Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — Page 2

YANK SOLDIERS COOL, WILLING AND DETERMINED

Our Doughboys Mean Business When They Take the FirstLine Trenches. THEIR EFFICIENCY EVIDENT Veterans Before They Enter the Trenches, by First-Rate Military Training if Not by Experience —Every Man in Line Has Personal Grudge to Settle With Huns. With the American Troops in AlsaceLorraine. —By the dim light of the moon yoffcould barely see the stream of pouring out-of the sheltering woods and scraping over the dusty French road toward the trenches. They said very little and trudged along with that measured swinging tread which enables Europe’s veterans to carry their heavy packs almost un-heard-of distances. The stream seemed unending, as the United Press staff car picked Its way from squad to squad without using lights, without falling in ditches and without touching a single doughhoy. Finally one section of the human stream halted in a ruined village. The press car stopped, too, for beyond this point everything except ammunition and food goes on foot. The officers gave the order to rest, and a lot of packs dropped to the ground, followed by doughboys. Their rifles they never dropped. In the moonlight you could see the ground covered with resting soldiers, mostly sitnng. There was a clicking of rifles and sounds of tightening packs, and bits of gossip which could come only from a group heading for its first night in the t*enches. Indifferent to Danger. These were Uncle Sam’s citizen soldiers, new men just over from “the states,” as they have a habit of calling home when over here. A few questions revealed the fact that a year ngo tfese boys were clerks, carpenters, students and whatnot, in civilian ■ clothes. Six months ago they were in a training camp. Now they were sold’ers in France, and tonight they were making their genuine debut into the war for civilization. There was no wild enthusiasm nor any evidence of fear or even apprehension among those citizen-soldiers as they rested before making the last lap intc the trenches. There was a nrrrer-of-fact sort of confident prevalent. and every man was making ihe mor of the breathing spell to see tint he was 100 per cent ready for baitle Interest and talk centered around the clicking rifles and other equipment. “This old gun’s sure going to do

some work from now on,” said one doughboy to his pal, as he played with the rifle fondly. “It’s the best gun in this army.” “Say, you never shot this gun.” replied the other. “Nobody ever did, si nd nobody will but me. It’s some Bochegetter. It was made for me ’specially, Bo.” Officers went through the crowd, giving a final warning about use of gas masks, and attention centered around masks for a moment. A lot of chaps tried them on again. Then packs again were adjusted, and the group of doughboys streamed slowly on. Ready for Business. As they got nearer the front trenches the word was passed to walk more quietly. Conversation except in undertones stopped, and they descended into trenches. All you heard was the steady knock of hobnailed shoes on the trench duckboards, as these i.ew arrivals were quietly initiated to the trenches in France. Quietly and without commotion the officers stationed their men, with lookouts watching across moonlit No Man’s Land, the former occupants of the trenches left, and the relief was completed. There is something about the fearless quiet way these new dougbhoys take the trenches that makes you feel they know a lot about warfare. They are veterans before they enter the trenches, by first-rate military training if not experience. Their discipline Is fine, and their efficiency tells you they are ready for business — meaning whipping Germans. “Well, you can tell Kaiser Bill we’re here to fight,” said one doughboy, as he took his station. “Hear the Germans say we’re just a crowd of untrained boys. We’ll soon show them we’re soldiers.” It happens this doughboy’s platoon did it very soon, next night 150

DAKOTA “PRAIRIE DOG” BECOMES “DEVIL DOG”

St. Paul, Minn.— “Say,' pard. " Pm a ‘prairie dog* from 'North Dakota and I want to go over there and • become a ‘devil dog,’ ” and. relieving himself of this sentiment, William D. Knickerbocker of Dogden, N. D., took his place in line in the United States marine recruiting station here. Knickerbocker passed an almost perfect physical test and. is now on bls way to Paris Island, 8. C„ to the marine training station there.

