A REGULAR'S APPEAL.
We give you our service, you shut off
our beer,
But the slacker can drink 'till he’s
full to the ear;
We leave our homes to keep you from
harm,
But the slacker goes by with a girl on
bis arm,
And laughs at the soldier, poor un
lucky cuss.
You go with the slacker, why ostra
cize us?
The slacker rides round in a Ford of
his own,
And charges two bits to pull us to
town;
We’re doing our duty, his liver is
white.
Yet we are in camp at nine bells each
night,
While he sticks around as long as he
cares,
And laughs at the soldier—that is, if
he dares.
Discipline, we know, is a thing that
must be,
But, honest to goodness, we fail to
see,
■ When the soldier drinks nothing but
water and pop,
Why the drinks of the slacker must
also not stop.
The slacker can dance, and it seems
rather hard,
That at all decent dances the uni
forms barred.
We shoulder our rifles and have taken
our place.
And we'll go to death with smile on
our face;
But this is a soldier's appeal to you—
Until we go over, please give us out
due.
—By a Regular U. S. Soldier
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
(By United Press)
Washington, Nov. 3. — English
and American Friends, conscientious
objectors to war, but who have been
organized into units for relief work
behind the lines in France, are now
co-opefating with the American Red
Cross and have become a “powerful
factor in remedying the evils of war,"
according to a cablegram just received
from Major Grayson M. P. Murphy,
head of the Red Cross Commission in
Europe.
Co-operating with the British
Friends, the Americans will soon be
restoring villages, mending roads,
building portable houses, driving mo
tor cars, and in fact doing everything
but shooting Boches — the only part
of warfare to which they seriously ob
ject.
The British and American govern
ments have recognized the legitimacy
of the Friends' “conscientious objec
tion,” and the present plans for co
operation with the Red Cross has been
worked out with the approval of the
war department.
One reconstruction unit of 100 men,
who have been in training at Haver
ford, Pa., since the middle of July will
soon be in France, Others will follow
shortly.
In announcing the plans for co-oper
ation of the British and American
units with the Red Cross, Major Mur
phy cables:
“The work done by the English
friends has been very carefully looked
into. It deals with the care of re
J fugees from the war area and with
| reconstruction and rehabilitation in
| the devastated areas. It has been sup
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. — Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw today urged America’s
girls to take up typewriters in defence
of their country.
“A vital need of the government at
the present time is for stenographers
and typewriters," said Dr. Shaw "and
the woman's committee of the Coun
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ported by gifts from Friends in Eng
land and America. The American Red
Cross has been so Impressed by the
spirit and efficiency of the work that
it has made a nappropriation of $lu6,
000 for equipment to provide immedi
ate extension of the work.
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j ell of National Defence has circular- J
ized the Btate divisions asking then:
to spread the idea among the girls and
young men.”
These Jobs pay from *900 to *1,200
a year to start, and are open to girls
from 18 to 20 years, with good chances
for advancement. Kxamlnations are
held throughout the country by civil
service commissioners every Tuesday.
All needed information can be ob
tained at your local postoffice. Dr.
Shaw|s circular says:
"The commission urges, on the
ground of patriotism that women who
are trained in stenography or type
writing, or both, enter open competi
tive examination at once, and that
those who have not such training im
mediately undergo instruction in ex
actly the same spirit that has moved
them to attend classes in first aid
nursing, that is, in the spirit of help
fulness.”
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At Akiak, on the lower Kuskokwim,
Karl Thiele is building two big ware
houses and a large store building at
the mouth of Crooked creek.
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a pound of argyment. A 11
pipe of VELVET proves more
than a page of print.
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