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I wu The letters are sorted out at: the Division post office, and sent, in mail saiks to the various units where they are sorted out by an orderly appointed for that puprose into alphabetical pigeon holes, and the men look the mail over and help themselves. If you think over the possibilities offered by this system, you may easily under stand why some of your letters re main unanswered. Why some of the little packages prepared with such loving care, and baptized per chance with a tear, do not reach your soldier boy. I recently received in my mail three letters from North Carolina. The address was to the "Infantry hospital." The only hospital here is the base, so I fell heir to some literary talent from the Tar Heel state. One of the letters mention ed the 46th. There is only one 46th here, and that is a reigment of the Regular infantry. went over there and in the Infirmary 1 found my namesake, and made four people happy by delivering the mial. If you have anything of value to send, it is sure of de' livery if insured and registered, or if an important letter, it has a special delivery stamp attached. Remember that this is a city of a population fluctuating between 20,000 and 40,000 men, and the difficulty attending the delivery of mail which has not the name of the unit written in the address is so great that if it does occur it is accidental. Four miles from the main camp is the Remount depot. The Re mount is one of the government horse and imile stock yards where the horses purchased in the west are detained for acclimatization. Horses from Kentucky and adjac ent states are shipped to far-away points for the same reason. At the Remount the animals are class ified into artillery, cavalry and •wncon horses. The mules into waeron and pack. They are also labeled as wheel, middle or lead. vards here will accommodate 8500 animals. Some very beauti ful animals come into the yards, and that are very doubtful look" in? Tn this respect they are like the recruits. The recruits are all re/ examined after they come into the army by the Tuberculosis board in order tc en" out the men who may chance to be afflicted with that disease. I have the honor to be a member of the T. B. OF »ZPI TU Dr. Wentz, Well Known Citizen and Physician of LaMoure County, Gives Information Regarding Camp January 23, 1918. Dear Sir: 1 have been requested by some of your readers to contri" bute an article to your valuable paper which may be of interest to the general public. I don't know what may be of interest to the general public, so 1 will talk of the things that are of interest to me, and hope that the general pub lic will also be interested. Camp Zachary Taylor is located four and one half miles south of Louisville, Kentucky: It covers five sections of land. Has some 1700 government buildings there in. The Base hospital is the only hospital and covers about 72 acres. It will accommodate 1000 pati' ents in 32 wards. At present there are about 850 patients. Each regiment is provided with an In firmary. The sanitary train of the regiment has its headquarters in the Infinmary. In directing per" sonal letters care should be taken to designate Infirmary, if the cor respondent is in an Infirmary and not hospital. If the correspond' ent is attached to an infantry company the letter of the comp any and the number of the regi ment should be a part of the ad dress. The lKime of the organiza tion is as important as the street and number on a letter sent to a eity. board at this camp. In addition to making an expert ex an*nation of the lungs we are re quested to examine the heart and to make, a note of any abnormal jt^ which the soldier may have. In t^?" wav we picked out a man Tennessee with a cork leg. J* assumed that the local board presumed that this man would be an ideal soldier to send against the Germans, because his leg could be renewed, if necessary, many times. So many glaring defects came to lierht. that asked one of the men how it came that the local board in its examination did not detect his broken shoulder. He replied: "Ah warnt egsamund, seh. The doctor jest lookt at me, and says 'sign theah, and pass on." These men came from a certain section in Kentucky. I am happy to say that the local boards as a rule are very conscientious in their work. It is not expected that they wAl cull out any but the most prominent de fects. The best physical erhibits have been from North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. The other end of the exhibit is from the mountain districts of Kentucky. Illiteracy is the rule among these men. One of these men who received a letter frota home took it to one of his com rades and said: "Say, Bill, can you read writin?" To which Bill replied: "Hell, no. All kaint read readin." These men learn the re" quirements of the soldier's dis cipline very slowly and some of the top sageants are very severe with them. In one of these comp anies who had an unusually des potic First Sargeant, two soldiers were left in the barracks. The "top" came in and asked if they had seen the Colonel. They said they had not, and he went off in ill humor. In a few minutes tin Colonel entered, neither boy stood at attention and the colonel said "Why don't you men stand at at tention. Do you know who I am?" "No, seh." replied one of the boys. Says the Colonel of this regiment!" "You be, says the boy tisting up, "well I tell yuh Kunel, yoh shuali gohr to catch hell when ouah top sagent sees yuh. He's bin lookn' foah yuh foah lial an oauh." The psychological board have examined this camp to determine the status quo of the individual brains of the members of the cant onment. Men with three"year-old minds have been sent home. Schools have been oi-ganized for the illiterates, and the progress that some of the men make is phe nomenal. The schools are held for the most part in the Y. M. C. A. buildings. The