Germans came over, and fifty of these '“untrained boys” withstood the attack and stuck to their guns. The Germans who were still alive and able to run, retreated, double-quick time. ‘All in Day’s Work. Speaking of the way the newly arrived Americans take to the trenches and to their duties, one brigadier general, who had just finished a complete relief, said: “They’re not exactly glad to get into the trenches. I guess no one is glad of that. But these boys all figure it’s work to be done, and they’re here to lick Germans. They’re keen to get the job done. They’re confident, all right, but not boastful, because they know there’s a lot to learn.” A dougnboy gave his version of how he and his pals felt while out there facing No Man’s Land for the first time. “We’re not scared of the Germans, and when the time comes, we’ll show them. We’re going to do our best, which is about all they ask of us. Believe me, it’s going to be a mighty good best.” The new men in the fighting game adapt themselves to the front quickly as did the first Americans over. Every night it is “over the top” for patrols of them, and In a few days they are entirely familiar with No Man’s Land. The German front trenches next fall in the line of .investigation and the Germans soon adopt the policy of falling back to avoid fighting. Back of the lines on the home side, bank clerks, barbers and men of every profession who have temporarily become soldiers soon make themselves at home among the ruins and in woods. They eat army “grub”' and relish it more than the most delicate meal they ate from a white linen covered table and real dishes, especially if there has been work to do. Soldiering agrees with them, you can see, by the work they do, the meals they eat and the huskies they have become. Chauffeur Gets “Fresh." Discipline is fine, even if it is hard. A major tells how his chauffeur became a little “fresh” one day. Knowing the doughboy was a good chap, the major took him aside and talked to him Instead of “bawling him out” before the crowd. The doughboy apologized. “I’m sorry, major,” he said. “You see I own a couple of businesses back in New York, and have more than a million dollars in my own name, and it’s a little hard to remember my place in the army now. But I’ll do it, somehow.” You think you are in an international army when you visit some of the new American units now in the lines. One company from New York boasts that its members know seventeen languages, and if you wander in on them about mess time, when talking and plates full of “grub” have been emptied, you are convinced. But all of these doughboys are ardent Americans, and they have won the admiration of their comrades who can speak the tongue without an accent. They are all snappy looking soldiers.

Sure of Success. The new units have dragged- their clean and fresh-looking equipment, such as supply wagons, camp kitchens, machine-gun outfits and all that is needed up into the Alsace and Lorraine hills. The line runs up and down steep mountain sides and across pretty valleys; It Is beautiful country and a fine place to be initiated to the front, for the doughboy must be on the alert all the time. In this area there is a shell-swept, well-wired No Man’s Land across which Germans cannot come without being easily detected. Woods and hills and wild country make the’ place one in which only strict attention to business will keep the Germans out. These doughboys in the line have no hankering to “take things easy.” Every man In the line will tell you in confidential tones that he has a personal grudge to settle with the Huns for dragging the world into this nasty business, and the sooner aggressive action is taken the sooner Germany is going to be punished and war made a thing of the past. This is the job every doughboy figures he has to do, and the confidence with which he takes to the trenches tells the world he will succeed.

MAKING HAT CORDS FOR OUR FIGHTERS

The manufacture of hat cords for the various branches of the United States army is in a large part carried on by women in factories In this country. This picture shows the machine wrapping twisted threads for hal cords. -

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, INH.

DUCHESS OF ATHOLL

The Duchess of Atholl, one of the pre’tiest women in England, and the wife of the new duke.of Athi’l, who has inherited many peerages aai prerogatives from his ancesto’-'-. including a cathedral in Perthshire and the right to maintain an armed gnici cl a thousand men with artillery complete.

BROTHERS ARE RECONCILED

Enlistment in Marine Corps Ends Feud of More Than Two Years' Standing. St. Louis. —Two brothers who have not spoken to each other for two years, although they slept in the same bed and ate at the same table, became reconciled ■ through their enlistment in the Marine corps. The boys are Dan and Angelo Tarantola of this city. Dan Is twenty and Angelo eighteen. They fell out when Angelo broke up a game of marbles in which his brother was playing. Angelo joined the Marine corps. His brother learned of It and came to the train to bid him farewell. After becoming reconciled there Dan decided to join the marines and be with his So lielenlisted two days later and the brothers are now at Paris Island, S. C., where they are again fast friends, after two years’ pact of silence.

