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E.{ “QF THE U. S, SAYS MeADOO ‘- 3B addressing thewldimhs'!‘g; . Ring camp, Secretary of Seeesury McAdoo said: 1 did not seek this war. It J%¢ forced upon us. The Kaiser had giat. He bad been toid 3o repeatesdly % ®ples and propagandists in Fmutry, and he actually believed that '“m&bm'uh Pould tranmsgress its vital rights with | =8 80 ‘debased that we womid net riice back. Butuhng-m ‘¥4B surprise of his life. thing. et is going to determine tho issue this grest war—and that issne is ' the vital question ef the future - @ eclvilisation ‘itself—rests fn the hearts and the stromg right arms mmumuflmm : ue the world from the of e oppressicn and military dom "“'*","l"‘“d!;.mmm 3 never were Amerbeun poopis F“-‘-:l-&:m*n‘l 3 they guing te baeck ma $o the ™ you War is serious busimess, but, Mm-manz 8 vaiue as iberty and inde- RBA ~.on worth fightiag and{ that it was tmpoasidble, in - she enlightened stage to wisich he ‘ had brought ftself, for a - Jorid-wide cataclysm of this kiad to ' . It was an illusion. Stramge #® eay, it was in thess modern times iat 2 despot was developed who rep | n himself the combined tust 23 :-hb-ofm.um i TB. o “Seo It Theough" - “Germany’s military rulers set out “ flwfiowfi ks 3 wmumm:ttm 2 ! power and ought to be the E power in the world. These ~ she most formidable military mackine ereated in the annals of time.| is the hataful thing we have got .39 destroy if we would save this Na o for ourselves and -for posterity. 2 is the thing that America 9ot out to do and she will never stop until the job is dome. = # “Jt is = glorioms thing to die for| ’_mhlu::n“&:.m who 3 %s it ina the serried ranks of the . or ia the clash of fleets in the a glorious thing man make of his life than to trans “yamte it into ifberty for the bensfit of - Swch lofty sacrifice is the -e —~the -m'lllz:‘g.: gr the rights of hw . That is phat you men are golag to ds. You rgmuw&fl -; u—mmum pmd ro-esiabiieh i upen the ' Ssture reck of jastice, hamanity and R tlan st a Ereat st Tusked ¢ ! of & ) the death amd uatll a triumphant 1 is won.” - : T 0 CONSERVE 0. D. -d%flh&dfll“fib'flb& ’ is making s determined ef ’fibm‘&om!&fiofi aud ’-nm“ ‘ suing a reguest that all women's metor corps shall adopt a umiferm of | ; :2-': replace the iy formed branches of the women's E corps will be regassted to par-| ehase no olive drab sailorms. | - The War Department is reported to{ be comsidering a pian to nationalise| u.wo—-'-mre-umm-‘ goneral direction of the Americanj Bed Cross. : " A NEW LIGET . clever invemior has devised a} .“guuehmumu hanfie of a safety rasor and soldiers to shave in the dark. The] brightens the face so that the}: whisker may de taksa paia-|! . The device also can be : ‘tached to fountain peas, thus * & possible for soldiers to write let-| Sors iu the dark. % S VPR . -e e PP e s e = o oAb 8 B BSe& Lt D W ] > silri g> S 8 - i b —— i RPN W Te - = ’éi:é;-";fl;'@“fi' gG s R - 5 = = S, sl I I g S ot - k = h . . 4 : o ; j - :.o o~ '\(‘:,,4 g Wl -‘’ Jul | : /: 5 i~ _—,-, ST : Gl 2 Fd e S A~ Ao= g e é‘ : 5 :__.7::-._ ; . & }\f" x F ™~ P<¢ (A - f&% P b x ssan E e g - . . > v e < cxp sy e = A oy S+ o o - e S 5 e ey . ¥ Q- ygo 81 ..4’,,‘ & ' R 2, . p % e ; - . j y ;- vl 8 P H - ” & eP+Bl == D T 5 s ? SRR | P F o S e L 4 s Re Y , G-, S g E. B Bescs P e . ANt T S R A IS LR e T - R TTet T . e R R IBR R R e PRe eLA S eSR PSR T B o SRR R o v R o VR B AR et R S ARBCT TRENCH AND CAmMP i o 7 * v"f"::_ : . S e BeeU LWG LT : v,‘,"ih_ _' el 4 STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT WILSON ] The twin Commissioms on Traming Camp Activities—ome for the | 'lrw‘dmhrflnl.vymr-lb, ! Secretary Baker and Secretary Damiels early in the war to together | in a comprebensive crgaatzation, nnder oftcial samctiom, all the agencies, private amd public, which could be utilized to surround cur troops with a healthy, wholesome emviremment. The Federal Govermmemt has fllhwfl“-h-maflr can accomplish the the mem committed to its charge be returned to the homes and communities that so gemerously gave them with mo scars except these won in henorable conffict. m“n'“wmc-h‘: young men in the defemse of democracy must be made an asset to ‘not only in strengthened and more virile beflies as a result of training, not only in minds deepenred and emriched in a great, heroic enterprise, but in the enhanced values which come from a fuil life lived well and wholesomely. . : Ido met believe it an exagperation to say that no army, ever before assembled in history, has had mere comsciemtiows snd painstaking thought givem to the protection amnd stirunistion of its mewtal, moral | aad phydeal meshood. Every endeavor has boen made to surround the men, both here and abroad, with the kind of environment which a demorracy owes to those whe fight in its behalf. htfl-‘w.utfio(hn mkEehons o 8 Activities have represented Government groups, some of themm of natiomal stamding, have harnessed themselves togedher under the leaderahip of the Government's agorcy in a common ministry to the men of the srmy