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UNITED STATES MARINES HAVE LANDED
AND HAVE THE SITUATION WELL IN HAND
SUPPLY TRUCK PULLING A LIGHT FIELD PIECE.
“The marines have landed and have the situation well In hand.” How
many times thnt message has been sent to Washington from the commander
of marines on duty. Fighters on land and seas, always looking for a scrap
and always ready, never asking why and knowing only that they are marines
and marines are fighters, this body of men have won the admiration of the
entire world. You may ask why the marines are superperfect. They have
got to be. Their duty requires that they be proficient In every branch of
fighting known to modern warfare. They are Infantrymen, artillerymen,
ivlators, and mechanics, engineers, signallers and other parts of the military
machine. But then they are part of the great naval machine our country has
built up.
On the seas they are everything necessary as sea fighters. Their training
has fitted them for the strenuous life they live. Ready on a moment’s notice and
the first to fight when there is fighting to be done, the United States marines
are accredited the most perfect fighting corps In the entire world.
ASK AUTHORITIES
AID DRIVE-AWAYS
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce Makes Appeal to
Various Governors.
OVERLAND DELIVERY OF GARS
Manufacturers and Dealers Relieve
Congestion by Delivering Ma
chines Under Their Own Power
—Federal Law Urged.
Governors of the different states,
who are In all cases at the head of the
various state councils of defense, will
he asked by the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce to request local
authorities not to Interfere with the
overland delivery of new automobiles
and motor trucks from the factories to
dealers.
The manufacturers and dealers are
relieving railroad freight congestion by
delivering new cars under their own
power Instead of shipping them by rail.
Thirty-three per cent of the production
of eight of the larger automobile man
ufacturers was delivered over the high
ways during the first three months
this year. The number of machines
driven nway was 88,000, which relieved
the railroads to the extent of about
10,000 freight cars. With a probable
production of 1,000,000 motor vehicles
this year, the total saving In railroad
ears by this method will amount to
about 80.000 curs.
uemana state License.
Considerable trouble has been caused
by local officials, who Insist every car
In the drive-sway “strings” shall carry
a state license plate, and sometimes
that each driver shall have a state op
erator's license. Owing to lack of
uniformity In the state motor vehicle
laws, full compliance with require
ments In one state Is not held to be
sufficient In some other states, and
much delay, annoyance and additional
expense have resulted needlessly.
The N. A. C. C. hns token this matter
up with the director general of rail
roads, with the secretary of war os
chairman of the council of nutlonnl de
fense, und with the secretary of com
merce os a member of the council. It
Is also preparing a definite plan to of
fer to the governors whereby motor
vehicles In trnnslt may be allowed to
proceed to destination without Interfer
ence over the question of license.
Purpose of License Plate.
When the motor vehicle laws were en
acted, no such shipping situation as
now exists was foreseen and no provi
sion was made for the delivery of mo
tor-cars by highway. The purpose of
license plutes Is to Identify the cnr
and Its ownership In case of uccldent
or Infraction of operating regulations,
and where a string of drlve-awny cars
remnlns together and the cnrs carry
Improvised duplicates of the manufac
turer's or dealer’s license plate, such
Identification In sufficiently establish
ed for the purpose.
Many manufacturers and dealers are
urging fhe enactment by congress of
a federal license law which will sweep
away the lnck of uniformity In the
state laws that are now Interfering
with this form of interstate commerce.
DIAGRAM OF WIRING SYSTEM
Without Chart New Car Owner May
Find Himself in Difficulty With
Electric Apparatus.
It may not be out of order to sug
gest to the new car owner that one of
the “tools” that should always be car
ried In the car Is the chart of the
wiring system. Without this he may
find himself in difficulties with the
electric system thnt will be almost
Impossible to locate.
OLD TIRES QUITE VALUABLE
Possible to Get Ten Blow-Out Patches
From Wornout Casing—How
They. Are Made.
The average owner hns formed the
habit of disposing of old tires for a
few cents and Is not awnre of the
fact that the casing can be utilized
for making blow-out patches for the
inside of casing. These home-made
patches serve even better thnn the
cheap ones sold at supply stores. The
patch Is mode simply by ripping off
the tread and one or two layers of
fabric. The thickness of the patch
should be equal to about two or three
layers of fabric, and of course cut to
the right length. It Is possible to get
ten blow-out patches front a worn-out
casing which probably would bring a
: dollar or so from the Junkman.
