Morning Oregonian., October 11, 1917, Page 3, Image 3

THE MORNING OEEGOXIAX, THURSDAY- OCTOBER 11, 1917.
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CHARLOTTE POLITE,
BUT NOT SANITARY
Army Runs Against Mock Mod
esty of South in Efforts to
Protect Troops. -
CAMP IS IN POOR LOCATION
Sanitary Corps Tights Flics, Mos
quitos, Fever, Ague and Venereal
Disease Drill Grounds and
Target Ranges Lacking.
BT "WILT, G. MaeRAE.
TTITH THi 162D REGIMENT, Slst
Brigade, 4 1st Division, Camp Greene,
Charlotte, X. C. Oct. 5. (Special. Cor
respondence.) This was an interesting
day. I enjoyed an automobile ride
over the entire cantonment with Major
George E. Houck, formerly health of
ficer of Kopeburg and the Captain doc
tor of Troop A. Major Honck is chief
sanitary officer of the division and he
is teaching the people of Charlotte and
the surrounding country how to clean
Up and keep clean.
Sanitation to these easy-going North
Carolina people is a new wrinkle and
Major Houck has a big job on hand
in order to make these people see the
light and at "the same time not offend.
In the first place, these people are
mighty "sot" in their ways, and while
they are clean in person and habits,
they are careless about insisting that
the city should have proper sanitation.
It is Major Houck's duty to see that
the cantonment and for a five-mile
radius is kept clean, that all the com
pany streets are properly policed and
kept free of slop water and waste
paper.
He starts on his rounds of the camp
about 7:30, notes conditions and calls
attention to whatever is wrong, and by
the time he gets back to headquarters
he has had an automobile ride of nearly
20 miles. Then he gives a 'sanitary
lecture in between and writes out his
report. It all goes to prove that there
"will be no repetition of diseases that
killed so many soldiers in camp in
IS9R. It would also indicate that the
sanitary troops lo not intend that
North Carolina climate, flies and mos
quitos. fever and ague are going to
get the jump on them.
Flies Are Fought.
As a precaution against the fly men
ace the fly swatter is as much a part
of the Army equipment here as a rifle.
In fact, a fly swatter is issued to each
soldier. Now, at meal times, unless a
soldier brings his fly swatter to the
mess-house with him, he is more than
likely to go without his meal. Not
only that, but after each meal the
kitchen police and the men off duty
around company quarters are pressed
into service and must swat flies. Fever-hearing
mosquitos, larger" than the
Jersey kind, raid this camp once in a
W'hile. Just at present they are not
very numerous, and this is because all
stagnant water lias either been drained
away or the holes filled up.
Camp sanitation is not the only sani
tary condition the doctors in the can
tonments have to worry about. Before
the soldiers making up the Forty-first
Division moved to Camp Greene the
camp held other troops. Among these
soldiers there was an alarming condi
tion. It was found that 12 per cent
were effected. When they were moved
to another camp and the soldiers of the
Forty-first came in conditions were at
once changed. At a physical inspec
tion held this week it was found that
only one-half of 1 per cent of the 10,
Of'O new troops in camp were likewise
Infected, and with most of them the
infection had taken place since these
troops came to Charlotte.
Prudiah Aotlonn Exist.
This and the fact that many of the
houses in Charlotte are without sewer
connections was the main reason for
holding a public meeting and the urg
ing of proper sanitation by the sani
tary Army oficers, Jn Oregon and on
the Coast false modesty is nil, but
here all such vital questions are han
dled with silk gloves and in expurgated
language. It is not that the people of
the town do not know such conditions
exist, but it is because they do not wish
to harbor such thoughts. What the
Army sanitary officers hope to do is to
rouse the people, and now that Mayor
McNich has employed an out-of-the-tate
health officer, the hope is that
the prominent persons in the city will
get behind the movement and clean up
the city.
I'nfortunately some Charlotte resi
dents are. crying politics, but the
Mayor, in pledging the backing of the
city administration behind the move
ment, gave it out flat that there would
be no politics in the matter and" called
on the doctors of Charlotte to assist
the new health officer.
