Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 14, 1917, Page 6

SENDING LETTERS TO MEN AT FRONT Govarnment Issues Instructions For Relations and Friends. GENSORSHIP WILL BE LAX Put Down the Soldier’s Name and Rank on the First Line, His Company and Regiment on the Next and “American Expeditionary Force” on Next and Uncle S8am Will Do the Rest. Close co-operation between the war and postoffice departments in bringing rapidly into operation a system where- by the parents and other relatives of soldiers are going to be able to keep in close touch by mail with those in the trenches in France. Already there has been establish- ed at General Pershing’s headquarters “somewhere along the western front™ a complete American postoffice station, officered and manned by trained postal ALASKA TO SUPPLY PLATINUM Discovery of Precious Metal Arouses Government. Washington.—Discovery of platinum in Alaska by Dr. Herschel C. Parker of New York and others has aroused gov- ernment agencies to the greatest activ- ity in the hope of finding sufficient quantities of the precious metal to meet the war needs of the allies. Four government experts have been assigned to study the Alaskan situa- tion and report if the discoveries may replenish the platinum supply cut off recently by the virtual cessation of ac- tivities in the Ural mountain mines, the source of the world’'s greatest sup- ly. Intensive operations woul@ fellow a favorable report, for the true condi- tion, it 18 declared, cannot be deter- mined before next year, by which time the present short supply will be slmost exhausted. Professor Parker has reported finding platinum in quantity in the graved of the Kabiltna river during gold placer drilling. Alaskan gold miners also bave reported platinum, Between ten and twelve ounces of the precious metal were discovered in Alaska last Yyear, and this small amount was suffi- clent to stimulate further prospecting. this year. War uses of platinam include the'| making ef sulphuric acid and the com- | pletion of contact points of the ignition GIRLS HELPED DETHRONE CZAR _ officials and employees taken from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and oth- er large cities in the United States. These postal experts were quietly ship- ped to Europe on one of the transports, and they are rapidly getting their of- fices there organized. “At an, Atlantie port” of the United States that happens to serve as the port of embarkation for trocps going to France there Is auother special branch. postofiice Leing orgauized and developed to handle the mail at this end of the line. Mailing Mace Ea»y. 80 complete is the orfanization be- ing carried out that even now if aqy- body wishes to send a lefter to a xol- diér in the American expeditionury forces all he has to do is to sit down and address the envelope in rlain Eng: lish and according to the mUuwlng 1i- rections: Put down the soldier’s nume and . rank on the first line, his company and regiment on the next and tke words “Amerlcn.n‘ Expeditionary Force” on the next. It is not even necessary or advisable to put the designation “France.” This done, attach the same amount of postage that you would use on do- mestic mail. Wherever the American army may be it gets its mail at do- mestic rates. The government sees to that. The government will also see to it that the letter or the newspaper or magazine so addressed and dropped in the nearest mail box gets to its destina- tion in the shortest possible time. If shipping space can be found In suffi- clent quantity the postoffifiice depart- ment hopes soon to include special ar- rangements for the handling of parcel post mail to be sent to the soldlers- at the front. b Censorship to Be Lax. e Unlike the stricter policy attempted at the outset of the war by the armies of Europe, it is not the present inten- tion of the war department to restrict the communications sent home by sol- diers to printed cards containing ste- reotyped phrases which the soldiers can strike out or leave in as they suit their particular state of physical well belng. It is felt that this. would in- volve too harsh a regulation for the parents and wives of men at the front. Consequently the only regulation that will be attempted over the correspond- euce will be the regular cersorship at each regimental headquarters, through which all mail sent out by the soldiers must pass. At this point the war department in- tends shortly to issue a warning and a plea to American newspapers not to print, without careful regard to possi- ble harm that might be done, letters from