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.
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