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THE ALVIN SUN. ALVIN. TEXAS
UNITED STATES ST
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER
LUCKY STRIKE
WAR ONE YEAR
CIGARETTE
1,528,924 MEN IN THE ARMY
15,000,000 A DAY
SAVE A DOCTOR’S BILL
onvt /A Mwivno DIL.U
by keeping Mississippi Diarrhea Cor-
dial bandy for all stomach complaints.
Price 25c and 50c.—Adv.
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Lemons Whiten and
Beautify the Skin!
Make Cheap Lotion
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Expansion of Armed Forces Out-
standing Feature of Period.
lias the record for the greatest goad
. _____________________ _LVDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYN H, MASS.
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cheek and lots of chin in a barber ___________________
py home out of commission.
Regular men like the Lucky Strike
Cigarette—good, solid Kentucky
Burley tobacco, fine for a cigarette
because—
the
and
on
A frenzied financier out of a job is
of about as much use to the world as
a last year’s bird's nest.
Her Opinion.
■My love is like the rose in your
hair—it is—
She—Artificial.
Gone.
Mrs. A.—“I thought your cook was a
jewel.” Mrs. B.—*‘So she was, but she
has been reset”
How easy it is to forgive an enemy
when he is in a position to do you a
favor I
If a little knowledge is dangerous,
where is the man who has so much
as to be out of danger?
The Right Kind.
“What kind < f a coach did you get
for your examinations?”
“An old college hack.”
Onions and whisky form a combina-
tion calculated to put almost any L p-
Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet
for a laxative, three for a cathartic. Ad.
[CARTERS
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TT'VERY month we make enough
Pvl ncky Strike Cigarettes to reach,
end to end, from New York to China,
the long way around. That's
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A BSENCE of Iron in the
Blood it the reason for
many colorless faces but
Carter’s Little Liver l*ills
A Remedy That
t Makes Life
Worth Living
(>uuint bftn «i couture
Quite the Part.
“What did that young fellow do
when his mother called him her lamb?”
“He looked sheepish.”
ac-
war
At the opening of the
Ignorance may not be bliss, but it
generates a lot of contentment.
The man who foots the bills always
has a kick coming.
Holderless Pen.
A European Inventor h;as devised a
metal blank with four damps which
This device
d imped around the forefinger is said
to make writing much easier than
when a penholder is used.
You Cannot be
Constipated j
and Happy jfl
Small Pu.
Small Deee MF’1
Small Price
This distressing Ailment should be
relieved at once and save strain on
Nervous System. CAPUDINE gives
quick relief. It’s a liquid—Pleasant to
take.—Adv.
dealers ' <'arr*'>s a Pen at tbe end.
SOMERS,
Adv.
The Juice of two fresh lemons strain-
ed into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white makes a whole quar-
ter pint of the most remarkable lemon
skin beautlfler at about the cost one
must pay for a small jar of the ordi-
nary cold creams. Care should be tak-
en to strain the lemon juice through a
fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in,
then this lotion will keep fresh for
months. Every woman knows that lem-
on juice is used to bleach and remove
such blemishes as freckles, sallowness
and tan and is the ideal skin softener,
smoothener and beautifier.
Just try It! Make up a quarter pint
of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion
and massage it dally Into the face,
neck, arms and hands. It should natur-
ally help to whiten, soften, freshen and
bring out the hidden roses and beauty
of any skin. It is wonderful for rough,
red hands.
Your druggist will sell three ounces
of orchard white at little cost, and any
grocer will supply the lemons. Adv.
n
Middle Aged
Women,
Are Here Told the Best Remedy
for Their Troubles.
Freemont, O.—“I was passing through the critical
period of life, being forty-six years r i age and had all
the symptoms incident to that change — heat flashes,
nervousness, and was in a general run down condition,,
so it was hard for me to do my work. Lydia E. Pink-
him's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me as
the best remedy for my troubles.which it surely proved
to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since
taking it, and the annoying symptoms have disap-
peared.”-—Mrs. M. Golden, 925 Napoleon St., Fremont,
Ohio.