Private Lawrence T. Reckabaugh. of
the Machine Gun Company, has been
transferred to the regimental hospital.
Motorcycles Are In Vae.
The motorcycles and sidecars and
drivers of the Machine Gun Company
are proving a boon to this camp, that
spreads over the countryside like a
lazy negro. As quickly as the district
headquarters discovered the 162di Regi
ment had brought motorcycles and
sidecars with them an order was issued
requesting that 10 cars and drivers be
detailed to headquarters to act as order
lies. When they reported on the job
tile mounted and other orderlies were
ordered back to their organizations.
Those assigned to district headquar
ters were Robert E. Perlech. mechanic,
and Privates Robert Bushnell, Warren
A. Cornell, Stephen Wilcox. Harry
Burke. George Clarke. James Hamil
ton. Fred Roeber. Ralph Smith and
Joseph Elvers. Private C. F. Albrecht
was assigned to brigade headquarters
and will be orderly to General Richard
Crmiter. and Privates Lawrence Rrown
and Charles J. Scallor were assigned
to the regimental headquarters.
The promptness with which the regi
mental headquarters staff got straight
ened away and was ready for action
was another revelation to the higher
ups in camp. There was no working
overtime for any of the clerical force in
this shop. Things were up to the min
ute and they were conducting business
just as if the headquarters had been
established in camp for months, in an
hour after the regiment arrived. Fol
lowing out the rule in vogue at Clack
amas, everything is cleaned up when
the whistle blows every night.
Southerners Tilt Prices.
A soldier version of his impressions
of Charlotte is that all restaurant bills
of fare have the printed prices marked
out and everything tilted 10 cents, and
that it is founded upon the claim that
the first draft of the Declaration of In
dependence was written in a house
which stood where a crossing police
man now stands and the fact that one
cannot get a package of cigarettes or a
soft drink on Sunday. In the same
breath in which he will curse the rigid
blue laws, he will say that the peo
ple of Charlotte are trying to make
the soldiers feel at home in the city.
The hospitable part is true, for the
homes of the Charlotte people have
been thrown open to the soldiers and
I found the blue laws sitting up nights
to see how far they could go.
Yet in spite of this and the general
tendency to boost prices (even the
bootblacks are talking of raising the
price of shines from 5 to 10 cents ft the
earnest people of Charlotte are trying
to make it pleasant for the soldiers
in training at Camp Greene. At that
the merchants of Charlotte are not
going the limit doing the Indian and
the blackberry stunt. In Portland, al
most any kind of a pair of leather
leggings fit to wear cost 18 and here
$6 is the top price and wrap putters
at $3 and $3.75 a pair. There are not
many places for the enlisted man to go.
To go to the best of the moving-picture
show houses costs 20 cents and for
that they only get to see one picture
and several thousand feet of film ad
vertising. It is the restaurants and
soft drink placds that are reaping a
golden harvest. On Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons such places are
crowded to the limit.
Of the real soldier game that is
going on at Camp Greene, well, that is
"something else besides." In the first
place there never will be a division
drill. I doubt very much whether
there ever will be a brigade drill.
There isn't room enough. They may
be able to squeeze in a brigade drill,
but more than likely the camp com
mandant will be satisfied with regi
mental drills. After considerable search
a rifle range has been officially located
near the Catawba River, but the artil-
lary range is still where the aeroplanes
do their best work. An effort is being
made to find an artillary range at
place called Spencer Mountain, but if
the officers fail to find a suitable
range, target practice will be held at
some other cantonment near by.
Prnninj I vanlan Krlend to Orrttonlana
Talk of casting bread upon the water
and of having it return to a bakery,
the Third Oregon that was. is reaping
this reward. When the Second was
over in the Philippines the men made
it a special duty always to do the right
thing for all visiting organizations.