HEART RIGHT SIDE, REJECTED

Patriot Who Tried Twice to Enlist Has Cardiac Organ in Right Breast Philadelphla.—rAnother freak of nature was uncovered recently, when Dr. John H. Bailey, medical director of local board No. 22, refused to accept George W. Nicholson for the army because his heart was on the wrong side, even though it was on his right. Nicholson is thirty years old and pleaded desperately to go. Some months ago he tried to enlist, but was turned down because he was under weight, his examiners at that time being unaware of his cardiac peculiarities. When he was called for examination before the draft board Doctor Bailey made tl|e discovery of the true location of his heart.

HAS FIVE BOYS IN WAR

Mrs. Champion War ~ Mother qf/ Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn.—The champion war mother of Tennessee, and, perhaps, of Dixie, is Mrs. A. P. White of Powell Station, Knox county. She has five sons in the service; Captain Roy D. White, Lieutenant John H. z White, Private William Homer White, Cook Marvin B. White and Private Edgar White. “All my boys volunteered,” she declares proudly.

Early Buying Is Not Best Policy

New York.—The trade, which means the vast multitude of people engaged in the making and selling of women’s apparel, has at last sounded a warning to those who buy-too far ahead of the seasons, advises a well-known fashion correspondent. The public has deplored this condition. It has been well known for several seasons that the average woman did not care to buy a straw hat in February and a velvet hat in July, or to have all her autumn clothes offered to her the first of September with the assurance that they were the fashions that would rule throughout the winter. She has been often betrayed, and that betrayal has not soothed her Irritation against those who sold'her the clothes. It is the fact also that the trade in turn has found Itself caught in a net that tangled and lnvolved.it, and compelled each individual to struggle for success in a manner contrary to the dictates of reason and sobriety. - Through this web of circumstances everyone has come to a feeling that something must be done in the creation of new fashions long before the season for which they are to be worn, and that the public must follow the lines laid down by the trade competitors. Right here lies the extraordinary gamble to women in buying clothes early in the season. Right here lies one of the greatest sources of money wastage. Thousands of women, who have no way of knowing what the fashions will be as the season advances, buy what is said to be new as the season demands a change. What they buy, in September has probably been bought by the shop in June. TO keep up with the rising tide’ of forehandedness, the manufacturers make the clothes earlier and earlier, and the ready-to-wear shops and department stores, as a rule, buy these clothes as early as the manufacturers make them, and get them out at the very moment there is a slight demand for them. What happens? In October and in April the real fashions come out for each season. Hundreds of women —nay, thousands —• are faced with the fact that they have bought gowns, or wraps, or hats that are not in keeping with the new clothes. They have bought clothes arranged six months before the authentic exhibitions of new and seasonable apparel. What happens next? The woman who can possibly scrape up enough money to buy a new outfit does so, and she also spends extra money on a seamstress or little dressmaker to have her other clothes remodeled. Therefore, she spends twice her allowance on clothes. Panic Has Produced Careless Buying. Many of the traders in apparel realize that panic and a form of commercial hysteria have resulted in a large amount of early buying, which is not fair either to the individual or to commerce. Every shopper has shared the

Ono of the new checked suits which Paris houses send to America. It is made with narrow short skirt and belted coat The .tali silk beaver hat has a double crown band of black velvet

same experience this last year of being told that it is wise to buy at once the articles needed, because they might .not be obtainable at a later day. This has resulted In a certain measure of hoarding, which the government does not allow in food. It has already ,resulted in severe waste of Individual

money. Women, feeling the press of this panic, have gotten clothes in advance of the season, and they now find that there are just as many to be had as six months ago, and that the shape and texture have changed. . It would be a far wiser method of spending one’s money to buy a little, at the necessary time, representing the best there is at that moment There will always be material of some kind. Even if the world is reduced to whole garments of sewn fig-

