You don't need the case of Johnson and Roberts to prove it. It Is prov ed by the attitude of every single man among them. It isn't hard to send them into danger the hard part is to keep them from going into it on their own accord. They say the dark races can't stand the high explosives that their nerves go to piece un der the strain of the terrific concus sion. If that be so the reprseenta tJves of the dark races that come from America are the exception to the rule. My boys are getting fat and sassy on a fare of bombings and bombard ments, and we have to watch them like hawks to keep them from slip ping off on little Independent raiding parties without telling anybody about it in advance. Their real test has n't come yet, but when it does come you take a tip from me and string your bets along with this ministrel troupe to win." WHEN THE BOYS SAY "LET'S GO." "My men have a catch phrase that has come to be their motto and their slogan. Tell any one of them to do a certain thing and as he gets up to go about it he Invariably says, 'Let's go!" Tell a hundred of them to do a thing and they will say the same thing. I hear It a thousand times a day. The mission may- Involve dis comfort or the chance of a sudden and exceedingly violent death. No matter 'Let's go!' that the invari able answer. Personally 1 think it makes a pretty good maxim for an outfit of fighting men, and I'll stake my life on it that they will live up to it when the real trial comes." Two days we stayed on there, and they were two davs of a superior va riety of continuous black-face vaude ville. There was the evening when for our benefit the men organized an impromtu concert featuring a quar tet that would succeed on any man's burlesque circuit, and a troupe of buck-and-wing dancers whose equals it would be hard to find on the Big Time. There was the next evening when the band of forty pieces seran aded us. I think surely this must be the best regimental band In our Army. Certainly It is th; best on" I have heard in Europe during thi war. On parade when it piayed the Memphis Blues the' men did nat march; the music poured In at their ears and ran down to their heels, and instead of marching they literally danced their way along. As for the dwellers of the French towns In which this regiment has from time to time been quartered, they, I am told, fair ly go mad when some alluring, com pelling ragtime tune is played with that richness of syncopated, melody in it which only the black man can achieve; and as the regiment has moved on, more than once it has been hard to keep the unattached Inhabi tants of the village that the band was quitting from moving on with it. If I live to a hundred and one I shall never forget the second night, which was a night of a splendid, flaw less full moon. We stood with the regimental staff on the terraced lawn of the chief house in a half-desert ed town five miles back from the trenches, and down below us in the main street the band played planta tion airs and hundreds of negro sol diers joined In and sang the words. Behind the masses of upturned dark faces was a ring of white ones where the remaining natives of the place clustered, with their heads wagging in time to the tunes. A LETTER TO HIS MAMMY. And when the band got to Way Down Upon the Suwanee River I wanted to cry, and when the drum major, who likewise had a splendid harrltone voice, sang as an Interpo lated number, Joan of Arc, first in English and then in excellent French, the villagers openly cried; and an elderly peasant, heavily whiskered, with the tears of a joyous and thank ful enthusiasm running down his bearded cheeks, was with difficulty restrained from throwing his arms about the soloist and kissing him. Those two days we hard stories without number, all of them true, I take it. and most of them good ones. We heard of the yellow youth who be- seeched his officer to send him with a "dang'ous message" meaning by that he craved to go on a perilous mission for the greater glory of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Incidentally of himself; and about the jaunty Individual who pulled the fir ing wire of a French grenade and catching the hissing sound of the fulmlnator working Its way toward the charge exclaimed: "That's It fry, gosh dern you, fry!" before he threw It. And about how a sergeant oa an emergency trench-digging job stuck to the tak. standing hin-dcep in icy water -and icy mud, until from IIRf H MEN ARE BACK ' TO THEIR OWN AGAIN. Een Prisoners Cages They Abandons ed Two Yean Ago Are Regained. By PERRY ROBINSON to The New York World. London. British guns are now shelling Coinbles, as well as the Ger man communications in the region around Bapaume. The roads are few and exposed and the Germans seeui to have dene no work to improve their communications materially since they occupied this area in the spring. One of the strangest things about alt this fighting is the way it thrills one with memories or 1916. Again the British have come into possession and made temporary use of the prisoner's cage which used to be crowded with Germans in this same month two years ago. When they were recovered grass grew rank within the wire inclosures.but already it is being trodden down. Sadder is it that we have buried some of our dead recently in the old graveyard be side their comrades of the first Som me fighting. Much agricultural ma chinery and other material which we left behind in our retreat of March of this year has become ours again. The tanks recaptured one of their familiar tankodromes. and what memories come thronging at a san tence in a communique which tells that "Welsh troops have captured Mametz Wood." Capturing Manetz Wood will become a habit with the Welshmen if this things continues. chill and exhaustion he dropped un conscious and was like to drown in the muck into which he had collapsed head downward, until his squad dis covered him up-ended there and drag ged him out; and about many ether things small or great, bespeaking fortitude and courage and fidelity and naive Afrlc waggery. Likewise into my possession came the copies of two documents, both of which I should say are typical just as each is distinctive of a different phase of the negro temperament. One of them, the first one, was humorous. Indeed to my way of thinking It was as fine an example of unconscious humor as this war is likely to pro duce. The other, was well, judge for yourself. Before the regiment moved for ward for its dedication to actual war fare it was Impressed upon the per sonnel in the ranks that from now on, more even than before, a soldier in his communications with his su perior officer must use the formal and precise language of military pro piety. The lesson must have sunk In, because on the thrillsome occasion when a certain private found himself for the first time in a forward rifle pit and for the first time heard the German rifle bullets whistling past his ears he called to him a runner and dispatched to the secondary lines this message, now quoted exactly as written except that the proper names, have been changed: "Lieutenant Sidney J. McClelland, "Commanding Company B, , A. E. F., U. S. A. "Dear Sir: I am being fired on heavily from the left. 1 wait your instruction. "Trusting these few lines will find you the same, I remain, Your truly, "JEFFERSON JONES.',' The other thing was an extra -'t from a letter written by an eighteen year old private to his mother in N'W York, with no idea in his head when he wrote it that any eyes other than those of his own people would read it after it had been censored and post ed. The orilcer to whom it came for censoring copied from It one paraw graph, and this paragraph rail like this: "Mammy, these French people do not bother with no color-line business. They treat us so good that the only time I ever knows I am colored la when I looks In the glass." Coming away and we came reluc tantly wo skirted the edge of the billeting area where the regiment of Southern negroes was quartered, and again we heard them singing. But this time they sang no plaintive meet house air. They sang a ringfng. tri umphant, "Glory-Glory-Hallelujah! ' song. For so we learned to then the word has come that they were about to move up and perhaps come to grips with the "Bush-Germans." Yes, most assuredly n-l-g-g-e-r is go ing to have a different meaning when this war ends. AMBASSADOR WALTER P.UiK OFFERS HIS RESIGNATION Very Siiccetwful American AihIwvns dor to Great Britain Resign Be rnue of III Health First AhiIiu ed In April, 1013. Washington, Aug. 28. Duo to con tinued ill health, Walter H'nes Pagei American ambassador to Great Brit ain, has offered his resignation to President Wilson. While no official announcement was forthcoming today It was learned In official cirtles that the President, at the urgent request of the ambassador had decided to ac cept the resignation. First news of the Intention of Am bassador Page, who was appointed tJ his post In April, 1913, to retire, came today in an Associated Press dispatch from London. So many and so various have been the activities and accomplishments of Ambassador Page during his stay at the court of St. James that It was .said today at the state department i that they form a compendious nfstorr ,of American- diplomacy from the be ginning to tne prerant stare of be workl war.
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