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SENTENCE OF DEATH
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blank verse.
GENERAL NEWS BRIEF'S
literary critic.
so.
brightens carpets. Call
A New Automobile
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
For less than $2.*
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It is possible
Palm Beach Suits
RIMBLINGS RY THE LOAFER.
Saves the machine.
lek peo-
Pleases theowner and
Looks like new.
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$2.50 For Wheat
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Mother doesn’t want everything
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SELECTIVE DRAFTS
W. J. M’GRAY
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OF SOLDIER’S LIFE
AT CAMP FUNSTON
wonder if there
in Denton from
So
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GEO. FRITZ.
Local Dealer.
DENTON STEAM LAUNDRY CO
Launderers and Dry Cleaners
Phones: Office 8, Dry Cleaning Plant 800. fl
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peace
lease
DALLAS. July 21—Sentence of death
was the jury’s verdict in the Leonard
Dodd case, in which he with Stevenson
was charged with asauiting* a young
J previously
received the same sentence. The crime
was particularly revolting.
Are prices that will no doubt be
paid and for which you are now
NWing your grain. But you ean-
, no! afford to hold grain at the pr*s
eat high prices without lire insur-
ance Phone us any time, day or
nlffht, and we win protect your
train a* soon as It is threshed.
Stroapest companies, lowest rates,
' best service.
-ate
"Since Andrew McBeath of the Tem-
ple Telegram read a poern as the of-
ficial poet of the Texas Press Associa-
tion at Galveston last month, and all
tiie association couldn't-agree with him
that it was a poem, he has since given
his entire time in trying to teach these
dull editors what a poem really is. We
are frank to admit, a poem is not what
we thought it was."—Gainesville Reg-
ister.
Never mind: there are a lot of folks
who don’t know ’what a poem Is. and
who are constantly being disillusioned
♦♦♦♦99 I M. D
“The people everywhere are look-
ing as never before io the farmer. The
man with the hoe has the center of the
stage and all of the limelight.”—Ter-
DL’STBONE
cleans floors, ...
Turner Brothers.
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TO JOIN RED CROSS
own way on the Galician front.
Petrograd very naively
Teutons' success by
cially that the Russian troops
too busy deciding whether
"Company. Atlentloni-ON.
♦ huy my locker’
glisli professors from Oxford, Harvard' ■■ ■ ■ ——
one <>f the most amusing incidents I t
of tiie camp happened when a member
war would make a big book but that
book would not interest anyone—not
When a man asks Loafer
*
fight. the same American bravery
and pluck Io give his service* /or Old
• dory and his life, if need be, for his
country And those who return to
the second camp will be just as cour-
ageous and fearless, for it han been ru-
mond that the work will be even mom
strenuous than the first because of the
“Even Porto Rico has adopted prohi-
bition. Now is the time to vote Dallas
drv.”—Mesquite Mesquiter.
Dallas will probably be voted dry
when tiie mothers of Dallas decide the
question. They have had experience
in closing saloons, and would be best
qualified to act on tiie matter Eor
further information, apply to the State
Fair Assn., Dallas.
KERENSKY SUCCEEDS LVOFF.
PETBOGRAD, July 21.—Premier Lvoff
lias been succeeded by Minister of War
Kerensky, according to the Bourse Ga-
zette. which says that Kerensky will
temporarily retain his War portfolio.
Denton. Texas, under aci of Congress,
March 3, 1873
NOTICE to THE Pl BLIC.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, reputation or standing of any
firm. individual or corporation will be
gladly corrected upon being called to the
attention of the publishers.
DENTON. TEXAS. JULY
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NEW YORK—Pacifists are incensed at
the action of the Texas University re-
gents in discharging Prof. Lindley M.
Keasbey for his actiivties in the Peo-
ple’s Peace Council.
OKLAHOMA CITY—Members of the
County Councils for Defense must serve
without pay, according to Governor
Williams.
The OLDSMOBILE has almost for
Twenty Years stood apart from the
crowd. It has always been different,
distinctive and distinguished.
For 19 years the Oldsmobile factory
has built nothing but the best Automo- j
biles. These people have done nothings
else but study and build Oldsmobiles.
We’ll be glad for you to call at our
Sales Room on North Side Square and
let us show you this wonderful car.
OLDSMOBILE SIX - - $1285.00
OLDSMOBILE EIGHT $1580.00
(Delivered in Denton)
Call 519 for demonstration.
