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THE TIMES: SEPTEMBER 27, 191S V
MOST POWERFUL WIRELESS STATION
IN WORLD HEARING COMPLETION
Tours, Central France, Sept. 27 '
(Correspondence ot The Associated
Press.) The American Army will
soon be sharing -with the French In
the operation of the highest and most
powerful wireless sending station la
the world. This is now neartng com
pletion on the French coast the
point cannot be stated and its giant
towers can be seen rising 810 feet, or
SOO feet higher than the Eiffel tow
er. Soon it will be in direct touch
with America with far more power
than ever before, supplementing the
cable for trans-Atlantic service and
perhaps with its new power rivalling
the cable for quick communication.
All along the front small wireless
stations have been set up to Inter
cept enemy radio exchanges and lo
cate enemy stations. Messages are
picked up from all the capitals of
Europe, and especially from the
er German cities.
Intercepting messages seems to be
universally accepted as a war neces
sity, and the crop daily gathered in
cludes those from friends as well as
foe'. 1 The enemy has many small
radio stations along the front, which
are In constant communication with
Berlin and Hanover, the two central
enemy stations.
The American Army controls a
quadruple cable line across the Eng
lish channel, which connects the
French telegraph and telephone sys
tem directly with the English lines.
Thus American officials are brought
together for. , direct immediate ex
change between Paris, London and
American headquarters at the front.
An extension to trans-Atlaneic ca
ble' is only a question of time, and
with this realized there is the possi
bility at least of direct immediate
communication between Washington
and American military headquartei'3
at the front.
Weather forecasting and meteoro
logical work is another branch which
has become highly important in the
American military operations. It
has played it3 part not only in the
determination of the moment for his
offensive movements, when steady
clear weather is one of the elements
of success, but also in the extremely
important special forecasts It fur
nishes the artillery branch, the air
service and the gas service.
The failure or success of a gas at
tack may turn on the fore-knowledge
of the wind and barometric condl
tlons. It has been a coincidence that
most of the German offensives have
come during periods of favorable
weather, and this has led to state
ments that they had developed some
new and superior -device of weather
forecasting. But those who have
; most to do with the service say the
allied forecasters are as expert as any
' the world over.
Carrier pigeon service1 Is still an
other branch of communication which
the American army is finding highly
: advantageous In the field. The plgeon
! eers as they 'are called, have become
an Important' adjunct of the - front,
, with several enlisted men and a score
: of officers, equipped with rolling lofts,
breeding stations, etc. Some of the
; leading pigeon fanciers have been
. commissioned In this branch and
they are breeding birds of the
finest stodk. Captured enemy pig
eons show that the Germans are also
using very ftne birds and are placing
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much dependence on the carrier service.
There Is also the motor-cycle de
spatch service as an adjunct to the
telegraph, for " carrying maps and
long documents too bulky for the
wires, and the photographic branch
with a unit for each division, keep
ing a complete pictorial record of the
American military activities.
Altogether it is a huge work with
some three to four per cent of the
entire army or about 35,000 officers
and men in a force of a million men
maintaining the steady flow of com
munication throughout this nervo
system of the American army.
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.
The first use of the elephant as a
Pictorial eymtool of theRepuMican
larg-'arty was in 1874, when Thomas Nast
G. O. P. problem. Nast was born in
Bavaria seventy-eight years ago to
day, and came to America at the age
of six. In the early Wi he went
to Italy and was with Garibaldi as
an artist for British arid American
newspapers. As political cartoonist
for Harper's Weekly he achieved an
international reputation and his car
toons are said to have brought
about 1he downfall of the Tweed ring
in New York. In 1S74 xv'ast arew i
cartoon representing an elephant, la
belled "Republican Party." Nast died
in Ecuador in 1902.
Norway's shipbuilding is reported
in a sorry plight because of the lack.
of raw materials.
LIFT OFF CORNS !
Freezone is magic ! Corns
lift right off with fingers
without pain
Hurt? No, not one bit ! Just drop
a little Freezone on that touchy corn.
instantly it stops aching then you lift
that bothersome corn right off. Yes,
magic! Costs only a few cents.
Try Freezone! Your druggist sells a
tiny bottle, sufficient to rid your feet
of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses, without
one particle of pain, soreness or irri
tation, i Freezoms is the mysterious
ether discovery of a Cincinnati genius.
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NEAR STATE STREET
BOOKS ARE CHIEF
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ESPECIALLY
THOSE FROM FOREIGN COUNTR
Many Interesting Stories Told of Efforts of Men to Be
come Familiar With English Language Choice of
Reading Matter Revelation to Others.
