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CLYD E
T. E C K E R , Editor.
TR EATING THE GOVERNOR U N F A IR L Y
Tlie Post is not a supporter of Governor Withycombe
and thus it cun be presumed that we are not speaking as a
friend when we dclare it is our belief that any attempt to
make political capital out of certain remarks he made
about four years ago is not patriotic when there is no
doubt of Mr. Withycombe’s Americanism. The true
test of loyalty and patriotism is what one is doing and
saying now. Speaking at Hillsboro on October 24, 1914,
the governor said:
“ Oh, my friends, see Germany. Germany is one of
the grandest countries in the world. The farmers
there have cheap money. Oh, my friends, see how
prosperous Germany is, and see Denmark.”
While “ Germany is not one of the grandest countries
in the world,” as the governor declared, tho at that time
he thought*so, it goes to show that all of us, even govern
ors, make mistakes and err in judgment occasionally.
EXPERTS REBUILD
ARMY DEFECTIVES
Round Shouldered Rookie Given
New Zest in Life.
SEEMING MIRACLES ARE DONE
Orthopedic Diviaion at Camp Oix Is
Saving Many Men Otherwise Unfit—
Crooked 8pines, Flat Feet and Vari.
ous Joint Defects Are Remedied—
Physical and Mental Wrecks Built
Up.
niain ward. Former cobblers among
the patients sent to the hospital are
now doing the work, and Incidentally
are learning a branch o f their trade
which will enable them to demand big
wages when they return to civil serv
ice.
Captain Melsenbach and his assist
ants render unother important service
to the army in that they can quickly
spot the man who may be “ stalling"
in the hope o f getting out o f the serv
ice. A few o f the tests they have de
vised will quickly make the faker
convict himself.
At the same time
they discover many instances o f real
debility In cases that have aroused the
suspicion o f officers.
A New Jersey recruit, a heavy-set
tnnn who hud been a hotel keeper,
while drilling on the field with his
company, suddenly sat down on the
ground. His astonished officer shbuted
an order, but the recruit did not arise.
He suid he could not. Tw o fellow-re
cruits lifted him to his feet, but he
collapsed when he tried to tuke an
other step. His company grinned when
he was sent to the hospital In an am
bulance, for they regarded him as
“ quitter,” but the surgeons found he
was suffering from a real, but rare,
ailment. For days he could get about
tlie ward only on all fours. Under an
elaborate treatment he Is again learn
ing to walk, and while he may never
be fit for first-line service he can do
camp duties that will release some
able-bodied man fo r a line regiment.
Several recruits were found strong
enough physically, but unfit fo r mili
tary duty because o f web fingers. Or
thopedic surgeons operated to correct
this deformity, and these men have
gone back to their regiments with free
hnnds. In another case where extra
toes on each foot prevented a negro
recruit from wearing shoes nnd extra
fingers annoyed him in handling a
gun, the surgeons obligingly took off
the extra digits.
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isfaction that the chewer of
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Real Gravely
Chewing Plug
10c a pouch—and worth it
H e came to the big training camp at
Wrightstown, N. J., In a recent draft
G ravely lasts so m uch lo n g e r i t costs
from a rural district in New York
n o m ore to chew than ord in a ry p lu g
stare. How the home board came to
accept him is a mystery, for he was
P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company
so round shouldered he looked like
Danville, Virginia
huneliback.
Had he arrived a few
months earlier the camp examining
board would have sent him back post
haste, but under the new ruling widen
The Spectacle of the Heavens
permits the army to salvuge from this
b U 'iin stream called forth by the draft
much o f the material that was for
(B y Prof. Donald Beard.)
merly stamped "unfit” he was ac
I f you haven’t noticed Mars and Saturn in the skies
cepted.
