Mexico Missouri message., July 18, 1918, Image 7

About Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918

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MEXICO MISSOURI MESSAGE, MEXICO, MISSOURI.
THESE TWO MEN
REFIT THE ARMY
its-
Lively Work of Major Fawcett
and Captain Thrall at
Camp Blank.
SPRUCED UP FOR OVERSEAS
Hungry and Ill-Clad Soldier Well Fed
nd Mad Spick-and-Span for
the Voyade to Battle
Front In France.
Washington. MaJ. Georgo W. Faw
cett Is the camp quartermaster at on
American embarkation en in p. It Is his
first business to see that troops going
oversea find comfortable, healthful
temporary quarters, and have plenty of
food. The camp Is more than a rest
resort for travelers. When It was
established less than a year ago in
coming troop were warned that they
must not rely on getting any of their
overseas outfit here. This Is so com
pletely changed under Major Fawcett'
administration that there Is nothing
, an - organization can possibly need
. which this camp will not supply nearly
a fast as the men can be marched
' up to his warehouses to take the sup-
piles away.
Major Fawcett has a ten-foot square
office In an nnpalnted shack. He sit
at a little desk with two clerks, one' be
hind him and the other at his side. A
telephone receiver Is strapped over his
bead all the time. The officers requir
ing supplies .for the present and fa
ture who come Into this camp make
mistakes, big and little, but not one
of them has ever got anything worse
than an amused or an astonished grin
from the camp quartermaster. "It is
easier and quicker to give a man what
you know he wants," the major says,
"than to waste your time, his, and the
government's, by quarreling with him
because he has not put his needs in
proper shape."
Makes It Easy for Them.
Army regulations require particular
printed formulas for requisitions, pre
pared with scrupulous attention to
N email details. Major Fawcett has
taught his men to accept any scribbled
memorandum on the back of an envel
ope or a bit of wrapping paper, tell the
" applicant for supplies to come back
In half an hour, and, then, when he re
turns, band to him a perfectly arranged
form of requisition, stating all his
needs with military exactness, and at
the same time directing him to a store
house where his supply Is already
waiting.
. The Interior traffic of the camp has
Increased until 100 big motortrucks
are tearing through the streets from
dawn until dark, and half of them
BROTHERS IN ARMS
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Every wearer of khaki who is now
with the American expeditionary
forces In France has been taken into
the hearts of the .French families and
our sous are as their sons. There Is
no bond like that which arises from
fighting in a common cause for high
Ideals. ;
'MERRY WIDOW' TO DIE
French Woman Found GuHty by
Court-Martial.
' Sold Military Secret to th German
in Letter i to, Hr .
. Children. ; . s ' -
Paris, France. Brief announcement
has Jubt been made that a Paris court
martial has condemned to death as
a py Mme. M, thirty-seven year
old. Her son, Noel, sixteen years old.
who was accused of being her accom
plice, was ordered to a penitentiary
colony until he comes of age. The
court believed he was too young to be
' held responsible for his acts.
As the case was not heard in public
only few details have become known,
': auch as that Mme. M.'s husband was
' killed at the front In March, 1910, and
that the wife soon started u life that
earned her, In the circles she frequent
ed. Out neuie of "The Merry Widow."
work far Into the night. The more the
camp speeds up the more troops Major
Fawcett Invites the war department to
send through the camp. The Ideal of
seeing to it that no man crosses the
seas for service with clothing and
equipment which Is not new, or as good
as new, has Just about been reached.
Troops are detrained from the interior
In dusty, faded clothing, patched and
pulled out of shape, and go onto their
ships in on Incredibly short time dress
ed up like a show window display.
His lieutenants in charge of money
disbursements, subsistence, construc
tion, transportation, and reclamation
are ot his door with brand-new com
plications every few minutes. Bewil
dered supply officers, who have come
to the camp without the slightest Idea
of what is expected of them (and who
would have resigned before coming had
they known) appeor at his door look
ing scared ; they listen for a few min
utes to the general run of his tele
phone conversation, forget their scare,
answer his questions with a prompt
ness and a deflnlteness which seem to
surprise the men themselves, and go
out with their heads up, smiling confi
dently, and accomplish changes and
refitting and substitutions such as
they bad never dreamed of.
