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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1917)
TROOPS IN FRANCE ARE LEARNING DISCIPLINE OF FOREIGN ARMIES Officers Aro Inclined to Follow Stiffneck British System, But French Democracy Is Invading Ranks— Our New Crop of Reserve Officers Are Greater Sticklers for Form Than Most West Pointers. By H E Y W O O D B R O U N . (Accredited to the Pershing Arm y In France by the New York Tribune and Syndicate.) American (expeditionary Army.— “Thu most I in port n lit factor In tho American army will I»« discipline," suld an officer shortly after the troops cam« out to the training camps. “ I f It has K< mm ) discipline It will be a good army; If It has hud discipline, It will he a had army. I can watch a regiment stand at attention and tell you whetb- er or not It can fight effectively." The question remains os to what sort of discipline the American uriny will have. Home observers suy that there are two kinds o f good discipline— French discipline and English disci pline. Under the French system there are let-down periods. Off duty an o f ficer may fraternise with enlisted men to on extent which would scandalize the English army. This Is due. In part, to the fact that the armies are com posed differently. The English army Is much more stratified than the French. It has, as the American army had before the war, a distinct officers' Class. An Englishman of certain edit- cation receives a commission ns a mat ter of course. Under the volunteer system, which prevailed at the tx-gln- nlng of the war, the English volunteer o f the upper or upi>er middle clnss dbl not offer his services uniII he was prepared to fulfill the duties of an officer. The French draft, on the other hand, thrust many a distinguished cltl- xen Into the ranks. A sergeant In the Instruction division here was one of the most piqiular playwrights tn Frnnce before the war. and the other dny a grimy little man climbed from a coni cart to tell me In perfect English that he had been an nsslstant professor of Romance languages In one of the great American universi ties -Cornell, I think before the cull come. o f course, when the word English discipline Is used It falls short of the Itrltlsh army. Australian discipline and EnglMi discipline arc vastly dif ferent. There Is a popular story about an Anzac colonel In Egypt who drew up his men and told them: "An English general Is coming here today to Inspect the regiment, and re member, d----- you, don't call mo •Bill* until he foes.” Canadians Well Disciplined. An Instructor at a British training camp told me that the Canadians were now among ‘.hi* 1 host disciplined troops In the army, hut that tin- Australians still gave occasional trouble. “ Every now and then.” ho said, “ a couple of them will sneak down to the woods and camp out alone for a couple of «lays.” British officer« will tell you that, al though the Australians fight well, their losses are much higher than they would be with better discipline. If tlu-re Is such a possibility as an ab solutely democratic army. It has been much Impaired by the poor work of the Itusslnn republican army. The scheme of submitting each plan of nt- tnck to the soldiers before It Is or dered cannot be said to hnve proved effective. The question o f discipline In the American army Is complicated by many fuctors. Before the war there was n gulf between officers and men fully ns wide ns that In the English army. It was not due to lack of democracy. It was a gulf founded on fundamental differences of character and education. *>n one hand, there was the officer class, carefully «elected and carefully trained, and on the other hand, the en listed men, haphazardly accepted from the floating population. Professional unities the world over aro recruited largely from the Industrially Inefficient during times of peace. An American regulur of no great promise wus bewailing the fact that an officer had hopped him because be executed n command Imperfectly. "W ell," his companion answered, "wouldn't the farmer Imwl you out If lie told you to feed the horses und you didn't give them us much as he told you?" It was the typicul |*>lnt of view of the old type of professional aol- dler. I I « was drawn from tho "bawled out” class and he could he governed only by "hawI out” unithods. Things are largely changed now. More than half the American army In I'runco Is made up of men who Joined ufter the declaration of war. They were not Jobless or Inefficient. Multi tudes of reasons sent them Into the rnnks. A few wunted to moke the world safe for democracy. Many more desired adventure, an ocean voyage and a trip to Purls and perhaps Ber lin. "I was marching my men along the other day.” said u young captain, “ when I henrd a private give the cheer of the University of Nebraska. I ran up to him and said: ‘You didn’t do that very well. I'm n Nebraska man myself. I^et's do It together.' All 8orts of Officers. There are then men drawn from many classes In the nrmy und there will be more. Alreudy there ore ull sorts of officers. There Is the regular from West Point, the occasional regu lar from civil life, the officer who came through the Fort Ix-avenworth training school, the reserve officers und a num ber of former "non-coms" recently elevated to commissions. The greatest sticklers for discipline are the reserve officers. “ I was talking to n soldier In the street," said an old West Pointer, “ and he was telling me he had too much money to spend. 