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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1918)
TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 P U P IL S ’ ITEM S William Saudaine is always on the job at the power plant. The seventh grade pupils are studying about leaves and their parts. Nellie Francis is acting as dining-room sergeant, assisting Mrs. Hauser. The gardeners are busy and working hard in order to keep up with their planting. The seventh grade pupils are learning a poem called “ The Bugle Song.” The sixth grade girls are working in the students’ kitchen for the next five weeks. There are green beans almost large enough to cook on the seventh grade experimental plants. James White Plume, an ex-student of Chemawa, has joined the colors lately and is located at Camp Travis, Texas. The sixth grade pupils have taken up the study of South America. All are interested in it as it has a re semblance to North America. Mary Unge, Louise DeMacon and Rose Deschamp have been transferred from the sewing-room to the kitchen to help during the absence ot those who are on the sick list. A N O TH ER SPEC IA L D R A FT Still another special draft call, the third in a little more than one month, has been made by the War Department. Under this third call, Oregon is to furnish 251 men for the service in the National Army, in addition to the 369 called out by the order of March 11, who have already reported at Camp Lewis; and the 923 who are to report to Camp Lewis in the five-day period begin ning April 26. The 251 men to be taken in the new special call are ordered to report to Fort McDowell, Cal., in the five day period beginning May 1. As that is an artillery training post, the supposition is that these men are to l)e put into the artillery though no official announce ment has been made to that effect. These 251 men constitute 3.4 per cent of Oregon’s first gross draft quota. All told, since March 11, a total of 1541 men from Oregon have now been called into military service through the draft. The state and various counties are to be credited later with these men against the net quota for the big draft call that is coming soon. In this call, as in the two special calls previously made, men actively, completely and assiduously en gaged in the planting and cultivation of crops will not be called until the end of the quota. Twelve men will be called from Marion county. LIV E P A R A G R A P H S To enable people in this country to send gifts to sol diers, sailors and Red Cross workers abroad a special license has been issued through the customs service and the post office department. This license does not permit shipments to American prisoners of war, it is announced; it simply obviates the necessity of obtain ing an individual license every time a shipment is made to soldiers in the regular service. The American tractor tanks built for use by the American army in France have met the approval of British, French and American army men and are expected to play an important part soon on the west ern front in transporting artillery, motor trucks, etc., over the rough roads. They will, it is believed, have a wider range of usefulness than either the British or the French types. The British tanks though able to withstand heavy fire are cumbersome and slow while the French tanks of a lighter and swifter type are not so powerful. The American machines are the em bodiment of the good features of both. The sum of $50,000,000 is being used for their manufacture. Numerous instances in which payers of taxes have sent a few dollars extra to the government with the explanation that it be used to further the war against Germany have been noted. Gifts to the goverment have always hitherto been held illegal, but now the donations are being accepted and credited to a special fund. 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E x a m in a tio n s for th e D e p artm en ta l Service, for b o th m en a n d w om en, a re h e ld every T u esd ay in 450 of th e p rin c ip a l cities of th e U n ite d S ta te s, an d a p p licatio n s m ay be filed w ith th e C om m ission a t W ash in g to n , D. C ., a t an y tim e. T h e e n tra n c e salary ra n g e s from $1,000 to $1,200 a y ear. A d v an cem en t of capable em ployees to h ig h e r salaries is re a so n ably ra p id . A p p lican ts m u st h av e reach ed th e ir e ig h te e n th b irth d a y on th e d a te of th e ex am in atio n . F o r full in fo rm atio n in re g a rd to th e scope and c h a ra c te r of th e e x am in atio n a n d for ap p licatio n b lan k s a d d re ss th e U. S. Civil S ervice C om m ission, W ash in g to n , D. C ., o r th e S ecretary of th e U. S. Civil Service Board of E x a m in e rs a t B oston, M ass.; N ew Y o rk , N . Y .; P h ilad e lp h ia , P a .; A tlan ta, G a .; C in cin n ati, O hio; C hicago, 111.; S t. 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