COLORADO AIMS
TO FIT RECRUITS
School Has 247 Stars, Cover
ing Many Nationalities,
in Its Flag
Denver, Col.—Education of men
liable to military service under the
selective draft has been undertaken
by the opportunity school conducted
by the city of Denver. It is believed
here this is the ilrst school in the
country to offer such a service. With
a total enrollment of 3,000 pupils in
less than a year and a half and with
its wide scope of subjects taught,
tile institution is considered out of
the ordinary.
Persons of all ages are admitted.
A pupil may enter at any time, take
any or all the subjects he wishes,
devote as much time as he can spare
in classes and choose the hour of
classes for the school is open from
8.30 a. m. until 9.15 p. m.
Its activities cover a wide range,
from an enrollment bureau conduct
ed by pupils to training in aviation
by tpeans of the school's own air
plane. In hll its industrial depart
ments there is a long waiting list of
applicants for training. In the auto
mobile mechanic department 600
men have enrolled, many of tliem
being in the next draft. They are
IM#d Nervous Mothers |
T Should Profit by the Experience
of These Two Women
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i nearly three years I suffered from a female trouble with pains i 5
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UNION CLOTHING CO.
I Ten South Market Square, Harrisburg* Pa.
preparing to ba more efficient work
ers "over there."
The women pupils have devoted
one afternoon a week making baby
clothes from partly worn out cloth
ing. Already 8,000 garments have
gone to Prance, Belgium and Italy.
It is a woman, Miss Emily Griffith,
who is in charge of the school, al
though it was made possibly by City
Superintendent of Schools Carlos M.
Cole.
lieutenant William Robert Russell
conducts the large classes in aviation
and radio work for enlisted and
drafted men. Prom this class there
are now 125 men in wireloes posi
tions for the government.
The school has 247 stars in its ser
vice flag for those who have enter
ed military service and they cover
many nationalities. Many of these
in fact are citizens the school has
made through its citizenship class
which has prepared 600 men to take
out naturalization papers. This class
recently sent SIOO to the Red Cross.
Twenty nationalities attend the
school at present.
The school is democratic. It pro
vides training for the energetic per
son anxious to get ahead; the dis
couraged one trying to get into line
again; the man who missed his
schooling; the educated taking some
special training to further fit them;
the working boy and the working girl
who come at odd times, and in fact
all shades and degree of both rich
and poor. Often servant and mis
tress mako hats at the same table.
Among its results are the machin
ist who doubled his wages after his
drafting course; the young man who
measured muslin for ten years until
he hated his job and is now book
keeping and happy; the drifting boy
who found himself in the class in
railroad telegraphy, and quit the
poolrooms.
FRIDAY EVENING,
At a Base
WORK AND PLAY
Letter From Harrisburg Boy Now In France
Extracts from letters written by
Private Evan J. Miller, son of Her
man P. Miller, Senate Librarian, who
is the official X-ray photographer
for U. S. Base Hospital No. 8, located
somewhere in France, follow. These
letters were written just previous to
the big drive and tell the story of
how the hospitals are prepared to
take care of sick and wounded.
March 10. 1918.
Dear Dad:
The photo printing paper arrived
in good condition. Printing paper is
very scarce over here and what you
can buy is not half as good as the
American.
We have been having wonderful
weather the last few days—the kind
which makes you feel like getting
out in the country away from one's
work. I intend to go out for a walk
this afternoon. There is one advan
tage of being located in such a small
town as this, that we can be right
out in the country as soon as we
step out of the hospital. Dast night
the clock was set ahead an hour, so
that we would have missed out on an
hour's sleep if this had not been
Sunday morning, when we can sleep
HXKRISBURG TELEGRAPH
as long as we want if our work does
not interfere.
To Get New Hats
In the near future we will give
up our old style felt hats and will
be issued the cloth fatigue caps,
something like the French wear only
in khaki. I sent Uncle Will a copy
of the American newspaper published
over here called the "Stars and
Stripes," which is issued once a
week ajrd in Paris. One of our men
left a couple of days ago to become
one of its editors.
