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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1918)
CHANGED BY WEEK OF TRENCH LIFE Boys From United States Rapidly Turned Into Men. ACQUIRE AIR OF VETERANS A m erican T ro o p s Seem ed V e ry Y o u n g the D a y Before T h e y W e n t to Battle Line— S a y F ood “Is Good E n o u g h ” and T h ey U su a lly Get It on Tim e— French A irm e n A lw a y s on G u ard for Enemy. H ,+ + + 'H ,+ + + ,H '+ 'H '+ + + + + ,H ,+ ,H m I I GUARD THE DOOR ++++++++++++++++++++++++^1 By A rc h ib a ld Rutled ge ilantes. of the V ig Think not that I am far away, When fighting on a foreigu shore; Hide in hand I watch and wait Outside your door. I am at hand, however far From home the Flag beloved I bore; Ceaseless the vigil that I keep. Guarding your door. Trenches o f Flanders, fields o f France, Or soaring as the eagles soar— It matters n otj it means but this: I hold the door. ( And when you gather to the hearth As durkness shrouds the wood and moor Fenr not, fo r in the night I stand T o guard the door. AERIAL MAIL AT 100-MILE GAIT » » ♦ ’1 1 1 'H 'M H-H +: •>++++++ TOOK OVIiR LENTURr TO GET TH IS OPPORTUNITY **+•: : *+++•:-++++•! t +4- ;- m - : +++-I Plans Perfected by United States Post Office Department. Seaplane Has Important Part in Hunting Down German U-Boats. UUE TU WRIGHT’S DREAMS A cross A tla n tic A ft e r W ar Predicted. All day yesterday we watched the It Is within the memory of high school boys uud girls of Dayton, O., American soldiers who were to go fo that Wilbur uud Orville W right were the front that night wondering about the streets o f the little village from Who strikes at mine, he strikes at me. contemptuously referred to by their And you are mine. Then rest secure! thrifty, industrious neighbors us “ those which the start was to be made. Other two no account boys.” For the Wright soldiers were there, mostly men of the 1 Rifle in hand by day and night, I guard the door. brothers passed the bright days of Fiench line, and Moroccans and Al spring uud .summer fiat on their backs gerians', writes Herbert Corey in the j in orchards and woodlands tnuklug uo Chicago News. effort in life beyond watching little "W hat is th(j difference between the birds as they tiew from tree to tree. American and the French soldiers?” we The Wright boys didu’t amount to af 'd each other-. By and by the an- much fifteen years ago, except in their • me. own estimation. ok so young.” were not unduly young. ' And today, among other wonderful ricans one by one and . Shell Dropped on Submarine’s things resulting directly from the fact that the Wright brothers invented a en to be stout, physically Back Makes Raider Quit ecldedly intelligent young j flying machine that would fly, the Unit ed States post office department has jir faces were full o f ehar- Battle. d decision. It is doubtful if perfected plans for carrying mall by . e younger collectively by a day An officer of a steamer from an airplane between the cities o f Wash tha^ the men o f u company of Moroc American port gives a stirring account ington, Philadelphia and New York. can shock troops who have been watch of a 90-mile fight with a U-boat in the A feature o f the contract the aerial ing them with Interest. Some 61 these Atlantic. It lasted from thg firing o f mail carriers will have to obey stands latter are mere kids. One had not yet a torpedo, which Just missed, at 11:45 out as a direct development o f the raised a beard. a. m., until 5:40 p. m. During that world war, the greatest advancement The explanation came to us eventual Ume the stokers worked without ceas o f which, next to the establishment ly. The French troops were veterans. ing to get every ounce o f speed out o f tile superiority of Hun barbarity, is Even though they may be no older they of the boilers. The engineers got her improvement of the airplane. This have matured In war. It often happens up from a normal ten or eleven knots feature is that every airplane must that the veteran Is a mere child In the to more than thirteen and a half. carry 300 pounds o f mall a distance affairs o f civil life. These French may “ The gunners were on duty every of not less than 200 miles without stop not be the equals in prompt decision second,” said the officer. "From the and at a maximum speed o f 100 miles and resolution and forethought of the bridge we could see every shot from an hour. Forty miles an hour faster Americans in matters that have not to the submarine. W