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the Busiest Tailor in the U. S. .fWWIr "ftepartment authorises the following: The report of the Conservation end Reclamation Division of the Quarter, master Corps for the month of July shows that the Quartermaster Gen i:.. - e ui me Array ib me Uigxeni uuu kK busiest tailor and shoe repairer la the country. Articles of wearing apparel numbering 1,450,370 were repaired dur^ ; . Ing the month of July In the shope of SLv- rarious camps and.cantonments. Inf eluded In this total werq. 314,618 r?y. pairs of, shoes, 48,802 hats, 15,8,41 p. .; orercoats, 97,608 coats, 269,976 pairs .. of breeches, 84,212 flannel shirts, 242,217-undershlrts, 208.638 pairs of drawers, 8,100 pairs of stockings, iN-. 20,067 pairs of leggings, 63,799 blanu kets, 764 sweaters and 47,965 other XY articles. , The dry: cleaning and pressing L shops handled during this period 1,144,607 articles of wearing apparel, which included overcoats, coats, Bp' breeches, flannel shirts, undershirts, drawers, ftockings, leggings,' ManKSs kets and sweaters. During the month ftK.? 64,741 cots were repaired And there was a total of 9,377 tent and canvas repairs made at the same time. ?: Beside being the biggest tailor and Bfe-' shoo-repalr man, the Quartermaster -f- General la probably the greatest lann urj-mma uh wria. vuriag mo iuiniiu of Jal/, there ware handled In the ' laundries attached to Tarlooa camps and cantonments throughout the . country, 9,762,170 pieces. This toeluded 2,030,947 pieces for officers and enlisted men, which brought a ft revenue of |1J2,10?.27; 6,340,692 pieces for base hospitals brought a ?Ti revenue of $56,620.41; 1,997,044 pieces for reclamation work brought a revenue of $83,597.68, and 349,^1 other Items, which brought a revenue ~ of $21,902.86. The number of .bundles handled during the month was ?~ 212,292: The total revenue from the " laundry was $297,179.12. As a junk dealer and waste collector, the activities of the Quarter' -master General are on the same scale as his other work, and the Army is in receipt of revenues from the sales of old metals, garbage, waste, etc. There were collected during July, 188,388 pounds of old aluminum, brass, copper, lead and xlnc, of which 35,281 J, " pounds were sold for $10,131.78. ?< There were also collected 4,215,557 pounds of Iron, of which 952,360 pounds were sold for $6,517.92; 196,463 pounds of rubber, 638,064 [ t pounds or cotton rags, ltf.ivi pounds of woolen rags, 38,880 pounds of rope, 1,637,787 pounds of paper. 728,145 pounds of bags, 120,580 pounds of bnrlap, 154,537 pounds of #? leather. 116,324 pounds of glass bottles and Jars, 740,954 pounds of bkrrels and boxes, 10,318 pounds of C " horse and mule hair, and 1,351,283 i pounds of lumber. Revenues from fe sales of rubber, cotton and woolen r rags, rope, paper, bags, burlap, leather, glass, barrels and boxes totaled 935,973.55. The collection of garbage and miscellaneous material from camps and !L; cantonments, ports of embarkation, concentration camps, supply depots and other stations, for the month of f. July, totaled 129,548 pounds of waste r bread, 235,023 pounds of waste e ,". cooked meats, grease, etc.; 1,057,338 pounds of bones and 17,159,163 V- pounds of other garbage, making a r total of 18,734,425 pounds of gar' 1 bage collected during the month. ?yv_ which brought a revenue of $94.Pl 183.74. There were alsb collected during the same time 504 dead ani&? mals, which were sold for $434.70; F 65,068 tons of manure, sold for $32,S 794.99; 21,077 tons of condemned fx- hay and straw, sold for $298.30, and fjp. . 354 tons of other material, sold for I $1,869.77. EARLY PAY DAY According to announcement ev fmm Wukliwtnn. anlittev* in training in the rampa and cantonments throughout the United States will receive their pay within i; Are days or lea after the first of each month. Through the efforts i,; ,'' of Brigadier General H. M. Lord, t head of the financial department K?: Of the Quartermaster Corps, the i! time for paying off soldiers has been so materially decreased that Ifv- in some instances payment can be K. made on the first of the month. ?T'. . Soldiers in the American Kxpey , ditionary Force are also being paid Co , promptly. The monthly payroll Eg , abroad, according to General Lord, Ar/. to about *40,000,000 for every ' million oiDcers and men. DONT DELAY t-. Send Trench and Camp to yonr MEr mother. She is anxious to read - everything she can abont your camp. . Sand this paper home today. %&9 ML Two privates in juu of Ike eat for the benefit of officers. One of tk of army officers, as compared with ike the pants