'I can't use half of It,’ he said, 'and I waste It on things I don't want. Look at the bunch of cigars I bought. Take n handful.’ I took three, hut I was mighty sorry afterwards, heruuso I hod with me a young fellow. Just commissioned sec ond lieutenant, und he wns almost shocked to deuth that I should take cigars from a soldier." The officers who rose from non-coms are also somewhat stiff and fortnnl In the exercise of their new-found honors. All hnve been transferred from their regular regiments, so that they shall not t>e associated with the enlisted men they knew before they held commis sions. Some officers believe In lending their men. while others In driving them, while still a third class combine the two methods. One of the best young officers I hnve seen In the army Is absolutely Informal with Ids men at times, lie comes to their concerts and hands cigars to the quartette and con sults with them ns to what song they shall sing. "Captain, do you like 'Cnthleen?'" the big soldier who sang tenor would ask, and the cnptnln would answer: “ Does It go like this?" humming a bar, und then add: “ Yes. that’s a good one; let’s hnve It." lie could be stern enough upon occasion, and he had the best bombers In the army, but liked his men to know the reasons for things. VANITY CASES FOR NURSES German Coal Shortage. Amsterdam.— Tho coal famine Is In creasing from week to week through out Germany. Although a large num ber of miners hnve been brought back from the front and thousands of war prisoners are employed In the pits, even the ammunition factories cannot get sufficient fuel. The use o f electric power and gns has been reduced 20 per cent everywhere, but this measure falls tn bring relief. Many cities hnve been compelled to prohibit cooking and heating with gas, nnd large num bers o f towns bad to shut down their lighting plants. The manufacturers of war materials hnve warned the gov ernment that they will not be able to fill their contracts If the present con ditions continue. Red Cross Lass'et Going to France May Beautify Themselves to Heart’a Content. New York.— Rod Cross nurses going to France to do their bit, ns arduous ns the soldier In the trenches, are not being forgotten In the distribution of ‘‘small bundles o f comfort.” The army and navy field comfort committee Is planning 10,000 special “ vanity” eases for the nurses who will serve with the Amerlcnn troops. The nrtlcles which w ill be contained In tho cases are: One bottle toilet water. One cake toilet soap. One box talcum powder. One tube dental paste. One tube toilet cream. One vanity box. with mirror, etc. Though the retail value of the cases would almost double the nmount, the nurses’ boxes are packed at a coat of one dollar. It Is believed that tho magnolia waa named nf|er Magnol de Montpcllec. lie wns fond o f letting them get hts (tofnt o f vtew about things. Thus, when he found Mine soldiers drinking too much, soon after their landing, he Harvest o f Jonathans and King Davids called a conference and told them that Begins in Yakima Valley With It hud to stop. laibor Hupply Plentiful. If the Whole Army Drank. Fruit is being thrown away because “ Home o f you men ir e spending all there is no market for it, according to your money on booze,” he said, “ and Wenatchee, Waah.— With the pick reports reaching Baker from the John getting stlnko, pinko, sloppy drunk. It ing of a big crop o f Jonathans esti Day valley. won’t do. A few old prl votes get mated at 20 per cent o f the total apple drunk, hut don't copy them. It’s Just The Supreme court has set Novem crop o f the valley this year beginning been use o f that they’re old privates. Tuesday the outlook for successful ber 13 and 14 as dates for hearing I'm going to choose my non-coms from handling o f the yield is excellent. : arguments in the Hyde-Benson land- you. but not tho men who drink. You’ve There was considerable picking of ! fraud cases. drunk yourselv«*s out of n commission, King Davids and Winter Bananna last William E. Wood, alias several sergeant. I was going to recommend week and some gathering o f Jonathan: other names, and M. P. Jackson, you, hut how cun I do It now? Just chiefly thinnings but the real harvest charged with cashing forged checks, look nt the way I see it. If I took my ! o f Jonathans is just starting. In a were Saturday bound over to the Baker puy In u lump I could buy every saloon few days it w ill be in full blast proba j grand jury, each under $1000 bond. In the towu and stay drunk for two bly the last o f the week. years. ( " I hud to exuggi rute a little," Superintendent o f Banks Sargent Prospects are that there w ill be no he confessed when he told the atdry to scarcity o f labor. Now there is a sur- announces that the banks and trust me afterward). What do you suppose j plus. Many idle men are to be seer. ! companies o f Portland hail $17,298,- would happen then? Suppose the ; on the streets and at the Harvesters’ 497.08 