BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORECSONT. WEDNESDAY. .TTTLY 18. 1917
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Find Out District You Are In, Watch
Your Number, Get Blanks From
Exemption Board, and If You Seek
Exemption, Swear to Them Before
Notary Public Up to Local Board.
(By Oilson Gardner. Washington Corre
spondent.) WASHINGTON, July 18. Did yon
register for the selective arniyf If
so, you have a number of tilings still
to do and to do at once.
Remember, it is up to yon. Do
not wait for tlie mails to bring you
any notice or directions.
What exemption district do you
live inf If you do not know, find
out."
Where does your exemption board
have its offices?" Go there and ask
for copies of blanks and forms. You
have some to fill out. .
Whntis your number? Go to the
board's office and find out. Every
name must have a number, and as
soon as the board has done' its job
of numbering, you will be able to
find out what your' number is.
. t Watch Your Number.
If the board has not yet completed
the numbering, find out when they
will, and go to see them again. Then
watch the papers for news from
Washington as to the "drawing." The
numbers are all to be put in a wheel
or into something to be drawn by
lot. In this lottery your number will
either be drawn or not drawn; then
the lucky number will be posted at
the headquarters of the board, and
published in the Daily Mail Tribune.
Anyway, it is up to you to watch the
bulletin board or to read your paper
and find out whether your number
has been drawn.
Yon may get a letter notifying
you that you are drawn, but do not
wait for the letter; watch the bulletin
, board and the newspaper. ' 1
Your local board will next exnm
ine all men whose numbers are drawn,
to determine whether they are phy
sically fit.
Must Show Up for Exams.
You must present yourself for this
examination, whether you think you
are fit or not; even if you hnve only
one leg, do not neglect to' present
yourself. You are not excused until
you have been examined and the
board gives you a written certificate
to that effect.
The same is true as to exemption
for other causes. It is up to you".
You may be a postal clerk or an
employe in nn nrsenal, but you are
not exempted until you hnve set out
these facts on one of the official
forms and had it made into an affi
davit before a notnry public and then
presented this affidavit to the ex
emption board. Those entitled under
the law to exemption must go thru
the same forms as those seeking ex
emption on the facts.
If you have a dependent mother,
this fact must be set out on one of
the official forms and sworn to and
the affidavit filed within seven days
after you are called before the boafd.
If proof is required, you may have
to get an affidavit of two neighlors.
householders, and file this with the
board within the next ten days fol
lowing the first seven days.
Must make Affidavits.
There will be a land office busi
ness in swearing to affidavits. The
notary public will ninke more mjnev
than ever before.
What will happen after you have
filed yourclnim for exemption f Your
various affidavits will be determined
by the exemption board. After all
these boards have their sny at least
the first say; the second say is in
the bands of the appeal board, which
is another story.
If you seek exemption on the
grounds of occupation your nppenl
must go to the district appeal board.
Candidates' for his new citizen
army, who are anxious to go to the
front, and hnve no home ties which
should not be broken, need only pie
sent themselves for the physical ex
amination. If this is passed, their
nnmes will go into the record ns ac
cepted rookies and in due time they
will be called to live in one of the
cantonment cities where their first
training will he received. That cnll
will probably not come before Octo
ber. LA FAYETTE'S BIRTHDAY
TO BE CELEBRATED IN U. S.
NEW YORK, July 18. A cnll for
the celebration of the birthday of I.n
Fayette on September 8 wag issued
from here today. Municipalities were
World's Greatest Naval Battle Will
Come Should Germany Try Last
Desperate Effort for , Victory
British Warships Ready Uncle
Sam's Battleships Also Prepared.
By KENNETH W. PAYNE.
(Passed by Chief Admiralty Censor.)
BRITISH BATTLE CRUISER
BASE, July IS. Watch out for the
greatest sea battle of all times! i .
A thunderous naval clash In the
North Sea may yet bring a terrific cli
max to the war.
. The U-boat campaign, sooner or
later. Is doomed to failure. And then,
when that fact of failure has filtered
thru the Germans' consciousness,
what will they do?
Last Desperate Effort.
Will they not hold true to their cry
of "world power or downfall," and
hurl their high seas fleet out for one
last desperate stab at Britain? .
This Is the question lately heard In
the forefront of British hopes. And
the. British navy Is getting ready for
the answer.
Prepared It has always been, of
course. Yet a tour of the British bat
tle cruiser base has Impressed me that
the royal navy is making itself ever
more ready for the day the day
when the kaiser, beaten on land,
beaten In the air, beaten under the
sea, may make a gambler's final bid
for victory and attack England at last
in fair fight on top of the waves.
"Then," say those predicting this
possibility, "would follow a naval en
gagement, or a succession of them. In
comparison to which most other acts
of the war would be child's play!"
Uncle Sam May Fight.
. And there is reason to hope some
of Uncle Sam's warships might be In
on this greatest sea fight of history.
. Those foreseeing the possibility of
a final naval tight are accused by
some of sensational speculation. They
answer the British navy is the allies'
backbone. To try to smash It, when
all else is lost, they argue would be
German logic.
' We came to this port for a glimpse
of the fleet hopefully ready for its
chance. '.
"Unfortunately," said the officer
who met us, "the fleet is at sea to
day!" The fieet at sea! And yet hero,
under our eyes, lay the sketch of a
whole armada! Our first lesson In
tile British navy's magnitude was
this: When the British battle cruiser
base Is "comparatively deserted," it
still harbors sn array of warships re
minding one almost of Uncle Sara's
whole North Atlantic squadron an
chored In the Hudson!