For several days he drilled with his
these nights you have been overlooking the spectacle of
company In the depot brigade. A t least
the
planetary system. Both are visible early in the night
he tried to drill, but nothing could get
him to straighten up and throw back
and their wonderful colors make them distinct objects,
his shoulders. T o make matters worse
Mars in the southwest and Saturn farther west. I f you
his feet went “ bad” and finally he
have a field glass take a look at both of them, hanging like
could scarcely hobble about. Then he
was sent to the buse hospital where
great lamps in the sky. Use a pair of opera glasses if you
he became . patient in the new ortho
haven’t field glasses. And if you have a small telescope
pedic department.
you can see these planets as discs instead of flaring points
Experts Take Charge.
‘SUCH A LIT T LE T H IN G ”
of light. A fairly good small telescope will show you the
Experts looked over his bent form
and set to work. They massaged his
rings of Saturn and the polar caps of Mars, while the
back, and even “ baked” It under an
(Montreal Star.)
moon these nights has been a joy to one with even a pair
electric heater. They compelled him
Bestrides Horse He Rode
Maybe you did not notice it. A fter all, it was such a to undergo exercises until he winced Major Now
of
field or opera glasses. A pair of field glasses makes the
on Mexican Border.
at the pain o f muscles and tendons
little paragraph— a meager three lines:
moon
look like a great sugar ball sticking out in the
Maj. Curtis O. Redden, with the One
which had been useless fo r years. The
“ One of 11. M. destroyers sank the other morning, as crooked spine became supple. With Hundred Forty-ninth A rtillery regi heavens. Mountains and plains are easily seen.
ment In France, has written relatives
the result of a collision in foggy weather. A ll hands are a supreme effort he could straighten at Danville, 111., that he has just re
his back while In bed, but when he ceived his saddle horse which he had
missing, presumably drowned.”
The Cyclone Out of Sorts
sat up or walked he slouched In the two years ago on the Mexican bor
It was such a little thing—today. Four years ago it same old stoop-shouldered posture.
der.
" I t ’s no use.
I can’t do It,” he
would have filled the front page of the paper. W e should
(Rocky Mountain Cyclone.)
When the Rainbow division sailed
whpn a physical director told for France the horses belonging to the
We
begin
the
publication ov the Rocky Mountain Cy
have had pictures of the officers and graphic stories by pleaded
him to straighten up *and go through Danville battery were left at New
clone
witli
some
phew difficulties in tlie way. The type
survivors, with an editorial of the loss the empire had sus the exercises, and apparently he could port
News, Va., In care o f a detail o f
not. But the experts o f this new de men from the battery. Only a short
jliounder phrom whom we bought our outpkit plior this
tained by the sudden passing of these promising lives.
partment had still another card to time ago the animals were sent across.
Minting opliice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays
Such a little thing, but out of the murk of clammy fog play.
They began to teach him self- The men arrived at the landing place,
there screams the agonized call of the steamer’s siren. A confidence, and In a week had proved and the sergeant In charge hurried to md it will be pliour or pliive weex before we can get any.
frenzied shout or two, a crash as a bulkhead gives way to his own satisfaction that he could get Into communication with M ajor W e bavé ordered the missing letters, and w ill have to get
straighten those shoulders.
ilong without them till they come. W e don’t lique the
and a gurgling of water—that is all. True, on tlie quiver H e Is now fit, not fo r a camp job, Redden.
The latter was somewhere on the
ing decks there stand a few figures in great sea boots and but for a first line unit. The ortho American front, hnt the soldier kept loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our read
heavy coats shouting brave orders as the mist wreathed pedic experts actually Inverted the trying until he was able to find ers. but mistaix w ill happen in the best ov regulated
hump on his back nnd made It bulge him and then reported that the long-
waters wrap them in their embrace.
out his chest. H e carries his head looked-for horses were In France, phamilies, and ipli the ephs and es and xs and qs hold out
Such a little thing. Eighty men have been blotted out. erect, his shoulders thrown back, and ready fo r action, and that among we shall ceep (sound tlie c hard) the Cyclone whirling
he now walks with a confident, easy them was the one ridden by the major
aphter a phasion till tlie sorts arrive. It is no joque to us;
They have died a more horrible death than any soldiers, stride,
for they have strengthened the in Texas.