WEEKLY
One year (in advance)--------
Six months (in advance) 60c
Three months (in advance). .... 35c
All mail subscriptions to the Record-
Chronicle discontinued at expiration.
Weekly entered as second class mail
matter at pottofflee at Denton. Texas,
under act of Congress, March 3, 1873.
Daily entered 9s secono class matter
August 23, 1903, ’at the postofflee al
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THE BIG FAMILY
Our family, in time* of peace, has
many rows and wrangles; It some-
times tatyv the town police to •
quell our little jangles. Then moth-
er, losing all her tact, complains
of which and t'other, and father
reads the riot act and sister nags
her brother. Sometimes the pans
and skillets fly, heaved by an in-
dignant tosser and uncle catches,
with his eyft, pemaps, a cup or
saucer. Sometimes our grandma
takes a broom and knocks the dust
from auntie and now and then we
wreck a room and fairly rock tt»e
shanty. But if a neighbor seeks
our door, with warlike fuss and
bluffing, we <>-ase our rows for-
evermore and from him knock the
stuffing. Forgotten every griev-
ance then, all friction has an end-
ing; the women line up with the
men, our little shack defending.
In normal times this happy land is
full of noisy friskers, who see that
harmony is canned and pull each
other’s whiskers. A stranger stand-
ing on a height, our ways not un-
derstanding, would think we lived
to whoop and fight, some neigh-
bor’s scalp demanding. But when
outsiders come along to mix in. un-
invited. we case to thrash the pri-
vate wrong and we all stand united.
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WsKMiea AND TTUJUWUSX..'
i vk. jys-r wij> ye on new
THAT CAN ^E. AMMt>B4>
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“We must furnish physicians and
nurses and ambulances and the people
must support the Rpd Cross.” declared
William N. Baxter, field secretary of
the Red Cross in speaking before a
meeting for the organization of a local
chapter Friday night. “If we wait it
will be too late—our people are
ing there now. It is a sacred obli.
the anxious waiters kep'K^their eye*
glued on the bulletin board as the
numbers were announced. The an-
nouncement that all would be drawn
removed some of the anticipation that
was expected when it was at first
stated only the necessary 1,374,000
would be drawn, but the order of the
drawing, which determined the ordeif
of call to colors, gave enough interest
remaining at that. The best thing
about the drawing is that the sus-
pense is over for the 10,000,000 regis-
trants, and those riot included ira the
■ first call may proceed about their bu-
siness for presumably at least another
six months, as it is doubtful if there
will be a second call issued before that
time.
ships, joys and sorrows of the man in
the ranks. Many were West Pointers’
—the finest trained soldiers in the
world. Every student of Gamp Fun-
ston will leave there with a much
greater respect of the military
than he has ever known before
the general public who has only seen ed.
TEXAN KILLED WITH CANADIAN
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
OTTAWA Can.. July 21.—The casual-
ty lists announced today include the
name of W. E. Sherman of Marion. Tex-
os. who was reported the victim of
gas bombs.
OF
15c
40c
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(in advance) r 14.00
EWEZi
rell Transcript.
Not all of the limelight, Mr. Man.
The boys in khaki have a s..are of it
right now. The man with the hoe is
behind the men in khaki, all rigtit, and
in consequence, is behind his country.
The soldiers will have to be fed, they
say; and the outlook in Europe isn’t
encouraging for provisioning an extra
million or two men. For us, we think
if Mr. Edison would get busy and in-
vent something non-combustible that
would serve for food it would be more
advisable than to try and ambush the
submarines. Or invent an anti-hungry
atmosphere that could be released in
the trenches about dinner time
"Ever flunk about it’ There are
more rats ttian human beings in the
United States. And every rat is a food
waster.”—McKinney Courier-Gazette.
The only remedy we can think of is
to turn Chinee. If we're going to con-
serve, we may as well go ,tt it in ear-
nest.
/ THAT You IMA^INK. WOVUD \
/ WOWM you pSoft.O&T IT I
AAlt> IMAQ1N& YOU AAX
HAPPV A*4O CONTHNTaO IN-
1 STEAD) and You &S.
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MAKE THE SICK ONE
COMFORTABLE
Don't allow the sheets to become
wrinkled.
Don’t jar the bed by leaning or
sitting upon It.
Don’t allow stale flowers to re-
main in the sick room.
Don’t forget to be kind and pa-
tient.
Don't fail to employ a good phy-
sician and follow his instructions
implicitly.