North Haven, Conn.—“Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta-
ble Compound restored my health after everything else
bad failed when passing through change of life. There
is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms.”
—Mrs. Flolesck isKiXA,Box 197, North Haven, Conn.
To Drive Out Materia and Build Up
The System
Take tbe Old Standard GROVB’S TEST HUSS
chill TONIC. Toa know what yon are taking as '
tbe formula Is printed on every label, k bo wing It is
Quinine and Iron in a Tasteless form.
Kill the Flies Now and Prevent
disease. A DAISY FLY KILLER will do it.
Kills housands Lasts all season. All
or six sent express paid for *1. H.
150 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Has been used for all ailments that |
are caused by a disordered stomach .
and Inactive liver, such as sick head-
ache, constipation, sour stomach. |
nervous indigestion, fermentation of
food, palpitation of the heart caused bv
gases In the stomach. August Flower
is a gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to se-
crete the bile and Impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
Give it a trial.—Adv.
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Examine carefully every bottle of ‘
CASTORIA, (hit fam dus old rem«*dy j m
for infants and children, and see that it I
Bears the
Signature
In Use for Over 3u Years.
p Children Cry for Fktcher’i Castoris
The United States has been an
tive participant in the great world
for one year,
second year the government commit-
tee on public information lias issued a
review of the first twelve months of
ho(tiliti<*s, showing what has been
done by various branches of the gov-
ernment to place the United States In
a position to play an effective part in
the ultimate defeat of Germany and
her allies. The commit-ee on public
Information says that all statements
con.aiLed in the following summary of
the review are authorized by the war
department, navy department. United
States shipping board and treasury
department.
The outstanding feature of the first
year of war. it is pointed out
?n the review, has been the transfor-
mation of the standing army and Na-
tional Guard, composed of 9.524 offi-
cers anci 202,510 men into a fighting
force thiit now aggregates 123,801 of-
ficers arid 1,528,924 enlisted men.
A statement of the adjutant general
shows that the regular army which in
April. 1917, comprised 5,791 officers
and 121,797 men, now is made up of
10,698 officers and 503,142 men. The
National Guard in April, 1917, includ-
-ed 3,733 officers ami 76,713 men, wh'le
now it comprises 16,893 officers and
131,583 men. The reserve corps in
-service one year ago Included 4,000
men. Now It includes 96,210 officers
:and 77,»50 men. The National army,
•which did not exist one year ago, now
includes 516,839 men.
A substantial vanguard (military
expediency prohibiting publication of
actua numbers) of this army is meet-
ing the enemy in France today or is en-
caac.ped there awaiting the call to the
trenches ; in 16 cantonments and 16
camps ard on numerous aviation fields
and in s variety of other schools in
all parts of the United States the men
of the remaining army are hardening
and training for their part in the great
contest overseas.
Behind the activities of this vast
force lies a great industry organized
to produce an adequate supply of mu-
nittoni, equipment, and provisions,
and to provide transportation to the
flring line, almost every branch of
essential industry of the country hav-
ing been drawn upon to produce these
materiel requirements.
Expeditionary Forces. .
Military necessity particularly for-
bids a detailed review of the activities
of the American expeditionary forces.
General Pershing and his staff ar-
rive! in Paris on June 14, 1917, 89
days; after the declaration of war, The
first Arne can troops arrived in
France on June 26. On July 4, in cel-
ebration of our natal day and a new
tight for liberty, American troops pa-
rades! the streets of Paris and were
greeted as the forerunners of great
American armies cud vast quantities
of supplies and ammunitions.
On October 10, 1917, 187 days after
rhe war was declared, American sol-
diers went on the firing line. In Jan-
uary American soldiers took over per-
manently a part of the line as an
Amerl<an sector, and this line is grad-
ually engthenlng.
