Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 232, 10 August 1917 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1917

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NVENTY-SEVEN DRAFTEES FAIL TO TAKE TESTS Delinquents Have Nine More Days tq Appear Before Action is Taken. .

American Soldiers Eager for Glimpse of Actual Fighting

Twenty-seven men, out of. the- 504 men In the first army call, have failed to appear before the selective army board for examination. Neither have they given any reason for not appearing. The men have nine more days, in which to appear before their names ire forwarded to department of justice officials. They must also give a good reason for . not appearing when they were ordered to. The men are: Thomas H. Davis, 32 South Thirteenth street. Leonard A. Beach. Frank McMullen, 37 North Sixth street. Samuel P. Miller, 76 Fort Wayne evenue. John L. Ruby, 220 South Second street. George Mann, 806 South Eleventh street Joseph Frederick, Pennsylvania railroad camp. Mike Rousos, 611 North' A street. William Tracy, 1322 North F street. Tom Williams, 1214 North G street. Jerome Merkel, Boston, Ind. William Smith. Easthaven. ' Vasiliy Ladutko, Pennsylvania railroad camp. Alvin H. Shelly, 25 North Sixth 6treet. Stanley Hazard, 45 South Tenth street.

. Lester Sayler, 144 Fort Wayne ave-.

nue. Darwin R. Burelison, 47 Bridge avenue. Percy Heuston,1 170 Fort' Wayne street Thomas F. Scott,. 608 South Eleventh street - . Erwin Byrd, 723 West Main" street ! James Caro, 1710 North F street. ; Edward A. Skiler, 512 North A street. . i . Robert Cecil Perrine. Boston. Ind. : Earl J. Bradford, 18 South Ninth street r

James Thomas, 803 . North Thir

teenth street. .

Karl Karcher, . 1115 South Eighth

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EDWARD DICKINSON DIES

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 10. Ed

ward Dickinson, former president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railway, died at bis summer home at Miltona: Minn., last night He was

67 years of age.

AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE, Aug. 10. (By The Associated Press) The deepest impression one gains after three weeks with the American soldiers training in France is the absolute earnestness with which the splendid young men of the army have undertaken the task which is before them. There is no disposition on their part or on the part of their officers to underestimate in any way the seriousness of that task and the hard work which remains to be done before America can take her place In the actual firing line. ,

The troops that are here feel their

responsibility keenly. They are Indeed, the small but effective nucleus about which will be builded the great army and great army machine which

the United States hopes eventually to have" on the battlefields of France, The men are earnest in their desire to absorb war knowledge as quickly

and as thoroughly aa possible so that

when called upon to act as instructors to succeeding units as they arrive they will be found eminently qualified. A great deal of this earnestness and this will to do Is largely the result of the enthusiasm of the young officers who hue recently joined the colors and have taken up the business of war with a courage and determination that means volumes to the futurt of their country. Want "Folks'" Support In return for this service of patriotism, in return for sacrifices already made and. the, still greater ones yet to come, the officers and men alike of the expeditionary force want to feel always that they have an understanding of sympathy and support from "the folks back home." That is a sentimental side of the soldier, whether he be Frenchman. British of German in the firing line, of .American in the training camp. Face to face with the great adventure all thoughts of self are things of

the past There is only the thought of

home and the hope in the soldier s breast that what he is about to do will be understood and appreciated there.

This spirit already pervades the young

American army. Six Months For Training.

Under the best circumstances, the training of soldiers in the ever-changing methods of modern war is a labor

requiring months of patient, paintak

ing effort. A thousand of the most

valiant and valuabe men in the Brit

ish army, for instance, did not put a toot in France until after they had had a whole year of training at home.

