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nilDAYt JUNE 23, dim
Mat SEVEN
Col. Gantt Says More Cit
izens Should Follow Ex-
mnple of J. C. Jester and
Welcome Tourists.
Thousands of Young Men Acquired
Taste for Education Which is Now
Making Itself Felt Throughout
v the United States W j
T rffi colleges of the United States arc flooded with^stliclents.
IJie pressure on many has been so great that they h.-ira been
compelled to , increase the severity of their examinations in
order to control numbers. Marty reasons have been’ given for
the increase^, demand for higher education. No single cause
controls but unquestionably one has .been the great impetus given
to many young men by their army experience.
Looking back's few years it would seem that the United States
had grown Somewhat complacent In its thought about its common
school and higher education. The little red school house had
grown familiar to our thought and we knejv that there were col
leges everywhere.
But the result of the draft examinations came as a shock. Not
only was there a high percentage of illiteracy but altogether too
many foreign-horn young men had grown to maturity as American
citizens unable to speak or understand the English language.
One of the first educational problems beyond the technical train
ing of soldiers was met in the earlier, officers* training lamps by
the teaching of French preparatory to overseas service. In addi
tion to this, classes in elementary English and mathematics were
BY/LARRY T. GANTT
I have urged our citizens to fol-
w the example of J. C. Jester and
her citizen* «lnt try and meet'and
Ik to the tourists passing through
nl camping in our city, I make it
. nilci!'* i !■ t ry iViofning to do
is and Jfcgfr %h$cp people ap-
roiate pny.HCU^ coprteay. shown
cm. It-raske* a good.impression
id whei£(hey fb home they adver-
and gdoraFthc praises of Ath-‘
1 have received a cop" of the
tily VidBcfiJdr. a paper published
ValpadklilK Indiana, containing
letter from one of ita citizens, E.
Volkee* . if* which the writer
ves an account of his trip in 9
goes south they ere much mere
clever and.courteous and obliging.
We drovQ a little late one nirht
and we asked a farmer if we could
camp at his place. He sold: ‘Srre.
Drive righK'n my yard. Hdre. is
the well. Jttst help yournlf r.nd
make yourself-at homte.’^Worid
you receive such treatment here * I
doubt it.
TREATED
FINE
“When we broke camp at Jack
sonville, we started up through
Georgia, via Waycrosa, Macon and
Athens, a place of some 40,000. Talk
shout fine treatment. We sure
wre trerted fine in Athens. They
have a free camp ground right in
their city hall square. They gave
us the use of the city hall base
ment, where they had shower baths,
with hot and cold water, and all
the conveniences of n home. They
also have a fino place for the la-
ies wtfh heat and light and 'all
free. The' m'Jyor, chief of police
and secretary of the chnmber of
commerce * ailed on un and bid us
welcome. They surely are n fine
bunch of gentlemen. If you ever
go that he sure nrtd camp at
Athens. Ge«..‘gia.
“We also saw a relief of the
EDUCATION AIDED BY THE NEWSPAPERS
The rapid assembling of the Na-
tional * *■——- - —‘ -*—
AionsT
the early days of the camps news*
paper dippings containing irapprtaht
news were pasted oh bulletin hoards
or newspaper headlines .were copied
on blackboards. During the sum
mer of 1917 John Stewart Brydn,
of Richmond, Va., as a result of
his own enterprise in publishing a
paper for Camp Lee, toneeiyed the
plan of a nation-wide paper issued
at the same time from some 46
points, with the same editorial pol
icy but each containing local news..
Local arrangements' were made and
on October 8, 1917, the first issue
of "Trench and Camp* in 32 edi
tions. was distributed at as many
“while the Natiocal War Work
Council of the Y. M. C A. fmaheed
this undertaking, it was in every
sense a soldier’s |*per. We quote
from an editorial in the first issue:
"Through Trench and. Camp* all the
soldiers’will be kept informed of the
activities of the army. They will
have their news from home, news On Januar
from the front, news from their own Phelps Stok
camps . . . We hope to make * * **
‘Trench and Camp* & .lift, V..lz~
transcript of the life of the anhy
tint has been formed to keep civil
ization alive.”
Some of the foremost cartoonists,
illustrators and special writers in
America contributed especially pHe-
pared drawings and articles. The
local papers were filled with articles.
ought a real educa-
ring the first months
of our war experience it was on a
voluntary basis and informal meth
ods were followed. Organization
Into dais work was pushed at the
same time, the largest classes being
for. illiterates and non-English
•peaking foreigners with which was
rombipca a certain amount of in
struction Jn. civics and elementary
'listory. The majority of teachers
luring these early months were vol
unteers either from among the sol
diers themselves or from neighbor
ing educational institutions. The
military difficulty of dealing with
soldiers who were, not only upablc
to read or write but 'in many cases
to understand English made this
work most important. In May,
19'% the Development Battalions
were formed for the purpose of giv
ing intensive training to those who
had no^had previous opportunities.