Don't appear anxious-
ple are very sensitive.
Don’t rattle paper. Nothing gets
on one’s nerves more than this.
Don’t give the patient more water
in a glass than he is allowed.
Be sure that your doctor’s pre-
scriptions are folloewd exactly as
he writes them.
Cleanliness and quiet are the chief
elements tending to the comfort of
the patient..
0. M. CURTIS,
THE MEDICINE MAN
Denton, Texas.
For mamtained public interest t'-al [
far exceeds that of an important gen- i does not want to be discourteous to
eral election, give us a draft drawing.
The interest may not be so wide, in
that only those from 21 to 31 were
“ | 11 d I ’ cl “ IJI 1 I . I I I ' I ’ I “ 1/Hlll IV ’ ' 4 «
paration for caring for the sick and I for instance, much of which Js awfitl
wounded, and the fact that the diap-j
tej's membership is so large and so
representative augurs well for the
character of the work that it will do.
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fort. There are poems and poems, and
just between us. lots of them are not
------ Because of the fact that a lot
There will things that are not poems get by on
“poetic "-----" *“ ‘i—
come to the local chapter things to be acquired
done that will be of value in this na- '"IP
Don's preparation for war and its pre-
an instance where the government
, could not have done the work of the
volunteer organization.
The sneaker said that the fundamen-
i tai service is that of being a member
>rld i of the Red Cross where each can con-
of
More recent | I 9 **»♦♦♦•»♦♦
it's had to 4 ♦
Had stated, in a printed piece.
a son who had a friend |
Who knew just when the war would
end.
» hi.* world i °F nPfi <>ross wriPre earri rdi) < on-
humble and tribute to the cause according to their
; means,
nurses
PORT O'CONNOR—Many Epworth
League members are arriving here for
Who said the negroes in a Texas
town .
Who got it straight from a circus
clown
That a man in Klondike heard the news
From a gang of South American Jews
About a man in Borneo,
That heard somebody who claimed to
Igiow
• »f a swell society female rake.
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove that her second husband’s
niece
IL.d stated,
Ttiat she had
V4c have a, re farni good black
land. Can w>|| n to you for 965 per
•ore. Pay down tt.500, balance nearly
all at 5 per cent interest Thi* I* a
*vhanc*‘ to get you a farm, on easy
terms. Tbo rents will almost pay this
farm out We believe it win avereae
1-2 bate cotton every year fur five
years. Better act quickly if you want
a choice bargain Sec
to furnish the Belgian people with a v ' „.’’
slice of bread and bowl of soup each I woman here. Stevenson had
passed on to someone else,
found at some several dif-
ferent times in different papers the
only real reply to this question that it
is possible to make and when a man
asks Loafer when the war Is going to
end he is going to refer him to this
answer which is reproduced herewith
and hereto. <
That answer is:
“Absolute knowledg
\ ment's use of a lottery—something
> which it has long since forbidden pri- tell all that Loafer thinks ^aboiit Jhe
vote citizehfc and corporations—only
< - accentuated the concern with which) even Loafer.
Quit Paying Rent
Own Your Farm.
"We will never he satisfied with any
terms granting civilization new
on life unless arrangements are
made whereby the Russians will have
to shave ami the Chinamen cut off
Ihcir queues.’’—Honey Grove Signal.
And the Turks be-headed, don’t you
mean’ The Turks would b<* A-l citi-
zens beheaded
NO STATEMENT ON GUARD CREDITS.
AUSTIN. July 21.—No statement is
obtainable from the Adjutant General’s
department regarding the credit to be
given Texas on its quota for national
guard enlistments. It is reported that
credit will be given exemption districts
only for guard enlistments prior to
July 1 and that if a county’s enlist-
ments prior to that date were equal to
the county’s quota under the draft, no
men will drafted.
A Houston dispatch says that about
K.000 men tiad enlisted in the Texas
guard up to June 30 and it is said that
these and regular enlistments will be
subtracted from Texas’ quota under
the draft.
