The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1918, Page 3

\. Says, Is “the Most.Smashing Ar « ewer: W.0,6,8, SEEN BY MAN IN LEGGINGS Lieut. Murphy, ny; fe a Private. _ Tells What It Meant in i His Life. JOY OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP. War Camp Community Service, He gument That the Nation Is Behind Her Sons.” F Gratitude is the universal reward 01/ War Camp Cominunity Service giver by enlisted wren for whom fl cares, But rarely Ys this gratitude se} feclingly expressed asin the follow: ing letter written by Lieut. Dempster ©. Murphy, Company C, 331st Battal fon, U. S.. Tau, Corps, at Camp Colt, Pa., to Charles W. Dawson, ficld rep- entative, W. CC. “Tleft you a civilian and.I thought: The War Camp Community Service is unquestionably a good and neces: thing.’ I write you now a soldier, an officer, it_is true, but T began an en- Nsted man and for months T lived and breathed and thought and cursed and prayed as an enlisted man, ‘Tonight, then, I have a different viewpoint—a nhiore comprehensive: vlewpoint—than Thad as the youth who saluted you in farewell last Saturday before Christ- the m: And: tonight: [ sa. ‘The War Camp Conmunity Service is the most hing and’ convineing argument thus far disclosed that the Nation’ ts ons in the war. “I have known the isolated feeling that goes hand and hand with the pri- 's uniform, and T have felt the ‘well. people won't undersiand If 1 go to this party, or to that theater, or to the other dance, in canvas leggings.’ I have known these things—but, oh, Charlie, T have Known also the great Joy that comes to a’ man of this sort when sweet, gracious women throw open their homes to him, ask him to sit and break bread with them and, with their men, extend to him the de- cent hand of good fellowship. “In Atlanta [ was a sergeant. I knew. not one person in that ‘elty. Without ever coming into direct con- tact with) a) War Camp Community Service worker I came into daily touch with their, work—I rubbed elbows with their personalities. “I. relaxed ‘and wrote letters: home in the charming club operated by the Rotarians under. gupervision of the War Camp Com munity Service. I, met worth while people of Atlanta there in an easy way—for it is easy for one to meet another on common ground, At their dances ‘I saw ofily the highest type of Ameriean womanhood, At. church I was ‘inavariably asked home to dinner bAsome one, Every other soldier with whoni"I talked reported the same ex-levening. Mrs. Elizabeth, Preston An- perience. 1 éd my aostess on each Tore of’ Far, state occasion the reason for this perfect | CSTs" aoe Fe - | hospitality and usually came the, an- and national vice president, will pre- ‘The War Camp Commu Service workers keep after us thr the papers and. in many other way They are educating us to the fact that you soldiers are not more nor less than distinguished guests within our gates.” “ET want-to help, and if I ean add any small bit T shall welcome the op- Dortunity. gra efully.” li One Soldier's Prophecy. The War CampCommunity Service forthe’ War Department and Navy Department, Commissions: on Training Canip Activfties has Its ‘files full of tes_ timonials “from. ,soldiers, sailors and marines, fram 7commandi. officers, colonels, captains, licutehants, noncom- missioned ofucers and’ mei ‘inthe runks, ‘but*ngne received recently has pleased ‘its executive officers as much as that from a private in the 306th Engineers, who wwas entertained at the Enlisted Men's Club in Jacksonville, Fla. “The same. spirit which is backing | this Club," he wrote, “ig going to back the Hindenburg tue into Berlin.” LIBERTY BELL IN VIEW DAILY. h Independence ‘Hall, famed as a) éhr ine of patriotism, has been opened ‘and.all other Philadelphia visitors may enter the old building and see the belt which rang out: for liberty. Hitherto Jt hasbeen the* custom to close, the building on Sundays through July ana Atigust; but -it1s°Stinday, according to the. War. Camp: Community Service, which ‘takes -the most soldiers and sailors to the ity, and. Independence Hall is their first choice of sights to see. When the War Camp Community Service! discovered that the obstacle was' the twelve dollars a day. expense in providing gdards for the place this. difficulty was remeved in short order. Soba ee MAKING USE OF THE HUNS. eee seas At-the old. Hote}. Earlington, Unit Ro. 5 of the New York War Camp Community’ Service, there is some very satisfying furniture., Why espe- cially’ satisfying? “Ask any soldier, sajlcr or marine who has followed the invitation” of the sign “W. C. C. S.” over the hotel door. He will promptiy tel! You that it 'ts'real luxury to sink dosn Into chairs ‘and divans trom the Vatertand avd other’ interned German ships, and when it comes to playing ‘@ quiet game of pinochle on Hun poker tables—well, it is returning to days ot Seal sport. ; ——__surw.s. s. Old. Friends Meet. can and Mrs. G: H. Schafer, who re- erent ee aor farm’ at Maple- re Se ry, this week en ei. ety Coast, ri virere they will suitable’ location! home if they..can find. a While here the Shafers © enjoyed a senerciaat reunion Wakota D.C. T. U. himade: fon ;the state by Governor Fra- “Oh, the world is so full of a numberof things, : I’m sure we should all be as happy-as kings.” jy; SEARS Ni peo BRITISH TROOPS PLUNGE INTO HINDENBURG LINE NORTH OF: . ST..QUENTIN DEFENSE LINE hold the plateau at all costs. is none the less surely advancing IN SECON —— (Continued From Page One.) Progress is slow but the Allied line| to the outskirts of St. Quentin. ; D LINES. With American Forces in Lorraine, Sept. 19. _Entrenched i in) the second line of the Hindenburg system, the Germans appear to have accepted the new situation. fensive. CAPTURE £,000 PRISONERS. Z With the British Forces, Sept. 19.