THE ARMY
and
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THE ALLIANCE HERALD, MAY 9, 1918
fl NB tilt- day I enlisted If my let
ters seem dry Just remember thai the
censor is a prohibit ionisl Kindest
leiturds to you, Mrs I ..una. Wrne nnd
.tenne
Your friend.
J, M LIK0TK1
j Battery f, 146. A E. F . France,
t'nited States Field Artillery."
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LEAD ARMY AND NAVY
Army and Navy DepartBMnt
Alliance Herald.
How lonu dOCfl a man have to train
to bacon s an aviator In the United
States army?
K D . Alliance, Neb.
Ans. According to previous ex
perience Hut the average inexperi
enced man can tit himself for the bat
tle front In three months from date of
entrance into the flying school. The
length of the course greatly depend!
upon the ability of the prospective
aviator.
Editor A. & N. Dept.
Army and Navy Department,
Alliance Herald.
For how long does a man enlist for
joining me navy :
M. H.. Bayard. Neb.
Ans. The term enlistment of all
enlisted men of the navy is four years
except minors over 17 years and un
der 18 years of age, who shall be en
listed for the period of minority.
Minors under 17 years of age cannot
enlist In the navy, except by special
permission of the bureau of naviga
tion. No enlistments for special serv
ice are allowed.
Ed'tor A. & N. Dept.
R Tuiting station, united SI
l army. Alliance, Neb.
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Army and Navy Department
Alliance Herald
Dear Sir: Is It true that the gOI
1 1 nment can make use of horse's
hair? If so, where should such ma
terial be shipped and what the par
t iculars?
'.. T., Hrownlee. Neb.
Ans The Rovernment can make
'use of horsehair. The tall hair is
I worth more thftfl the mane. The prcle
paid for the same ranges between If.c
anil 6r.c per lb. For further infor na
tion as to shipping place, etc., write
V B. Harrison. Alliance, Neb.
Editor A. tt N. Dept.
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PROM ONE OF THE BOTH
Army and Navy Department,
Alliance Herald.
What does M. S. White cavalry
mean?
H. D., Llewellyn, Neb.
Ans. Mounted service, white cav
alry means, mounted white soldiers.
Editor A. & N. Dept.
Armv nnd Navv Denartnient
Alliance Herald.
List of men forwarded to Fort Lo
gan, Colo., from this United States
recruiting station, May 1, 1918:
Harold L. Buchert, Bayard, N"b.,
quartermaster corps, national army.
Lawrence P. Punteney, Bayard,
Neb., F. S. white, coast artillery,
R. A.
Leon M. Wise, Kimball, Neb., quar
termaster corps national army.
Lawrence E. Dunn, Ellsworth,
Neb., F. S. white infantry, regular
army.
Carl E. Bocock, Mitchell, Neb., F.
S. white coast artillery, R. A.
Harry H. Haney, Hyannis, Neb.,
quartermaster corps, national army.
Erving E. Morris, Spearville. Kan.,
quartermaster corps, national army.
Roy W. Mayberry, Broadwater, Ne
Roy W. Mayberry, Broadwater,
Neb., F. S. white infantry, regular
army.
List of men signed up to leave the
station at midnight, May 9:
Harold O. Daugherty, Wauneta,
Neb., medical department, regular
army.
Roy A. Larson, Harrison, Neb.,
medical department, regular army.
Arlington I. Hetherington, Doug
las, Wyo., medical department, regu
lar army.
Arthur R. McConnell. Linscott,
Neb., quartermaster corps, regular
army.
Frank A. Berry', Angora, Neb., F.
S. white infantry, regular army.
Arthur L. Cunningham, Brownlee,
Nebr., F. S. white, coast artillery, reg
ular army.
JONES,
"Somewhere in France,
April 2, 19 1 S.
"DEAR BBRT:
"While we were standing retreat
this evening a big 'ruck load of mail
was unloaded in front of regimental
! headquarters. I had just finished
reading your letter of February 17th,
when the mail call blew agcln and the
! boys were soon breaking their backs
under big mail sacks loaded with par
cels. Being a previous service man
you know very well what followed.
Ten cent cigar smoke greets your nos
trils as soon as you step into the door.
Boxes and packages of all kinds are
opened; here three of four cannon
eers are pressing a strong offensive
j against a fruit cake, the fruit cake
: going down in defeat.. The local pa
j pers are scanned for scandal, and we
note with much satisfaction that Cu
i pid is wothholding his darts until the
I boys eet home. Cupid knew that we
wouldn't talk to the French girls
over here, so he went hack to the
states. There are some fine girls over
here but we are good at reading
camouflage.
"Some of us went to the Y. M. C.
I A. in Paris not long ago. There were
two American girls at the lunch
counter and I am not saying anything
against the French girls at all, but I
want to be placed on record as want
; ing to stay in that "Y" and eating
sandwitches and drinking cocoa till
full capacity or broke. That was the
way all the fellows felt about it.
"I am very glad to know that my
presence here is represented, by a star
. in two service flags. These stars
serve a double purpose from
j the viewpoint of our organization and
families, they mean certain things.
