The Wahpeton times. [volume], November 29, 1917, Image 1

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VOL. XLII
HANDLE MANY
U. S. SOLDIERS
Railroads ol tht United States
Perform Gigantic
Task.
WITHOUT A SINGLE ACCIDENT
Total of 1,500,000 Man Trans
ported to Training Camps
and Embarkation
Points.
Washington, D. C., Nov- 24.—
Troop movement figures to date in
dicate that the railroads of this
country have safely transported
approximately 1,500,000 soldiers
to training camps and embarka
tion points. Since Aug. 1, five
hundred thousand of these men
have made journeys necessitating
over-night travel and have been
moved in tourist or standard sleep
ers furnished by the Pullman com
pany.
On one of the long hauls 8,000
men were moved from a training
camp on the western coast to a
point on the eastern coast, a dis
tance of 3,700 miles, in a little less
than a week. The men traveled in
sixteen sections, each section com
prising 12 tourist cars and 2 bag
gage cars. In order to centralize
the furnishihg of sleeping cars at
points most convenient to the gov
ernment and to utilize these cars
to the best advantage, the Pullman
company changed the supervision
of the supply and movement of
these cars from the headquarters
of the company at Chicago to
Washington, where they stationed
Mr. C- W. Henry, Assistant to the
Superintendent of Car Service-
Mr. Henry, in his headquarters
at the office of the Railroads' War
Board has been in daily touch
with the office of the Quarterqias
ter General and, on receipt of re
quests from the military author
ities for sleeping car equipment,
has seen that the carsWere rushed
at once to the points needed- As
a result of this co-operation be
tween the government, the rail
roads and the Pullman company,
haif a million soldiers have been
spared the discomforts of making
long train trips in day coaches.
To assure the safety of the men
in transit, the railroads have
adopted an average speed of 2.1
miles an hour for all troop trains
except when freight ears needed
for the transportation of equip
ment are included in the trains
the speed is then reduced to 20
miles an hour.
National lied Cross Notes.
Any concrete evidence thai
sweaters or other garments, made
by .the Red Cross workers for sol
diers, are being sold to soldiers or
others outeide the military life,
would be most cordially welcomed
at the Northern Division head
quarters-
Scores of rumors reach the head
quarters every day. Attempts have
been made to traee these stories to
their source repeatedly but never
has a fragment of truth been dis
covered.
As a rule, the stories seem to
•-start when Mrs. Jones tells Mrs.
Smith that she has heard that sol
diers are compelled to pay $10 for
sweaters- Always ii is $10, no
more and no less, and always it is
for a sweater. Smith meets Mrs.
Brown and tells her that. Mrs
Jones knows of a soldier who has
paid $10 for a sweater- Mr.-..
Brown tells Mrs- White that Mrs.
Jones has a letter from a soldier
telling how he paid $10 for a
sweater, and Mrs. White comes out
with the completed story, which
usually finds its way to Red Cross
headquarters to the effect that
Mrs. Jones had a letter from her
son in France announcing that he
had paid $10 for a Red Cross
sweater that Mrs. Jones made for
him. Sometimes for variation the
story includes a feature of a $5
bill sewed in the sweater pocket-
Then when Red Cross workers
attempt to trace back the story
they are up against a blank wsdl.
Mrs. Jones declares she never had
a son or if she had one that he is
not in the service. Probably she
has forgotten absolutely ever talk
ing to Mrs. Smith- If she remem
bers it, it is only that she read
somewhere that soldiers were buy­
ing Red Cross sweaters and, ques
tioned further, is willing to admit
that she don't remember if she
read that soldiers were actually
paying, or if it was a denial of the
rumor that Red Cross garments
are being sold, that she read.
It seems the easiest thing in the
v/orld to find a soldier who has
paid for a Red Cross sweater, but
let an investigator once take
trail and the soldier and
sxyeater vanish in thin air./ .s
easy to start such a story,
to
the
hardest thing in the worUp 'find
a single fact in the rui^
Eight van loads .ed Cross
supplies, sweater^? arts, socks,
surgical dressing other things
made by the woi.ers, reach the|
division supply house every day.
