NORTH PLATTE SEMI. WEEKLY TRTBUNE.
4,000 War Men
Study Farming
Disabled Ex-service Men Placed
in Agricultural Training in
Various Institutions.
1,500 REACY FOR COURSE
Many of tho Men Are Illiterate and
Must Be Given a Course In Ele
r.ientary Work to Fit Them
for the Farm Course.
Washington. Moro than 4,000 dis
abled ex-service men have been el 1
roctly placed In agricultural training
and In addition thero are probably f00
engaged In prevocatlonal work pre
paratory to n course In agricultural
training. Perhaps l.oOO more hnvo
been approved for the course.
Special placement has been suggest
(! and In being sought for tuberculous
men In hospitals and sanatoria.
The men upproved for agricultural
training may be classed Into three
gentral groups:
(u) Men who rent Into the war
from collego or high school, and, re
turning, have entered the agricultural
c lieges.
(10 Men with nn eighth grade
preparation who are admitted Into
HUbcollege two-yeur courses, Smltfc
Hughes or other schools of agricul
ture. (e) Men of elementary grade, rang
ing from Illiterate to the seventh or
eighth grade, who of necessity must
have prevocatlonal Instruction In order
that they may recclvo scientific train
ing Intelligently and bencllt to the
fcrentest degree.
The Hist and second groups have
given the federal board and the Insti
tutions to which they have been, rec
ommended very little trouble, as they
outer thu dorses If sent to the Institu
tion nt the beginning of the school
year or a teim, and If not they fre
quently can be brought up to class
work by coaching. '
Third Class Troublesome.
The third group 1ms given the fed
eral farm board and all the Institu
tions gr.-nl trouble. Insurmountable
dKIlcultlci sretn to have arisen. In
varying numbers they form the prob
lem at every state agricultural col
lege and school, and they constitute
from 2fi to us high as fiO per cent of
the men approved for' agricultural
training.
This large percentage Is due to tho
fact that these men for the most part
are from Isolated country districts
when tho opportunities have not been
so great for early education.
Tanner parents hnvo been unwilling
to allow tho boys more than a very
French Nurse Visits
Madame Henri Itaquln, who nursed for four yeurs in the French base
hospital nnd for one year In the Amerlcnn basu hospital near Hols, ims come
to Amerlcn to visit the boys she attended In her own country. Here are two
of her patients at Walter Heed hospital. Washington, whom sho never expected
to see again when they left France, both double amputation cases. Corporal
Adolphus McKonzle, on the right, litis two artificial legs which serve him well,
but Lieut. Hobert S. Fletcher has no stumps to which legs can he attached.
Army surgeons are still wrestling with the problem of constructing a special
basket -for him,
FEAR IMPURE WATER
Supply of Many Cities in United
States Menaced.
Impossibility of Gettlnn Necessary Pu
rifying. Chemicals Alarms Fed
eral Health Officers.
Washington, D. O. The water sup
ply of moro than 1)0,000,000 city resl
dents is In Imminent danger of becom
ing dlsenso Infected, because of the
Impossibility of obtaining the neces
sary purifying chemicals, thp public
health service announced.
Emergency nppeuls have been re
ceived by the service from ten state
nnd numerous city boards of health,
It was said, for railroad priority on
the movement of alum and chlorine,
the chemicals largely used In ridding
water of dangerous disease germs.
Duo to the congested trafllc situation,
flic announcement snld, un a-ute short
ordinary education, for fear of losing
Ihem from the farm. Many have had
no opportunity. Such are usually old
er men, 15 or 20 years past country
school age. Many of the men are
therefore prnctlcully Illiterate, and
to this number must be added
the foreign Illiterates; that Is, for
eigners who are Illiterate from the
English standpoint.
Those dlffleultles constitute a real
problem to the federal board anil the
institutions to which these men are
sent. State Institutions are not nl
ways prepared to do the elementary
work necessary to advance the men to
a knowledge of English nnd mathe
matics where they can receive and be
benefited by tho agricultural training.
However, without exception, cut
state Institutions are convinced It la
their patriotic duty to assist the fed
eral board In making preparation to
extend the necessary prevocatlonal
training, and have changed wonder
fully In favor of training disabled men
In spite of their oducatloniiliTinndlcnps.
Forrnu a ."Guidance School."