If it is not too much trouble you
might send me a box of Hershey
bars about once a month, for we
can't buy any good chocolate over
here no.w. '
Dear Sister: V
"I have been very busy this past
week. We had over 200 X-ray cases,
so that we had some excuse for be
ing busy. In addition, we had a
visit from the Secretary of War and
incidentally we had to see that every
thing was looking its best around
the hospital. We had quite a lot of
Generals, both French and American
who came along with Secretary
Baker. We were inspected by Gen
eral Pershing and the Secretary,
after which they went on a tour of
inspection of the Hospital. Now we
can sav, on very good authority,
that we have the best Base Hospital
in France, also the best bunch of
men. We have all kinds of patients
here now, from mumps to pneu
monia and the fellows who are
minus a leg or arm. Here in the
X-ray laboratory, we see most every
kind of patient, from the wounded
to those who have abscesses in their
teeth. We have quite a few patients
who have been up at the front and
they all seem anxious to get back
there where there is lots of excite-*
ment. However, the'majority of the
patients we will get will not go back
to the front, but will go in an entire
ly different direction, back to the
good old U. S.
Dear Mother:—
March 24. 1318.
A Gorman Bayonet
Three days ago I sent home, ad
dressed to Dad, a German bayonet
which I think was worn by a Ger
man non-commissioned officer. I
do not. know its history, but I secur
ed it from a French soldier, so that
I suppose that it was taken from
some Boche by a French soldier.
We are now living out in tents J
(that is, part of the enlisted men).
The tents at first sight look like
circus tents. They are oblong, have
red poles, but are as well made and
| comfortable as any tents I have seen.
Each tent holds sixteen beds and in
each tent there are two electric
lights. I would much rather be out
in a tent now that warm weather
is here, for you can sleep better
and you don't disturb anyone if you
make a little noise. The tents are
British tropical hospital tents. They
| have a fly. The tent proper is made
of red and yellow canvas, red out
side,, so that there is no glare at all
inside the tent. Wo have about the
same bunch in the tent as was to
gether in the squad room. We have
a victrola, board floors, and are now
all fixed to spend the summer out
here.
Plenty of Practice.
This afternoon there was a ball j
game between the Hospital team and I
a team from the —th. Engineers,
who are located some miles from
here. It was a pretty good game,
but the final score was 10 to 6, in
favor of the Engineers. Our fel
lows get very little time to practice,
but we have a few pretty good play
ers, so that we usually make a fair
showing.
I now have an assistant with my
j X-ray work. Our work has gradual
[ ly been increasing and we had to
! have a fellow to take care of the
photographic work in case I got my
! seven days' leave. Consequently, I
I will now do more of the operating,
i that is the taking of the pictures,
j There is still considerable con
! struction work going on. Eventually
| the railroad will run right up to the
j hospital, so that the patients can be
j taken directly from the trains to the
j hospital. Lots of wards are being
j built, but I don't know exactly how
I many thousand patients they are
i planning to accommodate.
We have patients of all kinds,
some who have been injured or
"gased" at the front, some are taken
care of in the Psychopathic ward,
familiarly known as C-4. As for
mumps, measles, scarlet {ever, etc.,
we see them come in at Umes and
I there are quite a few cases needing
| treatment for the eyes and ears.
1 There is usually a separate ward for
j each type of disease or trouble, so
that if it takes quite a few men to
I take care of the wards, as ward mas
i ters and a doctor or surgeon as the
head boss.
With love to all,
Evan J. Miller.
FEWER LICENSES BY 75
IN LUZERNE COUNTY
Wilkes-Borre, Pa., April 19.
Spread of the prohibition movement
backed by the rise in liquor prices,
J caused a drop of seventy-five in the
I number of liquor licenses accepted
by recent applicants before the
court. That many men who had been
given the right to sell intoxicants
failed to pay the necessary fees and
their licenses were yesterday de
clared forfeited. Four years ago
there were 1,440 liquor licenses, to
day there are 1,295.
CLASS ENTERTAINED
. . Warfilngton Illeglits, p a ., April
; 19.—Class No. 4 of Calvary United
\ Brethren Sunday school met at the
home of Mrs. Bomgardner on Tues-
I (lay evening. After the business
meeting the hostess served refresh
ments to: Miss Maud Peffer, Miss
j Ethel Boyer, Mrs. Hess, Mrs. R. M.
, Peftcr, Miss Ruth Sponsler, Miss
. Goldie Naylor, Mrs. Bossard, Mrs.
jG. R. .Enck, Mrs. Herman Nelson,
j Mrs. Bomgardner and W. O. Rishel.
AGAINST DISORDERLY nOUSES
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, April 19. Mayor
Smith, In his crusade against vice
yesterday notified 219 persons own
ing houses alleged to be used for Im
proper purposes to oust the tenants
within a week or ho would invoke
the Swift act which makes it a viola
tion of law to permit houses to be
used for evil purposes.
FRENCn ADVANCE ON GERMANS
Paris, April 19.—The French forces
in the region of Amiens have cap
tured a portion of the Senecat wood
and made advances against the Ger
mans on several other sectors, ac
cording to the official communication
issued by the war office last night.