Behind the fighting line in France
the American forces have scientifically
prepared a groundwork of camps, com-
munications. supply bases, and works
In anticipation of operations by the
full fore.’ of the army. They are
building find have built railroads, hos-
pitals, ordnance bases, and docks in
France. They have constructed im-
mense barracks, erected sawmills, re-
claimed agricultural lands, and car-
ried forward many incidental enter ■ ra|n<».
prises.
The construction of an ordnance
base In France, costing $25,000,000, is
now well under way. Great quantities
of material used in the foreign cou-
straett'm work have been shipped from
the United States—from
Official Review of Twelve Months*
Activities Shows What Various
Departments of Government
Have Done.
Anoint the eyelids with
sam st night, and la the
the refreshed
your eyes. Adv.
sllgl tly more than twice the cost of
buf'dlng the Panama canal. The con-
tractors’ profits on the several con-
tracts averaged only 2.98 per cent.
Air Service.
The air service has been called
upon in the past 12 months to build
an enormous structure of the most
highly trained personnel and the most
intricate equipment with practically
no foundation to start from
Three large appropriations, includ-
ing the $640,600,000 act passed without
a roll call, made a total of $691,000,000
aval able for the first year. All of this
has since been obligate!.
Last April the air service had an
almost negligible force of 65 officers
and 1,120 men, 3 small flying fields,
less than 300 second-rate planes, prac-
tically no aviation industry, and only
the most scanty knowledge of the ka-
leidoscopic development abroad. The
first two months of war were required
to secure information, establish a staff,
and work out the program finally
adopted. The problem was twofold—
first, personnel; and, second, equip-
ment.
Today the personnel is over 100
timea that of a year ago, practically
every member a skilled man who has
gone through an intensive course of
training. Schools of 11 different
kinds have been instituted, courses
of instruction laid out, ami instruc-
tors secured, 'Deluding foreign ex-
perts in a score of lines, as follows:
For flyers at ground schools and flying
fields; for mechanics at the flying
fields and at over a dozen different
factories; for ph*‘ographers. balloon-
ists, adjutants, supply officers, engineer
officers, armorers, and instructors of
mechanics.
Development of Navy.
The development of the navy during
the first year of war has given the
greatest satisfaction. Its growth and
achievements during this period may
be epitomized in t^e following para-
graphs :
Strength of the navy today Is
nearly 21,000 officers and 330,000 en-
listed men; strength a year ago was
4,792 officers and 77,946 enlisted men.
Estimated total expenditures of the
navy during first year of war: Dis-
bursements and outstanding obliga-
tions. $1,881,000,000.
Total naval appropriations, real and
pending. $8,333,171,665.04.
American destroyers arrived at a
British i>ort to assist In patrolling Eu-
ropean waters 28 days after the decla-
ration of war.
There are now four times as many
vessels in the naval service as a year
ago.
Nearly 73,000 mechanics and other
civilian employees are working at
navy yards and stations.
When war was declared. 123 naval
vessels were building or authorized,
and contracts have been placed since
that time for 949 vessels.
More than 700 privately owned ves-
sels have been purchased or chartered
by the navy.
Six new authorized battleships are
designed to be of 41,500 tons, the larg-
est battleships in the world.
Our 35,000-ton cruisers, 35 knc*s,
will be the fastest in the world, their
speed equaling the fastest destroyers.
Prompt repairs of 109 interned Ger-
man ships, partially wrecked by their
crews, added more than 700,000 tons
to our available naval and merchant
tonnage.
The navy has developed an Ameri-
can mine believed to combine all the
good points of various types of mines,
and is manufacturing them in quanti-
ties.
Durln z the year the latest type of
naval 16-lnch gun was completed for
cur new battleships; It throws a pro-
jectile weighing 2,100 pounds.
Navy has ih its possession now a
stock of supplies sufficient for the
average requirements for at least one
year.