He was a young Italian, a soldier In I
the American Army. He had been
wounded but now he was well enouga
to help in the domestic work of the
big baso hospital not far from New
York city. There is a free public
library in the hospital, one of the
many libraries established in army
and navy camps, transports and hos
pitals, by the American Library As
sociation. Every minute of his time,
when he is not working the young
Italian soldier spends in reading, the
hospital librarian reports. He has
read many volumes of the classics,
from Dante's Inferno to Plutarch's
Lives and Plato's Dialogues.
In addition he has read three bio
graphies of Napoleon, Froude's
Caesar, Macauley's Lays of Ancient
Rome, Maeterlinck's Measure of the
Hours.. Hudson'sPsychic Phenomena,
and Maturin's Laws, of Spiritual Life.
These books give him something to
think about while he is sweeping the
long corridors of the hospital. "I
sweep," he says, "but," he adds
proudly, "This is the United States
Army."
Not all soldiers read the classics,
but they all, or nearly all, read some
thing. Most of the foreign born
want to read books in their own lan
guage, and books to learn English.
Every library 4n the camps and hos
pitals supply these needs.
At Camp Funston, Kan., there are
an unusually large number of for
eign born soldiers, and the library is
well supplied with - foreign language
literature. "We have books in
French, German, Spanish, Modern
Greek, Yiddish, Norwegian, Swedish,
Polish, Romanian, Russian and Bul
garian," reports the librarian in
charge," and they are all in constant
circulation."
Some of these books are by native
authors and others are translations
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from English, for it is desirable that
our foreign born soldiers become fa
miliar with English and American
books. The other day a Greek boy)
brought a book to the librarian's desk
to be charged. The librarian, not
being able to read Greek, asked the
boy what the book was.
"Why, don't you know?" exclaim
ed the soldier. "It's.. Sherlock
Holmes." j
These translations are extremely
useful to the soldiers who are trying
to learn to read English. They will
read a book in their own language
and then tackle the same book in
English. Knowing what the story is
about makes it easier to read. Know
ing this, the librarian at Camp Gor
don, Alabama, got several copies of
Kobinscn Cruso for use among the
foreign born soldiers who knew little
English. Almost every one had
read the immortal Cruso in his native
language, and it was a good book for
them to make the basis of English
study.
The greatest demand for foreign
language books are from Poles,
French, Spanish, Jewish, Russian and
Italian soldiers. About the stiffest
request the Library Association has
had so far was for the Arabian Nights
In the original Arabic. A professor
in Columbia University was appealed
to, and before long the homesick sol
dier from the far east got the pre
cious book of stories his heart crav
ed. We have at least forty nationalities
represented in our great American
Army, and while we hope, when the
army gets back to the United States
every man in it will be speaking Eng
lish fluently, there is no desire to
make him forget the language he
learned at his mother's knee. Above
all there is no desire to wean him
from his family or his neighbors. In
Astonishing Sale Of
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we doubt if you will
ernment has taken over the supply of woolens for its own use for the next
year; so there will be very litle left for civilian use; therefore most con
cerns are advancing prices, instead of reducing them. But
Here Are Suits Positively
Worth $20 and $22-50
Maybe yon don't believe that! Maybe you are doubtful be
cause of the present high prices BUT WE WILL PEOVE IT IF
YOU WILL EVEN LOOK INTO OUR WINDOW. All you have
to do is to see these suits and examine them note their quality,
their workmanship, and their styles. , ' ,
The season's newest models, including the new military back
coat the feature of the season for the younger men, and all the
latest ideas are shown, coats with peaked lapels, long-roll lapels,
some with two buttons, some with three buttons; slanting pockets,
slash pockets, some nobby models with buttoned pockets; panel or
military back; big and varied assortment of patterns, including
beautiful grays, browns, and greenish mixtures as well as rich plain
colors. Fine, serviceable fabrics that will give satisfactory wear
in every respect. Regular sizes 33 to 42? '
ON SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
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Open All Day Saturday and Evening,
all of -the camp -libraries, in this
country at least, foreign ; , language
newspapers are provided. At Camp
Sherman, Chillicothe, Illinois, there
are many Syrians. , One day a Sy
rian soldier timidly entered the camp
library, not really expecting to find
anything to interest him. To his
delight he found a Syrian newspaper
published in New York. He sat
down and read it through, advertise
ments and all. The next day he
came back, with two more Syrians.
The news spread through all the regi
ment and now, the librarian says,
there Is a delegation of Syrians wait
ing every evening to read their news
paper, which is donated to the camp
by the publishers.
From, Camp Custer, Battle Creek,
Michigan, the librarian writes: "There
are men here who read and speak
half a dozen languages all better
than they speak English. Some of
the men are very lonely because of
their isolation by language and read
ing is a great solace to them. Some
of them read a book every day or two.
Many of them are working hard on
easy language books in their effort
to learn English."
