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reatest Theme Next to War,
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Best Far Inferior to
U. S. Brands.
' BY R. J. KIRK,
Member of American Expeditionary
Forces,
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, (By
' Mail).—Probably the most discussed
theme next to the war in France today
among the French public is tobaceco.
The authorities see that they get enough |
. bread and three meatless days a week
. cause no hunger pangs. But tohauco.f
it can't be obtained except on rare oc
casions. And what they do get is
pretty flerce. ‘“Tres mauvais, Mon- |
sieur,”” they assure the Awmerican sol
diers, who have a fairly plentiful sup
ply of Ameqcan manufacture. .‘
Tobacco In France is issued by a
mort of bread card arrangement. %’he‘
available supply is proportioned out to
the tobacco shops, and on certain
days a limited amount mag be sold to
eivillans, The soldiers at the front are’
supplied first, then the troops in the
rear, and if there is any left the oi
vilian can take his regular turn in get-l
&x‘m’! allotment.
h tobacco at its best is pretty
bad, most any American soldier will
assure you. But with the war re
#trictions in preparation it is infinitely
worse. It is no more like American
tobaceo, than day is like night. Ap
parently the French manufacturers do
no blending. Tobacco being a govern
ment monopoly, there were even in the
old days not more than two or three
brands. It all looks alikke—black and
stringy and tastes like natural leaf, only
-tm:fer.
Waliters in cases and cab drivers take
their tips from American patrons in
cigarettes or pipes full of smoking to
bacco., French millionaire bankers and
clubmen are not a bit abashed to have
a smoke with a Yankee private soldier.
There is one delightful thing about
French democracy—it hits them all
alike. The teamster, the carpenter and
the shoveler smoke as much as the mil
tonaire,
The greatest favor an American sol
dier can do a Frenchman is to_give
him a sack of American tobacco. Prob
ably these little gifts of the “filthy
weed”’ have done more to cement the
Franco-American union and to clear
the way for a mutual understanding
than any one thing since the Yankees
arrived in France more than a year ago.
French women are the most apprecia
tive of all for tobacco gifts. Not for
themselves, but for their relatives and
sweethearts in German prison camps, It
would be difficult to estimate how many
unds of American tobacco the Yankee
?ooper has sacrificed for a French
friend to send to the German stockades.
It would be more difficult to estimate
how much of it ever reached itg desti
nation after it reached German hands,
But some of it has gone through and
the French appreciation of the Ameri
can’s sympathy has increased in pro
‘portion.
Indian Not Used to
- Trigks of Elevator
é!{_ International News Service.)
UTHRIE, OKLA. Aug. 3ll.—An old
Indian put his head into the door of
the office of the United States Clerk
on the top floor of the Federal Building
here.
“How do you get down ?” he asked.
“Ride down on an elevator,” advised
a clerk.
“Elevétor him gone down,” replied
the Incian with a grunt, and he toiled
down the stairway His idea of the
elevator was “miss him today, no
catch till tomorrow.”
Ilicit Still Found
In Sorghum Mill
(!* International News Service.)
GUTHRIE, OKLA., Aug. 31.—Ag the
result of a raid on a sorghum mill an
fllicit still ten barrels of mash and a
large 3uu\my of raw whisky were
seize dand two men, Jasper Cochran
and Richard Kinney, aer in jail. Coch
ran is a wealthy farmer and Kinney his
hired man.
NEARNG MILLION MARK.
BT. LOUIS, MO., Aug. 31.—St. Louis
a within 75,850 of the million poruln
mark, according to the statistics
Just comglled for the cna directory. It
containg 369,660 names, sing the mul
tiple of two and one-half persons to each
family, the city has a gopulnnon of
flh!&o. This multiple, while not offi
ef; l;« recognized by the Government,
has been used by every city in the Unit
ed States since 1910,
WANTED, A POSTMISTRESS,
PORT COSTA, CAL, Aug. 31.—-This
city is without a regularly appointed
postmistress.
Miss Cecella Hansen, who has been
fn charge of the office here for some
time, has quit stamping and delivering
letters to take an active part in the
war. She has enlisted in the navy as
a yeomanette and Ig L{:reparlng for as
signment to duty at Mare Island,
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Spirit of U. S. Troops
Will Win, Declares
Commander of Unit
Oolonel Who Looks Like Irvin Cobb Tells Why
the Kaiser Is Beaten.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, July
26 (by mail).—lt was dawn. A pemng‘
rain drenched this quaint historic
English village. Far up the muddy
road over the big hills came the muf
fled tones of a military band. They
were playing America’s popular war
song, “Over There.”
Behind them marched singing,
shouting warriors—s,ooo of Uncle
Sam's soldiers—marching from their
rest camp to trains on the last leg of
their journey to “No Man's Land."