A small army of men, women and
girls, working under the direction
of Mi's. Laurence E. Horton, chief
inspector for the division, are kept
busy from morning until night,
unpacking, sorting, inspecting and
finally repacking the supplies and
shipping them to their final des
tination, either across the sea or to
the soldiers in our own training
camps.
As the boxes came in they are
unpacked and the different gar
ments assembled together—tin?
sweaters in one pile, surgical
dressings in another and socks in
another. Then each garment is
inspected to see that it conforms to
regulations- The surgical dress
ings are inspected more minutely
than any other article- Women,
most of them nurses, trained in
the work, go over every gauze com
press seeking for stray threads
that the workers may have over
looked.
Finally the goods are repacked
in huge boxes, lined with water
proof paper, nailed and bound
vjith strips of metal. A printed
list, showing what each box con
tains, is included in the contents*
The address of its final destina
tion, together with an announce
ment of the contents, is stenciled
on the outside of the box. From
35 to 40 of these boxes are shipped
from the division headquarters
daily. During the rush of Christ
mas goods to France the output
was even greater-
Frequently the inspectors dis
cover notes attached to the gar
ments, written by the. women wfho
have made the goods. Contrary to
the popular belief, it is extremely
seldom that a "mash note," writ
ten by a girl seeking to strike up
a romantic correspondence with a
soldier, is found. More often the
notes seem
he
written
by elderly
women, wlomen who have sons,
husbands or brothers in the army,
these messages are full of encour
agement and good cheer- Occa
sionally the workers write their
messages in poetry, some good,
some not so good, as to rhyme and
meter. Often placards on gar
ments announce that the knitters
are men or women past 80 years
old.
At nearly every Red Cross
chapter in the Northern division
there is a demand for clean mus
lin and linen rags, to "be made into
bandages and surgical dressings
for the soldiers. Worn out towels
and cloths of any kind can be used
bv the workers.
Reports that scarfs and wrist
lets are no longer being knitted by
the women of Canada and that
thousands of such articles are wait
inf to be torn up for manufacture
into sweaters and other garments
was vigorously denied by Mrs. II.
P. Plumptre. corresponding seef'
tarv for the Canadian Red Cross.
In a letter received at Northern
Division headquarters, Mrs. Pluin
tre says: "There is no truth what
ever in such a rumor. We have
been subject to a plague of un
authorized reports of this kind
Sometimes such stories are circu
lated by pro-German sympathiz
er* who desire to hamper our work
and are repeated by persons wh
are misinformed as to the real
need for such work- Those in
charge of our store houses in Eng
land have cabled repeatedly for
more supplies of this kind."
Tom Hall'a Case Up In Deoombor
The case against Secretary of
State Thos. Hall, for an alleged
shortage of $4,000 in the State
Auto License Fund, will come up
for trial in the Burleigh County
court early in December.
DOINGS IN
FEDERAL COURT
Two Big Casss Tried at Grand
Forks the Past
Weak.
JIM JAM JEMS NEXT MONTH
THE WAHPETON TIMES
PuMloatlon Will Again
Faoo Trial In U. S.
Court on Obsoenlty
Charge.
The United States District Court
for N. D. has been in session at
Grand Forks for a
.couple of weeks
Two big cases have been on trial
One was a white slave case in
which five young men transported
a young woman from Grand Forks
to Crookston, Minn., and returned
with her- All of them assaulted
her on the return trip. The boys
all poined the army immediately
following this episode. They were
arrested at the training camp and
returned to the state for trial. The
defense showed in their case that
three of the boys started anjl end
ed/their trip in East Grand Fork*
and consequently not making an
inter-state trip, and they were de
clared not guilty of the charge by
the jury. The other young men
were found guilty of violating the
white slave act and sentenced to
six and {line months in jail ai
Grand Forks- All five of the boys
are indicted in the Minnesota
court on a charge of rape and
must stand trial there.
The other case of importance
was what was called the East
Grand Forks Brewery case- In
this case the owners of the East
Grand Forks Brewery were arrest
ed for violating the federal bone
dry law. They were able to show
that they had been selling beer at
their brewery and the buyer ship
ped his own goods, consequently
there was no conviction in this
case.