At the same time the French meth
ods -and courses were systematized
and provision was made for instruc
tion to be given by the Y. M. C. A.
under supervision of the Chief In
telligence Officer of each cainp, at
tendance to be mandatory for such
officers aftd enlisted men as he might
dcsigualc.
•No nation Mins so much informa
tion and education from newspa
pers as does the United States. In
. - J-4 h 3MMU2 j.'
Welfare experience demonstrated that the young soldier was anxious
to learn, ana he was given full oopori* n : »". These scenes show daises
in penmanship and typewriting.
news and pictures of interest to the tional Corps in the Anvriran F.x-
camps where the editions appeared.. w **
At its maximum the publication
reached editions of over 500,000
from more than 40 camps. Distribu
tion to soldiers was free; z:\?.lzzz .... ..... twipu.
paid a nominal charge intended to American Expeditionary Forces to y ; ' ‘
cover the cost/of paper and mailing. the importance of national cduca-
On January 18, 1918, Dr. Ansop' lion. This citizen army-must re-
a vital, living of the Y. M. C. A. In February in the future progress of our conn- Ran to arris* on March 7 1919 and ,in>«. , ^ d 1
' ' he made a report to the Chief Sec- try. F.ducationil and occupational it wii, not Imp bcfJreh.OOfrurro in coiresAnttaS and£bht«§
retaiy for transmission to the Com- training should therefore he, pro- yrorking on a wide ranee of studies One ofih. mr«i .i.iWn.i,
maoder-in-Oiief of the army. This vide.! to meet the needs of the mem. ‘which hey a tendrf 5 on JeUchS of tta --- —."5?
report anticipated the problem when bars of the A. E. F. in order that service" with full my Qcucncu °’J*
the fighting would W over. Thm they may become beltcr erim^rie.! One of the need! of the men on yoSng Jen^The draft re«aW
plans were approved. ■ In April, f.jr tlieir. future resmnsibillties. 1 ’ , discharge was education. Funds rnore than 20% oitWfitto
1919, fhe Educational Commission Tlicre were port schools, divisional were set aside for this purpose* military service could not re
Was mobilized a/t the “Army EducS- ettners, and a university at'Beaune' and a comprehensive plan madefor • newspaper. This is a lessor
peditionary Forces.” . Wc q;t«»te
from General Pershing’s O’cticrai
Order No. 30: ^
“The Commandcr-ln-Chicf invites
the attention of, organization coin-
civilians manders and nil officers of the
American Expeditionary Forces to
cannon, tb* only one ever. mado. I
should judge it would shoot about
n three inkh hall* It was intended
to 'hoot two balls nt once connect
ed by a chain, and mow down a
whole commny of soldiers «t one
•hot, butiit did not prove a suc
cess for the ^reason that both bar-,
rris did riot 6ft at the same
time., Th^f ,caused chain tocyt
crs. so they no'rer used it.’* -f
By all means let Athenn have «’
tourist camp ground for the hun
dred of cars each week passing
through our city will prove one of
th»* best means of advertising Ath
ens we can possibly have. We can
dispose of every here of ourjpitHled
lands to splendid wfiito'
and who will
city and t
tourists 1
they are l
mint in t|
tie.
Schoenberg, where trains from the
Berlin Subway
Shylocks to Woo
The Fickle Marki
fashionable West End meet thole
from the traders’ residential dis
trict in southwestern Berlin. The
authorities have granted an ex
change dealer a 10-year lease oh a
part of the station. The basic an
nual rent will be 750,000 marks
(about (20 when the oontract was
made), changeable in accordance
with teh changes in the buying
power of the mark.
(THIS WAS WRITTfiN *BY A WOMAN)
Why Are Some Storekeepers
So Obstinate?
(By Associated- Press.)
1 ■ V IT ,L.. w.n.1# llQ.
from
from
-Berlin ’has
growth of
-^iblishments
the city. The
looking for a place <o con-
BERLIN.—Since the mark bo*
gar .palpitating uncertainly
one ay to another,—indeed
one nour to another,- ”
undergone a mushroom
small exchff “ 1 '"’*'
along streets
tourLU .
vert quickly his good American
dollars, English pounds, or other
currency, doCs not need to make # a
length^ search, for he iunc into a
money-changing booth at almost
eveuy turn, even in the miuwa ?
promenade and driving sect ans ol
the boulevards. . i *
Now an enterprising Shylock has
)lb of means and
fields for invest
or a place to set-
Safe instant
relief from
CORNS
RUSSIANS IN BERLIN UNITE
' TO BUILD NEW CHURCHES
BERLIN—Soviet officials failed
to atop the religious (activities of
AI.ASKAN-VOLCANO —.
AGAIN IN ERUPTION
KTNGsl)fcoTE, Alaska—Shis-
hnldin volcano, on U iimsk Inland,
which erupted violently November
2«, 1U22,, waA* -emitting bursts of
heavy smoke e»t*ly in May, offi
cers of the coatt guard cutter Hai-
**a reported onUarriUal of the ves
sel here in tho t ourso of her-an-
hud patrol of Alaskan and Berrien
Sea wateffi.'-^—''
l.am an pld-fashioned buyer of the
necessities for my household. I go to
the store myself. To me this work is
not irksome. In fact, I likS it. I like
to look at the,shelves so full of cans
) and packages of so many colors. I like
to do this for the ( same reason that I
don’t mind being in a crowd..