Y. M. C. A. and the K. C. look after the mental and spirit ual relaxation, entertainment and insruction of the camp. There are thirteen of the Y. M. C. A. build' ings and two of the K. C. Re" ligious services, lectures, musical programs, athletics, moving pic tures and other attractions are au" nounced for every night in the week. The men have free writing material, books, magazines and ad vice. One man from North Caro lina left his family in the moun* tains, and his wife sent him a let ter telling him that she was sick and the family almost destitute. After some thought he sat down and wrote a letter to God, care of the Y. M. C. A. On opening the letter theY men found that he had related his circumstances, and had asked Gcd for fifty dollars The case was so pathetic and his faith so great that they took up a collec tion, and raised thirty dollars which they enclosed in a letter and handed to him on his next visit to the. Y. He took the letter to one side, opened it. took out the money and carefully counted it several times. Then he got some paper, and carefully wrote the following: "Dear God. I am glad you got my letter and come across as I ex' pected but the next time don't send it by these dam Y. M. C. A. fellows, they held ont 20 dollars Once a week one of the officers announces to the men gathered at the war is noted. Ineidentialy, news of importance is noted. Last night it was announced that the German government had sent 250 harlots through Switzerland into France to serve as spies. To re nlace these scarlet women in the German cities from whence they were taken, two hundred and fifty voung women were taken from the refined families of Leys, a city in France near the Belgian line, and forced into common prostitution. And yet there are people in the United States who think that the Germans are the people and that enlightnment will die with them I There shonld be a dissimpassion ed campaign organyced for the purpose of eliminating everything German from our schools, and from every public institution. There is no argument to advance for retain' ing the language in the sciiool curriculi. It is not going to be the language of commerce after the war, so why waste time with it? It is not going to be the language of art, or of science, or of literature, or of religion. The world has no use for the German God. "In our country." writes one eminent German auth or. "God Almighty is reserved for the personal use of the Emper" or." It sounds like a skit from some American fun maker, but is a serious observance on the Ger man belief of the familiarity of William the Infamous, with the Creator. In the eyes of the German peo pic who have been schooled in government schopls and educated in the government churches, Wil liam the Infamous, is reigning by Divine right, and they are, there fore, the Chosen People, the Scourage of God hose duty it is to become maters of the world and make it German,—their meth" ods are exemplified in their treat ment of Schleiswng Holsteiiu, in Alsace-Lorraine, in Belgium,' in Poland where the gentle Ger mans confined in a cathedral of the people for ten days without food or water, and amused them selves by tossing scraps of meat tc those left alive, to see the gaun*, starving creatures straggle for a taste. It is a mistake to try to judge of the German nation or the German people by the standards oi the Americans. It is necessary to view them from the standpoint of the German. The German nation has announced its viewpoint to -the world for the past twenty years, but the world has smiled as at the vaporings of children, and even now, when these doctrines are be ing exercised by them in the coun tries so unfortunate as to be under the dominations of the German Huns and Vandals, there are peo ple here in the United States who say: "Why it can't be possible. know many Germans and have many Gernian friends, and they are all the finest kind of people." And so say I, and every one of us. But those Germans came here to escape militarism, and other things their democratic souls could not denure, or else like my ancestry, they came here while Germany was under old order—when the State existed for the welfare of the peo ple, and not the people for the welfare of the State. The wages of the working people had increased for ten years immediately Jtafore the war 31 per cent, while the tax es for military appropriation had increased thirteen hundred times. Germany demands a place in the sun on property wrested from her neighbors. War preparations are being made as though the struggle is to be continued for five more years. It is no idle advice which the man Hoover is giving when he says con serve, food, raiment and fueK I advise in more emphatic terms to count every cent before it is spent. Be stingy, be miserly. Every cent will be needed before this war is brought to termination which will make it safe for us here in Ameri ca to breathe with unabated breath. If men returning from the front are to be believed, there is no crime, no brutality, no act of fiendishness which can be imagined but has been committed by these kultured Germans upon the de" fenseless. When they advanced ou Leigc they pushed the Belgian wo men, old men and children before them that the Belgians might not fire on their own flesh a^d blood. The same brave Germans filled the front line trenches at Verduni be fore Verdun with the French wo men and children, and when the French began their artillery fire the screams of these women could be heard across No Man's Land. I do not wish as of German de" scent to be identified with the minions of William the Infamous. There is today in the city of Wasington in active operation on army whose expolits attract little notice, but those members are do ing a very large "bit" toward, winning the war foq America—an' army of stenographers and typists, twelve thousand strong, recruited from eveiy state in the Union. A majority