On the other hand Germany : called up boys of seventeen years at the beginning of last September and sent many of them into the trenches after only six weeks of infantry training, chiefly in marching and close order drill. This was possible because these

boys were merely distributed among old, seasoned troops stop-gaps in the ranks of decimated divisions. ' Six months is nearer the ideal training period, but this rule applies to armies which have been fighting three years and have all the machinery, established through which th men are passed smoothly and unendingly toward the front Realize Difficulties. The building of this machinery the great engine of war which works behind the lines Is the staggering task

now oeing dealt with. It is a task in' a way greater than anything France or Great Britain has been called upon to do, for America's problems are those of France and Great Britain multiplied by 3,000 miles of Atlantic ocean. . The army that is here realizes all these difficulties, but it also has an unshakable faith in American genius for accomplishment and above all others, in the American will. The way to the trenches is long and hard. The daily drills and tasks necessarily are much the same thing over and over again, all of which means a dearth of real news just now. t " But the soldiers are anxious that the folks at home should know, that the absence of news does not mean absence of work. Nor can the' value of each day's training be actually told until the American soldier at last stands out as the finished product. It is not known how much longer the French instructional division will remain with the Americans. The latter are proving so apt and the training camps are so well established that undoubtedly it. will be only a comparatively short time when but a few picked French officers and non-commissioned officers will be retained to assist in the training. Morale to Be Big Factor. ' Students of the war, which has now entered its fourth year are convinced

that the morale of the troops and the

morale or the nations of the entente

will prove to be the final factor in de

ciding the titanic struggle. The morale of the American soldiers in France can easily be estimated by the avidity with which they take up the training in offensive tactics as against defensive work Want Real Fighting. The latter is very essential, naturally, but it is a phase of .training likely to prove a bit irksome to troops im bued with the offensive spirit, as are the Americans. They are frankly sincerely anxious, most of them, for their turn in the trenches to come, even if at first it is only a temporary sojourn at the front for training purposes.; The men are anxious for a glimpse of war and there is no doubt that after they get it it will add infinite zest lo their future training and to their ability to train future divisions. The men

REV, J. E. WILLIAMS TO BE PASTOR AT GUILFORD COLLEGE

) Rev.l J. Edgar Williams, Friends pastor and former head-of the Wayne county committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, who has been living in Richmond since January 1, Is to become pastor , of the Guilford College church at Guilford, North Carolina. ' Rev. Williams , was" pastor of the Friends meeting at Carthage, Ind., for four years, and went last year to New Mexico, where he was financial agent for the Presbyterian tuberculosis sanitarium in that state. ,. He has been resting and "gardening since coming to Richmond. He will take up his new duties about September 1- : . s' v'-

still are far enough from the line to hear or see little that has to do with real fighting. Some enthusiasts at the camps have asserted that they could hear the drumming of the big guns at the front, but there is little doubt that imagination had something to do with the acuteness of their ears.

German Editor Held On Charge of Aiding In Draft-Fighting LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 10. Curtis Ackerman, editor of a German language newspaper here was arrested yesterday charged with encouraging resistance to the draft Henry Rector, assistant United States district attorney, said that a young man of German parentage who had been called in the first draft had ingormed him .that Ackerman offered to give him powders which would reduce his weight so that he would be physically disqualified for, army service. Ackerman was released on $2,500 bond. -

JEWS ARE INVITED

NEW YORK, Aug. 10. The American alliance for labor and democracy has sent out invitations -to more than 100 prominent Jews in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island and New York state to attend a meeting here on Monday at which plans will be discussed to counteract the influence of anti-conscription organizations thruout the country.

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BUREAUS HURT WIRE SERVICE

CHICAGO, Aug. 10. The aurora borealis, or northern light, interrupted wire communication over the northern half of the United States and all of Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic ocean, and even was felt In southern latitudes last night and for several hours early today. The phenomenon became visible and began to affect telegraph and telephone wires shortly before midnight last night and for several hours before daylight this morning many trunk line circuits were useless most of the time. ; The display of the aurora in Colorado was described as particularly brilliant many persons believing the blood red appearance of the northern sky was caused by forest fires. A dispatch from Denver quoted Prof. H. A. Howe, of the department of astronomy of Denver University as saying that such a display had never been observed before in Colorado, to his knowledge. Reports to telegraph companies here

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BUDAPEST SOLO

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 10. The Austrian steamer Budapest, taken over by the United States government, has been sold to the Kerr Steamship Company of New York and Renamad Korawood. Damage done the vessel by her crew is being repaired. .

state that the earth currents did not affect wires south of St. Louis in the west, but in the east circuits as far south as Atlanta, Ga., were disturbed. Telegraph officials said the disturbance was more widespread than for many years, the phenomenon usually being confined to northern latitudes.

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