soldiers bearing the phrase “pass- «d Ly the censor.”” Such censoring. which will be administered with the utmost liberal regard for the privatc clharacter of the correspondence, not be as strict as the censorship o or press matter. Therefore the papers of the country will be asked to exercise the greatest possible care about letters which might be submitted to them for publication by proud parents or friends. YOU CAN'T STOP GRIMES. Lance Corporal, Wounded For Sixth Time, Will Fight Again. Lance Corporal nest Grimes has been wounded again, his sixth time. but says, “I'll soon be ready to go back and do another bit.” Grimes enlisted in the regular army in 1910 and was drawn from India when the little army settled down to the first winter of trench warfare. His first wound came at hill 60, when he was hit by a hand grenade fragment. Five months in a hospital was his portion. The second, a bullet wound in the arm, took six weeks to repair. Last summer on the Somme a shrapnel ball hit Grimes in the leg and put him away for two months, and another grenade wound in the back, suffered in the fighting at 3foquet Farm, sent him to the hospital for the fourth'time. A man with four wound stripes is usually retired into some noncombatant Job out of danger if he is still of some use to the army. But Grimes thought Ye could do more damage in the trench- es, so he went up again and was wounded in the foot by a shell at Les Boeufs. His latest wound came in the big system of aeroplanes, automobiles and’ telephone and telegraph instruments. So acute is the world shortage that the price has advanced from $45 to $105 an ounce since the beginning of the war. Seven hundred and fifty troy ounces constitute the largest anmual produc- tion of platinum in the United States, while Russia, before the epeming of the war, produced as muclkh as 300,000 i & year. 43 YEARS OF LIFE I JAIL. Wihen Old Mari Raturred to Heme Town No Oas Knew Wimw Owensboro;, Ky.—After forty-three years spent in the: Aikansus. peniten- tiary at Little Rock: Josephs F. Jones | has veturned here-to-pick up-tie thread of life that was- broken when. he was | sent to prison, Seif made man; the genuine: kind. Wlhen a young man Jones- went to onsider themselves- finishedi— Arkansas to work om.a farms Ho meet | moyoqo Blad and loved the daughter of tie farmer | Toledo Blade: who employed him. The girl had an- | other admirer, who was the son of & i wealtlly farmer. He-did not: relish the intrusion, quarreled with Jenes amd fought a knife duel'with him at the gate-of the girl's home. When the fight ended Jones’ rival was dead. After a hasty trizl Jones was. con- victed of murder in the first degree and Potos by American Press- Association. Two daughters: of. the- Russian revolution reached America weaning:the: uxiform of gintiscouts, Blue eyed: Wera Lodyguine fourteen yearssold; thread-- ediber way through streets.cholied with rioters during: the seven days:of the- remolution, camrying messages from department to-dehartment. ofi the: young government. chifef of police at'Retrogmd! Wera is at left, Marraretias right: “Th sell a coat’'to a- mar that wants a coat is nothing.” said a successful tailor when insttucting bis-son im the rudiinents of his-business: “but te-sell a coat to a man that doesn't want a cont—that’s business.” Ladies’ and Gents’ Suits. MADE to ORDER of allkinds. Al work- up-to-date, first class workmanship: Merchant Tailler OWN A 210 Thlrd Street Woodstock It is a better typewriter Guaranteed for 2 years. Jillllllll“fllill [T Plulibiris, Stean o Hot sent to prison for life. Aften forty- £ Water Heating three years his case was lald before the || MODEL 4 | MODEL 5 || Get our-etimate. o andi208 governer. pardon..was granted. Qld v = Man Jones walked sut of thee prison. $68.00 $200.00 E T The girl for whom he had fought hed ||| $5- down, $5 down, $3 never married, but: she bad long sinee | per-month per-month. been dead. Penniless Jones- walked from: Little Rock. te Owensboro, No one remembered:him. Heis a m' in. his-own. home town. CASH PRICE SOME LESS Bemidji Pioneer Phone 922 Possible Move. Exclssive Ageats A l}en walked into a country bank. for "BGttY Wales™ . u::;-(,i“ what she wants?"™ laughed Cougge é “Maybe she wants to deposib an egg’ FUNERAL DIRECTOR See 100 at $18.50 to somebody’s credit,” suggested the cashier.—Spokane Review. M. E. IBERTSON UNDERTAKER 0C000000C0000 Q™D OO ] o o Pretty soom: the gadfiy willsO emerge from manure piles and 10 begin to torment the sheep. Be .0 ready for it. 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