LIGHT WHERE IT IS WANTED
Dirigible Device So Constructed That
Rays Can Be Thrown Downward
or to Either Side.
A “dirigible” headlight, constructed
so that the rays can be thrown down
ward or to either side of the road, Is
offered by a New York manufacturer.
A variety of uses Is suggested. Includ
ing those of keeping glare out of the
eyes of an approaching driver and
Dirigible Headlight.
lighting the side of the road, close by,
when driving through fog. Any head
light. It is claimed, can he attached to
the appliance, permitting the lights to
i be thrown from 800 feet ahend to 12
feet In front of the ear. A simple con
trol Is placed at the driver’s hand, the
control rod being carried either
through the dash or to the side of the
windshield.
WILL WATCH AFTER THIEVES
Government Takes Up Matter of
Stealing Automobile Parapher
nalia While In Transit.
Director of Itallronds McAdoo has
notified the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce thnt lnstend of
petty larceny the offense of stealing
lumps, speedometers, tires and other
paruphernulla from motorcars In tran
sit on railroad cars has been made a
federal matter and an olfense which
Is punishable by a maximum penalty
<jf ten years’ Imprisonment. Through
out the country It had come to he a
popular sport, this stenting from cars
In transit, and state authorities did
not give punishment fitting the crime.
LAWS ON STORING GASOLINE
Before Installing Underground 8ystem
Car Owner Should Make Careful
Study of Matter.
Ilefore making nrrnngcments for In
stalling an underground gasoline stor
age system, the car owner should look
well to his local and state laws. In
many places It Is necessary to vent
the tank so that the vent pipe comes
within a given distance of the roof of
the -building. Some laws make It nec
essary to have the tank located u
given distance from the house, and If
this Is not complied with certain rules
regarding venting must be met. Ex
amine all phases of the matter care
fully beforehand.
Slipping of Gears.
The* slipping of transmission gears
out of mesh Is something that nearly
every owner has to experience sooner
or later.
1—View of Solssons, at the northern end of the allied offensive In the Aisne-Marne region. 2—Depth bombs
on the Harvard, formerly a yacht, now an American patrol boat In European waters. 3—Victor Vandermerck, an
American soldier who killed a German with the butt of his rlffe In battle In France.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE GREAT WAR
General Foch Is Squeezing the
Crown Prince’s Army Out of
Soissons-Reims Salient.
NUNS IN PERILOUS POSITION
American Troopa Are Highly Praised
for Their Fine Work—British in
Flanders Take Meteren—Silly
Exploit of U-Boat Off
Cape Cod.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
"We’ve got ’em on the run" was the
Joyful cry of America as the news
came In of the victorious progress of
the allied troops In the Soissons-Reims
salient.
In a measure this was true, for the
Germans Were being gradually
squeezed ou^ of the salient, and there
was every reason for elation over the
splendid fighting of the allies. But to
hall the success as a great decisive
victory was premature and foolish.
Such running as the Huns did was
done only at the start of Foeh’s offen
sive, when they were taken by sur
prise. Their commanders quickly re
gained some measure of control, nnd
thereafter the enforced retreat was
conducted skilfully nnd slowly, every
bit of ground being bitterly contested
In order that as many guns and as
much supplies ns possible might be
saved. Renllzlng that his entire army
south of the Alsne was in grave dan
ger, the crown prince sent In more and
more of his reserves until 40 divisions
were engaged, and desperate efforts
were made to stabilize their lines of
defense. However, nothing was al
lowed to stop the steady forwnrd
movement of the .allies on three fronts
of the salient, and the path of re
treat was narrowed day by day. All
of the territory yet held by the enemy
was brought under the fire of the
heavy guns, nnd the airmen In great
numbers flew over the region day and
night, working havoc with tlielr bombs
nnd machine guns.
At the beginning of the week there
were highly successful operations on
the west front of the salient. In both
of which the Americans played an Im
portant part. At the tip of the Ger
mnn advance Chateau Thierry was
taken by storm and a large section
north and east of It was cleared of
Huns. Here thousands of Germans
were killed, other thousands captured,
and grent numbers of cannon and
quantities of supplies were tnken.