Recruiting for the guard will con-
tinue until the drafted men are called
to the colors, it was also stated at
General Hulen’s office.
more different and Jongrr than those be called a slacker, for it Is a difficult i handled guns in their live* before
thing to take a i ' * " "* ’ . ( 2 ,*
and mould him into an officer in three i wherever the rookie*
months. Those who dropped by the i sea. Hie (houghs of
wayside arc to be just as much adm!r-|vvith all its hardships, joys and
ed as those who will succeed. A hit I rows, will ever remain In th sir 11
slower perhaps than his fortunate com-as the most pleasant memories In
rades. but possessing the same desire lives.
with their rifles stuck out in front of
them, and to all intents and purposes
imitating the lizard in crawling, so
much so that a new command "As
Lizards Crawl" was unanimously
adopted and daded to those found in
the infantry drill regulations. In pla-
toon and squad colmuns the command
was then gjven to charge. The platoon
or squad leader cautiously and slowly
crawled out in front of his men and
at a given signal shouted, "Follow
Me!" And follow t,jm they did, with
wild Apache yells that awoke the sleep-
ing snakes and lizards basking in the
summer blistering sun. And when the
proper distance had been gained, the
leader shouted, “rthwn!" And down
they all had to go at once, and right
in the middle of a bunch of cactus or
an ant bed. One was lucky If one of1
his comrades heels did not give him an
upper cut under the chin or the but of
his gun a black eye or the ground did
not rise up to hit him in the face.
There was no running up to the de-
sired position and letting oneself down
easily, hut if was like a high dive into
water or a headlong dive and sliding to
second hasp. That was the stuff and
| the captain .would shout.. “Thalia Roy-
and the rookie would fee) repaid for
hi* labor.
, „ 1 of watermelons got in
The grocer said they were
county melons. They may
i—but they didn't look it."—
I McKinney Examiner.
i Your inference is somewhat obscure.
• you mean that the melons
were small and mean, but such is the
propensity of some of the joumalis-
I tic brethren to pick flaws in all that
I doesn’t come out of Jerusalem that we
a man who
| t » ’ Il IjMrtl'l* vv II* II »« iikiii
t what he thinks about the war he does
i not know where to begin to answer,
so he feels Tike saving that he abso-
lutely endorses General Sherman's
opinion of war in general and let it
go at that, but that is not courteous
and Loafer does not want to hurt the
feelings of anyone. Now if any of the
friends who are asking that question
of Loafer will appoint a time and agree
to listen Loafer will agree to take a
day off and go as far as possible into
i what he thinks of the war
There is another question that is
asked Loafer every time he gets on the
street. That is. “When do you think
the war will end?" Loafer wonders if
the fellow who asks that question ex-
pects an answer to it. If they do they
surely credit somebody with omnisci-
ence. Now Loafer is not that vpower-
*>il indi'ldual and the question will
have to be
Loafer has
I blank. Then there is vers libre. which
| being interpreted, means free verse.
Some free verse is too free to be really
'valuable, and some of it is too free to
I he really respectable. Then there is
prose poetry, of which we have some
I notable and worthy examples, but from
(which we have also endured much
Berlin reports considerable advance. long-suffering A great many people
against the Russians, which for a few
days appeared to be having things their j wither they ever learn
and|xv^° essays tn
. . | west J----” ’
xplains the.ri„ht
announcing offi-;who
' " ere I ■ '
or n<d to I Lewis of the
obey their officers to have time to de-
• me | well-informed
tor could not decide the question and I
instead, voluntarily withdrew be-
fore the German advance, necessitate Denton
ing the retirement also of other regi- [
ments, which presumably had not made
up their minds whether or n<d to | Of course
obey. All of us were encouraged by
the Russian drive and some of us were
even deluded into the belief that it was; '^7" ornp'of them"may give different
a permanent restoration of Russian I construction to Hie remark,
spirit and aggressiveness,
occurrences on that front,
say. do hot give any go<xi substantia- ♦
ilon for that belief. 19 9 I 9 9»9 9 9 9 9*9 »l 11 19 9 9 9 »»»
-------o------- . Every day some friend of Loafer's
For maintained oublic. interest that p1°Ps UP an'^ wants to know what this
ror maintain* puonc. interest mat | er t|)jnks abonf the war. Loafer
5MASH1NGT0N, July 21.—Following
physical defects will cause rejection
of men under the draft whri otherwise
conform to the army requirements of
height, weight and chest expansion:
Mental—Lack of normal understand-
ing.
Skin—Chronic, contagious and para-
sitic diseases when severe and exten-
sive; chronic ulcers, deep or extensive.
Head—Abrupt depression in skull,
the consequence of old fracture.
Spine—Curvatures, cartes, abscess;
lateral curvature is cause, for rejection
if it exceeds 1 Inch to either side, es-
pecially when it throws the shoulders
out of symmetry.