e formed a big, high than a mile a minute 1 do with war. But in fighting they are target 500 feet long, and the enemy R ou te s to Be P e rm an en L centuries older. showed only a small dome five miles The post office department insists astern. A couple o f hours’ ineffective the routes are to be permanent, the Bo yish Illu sio n Persists. A few hours later we saw the Amer shelling made him a bit venturesome, confident announcement that “It is no ican troops marching out to take their but our gunners speedily showed him experiment,” having been officially places in the trenches. That illusion that it was unhealthy to come too made. Bids have been called fo r by o f boyishness persisted. Even their close. W e had plenty o f ammunition the deportment fo r five airplanes for gait seemed to be that o f boys, al and we used it lavishly. With con this air line mall route. Truly, It is a though they wore a soldier’s full ac stant practice, too, our gunners be time o f wonderful and amazing prog coutrement and carried a 60-pound gan to get better. Nevertheless, about ress. pack. Yet we know that a week in the three o’clock the German gunners got Speed and a higher percentage of trenches— granted that they are called out some better shells and shrapnel safety are the two salient points of on to do real fighting— will transform began to rain on our decks. The man advancement In aviation fo r which them from amateurs o f war into nerve- In the wheelhouse was struck by a splin Mars takes credit. tested veterans. More time will be ter. A shot pierced the scupper over “ Snfety first” Is n Dayton slogan In needed to teach them the tricks of the boatswain’s room. Another struck all Industry. It was natural that Or their new trade, but in a single week us abaft the engine room on the port ville Wright, who'survives his brother, they will have altered their personali side. Wilbur, should turn his attention to “ For a while the fight was fierce. making the product o f their genius as ties to meet the new demands. The village was one o f the thou Then fo r half an hour no shots were safe ns might be. He worked out a sands of tiny towns which are scattered fired, while the submarine maneuvered stabilizer, that, operating automatic along the French front. Shells had for position. Our ship was vibrating ally, kept the machine, under ordinary Our captain paced the circumstnnces, on what might be called fallen In it from time to time, and with speed. roofs here and there were crushed in, bridge, keenly observant. When the an even keel. Also he helped to bal and holes dug in the roadway. Some U-boat finally got the position he want ance the weight o f the machine to bet thing had happened to the church. I ed and renewed the shell fire our gun ter advantage. do not now remember what it was, and decided to let them have it as hot as An ingenious method of airplane yet my memory preserves a distinct our gun would stand. A fter a few manipulation was adopted, and It Is In Impression that the church was not as minutes we landed a shell squarely teresting to observe how It dovetails it should be. It seamed disheveled and on the German’s back. It apparently Into human psychology. If one might ragged. Now and then German avia disturbed him a good deal, fo r he stop call It that. To drive an airplane, the tors flew over it, to see what was ped firing at once, then slackened flyer follows directions that fit In with going on. The French flyers always speed, altered course and submerged." whnt easily are the natural Impulses challenged them. of the body. The few Inhabitants o f the village For Instance, fo r higher altitude, the FAMILY IS REUNITED hardly looked up to watch the air flyer pulls the steering wheel toward tights. They were old stories to them. A R eu nion A fte r M a n y Y e a r s C a m s his breast. This Is a leaning back ward which points the toes o f the fly The Americans wandered about, A b o u t by Accident. curiously, trying their scunty frag A fter being separated for 46 years, er and the nose o f the machine up ward. To descend the wheel Is thrust ments of French on the people and six children o f a Civil war veteran— accustoming themselves to the village Charles A. Ulrich, J. Harry Ulrich, away from the flyer. And this Is a leaning forward which Inclines the Fife so near the front. Their billets William W. Ulrich, George W. Ulrich have been at a greater distance from o f Chicago, Mrs, Mary Meyers o f Lew feet o f the flyer and the nose