THRIFT STAMPS j P. J. McManus will, commencing January 8, give a 25 cent Thrift Stamp for each $5.00 cash purchase. This will continue for thirty days, after which it will be discontinued. From Camp Funston With 450 men, picked as the best from the seven states represented at Camp Funston on hand, supplemented by approximately 250 civilians with previous military experience, and picked from the regulars, the third officers’ training camp commenced here this week. Competition is ex pected to be keen, during the three months of training, between the three classes of aspirants for the coveted commissions. The selection of the drafted men from the Eighty-Ninth division for the appointment to the camp was made with the greatest care, the plan used weeding out every possible form of inefficiency. Character, physique, mentality and adaptibility to military life were among the standards by which hundreds of the men recom mended by their commanders for ex amination were measured. Twenty two hundred ambitious soldiers were examined in selecting the quota to be given their chances for commissions. Actual ability and hard work is the only thing that will bring success to student officers of the third camp. This point was strongly brought out in the first lecture to the men by Major Lewis Brown, Jr., commandant of the school. So called “puli’ or currying favor will not get anyone anything—excepting a dismissal. “It is bad taste for a man to attempt to gain favor by “bootlicking” and the lecturer declared, “The man who stoops to that brands himself. An officer who accepts it does likewise.” The relation between officers and students will be an absolutely official one at all times it has been announced and officers will require students to salute in the most punctilious manner. During the three months of the course, while officers will maintain the friend iliest feelings toward the students, and while students will be free to seek ad vice on any subject from his com pany officers, there will be no sign of anything but strictest discipline and official relations. In this camp, nothing but Second Lieutenant’s commissions will be awarded, the successful students being given badges significent of their graduation from the school and re turned to their former organizations, being called for service as lieutenants as they are needed. The civilian students are entered as privates and if any of them fail to attain com missions, they will be entered in the army in that rank. The responsibility of the second lieutenant, who is the platoon com mander, was especially impressed upon the men who are studying for that rank. “You are preparing yourselves for one of the two biggest jobs in the world today” they have been told. “The other is that of the directing general. He formulates the plans in this world’s greatest war, and it is thihs world’s greatest war, and it is up to you platoon commanders to carry these plans to a successful con clusion. Experience at the front has shown that the success of an organ ization in battle rests upon the ability of the platoon commander.” The students are divided into three bodies for administrative purposes, drill and discipline, two companies of infantry and one of artillery. Lessons will be long and hard, and the study I “I HAVE GOT $10 WHERE I CANNOT [f SPEND IT. jf When father was sick he gave me $1.00 a || month to help with the milking. I got up at l| half past four and milked four or five cows. I5 I have sent $10 to the Bank. I have got $10.00 * | where I cannot spend it. I WE WANT THRIFTY BOYS! Boys || who work hard for what they make. Bring |i $1.00 or more here. WE WANT THRIFTY If BOYS.! H THE O’NEILL NATIONAL BANK |j O’Neill, Nebraska if This bank carries no indebtedness of officers or stock- TJ holders and "we are a member of The Federal Reserve Bank. Ki Capital, surplus and undivided profits $100,000.00. j ■ | WHY The Dry Air i Space? To maike fuel do double duty rjtii ^ A little fire makes a lot of heat, but heat is hard to confine. It goes right through iron and is wasted. Asbestos blocks its escape much better than iron. But a dry air space beats any thing ever devised to prevent its escape. All ranges use the three-wall construction or asbestos be tween two layers of iron. The Copper-Clad 'adds a fourth, the sheet of pure copper. This copper sheet is full of little domes. The tips of the domes rest against the iron body and all around them is a Dry Air Space just like a thermos bottle. The heat is caged. It can’t get away. A given amount of fuel does double duty because the dry air space holds the heat in the range. If this saved but a shovel of coal at a meal it would mean over a thousand shovels a year. Then insist on the range that can’t rust out, the range with a dry air space—the Copper Clad Range. Warner & Sons, O’Neill ing w ill be done in the evening for the most part, recitations being done by I sections of fifteen, each to one in-; structor. Grades will be posted at the ; end of the week for each day’s work, the high men going to the head of the class and the low ones down. Prac tical application of the lessons will be made during the drill periods of the day. West Point standards and conditions will be followed as far as conditions permit. It’s ability and ability only that, will count, and every man stands on that standard regardless of educa tion or previous occupation, and is placed on the honor of a gentleman and a potential officer in the great army that will carry on democracy’s war across the water. First call in the Officer’s Training School sounds at 6 o’clock and taps at 10 p. m. every minute between being filled in a strenuous grind designed to give each man a maximum of oppor tpnity to make good in a minimum of time. A *