CAPTIVE FOOD WASTERS THESE TWO MEN •BP 29 ft a HELPING HUNS GERMANS KINDLY 8 3 REFIT THE ARMY 2.3 s-i. s-i. Offiice f+ WJ ft- CO 3- 2 2. CO O^O O 3 p§ 3 RXTr -2 In -1 "N* "5 WITH VICTORY jN THE BALANCE Lively Wottc pf Major Fawcett French Generous to Prisoners De* a in W KAISER'S FRIENDS CONTINUE a 3 and Captain Thrall at spite Brutal Course of sr «n cr 3 CO CRIMINAL WASTE. 5' RT oq o1 Gl crq Enemy. Camp Blank. 3 QTQ. O orq Candidate W CO O •i 3* O 3 o. ARE GLAD TO BE OUT GF 11 SPRUCED UP FOR OVERSEAS 10 3 Bear River 1 Beaver Big Falls 40 15 12 Is Congress Nursing Hun HelpersPatriots 8ight of Long American Columns*Do Hungry and Ill-Clad Soldiers Well Fed Bridgie Should Wire Their Congressman •trays Hun Hopes of Victory—Live and Mfcde Spick-and-Span for Cigmars ./.... 5 Like Happy Family in Before It Is Too the Voyage to Battle Calwell 2 1 kI-? Prison Camp. Late For Action. Front in France. Cross River .., 23 Dinner Creek 12 10 29 With the American Forces in France Washington.—Maj. George W. Fawcett -Next in importance, to the brave Dentab&w 11 41 —France knows that her prisoners it is the camp quartermaster at an stand being made by the Allied armies 6 Englewood 11 10 Germany are treated badly} but Ger American embarkation camp. It is his against the onrush of the Hindenburg Evergreen 25 5 9 man prisoners are treated humanel] first business to see that troops going horde is the union of the patriotic Forest Grove .. and even generously in French .prisons overseas find comfortable, healthful 0 9 0 people^ of the United States to stop just the same, writes Don Martin temporary quarters, and have plenty of Grand Falls ... 14 wastage of food. Both are essential in the New York Herald. I asked food. The camp is more than a rest to victory. Therefore I urge that as Gowdy 4 resort for travelers. When it was an Officer in charge of a French prison inany patriotic Minneapolitans as possible Henry 10 camp why this, is, and he shflrgged established less than a year ago incoming attend the Food for Victory mass Harrigan 60 8 0 his shoulders and said merely: troops were warned that they meeting at the Auditorium Tuesday 9 36 45 Jameson "Ah!" must not rely on getting any of their night, and I especially urge that the Kline Unless one could see the gesture overseas outfit here. This is so completely men come and fint out what splendid Lindford ...... changed under Major Fawcett's accompanying the monosyllable he 12 work the women have been doing."— Meadow Brook would hardly know what meaning to administration that there is nothing 8 A. W. Wilson, State Food Administrator. attach to it. It really meant: an organization can possibly need Meding 34 which this camp will not supply nearly "Oh, what's the use of being bruttil 7 Nett River Patriotism Demands ft. to individuals just because some as fast as the men can be marched Nett Lake 30 How any man with an r0uncu of one else is? We wish we could,-but up to his warehouses to take the supplies patriotism in his body can siee this Pine Top 0 wd can't." away. preventable waste' and-fail to 'do all Plum Creek ... —0L I have- inspected several prisons, Major Fawcett has a ten-foot sqfiare that is in his power to stop It is beyond Rat Root 28 Soine large and some small, and in office in an unpainted shack. He sits comprehension! Scarlett 5 every one I have found the Germans at a little desk with two clerks, one behind An Insane Risk, A CftrninafFblly. treated quite as well as civil prisoners him and the other at his side. A Steffes 9 It is sheer insanity bfl 'tlie part of in normal times and in many instances telephone receiver is strapped over his Sturgeon River 15 Congress to face the^riSk &P-faiJiire better. Officers are not humiliated in head all the time. The officers requiring Warreit 1 0 0 through the waste and destruction any way. In fact they receive better supplies for the present and future Wicker chargable to the liquor traffic: 9 who come into this camp make treatment, a stranger would think, Wild wood 10 Think of^ it. Enough bread' tu ration 0 mistakes, big and little, but not one than they are really entitled to. our army nr.vy and White Birch ... and millions 23 -I of them has ever got anything worse 0 ......