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INTERFERING WITH COAL
SHIPMENTS.
Yet, rt Is hard to 8«< Leaves and Fur
loughs, and as a rule there must be some
thing radically wrong at home to take
you there. Our chiefs know that Jo*
rides to Pennsylvania not only Interrupt
training, but crowd the trains unduly and
stop the transportation of many tons of
coal more needed In our home towns than
we are.
RUSSIA’S PLACE.
If we are to fill Russia’s place In the
war, It means greater effort and greater
self-sacrifice for each man; it may be that
our example will help Russia find hers.
CRACK SHOTS.
The best rifle shot In the world at one
ASSOCIATION MEN
“Right-of-Way Week” Subscription Campaign February
10th to 17, 1918
ASSOCIATION MEN is the official magazine of the North American
Young Man'/ Christian Associations. During 1918, ASSOCIATION MEN will
graphically tell, month by nfonth, the thrilling story of “ *Y’ and the war",
reported by men of literary national standing who are on the ground. Mr.
Vandercock, Associante Editor, recently sailed for France as special staff war
correspondent.
The monthly circulation has passed the 125,000-mark. It has been found
necessary on account of the excessive manufacturing cost and the large size
of the magazine, to increase the subscription rate to $1.50 per year. With the
new size and its improvements, in every page, story, sketch and picture, the
magazine is conceded to be cheaper than ever before.
ASSOCIATION MEN is offered to all enlisted men during ‘‘Right-of-Way
Week" at the special half-price club rate of 75c per year. Ask any Army and
KaV WHY M NOT SENdT SUBSCRIPTION TO "ASSOCIATION MEN" TO
FATHER AS A REMEMBRANCE DURING "FATSBR-AND-SON WEEK".
FEBRUARY 10th-17th.
REVERIES
time could shoot no better than you can.
Practice does not always make perfect,
but the chances are It will make you a
better man than the Boche opposite you,
and save your life.
SALUTING.
The enlisted man certainly has the best
of the officer under saluting regulations.
Calculate how often an offeer in crossing
the camp has to salute the men; how
many times they outnumber him.
ABSENTEES—BAYONET PRACTICE
Your absence from the bayonet prac
tice not only makes a little hole in the
roll call, and some trouble for your of
ficers, but your lack of this training in a
few months may make a BIG hole In you
—when you go up agalnts a six-foot
Boche.
FEBRUARY 13, 1918
CURRENT EVENTS
Power For the President, L abor, the Army in France.
By F. B. H EITKAMP
"BLANKET POWER" is asked by
President Wilson to enable him to most
successively carry on the war. The “em
powering bill” which has been Introduced
by Senator Overman would give the
President power completely to reorganize
the executive department. To co-ordi
nate various departments; to transfer
duties now resting in one body to other
branches of government; and to transfer
appropriations already made to one de
partment to another department where, in
nls estimation, it is most needed —these
things are included in the bill, which, if
passed, will give to the President tre
mendous power. The chance of its be
coming law is, however, very small.
AMERICAN LABOR~has pledged that it
will eagerly devote its all to the support
of the war, if treated with confidence
and understanding by the government.
This is a most encouraging bit of news,
for the success of our armies in the field
is dependent upon the support given them
at home; the support at home is depend
ent upon our industrial enterprises; and
our iridustrial enterprises are dependent
upon labor. It is absolutely essential
that labor and capital maintain the best
of relations; that machinery for the
handling of controversies be kept in readi
ness! that excessive profiteering be dis
credited; and that a complete unity be at
tained in the entire labor administration.
IDENTTFICATION~TAGS, starting Feb.
28th, will no longer bear the name of the
man, but contain his number only. The
numbers will start at "one” and will con
tinue indefinitely. Who will draw No.
13?
ARTILLERY DUELS with our enemy
have shown the effectiveness and skill of
the American gunner. During the past
week reports have come to us daily of
activity along our front in which we have
particularly successful.