of Ike toUc and was quolinc Ike personal equation. "Did Ike law-shark, who put up t "Private soldiers!" sniffed Ike ot, That is' where Ike self-constiluh of legal rights. They ore carefully so i?c u7 nty ifmuc us ryimj cjj y??iu?, o The editor of "Trench and Camf camps, appealed to the General Stag random, prepared by Colonel E. G. Da legal rights of the pricate soldier: . , V Bjr E. G. Enlisted men in the Army of the United States are subject to military law and liable to be tried by military courts from the date of their master or acceptance Into the service, In case of those who enlist, and in the case of those drafted, from the day on which, by the terms of the draft order, they are required to obey the same. (2d A. W.). i i A soldier charged with a crime or a serious offense under the Articles of War may be'placed in confinement. ' For a minor offense bejnay be placed I in arrest. <?9th A. W.). Ordinarily no one but a commissioned officer has the right to J) lace a soldier in arrest or confinement The 7#th Article of War provides that no person shall be held in confinement more than eight days, or until a court-martial can be convened, except at remote posts or stations. A person placed in arrest Is entitled to be served with a copy of the charges on which he is to be tried within eight days after his arrant and to be brought to trial within ten days thereafter, unless the necessities of the service prevent such trial. In that event be must be brought to trial within thirty days. If charges are not served or if the person is not so brought to trial, the arrest must cease, but those so released from arrest may be tried, when the exigencies of the service will permit, within twelve months after such release. When a soldier Js brought to trial before a special or general court-martial, he has the right to challenge any member of the court (18th A. W.). The usual ground of challenge is that the officer is a witness in the case, or that he has investigated it, or that he has signed the charges or formed an opinion as to' the guiit of the accused. He may also be challenged on thp ground of personal bias or prejudice. The accused is also accorded the right to be represented What's Coming iilli IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY WHAT IT COSTS According to figures compiled by Brigadier General R. E. Wood. Acting Quartermaster General of the Army, it costs the United States Government $423.47 a year to equip and maintain a soldier overseas and $227.7$ to equip and maintain one at home. Subsistence, figured at 63 cents per day overseas, amoants to $251.85 per man. Figured at 52 cents per day in the United States It amoants to $189.is per man. RighUOfThe Priv. Um cantonments became interested in a r talks especially attracted their attention, legal rights of a civilian. One of the tw 1 them for the benefit of his companion. he talk, say anything about the legal rigl her. "That shows your ignorance. The / d authority showed HIS ignorance. Th feguarded and explicitly defined in the . tate and municipal lazes govern the fctrv\ wishing to correct what may b+a coi of the Army fbr a terse statement on rvis. who has specialised on military law, DAVIS, COLONEL, GENERAL STAFF, Dy counsel, usually of nls own selection. For minor offenses he may be tried by a summary court?that is, a court composed of a single officer?and in : this case the right of challenge does not apply. He is never required to give evidence against himself, but i may. if he chooses, qualify as a witness in bis own behalf, or make any statements he may desire without qualifying as a witness in his own behalf, that is. not under oath. If he AFTER MANY ATTEMPrS Private?I said, "Ain't that bngler 1 playing grand 7** Officer?What's that? Private?I said, "Ain't that bugler i playing grandT Officer?Aw, I can't hear a word ' i-mi imi Hutln<r hMitiiv nf fh.it darned j ?oor bugling." A DL'DK New Recruit: "When do we have army uniforms issued to us?" I C. O.: "You will get them in a i few days. In the meantime, wear i your civilian clothing; it will give | you a chance to wear it out." New Recruit: "Yes, -sir, but I ! wanted to keep these clothes clean ! and in good shape for Sundays and evenings." To The Kaiser I S> / EX-ARMY DENTISTS THERE t YANKS BUILT FOR FIGHTING J Here is an excerpt from a letter S written by a French woman to a i friend In the United States: "Our ! soldiers are sure that with the help e of the Americans there will be vie- 1 tories from now on. The Americans ? are bnilt Just right for this work and t they seem so courageous and always t Indifferent to danger." i =. j SOS t