The next, term of court will be
held at Bismarck on Dec. 5. At
this term Sam Clark will be tried
again for sending Jim Jam Jems
in interstate commerce. lie hits
been twice tried on this same kind
of a charge. The first time lie was
convicted and sentenced to two
years in the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on two
different, counts. lie secured
a new trial and was acquited. The
coming trial arises from articles
appearing in Jim Jam Jems
fore part of Ihe year.
Cannot Crueh Industry.
An esteemed contemporary
this state has made a strong pre
sentment of its cause, but the case
is enveloped ill doubt. Reviewing
"the havoc of war and the battles'
confusion" it holds that we canno!
for many years be injured by Eur
opean competition. The editorial
is in style and in pathos one of 1 IJ
best that we have read since
war began.
Yet John Fiske had cause
speak of "the increasing toughness
of civilization." Where is th-*
evidence that war can crush
WAHPETON, RICHLAND COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2!), 1917.
the
dustry of a nation thai has
cultural system, or that has
accustomed to the sea? The
in­
at a in
ed to skill in manufactures, Ihat
has for centuries accumulated
cap­
ital, that has along established
a jr
ii ii
of the phoenix is a childish ia!
compared to the marvels of
land in her long war wilh
S a in
England in her civil war and in 11n
great Napolenic contest
a
after the Seven Years' War:
France, after her downfall in 1*7!.
Our two wars with Great lri'
ain developed manufactures:
war with Mexico brought on fever
ish activity our internal strife
was no sooner over than we set
about the great highway to the
Pacific. War consumes burns,
wastes, spreads havoc
everywhere,
and for that- reason it calis forth
the power of repair and recon
struction to a degree unknown in
quiet times.
Peace, however shows the power
of rebound and revival. What
Southern city was thrown out of
the race of commerce by yellow fev
er? The fires of Chicago and Balti
more are merely chapters in muni
cipal history—there is no "finis"
about them. An earthquake has
shaken San Francisco, but has no
more killed her than Black Hawk's
raid killed the Middle west.
It is too early to say what Euro
pean towns are non-competitors,
and what are preparing for their
greatest achivements. This much
we know, that France has this
year held her greatest industrial
exhibition or record that Germany
is floating her seventh loan, that
Great Britian is sending more
goods to us every week. In all the
horror of war the philanthropists
say that, while they see the widow
and the orphan, while they look on
the soldier's grave and watch the
hopsital tents, unemployment has
almost ceased to exist.
It may be well before predicting
the collapse of great nations to
consider the reviving power of the
individual man. Everybody knows
weak characters, who readily yield
to adversity or break under temp
tation. But the .merchant who
starts anew the morning after the
fire, who is unshaken by drought
or cloudburst, the man who leaves
the hospital and finds abetter posi
tion than he had before his injury
the resolute character who breaks
the chains of intemperance, the
hoy who is sent to a reformatory
and makes his town proud of him,
are to be counted in the reckoning.
We have such unconquerable spir
its here, and there is no reason to
doubt that there are men just as
sturdy in every European land.—
Camden (X. J.) Post-Telegram.
How Are You Going to Winter
Your Horsss?
Winter is here, and feed is
scarce. Ilay and grain of all
kinds cost more than ever before
So it is necessary that we plan
carefully. It is up to us to keep
our animals in good condition so
as to be ready for spring work. It
is up to us to do this as cheaply
as possible because of prevailing
prices, and because of the great
need of feed in our own country
and by our allies*
Ordinarily the farmer winters
his horses on hay and a small
amount of oats. At this time hay
is selling at an enourmous price,
and oats is also scarce. There is
one other feed to turn to. Oats
straw is preferable, but barley and
wheat straw will do. Ilorses might
live through the winter on straw
alone, but they would be in poor
condition in the spring. Straw is
a good feed, but it is too low in
protein. Protein is that part of
any feed used in building up tissue
and muscle. So if we could feed
something rich in protein wilh the
si raw, our horses would come thru
in better condition. A mixture of
cijiial parts of bran and oil meal
will supply this deficiency in pro
1 ein• Three pounds per day of this
mixture and as much straw as the
horse will eat will winter a horse
fairly well. Willi oil meal at $65
and bran at $35 per ton, this will
mean 7 l-2c per day- Until April
1st., that will cost $9.00 per horse.