Dr. Wolter .7. Quick, training oft!
cee, worked out on elementary school,
which ho termed a "guidance school,"
whT Mich men were collected and In
structed In the elementary com
mon branches and In elementary agri
culture. The school has been made
prerequisite, to certain course's that
Dr. Quick has designed as agricul
Would Restore
. Mexican Mints
Association of Mine Owners
Claims the Country Needs
"Hard Money."
UNLIMITED SILVER COINAGE
Expert Says If Old-Time Minting Plan
Is Re-established Mexico Will
Coin 600,000,000 Ounces
of Sliver.
Nognles, Ariz. The chnmberof com
merce bus Joined with Charles Mut
ters, mining expert of New York nnd
Han Francisco, to promote the forma
tion In Mexico of nn association of
silver producers to rebuild the aban
doned mints throughout tho nation
and thus bring about once more the
free nnd unlimited coinage of silver.
Former Patients
age of these chemicals has existed for
several months, and at one of the larg
est chemical plants only eight cars of
raw material for the manufacture of
alum nre being received n month, al
though 0 curs monthly are required.
"Olllcers of the United States public
health service view the situation with
alarm, as do health otUccrs throughout
the country," said Surgeon (Jeneral
dimming. "The summer Is always a
critical time In dealing with water
borne diseases, for the demands on
municipal water systems are then so
great that usually every available
source of water has to bo utilized."
No Rent for a Year.
HontogovHIe, N, Y. Here's a chance
for some couple about to be married
to drive all their prospective rent trnu
bios away. Father Albert F. Hlvers,
pastor of the Church of tho Assumnj
tlon, announced that because a mnr
rlugo bus not been performed In his
tural unit courses. They arc divided
Into units of one month each, covert
one year continuously from month toj
month and may bti entered any month.,
A man may take one or several'
unit courses, one as a major nndj
others as minors related to the ma
jor, while at tho same time he contln-,
ties In the common brunches of the
guidance school.
Neaily nil the state Institutions will
allow the men credits for the work,
done In the unit agricultural courses,
which now Include a two-year course,
as well as the one-year.
These plans, of the guidance school!
and agricultural unit courses were)
reduced to definite form and mlmeo-j
graphed for the benefit of all lnstltu-i
lions offering agricultural training toj
the disabled class.
Pastor May Protect His Flock.
Lexington, Ky. Although evldonco,
wns Introduced to show that Andrew!
Sear, minister, warned moonshiners!
of tlie approach of revenue ofllcers,.
Sears was freed In the federal court,;
but his brother, Delia, paid a tine of
?r0 for the same offense. The court!
held that a minister had a right to;
warn a member of his flock of danger,
If no criminal Intent was Implied.
The Perils of Cherry Picking.
Lawrenceburg, Intl. The buzzing ofj
a honey bee about his head resulted!
In serious Injury to Anthony StelnJ
nietz, aged 01, a retired farmer.
Hteinrnetzvwas picking cherries, stand-:
Ing on a steplndiler, when the bee re-
sented his presence. While trying to(
fight the bee off his nose, Stelnmotx
fell twelve feet. His Injuries consist
of a cut liead, both wrlsft broken nnd;
three ribs fractured. !
Mr. Mutters states that If the old-tlmej
minting plan Is re-established It will'
mean that Mexico will coin r00,000,00o)
dunces of sliver.
The mining expert has extensive ln-$
terests In mines In Mexico, Salvador,
and Nicaragua, and Is known for hlw
Introduction of the cyanide reduction;
process into Mexico. He says the
grentest need of Mexico today is smullj
chnnge and "hard money."
Too Much Paper Money.
The revolutions nnd the world war,
says Mr, Butters, have stripped Mex-i
Ico bare of silver coins. In Its plnce
he says, Is a vast quantity of paper;
money Issued by the varying govern
ments as flat money. He blames thej
great flood of paper money In Mexico
for most of the suffering In that nn-i
tlon In connection with the various,
revolutions.
Ills plan, backed by the Nogales
chamber of commece, Is to have the
old mints rebtdlt nnd placed In opera
tion by the uvsoclatlon of silver mine
Interests nt the cost of the association.
Then the cost of the renewed mints
would bo recovered by the association
from the mint profits over the course
of years. Upon the paying out of the
capital charge In restoring tho -mints,
they are to he returned to the Mexi
can federal government as Its prop
erty, to he thereafter operated under
supervision of the federal government.
Benefits Are Threefold.