World Scope of Navy.
Here were more battle cruisers
than we could board In one morning,
a dreadnaught or two, destroyers and
all complementary craft. The War-
spite, which Germany sank In the bat
tle of Jutland so she says was
here. After climbing over this mag
nificent floating fortress, with her 15
inch guns that fire shells weighing a
ton, I begin to wonder whether the
Germans really sank her after all.
iNear her lay one o( the two battle
cruisers which In the Falkland battle
wiped out all but one of the German
Admiral von Spee's warships.
So here was another reminder of
the world Bcope of the British navy.
War vessels in Mesopotamia, In the
Adriatic, in the China seas, all up and
down the Atlantic! Besides many big
men-of-war, 600 smaller craft In the
Mediterranean.
Thanks also to the navy, the vital
nerve of the English channel com
munlcatlon haB never been touched
by the Germans, tho nearest their
bases.
And while carrying on this world
wide work of policing the seas the
British navy Is also still holding here
and at other northern bases a force
big enough to crush the entire Ger
man high seas fleet, It It ever again
dare to come out.
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PARIS, July 18. Anatole de Mon
He, the newly appointed undersecre
tary of maritime transports, has ob
tained the cabinet's approval for the
Institution of a general control over
the mercantile fleet. The decree In
stituting the measure lefers to the
increasing diminution of tonnage due
to the submarine war as nwomltst
Order and Efficiency In Teaching
' Make Men Proud to Display Flying
Insignia in Red, White and Blue.
WASHINGTON, July 18. The
happiest men on the allied battle
front today are the daredevil Ameri
cans forming the famous Lafayette
esadrille, the American aviation
corps. ,
They're happy because they are
now flying for Uncle Sum ns well
as for France mid England and de
mocracy. To prove it they point io
their airplanes. On the bottom, on
top and behind are the insignia of
Uncle Snm a five pointed while star
with a red circle in a blue background.
The star is painted, according to
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, or
der, on the outside of the bottom and
top planes. A red, while and blue
bar takes the place of Ihe star on
Ihe rudder, the red being nearest
the tuil and the while in the middle.
These American airplane daredevils
are proud to show their colors, be
cause they are proud of the training
that is fast making Uncle Sam lend
in aircraft warfare.
'Look at the plan of the United
Stntes army signal corps for its nvi-
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in the pipe means cool,
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"Blue Grass" soil
could put that full
bodied flavor into
VELVET.
Only kindly Nature could have
brought out that flavor to
the full with an age
mellowed smoothness.
VELVET is Kentucky's
and Nature's best pipe to
bacco. You won't find its
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Ulrdscye view of an aviation f iold, and, below, Uncle Sam's Insignia
on the bottom of one of his airplanes.
ntion school flying fields. Every
thing is included in tho training that
will produce the best flying men in
tho world.
Each field is half a mile long and
400 feet wide. Included are 12 hang
ars, ench-120 feet wide nnd CO feet
long, a hospital, club house, school,
postoffiee, four large barracks for
cadets and enlisted- men, separate
officers' and non-commissioned offi
cers' quarters, additionnl barracks,
repair shops and other necessary
buildings. '
All this excludes the expansive field
nearby, where lessons nre given daily
by Uncle Sam's experienced flying
officers. .
The whole field is a model for or
der and efficiency in flying.
STEAMER CREW WERE
SAVED BY 0. S. BOATS
NEW YORK, July 18. The British
steamship Cranmore, previously re
ported sunk by a German U-boat, was
saved from destruction by an Ameri
can destroyer which was convoying
her thru the danger zone, according
to members of her crew who arrived
here today from England on an Amer
ican ship.
The Cranmore was attacked, they
said, June 7, about 180 miles wost of
Ireland, five of her plates being stove
In by a torpedo. The U-boat that fired
it did not appear and did not press the
attack owing to the presence of the
American warship. Under protection
of the. destroyer, the vessel was aide
to proceed to an Irish port under her
own steam.
On the Ledger of Life will bo written the story of yonr
existence. What you have done with the material at your-1
command, and what you have failed to do. '; '
There will appear in letters that all may read, elthor,:'
Success or Failure.
Even now, the sum of your lire to date Is on one side or -or
the other.
If It Is the wrong side, your financial habits need over
hauling. Drop iiv Now and we'll talk It over. ' r 1
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COPENHAGEN, July 18. A suc
cessor to Foreign Secretary Zimmer
man had not been selected up to to
day, according to advices from Berlin.
Leading German papers continued
their campaign for or against various
candidates.
The danger of the candidacy of Ad
miral von Hintze, minister to Norway,
as a victory for the Pan-Germans,
navy and junker elements, is steadily,
clear to the socialist organs, which
concentrate an attack on Vol) Hintbe's
record in the Russian revolution in
1905. They claim he encouraged;
Nicholas' reactionary . counsel and
later offered the emperor refuge on
a German warship. "!
Count von Reventlow, military wri
ter tor the Tages ZZoltung, says that
Count von Bernstorff, former ambas-t
sador to Washington, Is impossible),
because he is now, as from the outset;-;
an advocate of a peace of renuncla
Hon and a flat opponent of the subs
marine war.
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AMSTERDAM, July 18. The
Neues Tageblatt of Stuttgart, Ger
many, reports that on Saturday a
great explosion occurred at the Wll
helin Weiffenhach factory. The build
ing was destroyed, neighboring hous
es were damaged greatly and windows
were broken In the nearby village at
Suedhelm.
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