From this point northward to Sols
sons the Frnnco-Ainerlcans swept east
ward until Neullly St. Front was tnk
en. Oulchy threatened, Soissons Itself
brought under gunfire and the very Im
portant railroad from there to Chateau
Thierry crossed at so many places that
It could no longer be used by the en
emy. This drive, to be wholly suc
cessful, had to be carried to Fere-en
Tardenols, through which rnn the only
remaining railway which the Huns
could rely upon to get their war sup
plies out of the way of Foclf’s\ pincers,
and before the week closed the French
and Yankees were moving steadily to
ward that town from the west and
south. It must not be supposed that
their progress was easy The Ger
mans counter-attacked repeatedly and
fought brnve and stubborn rear-guanl
battles. The vlllnge of Epleds. for In
stance, after being taken at the point
of the bayonet by the Americans, was
recaptured by the Huns, and again
won by the Yankees, who then ad
vanced their lines far beyond It.
Some of the fiercest fighting toon
place nlong the Marne east of Chatean
Thierry. At first the Germans retreat
ed across the river so hastily that the
movement amounted nlmost to a rout.
From the heights of Jaulgonne, Barzy
and Passy. the American guns poured
a deadly hall upon the fleeing foe,
many of whom, throwing away their
itflea, sought to swim the river, and
Were drqwned.
—I»—
When Foeb wns secretly preparing
lor his great strategic attack he called
a strong force of English and Scots
troops down from the north, and they
quietly slipped around south of the
Marne toward Reims. At the ap
pointed time these seasoned fighters
hit the German lines southwest of the
cathedral city a mighty blow. In the
succeeding days, acting as the east
arm of the pincers, they pushed for
ward Into the salient from the Moun
tain of Reims toward Vllle-en-Tarde
nols and Flsmes. Their progress was
slower than that of the Franco-Amerl
cans on the west, for the country in
which they were fighting was much
more difficult. East of Reims the
French and Italian held their own
and even made some advance, though
the plan did not call for a drive by
them.
—1»—
When Foch's offensive was a week
old It appeared probable that Luden
dorff would attempt to mnke nt least
a temporary stand on the half-circle
running from Solssons through the
outskirts of Oulchy, below Fere-en
Tardenols and across toward the
Mountain of Reims. Competent ob
servers believed his troops were too
disorganized to hold this line for long,
and that he would be forced to fall
back to the Vesle river, which runs al
most due west from Reims, joining
the Alsne near Solssons.
The main efforts of General von
Boehm, the Immediate commander of
the Germans In the salient, were di
rected to keeping open the roads of
retreat. He was given the assistance
not only of most of the crown prince’s
reserves, but also of nine divisions
from the army of Crown Prince Ru
preeht of Bavaria. Already he was
having great difficulty In feeding the
men he had there, and the additions
did little but stiffen his resistance and
add to his commissary troubles.
At the time of wfitlng, the full scope
of General Foch’s plans Is not re
vealed. He has the Initiative, and may
elect to continue the offensive with
all nts strength In the effort n> drive
the Huns beyond the Alsne and ns
much farther ns they can be forced;
or he may find It prudent to hold them
at the Vesle and await the arrival of
more Americans. It Is a noteworthy
fact that 70 per cent of the allied
troops engaged In the present Imttle
nre French. A considerable portion
of the remainder are British and Ital
ians. If so much cnn be done with so
comparatively small n force of Ameri
cans taking part, ask observers, what
will happen to the Huns when a mil
lion Americans nre in the fighting line
nnd another million at least waiting
their turn for action? And this state
of affairs will be reached by October,
i it Is predicted.
—fc —
Paris nnd London nre loud In their
| praise of the quality nnd behavior of
the Americans In the Alsne-Mnrne bat
tle, nnd the newspapers there relate
many Instances of their bravery, cool
ness nnd determination. They nre ad
mittedly ns fine troops ns ever were
seen, nnd even the least experienced
of them have no Idea of anything but
winning every fight they go Into.