aud navy. ; v| ’ g ; £6€ . | We See Ourselves “Off Duty The first book tslling the complate stary of how soldiers and sallers spend their leisure time im trainming canters in this country will appear the latter part of May. It is called “Keeping Our Fighters Fiit—For War and Atter,” amd has beem writtean by Bdward Freank Aliea, of New York, the former editor of the ‘““Travel” magazine, with the co-operation otl#nnlx.mmot the War and Navy Departmeats’ Com misgions on Training Camp Activities, Most chags take the opportunity for orgamised athletics, for sings, shows, reading in a well-stocked library, rec reation rooms and s 0 on, as & matter of course, in the arrangements of srmy camps. They do not realize that such features have beemn imtroduced fato mflitary tife oaly ‘since the en trance of the United States imto the war—and that the United States, al though the most unwarlike of the sations cagaged, is the first in the of the world to sapply her mien in training with a program of social, mental and physical iaterests ountside of the reguiar military routime. As ¥r. Allen says, ‘“To be sure, Napsieon said that a Sighting army is a comtent ed army, but it remasined for the Danited States Goverament to apply the theory to practice.” President Wilsen, in a statement which appears ia the book and which s reprodmced in fuil in “Trench and Camp,” peints out that the derived from “a full Hfe lived well and wholesomely™ are but the dsbt owed by a democracy “to these fight ia its behall.” = : It was the unfortunate conditions flwmwumw ean , where the War Depart ment had sent Mr. Fosdick to imvesti gate during the summer of 1916, that U.S. Will Not Call Any More : (ranrd Units Inte Service m.m;xum Governor of Minnesota . the War Departmeat ordering him to disband the Becond Minmesota Artillery, it has been sssumed that no more National Guard units will be drafted imnto the serviece of the United States. Siace the outbreak of the war a namber of additional units have been formed. Some of them were organ fsed in order to bring the guetas of the various states up to the prescribed figure. Now that the work of coasol these umits has progressed to| the peint where there is no need for any more State units, the whole work of the War Department will be com-| centrated upom the training of the draft inscremeants for service ia the Natiomal Army. constitutions, new military ofganizs-| tions have boen formed, as, for im-| stamece, in New York State, where|. ‘more than fifteen thousand men have| besn enlistad. But these troops are| aot & part of the Natiosal Guard sys- | tesn. They will act be calied upen for} service outside the Hmits of the States | im which they are raised. iln the case of the Becond Minnesola | Artiliery pressure was broaght to bsar | upon Secretary Baker to recognise | the new organisstion. He sustained | the jedgment of his military advisers|. when the appeal waz beard and igeged | what was the second eorder for dis-| im&ow From this{ ruling there is mo appeal. . | caused the President and Secretary Baker to plan a Commission oa Train ing Tamp Activities “in the imterim between the President’'s war message and the actual declarstion of war by Congress.” Queting Mr. Allea: o oy o gy ogh o the Y. M. C. A., the Recreatisn Asseciation of America, and svery other agency that can coutribute to the sechl well-being of sroops in the fleld, an organisation that wilt iteeit supply any gaps in the pragram.” ’l!i'o'w different the coaditions now to 1 ! : “The coliection of eguare-fromted, ome story bulldings and the drad adobe huts provided Ilittle in the way of entertsinment. Even with the possibility of a Srush with the Mexicans, it was dull, Several thouwsand men were seeing the same Tacer and deing the same things every day. end they were bored. Thers was aswhere te go feor anmy sort of decemt diversisn in their ‘off’ time. Columbaus, New Mexico, had nene of the at tractiens to which these mem had beesn ac customed; there was no mevie show, no M brary, ne cludb reom for lounging, no organ izsed entertainment of any kind for the mea. There wes not ewen a place where a mana {could go and write a tetter. ** * Men were hopiag that Paache Villa weuld bap pen by, just te liven things up; anything would suffice for & changs. But the soldlers just waited, with mething to do outsifle of their military routine. Reading matter was at a premium, snd the soldiers begged for worn-out magssines from travelers.” / in his tour of the cantonments no activity either administered dirvectly by the Commissions or by the ergan izations such as the Y. M. C. A. and | American Libeary Associstioa, etc., which they co-ordimate and super vise, has escaped the shrewd observ ance of Mr. Allen. From educational classes to minstrel shows, he pictures the “doins” of the boys in camp, The book is oficial, but simply told, and sparkiing with human-interest snecdotes. It makes a lively, entgs: tatning account of the significance of the soldiers’ leisure hours as sesa through the eyes of & keen civilian. _.—..__._-—......—-:-’..."