This suit is of striped velours, with short skirt and belted coat. Notice that the French woman has taken to wearing mannish negligee shirts of white silk with four-in-hand ties, adopted from uniforms of American war workers. Sailor hat of white felt, banded withoblack satin.

leaves, there is no reason why any one woman should wish .herself out of the picture. Let her go along with the momentum of the hour and buy and wear garments of fig leaves. K The public is beginning to see the wisdom of buying a small amount at the moment it is needed. It should be preached in every possible form of propaganda that this is the wise way to live during war time. Rest assured that if the public buys up all the stock of qge thing from a store, that store will De replenished the moment its supply is exhausted. Of course, there are women who always demand quality. They prefer to have a badly cut gown, made in a past fashion, if they are sure that every thread is silk or wool, as the case may bq. But the majority of women are not inclined toward accepting that system of dress.

Therefore, let us start out in a new measure of reform, as soon as /this month is over, and face with no ilea of rushing into shopsTind buying everything that is offered because It is labeled "New.” Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. But a feeling of panic among buyers that now is the only chance to get enough clothes to carry one through the winter, results in the very thing that the government desires most to see avoided —reckless spending of money. So buy shrewdly, and not for hoarding. If there is to be economy in clothes, let it begin this week. It is at this time, between the seasons, that a woman can take thought of her wardrobe and twist and turn it according to prevailing fashion, in a way that will serveher until styles are more settled. Then, when she has to buy much, she will buy wisely and well. Help in Remodeling Clothes. Here are some prophecies that may help you to be economical and wise. One of them sounds like the first aid to an injured wardrobe. It comes direct from Paris. It is that checks, stripes and mosaic blocks are widely worn in whole suits and parts of suits. Can you imagine any piece of news more gratefully received than that which gives a woman a chance to make a new coat to an old skirt, or the other way around? There are colored stripes on- a white background, made of heavy woolen material and built into a skirt to be worn with any slip-on cuirass or short jacket of colored cloth or velvet. Skirts are narrow. As the government will allow shoes to be 8 inches from the ground, the skirts need not be lengthened. For the present they remain moderately short. What the near future will bring out no one can aay. (Copyright ISIS, by the McClure Newspe- —— par Syndicate.)

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HADLEY WILLING TO FORGET

Subject of Dislocated Jaws Seldom Selected for Conversation by Head of Yale University. Arthur Hadley, president of Tale university, Is an honored authority on many subjects, but he declines to include among them dislocated jaws. Thereby hangs this tale. The educator was sharing his stateroom on a Fall River boat with a pleasant gentleman who had otherwise slept on a cot in the open cabin, when, well along toward morning, he heard, coming from the upper berth, sounds of gagging and gargling and moaning. Jumping up and switching on the light he saw his acquaintance was suffering greatly. His chin was on his breast, his mouth rigidly open, his eyes tightclosed and perspiration on his forehead. “Be calm, sir,” cried Mr. Hadley. "I know just what to do.” Wrapping a towel around his thumbs to save them from the release, he clambered up beside the man, knelt by his shoulders, began to work the jaw into Its place—-and then spent the rest of the night trying to explain himself! For It was only a case of nightmare.

Messenger to Grandpa.

-“There, now,” cried a little girl, while rlimmaging a draper In a bureau, “there, now, grandpa has gone to heaven without his spectacles. What will he do?” And shortly afterward, when another age<l relative was supposed to be sick unto death, she went running to his bedside with the glasses In her hand and a message on her Ups. “You goin’ to die?” ' “They tell me so.” “Goin’ to “I hope so.” “Well, here are grandpa’s spectacles. Will you take them to him?”

Chicago woman has started crusade against cats to conserve food. Philadelphia shoots dogs found tearing up war gardens.

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