Ears—All catarrhal and purulent
forms of otitis media; perforation of
the tympanum.
Ryes—Acu|t| of vision bekow the
requirements under vision; conjuncti-
val affections; strabfsrnus; lachrymal
apparatus diseases, etc.
Mouth, nose and fauces—Deformities
interfering with mastication or speech,
chronic ulcerations. Assures or perfo-
rations of the hard ■ ■ •
of the tonsils sui
with respiration or phonation, loss of
voice or manifest alteration of it. Must
have at least four serviceable moiar
teeth, two above and two below and
in occlusion. Obstruction of the nos-
trils or foul discharges indicative of
ozena.
Neck—Pronounced goiter, great en-
largement or ulcerations of the cervi-
cal glaml;.
Chest—Diseases of the lung and heart
especially in flat, narrow or malformed
chest.
.Abdomen—tty runic inflammation
'the. gastro-fniestinal tract, including
chronic diarrhea and dysentery and oth-
er diseases of the contained organs
hernia in ail situations.
Anns—Heni*rrhoids of pronounced
type, fistula, prolapsus and fissures.
Genjto-urinary organs—Sv philis, if
discernible by inspection Gonorrhea is
not disqualifying.
Affections Common to both extremi-
ties—Chronic rheumatism and diseases
of the joints of disabling type, irredu-
cible dislocation or false joints, old dis-
locations if attended with impairment
of motion or distortion of the joint;
severe sprains, chronic, synovitis, bad-
ly united fractures, caries, necrosis,
atophy or paralysis, extensive or adhe-
rent scars, permanent contraction of
tiie muscles.
Hands—Webbed fingers, permanent
flexion or loss of motion of one or
more fingers, loss or mutilation of ei-
ther thumb, t<Ual loss of right index
finger, total lu/< of any two tlngprs on
the same hand or of second and third
phalanges of all the lingers of either
hand.
Lower extremities—Pronounced vari-
cose veins, knock-knees, club feet, fllat
feet, webbed toes,, bunions, overriding
or marked displicement of tiie toes,
hammertoes.
If Hie local board is not satisfied
with the examination made by its phy-
sician. it shall call another to make
sure ttiat either the government or the
registrant is given a square deal. Even
if the board is satistied vvtih the
amination either the government
the registrant may appeal.
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day.
“You can't overestimate the amount
of work now being done or will be
done bv the Red Cross.” the speaker
concluded, "and in order that this work
may be efficiently carried on the peo-
ple must support,the campaign. I be-
lieve that you can bring home to the
people the needs of the organization,
you can build an organization here t^at
will he a credit to Denton."
Wants to Raise Goal.
At the close om Mr. Baxter's talk,
several short talks were made by mem-
bers of the temporary organization, in-
cluding Miss Lee Williams, who said
it was the plan of the committee tn se-
cure 500 members for the local chap-
ter. Alvin C. Owsley said he believed
500 was too small an endeavor, that
the goal should be set at 1,000 and that
the entire county should be represent-
ed. He was supported by Mr. Baxter
who gave figures showing that towns
smaller than Denton had much larger
memberships than 500.
At the close of the meeting the va-
rious classes of members were discuss-
ed and opportunity given those present
to join. Sixty persons responded to
the call for members at the meeting
and it was stated that a campaign to
increase the membership to 500 would
he carried on. The organization of a
Pilot Point chapter was reported and
will form the flrst auxiliary to the
!y chapter.
Walter Sullivan
Joe. L. Blewett
With Land Mortgage Bank a
Denton, Texas. I
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license," the term itself ha*
considerable elasticity, and
made to embrace almost any
effort the originator desires to desig-
nate as such. There is blank verse.
of his good friends, but did you
ever stop to think* how you would an-
awer that question if it were asked
j of vou? If a man undertakes to tell
„ „ , u all that he thinks about the war in all
vitally concerned, but, if the spirit be- ■ jts pf13ses he will have to talk enough
fore the Record-Chronicle bulletin I to make a sewing circle sound like a
. . . ... ,, dummy convention by comparison. It
bparti Friday counts for anything. ttie|wlKl|(1 PaCh anq every one of us
interest is a lot deeper and the govern-1 a month to tell all that, we think of
i the war and its many ramifications
thruout the life of the country. To
flght-
, gat ion
to become a member of the Red Cross
which means that you are In sympathy
with the movement and are willing
to contribute one or more dollars Jo-
ward carrying on its work."