—Field Marshal Haig’ | forces had captured a total of more than 8,000 Germans up to mid- night last night as the result of their drive on Cambrai. Several thousand yards on the Hindenburg outpost line were in the British hands this morning. ‘Forty guns were captured 'by the British yesterday. In the 8,000 prisoners, 23 German regiments in eleven divisions were rep- resented. WHITE RIBBONERS OPEN STATE CONVENTION IN BISMARCK TODAY Twenty-Ninth Annual Gathering ance Union Opens with A. Hoover “banquet will usher in the £9th annual convention of the. North| in Bismarck this | rside, ‘Addresses of welcome will ve zier, tor the city by George N. Ken- iston, secretary of the Bismarck Com- mercial club; for the churches by Dr. W. J. Hutcheson of McCabe “M. E.; for the schools, by Supt. J.'M. Martin for the district by Mrs\A. S. Hoff- man and for the local union by Mrs. William Suckow. Responses will be made by Mrs. Fred M. Wanner, state ! vice president; Miss A. Roberta Cwy- with ‘the Falconer family, with whom | they neighbored at Brainerd, Minn., in the early seventies. With Mr. and Mrs. Wt A. Falconer and Mrs. Mary wicLean they drove out to the Dan) falconer farm, whose owner and G. H. Shafer were “kids” together almost half.a century ago in Minnesota. Say ws. + To Film Indian Fair, Mr. and. Mrs.. George V. Halliday and daughter Betty and F. Holmboe of the Publicity. Film Co. motored this morning to Fort Yates. where they will spend two days filming the Sioux county Indian fair,to complete a 6,000- foot western picture which €. P. Burn- stad soon is to place on the: market. any w. 8.3. FOR RENT—Sixx room modern house. Thayer and Second. Close in. Mrs. L, W. McLean. Phone 806. * e 9 19 tf AR eee FIRST WOMAN CHIEF. OF STAFF of Women’s Christian Temper- Banquet This Evening they of Fort Rice and, Mrs. Ella M. Shippy of Hope. A large number of delegates already are registered at the various hotels, while scores of visitors will be en- president | tertained in the private homes of the; city. This is the first time in the 29 years’ history of the Women’s: Chris- tion Temperance union in North ‘Di kota that it has met so far west Bismarck, and the ‘Capital City is en- deavoring to convince the visitors that | it appreciates the honor. A union mass meeting will be held sunday evening, while a portion of Monday will be devoted to an inspe tion of the North Dakota state pe tentiary, whose prison. population is now at the lowest ebb since state- | hood. “TO REBUILD: WOURDED ‘MEN.AT FT. SNELLING War Camp, Community Service Will Play a Large Part in i the Work. Stnce-the announcement by the War Departinent that Fort Snelling, in Min- nesota, was to ‘be vacated by troops, plang were made to turn the training station. into a reconstruction camp where wounded soldiers whose homes are in the Northwest will be cared for and fitted for their return to civil life. In. the. pranosed... chance " War Exhibition | BY SERGT. GIFFORD Their tactics are wholly de-| | | eceues T FELT ATA, cece. EN -TAROES WeRance; Camp«Community” Service is to play a large part, although the camp Itself will, ef course, be in charge of army officers and conducted along strictly military lines. ‘The Community Or- ganizer has already been called upon to assist in plans for the men. A more ideal spot for reconstruction work than Fort Snelling can hardly be imagined. It is just the place for men to recover from wounds and from shell shock, a process that often takes months. It is probable that men who have lost legs will be fitted with arti- ficial limbs heré asa part of the work. fee of the, men received at the fort must be of the “able to travel” class, as the long Journey from the Atlantic coast would prdéhibit the treatment of more serious cases there. Neatly two battalions of United States guards are now at the fort. These men will remain on guafd duty after the establishment of the recon- struction work, it is belleved, and the War Camp Community Service Or- ganizer and assistants Intend to stay ery way possible for the new demands, BUY W. 5. Su MEMORIAL AT STERLING FOR SOLDIER SON Friends and Neighbors to Honor Memory of Private Joseph ‘LeRoy Loomis Sterling, N. D., Sept. 19.