Konaervatton Kills Kaiserlsm. c ite Soldier - course of lectures recently arranged ' ll was a discussion of the legal rights ^ o men in khaki had overheard some of HBBBMlThis turned his auditor's thoughts to its of the private soldierf" he inquired. Y> / uT- y rhate soldier ain't got no legal rights." j V HE r private soldier has an imposing array Articles of War, which govern life in ties of an individual in civil life. f J S^Hj nmon misunderstanding in the training the subject. In the following memo- there are sei forth just a few of the / H SW qualifies as a witness he is subject to cross-examination the same as any r*SwS.. other witness, but he is not subject 1 WiTj! to cross-exaxhination on an unsworn wT^fv-1'::M statement. . f #V.l ; So much for the rigid question of n? 3J rights. The law's assistance to sol- j Hera goes farther, however. The War Department, realizing that the tighting men may require assistance in '"Ctj matters that go beyond military routine, has made the entire legal department of the Army an instrument to help the private soldier in his per- f ' Ronal troubles. If any man in the United States Army uniform wishes .'QM^SiSSf legal advice about his own or his fara- ^ * '-yg ily's affairs, be may appeal to the 3?S Judge Advocate of his division, or his assistants. As a means of facili- ,L, jffij tating these appeals, the War Department has been granted permission to detail Judge Advocate assistants as -T^aii lieutenants and captains in the various units. When this arrangement is perfected, legal assistance may be extended to the soldiers through battalion headquarters, thus eliminating the delays that attach to an appeal for help to division headquarters. Y^To/jglS n vln addition, the Red Cross -has 1/ placed its legal department at the call of the American private soldier. If A, fik jfc. one of the men in General Pershing's {Ajfa n. army, for example, learns that his family in the United States is threat- ^ -1 ened with eviction proceedings, or V H . other legal difficulties, he may take W J? -AiTL I his troubles to the nearest Red Cross r/fl jmWt\ field director, or associate field direc- I ft tor. That representative will take a mfijl j|7 complete report of the case and for- i&QjF ward it to Red Cross headquarters in the United States, with the result that ??%-.?.? ? \*' '* the Red Cross legal department in J-' this country will take up the matter and provide expert legal assistance It is obvious, therefore, that the soldier fighting for the American flag I may count on legal privileges as well WHAT IT TKLLS A salute may be neither corpuI lent nor emaciated, neither hy- : draulic nor ecclesiastical, but it is, pCsp-ijpM^ M nevertheless a good deal more Jmi than a mere salute, if the theory of a general now in France is ac- fLnj^k "The salute." he savs. "in add:tion to being a soldier's method of greeting, is the gauge by which he 2S55S3H jffljjjM shows to the world his proficiency 43 in his profession, his morale and f v I the condition of his discipline. 1 ]J" "For me. the detail of a soldier':: [ *3f3H salute has three marks, and I read -v. ^l|d| his salute more accurately than he ~)J . >3 himself could tell me. ^ "The three graduations are 1. "I am a soldier; I know my '||?L trade, or will know it very ;^Jg3j soon, and I will be a surces:- MHH as a soldier, or a cirilfan. wherercr I may be put. vy^| "I do not know what 1 am ? and I do not care. I only | do what 1 am forced to do ! jBnjjfl and will never be much of a ! success at anything. I R83 3. "I am a failure and am down and out. sick, homesick and & disgruntled. I CAN NOT STAND THE GAFF!" 62^2*29 9 We didn't know a mere salute 1 could tell all that. but. come to S?cfrr-i? W~% think of it, we suppose it does. 1mQ| I VUMBER 13 KEEPS CLOSE~ * ff/ TAB ON MARINE OUTFl'i fh }jr\: Sinefne their regimental song, "On- t&rytQ ) vard Christian Soldiers," the Thir- * s l eenth Regiment of United State? Jbtl g Marines arrived In France. ^ In connection with its departure. he number "13" played an important 1K[ >art. The regiment left the overseas lepot at Qnantico, Vs., on Friday. Jeptember 13, with many of the men ising the number as a lucky omen. IflffljSawB lumbers of them shook hands with iach other thirteen times, said good- kCSfSgfiKfcffzR >y to comrades thirteen times and [B ;ang thirteen songs on their depar- H are. One marine made an effort to mSSX ake along thirteen black cats, but vas unable to carfy out his ambition. Vord of their arrival in France came nMmhImJ \ hirteen days after their departure. rn a date twice 13, September 26.
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