of the soldiers of -the notebook and typewriter are girls. Day in and day out their nimble fingers carefully click out the tremendous volume of correspon dence and records required by a great nation at war. They wear no badge nor uniform their work is all work and has no thrill nor romance but the United States could not stay in the war a month without them. The rapidly ex panding departments of the gov" ernment in Washington employ stenographers and typists with a greed that seems insatiable. The United States civil service com mission estimates that there will THE WAHPETON TIMES be twenty thousand government employees of this class in Washing., ton at the end of the this year. Owing to the general demand the commission is finding it a difti cult task to meet the calls of the departments. Examinations are held every Tuesday in 450 cities, and the commission states that an examiation will be held in any city at any time, day or night, when there is prospect of assembl ing class of three or four compet itors. Eligibility may be obtained through passing an examination in practical tests in shorthand and typewriting. It is practicable to complete such an examination in one hour. Representatives of the civil service commission at the postoffice in all cities are furnish ing definite information to persons interested. WASHINGTON WEEKLY NEWS LETTER Wasington, D. C., Feb. 7—Pub lic ownership and government op~ eration of the railroads are going to be one of the biggest issues in this year's congressional elections. That much is apparent from the cleavage which already has result ed in Congress. There is but little doubt but that a genuine sentiment exists through out the nation in favor of govern ment ownership of railroads. The newspapers, many of them con" trolled by big business affiliations, deny this and do all they can to befog the issue, but the sentiment exists and if the fight for govern ment control can be organized, if enough congressmen can be elected upon this issue, there is no reason why the United States should not retain the railroads instead of re turning them to their private own ers after the war. Ownership Advocate Displeased One of the important factors in this impending fight will concern the manner in which the railroads have been operated under govern" ment control. If government con trol has been successful this will give a tremendous impetus to the movement for permanent owner ship. But if results have not been saitsfactory, government owner ship will be given a set back. In this connection many advocates of government ownership are greatly dis-satisfied with the policy of Di rcetor General McAdoo in appoint ing A. H. Smith, president of the New York Central, President Markliam of the Illinois Central, and President Aishton of the Chi cago & Northwestern as regional directors of tho Eastern. Southern and Western divisions. James M. Tittemore, president of the Wisconsin ilnion of the Na tional Society of Equity, a former a railroad man of more than 30 years service, is one who objects to this policy. Not Government Operation "It does not mean government operation at all," said Tittemore. Secretary McAdoo has stated, in his testimony before the senate committee on Interstate commerce, that he cannot personally direct the work of the railroads, and that he is doing it through these three men. Aishton, Smith and Mark ham.are three as reactionary fig ures as you could find anywhere. If you were to pick out Senators Kellogg of Minnesota, Penrose of Pennsylvaina and Bankhead of Alabama, say, for the job of co operating the railway system in the public interest, you would get about the same results. "Take Aishton of the North western. He is to administer the affairs of his competitors. How is he to do it without causing fric tion? If there is no friction, it will be plain that he is not reor* ganinzing and shifting traffic in order to get the best results he is letting the business of each cam pany alone. In other words, there is no real government operation in any case. "If the railroad business is put on a sensible basis by the govern ment, at least $750,000,000 will be saved the people. That much will be saved in pooling terminals, changing routings, and using all the railroads as one big property. Kellogg Favors Railroads "This is just what our people in the Vest imagined was being done. They have been applaud ing the government for doing it. But it has not been done, and these three railroads presindents who are now running things, un der the Director General, won't do it." Senator Kellogg, who belongs to the senate committee on Inter State Commerce, is making a des perate attempt to show that the railroad compaines ought to be paid at least as much as they earn, ed for the average of the past three years. Ex'senator Joe Bristow of Kansas, testifying before the com mittee. showed that this would mean an average of aboat 12 per On last Saturday McAdoo seemed to be opposed to public ownership. On Monday he had changed, and was pinned down by Senator Cummins to admit these two things. First.