o f the mnehine toward the earth. Steering to the line for the most part. The Ger iston, Pa., and Mrs. William Vincent— mans are hut seven miles awny here. are united. They were nt Mrs. Vin lijft or right Is done with the feet The front line o f trenches Into which cent's home In Philadelphia together placed upon rests .beside the steering post, and warping o f the planes for they will move tonight are in places | recently. “ hanking” is effected by turning the only five miles away. The reunion came about by accident. steering wheel to the left when steer French A irm en A lw a y s Guard. Mrs. Meyers cnme to the Lankenau ing the plane to the left and to the At the outskirts o f the town a group hospital to undergo an operation, and of Americans are gathered. H a lf of the Chicago member o f the fam ily was right in viee versa fashion. Increased lifting power is another Ho them, perhaps, carry the cheap double I In Philadelphia on business. field glasses which are on sale every learned of his sister's Illness and look war development o f the airplane. Ar mament was necessary on the battle where. They put in hours searching ed up his other brothers and sisters. fronts and heavy machine guns were the details o f the horizon where the The reunion resulted. All the famliy went through the mounted on planes designed for fight German is hilling. ing. And the plane had to carry a Every half hour or so a Boche flyer meatless and other foodless sacrifices pilot and an observer, which increased o f the Civil war period in Lewlstdn. tries to get over the town. Perhaps he tiie size o f the plane beyond that used wants to bomb the vllluge. What is Charles A. Ulrich, recalling those days for years in exhibitions, though the more likely is that the Germans ure and comparing them with the present plane that could carry one or two pas merely putting over the daily recon time, said: “ So far, people o f this generation do sengers has been In existence for some naissance. They may suspect that time. something is going on and are trying not know what war sacrifice means. The most wonderful development In to confirm the impression. Each time Neither will they until our schools this direction Is seen In the achieve a French flyer materializes in some and churches are turned into hos ments of the Onpronl brothers, Italian mysterious fashion. One never sees pitals fo r wounded soldiers brought j airplane builders, who have turned out where they come from. One is watch back from ov^y there, ns they were machines that would carry as many ing the German, and suddenly one sees In Harrisburg after the battle of Get as 30 passengers. tysburg.” him veer toward the safety of his own A ir L in e s A c ro s s A tlantic. lines. A vicious looking Spail is on They predict that, after the war. his heels. CUPID TAKES F IRST PLACE great strides will be made in airplane Toward the latter part o f the after building for commercial purposes. Reg noon smoke begins to pour from the M ilit a r y O rd ers M u st W a it W h en L it ular air lines across the Atlantic, they short chimneys o f the rolling kitchen. tle General Com m ands. say, actually will be established and Coffee is being cooked— real American M ilitary orders take second place ! maintained. coffee— well “ doped” with condensed when the orders o f “ General” Cupid Next to the W right«, the Cnproni milk and plentifully sweetened. The are issued, according to Mrs. Charles j brothers have“done more, It is claim men gather with their aluminum cups Hatfield, until lately Miss Florence and plates, and beans are ladled out Cunninghnm. Miss Cunningham ar ed. In the development o f the airplane to them. An enormous sandwich of rived nt Fort Leavenworth to marry than anybody else Interested In the scientific problems presented. white bread and corned beef from Hatfield, who was under orders for For the present the chief interest In cans Is handed to each. Even a sol “overseas" duty. She found on her ] AmerbA In aviation Is the strides made dier's appetite is satisfied. But they arrival his company lined up at the de- have been at the Job long enough to ! pot, ready to entrain. \ by the war department In training learn how to kick. Despite the protests o f an unro- : thousand* of civilians for war work, “ I ’m off beans fo r the rest of my mantle first sergeant, she pulled Hat in the air, and the production o f the life,” one boy announces. “ I dream field out of the line and proceeded to j famous Ltherty motor, holding