THE AMERICAN ARMY is located, in
France, in the neighborhood of the
Rhine-Marne Canal, near the Lorraine
frontier, in front of Nancy and Lune
ville. The recent artillery duels have
taken place at Toul, fourteen miles west
of Nancy and twenty-eight miles north-
FATHER AND SON WEEK
NEWTON D? BAKER
Secretary of War
The stress of international circum
stances and the call upon all of us to
defend whaV we have long held dear
adds another to the reasons which has
always existed for making a father and
son week an occasion to w'hich every
one might render co-operation and
participation in ungrudging measure.
1.000 SOLDIERS HEAR
JUDGE SPEER’S LECTURE
ON ROBERT E. LEE
Judge Emory Speer of the United States
District Court kindly consented to lecture
to the soldiers who frequent building No.
79, on the military career of General
Robert E. Lee. A thousand Motor Me
chanics and some infantrymen from sur
rounding regiments crowded the building
at an early hour. They warmed up by
singing trench songs under the leadership
of Captain Spencer.
Jtfdge Speer in a scholarly address held
for an hour the closest attention of this
crowd of men gathered from every state
of the Union. There were men whose
fathers fought with Lee and against him
durin ; the Civil W&t and this ex-Con
federate soldier and ‘unparoled prisoner,
lover of Lee as he is, found ready re
sponses in the hearts of these men to
his description of the soldierly ability hnd
Christian character of General Lee.
He spoke of General Lee’s an 'est-.-v. of
the excellent mother who largely shaped
his life, of his entrance at an early age
into West Point, of his graduation. s,ec
4Mid>.-is- a .class, of .his cnick pro
motion during the Mexican was and the
natural selection of him by the Confed
erate Congress as the commander in chief
of the armies of the South. He referred
to the credible showing of Lee at Gettys
burg, to the numerous successful cam
paigns, but gave most of his time to a
more minutd description of the military
campaigns of 1863 and ’65.
Judge Speer spoke of the great pri
vations of the South, of the lack of food
and other supplies, and of the gradual
weakening of man-power which made it
impossible for General I,ee with all his
strategy and knowledge of tactics to en
dure under the pressure of the Union
forces.
He spoke with pride of the reunited
country and of the armies composed of
sons of brave Northern and Southern sol
diers and left no doubt of his opinion
that these brave sons of brave sires will
be the prime factor in the determina
tion of the present conflict.
Judge Speer is to speak on Friday night
at No. 78 on Abraham Lincoln.
west of Luneville. This region has been
a "quiet sector” ever since the second
month of the war. Whether our forces
have been placed there because it is
thought that the sector will remain quiet,
or whether they have been placed there
to draw away fir from the other fronts,
can not be said. If it were possible our
men would gladly have taken their stand
in Belgium, for that little country is very
dear to the American heart; but that be
ing impossible Lorraine has been the se
lection.
A two-ounce bread ration for patrons z
of' hotels, dining cars, and restaurants
has been ordered by the food administra
tor. Not more than two ounces of wheat
bread may be served to any one person
at a meal.
HEATLESS MONDAYS will be contin
ued it has been decided as a result of a
conference between Director-General Mc-
Adoo and Fuel Administrator Garfield.
The coal situation is becoming more acute
daily due to the extreme weather con
ditions existing in the northeastern states.
THE WAR costs"~the United States $24,-
000,000 a day.
THE LAST INCREMENT of the first
d?aft will be called to camp on February
23rd. This will bring the national army
to a total strength of 685,000 men.
BLAME for the Halifax disaster has
been fixed on Pilot Mackay and Cap
tain Lamodeac of the ship Mont Blanc,
the munitions ship which was destroyed
by the collision with the Belgium relief
ship Imo, in the Halifax harbor.
A TUNNEL for "traffic under the Hud
son River to connect the states of New
York and New Jersey is under considera
tion by these two states. Negotiations
have begun between Governors Edge and
Whitman as to the details of the plan. It
is estimated that the cost will be twelve
million dollars; the benefits derived would
be infinite. At present there are tun
nels at three places under the river, one
set of tubes being used by the Pennsylva
nia railroad and the others for interstate
passenger service.
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