The sneaker opened his address by
telling the history of the Red Cross so-
ciety, saying that up until 1869—a re-
cent year—the idea of the Red Cross
had not been conceived, wounded men
being left on the battlefields to be
trampled underneath the hoofs of ani-
mals and the wheels of conveyances,
and no nation carrying on effectively
any kind of relief work whatsoever.
In 1863. he said, a young Swiss con-
ceived the great idea of the Red Cross
and was successful in having the
Treaty of Geneva enacted whereby all
nations respected the Red Cross soci-
ety which was to be conducted by
private subscription. In 1882. he said,
the American branch of the Red Cross
was organized thru the efforts of Miss
Clara Barton.
It was shown that the funds receiv-
ed for the Red Cross are fee? from any
graft, being audited each year by the
War department, with only five per
cent of the funds allowed for operating
expenses and the remaining ninety-five
per cent being used for relief work.
It was pointed out that the organiza-
tion is under government supervision
but not hampered by government con-
trol, with everything j.t does open to
the public scrutiny.
The work of the society was discuss-
ed, the speaker stating that the society
does a great deal of work besides that
on the battlefields. As one instance,
it was said that during th»* Mexican
troubles, the Red Cross aided thous-
ands of the families of National guards-
♦ RUTH CAMERON’S SIDE TALKS ♦ men while Congress was wrangling
♦ ♦ over a bill for this purpose, this being
THE ARROGANCE OF IGNORAN™
There is nothing in the world
arrogant and so cocksure and so
sympathetic as ignorance.
XPd, there is nottiing in ttie
that can make one more t ;
more understanding than experience.
. A young business woman whom I
know hag recently Rnarried. 1 ----- -----—
to her mgtrlage she alwavs had tier being a member of the Red Cross did
sewing done for Iot. >he tiad never
made a garment.
one of the first usages to which she
put tier newly acquired leisure was to I *
try to make herself a dress.
She Found Out How Many Slit<hes
There Are In A Gown.
. She told me about it the other day.'
It Wasn't a syccess,” she said, "and ,
J may never try again, but I’m glad l1
did it once. It was such a lesson to I
me. You know I never could under-1
stand why the dressmakers and the
seamstresses I hired took so long to',
make a dress. They're progress fast'
enough up to a certain point and then
Holland charges unneutral acts
against Great Britain in its attack on
Qerman merchant wsseis. if the usual
procedure is followed Great Britain
will deny the affair occurred within
the three-mile limits or if ti did, Great
Britain is duly and properly sorry it
occurred so close to shore. Neutrals,
especially little neutrals, have not had
much good fortune in this war. and
their protests base brought apologies
sometimes and promises of reparation
at others-all when the war is over
.— -----o
It was of course only
made it so, but it Is somewhat of a
coincidence ttiat in the list of the finst
700 numbers drawn in the draft, no
less than four of them were those of
present or recent Itecod-Chronicle at-
taches B. E. Alexander. Lloyd Price,
L. A. McDonald and L. H. Woodson
were th*1 four. Alexander is now work-
ing for a commission at Camp Funston.
Price has enlisted in the local T. N. G.
unit. McDonald is a married man, as
is also Woodson, both presumably be-
ing exempt from the senice at least
on the first call. We
is another institution
which four of its attaches were drawn
in the first list
We are mighty glad of the success-
ful organization of the local branch
of the Red Cross and anything the Rec-
ord-Chronicle can d<1 to further the ob-
jects of the commendable plans is had j
without asking. The Red Cross is go-
ing to play an important part in the
American conduct of the war, just as concerning that variety of literary ef-
it has already done much to alleviate
the sufferings of soldiers and civilians poems,
of every nation involved There will thini
• “poet ic
come to the local chapter things to be I npnniro
It was said that surgeons and
, would have to he sent to the
Previous European nations of course, but that
t.....” 1 — J:1
not make one liable for service of this
kind, membership merely expressing
a sympathy with it and a willingness
to aid it financially
He said that the Red Cross must act
as foster-parent to American soldier
boys in France, furnishing them whole-
some recreation during the time when
I they are not in the trenches. He said
that not only bandages must be fur-
nished, but also there must he a cam-
paign waged against tuberculosis in
France where It is said this disease is
increasing enormously.
It was said that the work of the
Red Cross will do in the reconstruc-
it would take them forever; But now j
well I’ll never he impatienj again,
know what finishing off a dress is.