Work Well Divided.
The work under Major Fawcett sub
fMvIded Itself naturally so that no dis
proportionate burden falls on any one
department, with one exception. For
accounting purposes it is absolutely
necessary that ono man should have
charge of whot, in quartermaster lan
guage, is called "property." He must
sign every Invoice and assume respon
sibility for it financially. This Job
under Major Fawcett Is that of Copt.
C. E. Thrall, Q. M. R. C. Captain
Thrall has counted it a big night when
he has had more than four hours' sleep
since the war started.
Captain Thrall has never been
GIRLS DO GOOD WORK
American Telephone Operators
Now Serving in France.
Hundred Who Were Sent Over Giv
ing Such Efficient Service Mora
Will Be Sent.
Washington. To the 100 girls from
America now doing service ns military
telephone operators In France, 150
more In training schools here may soon
be added, leaving a reserve force of
400 more on file out of about 8,000 ap
plications. The telephone is referred to as the
"nerves of the army," and the young
women who have been accepted for
this work have undergone tests as se
vere ns those to which a soldier at the
front is subjected.
The telephone exchanges often are
only a short distance behind the
trenches, and the operator must, pos
sess both courage and calmness under
dangerous circumstances.
"These girls," said Cnpt. E. J. Wes
son, who recruited the unit, are going
to astound the people over there by
their efficiency. In Paris it takes from
40 to 60 seconds to complete one call.
Our girls are equipped to handle 300
calls an hour,"
Other reports that have reached the
war department from France show
that the American hello girl Is making
good rapidly in a task as difficult as is
to be found back of the front line
trenches.
The first group of operators entered
training school here on January 12
for Instruction In advanced telephony.
They received practice in the largest
New York exchanges and were then
tried out at military cantonments. The
course Included talks upon personal
hygiene.
The first contingent sailed on March
2. Other groups sailed In March and
April and were stationed at supply de
pots and debarkation bases,
In addition to speaking both French
and English fluently, every one of
these girls has stood a loyalty test
which proved that she could be trusted
with military Information
The uniform prescribed consists of
a coat and skirt of navy blue serge,
shirtwaist of navy blue Falni Beach
She soon ran through the money she
inherited, and, to obtain more, commu
nicated with a Greek living In Spain,
an agent of the spy bureau, established
In Barcelona by the Germans.
When mother and son were arrested,
the boy was Just about to engage in
the aviation service in order to obtain
Information to be supplied to Germany.
A writer in the Paris m(11 Identities
the Greek as the head of German prop
aganda. In Spain and director in par
ticular of the service for arranging ex
plosions In factories.' ' He was a reg
ular visitor tp toe girls' school ot Bar
celona, where be went to see three
little girls whose guardian ne wes
Supposed to bet One of the youngest,
tbout eleven years old, handed over
to him, on each visit, several letters,
which he carried away. ,
'These three little girls were French,
heW the daughters of Mme. M. The
"Merry Widow" used to pass on any
Information thut she obtained to her
sort, who wrote It to his young sister,
placing It in the middle of his letter,
which were never really examined,
when it was seen thut they were let-
canght rattled.'' He swears now and
then, but laughs at himself when he
swears and he never lets anybody else
get rnttled. . Captain Thrall Is a much
more tired looking man than he was a
year ago but like his chief he has
found that the best way to keep men
moving Is to meet Ignorance and stu
pidity alike with n friendly grin and
strolghten them out as they go along.
Major Fawcett left the regular army
17 years ago and was for many years
purchasing agent for the Fhlllpplue
constabulary. Captain Thrall came
from the ranks of the regular army.
GETTING A "BEAD" ON A HUN
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. Photo by T ' .
WeHtrn Wwppr r Vnlon
This machine gun operator Is care
fully aiming a Lewis gun at a raiding
Gotha. It takes a dead shot to bring
down one of the birds when It flies
high.
cloth and straight-brimmed hat of blue
felt, while the regulation orange and
white cord on the left sleeve is used to
designate their rank, as operator, su
pervisor, chief operator and so on.
"WAR BRIDES" DUPE SOLDIERS
Women Fortune Hunter Arrested for
Having More Husbands Than
Law Allows.