the a waiting Justice, where the knot was composite idea o f the best engineering about ’em now.” Iffnins In the country. It is declared tied. Then the couple marched back N ot many comment on the food, hy experts that the Liberty motor It to the line, and amid the cheers of the however. They any briefly that it “is the best in the world, nnd no doubt 1 » good enough” and that they usually troopers. Hatfield kissed his bride of a will he used on the machines soon to get it on time. Now and then some few moments “ good-by” and as he undertake the maintenance o f Unde thing goes wrong, but they take that stepped aboard a train bound “ some .Sam’s unique and daring air line mall as an incident of war. They have lit where” the bride boarded a train for routes. ksr home. tle to say of what Is to come. I Three Towns Behind the Lines n France Hold Great Stores. SNARED WITH STEEL ROPER BAKERY SYSTEM A FEATURE E v e ry A irp la n e M u st C a r r y 300 Pounds of M a il N o t L e ss T h a n 200 M iles W ith o u t Stop at M a x im u m Speed of 100 M ile s an H o u r— R e g u la r A ir L in e s SPOTS SUBMARINE ARMY SUPPLIES IN ON BED OF OCEAN | CRAIN OF CITIES S T E M ifw AFTER FIVE-HOUR DUEL A fter 102 years of listening to suf frage arguments und reasons why women should vote Mrs. Sally Gold, who is two years over the ceututy mark, registered for voting the first time. Mrs. Gold is not u feeble woman despite her age, and she still takes an active interest In all things, especially the activities of women. She wouldn’t think of overlooking the chunce to vote after a hundred years o f waiting. She is shown here washing. Glasses weren’t necessary when she signed the books, fo r Mrs. Gold hus never worn them ; her eyes are still keen. “ I ’m glad I have lived to see women vote,” she commented to those around her. She registered In the thirteenth election district in New York city. RED CRUSS WOMEN ACT AS SHOPPING GUIDES Help American Boys in France in Their Tilts With French Shopkeepers. The American soldier In France Is a good fighting man. But when he faces the French shopkeeper— that qulck- tongued, sharp-eyed little woman who keeps the till as full as she can while her husband fights— he Is glad enough to have an American woman beside him. * So the Red Cross women at the line- of-communleation canteens have a new job. They take American boys out shopping. There are a string o f towns along the railroads where It Is a common sight now to see a hundred American soldiers hurrying about the streets, us ing their precious quarter-hour or so, while they wait for connections. In lay ing In a stock o f tobacco or food or sweets. Heading a group o f a score here nnd a dozen there you will see an American woman, shepherding the whole crowd, marching them Into the shops, translating their wants Into shopkeeper’s French, counting their change for them, nnd generally serv ing as ffuide, interpreter, and guardian. There is usually a troop o f youngsters bringing up the rear, chattering nnd giggling and scrambling now nnd then for tiie coppers that the soldiers throw among them. “ It’s just like going shopping with my sister nt home.” said one grateful warrior. , NO SHORTAGE IN SALT R u m o r of F am in e D eclared B a se less by W a sh in g to n Authorities. The rumor that the United States some time ago was threatened witli a famine in salt was baseless, according to a report on the technology o f salt making in the United States, Just is sued by the bureau of mines, dppnrt- ment o f the interior. W. C. Phalon, mlnernl technologist, the author of the bulletin, reviews the Industry nnd draws eerfnln conclusions from visits to the operating plants In the United Stntps. One o f these conclusions Is that there is an excess o f plant capac ity as compared with domestic re quirements. PO ETESS OPERATES LATHE E m p lo y e d In A irp la n e F acto ry Pleased W ith H e r Job. and Mrs. McC. Carr, a poetesa who trans lates French and Italian, la operating a turret lathe In an airplane factory at Swlssvale. Pa. When patriotic American women registered for war service. Mrs. Carr responded. Soon after she wns offered a Job in the fac tory end she accepted. And she Is Ijappy. In her own words: “ It ’s very nice. The shop Is big and clean and smelly—and Immeasurably better than the stuffiness o f u store.” ii-tru trCrtrCrtrCrA trCrt t rCrCrtrti A country worth f i a country wortli- sa £ T h rift stamps. iting for Is 5 r for. Bny jx 2 t w W W W W W W W n ttJ E ne m y Is G iven F iv e M in u te s to R ite and Surrender, T h e n I s Blow n Up— V iv id D e scrip tio n by E n g lish W rite r. F o rty S h ip m e n ts o f W h ite B read M a d * D a ily — A ll F a c ilitie s B e in g E n larged — One T o w n I* S to r age Center. London.