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SECY. WILSON URGES FARMING OF PUBLIC LANDS BY SOLDIERS
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Deec. 12.-~Legisla
tion providing for the colonization
énd farming of the public lands of
America by the millions of soldiers
released from the army, Is strongly
urged by Secretary of Labor Willlam
B. Wilson, in his annual report to
President Wilson, made public today
Secretary Wilson recommended the
organization of a bhoard consisting of
the Becretaries of the Departments of
Agriculture, Interfor and Labor to su
pervige the general plan of coloniza
tion and to effect its operation should
l:\n necessary legislation be forthcom
ifig.
The report emphasized that legisla
tion aunthorizing such a plan should
ineclude the following provisions:
1. The possibility of commerciallzed
speculation should be eliminated. 2.
Colonigts must be given access not
only.to land but to farms, not only
the bare soil, but fully equipped agri
cultural plants ready to operate., 3
The farms themselves must be welded
together into genuine communities by
provisions for roads, schools and mar
kets, under the general supervision of
the Federal Government. |
Secretary Wilson points out in the
report that the necessity of nugmunh{
ing the world's food supply for many |
years to come necessitates a wore ex
tensive and more intensive cultivation
of American lands. The soil must be
the chief working opportunity for
great numbers of the nation's wage
earners, he sald
- Former Land Grants.
The grants of land in former vears
1o n(ufdirrs were of almost no value
to them, Secretary Wllson said, be
catise of the extensive evils of land
speculation., The land granted to the
soldiers was speedily transferred t o
persons, who resold it at higher
prices For this reason the Secre
tary recommended that legislation
that may be enacted on this subjeot
will lay less stress on titles and more
upon the actual use of the land by the
soldiers and other colonists.
Previous grants of land to soldiers
were found unsuecessful for another
reason, the Secretary said. Frequent-
Iy.the efforts of the former settlers,
many of them not used to frontier
hardshivs or familiar with agriculture
and disliking the monotony, resulted
in failnre, and an exodus back to the
cities Secretary Wilson, therefore,
rtecommends that the Federal (Govern.-
ment make provision for farming
communities and agricultural equip
ment.
“I recommend the early enactment
of such legislation as may be neces
#ary to permit the preparation of the
public domain for this purpose. Such
legislation should provide for the pur- I
chase of such privately owned areas
as It may be found desirable to add to
the public areas,” he said.
The report also recommends the
working of forest areas along similar
lines of the farming proposals.
Secretary Wilson, in the report, sald
that the entire machinery of the
United States Employment Service,
whieh, at the writing of the report,
had more than 400 employment offices
throughout the country, would be de
voted to the task of minimizing any
rnemployment that might occur with
ithe returs of America’'s millions of
fighters.
“The department is not unmindful
of the faet that the overwhelming
mass of our armies is drawn from
the ranks of wage earners and that
when their military task is done these
men will return to the ranks of wage
earners. It would be an ungrateful
nation, indeed, which did not deem it
its first duty to assure to its returned
goldiers honorable and profitable em
ployment.” says the report,
Of the policies of the Department
of {Ahor, the report says:
“The Mixed policy of the department
has always been to acknowledge the
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“It is felt, however, that the rights
of organization and of collective bar
gaining are no longer in dispute
since they have been formally adopt
ed both by employers and wage earn
ers through the war labor conference
board. This agreement between two
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not be regarded as permanent. If the
principles upon which that agreement
was founded can endure the stress of
war, it is fair to suppose that even
greater success will attend their ap
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of peace.
“The war has demonstrated that
American patriotism is not restricted
to any section of the country ner to
any class or graup of individuals nor
to any stratum of society. The great
need for sacrifice for the common
good engendered by the war has im
pelled both employers and wage earn
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suspicions and old hatreds. Both la
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in supreme measure during the past
vear. In continuance of that spirit
of sacrifice lies the hope for the fur
ther attainment and development
during the days of peace of that de
moeracy for which we have taken up
arms." |
CAPTAIN MILLER RECOVERS.
MACON, Dee, I'D.-—Cn?uln Boyoee Mil
ler, commander of the old Mac»m Volun
teers, when they left for France with
the 15615 t Machine Gun Rat‘alion, is
mmmnndln#r the military police of an
important ench elty, accordiag to tn
formation received in Macon, Captain
fim«r was gassed Aduring the n.l’un.
around Chateau Thierry and has just
recovered.