The Tenth Pennsylvania and the Sec
ond Oregon saw much of each other
The Second Oregon men even lost the
baseball championship to the men of
the Tenth. Now Grigadicr-General
Richard Coulter, then a lieutenant
the Tenth, is the brigade commander
and it goes without saying, that the
Oregon soldiers are In luck. They are
sure that they will not get the worst
of any deal which may arise, nor do
they want to get the best of it. They
simply know General Coulter. After 19
years, the bread of friendship that
was cast upon the water, has become
a man-sized bakery.
What was said in a. former dispatch
about the play time of the One Hundred
and Sixty-second Regiment betng over.
is true, in more ways than one. in tne
days agone when one wished to say
things about the Army, or the com
missioned officers especially, one would
contrast the liberty the commissioned
officer enjoyed over the enlisted men.
At this camp the same law governs
both the officers and enlisted men. For
instance, like the private, no officer
can sleep out of camp over night. He
cannot get a leave without good and
sufficient cause and should he get per
mission to leave camp for longer than
a very limited period, the time he is
away is deducted from his pay voucher.
Not only that but the officer wishing
leave must send his application, stat
ing his reason for wishing a leave,
through the regular channels to divi
sion headquarters. Then he'll be lucky
if he gets his leave. With the enlisted
man. it is off the streets of Charlotte
by 10 o'clock or do a lot of explaining
to the provost guard. The provost
guard is worth seeing. Two troops of
Major Palmer's Washington' squadron,
wearing a blue band with white letters
on their arms and carrying heavy
policeman night sticks, are doing the
provost guard duty and are camped in
a church yard near the City Audi
torium. It looks mighty funny to see a
soldier wearing the o d's, a yellow
hat cord and armed with a service re
volver and a big night stick. The sol
dier simply shrieks. "You all be good."
To the negro population especially, the
soldier policeman is looked upon as a
real god of war.
One of the things which is not with
out balm is that the district head
quarters transacts all official business,
and communications do not have to go
to the War department or as formerly,
through the Western Department. Now
an oft"lal document simply goes to
the district headquartej-s. receives its
indorsement and is returned to the
regimental headquarters ready for execution.
INFANTRY
NOW
IS
FIELD ARTILLERY
Army Reorganization Makes
Transformation in Oregon
Cavalry Brigade.
NEW MAJOR ALSO APPEARS
Wallach A. McCathrcn, Man With
out State, Saw Service on
Mexican Border and
Has Fine Record.
WITH THE 162D REGIMENT, Camp
Greene, Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 10. (Spe
cial.) It was the iron hand of Army
reorganization that fell upon the Oregon
squadron today and converted It tnto
the 148th Field Artillery; (ne same
magic hand that made artillery out of
a perfectly good lot of world's cham
pion rough-rider cavalrymen, gave a
Major to the 162d Regiment and about
176 i.'.fantrymen and a number of offi
cers.
The new Major is Major Wallach A.
McCathren. formerly of the Third
Washington. D. C, regiment. Major
McCathren. who goes to the Third Bat
talion, is a man without a state, hav
ing been born in the District of Co
lumbia. He was commissioned a Major
in 1907 and has already made a hit with
the old Third. In private life Major
McCathren is employed in the State
Department. He saw all of the Mexi
can border, service in 1916 and comes
to the regiment with a splendid record.
He looks the part of being every inch
a soldier. After he had reported to
Colonel May and had met most of the
officers Major McCathren remarked::
"1 have been a man without a state
all my life and it sure feels good to
now be identified with a state. I am
also glad to be assigned to the 16L'd
Regiment, and to feel that I am a mem
ber of an organization that has such a
fine reputation."
Major Fills Vacancy.
He fills the vacancy left open when
Major Daugherty failed to pass examination.
Over in the squadron there is blood
on the moon. The new assignment made
will remain on their present duties until
further orders. They are all as
signed to the 148th Field Artillery,
First lieutenant Joseph M. Wackrow
drew the cream assignment. He is as
signed to the 66th Field Artillery
brigade and will be aide to Brigadier
General Henry Jcrvey, IT. S. A., now act
ing Division Commander in the absence
of Brigadier-General Hunter Liggett.