—-——-———-———-_————' Total Selar Edlipse June 8 By DAVID TODD Professor of Astropemy, Awhesst ’ M. On Satuvrday afteracon, Juse 8, an eclipss of the sun will be total every where withia, but nowhers without, a very narrow belt stretching diag omnally scross the Uaited States from Washington and Oregoa southeasterly to Alabama and Flonda. When the eclipse becomes total, the sun’s corona appears, aad the length of time this radiamt halo can be seen will vary from 50 seconds on the Florida coast to 120 seconds on the Pacific Coast. The time of total eclipse will range from 2.65 Pacific Standerd Time on the Pacific Coast, 4.23 Mountain Time at Denver, §.39 Central Time at Baid, Okla., fo 5.42| Ceatral Time st Oriande, Fila. Pre ceding totality, the sun will peo} through all stages of partial eclipse, | beginning en the sun’s west edge fully | an hour before the total eclipse; and in the reverss order for nearly am hour after. At sll places in the Uni-| ted States, sither north or south of the shadow path, the eclipse will be wvisible tan its partial phases only. - Much assistance wiil bs rendered| astronomers who are wudying the coroma, if outline drawings of it are|! made by those who bave even meder-| ate skill in sketching. if a Sield giass, || spy gless or ielescope of mederaie size is available, the best use it can be put to is in sutiine sketching those i’-.th of the corena mear the poles of | sun. 1 The deportment of American troops in France has woa for the soldiers from the United States a real wel come. The presence of American offi cers and enlisted mem in Freach homes 18 not merely tolerated. The Freach people gladly receive them. In order that this happy velation may continue, an official bulistia has been issued for the information and guidance of all comcermed. It rends as Tollows: “The attentiom of every officer is directed to the importance of preveat any damageé whatever to :mmmm m damage s done the matter should be adjusted aad settlement made on the spot, no matter how small. It will save you treuble explaining in the futaure. : “When billets have once been as signed, changes cannot be made with out authority of the town major. All imformation may be obtsined from local town major. Oue-half frame per day is the customary rate to pay for personal service. It is important that all officers be carefal not to leave without making settlement. “No matter how long an officer stays in a billet, be would do welil teo pay for service at the rate of fAlty centimes a day. Failure to do this gives rise to unfavorable comment on the part of the inbabitaants, who are then less iaclined to billet officers. The Freach authorities can, of course; force the inbabitants to billet officers, but the way is smoother for all con c.udfl‘onmrcfidn‘ give some ocutward visible sign of ‘The k of private property s 0. e lon iy - S . men should be careful, too, mot to offend the Fremch people, who are quite sensitive. Altercations should be avoided. Mest matters can be ad justed in a few minutes with the ald of an interpreter. It should be re membered that the billeting s ac tually hamdied by the Fremch, who m‘umnmmu not sure of his ground. The proper proecedure is to refer the matter to the American Towa Major, who will .uulunum the ¥French suthor e to the French law, the mm‘m" pay for billeting officers and men only when they have stayed meore than three mights in the same month. It is oaly fair, them, in the interests otdl.,tw&noflm who is billeted for -fewer four m“ reimburse- the pro- Ppr to the ewtent that the pro prietor would have been paid by the goverament, L. e., one franc per night. it is the custom to add to this a Tee for service at the rate of @ifty centimes a day. This may be paid to the per son actually mfi'&om of cleaning, making etc, or to the proprister. “Men must be cautioned that they must not touck any woed box, or any property .o matter how small or nemlaglyn.\n::fl. without first obtaining perm . The rustling of lumber, wood, etc., as Is custom ary for soldiers in the United States, mast not be permitted, as it will not be tolerated in Framnee. ~ “It is important that all imstruc tioms of the ¥Freach eificials be fol lowed explicitly. Alse that the con duct of officers and men be such that the Freach people will have ao cause for compiaint. It has been fouad that treatment accerded our troops has generally been based on the conduct of the troops who were last to occupy the town. When in doubt om amy question, coasauit the Fremch town m.”wmum town MIVE MIIdAON, QUICK! “Get five million men to France, and do it guick!” This is what Presideat Willlam H. Crawiord, of Allegheny College, urges. “1 comsider it the duty of the Uail ted States to get five million mea inte France just as soon as possible, and with full eguipment and supplies. ‘Nothing will do so much to discour mdcuunsiz.‘mwu program backed by united seamti ment of a united people.” PICEET DUTY “So, your son is in the army, is he?” “Yassuh, he’s on picket duty.” “Picket duty? 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