The rain did not dampen their ar
dor. Through the mud they waded
with grinning faces, singing "Ha.ll.‘
hail, the gang’s all here; what the
h—l do we care.” ‘
“It's the spirit of American soldiers
that's going to win this war,” ob
served Colonel E. V, Smith, command
ant of one of the units. He was a
jolly old “war horse” with the face,
figure and humor that made him look
the twin of Irvin Cobb. ‘
“I was a classmate of Black Jack
Pershing at West Point,”” he grinned.
“I'll sure be glad to see him over
there in France.” { |
He hailed from San Francisco and
his regiment comprised boys from
parts of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illi
nois and Kentucky. Nothing else in
the world mattered to him jyst now
but his “boys,” and he was so proud
of them, he said, as he joined a party
of us along the roadside watching the
boys swing past.
“See that fellow over there?’ He
pointed out a clean-cut, grinning
Sammy, plodding along with a 40-
pound pack on his back. “He was an
Illinois coal operator and had an in
come of SIOO,OOO a year until the draft
got him. Now he's getting a little
better than S4OO a year and likes it
I've got more just like him in my
unit.”
Near by stood a little old lady who
rushed out ever and anon to grasp
the hands of the Sammies. “Good
bye, boys"-—there was the suspicion
of a tear and her lip quivered as she
added: “Hope you all get back. Good
luck and God bless you.”
“Mother” Powell, they called her
someone said. From out the big
brown shawl thrown over her head
peeped a little old lady face such as
we have expected and hoped our de*
and gone grandmothers had. She ha
lost two sons in the trenches “over
there,” and every morning, rain or
shine, she was out on the road bid
ding the boys good-bye and godseped
on their journey “over there.”
Some of the Sammies ceased their
hilarity long enough to grasp her
hand or shout “Geod-bye, mother,”
One brushed her cheek with his lips
and 1 could see him fighting back the
tears as he plodded on. The Sammies
only stay a week or so in the rest
camp here. but they all knew her.
Entraining from the boats at an
English port, all the American sol
diers rest up a week or so at one or
another of the American rest camps
in or around this historic Engilsh vil
lage. In company with three colonels
and a number of other officers, I vis
ited the night before the largest of
these camps.
My train pulled into this town in
typical English weather. It was rain
ing. Seems like it rains here about
six days a week. The other day it
pours. Around the station were a
score or more American officers and
soldiers busy attending to baggage
train seledules, ete,, for thousands of
American soldiers are coming in and
soing out of this little station daily.
There are four big American rest
camps here and an aviation ecamp for
American flyers,
Americen camaraderie runs high in
England. When Yank meets Yank in
Great Britain the conventions are
dropped in the hail-fellow-well-met
fashion. In this manner I met an
American colonel at the station. He
spotted me for a Yank, thrust out his
hand and introduced himself as
“Colonel De Sombre, of Fondulac,
Wisconsin.”
“l got a tin buggy going up to the
camp shortly; eclimb in,” he invited.
It was an American car—one of the
original seven jokes of the world, and
our driver was a young Sammy named
Jewett from Boston. He hx;(fz been a
British Tommy before America en
tered the war and was wounded twice,
“l got a plece of shrapnel In the
lung driving an ambulance car
or thin dry halr to an even, beautiful,
dark shade, and makes all your hair
soft, long, lustrous, dark, without a
truce of gray showing. Gray hair s
unnecessary. Don't have it. as “La
Creole” Halr Dressing can be so eusi.
ly applied and is so certain to darken
all your gray hair. Sola by drug
stores everywhere or sent direct for
$£1.20 by Van Vieet-Mansfield Drug
Vo Memphbisg, Tepn <Adyertisament,
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMEKICAN — A Newspaper lor reopie wno rnmnk — SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1918
T £ - 2N k 3 e B e el
through a German barrage, and I
have a Hun bayonet wound in my
shoulder I got going over the top,” he
said. “Since then I've been trans
ferred to the American gervice.”
He told me he made ahout $1.650 a
day and $1 of that he sends home to a
younger brother whom he is putting
through college.
We reached the camp in time for
dinner and it was “some” dinner. In
the galvanized iron mess hut for of
ficers 1 sat down to a real Yankee
“square feed” of roast beef, potatoes,
peas, tomatoes, coffee with real un
skimmed milk and sugar and an hon
est-to-Jehoshophat American apple
pie.
Two hungry young chaps on either
side of me introduced themselves as
Lieutenant Dunbar, of Rochester, N.
Y., and Lieutenant Kane, of Hartford,
and what we did to that pie was a
caution. At the head of the table sat
the camp commandant, Colonel Jones,
brother of a former Governor of Ala
bama.
At the end of the meal he took us
all under his wing and brought us to
the officers’ clubrooms. It was another
galvanized structure. American col-
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lege pennants and flags adorned the
walls. Thanks to the Red Cross and
the Y. M. C. A,, the room was beauti
fully furnished with rugs, pretty
wicker chairs and tables loaded with'
American magazines and newspapers.
