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WILL GIVE ADDRESS
IN CASUALTY LIST
War Department Lifts Censor
ship on Identities in Foreign
Report.
Washington.—The War Department has
resumed publication of the home address
es or men reported on the casualty lists
from France. This action means it has
been determined that any military infor
mation the enemy might gain from the
lists would not be of sufficient value
to justifj' the added anxiety among the
relatives of soldiers occasioned by sup
pression of thjs aid to positive identifi
cation.
It ends a controversy that was waged
in Congress for a time, which caused an
open rupture of friendly relations be
tween the War Department and the
’ ’uTT < ’). eo 0,1 Public Information, and
which President Wilson himself was
upon to take a hand in settling.
When rhe department began issuing
csualty lists without addresses, the Com
mittee on Public Information refused to
handle the mon the ground that they were
of no news value form. ’ Since
then the lists have been made public
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Army officials are inclined now, it is un
derstood, to' continue with the present ar
wen ho,< J in ? , that the committee
''ent wholly out of its proper field in re
fusing to handle the limited lists,
virn’ln d ®P a ft™® nt ia “°' v said to be con
tinued that the addresses can furnish
no information to the enemy even if
™ ans A co »’m>b'icate them to Ger
bnt of e n, l fatS ’o a - nd - hat even tho total nutn-
Th« casualties m any list tells nothing,
vhlne in s./'V’ ( onvardecl General Per
»]< eV the I- f ° rn ‘ a . s to dis K ll isc
pietely the time and place where the
1 l?, es r ,si’orted were suffered.
th n?nm«’Tf ,nent - WiH con ti‘iue to omit
to whTch m r ® giments or other units
Mail of Soldiers,
Postage Due Free
Office of Third Assistant
Postmaster General,
~ Washington, D. C.
•Some postmasters are erroneously
<barging postage due on letters written
and mailed by soldiers, sailors and ma
rines assigned to.duty in a foreign coun
tiy engaged in the present war. Atten
tion is. therefore, invited to paragraphs
3, and 4, section 406, Postal Laws and
Regulations, as amended by Order No
dated October .1, 191*. appearing on
page 29 Os the October, 1917. supplement
to the lost Guide, from which it will
•be seen that such letters may be mailed
and. delivered to the addresses free of all
postage charges.
The provisions of amended paragraph
2. section 406, Postal Laws and Regula
tions, relative to the rating of soldiers'
sailors’, and marines' letters with postage
due at the single rite, to be collected on
delivery, do not apply to such letters
when written and mailed by soldiers sail
ors, hnd marines assigned to duty in a
foreign country engaged in the present
war, since, as above stated, such letters
are free. A. M. DOCKERY,
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
NOTED IN MASSING
ORDNANCE STREETS
During the course of a tew days casual
acquaintance with the men of the Sec
ond Ordnance regiment a Y secretary
noted the following:
A private who holds a technology degree
from a Russian university, an A.8., from
the University of Leipzig, and an ME.
from Lehigh University, is a member of
the A.S.M.E. and speaks well nine lan
guages.
A private who holds a Ph.D. from
Princeton University and has written
several monographs on mathematical
subjects; prior to enlisting he was a
member of the faculty at Princeton
A private who was director of a school
of music on the Pacific coast.
A private who was leader of the Co
lumbia University instrumental clubs
last year.
PROVIDING QUARTERS FOR
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
(Public —No. 129 —65th Congress.)
(S. 3863.)
An Act to provide quarters or commu
tation thereof to commissioned officers in
certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled. That
during the present emergency every
commissioned officer of the arntv of the
United States on duty in the field, or on
active duty without the territorial juris
diction of the United States, who main
tains a place of abode for a wife, child,
or dependent parent, shall be furnished
at the place where he maintains such
place of abode, without regard to per
sonal quarters furnished him elsewhere
the number of rooms prescribed by the
Act of March second, nineteen hundred
and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page
eleven hundred and sixty-nine, to be oc
cupied by, and only so long as occupied
by, said wife, child, or dependent par
ent; and in case such quarters are not
available every such commissioned offi
cer shall be paid commutation thereof
and commutation for heat and light at the
rate authorized by law in cases where
public quarters are not available; but
nothing in this Act shall be so construed
as to reduce the allowances now author
ized by law for any person in the Annv
Approved, April 16, 1918.
MAY FESTIVAL
The Monte Sano school of Augusta will
hold a May Festival on Wednesday aft
ernoon, May 15th at 5 o'clock, at the Fire
House on Central avenue and Troupe
street. Refreshments will be sold, and
the proceeds will go toward paying for a
set of books which the school recently
purchased for its library. All men in
uniform are cordially invited to attend.
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HAVERSACK THEATER
IN MINSTRELLETTE
Continued from page one.
has been built with several change sets
of scenery and the necessary electrical
outfit. This theatre will follow the di
vision.
The theatrical board is composed of the
following members: Lieut. E. Rafferty.
Sergt. M, Bopp and Musical Director Joe
Ballard. The board Is desirous of enroll
ing the names of any soldier boy in the
28th Division who have talent. You can
leave your name and a short description
of just what you do at the Y. M. C. A.
Building 75 and your application will be
given due consideration.
The program arranged for Wednesday
evening is as follows::'
1. “A Thousand Pounds of Harmony,”
by Dawson. Ewing. Hess, MacDonald.
2. “A Study in Black and White,” by
Bennett and Green.
3. “Rappy Chatter," by Dembo E. Mur
phy.
4. “A Stop at the Keystone Yacht
Club,” by the yachting party.