It had been returned to
i
t’s a serious aphair.
save perhaps those who perish by poison gas. Little lone arches o f his feet Hnd have given him Danville,
kept there until the battery
ly figures in a great univerve of darkness. They have pass special shoes to correct any threaten was called to the colors again, and
defects.
then sent to Newport News.
How Long Since You
ed out of history and are buried in the sea they love. The ing Marvelous
as has been the physical
“ I f the horse comes through this
record of their brave deeds is a 3-line paragraph.
change. It Is surpassed by his Improved war and I survive, I am galng to buy
mental condition. He was inclined to him nnd bring him home,” the major
(Detroit News.)
t
Such a little tiling.
be dull, listless, and careless. The concluded.
Saw a “ canopy top” buggy ?
straightening o f his body seems to
JELLY, JUICES A N D JAM
Marched in a torchlight procession?
have given him a higher, brighter out
look on life, and there Is snap even In
Received a pamphlet from tlie party’s national com
his conversation. The doctors have
J A N I E ’S HEAD WA S P A I N I N G SOME
mittee
declaring tlie tariff to be the paramount issue?
Whole
Family
of
15
Enlisted
in
the
made n better citizen as well as a good
Organization.
soldier.
(Falls City, Ore., News.)
Ate any homemade sausage?
Tom Bradshaw o f Eureka Springs,
“ Puts a Man On Hia Feet,”
Janie ate the cake, Janie ate the jelly, Janie went to
Heard the claim that “ this trouble in Europe is none
Ark., not only Is running a good race
The story of tills young farmer is
bed with a pain in her— now don’t get excited, don’t be one o f many cases In which wonder in the competition open to large fam of our affair?”
ilies, but he Is very near the top as
misled, the pain that Janie bad, was all in her head.
Chewed any spruce gum?
ful results have been obtained in this
one o f the most patriotic fathers in
new branch o f the army hospital serv Carroll county.
Saw a middle aged woman riding a bicycle?
ice. Like many o f the other projects
DOCTOR DOCTORS DOCTOR, SO W E ASSUM E
He and Mrs. Bradshaw are the fa
Saw
a 20-year-old girl brush?
planned for the new armies o f the
ther nnd mother o f 13 robust young
(Outlook.)
Drank
an old fashioned milk shake?
United States, Camp Dix has been
Americans, and they find it keeps them
When omi doctor doctors another doctor, does tin* doc made the experimental center for this pretty busy scratching fo r such a
Listened to “ I Didn’t Raise Mv Boy to Be a Soldier?”
science, which alms to “ put a mun on
flock.
By way o f diversion, Father
tor doing tlu‘ doctoring doctor the other doctor like the his
feet again.” The orthopedic treat
Mother Bradshaw and all 13 o f
doctor wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the ment does not confine Itself merely to and
From Abe to Bob
the little Bradshaws drove over to
doctoring doctor the other doctor like the doctor doing the correction o f foot defects; It applies the schoolhopse the other night to
to joints in any part of the body. A
attend a Red Cross meeting which was
doctoring wants to doctor him?
(Philadelphia North American.)
rheumatic knee, a stiff shoulder, a dis
held there by Judge A. L. Kinnery of
lodged vertebra, all come under the
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From
Private
Abraham Fleseher of “ Over There” to
Green Forest. Pa Bradshaw grew so
A G I R L A N D WOMAN DON’T WONDER T H E SAME ministrations of this science; so broad enthusiastic over the Red Cross that Brother Robert Fleischer of Spriutield, Mass.:
is the field covered that Lieut. Col. W.
he enlisted the entire Bradshaw fam
■(Tom Thompson.)
Dear Bob: Just a few lines to let you know that I am
Cole Davis, commandant o f the base
ily— 15 in all— as members o f the or
hospital, has allotted five wards fo r
A girl is always wondering who her husband will
O. K. and hope to hear tho same of you. 1 got into an aw
ganization.
patients o f the orthopedic department,
and a woman is always wondering where lie is.
ful scrap with the Germans and they got a little tho best
and already they are filled.
of me. I lost my right arm and my loft eye, but I am
The work o f the new department is
under the personal direction o f Cnp-
A SOUTH D AKO TA CRI ME
getting along O. K. just the same. 1 expect to be home
Landing Gear on Machine
Scarce as hired girls are a South Dakota woman is ac tain Koliand Melsenbnch o f Buffalo, Did It With
for
tho holidays. (Yom Kippur in September). Break the
and Added New Sport.
and (he manner In which he has made
cused of killing hers.