Lots of straw has a tendency to
wards constipation. The oil meal
and bran and plenty of water will
offset this. The best of shelter will
also lessen the feed bill- Cows not
producing much milk or beef could
lie handled in this way also. Young
slock could be kept over winter in
lliis way but little growth could be
expected-
This plan is not new. but is used
considerably in foreign couutric*.
l-'or further information I can
refer you to Prof. H- R. South's
article in the Dakola Farmer of
November -ird, 1!M7.
Geo. P. Wolfe,
County Agricultural Agent,
Permlte for Men Subject to Draft
No passport is required by the
State Department to go to Canada
but persons subject to draft who
desire to cross the line are often
delayed while their cases are being
investigated.
When any registered person de
sires a passport or to go to Canada
he may apply to his local board for
a permit. If lie is not likely to be
called within the period of the
proposed absence or if the board
is otherwise assured that his ab
sence will not result in evasion of
or interference with the execution
of the draft law, he may obtain
the permit by giving his address
while absent and by agreeing to
keep himself informed of any call
upon him and to return iminediat
ly upon call.
DON'T LIKE IT
AT CAMP MILLS
North Dakota Boys Think Camp
Mills the "Woret
Ever."
RAIN AND MUD CONTINUOUS
Comparee Very Unfavorably to
Camp Greene. Still They
Take Thinge Good
Naturedly.
Suffice to say that the boys don't
like Camp Mills. It is the mean
est, sloppiest, muekiest, nastiest,
foggiest and dirtiest camp in the
world. Since landing in Camp
Mills the 164tli, First North Da
kota, has encountered nothing but
rain and fog. The companies of
the Second North Dakota and the
North Dakota boys in the supply
1
and sanitary trains who have been
here from two to three weeks long
er say that the weather has been
much the same ever since their ar
rival.
Passes will not be issued to any-1
body to visit New York City, and
officers "are tied up in camp with
the men. Orders have been sent
out from division headquarters to
tine effect that no men of the "Sun
set" division can visit New York
City until all the men are equip
ped. Of course, they can go to
Hempstead or Jamaica or Free
llempstead or Jamiaca or Free
Long Island villages, but there is
no fun in that.
Take Hempstead as an example.
Barber shops are a scarcity and
bathing facilities are not facilities
The village fire hall sports two
shower baths and if a fellow^ is
lucky and can get away from camp
early enough he can probably get
under one of those two hot show
ers within an hour or so- Barber
shops with bathing facilities
charge 35 cents for the hot wtater
privilege ai^d U5 cents is a lot ot'
money to the boys in the ranks.
The Y. M. C. maintains two
reading and writing rooms in
Hempstead and the Red Cross wo
men have a club house where they
serve a home cooked meal, but
these places are overcrowded.
There is as much difference be
tweeii Camp Mills and Camp
Greene as between daylight and
dark- ('amp Greene at Charlotte.
X. C., was clean, the soil sandy
and half a day's sunshine dried
up Ihe dampness and mud- Her
the so'il is mucky and there has
not even been a half day's sun
shine to experiment with. At
Camp Greene all company streets
were graded, w'ooden mess halts
were provided for the men. Here
streels are ungraded and screened
and hurlappcd small cook shacks
are provided from which grub is
dished out to the men who sit
around outside of tents, eating.
Here candles furnish the light in
place of the electricdights of ('amp
Greene. There are no floored tents
while (.'amp Greene had all tents
floored and walled as well.
But then there is not iiaif as
much grumbling as one might ex
pect. "We're in the army now,"
say the boys and they take things
as good naturedly as possible. All
they ask for is mail and more mail,
and once more, folks, get the com
pany letter in the address*
Of course they'd like to be able
to put their feet under the table
at home once more, especially
when they think that Thanksgiv
ing Day (tomes soon.