Her story struck several chords in
my memory. The loudest was this.
When I was a young girl we used to.
have a good sized lawn and garden. It
itx'zx rvinrr •* /■!«■»»• tn z»nt ttio I
grass and tidy up the place. Now I ‘ proof
tiad sometimes run a lawn-mower a j was cited as an example of the de-
few feet and I knew how easily it could j struction wrought bv the present war
be done and it seemed all nonsense t<>, and the relief work that will he need-
me that it should take so long. I ed. 8350,000,000 being required alreadv
know I could do it in less time." I *-----—----1- —1
said. "They're simply puttering."
A Sadder And Wiser Girl
And then one college vacation being
in sore need of extra spending money.
1 tried it. One fine summer morning
I set forth behind tiie lawn mower. I
tiad ttie grass cut long before the day),
was over and 1 was Jubilant.
then 1 got down or my hands and
knees and started to clip ttie edges of
our multitudinous (so they seemed to
me- paths. And by ttie time I had cut.
raked, trimmed and generally tidied up
that [dace, I was a sadder and a wiser
girl.
He Needed A Lesion In Gardening
Ttie other day I heard
had never done any of this sort of
work say. "Two men a day ? Nonsense.
1 could do it in half of that time.
Ami I smiled.
If everyone could have a try at a
great many kinds of work this would
be a much more tolerant world.
CH FACE
which we have also
long-suffering A great
, can’t tell one kind of poetry from an-
I other ami most of them don't care
,<iii The G. H. M..
1 ‘ ' » run the colynm tn the
■•■nl, doesn’t know when the feet are
rigtit in a poem, and Fren’ Mr. Lowry.
: > once posed with tiis customary
success as poet of the Texas Press As-
sociation. thinks Uncle Judd Mortimer
).? Houston Post writes
■..I....’.. ... Those are two examples
1 of fairly intelligent men who are not
wcii-iiifoi ni’-d concerning poetry, so
■ don’t become discouraged with your
status as a Lt r
"A wagonload
1 Monday.
1 Denton
(By Jerry Fowler)
"Fall out and be ready to fall in
again in five minute* with full packs."
was a dreaded but familiar command
of the top sergeant often heard by the
students or rookie officers at Camp
Funston. And it did not mean to fall
out and get in line in ten minutes, or
in five, but at once, and if you were
not in your proper place when roll was
called—out came the Jittle black books,
which contained the Death Rolls.
But this command, as thousands of
other commands, was teaching obe-
dience. strict and prompt execution of
orders of those, higher in authority.
.And this is one thing, above all others,
that distinguishes the framed soldier
from the. untrained, the regular from
the rookie. .And it soon becomes sec-
ond nature for the rookie to obey a
command, no matter by whom it is
given. And so in battle, because of
noise and tumult, it is difficult, to hear
the commands a trained soldier, at a
mere signal from his captain, platoon
or squad leader, involuntarily and thru
, - . . sheer force nf habits, executes the
I'' hypertrophy proper movement. So the long tint
interfere of continuous drills, the execut-
ingof different squad, platoon, company
and battalion movements over and over
again, which at first appeared mean-
ingless and useless to us. soon began
to posses a deeper significance and
meaning to us, and we realized that it
was to teaeti us obedience.
According Io military authorities, no
American soldier has ever been sub-
jected to (tie rigorous training that the
students at ttie various training camps
in Hie I niled States have tiad Sixteen
tiours a day - from 5:4.5 in ttie morning
to 9:4'> at nigtit. But never before tias
the seemingly impossible been attempt-
ed. ttiat of making an officer capable
of commanding a platoon, company or
batallion, in three short months. But It
is being done at Gamp Funston with
the aid of the finest drill masters from
some of L'ncle Sam’s crack regiments.
And these men. practically all of
whom are captains of the United
States Regular army, were chosen es-
pecially because of their peculiar nt-i
ness [and ability to train uniter such!
peculiar and extraordinary conditions.!