Their marksmanship, both with the
rifle and with larger weapons. Is re
markable ; their doggedness Is tem
pered with an unquenchable humor,
nnd their stamina Is such that at times
bodies of them fought for many hours
without food or drink, declining to
halt their advance to let the commis
sary catch up with them. These j
splendid troops, with their gallant and
competent officers, have done thbir full
part In stopping the German offensive
and converting It into an allied offen
sive, nnd If they nre now called on to
stop and await the arrival of more of
their countrymen, America should rest
satisfied, patient nnd proud. The
American casualty lists will be longer
and longer each day for a time, but
the bereaved ones may well take ex
ample by the proud, unweeplng grief
with which Colonel Roosevelt received
'the news of the death of his gallant
son, Quentin.
In Flanders the British carried out
an Important operation that resulted
In the capture of Meteren. They have
been devoting themselves to preparing
for the new offensive which, according
to the logic of the situation, Luden
dorff must undertake and which, ac
cording to military experts, probably
will he directed against some part of
the line held by the British. Such an
offensive would be largely to Influence
public opinion in Germany and direct
attention away from the crown
prince's disastrous attempt on the
Marne.
General Foch has not had to call
Into action the bulk of his reserves.
In the midst of the biggest battle he
found time to order a swift and fierce
attack by the French along the Avre^
In the Montdldier sector. The posi
tions aimed at were feebly held by
tired troops that did not expect an
attack, and the objectives were gained
within a few hours, large numbers of
prisoners being tnken.
—1»—
Rome received the Information from
some source that the Austrians were
preparing a triple offensive against
Italy. This, according to the story, Is
to consist of a great land attack on the
Piave river line, a naval attack on
Italy’s Adriatic coast and an extensive
counter-attack In Albania. The Ital
ian commanders have no doubt of their
ability to repulse any or all of these
attacks. In Albania their forces,
with the French, have kept moving for
ward and are now In very strong po
sitions. The threat of a serious naval
operation by Austria seems most fool
ish of an.
—1*—
President Wilson completed his pro
nouncement of plans for the participa
tion of the United Stntes In the Rus
sian expedition and was awaiting only*
the reply of Japan to the American
proposals. It had been thought Japan
had agreed to these, but dispatches
from Tokyo told of an exciting contro
versy over them, two Influential groups
strongly opposing Intervention. Mos
cow advices said general mobilization
of the Russian army—meaning the
bolshevlki—had begun, hut this did
not worry the allied statesmen. The
plans of the British, Americans and
French for the protection of the Mur
man region against the Germans and
Finns are believed to be all settled.
The people will be fed and their In
ternal affairs will not be Interfered
with by the expedition that will be
sent.
General Horvath, provisional ruler
of Siberia,. Is co-operating with the
Ozecho-Slovnks, and matters look
more promising In that country.
Conditions in the Ukraine grow more
unsettled dally, and now the Germans
and Austrians ore cnlled on to fact
a great uprising In Roumania, where
the people are disgusted with the peace
with the central powers and with the
treatment they are receiving. Proba
bly half a million Teutonic troops are
tied up In these two countries, which
helps some. v
—fc —
The Atlantic seaboard was amazed
rather thnn alarmed by the sudden ap
pearance of a large German submarine
close to Cape Cod. The vessel at
tacked a tug and sank the three stone
laden barges it was towing, using up
two torpedoes and a lot of ammunition
In this footless operation. Other U
boats bagged bigger game when they
sank the British transport Justlcla,
32.234 gross tons, off the Irish coast.
The transport, which was westward
hound nfter carrying 10.000 American
soldiers to Europe, was attacked by a
fleet of six or eight submarines and
fought them for ten hours. Of her
crew of some 000 only ten were killed.
— *—
So foolish ns scarcely to merit men
tion Is the latest list of German pence
terms, which it Is said will he offered
through Spain. They disown nn.v de
sire for annexations or indemnities on
the west front, hut would leave Bel
gium, the Balkans and the self-deter
mination of peoples for the peace con
ference to settle; the peace treaties
with Rouinantn and Russia not to be
questioned, and all Germany’s colonies
to he restored. Also the seas are to
be free nnd Gibraltar and the Suez
canal defenses dismantled.
—1» —
The British government Is having
trouble with the pacifists, who hnve
permeated all the war materlul fac
tories, and last week caused strikes
of thousands of munition workers. The
cabinet decided, It was reported, that
If the strike continued the strikers of
military age wAild be drafted Immedi
ately Into the army.