more in deposits on September majors und the colonels and the j League it is said that work cannot be i l l o f this year than on September 12 generals and the whole bunch got I found for all applying now. Hundreds laat year. drunk, what would happen to the o f laborers have come to the valley e x J. F. Griffith, representing the Pa army? IXtn’t forget thut this Is your pecting the harvest to begin at the us cific Potato Starch company, met with nrmy as much as It Is mine. That’s ual time. Instead, they find it a week a number o f the business men and all today.” | or two late and their services are not farmers o f Gresham at the city hall on The chief und most able member of yet needed. The result is that many Monday evening, and plans were laid the English school of discipline Is j o f them are without work. Neither and discusaed for the establishing o f a General Pershing. lie puts the drive the State Harvesters’ league nor the potato starch factory at that place. In the array. Hts Inspections are Federal department o f Labor is send- The Public Service commission Sat masterpieces o f thoroughness and be I ing men to the valley. Hundreds o f Is exceedingly stern with all Ineffl- men and women are coming to the val- urday received word from the Inter dents, whether they are officers or I ley on their own account and they are state Commerce commission that that soldiers. Slouchy bearing annoys him Fiaving difficulty getting placed. Men, Commission refused to suspend the fearfully and he takes an active and women and children come by train supplemental traiffs providing for a penetrating Interest In shoes, buttons from Spokane, Seattle, Everett, Bell- new minimums on shipments o f lum and bright metal. He Is exceedingly : ingham and other points. Hotels are ber and lumber products and the new chary of pruise. Probably nobody In taxed beyond their facilities by de traiffs are effective September 24. the army will ever call him Papu Per mands for rooms and in several hoe- Fred Gross o f North Bend, convicted shing, but for all thut he Is u Itoman telries people were glad to sleep on of having 14 quarts of liquor in his futher to his men. | the floors and in halls. Among those , possession, was fined $200 and sen ! arriving were a party o f 35 from Ev- tenced to four and a half months in the | erett who are to work in the Clark or- county jail. Ted Campbell, who is al NOTED BEAUTY HELPS ; chard. leged to be part owner o f the liquor, ; escaped the officers while hunting bondsmen and has not been apprehend Milk to Raise to 15 Cents. ed. Tacoma, Wash. — Fifteen cents a quart and ten cents a pint is the new The arrival in Hood R iver o f a Port price confronting Tacoma consumers. land detective Friday to get the bag This was announced by Tacoma gage of C. W. Hilliard, a young man dairymen, who predicted that the in who registered there last week from crease would become effective about Chicago, caused no end o f surprise. October 1. The detective said that Hilliard is in A ll dairy products, including ice jail and is suspected o f being one of cream, w ill be affected by the proposed the cleverest bad check and draft oper increase, which w ill be caused by de ators abroad. mands o f producers for larger quota The Estacada Co-operative Cheese tions from ccndensaries. This w ill create a higher market level for milk association’s factory this week paid its patrons for the month of August, be and butter to city consumers. ing the third month o f its operation, a total o f over $2400, being paid to 70 patrons. This payment was based on butterfat at 47 cents per pound, the plant having handled during August i over 94,000 pounds. Portland— Wheat Bluestem, $2.05; Hoyt S. Gale, o f the United States fortyfold, $2.03; club, $2; red Rus Geological Survey, arrived in Bend sian, $1.98. Friday on his way to the sections east Flour— Patents, $10.20. I o f there where he w ill investigate re Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $34 cently discovered nitrate deposits for per ton; shorts, $37; middlings, $44; the government. Mr. Gale planned to rolled barley, $55(5 57; rolled oats, $55. go first to Rivers, at the extreme east Corn— Whole, $81 per ton; cracked, end o f Deschutes county, to make his $82. first study, after which he w ill visit Hay— Buying prices f. o. b. Port other points. land; Eastern Oregon timothy, $27 The Commonwealth Lumber com per ton; valley timothy, $23<§25; al falfa, $22.50(5 24; valley grain hay, pany o f Portland has purchased be tween 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 feet $20; clover, $20; straw, $8. Butter— Cubes, extras, 47c; prime o f timber in the vicinity o f Nekoma, a : firsts, 45Jc. Jobbing prices: Prints, station on the Coos Bay line o f the Latest photograph of the beautiful ¡extras, 48c; cartons, lc extra; butter- Southern Pacific railroad system, and Mrs. Ava W illing Aator, first wife of fat, No. 1, 49c. his started work on the erection o f a the late John Jacob Astor, who has Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re sawmill which w ill have a capacity o f been living in London for several ceipts, candled, 44(545c; selects, 48(5 from 40,000 to 50,000 feet o f lumber daily. Options on other timber in years. j 50c per dozen. She Is now devoting her life to war Poultry — Hens, 17J(5.19c; broilers, that section have been obtained by the relief work. She la one of the moat ! 