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THE OREOO STATESMAN: FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 101. ,
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GETTING AN AMERICAN ARMY INTO FRANCE.
the honor of being the famous sol
dier's native land. His military car
eer began in 1885, following me
completion cf his studies at Oxford.
By 1904 he had risen to the rank of
major-general. When the first Brit
ish expeditionary force jwas sent
across the channel in 1914. General
Haig was given command of the let
Corps. He did wonderfully well in
the retreat from Mons, but did not
come Into striking prominence until
after the battle of the Aisne. In De
cember, 1915. he was selected to
succeed Sir John French in supreme
command of all the British forces in
France and Flanders.
WOMEN AND MEN'S TOGS.
In Long Beach the police have
warned a girl not to masquerade as
a man. She wore overalls. How
about the farmerettes now in the
land army? And just why shouldn't
a woman wear men's clothing if she
wishes? It isn't usually deme, of
course; and anything that isn't usu
ally done isn't proper; but why?
Los Angeles Times.
"We have soldiers in France.
Soldiers of all classes." - .
But wc have not an army ; yet. .'
That is, not in the technical term. ;
An army division is composed of 27,500 men; six divisions make a
corps, and five corps make an army.
Theoretically, therefore, an army consists of 825,000 men.
But in actual service this is not true, for today in France condi
tions require that a division in an army organization shall have 45,
500 men. This includes soldiers for the line of communication and
for service at the rear. It is evident, therefore, that a fighting army
has about 1,350,000 men m its personnel.
The United States has now nearly a million men "over there."
Within a very .short time this will be an army in the technical
sense, and in eviry other way.
i And -it .will be the most efficient army ever organized.
The most efficient, because composed of the best fighting men ever
assembled to make up an army, and equipped as no army in the
"world was ever equipped, or could have been equipped, up to this
time. " .'. .
And with the experience of nearlyf our years of modern war to
guide the higher officers in giving the proper training and providing
the right equipment of every kind. ' , i
The superiority of the Ameridan forces in air" fighting will soon
be manifestin air fighting, and in directing from above the clouds
the fighting on the ground.
An American air fighter in France, ia the course of an instructive
article in the Saturday Evening Post, says:
'It is simply uncanny how accurate field anil beayv artillery can
be .much of the time, hitting their target repeatedly at ten-mile
range or more . . . Oftentimes a photograph of some especial
feature, such as a new battery operating, will be under the care
ful scrutiny of officers within seven minutes after it is snapped
(photographed) from a height of two thousand feet or more
. above the enemy's lines. And frequently a German battery will
not have been set up more than fiften or eighteen minntes, before
the French have located it by aerial photo, calculated its posi
tion and are proceeding to; disable H by direct hits. . . . This
may sound impractical, but it is done. War makes the impos
sible quite possible.' .
With the control of the air, which the United,. States forces are
helping to establish, and will soon have with no German fiver to dis
pute,' the armies of civilization will have a certain passport to vic
tory, and speedy victory. There can be no other conclusion
As it is now, the German forces are most seriously hampered by
their .weakness in the air. Recently, in Picardy, the Germans fired
17,000 shells at the Amercans and killed one man. i For th? nnp man
the Germans gave the total labor for one day of 440 coal miners
ana oo iron miners engaged merely in getting out the primary raw
materials.
Without fighting men in the air. the German fore ,,.
potentially strong, will be as helpless as a blind elephant in deadly
wuiuu viuis iHiicrwr ioe possessed oi more than human or normal
vision.. , .... .
Presumably the life sentences Im
posed on forty-five conscientious ob
jectors by a eourtmartlal, and then
reduced to twenty-five years impris
onment by the general who reviewed
the records, wil come in for another
revision by the investigating board
recently appointed to go into cases
of this kind. The extraordinary se
verity of the original sentences,
therefore, needs no comment beyond
the remark that in any country a
eourtmartlal Is hardly an ideal body
for trying: religious cases, such as
these appear to be. The condemned
men. nearly all from Oklahoma, are
members of the Mennonlte faith, and
the Mennonites have a long and nota
ble record as conscientious objectors.
