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LAURENCE SLATER
For This Issue
THE HERO AND HIS MARK
Nearly every rookie at first finds
Bome difficulty in keeping straight on
all the Insignia of rank In the army,
but now he has new troubles when he
passes a bunch of recently-arrived sol
diers from overseas and sees the in
signia of their service abroad and
their standing on the casualty lists. A
majority of current, well-defined cases
of strained eyes are due to the ner
vous study bestowed by conscientious
abservers upon the Insignia worn on
the sleeves and shoulders of the men
Just back from France.
It is easy enough for " almost any
man In the service to spot a lieutenant,
a captain,' a major, a colonel, or a gen
eral in the American army. The bars,
maple leaves and stars soon become
familiar so that 99 of every 100 men
in khaki can identify an officer's rank
without stopping to think. It Is not
quite so easy to estimate the standing
of commissioned and non-commissioned
officers of the French, British Ital
ian and Belgian armies one meets in
the streets of almost all big cities or
at the various training camps. That
uncertainty Is pardonable, however. A
great many veteran offlicers of the
United States army admit quite frank
ly that they are frequently puzzled
by the changes of Insignia adopted by
some of our smaller allies.
Every wearer of an American uni
form should know the exact meaning
of the blue and gold chevrons worn on
their sleeves by men who have come
back from the scenes of actual fighting
in France. The war department might
not be badly shocked if an American
soldier admitted his inability to dis
tinguish between t?e uniforms worn
by a Greek general and a Serbian
sergeant But It would be a real blow
to the powers-that-be if an otherwise
respectable and well-behaved khaki
wearer unblushingly acknowledged
that he couldn't tell a service stripe
from a wound chevron.
"it is true that wound and service
chevrons are exactly alike, but tire
fact, warding to the experts, is no
excuse for confusion. They coldly
point out that the honor mark display
ed by a wan who has shed his blood
for his country ALWAYS Is worn on
his right arm and the service chevron
Invariably on his left. Nevertheless,
this truth Is likely to slip the memory
of anyone who has- not -apeclalized on
military insignia. It may be fixed
in the mind, however, by remembering
that a man's right arm is considered
more valuable than his left Conse
quently the appropriateness of putting
the wound chevrons on the right
sleeve Is obvious.
Any officer, field clerk or enlisted
man of the United States army who
has served fix months In a theatre of
operations during the present war Is
entitled to wear a gold service chev
ron on the loA-er half of the left sleeve
of his uniform coat, and an additional
gold chevron for each six months of
similar service thereafter. If he
serves lens than six months he is per
mitted to wear a sky-blue cloth chev
ron of the same pattern. In the event
that a man earns the right to wear the
blue chevron and subsequently returns
to the "theatre of operations," he Is
permitted to substitute a gold chevron
for the blue whenever he completes
a total of six months' service.
There Is, of course. Just one chevron
for the man who has received a wound
in action with the enemy, or as a re
sult of an act of the enemy. This gola
chevron Is exactly like the service
chevron, except that It is worn on the
lower half of the right sleeve of all
uniform coats, except fatigue coats,
overcoats or waists. The luky wearer
of the gold chevron for 'a wound is
allowed to add a chevron for every
wound subsequently received. Not
more than ono chevron may bo worn
for two or more wounds received at
th same time.
If these few facts are kept in mini!
by the men in the service they w.ll
cease puzzling over the distinguishing
marks of the man from overseas. Th
stripes on the left arm will tell you
how long he has served at the from,
and the gold chevrons on his right
arm will permit you to read in passing
his record of honors received as a re
sult of active service in the face of
the enemy. Trench and Camp.
k " HAVE YOUR EYES
EXAMINED. GLASSES MADE
AND. FITTED BY US
We guarantee you relief from eye
strain and headaches if caused
by defective eyes.
HALLETT
Regiatered Optometerist
Eat. 1871 1143-0
MORE!
One day conies Secretary Baker with
a detailed statement that the war de
partment must have seven billion dol
lars more than it figured on a few
months ago raising the year's war
bill above thirty billions. There are
the obpects and the items, calculated
to a dollar.
Next comes Mr. Hoover with a state
ment that we must ship seventeen
million tons of food across the Atlan
tic all worked out to the last ton on
the basis of carefully examined facts
Three and a half million American
soldiers in France must be fed; the
needs of the allied armies and civilian
populations are Just so much.
That is the law of this war. Its one
persistent word is More!