San Diego, Cnl. Almost since the
United States entered the war soldiers
have been victims of women fortune
huuters. Girls at various camps ore
being arrested charged with having an
over quota of soldier husbands, and
In every case the question of Insur
ance was the motive.
This city has been no exception to
the rule, and with the thousands of
soldiers and sailors In training at the
camps near by federal officials are
always on the" alert, nnd as a result
two girls ore under arrest. They gave'
their names as Miss Mae Smith and
Mrs. Elsie Byrnes, and both ' are
pretty. They were caught in the act
of mailing about 20 letters to sailors
nnd soldiers asking for money for
clothes nnd traveling expenses. In
every letter written by the girls was
the phrase: "I wish you oceans of
love with a kiss on the top of every
wave." The girls also received 18
letters from ardent lovers nnd each
letter contained money.
fte&fterft.r.6eT!S-era.-frefte
5 WHILE OVER THERE HE
pctc mm mm wirn i irnr
Knoxviile, - Tenn. Although
Clay Barber, Knoxviile lad, 13
"over there," a fonunl presenta
tion of a dlplomn to him as the
only boy. graduate of the Carter
High school occurred here. Pa
trons attending the school's ex
ercises beheld the seat of the
only boy graduate draped with
Old Glory.
Madagascar, the world's third larg
pt island, has mi area equal to France,
1 Holland and Belgium combined,
ters from
at school.
a brother to a little sister
4l"M"i"t'4"f4"l"l-'f44"t"H-t"l"t""r-l"t-
I "DUKE" JUST A HORSE, i
t JOINS RED CROSS BODY :
Seattle, Wash. -The life nnd I
services of Duke will henceforth 2
he devoted to the Red ' Cross.
Duke Is a pet horse, and be-
cause its owner, Frank Larson,
X had no money to contribute to
the Red Cross, be gave Duke.
I The animal was brought to the
Red Cross headquarters and
I duly receipted for.
Beggar Had $500.
Memphis, Tenn. John Johnston, a
professional beggar, cursed a white
woman when she refused to buy a pen
cil from hi in. He was arrested. At
the city Jail when he was searched
JnMX) in currency was found ia hl
clothes. . ,., . , .-
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POND LILIE8.
"2 can't understand it," aid Mrs.
Pond Lily.
"What can't you understand?" asked
Miss Green Leaf.
"It never seems to be night any
more," answered Mrs. Pond Lily.
"That's so. Perhaps Mr. Night Is
taking a holiday," suggested Miss
Green Leaf.
"That might be so," said Mrs. Pond
LHy, "but I have never known it to
happen before, and it seems to me that
I have heard that the night takes bis
rest every day but that he never
takes a longer one, and that there are
never two days without a night in be
tween."
"Then it's very, very queer," sold
Miss Green Leaf. "For there certainly
must have been a good many days
since there hns been a night."
"There must have been and yet
there haven't been," said Mrs. Pond
Lily. "It's very confusing and most
extremely puziling."
Tt is, Indeed," said all the pond lil
ies and green leaves as they moved a
little in the biff bowl on a dining-room
table. They had been gathered and
i put there quite a few days before.
"They had been used as decorations
for a very fine luncheon party and
then as some visitors were expected
for supper the beautiful young girl
who had gathered them had said.
"How lovely the pond lilies would look
on the supper table."
"But they will close as they always
do at night," said another member of
the family. .
"Yes, and then they won't be pret
ty," said a third.
"But I think I have a scheme so as
to keep them awake," said the beauti
ful young girl whose name was Nellie,
"What?" everyone asked. .
"Well fool them," she said.
"How?" they asked.
"We'll keep on a white tablecloth
and make them think It's still bright
day. Usually we change and put them
on another table where there is a dark
cloth and then they go to bed for the
night."
So they tried keeping the bowl of
pond lilies on the white cloth and sure
The Beautiful Young Girl Who Had
Gathered Them. v
enough the pond lilies didn't close their
eyes and go to sleep I They stayed
awake and later there were lights on
the table for the supper pai-ty.
But the white tablecloth had fooled
the pond lilies. And as they were so
lovely they were used for decorations
for a whole week and they had not
known they bad missed such a great
Seal of sleep.