20@21c; ducks, 16@20c; geese, 8(5 company. industrious workers among the society j 10c; turkeys, live, 20(5 22c; dressed, October w ill be “ go-to-church women and nobility In London. She I 28®30c. month” in Albany and the ministerial seems to be Indefatigable, for every Veal— Fancy, 28@30c. association is developing plans to in moment of her time is spent advantage Pork— Fancy, 21}@22c. crease the attendance in all the ously. Vegetables — Tomatoes, 40@70c per churches. Rallies w ill be held to coun Mrs. Astor has won a place high In crate; cabbage, 1J@2c per pound; let- teract the "stay-at-home” habit con London’s social sphere, and la much I tuce, 60@75c per dozen; cucumbers, tracted during the summer vacation. sought by nobility. Her daughter, 40@50c; peppers, 6@7c per pound; F. A. Pierce, o f Days Creek, who Muriel, aids in the relief work. cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; beans, 6 It la reported that Mrs. Vincent As ® 7c per pound; corn, 30c per dozen; took a number o f his long-haired goats tor paid her mother-in-law a visit carrots, $1.50 per sack; beets, $1.50; to the California state fa ir at Sacra mento, made a clean sweep o f all the while on a short stay In London. Mrs. turnips, $2. Vincent Astor Is now In France eld Potatoes — New Oregon, 2 ® 2 }c per prizes offered by the fa ir in the de partment o f goat exhibits. Altogeth ing In the organization of a hospital pound; sweets, 3J@3|c. behind the lines. Onions — Oregon, $2.35; California er Mr. Pierce took 14 prizes on goats. Mr. Pierce also sold a number o f his brown, $2.50. Green Fruits— Peaches, 55® 90c per high-bred goats, one to a South Am er ALLIGATOR FOUND IN SEWER box; apples, $1®2; pears, 75c(5$1.75; ican breeder. START APPLE PICKING STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT grapes, $1 @ 1.40; casabas, l j c per J. J. McDonald, a rancher, 40 years of pound. I old, and Rae W. Clark, aged 20, of Hops— 1917 crop, 41(542c per pound; Portland, his farmhand, were electro- 1916 crop, 25(5 26c; fuggles, 60c. ucted Saturday eight miles west o f Wool — Extra Oregon, fine, 50®60c Freewater. They were moving a der Pittsburgh.—The North side has per pound; coarse, 55® 60c; valley, 55 rick when the cable came in contact been famed for many things. Now It ® 60c; mohair long staple 55c. with the wire o f the power line, and Is the habitat o f the nlligator. Cascara Bark— New 7Jc per pound; j Clark tried to pull the cable free. Mc- I f you don’t believe It, ask George old 8c. ! Donald, coming to the assistance o f Moul, n perfectly reltablo employee of C a t t le - j Clark, was also stricken. The bodies the Bureau of Highways nnd Sewers. Best beef steers............. $ 9.00(5; 9.75 had to be left in the road until mes He has the proof on exhibition at his Good beef steers............. 7.50® 8.75 sengers could ride to Umapine and tel- home In Lockhart street. He got It Best beef cows............... 6.75(5! 7.50 ! ephone to Walla Walla to have the yesterday when he wns sent to fix Ordinary to g o o d ........... 4.00(5! 6.75 ! power shut off. a sewer In Royal street. Best h e ife r s ................... 7.00(5) 8.00 lie had lifted the manhole and wns C a lv e s ............................ 7.00(5) 9.50 A. E. Bradley, a rancher o f Turner prodding to remove the obstruction, Bulls................................ 4.00(5: 6.50 was acquitted at Salem Monday o f a when n strange face, with rnther evll- Stockers and fe e d e r s .... 4.00® 7.25 charge o f murder in the second dergee. looklog eyes, bobbed In his range of Hogs— Bradley shot and killed Fred Moore, a vision. Prime light h o g s ........... $18.15® 18.25 neighbor, one night las t month. Moore T o Remove Grease Spots. A fter the first shock Moul grabbed Prime heavy h o g s ......... 18.00® 18.15 had come to Bradley’ s house and stolen To A’emove grease spots from car the head and drew forth n 3-foot alli P i g s ................................ 15.50®17.00 ] a load o f wheat, Bradley alleged, and pets, mix fuller’s earth nnd tnngnc- gator. He got a rope and led It to his Bulk .............................. 18.00(5,18.25 had returned for another load when the sln together In equal proportions by home nnd Is trying to dope out how altercation ensued which resulted in Sheep— scraping nnd pounding. Form this the Florida nntlve got this far North. Yearlings.........................$11.25®il.50 the firing o f the fatal shot. Testi Into n paste with hot water and spread Wethers.......................... 1I.00@I1.60 mony developed the fact that Moore Rt. Louis hns one factory which will E w e s .............................. 8.00® 9.50 had a reputation as a gunman and had on the spots. The next day brush It off and. If necessary, repeat the proc this year consume 100,000,000 feet of Western lambs............... 13.50® 14.00 on a number o f occaaions threatened to lumber. ess. Valley lambs................... 12.76@1S.50 take Bradley’ s life. Employee of Pittsburgh Bureau Highways and Sewers, Pulls Out 3-Foot Saurian. >•