From our viewpoint they mean that
we have been honored by our friends
whose influence have done so much
' to mould our characters. You must
understand when a fellow knows that
his service here is represented by a
star in a service flag and that his
friends and family are watching that
star, tie is going to be a better soldier
' and a better man than Jie would oth
erwise. You feel that it is a breach
of honor and that you are bringing
I discredit on your star if you don't
keep it straight. You want to keep
' your star out of the guard house and
' all other places that are not in har-
mony with a true American soldier.
Our family service lag nrw has
two stars in it.
"Have been in the best of health
Secretarj Daniels announces that
the navy department has awarded
the medal of honot and a gratuity of
S100 to John Mackenzie, chief boat
wain s mate. I'niteil States naval
. trre rone, for extraordinary be
POlsm which resulted in saving from
a islbis destruction the ess Rem-
Ik, a converted yacht now on patrol
e'vice in Furopean waters.
The case is unique in that it has to
'" With one of the latest enmnes of
rar .s is well known. United States
lestroyers nnd Other submarine tight
rs carrj depth charges containing a
arge amount of high explosives
(Vhlch are dropped in the path of eiie-
mj submarines ami explode under
valer. These have proved eiieel i ve
weapons in the destruction of t' bouts
and they are safe enough when the
afety pins are affixed; but when they
et beyond control and the safety
pin comes out they are a source of
"lions danger to the vessels carr
lag them. It will bo retailed that
the men on the U. S. S. Manley who
lost their lives in the collision of that
destroyer with a British vessel were
killed by the explosion of one of these
bombs.
captures Runawa) Boaab
In a heavy gale on the morning of
December 17, 1917. a depth charge
on the Remlik broke loose from Its
position on the stern. The box went
overboard, but the charge was hurl
ed in the opposite direction and went
bouncing about the deck. As It weighs
hundreds of pounds, it was impossi
ble for anyone to lift the bomb and
carry it to safety. It was even dan
gerous for anyone to go to that part
of the ship as the seaa were washing
over the stern. As the officers and
crew watched the bomb some one
shouted, "The pins' come out." Real
izing the danger, Mackenzie, exclaim
ing, "Watch me; I'll get it," dashed
down the deck and flung himself up
on the charging cylinder. Three
times he almost had his arms about
the bomb, but each time it tore from
him, once almost crushing him. The
fourth time he got a firm grip on it
and heaved it upright on one flat end.
Then he sat on it and held It down.
The charge might have broken loose
again and exploded at any moment,
blowing Mackenzie to bits: but he
held, on firmly until lines could be
run to him and man the depth bomb,
which was safely lashed Soon after
wards the ship was headed up Into
the sea and the charge carried- tc a
place of safety.
lteKrt of Commanding Officer
The commanding officer of the
Remlik. in his report recommending
'hat the medal of honor be conferred
on Mackenzie, says:
"Mackenzie, in acting as he
did, exposed his life and prevent
ed a serious accident to the ship
and probable loss of the ship and
entire crew. Had this depth
charge exploded on the quarter
deck with the sea and wind that
existed at the time there Is no
doubt that the ship would have
been lost."
Mackenzie, who is now in the fleet
naval reserve, served four years in
the regular navy. He is a native of
Massachusetts, and his mother. Mrs.
Mary Mackenzie, lives in South Had
lpy Falls. Mass.
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May 10th. and 24th.
June 7th. and 21st.
(Prom Stars and Stripes. American
Army Newspaper in France)
An Americas. Donghnoy," in an
open letter to thi kaiser tells him
why the Americans are in Frame and
why they are going to stay there until
the war is won. He sums up his In
dictment :
"You invaded with (Ire, sword and
Iron heel a country whose neutrality
you were sworn to respect Belgium,
"In Belgium and northern Frame
you visited upon the natives such
crimes as Would make the tortures
practiced by savage tribesmen seem
tame by comparison
"By your orders fathers of families
were lined up against walls and shot
I in the sight of 'heir offspring.
"Nursing mothers were hacked
about the DOdjf and their children mi
p. iled on bavone's
"Young girls were forced into a
condition worse than slavery, worse
than death and then branded with
the red cross of Prussian shame
' Young men and old were deport
ed from their native land, to work for
you as no better than slaves, at mis
erable wattes, while fed on insuffl
( lent food
"Children in arms n re b it lu per
ish without nourishment, and those
ef less tender age were left to ihif;
for themselves, in a shell-wrecked,
tiame-ridden country.
"On land you revived the horrible
practice of crucifixion and applied it
to prisoners of war.
"You practiced other mutilation
and disfigurement upon prisoners.
"You incited your non-Christian
I allies, the Turks, to massacre thou
sands upon thousands of helpless'Ar
menlaa and Syrian Christians.
"You lent yourself to a deliberate
i campaign of murder, rape and pillage
. in Serbia, the better to handicap that
invaded country in rehabilitating It
; self.
"In diplomacy, you. through your
foreign minister, openly urged Mex
ico and Japan, two countries with
, which our nation was at peace, to
I make war upon us.