When in a crowd I look far familiar
faces. When I southern I am delighted.-
When I am in a store ! look for famil
iar goods and when I see them I buy.
Those goods have become familiar ta
me through advertising and I have no
ticed (jhat the grocery men who have ,
the most of those familiar* packages
somehow or other seem to always go
ahead.*
I went into a store not of my own-
■ dioosing but with a friend who, among
other'thUira, asked for a very well
known arucie of food whigh is packed
in a can, although she^ditbnofc ask for
any speefic kind. I always buy .....;
and in jtinctively I told her that was
s the kind she should ask for.
.Tim dealer overheard me and said,
: : “Madam, I never sen that article. I sell i
iiifetead something very much better
; . i.... my oWn brand" , _•' ‘
Then “he launched into a five-minute
talk on why this article was better
than the one I had named. But some- ■
how my friend had been convinced by
what I had suggested and she'did not
buy the can which the grocer offered. *
And f thought as I walked; out how
*• stubborn and obstinate that iftan was.
He had lost a sale, had probably taken
buy and which I always buy I know
have been submitted to the criticism
of both competitor and consumer. Th>
subjection, to almost world-wille criti
cal examination demonstrates to me
that the manufacturer has . supreme
confidence in his goods. He cannot
tell a falsehood about the things hie
makes, because there arc too many in
the world to find-him out.
Constant advertising of any product
jiroves that product has stood the test
, of scrutiny. Is it any wonder then why
I, as one of several million .women in
my same position, prefer articles with
which. I am acquainted to products
the Orthodox Russians' in Berlin
when they closed the chapel in the
Russian embassy and converted
the beautiful sanctuaryinto offices.
Two ehnpols hqvo replaced the ope
* * * mad nlm-nll
which was closed.
FINDLAY, Ohio.—Mexican lab-
orers brought hero under contract
from Houston, Texas,
mschoui
'Lino-pads
Made in tht Uhrotoriet tJThSakaH
HU. Co., mohn <4 Dr. StiolTs foot
Conjorl Jppluiuu, Atih HupforU.ett. •
Put one ort-thc pain is gone!
w 4 __ T belnt i
used (o cultivate jthe sugar beet
crop of Northwestern Ohio,
The Mexicans were brought In
when it appeared Impossible to ibb
tain Americana for the work. Ap>
proxlmnteiy three hundred of them
are under contract to work In thi
[Ohio and Michigan fields. TKey
mit keeping pkee _ with the ex
change; a tthe .tranaffer point ho
can sell "short** if necessary, or buy,
nt A liberal margin, without thoiwili bo taken back to their homes
necessity of awaiting his train’s In the fall,
arrival down town. j
Th first ot these new .establlsa-
ment‘ to put of > an appearance is
at .the metropoli an sub-division of.
Read Bancr-Herald
Want Ads.
about,Kvhich I have no knowledge and
about which the? manufacturer does
not seem to have the courage to eiv,
lighten me? t
his first btep toVard losing a customer,
and had certainly lost a good deal of
time, especially since some other peo
ple were standing around waiting to
bo waited on.
If that grocer. had sold advertised,
goods he would certainly have had the
brand 1 suggested and he Avould luivi
made a--sale; incidentally, he would
have bid us. good day. cheerily and he
and we would have been satisfied.
Familiar. faces are Avonderful. To
me, in my capacity as a buyer for a
fairly large household, familiar things
on the shelves of the stores I visit are
only a little-less wonderful, for those
familiar things help me in doing better
and more eeohomically' the job which I
ifiust work at every day.
Those advertised • articles which I
A King Goes WocVGatbenng
S.S.S. keepsaway
Pimples
T HERE are thouiands ot wo-.
men who wonder why their
complexions do not improve in
spite of all th< face treatment*
they use. They should not con-
•^jgg^gjtinue^o won-
most powerful, rapid and effeetivo,
Oie Ira purl ti en ’wh 1 ch ° c into
boils; pimples, blackheads, sene,
blotches, eczema, tetter, rz*.
8. S. S. la a remarkable flesh-
builder. That’s why underweight
people csif quickly build up thefr
eyes, and M p«p.”
_ 8> 8. S. is tdi at
fl drug stores la two sires. Tfc«
Isrger si*e is core ccoosbucsL
fCC ?>hr. World -: Bert
g ^loodMedidne
A VERY ATTRACTIVE HOUSE
Ulue or black sstcca with whits
,4 ta. Ml With trimming of wMta
wapld be pleasing tor inis
Sn 1 *’ ^ **** nic * tor anJ
tl T hJ* dBrn’fc cut In ssven sbts#: i
*<• *4, IS IS, 43, 44. and 41 laches bust
* • Mttrs.VX as-lnrh s!se requires
yurda of^i>laek‘material To trim
Published'by The Banncr-IIcrald in co-operation with
i-m American .Association of Advertising Agencies.
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