A new sport has been added to the news gently to mother.
the lame walk and performed other
Your brother,
Abe.
Harmon Nor
•eemlug miracles has convinced wur card In West Texas.
P.
S.—
Send
me
some
chocolate
soon.
department olflcinls that this new sci ton, civilian Instructor at Call Field,
WOOD C O U LD N ’T
ence can be made one o f the most im killed a coyote with the landing gear
Norton nnd
(Philadelphia Inquirer.)
portant factors In the general scheme o f his Curtiss biplane.
The war has gone on long enough now to reconcile most
cadet flyer were doing stunts flying
o f rehabilitation o f human bodies. Dr.
Leonard Wood, but they won’t let him.
people
to hot corn bread. However, it probably would
south
o
f
Lake
Wichita.
Melsenbnch'» chief assistant Is Lieu
Flying close to the ground they no have to run several years longer to convince some folks
tenant M. A. Bluiner o f Pittsburgh.
PROBLEM S L1K T H I S SET MEN C R A Z Y
Experts have estimated that as ticed two coyotes following the ma that eornbread can be eaten.— Kansas City Star.
Thinking to scare them off,
many as 95 per cent o f negroes and 49 chine.
(Emporia, Kan., Gazette.)
per cent o f whites called In the draft Norton dipped down over them. One _
A certain Emporia man is undecided whether to let his have foot defects o f one kind or an- ran. hut the other stood Its ground,
wife have a surgical operation which will guarantee her j other, and a large number "become snarling and showing evidence o f fight,
social success or to fool awav his money on another wild- * cu,# under th» »trees of continued jumping up at the machine. Norton
marching.
A year ago the "flat- again drove the machine down and
cat oil well.
Established .1889
footed” recruit was rejected. Today this time struck the prairie w olf with
he Is accepted, and eventually lands a wheel, killing It.
In the orthopedic hospital for a course
DISCOVERED A T L A S T ! A T R U E F IS H STO RY
A Successful Business Career of
French Need Work Anim als
o f treatment that It would be almost
(Anna Carlson.)
French
farmers
are
sadly
In
need
Twenty-Five Years
Impossible fo r him to get In civil life.
The only true fish story is found in the Bible, when the One o f the patients moat recently dis o f work anlmala for the farms and
are not entirely satisfied with the way
disciples said, in effect, “ Master, we have fished all night charged at cured was the eon o f a the government has been seizing
wealthy physician, who had been un
and caught nothing.”
INTER EST P A ID ON TIME
able to obtain for his boy the special horses fo r the army’s needs. M. Andre
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treatment which be received free here. Palsant, deputy from the Oise, with
several o f his colleagues, has demand
DEPOSITS
•ulW Up “Broken" Arches,
COURSE, T H A T ’S W H E R E I T IS
ed a parliamentary Investigation Into
■•-called broken arches are built up
the army’s methods.
(Kansas City Star.)
i p massage, various prescribed exer
Officers and Directors
A Great Bend girl complains that since the folks clean cises. development o f seU-coufidence.
Makes
Unusual
Sacrifice.
H. Hirschberg, Pres.
D. W . Sears, V. P.
ed house last spring she can’t find her last year’s bathing and. last but not least, the equipment Miss Margaret Oockett a Y. M. G.
Of the pedant with shoes specially
W. S. Kurre, Cashier
snit anywhere. Did she look in tlie jewel box on the bultt to overcome tos defects from A. canteen worker in France, cut bar
hair short because her work left bar
W . H. Walker
I. A. Allen
O. D. Butler
wrMch he Is sufltrtac. A special cob- ao time to care tor tt
dresser?
&
OLD MOUNT IN FRANCE
RED CROSS ENTHUSIASM
AIRMAN KILLS WOLF
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