Several hundred submarine chasers,
built since the war. have been deliv-
ered to the na.y by 31 private con-
cerns and six navy yards; many of
these boats have crossed the Atlantic,
some In severe weather.
Naval training camps have a ca-
pacity of 102.000 In summer, 94.000
men in winter.
Shipping .Board's Progress.
Up to date congress has authorized
$2,034,000,000. of which 31,135,000,000
has been appropriated, for
United States Shipping board
Emergency Fleet corporation;
March 1. $853,247,955.37 of this sum
had b»*en expended.
The Emergency Fleet corporation
had requisitioned March 1. 425 steel
vessels and contracted for 720 steel
vessels, making a total of 1,145 steel
ships, of an aggregate dead-weight
tonnage of 8.164.508 tons; it had let
contra<*ts for 490 wooden vessels, ag-
gregatlng approximately 1.715.000
dead-weight tons: It had repaired and
put in operation 788.000 dead-weight
tonnage seized from Germany and
Austria.
On March 5 the bull ling program
of the Emergency Fleet corporation
was tx ing carried on in 151 plants.
First Year's War Cost.
Total estimated expense of the
United States government in the first
year of war. without loans to the
allies. Is $12,067,278,679.07.
To help meet this expense the treas-
ury department floated $0,616,532,300
subscriptions to Liberty bonds.
Bonds, certificates of indebtedness.
War Savings certificates, and Thrift
stamps issued by the treasury up to
March 12, totaled $8,560,802,052.96.
The United States government had
loaned to foreign governments asso-
ciated in the war on March 12, 1918,
$4,486,329,750.
To March 12 the war risk insur-
ance bureau had isxued policies for a
total of $12,465,116,500 to the armed
forces.
iters, and* in February fl saving of
$39,740 was made on potatoes alone.
The central control system is still be-
ing perfected.
Production of 10 (KX) new autom -bile
trucks is in progress for the army, in
addition to purchases of 3.52C passen-
ger cars, 6,126 motorcycles, and 5,040
bicycles, with appropriate repair and
replact-ment equipment.
In three months the cantonment di-
vision of the quartermaster general's
department built 16 cantonments, each
one practically a small city, compris-
ing about 1,400 separate buildings and
providing quarters for 47,000 men.
In the construction of these 16 can-
tonments over 22.090 individual build-
ings of many types were erected for
the housing of the National army
while in training. The construction
cost approximately
R man Eye B*l-
........ n.orninx obiervr
nd •t engthen. d aensation I
candidates, consisting largely of en-
listed men. have be*n In attendance
Corps of Engineers.
At the beginning of the war the en-
gineer troops consisted of three regi-
ments of pioneer engineers, with
trains, one mounted company, one en-
gineer detachment at West Point. The
aggregate strength was approximate-
ly 4,125 officers and enl’sted men. At
present the aggregate authorized
strength is over 200.000, with an act-
ual strength nf approximately 120,000.
Of the special engineer units re-
cruited for service on railways and tn
the maintenance of lines of communi-
cation, many are already in France
and others are awaiting recruitment
to full strength in order to be ready
for overseas service. The first en-
gineer troops, 1.100 strong, to be sent
abroad, arrived in France about three
months after war was declared. Since
that time the number has been greatly
augmented. These troops have been
constantly engaged In general en-
gineering work. Including the con-
struction of railways, docks, wharves,
cantonments, and hospitals for the use
of the American expeditionary forces.
They have, in some instances, In the
performance of their duties, engaged
in active combat with the enemy.
Ordnance Department.
Since the outbreak of war the
commissioned personnel of the ord-
nance department has expanded from
97 officers, operating with yearly ap-
propriations c.f about $14,000,000 and
with manufacture largely confine^! to
government arsern’s. to 5.000 officers
in this country and abroad, transacting
an unprecedented war program for the
supply of ordnance, the total direct
appropriations and contract authoriza-
tions for one year having been $4,-
756.503.185.