— One of the methods by which, as the first sea lord, Sir Eric Gcddes said recently, the submarine menace Is being “ held,” is vividly de scribed by a writer in the Liverpool Journal o f Commerce. A seaplane hud “ spotted” ji subma rine lying on the sea bed. Instantly the observer’s finger commenced to tap a key. Ten miles awny a long, lean destroyer and four squat trawlers detached themselves like a pack o f hounds working a covert, and hastened to the kill. Mennwhile the seaplane circled around. When the surface ships arrived, her instructions, deliv ered by wireless, w ere curt and pre cise. Acting upon them the trawlers sta tioned themselves nt the four corners o f a wet qundrnngle, while the de stroyer kept her guns ready to talk to Fritz should he nppear above the sur face. The trawlers at the corners got out their sweeps— long w ire hawsers, with a heavy “ kite” In the center to keep their bights down on the seabed— and commenced to steam toward each other. As the pairs o f vessels met, their wires simultaneously engaged them selves under the U-boat's bow and stern, nnd commenced to work their Binuous way between her hull and the sea bottom. Then the strange thing happened. Two round, black objects seemed to detach themselves from her hull and float surfueeward, to hover a second nnd then to commence bobbing down the tide. “ Minelayer, eh?” called the sea plane’s observer. “ That’s It, lad,” came the telephoned answer, “ but her eggs can wait fo r a minute.” Then the trawlers crossed their de pendent cables nn<f thus held the U- boat In a kind o f wire cat’s cradle. She seemed to suddenly awake to her danger, fo r with a bound she tried to disentangle herself from the meshes which held her. But It was no use; the trawlers had been too long at the game and the submarine was doomed. “ Got him,” signaled the seuplnne. “ Thunks,” responded the destroyer. “ W e’ll give him five minutes to come up and breuthe, but no longer.” That time passed but still F ritz made no further move. Behind the American Front In France.— Less spectacular than th* continued arrival o f American troops and their occupation of a definite front sector, yet In its way quite us Impor tant fo r their success, lias beeu the ; steady development o f the system of keeping them |u the myriad supplies | they must have. Keeping puce with the Increasing training cumps there hus grown up a I j storage, transportation nnd distribu tion system that not only accurately aud efficiently supplies the needs of all our soldiers but Is continually be ing enlarged against future needs. Neither troops nor supplies can come too fast fo r I t The various functions o f the system — bakery, refrigerating plant, ware houses fo r * clothlug, non-perlshubla foods and similar supplies, aud the main distributing plant— ure located for convenience sake in three towns or cities sltuuted respectively at the three corners o f an obtuse triangle, und near enough to the truinlng cumps and frout so that supplies cun reach the furthest points In 24 hours. T h e E n d o f the U -B oat. B a k e ry I s G re a t In du stry. No link In the chain between “ a port in France" und the American front is, perhups, more interesting than the bak eries. The supplying o f the American troops In France with white breud has become a great iudustry and is growing all the time. The few bakers origi nally here have grown into companies; the relatively small dully quantity o f bread turned out In July bus Increased to scores o f thousands o f pounds, and entire shiploads o f flour ure arriving weekly und are being stored awuy in warehouses with capacity of millions o f pounds us a reserve against the arrival o f still more troops. The American army flrst took pos session o f a huge bakery In a ceutral French city, form erly operated by a Gemma, aud huviug a cupucity fo r storing 1,006,000 pounds of ilour. In ad i dition to a not inconsiderable daily, output o f breud from its coke ovens. Those making the arrangements knew thut the time would soon come when the city bukery would be inad equate, so they went outside of the city and leased from the French u tract o f luud consisting o f severul thousand acres, upon which the conventional