A breezy musical comedy minstreletta
with clever dancying. sweet singing and
up-to-date gags. The yachting party is
supposed to pay a visit to the Keystone
Y'aeht Club and give the minstreletta on
tlie pier. The principals are the captain
of the yacht "Alpanel" and the secre
tary of tlie club. The chief Yun dispen
sers are the steward and the porter of
the club and the crew of the yachting
party. The minstreletta is written and
staged by Sergt. Morrie Bopp. The mu
sic is by Musician Joe Ballard.
The casti s as follows:
Captain Private Bart Hardy-
Secretary of ClubSergt. M. Bopp
Stewardßugler, Gus Monte
Porter Private H. Boale
First Mate Cook Spider Green
Second Mate Private Sydney Smith
Dock Hand Corporal Lew Franklin
Engineer Private Chic Dawson
Singers and Dancers—Sergt. Leo Daw
son, Private Fred Hearing, Privates Ew
ing, Hess, MacDonald, Gorman, Van
Gorder, Gross, Crilly.
Musical numbers introduced:
1. "General Pershing Will Cross the
Rhine.” by Monte L. Boale.
2. " ’Till Jack Comes Home Again,” by
yachting party.
3. "1 Am the Captain of the Alpanel.”
by Bart Hardy.
4. "Plain Little Soldier Man,” by En
tire Cast.
5. "Darktown Strutters’ Ball," by Leo
Dawson.
6. "Good-Bye Little Girl of My
Dreams,’* by Morrie Bopp.
7. “Somebody's Done Me Wrong.” by
Lew Franklin.
8. Dance Specialty, by Spider Green
and Chic Dawson.
9. "The Irish Have a Great Day To
night," by Fred Mearig.
10. "For He's An American," by En
tire Cast.
PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS.
In buying from the merchants
whose ads appear in these columns
you have the benefit of a sifting
process which eliminates the irre
sponsible dealer.
WRITE MOTHER TODDAY.
MOTHER AND DAD
Fresh Beef For U. S. Soldiers
Undergoes Inspection From
Stockyards To Mess Hall
TWO MILLION POUNDS CON
SUMED DAILY
Possibilities of Inferiority Re
duced to Minimum by Activi
ties of Officials Charged with
Responsibility for Quality of
Meat
The following statement is authorized
by the War Department:
The inspection of fresh beef for army
consumption is receiving comprehensive
attention by the inspection branch of the
Subsistence Division of the army. New
possbilities of food inferiorities daily are
being uncovered, resulting in the applica
tion of stringent preventive methods de
signed to check these possibilities before
correct! v steps actually become necessary.
Dally Consumption of Fresh Beef.
The army consumes about 2,000,000
pounds per day of fresh beef. This neces
sitates the slaughter daily of 4,000 oattie.
Official inspectors scrutinize every part of
this supply from the time it comes on the
hoof to the abattoir until it vanishes from
the mess tin of the soldier.
Inspection begins at the stock yards,
where the living animals undergo the ex
amination of an official for any evidences
of physical defect which might be difficult
of detection later. Where there is doubt
the questionable animals are separated for
closer examination. Where there is cer
tainty of defect the animal is rejected as
unfit for food supply.
Inspection of Carcasses.
Next comes a rigid examination of the
carcass. Only when found "sound,”
heajthful. and wholesome” is the meat
passed as acceptable for food and duly
branded with a non-poisonous vegetable
iik "United States Inspected and Passed."
The unfit carcasses are destroyed.
Fresh meats thus indorsed go forward
in regular shipments, but those which
are to undergo curing, canning, or man
ufacture into susages, lard, oleomarga
rine, etc., are subjected to reinspections
at each step. For these there is a final
inspection just previous to their dispatch
for army use. Samples are regularly col
lected for chemical analysis in the gov
ernment laboratories.
Double Inspection at Camps.
When the meats arrive at the army
stations they are again inspected either
by inspectors of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry or by veterinarian officers of the
rmy. They must also obtain the approval
of the officer of the Quartermaster Corps
receiving them. And they undergo their
final test when the soldier’s immediate
organization commander looks them over
before he permits them to be served to
his men.
While these precautions make it seem
ingly impossible for meats not of the most
wholesome quality to find their way into
the soldier's menu, nevertheless, the
heads of the inspection service are on the
alert for improvement in th,eir system. It
is not improbble that the inspections will
eventually be made even more
OUR GRANDADS j
(By Mrs. J. M. F. Gill.) t
My granddad was a Yankee.
His granddad was a Reb:
They fought at old Manassas,
They fought at Wilson’s Shed:
They called each other "Traitor!”
They hated, good and strong;
And each declared the other,
Was altogether wrong.
And when the war was over.
They settled nigh apace:
But still they fought the battles
And fought them face to face.
His granddad mourned a brother,
My granddad mourned a son.
And each man blamed the other
For every fatal gun.
1898
Then Spain o’er stepped her border,
And sought with terror's reign
To crush our little neighbor:
And sank the noble Maine.
Then my dad joined the Riders,
And his dad rode to fame
Upon the troubled water
That ebbed the peace with Spain.
’Twas then they ceased to wrangle.
These men of civil strife—
Each felt the common anguish,
Each felt the pride of life
When sons go forth to battle
Against the common foe—
And both men prayed the prayer of one;
"God save from death and woe!”
1917.
Today, we go to battle— .
More fierce than civil strife, !
More terrible than San Juan Hill—
The world cried for its life!
Now, side by side, our granddads cheer,
United heart and hand—
" The Blue and Gray are one today. t
United in the Tan." '
Deserting Soldier .
Gets Ten Years
Battle Creek, Mich.—A sentence of ten
years' imprisonment in Fort Leavenworth
has been imposed on Private Herbert F.
Atkins, of Detroit, convicted of desertion
by a court-martial at Camp Custer. At
kins and another selected soldier escaped
from the guard house where they had
been confined for being absent without
leave. Atkins' companion has not vet
been tried.
May 8