This system, according to the sllven
mine expert, has threefold benefits f
First, It will at once restore to Mexico
the "hard money" and small change
needed by merchants, banks nnd busi
ness men and now lacking; second, u
will provide n permanent prlnmry mnr
krt nt home for lnrgo amounts of sil
cr production; third, It will stabilize
the silver market because the Mexican
home requirements will take up it
great quantity of sliver now exported
and sold on a speculation marker
through San Francisco for the Orient.
Also this will serve to stimulate silver
production because of tho better mar
ket conditions and thus raise the pri
mary market price for the semipre
cious metal.
President Hrneoy Curtis of th
chamber of commerce has named a
committee of prominent men to take
up the mint propnsnl with (Jen. Alvom
Obregon on his Impending visit to his
home in Nogales, Sonorn, this month.
Meanwhile the proposition will lie
submitted' by the Nognles chamber of
commerce to the civic bodies of all
other border cities and the ofllclnla of
border states.
Flyer With Summons
Overhauls Fast Train
Denver, Colo. Hurry O. Snun
ders, attorney, chased a Union
I'aclflc train In an airplane to
servo u summons on J. D. Hlrd,
who Saunders says, who tleulng
Jurisdiction of the Denver
courts.
Learning that Hlrd was to
leave the state, be hurried to
the Union station, Vut missed
the train. In a friend's nlrplane
be chased the train, speeding
1-0 miles an hour. They
reached Hudson ahead of the
train and served the summons.
parish for four years, he will mnrrv
the first couple wishing to enter the
mutrlnioiilnl state, free of chnrge, pro
vide un elaborate reception and' will
pay one year's rental for any avail
able residence here, solected by the1
couple.
mi EVENING
M TAB
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& Mary Graharrv
juiurcx who,
BUBBLING MILK.
"Ah," said the cows, "wo swish our
talis and we moo, but more than that,
we give fresh bubbling milk. Every
morning and every evening we stand
in our stalls In the barn and we are
milked.
"Sometimes the bubbling milk spills
over the pail and Tom, the cat, has u
drink. He picks It right up with his
tongue right off the floor. Yes, he
laps It right up, moo, moo."
"He doesn't cilre," said another
cow, "to bother about n glnss or a
saucer. He will lup It right up for
he knows It Is good.
"Fanny and Jane, the two horses
who go off by themselves along the
road to the pasture and comu hack
again to the hnrn nt night they don't
know, how nice our bubbling, frothy,
warm milk Is. Hut It Is well they
don't becnuse then there is more of
it for others."
"Moo, moo," said another cow,
"they look after themselves well.
They can take a long walk Trom tho
barn to the pasture and back again
and they don't need any one to guide
them.
"There is Ellznbeth. the goose, who
looks after the ducks, for the ducks
have no mother. She leads then;
along nnd they follow along the pro
fession, wobbling Just as she does.
They think they're a regular parade,
silly, shrieking, quacking things,
moo, moo."
"And the Insects think they're very
tine, buzzing away for all they're
worth, acting as though they were a
great chorus of singers. Their voices
aren't as nice as our nice moo-moo
voices," said another tow. "They
can't give milk, either."
"And the moon which stays around
In the morning nfter we're awake,
acting as though It were so Important,
too," said another cow. "Gracious, it
needn't act so high and mighty."
"Of course It Is high," said one ot
the other cows, "but It needn't act si)
mighty and so Important."
"Of course not, moo, moo," said the
rest of the cows, "for the moon can't
give milk, nice bubbling, frothy, warm
milk."
"And the gray beetle who Is around
these days wearing his simple gray
suit of which he Is so 'very proud, ami
the beautiful green beetle anil the
grasshoppers Jumping this way and
thit they all act as though they were
so Important and they can't give milk,
nice, warm, bubbling milk." suid an
other cow.
"And the bumble hers eating the
pears act as though they were so Im
portant, buzzing away and bragging
about themselves," said one of the
other cows. "Moo, moo, they don't
nmount to much. -They don't give
milk, nice bubbling milk."
"There Is the bug with I lie brown
hotly and the brown eyes and claws
Nothing to Boast About.
Ho nets so important.' And as though
lie thought he were so handsome,"
one of the other cows said, "and yet
he can't give milk, nice bubbling milk."
"And nil the young ducks down by
the lake who swim about and wolible
about and quack and make a lot of
noise," said a cow, "what do they
make so much noise for? They can't
give milk, nice bubbling, warm milk.