And they are real men—from ttie topi
of their military hats to the toe of I
their broad boots. Many of us had,
heard lectures from distinguished En-
I i T1 f ■ r. ■ f. 1 j m g —*.. ■ ■ * 11 — — -. — a ■
and 5ale. but in precisiveness, cor-j
redness of English and originality, the t
lectures from these men were just as
perfect ami brilliant. And they knew: of Company Six was called out from
every phase of their profession. Broad ranks one morning by tils captain and
minded, because of their many years told to take charge of the company in
experience in handling men and just , close, order drill. Now this man was
because many of them tiad come up (a private in ttie rear ranks and had
from the ranks, and knew the hard-' never had charge of a squad, much less w,
.l.---’-'a company So at the dreaded call he higher commissions that ore to b<B
saw the handwriting on the wall and
he knew that Hie benzine hoard was |
awaiting his reception
ped out in front of ’ , ...
man ' a voice that could be heard for mites those who receive commiasions at
____2_J
X\"hpiCami' Funston, take off your h«l
- ; --- --- ..... ...... .......... 1,‘. *>,■.. >»>.’ 1'njv’i. 11 1 in ■ i|- I i.iriil, t
officers at social functions, where they'less to sav that his locker was bought all, ttie
were at play, will realize before this1 that afternoon camp h .
No man who passed thru the weeks I and experiences that will
Some who
took two men a whole day to cut the j during the Civil
had sometimes run
they are some men So, 1
_... • men who have attended
camp have learned valuable
1>ave a
war is over that his is an honorable! ,
bfofessjon 2*nd ttuit his works arc far of hard labor at Gamp Funston could I with them
of many of his brothers in civil life, i
But all was not work. There were,
a few minutes of fun. If a man were
optimistic enough and could get fun
out of work. For instance, we were
excused from drill for one half hour
one day in order to h- inoculated for
typhoid fever. Several brawny ath-l
letes keeled over like stuck pigs when)
ttie surgeon's sharp instruemnt pierced!
their arms. While out on long force]
marches the monotony was broken by 1
some one starting an original song and;
tie would be immediately joined bvi
the whole Company Mim?. comical
and original songs were written and!
sung to the tunes of old time South-'
ern melodies. The captains encouraged
singing because it aided men in main-
taining proper cadence in marching and
made them forget the wearisome fa-
tigue and terrible dust. , Uncle Sam
certainly believes in taking good care
of his hoys. For instance we received
three inoculations for tynhoid fever
during the first four weeks in camp
and were vaccinated two or three times
for small pox during ttie second four
weeks and it was commonly rumored
that on the third visit to the hospital
we yvould have our appendix removed.
We firmly belteved that we would
leave camp either perfect—or dead
men. Sick call always sounded at 5:45
in the afternoon and if a man got sick
before this time, he was in a bad way.
One morning about 8 a. m. a rookie
approached one of our sergeants and
told him that he was a very sick man
and that he wished to go to the hos-
pital and the sergeant busily working
at his bunk, turned to him and said,
testily, “Hell. man. you can’t get sick
now*, you will have tn wait until 5.45.”
In extended order drills, rookies were
trained in making charges on the bat-
tle line. Commanded to lie flat on the
ground, the men hugged the ground
>n Of ttie twenty-tbrwe hundred whe
have left the camp. Uncle Sam will
■ption So he stop- have some crack non-cotnmiMioMd of-
f the company and in fieers, so he was wise after all. And to
■ isuai «x iikii 1 oill’l l/r- im ill 11 imi mil’ 1 uni"
And ! and with undeniable accents he *hout- end of the three month*
. seen ed. "Company. Attentioni-ON. vk"o^ ' <
and come in contact with Uncle Sam’s wants to buy my locker?" It is need-1 them
tion days after the present war is al-
. | most beyond calculation, that the hun-
„ dred millions of dollars recently sub-
scribed would not be a drop in the
bucket compared with the amount to
be needed, and the words of President
Wilson to the effect that the sacri-
fices in this war will be greater than
„ ‘ I war were cited as
The work of relief in Belgium
a lawn-mower »|was cited as an example of the de-
l°iand the relief work that will
I I oo<i iim
I
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O'CONNOR—Many
their annual encampment.
PARIS—A carload of bois d' arc logs
is being shipf to Lynchburg. Va„ to j>e
used in maaimz dvestuffs.
FORT WORTH—Special Sunday ex-
cursion rates to Lake Worth have been
granted with a maximum of 81.50.
AUSTIN—Causeway bonds in the sum
of 8.500.000 from Galveston county have
been approved.
AUSTIN—Half of. the automobile fees
under the new highway law are avail-
able to the counties from which they
come, but must be used under direction
of the Highway commission which is
taken to mean thal it will be used on
roads designated as state highways.
AUSTIN—The Automatic Tax hoard
will fix the state tax rate Wednesday.
The constitutional limft is expected to
be the rate set.
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