—Memorial services will be held here Sunday in memory of Private oseph LeRoy Loomis of the 30th volunteer infan- try, who was‘killed in action in France on July 15. The Sterling boy was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Loomis, who have four sons registered for selective service, one o fthem now the national army at | Fort Des Moines. The young man | enlisted at Bismarck,on December 2, 1917. when he was-barely 21, and he had been in France since last April. cal of the Farmers’vunion is in charge of arrangements for the ‘memorial. The principal address ~will be made by Dr. W. church at Bismarck, countryside is expegfed to attend. ‘Sterling's first soh to fall on the field of honor was born October 10, 1896, near Frankfort, S. D. ily came to Sterling in 1914, and Pri- vate Loomis resided here up to the time of his departure for Jefferson barracks, Mo. last December. From Jefferson he went to Camp Greene, and the entire ritt, and then across, as a member of of the headquarters company of the 30th infantry. on the ground and make ready in ev- | Victor S. Mercer of: the Sterling lo-j J. Hutcheson’ of McCabe | The fam-| Charlotte, N. C., thence to Camp: Mer- | “SECTIONETTES” LATEST IN WAR WORK IN STATE Coteau High School Girls Take Place of Railway Workers — | During Threshing —Coteau has s who are Coteau, D. D., Sept. 15 a trio of patriotic young g) going the limit for demo . When! the demand for threshing hands’ took away all the members of the section crew on the Great Northern at this point, the young women of the village volunteered. The section foren promptly accepted three “huskies Miss Ida Nendrickson, aged Mary Burmoth, aged 17, and } la Alvin, aged’19, and they have now been at work about ten days, drawing the regular section hand's wages of $: per day, and doing a section hand’s work. and doing it well. “I've never had a better crew on the job,” says the section foreman. “ivs real fun, and not a bit hard,” says the girls. iss Hendrickson, tunity, shaping a success! ERTY Overcoat. BOND and then : the youngest of the trio, is a daughter of Staale Hen- drickson, the veleran republican war- horse of the house of representatives, who has served this district in. the general assembly since 1909. Rep. Hendrickson knew nothing about his daughter's enlistment for this form of war work until jhe returned from a trip over the state. Miss Ida had worked four days and had ¥12 coming, and she wouldn't change places with the proudest, girl in North Dakota. “Well, if she can stand it and likes it, I guess I can stand it. and I'll have to like “it.” said Staale. So Miss tica- drickson remains on the job. The three section girls, garbed in unionalls, sally forth with their hand- ca dinner-pails well filled;-and picks and shovels scoured and ready for the fray, and from early morning until the’ whistle blows at. night they are busy, revlacing ties, tamping, shovel- ing, cutting weeds, turning rails over “to get them warm on the other side” and doing everything else that falls té the lot of a real section hand ex- cept cussing and chewing peerless. ey W. 8 5. During the past, season each golf player has ‘been given a caddy card, on which the player could mark the mer- its of his caddy, these cards to assist the committee in grading ‘the caddies for this final contest. Most clubs have a caddy-master, but the bis- marek Country club has depended up- on an honor system with the boys and girls, with the assistance in this way of the members, for their credit marks in the year's summar: Caddies To Hold age pimhann, president of the club, Golf Tournament . Little have given the prizes, two 1 Stamp books, one to be eaceiens awarded for faithfulness and general On Saturday, Sept. 21. 3 p.m. deportment, and the other to the win- will be held the annual tournament for ner of the golf game to be played on caddies of the Bismarck Country club |vaturday. A preliminary round was _r Miss Elizabeth Christman, a mem- ber of ‘the Woman’s Trade Union; League of Chidago, has gone to Wash- ington to take Up her dtities as‘chief of a staff of women examiners ‘for the National War Labor Board, which is another step forward ‘in the gov-| ernment’s new policy toward | tne prob- lems of wonten's labor, See. the actual implements of death and-destruction used by the murderous Huns on our boys in France. The ex hibition is open for three ‘days ns: . \ of the Canadian, Infantry in the HAGGART BLOCK MORNING - AFTERNOON - To have these explained to you by the veteran of many battles Ala enable you to better appreciate the Liberty E “Special peta Don’t Envy:a Prosperous. Looking Man Be One _ Just as ambition opens the gateway to oppor- proper attention to general appearance is a passport to a, higher position in life and assists in achievement by inspiring the confidence of others in you, ful career you can’t make a better investment than in buying first a LIB- TOOCUCUAGOUUDEEE ESTEE AE EDOEERDSCTEL EASES EDU S. E.. Bergeson & Son We will win this war— Nothing else really matters until we do! UNDA UNDOOONONSAUONONUS your clothes. and In a Bergeson Suit and (played last Saturday to get the cad- dies in form for this event. The contest will be played in groups of four, refereed and scored by one person to each group, selected by the tournament commitfee. the lowest to- tal score lected from the number of good caddy cards deposited, are as follows: counting. The players se- ‘Barbara ‘Register, Dan Slattery, Vin- cent La France. Paul Cook, DeForest Smith, don, James Slattery, William Glar- Reynold Schlosser. Paul Goddard, Hugh McCorrie, Fred- erick Kieth. Walter Vesperman, Ted Cook, Dan Hannan, Ralph Warburg. Ralph Erickson, Willie Scwab, Earl Erickson, Sydney Register, Johnnie Scwab, Richard Reg- ister, George Hanna, Thomas Slattery.