CAMP JACKBON, COLUMBIA, 8. (*..‘
Deec, 12— Changes are coming thick and
fast at Camp Jackson. Following the
announcement that Brigadier General
Robert M. Danford, who has command
ed the fleld artillery replacement depot
and the camp for many months, had
been transferred to Washington to serve
in the office of the chief of fleld artil
lery, it was announeed that Brlgmner‘
General Dennis H. Currie, commanding
the 1724 Field Rrtillery Rrigade, would
assume command of the camp. |
On the heels of this came the stale-“
ment that General Currie had been as- |
signed to Fort Bill to become (-mnm:xnd-‘\
ant of the artillery school of fire there,
and that Colonel P, W. Booker, ueniur‘
instructor of the fleld artillery replace
ment depot, would command in the in
terim between the departure of General
Danford and the arrival of another gen
eral officerr. Now orders have again
been changed and General Danford will
remaln here until the arrival of Briga
dier General Thomas H. Rees who will
command the Twentieth Field Artillery
Brigade and the camp . General Ross 15
expected to reach Columbia on De
cember 16, ‘
A total eof 106 officers and 759 men
wer adlnsharm@d at Camp Jackson yes
terday. Up to last nixhlbtho total num
ber of dllchnrxed was 9563 \‘mwm and
3,807 men, mong the officers dis
charged vyesterday was Major Mont
gnnmr{)'. of the flave?uu‘n(h Regiment of
the Fleld Artillery Replacement Depot,
This regiment was disbanded. It was
‘mumunvad at the camp personnel office
that in the latter part of this week men
whosq homes are not within 350 miles
of Columbia will be transferred to camps
brining thém within that radius of
home and mnkln# them eligible for dis-
L«-har? under the ruel governing the
demaobilization,
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The officer's club of the Twelfth
Regiment, recently completed, will be
rurmallr opened Friday night with eight
vaudeville acts, followed by a dance.
Mutic will be furnished b" the Tenth
Regiment orchestra. The club is one of
the mast comfortable in the camp. One
| of the features it boasts is a fireplace
six feet wide,
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A farewell dinner was r!vm in honor
of General Danford at Ridgewood Club,
the hosts being the members of his
nmg and brigade commanders at Camp
Jackson. The affeir was in direct charge
of Coloneil Ranier and Major Milligan,
camp adjutant, Aflnr-dln]m-r speeches
were made by General Danford and
Colonel P. W. Booker, Those in at
tendance were Brigadier General and
Mrs. Danford, Br(ramer General and
Mrs. Currie, Colonel King, Colonel Mur
ray, Colonel Hooker, Colonel Smith, Col
onel Ahearne, Colonel and Mrs. Van
Duzen, Colonel Goetze; Colonel Parker,
Colonel Dickinson, Calonel Osborne, Col
onel and Mrs, Paine, Colonel and Mrs.
Ranier Colonel Sandford; Major Milli
fim. Major Whiteside, M};{ng Martin,
ajor ahd Mrs. Purnell jor Harri
son, Major and Mrs, Grunden, Major
Peterson, Major and Mrs, Owsley, Ma-
Jor Huey, (‘u:‘mnln Brown, Captain Long
(‘u;i!lmn Lydecker, Captain Rainsford
and Lieutenant Dean.
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CAMP SEVIER, GREENVILLE, 8. C,,
Deo. 12,—One of the first real narratives
of the heroic work of the Thirtieth Di
vision in France and Belgium was
brought to Greenville Wednesday by
Captain Robert E. Craig, of Hartasville,
8. €., commander of Company L, 118th
Infantry (old First South Carolina Na
tional Guard). Captain Craig was in
Greenville for a short time en route to
the base hospital at Biltmore, N. C. He
landed at Newport News November ‘.’.7.1
and is suffering from bronchial asthma
which he contracted while in the
trenches.
In conversation yesterday, Captain
Craig told of the wonderful work of the
North and South Carolina and Tennes
see men of the Old Hickory Division in
the war, and expressed regret that he
was not able to be with them on the
memorable date when they completely
shattered the Hindenburg line.