Leaving Holland to escape religious
persecution, they settled in Prussia,
but In the eighteenth century they
fled from the growing militarism of
that state and found a haven in Rus
sia, which was then expanding, need
ed colonists, and gave good farmers
great local freedom. In the nine
teenth century militarism overtook
them , in Russia, and considerable
numbers migrated to the united
States, the traditional asylum of
non-conformists. Many of themare
quite as stiff and uncompromising
as the; seventeenth century sectaries
of England, but they may have equal
ly solid and promising stuff, and In
trying times like these their record
of centuries needs to be allowed for
Springfield Republican. There
are a good many Mennonites in Mar-
Ion county, especially in the Hubbard
neighborhood.
Another big order for the con
struction of concrete ships has been
given to the construction plants in
various parts of the country. The
concrete ships appear to be a success.
And that is another thing we have
learned by the war. Before the need
was so pressing -the idea of making
ships out of stone would have been
hooted at. Necessity is the mother
of invention.
A. per eapita cost exceeding $250
will 'accrue against the 100.000,009
men, women and children in the
United States to pay expenses during
the coming year for our part in win
ning the war. This means a total of
$25,201,572,000 In appropriations In
round numbers, that has either been
authorized by congress, or author
ized by the financial committees, or
requested by the heads of the gov
ernment for the successful prosecu
tion of the war.
What would we do 'without the
statistician? It Is now figured out
how far those $8,000,000,000 worth
of guns would reach If placed end
on end. This is interesting but not
valuable. What we want to know
about these guns is when they will
. legln to shoot up the capital city
cf Germany. That is the point we
are all aiming at. Los Angeles
TJmea. They have begun to get
ready for that very Job. Be patient
They will bo doing It before long.
' rvrvnM datks '
June it. Friday Annual meeting- of
Falem CommerclaL club. .
June it. Saturday Waldo Hill's Pion
eer picnic .
Juno 21, Sunday War a tamp rally at
armory.
Jan JJ, 4 Saturday. Home-coming
day. i;
July 4. Thursday. Race at Stat
Fair grounds.
July to, 14 Annual convention of
Christian church at Turner.
Au-udt IS. 11 and S3 ..'patera Wal
rut (,rowi' Association 1 tpur nut
unless the Hohenzollerns "holler
'nuff" before they get there.
EYES AXIt EARS.
Now that the espionage bill is
firm and fixed law If any backslider
wants to cuss the country or the
government the only safe way to do
it is to wait until after dark and
then go behind the barn and use the
deaf-and-dumb language. We are at
last aroused into a nation of eyes
and ears.
MEETING A MEAT BILL.
The United States is now shipping
almost ten million pounds of meat a
day. People who are still holding a
speaking acquaintance with the meat
market man are right glad that they
do not have to face the butcher bill
that goes with this output. Suppos
ing; this was Iamb chops or veal cut
lets or even the once-lowly and des
pised beef liver!
i "EASTWARD HO!-
"Unfurl the flags our boys have
made good!" writes Harry Williams
from the western front. None of us
expected anything less, Harry; but
you're going to get a chance to write
even more enthusiastically about the
doings of the Sammies before this
thing Is over. The tidal wave that
Is to overwhelm Prusslanism has al
ready swept the front ranks of the
German army. "Oa to Berlin!"
GENERAL HAIG'S BIRTHDAY.
Nearly all of the London newspa
pers yesterday printed compliment
ary greetings to General Sir Douglas
Hals, the commander-in-chief of the
British forces on the continent, the
occasion being the fifty-seventh an
niversary of his birth. Scotland has
CHATEAU THIERRY, A HISTORIC
BATTLE GROUND.
For the past three weeks Chatean
Thierry has been the town of first
importance In the military reports
of the allies and Berlin. Only sixty-
two miles from Paris, it marks the
Up of the spear-head drive of the
Hun toward that objective.
Chateau Thierry is a small town
built on the bluffs of the Marne In
what is the richest district of the
Champagne. It is a considerable
railroad center,! lying about one
fourth of the distance from Paris to
Nancy. Ten years ago it had a pop
ulation of about seven thousand.
Chateau Thierry is a pretty town
with several historic ruins of Inter
est, among them the castle of Thierry
IV. built in the eighth century by
Charles MarteL from which comes
the name. There exist also two
churches and several houses of the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Besides manufacturing mathematical
and musical Instruments Chatean
Thierry -Is the center for the ship
ment of food products in the Cham
pagne.
Long the battle ground of peoples.
it has In itself some military advant
age In height of ground and richness
of locality. But Its history depends
upon Its proximity to the heart of
France on the one hand : and Its
ready accessibility to northern and
eastern invaders on the other. These
factors have long combined to make
It the turning point In protective
warfare from defense to offense.