They have nothing to boast about."
"Ono of the cows has to have a
board around her neck so she won't
get away under the fence." said one of
the cows who had spoken but little.
"They don't want to lose the cow.
"They wouldn't do that about the
grasshoppers and beetles."
"And the shadow fairies, as I've
heard them call themselves, who are
nlways dancing," said one of the cows,
"they can't give milk, warm, bubbling
milk.
"They dunce In nnd out of the trees
nearby and they sparkle and look very
lovely playing In the sun and some
times In the rain, but they're not real
and useful like cows.
"Tho rye and the wheat and the
barley which blow In the Holds on
windy, breezy days nnd are quite still
on other days such things are all
right, for they give food themselves.
"Hut even they can't give warm,
bubbling milk."
"We, the cows," said another, "arc
the ones who are important. Vv"c look
ns though we were lazy and us though
we didn't do much and we don't rush
about doing a lot of silly things. V'i
tnko our time In moving and we don't
Uiugli and sing like some creatures.
"Hut we're the ones who give the
beautiful bubbling milk."
"Yes, we're the onus, moo, moo,"
nld nil tl mvs tat'otlmr
UB I Unt
FORMAL GOWNS
OF FINE FABRICS
DELICATE and lovely fabrics In
vite und Inspire those fortunate
designers who spend their time think
ing up formal dress for fair women.
Unlimited color rihiges are at their
dlsposul and many mnterluls of fine
texture and fascinating luster.
The creator of the handsome after
noon frock shown at the left of the
picture above lin chosen sntln, veiled
with clilfTon, for a lovely effort nnd
has" taken embroidered bunds and rib
bon as aids In making an Ideal dress
for dinner or any other formal wear.
If you will Imagine It in sapphire blue,
in certain brown shades or In black,
you will appreciate Its elegance. As
for its outlines they could not be more
simple, but they are graceful ond It is
in the decoration tbnt the designer
lins manifested his art and much Indl
vldua'lty. The hands of embroidered
net nre a revival and are set in the
chiffon, allowing the luster of wuln
to reveal Itself from underneath.
Long loops of satin ribbon take up this
note and add additional sheen and a
SKIRTS REPEAT
SIDE plaits, knife plaits, box plaits
and, occasionally, accordion plaits
reiterate, an appreciation of plaits In
M'purute skirts that Is going to carry
over Into the fall season. For nlready
manufacturers are making capital of
this vogue for plaltlngs and using It
to enable theiu to Introduce new fea
tures In skirt models. Whether tho
fabric be plain or striped or plaid,
sheer of heavy. It brings grist to the
mill of the skirt designer.
In striped mnterluls where n light
and a dark stripe alternate, tho light
stripe Is turned under either the sldo
or box plaits and often these plaits
are stitched down to the swell of the
hlpllne and pressed very thoroughly
'below It. A skirt of this kind, when
hanging straight, appears In the dark
color, but moving about glimpses tho
lighter color In u very Interesting wuy.
narrow girdle Is made of this ribbon,
fastening at the front with a long em
broidered ornament. The finish of the.
sleeves with a band of ribbon appear,
to be one of the coming season's
style points. Another is the hat of"
flue hackle dripping from a small tur
ban shape.
The evening gown nt the right avails
itself of lighter color and is more
glowing by tills means. It Id as simple,
In outline as Its companion but gath
ers Interest by adopting somewhat in
tricate draping. The skirt follows tho
hareni Inspiration, caught under at
the bottom nnd remotely suggesting
Turkish trousers. Nothing but the sat
in Is called upon to contribute charm,
to this gown except a long spray ofj'
roses and foliage which are posed;
against it, repeating the pale rose tint:
In ninny delightful shadings. A lover
ly cream colored hut covered wltlv
lace hears n mass of soft uncurled
ostrich, to crown this satin splendor
in the right way.
A PLAITED MODE
Two very practical plaited models li
wool are among the early showings for
fall and are Illustrated here. Them
aretiillored skirts that will Interest
the wpmnn who Is looking for practical
clothes that are attractive as well.
The pictures tell so plainly the story
of these new models that nothing need
be written of them. The plaltut
stennied and pressed In the fabrics nnd
are there to stay. . A few bone buttons
embellish the skirt nt the left, Set
over Its side fastening, and a now
feature In the other skirt appear In
three straps with pointed ends fin
ished with machine stitching which
nppcar at the sides.