The same assignment fell to Second
Lieutenant Alfred J. O'Brien, who also
will be an aide on General Jervey's
staff.
Just what the officers will draw? in
the way of assignment is not known
today. It is said that Captain Cicero
F. Hogan is to have command of one
of the artillery supply trains and that
Top Sergeant Johnny Dunn is to have
charge of a pack train.
Other Officers Transferred.
Gossip around the remount station.
where the members of Troop D were
happily engaged in taking the rough
off the new mounts, all of which gave
as good a bucking exhibition as was
ever seen at Pendleton or elsewhere.
was to the effect that many of the non
commissioned officers will bust them,
selves rather than take chances of
being sent away from their comrades
The order affects Major Charles E.
McDonell and every officer in the
squadron and includes all of the en
listed personnel.
The other officers transferred to the
162d are: Captain Alvin I. Hathaway,
to headquarters: Captain Tom E. Faw-
cett and-Captain Claude K. Burling
ame, attached: First Lieutenant James
G. Jones, First Lieutenant Victor H
Pent: Second Lieutenant Chester M,
Botch, hecond Lieutenant . Joseph A.
Giovannoni and Second Lieutenant
Frederick A. Livingstone, all from the
Third Washington, D. C. Regiment, as
signed to headquarters. Those assigned
to Company A are First Lieutenant J
R. McKey. First Lieutenant Harold H,
Galliett and Second Lieutenant William
L. Martin.
Late this evening there was added
to the 162d Regiment Companies E.
F. G and H of the Third District of
Columbia Regiment and six It. O. C.
officers. TTiey were all Second Lieu
tenants and are II. .A. Winton, L. H.
Smith. R. A. Boswick, E. W. Clarke,
Jr., Jlosa Hoatson and R. M. Andre.
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Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
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will apply directly upon the corn a few
drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati
authority.
It is claimed that at small cost one
can get a quarter of an ounce of freez
one at any drugstore, which is suffi
cient to -d one's feet of every corn
or callus without pain or soreness or
the danger of infection.
This new drug is an ether compound,
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Is applied and does not inflame or even
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This announcement will interest
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the present high-heel footwear Is put
ting corns on practically every
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GOAL SUPPLIES SHORT
3,ooo,ooo-to:y deficit reported in
LAKE SUPERIOR DISTRICT.
Duluth Receipts Show Serious Falling
Off; Famine Is Feared la
Many Towns.
DULUTH, Oct. 10. Receipts of coal
at Duluth and Superior docks for the
season up to September 30 amounted
to 7,249,61:9 tons, or 6980 tons less than
the same period last year, according to
a report today by Colonel D. W) Lock-
wood, IT. s. engineer here.
This means that fuel supplies avail
able at the American head of the lakes
were on October 1 approximately 3,000,
000 tons less than a year ago, there be
ing only 450,000 tons of coal on the
docks at the opening of navigation this
season, aa compared with 3,500,000 tons
in 1916.
With a 3,000,000-ton deficit, the fuel
situation is regarded here as serious
for Duluth and the Northwest, espe
cially since Minnesota and North Da
kota towns are already short of fuel.
Ioan Campaign Plans Laid.
PROSSER, Wash.. Oct. 10. (Special.)
Attorney H. A. La Berge and Ernest
Fear, of North Yakima, members of
the liberty loan flying squadron, are
in the city today assisting local citi
zens in the perfection of an organiza
tion for the flotation of this district's
apportionment of the latest liberty
loan bond issue. Tt is expected that
Benton County will again, oversub
scribe its allotment- . , .
SAILING VESSELS BARRED
Cargoes Destined for War Zone to
Be Transferred to Steamers.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. American
sailing vessels today were forbidden
by the Shipping Board to sail for the
war zone.
A request of French government rep
resentatives that several ships already
loaded be permitted to clear was de
nied and all such craft were directed
to discharge their cargoes for transfer
to steamers soon to be commandeered.