^ That it will be wI the public, after the war, to put the roads back in their old competi tive game. Second, That this competitive gflftne is necassary to private own ership. May Be Political Issue That looks as thought McAdoo were secretly willing to try pub* lie ownership, but wanted to save it up as a campaign issue for 1920. He said plainly that it was the 'spectre of government owner ship" that prvented this country from having merchant ships for this war, because it killed the ship ping bill in 1914 that was to build up American shipyards. BNTI UVE. PWFFIBESSIFF T0*» The writer made a buisness trip up to the thriving and progressive little village of Abercrmobie last Friday afternoon and found as nice a bunch of business folks and citizens as there are anywhere in this state or anywhere alse. We met E. W. Hutchinson, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. l^aul railway depot agent and found his office quarters as slick, and span and clean as a parlor in a well kept residence. He is a booster for everything good in Abercroni bie and is a livef wire. He is a benedict and was at one time edi' tor of the Messenger, a paper formerly published there, his wife having done the mechanical work, as Mr. Hutchinson was not a printer. Next we met I. E. Lillegaard, who has a well-kept hardware establishment and his store was full of customers and he enjoys a good trade for miles around that territory. He was a former farm er and by dint of hard work and energy worked himself up into his present position. He is a pusher for the upbuilding fo Abercrom, bie and surrounding country. Then we met J. P. Johnson, the garage man, who has one of the best equipped and most modern establishments in that part of the state. Mr. Johnson is doing a fine business, is a No. 1 mechanic and a fine gentleman to meet. Then we went to the Abercrom bie Hotel where there is always served the most appetizing vaina-. cent a year on the stock of 25 oi" the biggest railroad systems in the country. For the Burlington it would mean 25 per cent a year, and for the Northern Paicfic and Great Northern about 9.5 per cent a year. McAdoo For Generous Rates Director General McAdoo wants congress to pay these generous rates to the stockholders of the roads, and wants the whole ques tion of public ownership to be put off until the end of the war. So does Chairman Sims of the house committee on Interstate Commerce who is following the administra tion program. They say that the big thing is to get the bill through now, which pays the railroads ac" cording to their earnings of the last three years, and debate pufb lie ownership some other time. Chairman Smith of the senate committee said he had a "fear" of government ownership. Cum mins said he would not call his own sentiment "fear on the contr* ary, he showed that he was for public ownership right away. Public ownership is not a spec tre it is here," was Sentaor La Follette's way of putting the sit" uation. Real Economy Impossible As a political issue, government ownership is here. But that is all. It is not going to carry that senate committee this winter nor will it carry the house committee. Government operation—the kind that will take up all these roads and whip them into one big system run with one big plan for carrying the people and their freight as cheaply and as quickly and as well as possible—is not here? That $750,000,000 with Ti'temore, the railroad traffic manager, spoke about, won't be saved. But the political issue is here, sure enough. Senator Kellogg is sitting at that senate committee table watch ing like a lynx for every posible hit of evidence that will justify more to the railroad stockholders. dished up in the latest culinary art. They are doing a good busi ness also. John II. Loff, who conducts a general merchandise business, has a well-stocked store and an up-to date stock of goods, with a first class meat market in connection. He is a good fellow, a fine busi ness man, and is popular among his acquaintances who are all over that country. He is a believer in advertising and has an establish ment and business of which any man would be proud to be the owner. J. C. Holkestad has a elean, up* to date stock of groceries, with fine fixtures and pretty interior decorations, and his shelves are well-stocked with fresh and up-to date goods. He is a booster for Abercrombie and is doing his share of the business. Abercrombie has a first'lass barber shop, lively' barn and lumber yard. M. M. Borman. is proprietor of the drug store and is doing a fine business. He is an old timer in the county, an expert pharmacist and has an up-to-date stock. Olaf Bjorke is pastomaster. The Abercrombie Dray line is another business enterprise that is worthy of mention. Abercrombie has two live banks, First National, and State Bank. Both are barometer's of that town and conntry's prosperity and are up'to-d^te institutions. LaFollette and Cummins on Job Senator LaFollette and Senator Cummins, across the same table, are watching and asking questions too. They are showing that the people of this country want real government operation of the roads and not through any one-man sys tem, either. They are showing that the" only sane and sensible method of making the railroads serve the public it to buy them at just what they are really worth. The game will go to the senate. The debate will make good cam* paign material. The people have a chance to elect a congress this fall that will buy the roads and put them in the hands of the In terstate Commerce commission, in. stead of into the hands of three railroad presidents. But when you read the news papers stories about government operation, just now, you can laugh. Then you can get busy at mak* ing it come true, through a more sincere congress. WAHPETON LADY DOING HER BIT "More than a year ago I took a course of Mayr's Wonderful Rem edy for gall stones, severe colic and stomach trouble and have been en tirely well ever since. I have re* commended it to many other stom ach sufferers, as I felt it was my duty to tell them just how much good it has done me." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practic ally all stomach liver and intesti nal ailments, including appendicit* is. One dose will convince or money refunded. H. Miller & Co. 41-tl. SMimm 88*58 Every monument that leaves our shop is a true example of consun mate skill and designing and unlifl excellence in QUALITY GRAN ITE or MARBLE. This establsihment has en atmI lent stock of finished monuments for your examination, can show you mnay ot its monuments erected hereabouts, and, of course, has full complete line of superb samples to select from. Grant the favor of quoting prices, etc. WAHPETON HRBLE aid GRANITE WORK H. J. K0RF, PiUBltlui