One
1
thing that furnishes
alittle
variation and satisfaction is the
fact that all the North Dakota
units, or rather all the units in
cluding Xorth Dakota men are now
within visiting distance? ami the
boys have had a chance to look up
friends. And it was almost like
stepping into the home town again
to greet some of the boys.-
As for going to France—what?
Yes, we are going some day* That
is about as definite as anyone
knows and about as much infor
mation as the censor would let get
by anyway.
A Family of Food Patrlota.
In an open letter to Herbert
Hoover, U. S. Food Adminstrator
the editor of the American Co-op
erative Journal tells of food con
servation by a family of five on an
Indiana farm. In addition to op-
Xo- 40
crating 1G0 acres, doing most of
the work himself, the husband help
ed with the garden and the heavi
er part of the housework.
The wife managed the house, do
nig all of her cooking, sewing and
washing, raised 125 pure bred
chickens and put up canned goods
as follows: 141 quarts of fruit, 84
jars of jams and jellies, 126 quarts
of relish, 72 quarts of vegetables.
An abundant \\4nter supply of po
tatoes, squash, cabbage, beets, tur
nips. popcorn and apples was also
stored away.
This work was the result of an
agricultural 8-hour day, eight
hours in the forenoon and eight
hours in the afternoon. The editor
states lliat when the true recud
of the nation is finally written,
when the last battle has been
fought and the Star and S'ripes
come home victorious, great praise
will be due those who have fought
the battles in the kitchen and in
the truck patch.
Datee Named for Boys' and
Girls' Institute.
The eighth annual Xorth Dako
ta hoys' and girls' institute will be
held at the Agricultural college at
Fargo Dec. to 7 inclusive, it was
announced last week* Prof D. W.
Galchouse, in charge of the farm
hoys' and girls' clubs under the
extension department, has charge
of the arrangement for this insti
tutue, with the co-operation of the
county superintendents.
Boys and girls, prize winners in
the various industrial contests car
ried on in the clubs of each county
will attend this institute. Their
expenses to and from and at the
institute are to be paid by the
counties from which they are sent.
A new plan for financing the ex
penses of this trip has been adopt
ed this year, by which each district
will have to raise a certain amount
before the expense of the institute
is incurred.
Heretofore the expenses have
been paid from a fund raised in
Ihe county as a whole, wilh the re
sult that many districts whose
prize winners were sent to Ihe in
stitute have not contributed a cent*
The prize winning district will
now be required to send in their
share of the expense money before
Ihe
IMI.VS
and girls are senl to the
institute.
1
The program for the inslilute is
now being arranged and will be
iinnouiiced in a short time. This
is a big event in the lives of the
farm hoys and girls who aie for
tunate enough to attend, and tin
Agricultural college and Ihe city
of Fargo each year have prepared
special entertainment for the visi
tors-
Contests have been carried on
the past, year among the rural
school children in corn glowing,
hog, production, potato growing
I gardening and canning, sewing,
hrcadmakiiig and butlerniaking,
etc- Prize winners in each of thestf
in each county arc rewarded with
a free trip to the institute.
Judge Cowan Dead.
Judge Cowan of Devils Lake
died ai. Rochester. Minn., tile fore
part of the week. Judge Cowfau
had been prominent in politics and
had held* a number of important
offices- He was Attorney Genera!
of the state three terms'ami Dis
trict Judge of the Devils Lake dis
lrict twelve vears-
Rallroads Reserve Higher Rate.
With greatly increased operat
ing costs making inroads into rail
roads revenues, it is to be expected
that, rate advances must be permii
ted to prevent financial stress on
the part, of the carriers. Xorth
Dakota can do its share by granting
a 15 per cent increase in interstate
freight rates. It is 1o be hoped that
the Railroad commission will go on
record in playing fair wilh the
roads, and that it will listen to
their arguments with an ope®
mind.
Sacrifices must lie made by the
carrirs to keep traffic moving (lur
ing the war. So far their efforts
have been above expectations, des
pite the fact that about 20 percent
more business is being handled
than last year without any percep
tible increase in eoiiipuient.
An increase of 15 per cent in
freight rates in Xorth Dakota will
mean nothing to the individual but
taken in the aggreagate, will
amount to a fair sum for the roads
as a help in their present dilemma.