mil itary wooden shucks soou sprang up aud where there is room for uu in ' definite number o f additional field bak I eries us the need may urise. \ By the time the city bakery bud ! reuched its capacity the shacks were j fu lly equipped with the very latest la bHking machinery. Spur trucks have been constructed out to tiie field from the city, aud over ! them curlouds o f bread leave euch morning and afternoon for the training < camps und the frout. A t a flag slguul from the destroyer the port foremost trawler and the star- board after one clipped a small red tin o f Ugh explosive to the bar-tuut wire, nnd allowed It to slide down till It touched the U-boat’s hull. It was the seaplane's turn to wave a flag, and immediately there followed the fall o f two fists upon two firing- keys; the uprising o f two gray mounds o f water and a rumbling, muffled ex- plosion. F o rty S h ip m e n t* D a ily . The seaplane circled twice above j Ench baking company hus fo r some the patch o f rising oil, ascertained time beeu exceeding the lim it o f 30,000 that Fritz had been destroyed, and j notified the destroyer. Then, with her ' pounds u tluy uud bus been turning out from 33,000 to 30,000 pounds. The observer slipping a drum o f cartridges into his mnehine gun, she sped on after ! men, 101 to a company, work In two 12 - hour shifts. Their product, cffletly those objects bobbing down tide. great, round, hard-crusted loaves, con A burst o f rapid firing—and the flrst o f the devil's eggs, its buoyancy chum- stitutes about forty separate shipments her punctured, sank with a gurgle; j thut ure mude dully— hy truin, motor the second gave u better show, for It truck aud horse-drawn vehicles. The bread Is supplemented hy bis exploded grandly— and harmlessly— as cuits und rolls at breukfust und sup tiie bullets reached It. per. In the city itself the Americans TEACHES SO L D IER S TO ACT found one o f the largest refrigerating and meat storage warehouses in Jam es K . H ackett, the A ctor, I s D i France, aud absorbed It last July, rector G eneral of A m u sem en ts, though it was then many times lurger a t C a m p Devens. than their needs. Its capacity Is close to two million pounds, und while It Camp Devens, Ayres, Mass.— A fter I iah at times been nearly full, the sup five months In bed, five months on ply Is never permitted to full below crutches and five months wulking with half a million pounds. There are more the aid o f a gane, James K. Huckett, j than 600,000 pounds there now. the noted actor, is todny enjoying nnny Direct railroad lines lead not only life at tills big camp teaching the hoys from the bakery and the refrigerating how to net. H e Is director general of plant to the camps but also from the amusements fo r the Knights o f Co- j seaports and the city. Iambus, und Is to make a tour o f all Severul miles westward, ut the low the big army camps. H e Is showing er apex o f the triangle, lies another the boys how to put on shows j French town which tins been all but and h ow to umuse themselves by act bodily taken over by the Americans ing. “ We don’t need Rcenery— Shake as a storage center. Here non-perish speare didn’t,” declared Hackett. able foods— canned goods, salt, Jtigar "These men will learn the trick.” and vegetables other tliun those bought fresh from the French peasants— are L IK E H IS FAMOUS ANCESTOR stored. One o f the largest buildings which larae1 P u tn a m of R e v o lu tio n a ry Fam e, the Americans have taken over Is de H a d N o th in g on H it Great- voted to equipment. Here ure stored G reat-G ran dso n. many thousands o f uniforms aud ev ery article o f clothing from shoes and Boone, Colo.— Israel Putnam o f rev caps to battens and handkerchiefs. olutionary fame, who cut his horses The needs o f the troops Is estimated loose from the plow and hnrrled to i at several pairs o f shoes a yeur and engage In battle ngatnst the British, three or four uniforms. had nothing on his grout-great-grand son, Ralph W. Putnam, a farm er near “ 2 Helmet der Kaiser.” Boone.. When the “ war i*rge" over Colum'jas, O.— A unique sign has took Mr. Putnam he hurried from the been tacked above the countlug room farm to the nearest recruiting station, door In State Auditor Donahey’s suite. enlisted and left for a cantonment It bears the numeral “ 2,” then a pic camp, then sent word home by tele- ture o f a helmet, and then the words graph : , "der kaiser,” reading “2 helmet der T i n j C to grab the German g o a t” kaiser.”