“You have never seen such courage,
such absolute loyalty as those men dis
played, and they have accomplished a
feat that generations will herald,” he
sald. “When they come home they are
entitied to our best, for they are rone
others than the saviors of civilization.
The Thirtleth Division, upon landing
in Flanders, was first bllleted at Mont
Kemmel, said Captain Craig. This sec~
tor had seen some of the bitterest fight
ing of the war in the first two years,
and presented a desolate scene. At the
time the Thirtieth arrived the British
were dally expecting a heavy attack
‘by the Germans, and the sight of the
stalwart Americans greatly rejolced
thém. The division remained here for
some time, and when the attack did not
come they were moved up nearer the
front,
(‘nxmln Cralg sald his battallon was
the first unit of the Thirtieth to enter
the trenches, which was late in June.
The division was first under shell fire
on July 4. As soon as the men were in
the trenches they began to take great
delight in picking off snipers. The very
first day men from Company L Kkilied
two enemy snipers,
On July 29, just a momhsnnr his en
trance into the trenches, Captain Craig
contracted a malady which was thought
to be trench fever. Physiclans later
contended, however, that he must have
been gassed in some way, as he con
tracted bronchial asthma. He was evae
uated from his company and sent to the
American base hospital in France. He
remained there until November, when
he was sent to Ameriea,
Captain Craig Emd a hlfh tribute to
the courage and bravery of the enlisted
men,
“When the histories of the war are
written, the honor for victory shoula be
given to the privates and_rvorpomln and
sergeants,”’ he sald. “They are the
men who have done the fighting. They
are the bravest set of boys in the world,
and every person In the Uniled States
should honor them. [ never saw a ‘yel
low' man in the Thirtigth Division. 1
have seen men shot through the limbs
hold their wounds and ask thelr com
rades for cigarettes. You can not beat
men who fight like that. 1 would be
willh\fl to wager that for every oas
ualty In our division there were five in
the enemy’'s."
Captain Cralg told of the herole act
of Sergeant Gardner, of his company,
During an attack Mrl?' one morning,
Sergeant Gardner was leading his pla
toon Just behind the creeping barrage
when they suddenly ran u’)un machine
gun Interference, The German gun
was hardly 20 yands away. Sergeant
Gardner, instantly realizing the peril,
drew his revolver and in four clean shots
annihilated the machine fun orew.
Although Camtain Cralg was in the
hospital at the time of the big drive
iwhlvh broke the Hindenburg line, he
heard many thrilling details of the fight
ing from comrades. He sald his com
pany went into battle with 238 men and
came out _with 58 of its original per
gonnel, They went over the top 19
times in 21 days, and mnever falled to
galn their objectives,” Severe casualties
‘were suffered by the 119th Infantry, the
old Second North Carolina Regiment.
This r«‘f‘lmem received orders at Mont
Kemmeol one morning to mlvnnco with«
out any nrtlllar‘ prornnt n. The reg
fment galped what it was sent out for,
}n ':rllo of the heavy oasualities suf
ered, .
Although reticent In commenting upon
easualties of the Thirtieth Division, Cap
tain (‘mlx sald he belleved the casual
ties would include from one-fourth to
one-third of the division, though many
gr themeavould recover before being sent
ome,
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CAMP SHERIDAN, MONTGOMERY,
ALA., Dee. 12.—One of the largest
batches of men, who have left Camp
Sheridan since the demobllization be
gan, left the camp today going to camps
nearest thelr home, and there they will
reelve their discharge, just as the Ala
bama men who come to Camp Sheridan
receive their discharges here. The men
leuvlnf today are from the develogm»-nt
battalion, and after days of work by ‘he
demobilization officers and the repre
sentatives of the United States railrjad
administration ,the men will be 3o
routed that there will be little hitch in
their arrival at the home State camps, 1n
the shortest time possible,
In sending away the 1,500 men of the
development battalion, one of the largest
Jobs, which has faced the United States
railroad administration, will be accom
pilished. In this work it i quite different
from the sending away of a regiment or
a battalion, as the men for eagh camp
have been selected by their place of
induction, and they will be sent te the
camp that is nearest this point. In
handling a reflment or battalion. the
railroad administration would make ar
rangements for handling so many sec
tions to take care of 8o many men, but
today they had ‘the hard problem of
gending a hundred or more to some
camps, while but two or three are to
be sent to another camp, and in the de
tails of this work so many things come
up which would tend to cause mistakes
and wrong routing.