Historically it Is the turning point
of the Hun In France.
On the fields of Chalons-eur
Marne, some miles east of Chatean
Thierry. Attila and his Huns met de
feat. There they were turned for the
first time in their drive from Mon
golia through Asia, the Iron Gates.
and Eastern Europe. On the fields
of Chalons-sur-Marne the legions of
Gaul and Rome, of kings and em
peror, combined to break the tide of
barbaric ruin that threatened to de
stroy the civilised world. That was
in 4S1 A. D, Between that time and
the next grand invasion of peoples
calling themselves Huns, Chateau.
Thierry was lost and won many
times by the French. It was cap
tared by the English Henry V dur
ing the Hundred Tears War when
the king; sought to establish his
claim to the French throne. Charles
V Invsded It In 1544. Leu than fifty
years later it was sacked by the
Spanish, and In 1652 pillaged by the
Fronde.
-The second so-called Hun invasion
of the Chateau Thierry region was
met by Napoleon in 1814. Then, as
now, tne attack on France was irom
two points. Enemy forces moved
along the Seine and Marne toward
a single objective, Paris. Today they
are again moving on the Marne, but
the second point of attack Is aimed
at the coast of Flanders. Yet, to
gether, they tend to form a crescent
about Paris similar to that in 1&14.
Just one hundred years before the,
great ' Marne offensive under Von
Kluck in 1914 Napoleon defeated
the combined Prusso-Russo forces at
Chateau Thierry under Von Sacken.
Up to that time Napoleon, like Joffre
and Foch. had been on the defensive
without opportunity to carry through
any preconceived plan. His action
had been largely determined by that
of his enemies. Then, as now, they
threatened Paris, but then, as now.
the topographical objective was only
secondary.; The Prussian aim was
the destruction of French military
and civil resistance.
On February 12. 1814, Napoleon
defeated the Prusso-Russo forces.
and within four days broke the at
tacks of five generals and took 15.-
000 prisoners within the immediate
Chateau Thierry region. The 1814
repulses from the Champagne lire in
history lamong the finest master
pieces of' war.
One hundred years later Immense
forces were thrown southward on
Paris. The French opposed them
single-handed, moving back step by
step to the MarneA There defense
became offense and. in spite of the
naked condition of France, Joffre
finally turned Von Kluck only fif
teen miles south of this point. Tnere
the Huns met defeat, Paris was
saved, and the allies given time to
assemble those heroic forces which.
through four years of flgtlng and
tremendous reverses, have made an
equal advance of the enemy Impossi
ble. Last year the Crown Prince
threw some seventy-five divisions
along the southern sector in vain.
The latest drive in the Chatean
Thierry region began the last of May;
the town Itself becoming the tip of
the spear-hcad. There the English
took the right flank, the French and
the Americans the left.
On the eve of this last offensive
Lloyd George said before parliament:
"For Germans, as well as for ns, the
next few weeks will be a raee be
tween. Hindenburg and President
Wilson. Three successive waves of
picked troops, Prussians, Saxons and
Bavarians, failed before the little
town. The Huns did reach the last
of the four bridges across the Marne.
but the United States Marines were
in waiting to blow them np.
Once more historic Chateau Thler-ry-sur-Marne
marked the turning of
French resistance from defense to
offense.
The United States Marines took
possession of that sector after the
latest offensive of the Germans had
spent its force, and our Marines have
held Chateau Thierry since, and ex
tended their lines though the Ger
mans have made attempt after at
tempt to drive them out.
They will hold it, and they will
advanee from there If that Is the
course decided upon by the higher
command.
WONDERFUL BARGAINS
IN OUR
Men's Clothing Shoe Store
Considering the present market prices and the ctntinoed skr high raise, our XIos
ing Out Prices are Extremely Wc? ih While
B. V. D. MEN'S SILVER A&R0W LINE OF MEN'S
Undershirts SPORT SHIRTS and TRIANGLE r STRAW SAILORS
for Men $100 values COLLARS Values to $3.00
$1.50 jd $1.25.. uw 2s
Now 68c 2 for 25c Now 35c ,
Now 49c
Men's and Boy's Clothing at
Reduced Prices Buy Now
Big Bargain
SHOE TABLE
IN THE
REAR OF THE
SHOE DEPARTMENT
CORNER COURT AND
C0MX STREET, SALEM.