At one end of the rcom was a small
piano. Perched on this and gathered
all around it was a gang of officers
singing “Oh, You Great Big Beautiful
Doll.” A vietrola near by tried vainly
to get in edgewise a few jazz band
notes, but the lieutenant who was pi
loting her finally gave up and joined
the “Beautiful Doll” crew,
In the midst of this an orderly en
tered and told the colonel 10,000
troops were arriving In town unex
pectedly during the night and needed
quarters. The camp held 13,000 and
was well-nigh full, but arrangements
speedily were made and the troops
were cared for at this and the three
other large camps near by.
| STEALS 50,000 CIGARS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31 —When
Charles B. Ward, of Toledo, Ohlo, was
arraigned in eriminal court here
charged with grand larceny he admitted
that he stole 50,000 cigars from William
T. Elsenlohr. He was sentenced to six
months in jail and fined §IOO and costs.
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(By International News Service.)
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., Aug.
81.-~Chester Westfall, assistant sec
retary of the Oklahoma State Coun
¢il of Defense, passed up a perfectly
good chance to become a publie
benefactor by securing a good soak
ing rain for the State, All on ac
count of a small fee of $§2,000 for the
rainmaker,
An Oklahoma City woman walked
into the office of the Council of
Defense and announced to Mr, West
fall that she possessed the secret
of making rain, She demanded a
fee of $2,000 for the job, Mr. West
fall endeavored to get her to dpnrt
with the secret, but she refused.
“The Bible says that he who
won't provide for his own house
hold is worse than an infidel, and I
have a family to look after,”! was
her parting shot as she left the of
fice crestfallen at her failure.
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He Has Fairly Won It—Now Asks the People to Give Him
His Commission.
Received Highest Vote Two Years Ago, But Denied
Nomination by the Convention.
Rebuke Autocratic Convention Methods by Electing Him
and Make Georgia “Safe for Democracy.”
Only Nominee of Last Primary Now Out of Commission.
Indorsed by Bar of State and Home County.
MEMORANDUM
Court of Appeals Primary, 1916
Three To Be Nominated. .
Popular Co, Unit
Vote Vote
Bloodworth ..........71,661 176
Stephens ............65591 166
GOOTE® .ovsveccses 00,708 153
FOBRIRE oo covisonives 007 150
To the People of Georgia:
Conscious of the fact that the
people of this State are fair
minded and just, T feel that I
can safely rest with you a cause
which T coneeive to be founded
upon the principles of justice
and right.
While the matter which I sub
mit to your consideration relates
in part to me personally, it is no
less one of public eoncern. Tt
involves a fundamental prinei
ple of republican government,
and the honor and integrity of
our State judicial system. While
the public interests should of
course have your first eonsidera
tion, you no doubt realize that
private justice is a publie duty,
and will at the same time ac
cord to me that justice to which
you may think I am entitled.
Two years ago I reeceived at
the hands of the people of Geor
gia the highest county unit aund
popular vote for one of the three
newly created judgeships on the
Court of Appeals. Instead of re
ceiving the nomination to which,
under demoeratic usage and cns
tom and the precedent set when
the Court of Appeals was estab
lished, this vote entitled me, 1
was denied the nomination by
the State Convention.
Realizing the injustice of con
vention nominations, the Legis
lature, at its next session, in the
passage of the Neill Primary
Law, adopted a rule that would
have insured by nomination in
the primary of 1916, In view
of this legislative action and the
appointment of Judge Blood
worth, who received similar con.
vention treatment to me, to the
first vacancy on this Court, I
respectfully submit that I stand
todn:{ the moral and rightful
nominee of the electorate of this
State for one of these three seats
upon this Court.
Thus am T entitled to the sec
ond vacancy, caused by the
resignation of Jodge George,
‘which the people will be called
on to fill in the approaching
primary, The place is now filled
by the ad interim appointes,
Judge Harwell, who holds until
lflw election, when the people
‘will, in the exercise of their con.
ADVERTISEMENT.
Court of Appeals Primary, 1906
Three To Be Nominated
j Popularl
/ Vote
First—Russell .c.......c05...31,769
Second—Powell ..............23,480
TR .....coinscoosos: 0089
flfteen(t;;Hamdli' yas i - . 5,354
stitutional right, eleet a judge
of their choice. This being one
of the three identical places for
which I was the people’s choice,
I feel amply justified, upon its
relinquishment by Judge George,
one of the convention nominees,
in again seeking a nomination to
this Court, and asking that in the
coming September primary I be
named for this unexpired term.