The Library Association, which
furnishes books and librarians for all
army and navy camps, in the United
States and France, Italy, Switzerland,
on all transports and naval vessels,
and even in the prison camps of Ger
many and Austria; are as mindful of
the foreign born soldier as of the
American. They want to give him
his native language books, and they
want to help him study English. The
Y. M. C. A. has classes in English
everywhere, and it is the privilege
of the libraries to furnish text books.
When the men come home from the
war they will be better fitted to take
their places in the. community as
American citizens. They will have
their t earning capacity greatly in
creased, because they speak and write
English, and because their education
will be vastly improved.
Beginning November 11th all the
welfare forces at work to help the
army and navy the Red Cross, Y. M.
C. A., the Y. W. C. A. Library War
Service of the American Library As
sociation, the Jewish Welfare Board,
the National Catholic War' Council,
the Salvation Army and the War
Camp Community Service, will begin
a great drive for funds to meet the
needs of the coming year. The great
sum of S17O.50O.000 must be raised
if our soldiers and sailors and ma
rines are to have the comforts they
need and so amply deserve. Every
'ii-h
time since you've seen values like these and-
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see them again in twelve months. The Gov
body will be asked to give as much
as he can afford, and everybody who
has a man in training camo. in the
trenches overseas, or on the war
ships, will help to the utmost of his
power to make the drive a suc
cess. People are not asked to give'to this
or that fund. All the money goes
into the common welfare fund, and
each organization listed will receive
its quota. To the library fund is
allowed $3,500,00(5. What the money
will mean ,to all the soldiers and sail
ors, in health and spirits and added
efficiency no words can tell. Morale
wins." The dollar given to keep the
morale of the army and navy at a
never-die pitch is the most patriotic
dollar in the world.
NATIONAL WHEEZE BOARD.
Its
Function Will Be to Furnish
Amusement for Onr Soldiers.
The Government of the . United
States is taking charge of so many
functions and public utilities that it
will, perhaps, occasion no surprise
that it is to venture upon the super
vision of humor. This, according to
a government bulletin, is to be ac
complished with no ruthless and
heavy hand, but only incidentally, as
an accessory of the soldiers' pleasure
in foreign fields. The government is
calling for jokes, wheezes, - funny
stories, and any well-planned literary
flights that may induce a laugh, to
be used by the War Department's
Comisslon on Training Camp Activi
ties, with the general purpose of
keeping the boys in good humor.
Seven citizens who are supposed to
know a joke when they see it are to
form a joke commission, and accept
or reject the offerings. The wheezes
that pass the board will be sent to
France, to Italy, and to the men of
the army and navy wherever they
may be. It should not be a difficult
task; ftimor is the natural atmos
phere of America. We are close
enough to things as they are to look
through superficialities, and most
Americans see the humorou ide of
life wherever they may be.
But there is no hard and fast rule
for the construction of a wheeze. The
commission must just put them
through the mill, and get the local
effect. For instance, here are three
wheezes, compiled at random from a
popular column:
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No.- 2 "What has become of the
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plunge?"
No. 3 "My friend went fishing.
The fish were elusive and Grady re
turned empty-handed and grouchy
'Did you," said I, 'get any fish?' .
did,' said Grady. 'I caught three bass
and four tripe.' I write to inquiret '
What is a tripe?"
The seven members of the commis
sion, being average persons, if they
happen to have dined well when they
read the wheezes, perhaps six of
them will wheeze and the seventn will
appear sad and pensive, and perhan
when he remembers the man he one
knew who had an old-fashioned '
Adam's apple, the seventh Commis
sioner will wheeze a little. If the
jokes show up in the middle of the
afternoon, about half of the Commls- ;
sloners will wheeze and - the others
will look at the clock ,and reach for ,
another mess of jokes. Coming in Just
before the closing hour, the chairman
of the commission will read the
wheezes, yawn, and inquire what is
doing at the theatres. Then the com
mission will put on its various hats
and walk out.
Thus, the . commission should re
member that it takes at least two ele
ments to make a wheeze: the wheezer
and the wheezzee. It requires not
only a literary architect to envisage
and frame it, but Its entire value rests
upon the capacity of the reader to
perceive the imagery, detect the anti
climax, and give it expression. We
dare say .that seven members could
be selected for the Joke commission
who would not be able to find a single
Class A wheeze in the whole United
States of America. And they would
be wrong by at least 100 standard
wheezes that have shown before all
the crowned heads of Europe and
have been indorsed alike by press and
pulpit. After all, the government
will probably find that the men of the
army and navy comprise a more com
petent wheeze board than any that
could be selected, off-handed, by the
busy War Department officials.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A shortage of vessels has caused a
record congestion of wheat at Balti
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