I IN A SOCIAL I
WAVI
r Werw DfatMk Vteltel
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BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
Weather man says showers.
Sometimes he hits It right.
-Pep will win the war; the lack of
it spells defeat.
S S
As the forces of clvlliraation are
getting up more pep. the Austrians
and Germans are losing all they ever
bad.
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The German official comunlca
tion of yesterday said the Geryans
penetrated the American positions
at Seicheprey. in the Toul sector
east -of St. Mihiel. and Inflicted heavy
casualties. The Associated Press
correspondent with ihe American
army in this region says the Infan
rjr activity was I confined to an at
tempted raid, notwithstanding the
German claim. I
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What is the aaswerT
!
The Germans lied officially.
They did it for home consump
tion. I
1
The Associated Press man told the
truth. If he were caught telling
anything else, he would not hold hif
iob a day. i
The cherries and the loganberries
must be saved. That Is one of the
most important matters before the
people 01 Salem.
The kaiser Is 'still promising his
people the help of God. But they
begin to see that he has his wire
crossed. The other end of the wire
ts Insulated with asbestos.
Eugene Walter, the dramatist,
says that the women of America are
dress drunk. Mr. Walter no doubt
refers to the women of New York.
where he Is well acquainted. Noth
ing like that out west.
m
War Savings Stamps are costing
$4.17 this month and they will never
be cheaper. J Like everything else.
the tendency is to advance'
Considering It their patriotic duty,
many Salem girls will leave soon for
summer camps where they will pick
berries to meet the emergency labor
shortage. Twenty girls have already
enlisted in the Y. W. C. A. camn
which will open Mondav at th Millr
orchards, five miles from Salem. It
will be a semi-vscatlon time for these
workers as bits or recreation have
been planned for them. Music and
other entertainment will be fur
nished by special artists who will
go to the camp at the pleasure hours.
The girls will leave Monday morn
ing at 8 o'clock, each laden with
blankets, a knife, fork, spoon, cud
and plate. Tents and straw will be
furnished. Miss M. McFadden will
chaperone the party. They will also
be accompanied by a cook. About
ten vacancies remain in this, camp
and those who are Interested may
telephone 1(1, Miss Florence Cleve
land, the secretary of the local Y. W.
C. A.
Those who will leave are the Miss
es Frances Doerfler. Gladys Moore.
Myrtle Walker. Esther Paranogain.
Roberta Hirschbach. Helen Weller.
Helen Rom, Mary Jane Albert. Mar
garet Griffith, Ruth Coppock. Miriam
Holder. Lela Itanm. Mabel Simpson.
Florence Harrington. Mildred See
ley, Florence Legg. Mrs. J. O. Hall
and Mrs. A. Leopold.
Mrs. Robert Paulus and Mrs. P. J.
Hibler of Union street have had as
their guests during the week, their
brother. Mel Eoff and hla 2-year-old
son Robert, of Pendleton. The fath
er and baby will return home the
early part of next week.
Mrs. Merlin Harding has been
passing the week In Portland.
Mrs. A. Parrott and little son
Archie have returned to their home
in Portland after passing the week
with Mrs. Cal Patton.
Mrs. J. S. Graham has returned
from a fortnight' stay at Mill Citr
where she wa the guest of Mrs. Wil
liam RIddelL
Mrs. LV7 p. Martin anl dasgh
ter Franc and Master rrr. Jr.
ftfcave left for a month's visit at the
borne of Mrs. Martin's mother, Mrs.
Francis Smith. In the Rocky moun
tains, at Grangevllle, Idaho.
Miss Eula Zea of Loma, Most.. Is
the guest of Mrs. Frank Bllgh. Dar
ing her visit In Salem ahe has aUo
been wilh her sister, Mrs. A. A. Cra
ber. Recently she .visited la Port
land and at Seaside. Miss Zea will
remain a month longer.
Miss Rose Claire Williams, who
recently departed with the 'fort 7
slxth hospital unit. Is en ronte to
France. When leaving Salem, Miss
Williams was sent to Fort Lee. Vir
ginia, and from that place to New
York city, where preparations for
embarkment were made. '
is S a Wife
The Storv of a Hon
Wonderfully Told By ADELE GARRISON
A QUIET DECISION
The morning after Dicky had
made the scene about Jack's letter
I awoke with a violent aick beard
ache, such as I have been sub
ject to since childhood. I lay still,
wondering If Dicky would think I
was too angry to get up and get
breakfast.