Judge Bloodworth, the other
popular nominee discarded along
with me, having received his re
ward by appointment to this
Court, and thus relieved of the
burden of a second econtest be
fore the people, and Judge
George having received the high
er honor of a place on the Su
preme Court withont opposition,
it seems an unjust hardship that
I alone should encounter ¢pposi
tion and be foreed into a second
contest to obtain that which 1
have once already justly won,
However, finding it necessary
to carry my cause into a contest
‘before the people, 1 ask for re
‘election, not only as a matter of
’jusliwe to myself, but that the
‘people of Georgia may vindi
cate their right to elect, and by
rebuking autocratic convention
methods, make this State ‘‘Safe
for Democracy.”’
I elaim all the prestige of an
incumbent seeking indorsement
by re-election, strengthened by
the fact of having been unjustly
deprived of the honors of the of-.
fice. I am opposing no one,
The present appointee is rather,
I submit, opposing me. Sinee he
holds o commission from the
people. he has no elaim superior
to mine, That sentiment which
opposes the retirement of an in.
cumbent merely to gratify the
ambition of an outside aspirant
has no place here. The present
conditions are peculiar and with.
out precedent in Georgia. It is
not now a question of my ambi.
tion, but one of justice to me and
the people who supported me.
In such a contest no presumption
lies in favor of a non-elected oc
cupant as against one who shows
election by the people.
Against the _present , ap
pointees’ appointment and his
ambition to enjoy judicial hon-
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ADVERTISEMENT.
[om T have no fight to make. His
‘commission will expire with the
election and he then will have re:
ceived his full reward. I merely
press a superior claim to the bal
ance of the unexpired term. -
‘Whatever may have been my
opponent’s relations with this
convention, whose leading spirits
offered him a nomination to the
Supreme Court, he NOW seeks
to encompass my defeat and to
further withhold from me that
commission which the people
gave me,
A seat upon the Court of Ap
peals is a high and distinguished
honor—one which should not be
carelessly and without due con
sideration bestowed upon any
aspirant. It is not a political
office, and political considera
tions should not enter into the
selection of a man to fill it. No
man should seek this office on
his prestige and ability as a poli
tician or his alignment with any
political faction.
A candidate for the bench
should be primarily chosen on
his merits alone.
As to my qualifications, I have
been indorsed by the Bar of
Georgia for a place on this
Court. Included among my in
dorsers were my home bar and
many former judges of Geor
gia’s highest courts. On this in
dorsement I received my vote
two years ago, and in my home
county led the ticket. Thus by
the supreme tribunal of the peo
ple this matter stands settled and
adjudicated, and I need submit
no further indorsements.
Having been virtually elected,
I feel that T am entitled to the
honor of some service and an
opportunity to make good and
demonstrate my judicial fitness.
I seek a period of two years
only—the balance of the unex
pired term—the shortest which
‘would have been allotted to me
had I been one of the chosen
}throe two years ago. After this
my commission will come back
to the people and my record will
be subject to review. Only then
can I be fairly judged.
T make no eriticism against
thg integrity of the members of
the Convention or the benefici-’
’aries of its action. They simply
played the politieal game—the
inevitable result of the Conven
‘tion system—and failed to prop
‘erly interpret the primary.
' However varied opinions may
be as to the proper method of
isvlcmting judges, and whatever
‘evils may exist in any system,
‘all agree that the particular
‘method in vogue, whether pop
ular eleetion or otherwise, should
‘be respected and honestly ecars
iriod out. There is universal op
‘position to the judiciary being.
‘made the football of polities and
judgeships handed out as politi
cal favors. ‘
My personal ambition is per
‘haps of little moment to you,
‘but to me it means much to have
pursued a laudable ambition to
achieve a coveted honor of my
\profenion, and, after the ex
penditure of much effort and
substance in an honorable appeal
to the people of my State, and re.
ceiving at their hands a vote
which has always been held suf-’
ficient for election, to be de
prived of my just reward and
‘stand aside while an honor meant
for me is bestowed upon an
other.
T elaim no proprietary right to
the office. The people of Geor
gia are bound by no precedent
or former action. They can of
course choose without reference
to any pretended elaim. 8‘:&
being the popular nominee, thére
is a presumption in my favor. I
hold a moral title to a seat upon
this Court, which I can in jus
tice ask the people to confirm.
I ask my friends to recognize my
claim and assist me in pressing
it hefore the people. I ask only
for a ‘‘SBquare Deal’”’ and the
game justice accorded the other
nominees of the primary. '.
With my elevation to this
Court justice will have been done
to all concerned, popular elee.
tions vindicated, political jug
gling with the judieiary rebuked,
the Court of Appeals removed
from polities, and an ugly record
in recent politieal history wiped
out and destroyed.
’ I submit my cause to the senge
of fairness and justice of the
|u-n'h|o' of ”(‘flf’l!i".
Respeetfully, :
ALEX W. STEPHENS.
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