Mr, Gattis has handled the work of the
railroad administration for many months
and has not made a bobble by the fine
organization he has perfected. He
handled the moving of the Thirty-sev
enth Division and of the troops which
came to Camp Sheridan as well as the
lagge number which went away. Under
the demobilization ?lan. he has had a
ticket office established at his office
near the sub-depot quartermaster, and
here the men receive their {;n._v from the
financial division and without leaving
the building call at the ticket office
where their tickets already have been
made out from littie glips, which have
been furnished Mr, Gattis by the demob
ilization office.
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Companies A, B, C and D, of the
Forty-sixth lnfantry, making up the
First Battalion, left last night and this
morning for their new ag{uions. where
they are to relieve the ,’Mte%"h‘tntes
guards, which have been on ty at
these stations since early after the war
began. These companies will each take
a station, one gomgi to Little Rock, Ark.,
another te Camp raxg, N. C., another
to Charleaton, 8, C., and another to New
Orleans, where Major 1. G, Gordon For
ster, who is in eemmand of the battal
ion, will have his headquarters.
This battalion was selected and placed
under the direot disposal of the com
mander of the Southeastern department,
and the sending to these posts is the
digposition which has been made of
them. This outfit has been selected on
numerous occasions by the commanding
officer of the division for special duty,
and early last summer one company of
the regiment spent some weeks at Hot
Springs, N. C,, where they had charge
of guarding the interned Germans there.
They remained at Hot Springs until the
interned Germans were sent to Fort
Dglethorpe. On another oceasion, a pa
rade was asked for by the people of
Montgomery and Colonel C. C. Clark,
then in command of the division, se
lected the Forty-sixth to parade the
streets of the city, it being the first
time an organization as large as a refi‘h
ment had paraded the streets since the
leaving of the Thirty-seventh Divisgion,
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It's football time, but in the Forty
g!txh the old summer game in the pres
ent weather is occupying the attention
of the regiment. Companies E and L
have eliminated all of the other teams
in the baseball championship, and they|
will play a series of three games to de- |
cide, who shall have the trophy. B!
Company won eleven and lost three
games, while Company L. won eleven :xpd!
lost two. However, in the last game
these two teams met and the E Com-|
pany was able to nose out a victory
over L by a score of 7 to 0,
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F. A. Hueber, representative of the
Department of Labor, has establighed |
an office next door to the demobiliza- |
tion office at Cam)r Sheridan and, wllh;
the co-operation of the military author
itles, is assisting the men who are be- |
ing discharged in obtaining positions|
back in their home towns, Captain Gor
don Cummings is req_ro:entlng the mil
ftary at the office. his office is prov
ing a great boon for the men who are
leaving the service, to have johs await
ing them when they are mustered out.|
Mr. Hueber has several assistants repre- !
genting other departments, including the |
shipping board, the merchants’ marine, |
the Emergency Fleet (‘orgomt!nn. the
railrond administration, the food ad
ministration, the fuel administration and
the posioffice.
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B. D. Quillian, of Albany,
Reported Dead, Is Safe
ALBANY, Dee. 12.--The publication |
in the casualty lst of the name of Pri- '
vate B. D. Quillian under the heading, |
“Wounded, degree undetermined, pre- |
viously reported killed in action,”
brought much relief here and in Seuth
eastern Alabama. Private Quillian en
listed from Albany, but sav(- Clayton,
Ala., as his emergenni' address, because |
members of his family live there. He
has had an eventful caréer in the army,
and friends here feared that he was
dead. His name appeared in the casual- |
ty list about the middle of October as
killed In action. Subsequently trkvndul
received letters bearing dates after that
on which he was supposed to have been
killed, but the suspense was not lifted |
until the official announcement from |
Washington, l
Private C‘uflllln was wounded twice |
this year. He was just recovering from
a rather severe wound received in July,
when he was wounded the second time,
On the occasion of his being wounded
the first time he and his younger broth
er went over the top together, the latter
h»ln,\kmed In the three days’' fighting
i which folowed, Private Quililan was the
lonly man in his company left alive. |
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918
COLUI!BU, Dee. 12.—A body ina
badly decomposed condition, appar
ently having been in the water for
three weeks, and believed to be that
of Mrs. H. P. Perrine, daughter ot
Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Allen and
wife of Major H. P, Perrine, U, 8. A,
stationed at Fort Benning, was taken
from the Apalachicola River late yes
terday near Sneads, Fla.,, 210 miles
from Columbus. The body was re
covered by Dr., T, H. Hudgens, of
Sneads.