_JPrlsoners Live Happily. of our fighting allies 'sufficient coal Mizpah than ah amused or an astonished grin 0 On a low hill about 1,000 feet from to have averted the heatless days Northome 10 from the camp quartermaster. "It is 9 24 0 a .main road of France stand's^a prison the a"lo'§3 which caused nation of two easier and quicker, to give a man what Totals ---fiye low wooden buildings surrounded 39J 28 63 30 78| 45 167|.112| 10 130| 47] Mjpns pf dollars and two billions'of you know he wants," the major says, two' barbed wire fences, with dollars in cold coin only the represent "than to waste your time, his, and the armed ptckets always patrolling outside. TIGHTENING UP DRAFT RULES that is, the boys who became of draft, that is, June 5, 1917, and ^^.er items of waste t&Wt ar& chargto government's, by quarreling with him Here are 200 Germans, many of age since the first registration a traffic. all' b« contracted marriage after May the It coiild because lie has not put his needs in t^em prisoners taken in the early bat Government is Making it Harder-and by war-time prohibition. Add sayed year ago, marriage is not a cause for 117, proper shape." now offer as a. basis for exem^ fle .of' the Somme, but gome taken to this the uncounted harder for Men to Secure' Exemptions arid' uncount­ exemption unless the marriage was Makes It Easy for Them. tiori the circufstances that they ha% ^ore recently. They are all privates able' value' of the man power Wasted, from Draft contracted prior to January 15, 1918. Army, regulations require particular ^d ^constitute as happy a family as a dependent, the .cause is not to the hundreds of thousands of and cars Tf the registered man. was married printed formulas for requisitions, prepared one1 feb'hld find where person^ liberty recognized unless the dependent isjt the locomotives required for the traffic, NEW RULES AFFECT with scrupulous attention to before that, date, then the marriage is the one thing "desired and denied. chikUof the marriage born or unboifl the moral and the money, cost of small details.. Major .Fawcett has is a cause for exemption../ fGermiahs ^tood'at tKeir barbed MARRIED MEN on or before June 9, 118. Upo^ the vice, and crime it breeds.: In con taught,his men to accept any scribbled retices hotirs at a tijtrife $hd w&tched Such men can claim exemptoin fc submission of satisfactory proof, tl« sideration of these things the inaction memorandum on the back of an envelope the: ehdl^ss litie of sqliiiers. Wlien it The governmentis making it harder dependents only when dependent is of Congress assumes the -aspect of registrant may be put into Class j| or a bit of wrapping paper, tell the #as, tlife blue of FrattCb' thiit was moving and harder for men to secure exemption criminal folly. At best it delays victory a child from such marriage named applicant for supplies to come, back No man regardless of date of rejj| paM the Oenpdi|s were not particularly and at worst it may spell defeat. from the draft. The latest above, born or unborn on or prior to In half an hour, and, then, when he returns, interested. ^hey h&y seen that istration can be put into Class 2 if it Is Congress Criminal? Are the rules affect the securing of exemption hand to htm a perfectly arranged .June 9, 1918. Upon the submission for years. They Idiow FrandcJ iaiways is decided that the marriage was com people culpable? for the two reasons of marriage form pf requisition, stating all his of satisfactory proof, the .registrant Kad an endless line Of Everything tracted for the purpose of evading With tragic monotony the Huns needs with military exactness, and at: and dependents. may be placed in Class 2. ftfedded for war. But when they satv the draft. All such are to go intj^ have been pushing us, with our allies the same time directing ixlm to a storehouse tibie khaki of Ame rica filing or rolling For all boys who registered June 7, If men who registered for the first 'Class 1. back and literally pinching the British where "ills supply Is