—* —
Finally authentic word of the deatu
of- the former czar came out of Rus
sia. He was ordered nhot by a local
bolshevik official because of counter
revolutionary plots, and his son Is said
to have died of exposure a few day*
later.
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FAMOUS “FIELD OF BLOOD”
•aid to Ba Spot Judaa - Purchased
With the 8ilvar for Which Ho
•old Hla Master.
Just outside the walls of Jerusalem,
In the Valley of Hinnom, Is a rocky
plain known as the Aceldama o*j
Field of Blood. It la the potter’s field,
purchased with the SO pieces of silver!
for which Judas sold his master. Herat
for centuries visitors to the holy city,
dying while on their pilgrimage foundl
a resting place.
Gray and barren, It Is a desolatet
spot, solitary but for the chance vis
itor and a few withered gray-clad
monks from a nearby monastery. For
a small fee, one of these ancient re
cluses will show you the sights of the
piece. Caves and underground pas-;
sages, honeycombed with tombs, arei
cut in the rocky field. Your guide
leads you down age-worn steps, cutj
perhaps In the sixth century, into
crumbling halls. Ills torch casts flick
ering uncanny shadows on the damp
gray walls. The place seems to re
sent your Intrusion; It Is the “place
of sleep,” the hall of the dead. On
one side Is the tomb of some warrior
monk who followed the fortunes of
Richard Lion Heart of England to the
holy land, dying at the very gates of
the city his master had hoped to con
quer. He must have died penniless,
too, as so many of these zealots did,
else his bones had not rested in the
potter’s field.
.Near Aceldama is a ruined cnarnes
house, said to have been built by the
Crusaders for their dead. It Is a tum
bling ruin, nearly thirty feet long by)
twenty wide, with one side of naked
rock. Beneath It are two of the larg
est caverns, their rock sides pierced
with tombs and shallow graves. In
the roof of the ruin are holes through
which the bodies of the dead were
lowered.
The Field of Blood Is on the north
eastern slope of the Hill of Evil Coun
cil, where tradition says the villa of
Calaphas stood, and where the chief
Cst and elders plotted the execos
of Jesus._
SAVE MONEY FOR FARMERS
Direct Testimony Showing That thg
Woodpecker Should Be Protected
by All Agriculturist*
We are assured on high authority
that If birds were as numerous today
as they were 60 years ago It would
mean a saving of many million dollars
to American farmers. The slaugbtei
of migratory birds Is surely followed
by the Increase of destructive insects,
Among the farmer's bird friends art
the woodpeckers, especially the red*
headed members of the species.
In proof there Is cited the following
Instance: A pair of them nested In a
dead cottonwood tree near an orchard.
One day the observer watched them
through a pair of glasses. The youn||
birds were about half grown. Tha
parents made 96 trips In one hour,
each time with a worm. It Is safe to
say that they saved 96 apples In that
hour—a box worth, say 51. If tha
birds worked ten hours a day, they
were worth $10 to the owner of that
orchard, dr, In the three weeks the
birds were In the nest $210. It Is plain,
then, that no furmer can afford to kill
a woodpecker.
Testing Pleurisy With Coins.
A novel method of diagnosing pleu
risy Is described by P. Lereboullet In
the Paris Medical Journal. The ex
aminer applies his ear to the patient’s
chest, closing his other ear, while coins)
are clinked at the patient’s back. The'
sound of the coins coming through a
healthy, normally aerated lung seemsi
distant and dull, while through an af-i
fscted lung, through solid or homo-!
geneous tissue a clear, silvery metal-<
11c ring Is heard.
8panlsh'8ulphur Deposits.
In the province of Murcia, Spain,
there are a number of sulphur depos
its. One of the most Important of
them Is that of La Surata de Lorca,
near the town of Lorca, the bed of
which extends over a length of ten
kilometers and a width of one to two
kilometers. - ■
Slow Progress.
“Takes ray wife a long time to get
ready for breakfast."
“How’s that?”
“She’s a great reader and has to
peruse every curl paper as she takes
It off."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Then She Froxe Up.
Housewife—I’ve nothing hot fbl
you: but I can give you a little some*
thing cold. I
Tramp—All right, mum; make It t|
j little cold cash. If yer will.—Boston
• Evening Transcript.