I heard him splashing In the bath
room, and then I heard him go to
the kitchen door. I thanked my
tars that I bad carefully put the
kitchen and dining room In perfect
order the night before.
He waited for several minutes.
Then he came to my door which
tood ajar.
-Are you sick. Madge?"HIs voice
was conventlal. but he came rushing
'nto the room at my answer.
"Yes. Dicky. I am quite ill. I am
afraid you will have to get your
breakfast at the restaurant,"
"Never mind the breakfast, sweet
heart, tell me what I can do for you.
Ill phone for a doctor right away."
Here was the old Dicky, kind. 1m
etuous. the royal lover. I caught
him by the sleeve as he was dashing
ut to the telephone. 1
"Listen. Dicky. I have had these
headaches for years. I know Just
vhat to do for them.
"I'll stay at home then and take
are of you "
"Indeed yon won't with that' cover
n your mind. I couldn't talk to
rou anyway, and you couldn't do
anything for me. If you will Just
lo two or three little things for me
this ntorning so I won't have to raise
my head from this plllowontil about
soon. Ill be all right. Luckily those
:ooks whose ads I answered will
hardly get their mall in time to
eome this forenoon. Oh will you
telephone that employment agency
not to send anyone else up here? "
"But you cannot be all alone here,
and 11L"
"You do not understand, Dicky. I
am really not ill. and if I keep quiet
this headache will have disappeared
by afternoon. So don't bother me
there's a good boy." -. .
"All right, sweetheart,
what you wtajjut to do."
"Please put that small tablet over
here by my bed." I directed. "Get
that small electric plate from the
dining room and connect it with the
socket here. You see I have a rib
bon attached to the chain, so I can
pull It on or off. while lying here.
Fill the small kettle with water and
put It on the plate, and put beside
the plate a glass of cold water, and
a cup with a teaspoonful of tea
leaves In it. When the pain begins
to leave my head. I always1 take a
cup of tea and go to sleep.").
"Don't you have any medicine?"
"Only the powders that you will
find in that little lacquered pox. If
you will give me on now, and put
the others under my pillow with my
watch I won't have to think of them
again for two hours."
Dicky gave me the powder and ar
ranged the table. He was evidently
unaccustomed to doing anything of
the kind.
"I anra afraid I im a poor nurse,"
he said ruefully when he had fin-
I reached up my hand and pattedH
u cures, me pain in my need
was very bad by this time.
"Run along now, Dicky,'' I whis
pered. "I don't want to talk any
more. It makes my head worse." .
He bent and kissed me tenderly.
"He's a nice gorrlla." he whis
pered, "even if he does look as if he
had the mumps. I'm sorry I was so
cross about Jack. After yon go to
dinner with him and prepare him
lortynrthere no eta cUoin eUoinsh
gently for the revelation that you
have s husband. 1"H appear on the
scene and we'll show him the town.
Afeer all, I suppose you would have
married him if you wanted Jilm.
And you did marry me."
Dick'a. tone was triumphant, his
face mischievously tender as he went
out of the door At the end of two
hours I took another powder, and In
another hour the pain began ia get
lighter.. With th relief thers came
tell me swiftly rushing to my .mini the
thoughts which I knew would come
as soon as my brain was able to
dwell upon them.
What was the reason for Dicky's
sudden change of attitude towarJ
tho letter from Jack? Was he sin
cere In ecrepting my feeling for my
old friend, or was he sdoptlng my
tactics tovard Lillian Gale? Was
he determined to eliminate Jack
from my life, as I had planned to
shut out Mrs. Underwood from his?
Was this sudden cordiality a means
to that end?
Another thought, struck me. Did
Lillian Gale's friendship mean so
much to Dicky that he was willing
to tolerate my liking for my old
friend, rather than risk putting her
out of his life by shutting out Jack
from mine?
Finally sleep came mercifully te
me and I forgot my troubles.
(To be continued)
Lemon Juice
For Freckles
, Girts! Make beauty lotion at
horns for a few cents. Try It!
Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake well, and
yu have a quarter pint of the beat
freckle and tan lotion, and complex
ion 'beau filler, at very, very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face. neck,
arms and bands each day aad see
how freckles snd blemishes disap
pear and how clear, aofe and whll
the skin becomes. Yes! It Is ham-less.