You know what you have done to
meet the war in saving food, fuel and
money. It is not enough. Look about
on any city street, into any hotel, in
a country town, on a farm. Compare
what you see with what you have
read about conditions where there is a
real war pinch. You know well
enough that the belt can be tightened
many notches.
We have now entered the great year
of the war. We can finish it within a
twelvemonth; but probably by noth
ing short of the greatest effort of
which we are capable. That German
line Is still a long way from the Rhine.
Say to yoursef "More!" with eveYy
motion you make until the Kaiser
says "Enough!" The Post.
NECESSARIES
If the question had come np during
the Civil war anyone would have said
that a device by which a man could talk
to his neighbors over a wire was cer
tainly unessential; but we consider
telephones essential nowadays.
With the exception of wheat, there
has hardly been an article of food on
which Europe and America have lean
ed more heavily during the war than
on potatoes, which were unknown to
white men until Spaniards discovered
them In South America "In the six
teenth century.
A few years before Europe saw the
first potato It saw the first portable
timepiece, or watch, which we should
hardly know how to get along without
not. Yet, if you cansider it, to only
one person out of a thousand is a
watch really essential. The other
nine-hundred and ninety-nine could
get along without portable timepieces
if they only thought so.
Adam Smith reports: "The first per
son in England who wore stockings
is said to have been Queen Elizabeth,
mho received them as a present from
the Spanish ambassador." We could
go back to winding our legs in cloth
and get through the day's work.
Taine suggests that civilization be
gan in England when the pouplation
found out how to warm a habitation
without suffocating In smoke.
At every step backward along the
human path something that we now.
as a matter of course, take to be es
sential to living disappears. At every
step forward eome new convenience
gets woven into fur habits; so that
we presently, as a matter of course,
take it for an essential; and once we
have so taken It. It becomes Just at
essential aa anything else.
Fifty yoara hence the essentlalnesa
of automobiles will no more be ques
tloned than the easentlalness of watch
es or stoves. The Post.
PROGRESS MADE BY OUR
ALLIES IN LAST THREE
MONTHS OF OPERATIONS
The -remarkable progress made by
the allied troops In the world war
since July 15. 1911 when the big
fighting started in the Marne salient.
and up to and Including October 15,
as shown by a compilation of the
official reports for the three months,
gives these remarkable totals:
Territory Reclaimed Approximate
ly 3.000 square miles, counting from
the point of greatest German penetra
tior on July 15.
Tcwns Freed Many hundreds, In
cluding among the moit Important,
Middelkerke, Ostende, Ghistelles, Zee
brucse, Bruges, Routers. Lophen,
Thielt, Courtral, Menin, Commes,
Tcurcoing, Roubaix, Lille, La Bassee,
Douai, Noyon, Cambria, Le Catelet,
St. Quentlrs La Fere, Laon, Berry-au-Eac.
Boureogne, Craonne. Soissons,
Rheims, Chauteau Thierry, St. Mihlel.
Prisoners Taken 380,000.
Guns Captured (Cannon), 3,5000. .
Machine Guns Captured 40.C00.
French Mortars Captured 2,000
(evidently an v.nderestimate).
Airplanes Destroyed 200 (approx
imate and probably underestimated).
Captive Balloons Destroyed Eighty.
Long Range Bombardment Stopped
Forest of St. Gobian taken where
Germans had installed big gun that
shelled Paris.
Nctable Advantages Gained St. Mi
hiel salient wiped out,- German U
boat bases or. Belgian coast taken, all
commanding terrain of the famous Le
Fere-Laon line captured, German lines
of railway communication tapped,
Forest of Argonne cleared, allied com
municating lines freed from German
interruption, German offensive stop
ped and turned into a rout.
In Othtr Fields British advance
notably. In Palestine, pushing forward
th Una originally atretchlng from tht
sea to the River Jordan; British
checkmata Turks In Caucasua and
block route to Irsdla, allied forcea In
Macedonia break Bulgarian front,
forcing the surrender of Bulgaria, and
creating a new menace from Rumania!
Italians take Durazxo In Albania ano
push forward, allies defeat Austrian
fleet In Adriatic, allies push forward lr
to Russia from the north, and more
than 600 miles Into Siberia from
Vladivostok.
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rushed the other evening when the en
tire command made a call for gloves,
mitts, or "anything to keep your bandit
warm." The cool morning drill of th
past few days accounts for this In
crease of business.
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