"I don't know that I really feel so
sleepy," said Mrs. Pond Lily. "That is
when I think about it I don't feel so
sleepy, but it really doesn't seem nat
ural."
That night they were token away
from the white cloth and they closed
right up and went to sleep.
When they were sleeping qnietly Mr.
Nluht came to them dressed in his
dark night cap and heavy, dark robe.
"Where have you been all this time?"
asked Mrs. Pond' Lily.
"I've been around," Mr. Mght an
swered.
"Did you have a pleasant trip?'
asked Mrs. Pond Lily, feeltng sure she
hadn't heard Mr. Night correctly.
"I had a fine trip," said Mr. Night,
"each day. and every night was back
at work again."
"What do you mean?" asked Mrs.
Pond Lily.
"Why, my Dear Mrs. Pond Lily," an
swered Mr. Night, "you were wide
awake because they hod fooled yon
the people had they had made you
think It was day by putting a bright.
daytime-looking cloth under you."
"Had they, really r
"They had. Indeed," said Mr. Night.
"And how I chuckled when I saw it."
"Ton must have," said Mrs. Fond
Lily. ."Well, that warf.a good Joke
on ns. certainly. And to think we
didn't even notice yon."
"Ye," said Mr. Night "if I had been
a more sensitive old fellow I would
have been very much hurt, but so
many things and people go to sleep
and are given pleasant dreams and
rest owing to me, that I didn't mind
seeing the pond lilies fooled for a
change.
And the pond lilies lungbed In their
sleep at the great Joke I
Dreaming.
Dream that Inspire to doln are not
a waste of time. But the same cannot
be eald for that dreaming which leaves
as restless and discontented, but no
more ready to grapple with the nearest
bard task than we were before
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Girls' Companion. ,
The Packer's Bill
for Live Stock
For the first six months of our operations
under the Food Administration, ending
April 30, 1918, Swift & Company paid, for
tmuacu wcium lbs.
live stock - 1,558,600,000
For the same
period in 1917 1338300,000
Increase in
Weight lbWfr 220300,000
ll
Increase
WWW'
in cost 549&
The Consumer's
Bill for Meat
must necessarily have increased
correspondingly, as Live Stoci
prices and meat prices fluctuate
together.
When the producer gets high
prices for his live stock, the con
sumer's meat bill must neces
sarily be larger.
Year Book of interesting and '
instructive facts sent on request.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
Mill J
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Leads in Silk Manufacture.
As a result of the effects of the war
u the silk industry In the several
countries engaged In it, the United
States has become the leading nation
In the manufacture of that commodity.
About 120,000 tons of silk nd silk
waste are nsol In America each year.
In the far ICast silk is also being man-pfac-tnred
more extensively, while Ja
pan 1 etuis the world in Its production.
l'nthfiuder.
Charity that begins at home covers
the most sins.
say,
settle on
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farmer to make money and happy, prosperous homes for themselves s
by helping her raise immense wheut crops to feed the world. c
You Can Get a Homestead of 160 Acres! jes&t
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land at 915 to 930 per acre that will raise ZO to 45 bashel at S3
wheat to the acre it's easy to become prosperous. Canadian larmera
also grow wonderful crops of Oats, Barley and Flax. Ktize4 ITara.
Inc is fully as profitable an industry as grain raising. The excellent
grasses, full of nutrition, are the only food required either
for beef or dairy purposes. Good school and churches;
markets convenient; climate excellent. Write for literature
and particulars a to reduced railway rate to Supt of Im
migration, Ottawa, Canada, or to
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City, C. J. Bmxtthtaa. Raw 41.
112 W AJum StrMt. Cluua. IU
Canadian Govrnmcnt Agents
ill reduce inflamed, swollen
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Misses Morning ParfonmanMw
"Does your wife go oftea ts nooln
picture shows f
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Can Afford It
"Don't you think Mrs. Ooicenp '
a great deal of loquacity?"
"'Maybe- she has. bat with al il
war profits the old man 1m mbikiif;
uow, she can afford It."
that's what thousands of farmers
who have gone from the U. fx to
homesteads or buy land in Western
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