"You tried to poison our press, our
congress, our public men, with your
lies about our present allies. You set
Up a corruption fund of $50,000,000
j for the subversion of the legislative
depart men to your government.
, "You organized Strikes, fomented
plots, tried in every way to cripple
peaceful Industry in our own coun-
j try. You attempted, on a large
'scale, to Incite a cons derahle propor
tion of our population to rise against
! the rest of us.
"You ordered us to keep off the
I high seas under pain of being torpe
doed unless we followed your de
! grading and ridiculous instructions
j as to the manner of marking and
sending our ships.
"In short, you have, for the last
three years and a half, spared neither
men, women nor innocent children in
j your scheme of making war you
' have preached 'frightf ulness' every
where, and everywhere you have
practiced what you have preached.
"You have blasphemously pro-
l claimed Cod to be your ally and have
i exhorted your troops to malm. burn,
rape and kill 'in the nrme of the
! good old German God.' You have
I made God out to be a God of cruelty
and oppression, even as the savages
have whereas, ew know that our
Cod is a God of love and of freedom.
"You have poisoned wells Indeed,
, in the occupied districts of northern
France; but, area worse than that,
you have poison' d the wells of truth
i for the entire world.
"That, In brief, is why we are over
I here - that is why we are against
I you. That Is why we will, in con
cert witn tae otner civilized nations
of the world,, tiave at you un'il your
inwer to work such woe is no more
McTaviah's Compromise.
A OS gay Scot owned ii wonderful bnd
ger It wns reported no dog could
tactile. However, a friend of his had a
dog he proposed lo back against the
badger, and a match was In due course
made for $:. to come off In two
months time.
As the time drew near there were
ruumrs that nil wns not right with
the dog, and the Scot s friends were
making sure or vlc!..rv for him.
banfflne their surprise and disgust
when they heard that McTnvish had
accepted $3&0 us compromise la lieu !
of the 1000,
"You've been done. Mm," wild SJW
of them. "The dog Is so mangy and
unfit, be could not kill a rat."
"Ah:" snld McTartsh, "1 dare say, I
larg say; but my badger is deud."
Start Tomorrow
and Keep It Up
Every Morning
Gst In the habit of drinking a
glaas of hot water before
breakfast.
MiCKIE SAYS
OVJtt REPORTER SftVS
NOf CrlTS VS OOft,T (S
-Tnat the FfciLtR, vmmo
NEVER QHVtfi HKft tvNy
NEWS 5 M.WtvNft HOLLEUlki"
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N6NS tN THE PkPER
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We're not here long, so let's make
our stay agreeable. Let us live well,
eat well, digest well, work well, sleep
well, and loot, well, what a glorious
BondlUOB to attain, and yet, how very
easy It is If one will ouly adopt tha
morning Inside bath.
folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when thoy arise, splits
ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach,
can, instend. feel as fresh as a daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole of i he internal poisonous stag
naut matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in It to wash from the
Stomach, liver and bowels the previous
day's Indigestible waste, sou bile
and polsonoiiB toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal beforo putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach Is wonderfully in
vigorating. It cleans out all the sour
fermentations, gases, waste and
oddity and gives one a splendid
appetite for breakfast. While you are
enjoying your breakfast the watn
and phosphate is qtlletly extraciinjc
a large volume of water from tho
blood and Retting ready for a
thorough flushing of all the lnsMu
organs.
The millions of people who are
bothered with constipation, bllimta
spells, stomach trouble; others who
have sallow skins, blood disorders and
sickly complexions aro urged to get a
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
from the drug atore. This will cost
very little, but la sufficient to make
anyone a pronounced crank on tho
subject of lnslde-bathlng beforo break
fast
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If you have Cattle for sale, consign them to us.
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l MAP IX TED
Ha was culling on th one sad Duly
girl.
"William," she said, softly, saps '
: : i i the usual answer: "William, dear,
have you any i leu what heaven ui"st
be like?" "
"Well, I'll tell you, darling. I'util
today I had aever given the mutter a
thought, but now 1 believe i nave a.
very good idea of what heaven is
like."
"Yes," she murmured breathlessly
"Tell me what gave you this idea."
"Well, it's this way," said dear
William, softly, "I was listening to a
recruitlai officer's description of life
In the army!" Harper's Magazine
Emerson.
From what we cau guther from s
slight acquaintance with society, we In
ter thut Emerson is uot read us much
as he used to be. This is a great mis
fortune. A lute writer bus suid, "lu
applied wisdom no American has Bg
pssasd him." That is wlut this age
needs more thuu uuytbiug Mae ap
plied wisdom; something thut doesn't
whirl or make u clatter or show Itself
lu color and glitter. There ia no book
thut cau do a serious-minded boy more
go ld, when he gets to the age of uu
deintunding, than "Emerson's Essays."
It should be in every family library.
There is nothing thut states the truth
like this book, and the age goes dowu
bill that loses its interest in it. Some
one asked us the other day bow many
Uterury clubs Columbus had. We
couldn't say. We didn't know any.
But one It ought to have, and that is
an Emerson club. Ohio State Journal.
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