already for a whole day and'Vhen for anomer, between the Hun devil and the waiting. and heard the muddy shuffle of deep blue setf. We have not been The interior traffic of the. camp has ib&re wis a net through Jthe night, Winning the fight. Would it have Increased until 100 big motortrucks c^ange in the titill expresOslOn of ttiose helped if Congiress had passed war are tearing through the streets from Cfertoan ej^ies.' It was at this time that time prohibition, and saved the daily dawn until dark, and half of them I went to the prison to learn what they work far into the night. The more the loss of five: and a half millions ot thonj^tit pf wftat they had seen. First loaves of bread? Would the tables camp speeds up the more troops Major It should be stated that fliese prisoners Fawcett invites the war department to have been turned if our ships had not Bee Utile of receiit developments In send through th£ camp. The ideal of rocked idly at their anchors delaying the war., ^ey must f^rm their opinions seeing to It that no man crosses the shipments of food and war equipment fragmefiti of conversation seas for service With clothing and for lack of the coal and transportation ais they Wr# fnmi their keepers A Paying Proposition equipment which is not new, or as good that the breweries had. consumed until and from fliey §0$, as, for In? as new, has just about been reached. the government had to shut down tfoyn stance, tl|e |OQ|, long line of Troops are detrained from the- interior Industry at a loss of two billion dollars? Americans, tine first tlicv bad seen. in dusty, faded clothing, patched and Are the people culpable for not Ii) this paittcidar prison the newWopefs pulled out of shape, and go onto their demanding that congress act, and act bad brought the nctws situation ships in an incredibly short time dressed now? up tft early spring, but us for t^ie big up like a show window display. THE STEAM LAUNDRY IS NOW UNDER NEW MANAGE- To Prove Our Patriotic Loyalty. offeiiflve t^e prisoners knew only that His lieutenants In charge of money there probably \poul4 be oue. Every loyal patriot should slice his disbursements, subsistence, construction, MENT AND IS CALLED THE NEW HOME LAUNDRY AND IS «j|merifl!fiia 8urpri«e Qfrmana. bread the thinner, should reduce his transportation, and reclamation fpod portions and save, save, save When I If there imp a German are at his door with brand-new complications UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF MANAGER R. to help win the war, and the Safety nmoiig the two hundref| who could every few minutes. Bewildered speaji Bngltsl|p goo| looking young Commission and thei President and supply officers, who have come LATZ OF LATZ BROS. OF VIRGINIA WHO IS A PRACTICAL the Congress should stop the waste, {nan, fftth atypical Teutoulc mustache, to the camp without the slightest Idea waste, waste~of the breweries. There red cheeks, a glow of health, was allied of what is expected of them (and who LAUNDRY MAN AND CLEANER. HE HAS HAD SEVERAL is an old-fashioned story in an oldfashioned out, He stepped lutp py presence would have resigned before coming had book that runs something lik^ a|| fiutoinaton, clickei) |||s heels together they known) appear at his door looking YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IN THIS WORK AND WILL GIVE on this wise: "Why beholdest thou audi nalute| the French captain. scared they listen for a few minutes the thick slice in thy brother's eye He told me he was a private that he to the general run of his telephone SATISFACTION NOT t)NLY IN THE GOOD WORK HE when behold millions of loaves are has a home pi Lucerne, Switzerland conversation, forget their scare, in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite! that he fought eight months, but was answer his questions with a promptness DOES BUT ALSO BY CAREFULLY CHECKING ALL ORDERS First cast the millions of loaves out never wpumted that he Is lp the wholesale and a definiteness which seem to of thine own eye. and then thou shalt dry goods business In Berlin, and surprise the men themselves, and go BOTH AS THEY COME IN