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by keeping the pores free from impur
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And they have conquered the fancy of all those who
have seen them. Scarcely were they taken from their
tissue wrappings when women on the lookout for the
newest Fall frocks purchased the few that were carried
down to the third floor.
Stitchery in pretty designs and colors,
collars of solid colored broadcloth, vests
and tailored collars of white satin are
used most effectively for trimming.
Whole outfits are suggested by these frocks. The note
of stitchery or collar repeated in hat, gloves and boots
would make for a most attractive costume.
Many skirts are in the popular peg style, and in some frocks the peg has moved from the
hips down to the knees or even lower, so you can have your peg where you wish,, or you
needn't have any at all if you prefer, for there are many frocks on straight pleated lines, sim
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MERCHANTS AID WAR
Part in Conflict Brought Home
at Convention.
SAVING OF LABOR URGED
One Delivery a Day, Credit Curtail
ment, Cutting Down on Use ot
Containers Suggested as
Patriotic Measures.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Oct. 10. (Spe
cial.) That the merchant has a big
part in winning the war is being
brought home by every speaker to the
delegates at the ISth annual state
Merchants' Association now in con
vention here. In everything the mer
chant does now, the speakers said, he
should have two things in mind: first,
the cutting out of useless labor in
order that more men can be freed for
Army service and second the cutting of
expenses in order that things may be
made cheaper to the consumer who
then can save more money with which
to buy liberty bonds.
The limiting of deliveries to one a
day, the curtailing of lengthy credits
the cutting down on the use of con
tainers and the ordering by catalogue
and sample rather than through sales
men are among a few of the measures
of patriotic economy which have been
suggested.
Secretary J. .T. Ityan. or tne Na
tional Merchants' Association, urged
Wednesday the adoption of the one-
delivery-a-day plan. lie advised the
using of a central delivery system and
by many examples proved it a paying
investment.
In Miles City, Mont., he said co-operative
delivery had cut down de
livery costs 25 per cent. Where 12
horsen formerly were used now four
auto-trucks do the work. In Marshall
town, la., he said nine grocers and
butchers had united in a delivery sys
tem that had reduced their delivery
charges from $125 each a month to $30
each a month.
Reduction in the use of goods packed
in containers K. F. Dahni, of the state
university extension department, said
should be sought by all merchants.
"All kinds of containers have advanced
and the increased cost of these must
be born by the consumer. i ou can
make his food costs less by using
goods which do not come in containers.
As an instance of the advance in con
tainer prices he cited flour barrel
staves as having gone from $S.50 to
$10 a thousand: wrapping twine from
$23 to $39 a roll, pine box shooks from
$28 to $39 a thousand: steel hoops for
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To Your Convenience
barrels from $2.60 to $3.40, and corru
gated paper from $2.25 to $3.35 a roll.
Secretary liyan said the "charge it"
phrase was one of the worst bancs of
American business. Carl Bush, as
sistant secretary of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, declared it was a
crime to use credit as a means of
besting a competitor. Such action, he
said, was an injury both to the man
giving credit and to him who re
ceived it.
MEXICANS TAKE YANKEES
Two Troopers iu Texas l-'orccd
Across Boundary and Jailed.
FABKXS, Tex.. Oct. 10. Two Amer
ican soldiers, hunting ducks today on
the American side of the line south of
here, were overpowered and taken
prisoners by armed Mexicans, removed
to Mexican territory and imprisoned
in an adobe building.
The soldiers soon made their epenpe
from the building and Hod to the
American side, where thej- rejoined
their command. Because of the activi
ties of armed Mexicans along the bor
der in the last few days reinforce
ments of American troops have been
ordered, here from Ysleta, Tex.
Paper Makers Ask Discharge.
WASHINGTON-. Oct. 10. Twenty
three book paper manufacturers, an
swering today the Federal Trade Com
mission complaint that through their
bureau of statistics they had enhanced
paper prices unduly, announced that
the bureau had been discontinued, and
asked for a dismissal of charges
against them. The Com mi salon, will
render a decision October 29.
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