One heavy slipper, a large coat, ex
actly like those worn by Mra. Perrine
when iast seen here, a plain wedding
ring with the initials “A. and P.”
and the fact that the upper teeth
protrude, conforming exactly to Mrs.
Perrine’s description, make it practi
cally certain that the body is that of
the missing woman,
Mrs. Perrine disappeared from Co
lumbus on the morning of November
18. No marks of violence were found
to indicate foul play, and the theory
advanced here is that she became
temporarily unbalanced over the fact
that several articles she had spent
much time on were returned by a
leading national magazine, and in a
fit of despondency she ended her life, |
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82d Division Officer
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Given New Command
A letter received in Atlanta from Mrs,
Clarence Deems, Jr., wife of Colonel
Deems, who commanded the 81st Field
Artillery in the Eighty-second, Division
when it left Camp Gordon, says that
Colonel Deems has been assigned to
command a brigade of fleld artillery, the
Fifty-seventh,
‘“While he has not been promoted, he
has been given a general’s command,’
writes Mrs. Deems. “The 321st did
splendid work right up to the cessation
of fighting, and Colonel Deems was not
g|ven his new command until Novem
er 11, so he had his regiment right.
through to the end of the war.”
Mrs. Deems is in Baltimore, Ilvln& at
No. 312 Woodlawn road, Roland Park.
The plan to settle South Georgia
farming territory with returned soldiers
will receive further tonsideration at a
meeting to be held next Wednesday at
Wayeross. More than 1,000,000 acres of
land are known to be available for this
purpose, and a subcommitee, af‘)polnted
at a meeting held earlier in Lthe week
In Atlanta, now is at work on details
of a standardized farm plan.
The 1,000,000 acres referred to is un
cultivated land, but daes not redquire
reclamation work to make it suitable
for furmln% The project is that either
through private funds or Federal funds,
with State aid, the territory will be di
vided into standard farming plots and
settled with men coming out of the
army.
A telegram has been sent to Franklin
K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, now
in North Carollna on a similar mission,
asking him to visit Georgia at as early
a date as possible, to investigate with
the committes the various !ands in Geor
gia suitable for this purpose. Covernor
Dorsey has been asked to-present the
matter at the meeting of the Governors,
to be held this month at Anmnapolis.
Special surveys of the lands proposed
for this use will be mude and a de
scriptive prospectus will be Issued as
soon as possible, :
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In accordance with plans submitted
to the War Department by Cglonel
Bratton, commanding officer at Fort
McPherson, it is expected that Base
Hospital No. 8 will soon take rank
with the most completely equipped
hospitals in the country. An expen
diture of $500,000 is called for in the
budget submitted, which will permit
the early construction of new build«
ings, extensive remodelling of the
older ones, and a thorough rehabili«
tation of the heating system.
The arrival of Major Simonds to
assume charge of the construction
work, and dispatches from Washing~
ton, make it practically a certainty
that work on the new project will be
under way shortly. Major Simonds
has been detailed to Fort McPherson
to take over the construction division
of the gquartermaster’s corps, coming
direct from Camp Cody, New Mexico.
He succeeds Major Paul A. Larned,
who has recently taken over the du
ties of post prison officer,
Installation of three massive heat«
ing systems, at an estimated cost of
$260,000, which are to be located in
the northern, central .and southern
sections of the post, has already been
started. The bed capacity is to ba
increased almost twofold and plans
call for the care of more than 2,000
patients. The four barracks vacated
Wednesday by the United States
Guards, who were transferred to
Camp Gordon to be mustered out, will
be thoroughly remodeled and used as
wards. New buildings under consid
eration include a laboratory, and
three new hospital buildings, fnclud«
ing a psychiatric ward for shells
shocked patients. An extension of
the gas system to the new-diet kitch«
ens is also provided for in the plans,
which, if carried out in detail, wiil
place Fort McPherson in the front
rank of model hospitals.
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