AND GO OUT SO THAT NOTHING see clearly to cast the thick slice that he does business witb John Wanamaker, out with their heads up, smiling confiiently, out of thy brother's eye." Marshall Field and Stern and accomplish changes and WILL BE LOST OR MIXED WITH OTHER ORDERS. If you believe in immediate wartime Brothers. refittings and substitutions such as prohibition—the only way to let "What do you think of all the Americans they had never dreamed of. the Congress know it/is to say so. AN EXPERT WASHER HAS BEEN SECURED FROM MINNE­ you have seen pasr'ng here recently?" Work Well Divided. Why not wire the U. S. Senate in care I asked him. The work under Major Fawcett subsided of Hon. Knute Nelson and Hon. Frank APOLIS WHO HAS HAD FOURTEEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE "I have seen many Americans," he itself naturally so that no disproportionate B. Kellogg and wire the House in care said. "I was surprised that you have burden falls on any one of the representative from your dis AND THERE WILL BE NO DANGER OF COLORED GOODSj so many ip grance." department, with one exception. For trict to stop this waste and win the Another prisoner, less prepossessing accounting purposes it is absolutely BEING FADED OR OTHERWISE RUINED. war? in appearance than the first, was asked necessary that one man should have -about things in general. He spoke charge of what, in quartermaster language, A SPECIALTY IS BEING MADE OF HOME WASHING AND English poorly. is called "property." He must EX-G0V. VAN SANT "I live in Berlin and work in a bank, sign every invoice and assume responsibility US TAKE CARE OF THEIR WASHING THAN BY DOING IT but was in fee wax for two years. for it financially. This job When the war is over I am going to under Major Fawcett is that of Capt. EVERY HOUSEHOLDER CAN DO BETTER BY LETTING Switzerland to live. I would go to C. E. Thrall, Q. M. R. C. Captain America, but they don't like Germans Thrall has counted it a big night when THEMSELVES' BESIDES ELIMINATING THE DRUDGERY over there any more." he has had more than four hours' sleep •'Wliy are you going to leave Germany?" since the war started. AND WEARINESS OF WASHING DURING THESE HOT SUM­ Captain Thrall has never been BW an answer there was a shrug of caught rattled. He swears now and MER MONTHS.' v' shoulders and a half scowl, half smile. then, but laughs at himself when he "Are you satisfied here?" swears and he never lets anybody else THE DELIVERY AUTO WILL CALL FOR AND DELIVER "It's a lot better than being in a get rattled. Captain Thrall is a much grave where a lot of them are." more tired looking man than he was a ORDERS ANYWHERE IN TOWN. THIS IS A GOOD LAUN­ year ago-—but like his chief he has found that the best way to keep men KEEPSAKE GOES FOR BONDS DRY AND A VERY NECESSARY INDUSTRY FOR OUR CITY, moving is to meet ignorance and stupidity-alike with a-friendly grin and Gives jQkiahoma Man Up pold Piece BUT IT CANNOT OPERATE IF THE PEOPLE WILL NOT straighten them out as the^ po along. Has Carried He for ThirtySeven Major Fawcett left the regular army Years. GIVE IT A CHANCE TO DO THEIR WORK. 17 years ago and was for many years purchasing agent for the Philippine Tulsa, Okla.—'I have carried this constabulary. Captain Thrall came YOURS TRULY, gold piece with me for thirty-seven from the ranks of the regular army. years, and I have resisted hunger anj R. LATZ, tempfatipn to spend it, apd have Beggar Had $500. ways kept it as a treasure. However, Memphis, Tenn—John Johnston, a $ NEW HOME LAUNDRY, Uncle Sam needs it now, and I willingly professional' beggar, cursed a white let it go so.it will help to bring vic-j woman when she refused to buy a pencil tory to the American arms.", from him. He was arrested. At This was the statement of W. H. /Former goyernor, Civil War veteran 't "A If i,t -4 $ the city jail when hfe was searched t' Martin of this city as he deposited a and field marshal of the allied JF MY *. $50$ in currency was found in bia feOrgold piece ar the post -office window forces fighting brewery autocracy in clothes. and asked for some baby bonds. i^iiiiieBOta. ^-r fr\