NO GERMAN ADVERTISING
Philadelphia. April 19.—City Coun
cil;; yesterday passed a resolution di
recting the heads of all city depart
ments to discontinue advertising of
every kind In newspapers published
)in the German language.
COUNTESS-SAW
LUSITANIA SINK
Rita Jolivet in Court to Aid
Suits For Six Million
Dollars
New York—The Countess de Cip-
Pico, otherwise Rita Jolivet, has re
told the story of the sinking of the
Lusitania as a witness in the Ad
miralty Branch of the Federal Dis
trict Court, with Judge Julius M.
Mayer sitting.
The story was told for the light it j
might shed on the disaster in rela- j
tion to sixty-seven suits which ask j
damages aggregating $6,000,000 from
the Cunard Steamship Company, own
er of the steamship. A hearing was
held on a petition of the Cunard com- ,
pany to limit its liability. The prac
tical effect of the petition, if grant
ed in full, will be to kill the chances
of the claimants of recovering any
thing.
It was said by one of the lawyers
for the claimants that If the court
decides that the captain of the ves-1
sel, which was sunk May 7, 1915, by!
a German submarine, was at fault in
a manner for which the company
was not responsible the claimants i
will bo entitled under maritime law j
to share in the earnings of the j
steamship in Its last voyage; that is, I
in the $96,000 earned on the trip to j
New York. It was sunk on its way
back. •
Countess de Cippica told the story
of her experience in detail. Its high
light was the memorable words of
Charles Frohman, who encouraged a
group on deck by saying: "Why
fear death? It is the most beautiful
adventure in life."
Tho Countess was swept from the
deck by water rushing aft and came
up beside an overturned lifeboat, to
which she clung for three hourß.
J. Parker Kerlin, of counsel for the
Cunard company, said the company
denies liability for the disaster. He'
said that the vessel was handled with
discretion by its captain.
George W. Betts, Jr., of counsel for
the claimants, said evidence tending
to show negligence would be sub
mitted. He said the captain had been i
warned before sailing and again on j
the day of the disaster that subma- |
rines had been sighted in the North 1
Atlantic steamship lane.
Bill to Allot Fixed Sum
to Soldiers' Dependants
Washington, April 19. —A bill
amending the war risk insurance law
so as to provide for a compulsory flat
allotment from fighting men to their
dependants instead of the present
sliding scale based on family condi
tions and the pay of the men, was in
troduced in the House yesterday by
Representative Sims. The measure.
Hurry, America! Hurry!
All Depends Upon You!
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The enemy has definitely decided to win the war this year and "the fate of the Empire, the fate of
Europe, and the fate of liberty throughout the world" may depend upon the ability of the Allies, and
especially of America, to feed fresh man-power to the firing-line during the next seven or eight months.
Already our troop-movement to France has been increased three-fold in a few weeks, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from Washington, and at the same time the records show a falling off in
the effectiveness of Germany's U-boat campaign.
Because of the immediate emergency in France, American battalions will be brigaded with Brit
ish and French divisions, "one of the most important decisions of the war," declares Lloyd George,
"in fact, the issue of the battle might very well be determined by it."
Read in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week —April 20th —the searching analysis of the su
preme struggle in France and the acute need of America's help, as revealed by the most depend
able press reports from every quarter.
Other features in this exceptionally good number of THE DIGEST are:
America's First War-Lynching
The Voice of Public Opinion as Heard in the Daily Press on the Hanging of Robert P. Prager
by a Mob at Collinsville, 111., on April 4th
Boycotting Germany After the War Reflex Action of the German Drive
Who Caused the Quebec Riots? British Airmen Bombard Rhine Towns
Autocracy Flirts with Anarchy Wireless in New York Police Work
Alcohol and Insanity To Give Doctors National Standing
How Metals Migrate Making Cloth Out of Nettles in Germany
Why We Must Send Wheat Literary Gems for British Red Cross
(Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration) Banished German Books
Opening Our Eyes to France Corrupting Our Uniformed Men in Phfla-
Is It Wrong to Hate the German? delphia
War-Sermons When Leonardo's Message Failed
Best of the Current Poetry News of Finance and Commerce *
. Many Striking Illustrations, Including Humorous Cartoons
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of the German and Allied forces. It is accompanied battle now being waged in France.
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rate of sls a month allowance from
a man to his wife and children, or
where the soldier is unmarried, to
other dependant* such as a parent.
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brother or sister. If allotment ts
made for wife and children, $5 a
month would be set aside for other
dpfondnntK, if any.