The ordnance storage
embrace separate warehouse buildings
and miles of railroad siding, all com-
prehended within the depot premises,
which are inclosed by electrically
charged wire barriers and lighted and
patrolled with unremitting vigilance.
One of those depots, now under con-
struction, will include 100 separate
buildings and 50 miles of railroad spe-
cially built to serve the depot’s needs.
The supply division of the ordnance
department handles material amount-
ing to approximately 10.000 carloads a
month.
While building the foundation for
greater production, the ordnance de-
partment has provided 1.400,000 rifles;
has brought the rnteof rifle production
up to 45,000 per week, sufficient to
equip three* army divisions; secured
deliveries on more than 17,000 ma-
chine guns; brought the rate of pro-
duction of machino guns from 20,000
to 225,000 per year; increased the rate
of production of 3’i-lnch to 9-inch cali-
ber guns from 1,50) to 15.000 per year:
and has arranged for the manufacture
of some 35,000 motortrucks and trac-
tors for hauling heavy guns and am-
munition, which are being delivered
almost as fast as they can be shipped.
One billion rounds of ammunition
has been purchased for the training
of troops In the cantonments alone.
An idea of the extent of the ord-
nance program inay be gained from
the feflowing few items of purchase:
Twenty-three million hand grenades,
725,000 automatic pistols, 250,000 re-
volvers, 23,000,000 projectiles for all
calibers of heavy artillery, 427,246.000
pounds of explosives, 2* 1.000 machine
guns, and 2,484,000 rifles.
The ordnance problem, however, is
no less one of quality than of quantity
production. The American soldier is
being provided with weapons which
give him an additional safeguard to
life md a further guaranty of victory.
Achievements of the ordnance de-
partment include the Browning ma-
chine rifle, model of 1918, and the
Browning machine gun, heavy type,
model of 1918, production of the for
mer now being on a quantity basis by
machine process, while similar produc-
tion of the heavier type is imminent.
The heavy Browning machine gun.
water cooled, in a government test
fired 20,000 shots in 48 minutes and
16 seconds without malfunction.
Quartermaster Corps.
The magnitude of the work of the
quartermastei corps is indicated by
the operation of the subsistence divi-
sion, which is charged with the re-
sponsibility of seeing that rood sup-
plies for the army are available at all
stations frokt the Philippines to Lor-
Purehases recently made In-
ctu led 40.000.000 pounds dried beans.
116.000,000 cans !>aked boons of the
1917 crop. 65,184,475 cans of tomatoes.
91.000,000 cans of condensed mllx, and
20,287.000 pounds of prunes.
The establishment of the subsistence
United States—from fabricated ’ division centralized the purchases of
ironwork for an ordnance shop to nails | foodstuffs for the army, previous to
and crossties for railroads, and even | which such products were distributed
the piles to build docks. ' through the depot quartermaster Ef-
All the while there has been a fairly ■ fectfve January 1. the central control
even flow of men and materials from : system has resulted In greater effi-
the United States to France. The men I ciency and a big saving. In January.
In the trenches, back of the lines, on for Instance, $1'JO,C6O was saved under
the <!onsti*uction projects, and in the this system as compared with the
hospitals have been steadily supplied, [prices c'Rained by depot quartermas-
Our losses at sea, in men and mate
rials. hav» been gratifyingly small
The greatest single loss occurred on
February 5. when the British ship
‘Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk.
The bodies of 141 soldiers, en rou*e to
France, have been found and 55 others
were still missing on March 16.
To secure an adequate number of
competent officers to lend the new
armies various plans were devised.
Two classy at West Point were grad-
uated in fidvance of the usual gradu-
ating dabs and special examination.!
were beta In various parts of the coun-
try for appointments from civil life.
Three series of officers’ training camps
haze been held. Of 63,203 candidates
Ir the flrs two series of camps 44,576
qualified and were awarded commie
slons In the third series of cainpj
cpeiMtd January 5, 1918, about 18,001
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