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PAGE TWELVE, Editorial Section, THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL, Sunday, July 29, 1917

STUDENT OFFICERS READY FOR FINISHING TOUCHES
 
Pouring a Deadly Fire Into Make Believe Hindenberg Trench at Fort Snelling
 
Students of the officers reserve camp working on a battle fire problem on the rifle range. The absence of smoke from the rifles constitutes an interesting study, The second rifle from the right of the picture was fired at the instant the camera shutter clicked. 

STUDENTS OF THE TRAINING CAMP SEEKING BY RIFLE FIRE TO THROW DISORDER AND DEATH INTO THE RANKS OF THE MYTHICAL RED ARMY.

WAR STUDENTS AT SNELLING PREPARE FOR MASS ATTACK ON FORTIFICATIONS OF "FOE"

Raid on "German Trenches" and Grenade Throwing Have Part in the Maneuvers
By JOHN H. KITCHIE

Our officers' recerve students at General Sage's miniature West Point at Fort Snelling now are approaching what in the ordinary university might be generally termed as commencement week. Last night they completed the rudiments Tomorrow the trouble begins. They started away back in May with the kindergarten school of the soldier, and school of the squad. They worked their way on up to the battalion parade and general footwork and muscular requirements of the soldier. They have had specialized instruction in bayonet work, advance guard and patrol duties, and beginning tomorrow they start on their final dash for military knowledge and the application of what they have already learned to battle practise. During all the long weeks they have toiled away at military problems and all the finesse of strategy mostly from text books - the theoretical side of the chief work of the soldier in battle. Tomorrow they begin the last two weeks of their work under as close an approximation of battle conditions as can be devised without fatalities or injuries. 
Tomorrow four companies are to go over the system of trenches which have been prepared by the students and the regulars in the Snelling post. This crew will repair all caveins and make revetments wherever it is regarded as necessary. Barbed wire entanglements of every sort and description will be stretched in front of the parapets. 
Preliminary to the last two weeks of battle problems all of the observation points, hospital stations, ammunition depots and headquarters will be connected by telephones. The field artillery will occupy positions in the rear of the trenches and machine gun squads will be taught how to attack a modernity equipped trench and also how to defend it against a terrible attack.
Ready for French System
The French system of attack is to be taught this week. This calls for a first line of grenade throwers followed 25 yards behind by riflemen on bayonet duty intent, and after them machine gunners and the small field pieces to be placed in the captured trench. 
Dummy grenades will be used in the maneuvers, but on Wednesday and Thursday of this week Captain C. H. Mason will give a lecture on and demonstration of "live" grenades. Lectures will also be given on gas, the use of gas masks and peculiarities of gas. The students will for the remaining periods devote most of their time to trench warfare, with a few hours each day devoted to personal and army hygiene and drill subjects. 
It is an altogether different group of men in the barracks now from what it was in late May. The discipline and the work routine has had a wonderful effect. No "health farm" or gymnasium has produced such a mass improvement as General Sage's outdoor work has produced. 
The drill and discipline has straightened backbones thrown back shoulders, lifted chins, even changed furtive looks to straight steady ones. The men are bronzed from the sun and wind of the summer and have reduced weight or built up weight,
General Appearance Changed
Regular hours hard work, plain food cooked and served under sanitary conditions have worked miracles in the general appearance of almost every man in the camp. No matter whether he receives a commission or not, every man who has been in the camp for the fill period has been physically and mentally paid many times over for the effort he has made. 
There is no slouch to the gait of a man who has been in the school  It would be hard to find as fine a group on men physically unless onee went to another officer reserve camp where the regime has been practically the same. 
The drawing in the commission lottery of chance has been made. The announcement of the results will be announced from Washington. The men in the camp are on the knees of war gods so far as knowing where they will land when the results of the instructor reports are announced. 
On Way to Washington 
The verdicts as to commissions to the men in the camp have been for the most part completed. The reports are on their way to Washington for final confirmation, which is regarded as more or less perfunctory. An emphatic [order ?] of the war department is that no publicity be given any commission {?] the findings are announced from Washington.
Despite this. a few men in the camp who, through  personal friendship with instructors or by reason of intimacy in details of the training work, have been given confidential tips and to where they will land. But the great mass are still in the dark as to their possible rankings. 
It is not expected that Washington will announce these dates before Aug 10, according to reports reaching Minneapolis. 
History repeated itself at Fort Snelling last night when the aviator group entrained at Fort Snelling. The Neys are going back to France to fight. When the nine aviator candidates left, they were in charge of John Ney of Minneapolis, who is a lined descendant of Marshal Ney, France's most famous fighter. 

THE QUESTION BOX

Military Bureau: Is it possible for a man registered under the selective draft law in another state to report for examination to an exemption board in Minneapolis?

The rules and regulations for the draft prescribed by the president provide that "any person who when called for service and notified to appear for physical examination is absent from th area over which the local board by which he was called has jurisdiction and is unable to appear in person for examination by such board on or before the 10th day after the mailing of the notice directing him to appear for examination may,  on or before the 10th day, file with said board an application, supported by satisfactory proof for another directing his examination by another board."

Military Bureau: Can a young girl get training in wireless telegraphy in Minneapolis? Miss D.W. Mankato

The woman's section of the Navy league of Minneapolis, 908 Nicollet avenue, is considering the establishing of a class in radio work for women. 

Military Bureau: Can you tell me what branch of the U.S. service a young man (22 years) would do best to enter who has no particular leaning except towards horses? A C. Batchelder Farlbault.

It is suggested that you communicate with Colonel George E. Leach. First Minnesota field artillery, Fort Snelling, Minn.

Nick A. Lefor, Lefor, N.D : Consult the official list of numbers in The Journal of July 26

Military Bureau: To what extent will the Canadian conscription law, if passed, affect Canadians in this country who have not taken out their papers but have registered under the American selective draft law? W.S

Unless you claim exemption you are eligible for service in the United States army under the selective draft law. Arrangements are being made, it is understood, for the return to Canada of Canadians eligible for service in the Canadian army under the Canadian conscription law. 

Military Bureau: Will the Minnesota men commissioned at the Fort Snelling R.O.T.C command troops of the National army from Minnesota or will they be shifted to other states? R.C

The war department recently announced that men chosen from the R.O.T.C would as far as possible, be assigned to command troops from their own state. 

Military Bureau: I read about a squadron of warships visiting Uruguay about fleets in the north Atlantic and about flotillas going overseas. Give me some distinctions between fleet, flotilla, squadron and similar words?

In the American navy the word fleet is reserved for the three major subdivisions of the navy, the Atlantic fleet, Pacific fleet and Asiatic fleet. The Atlantic fleet is the battleship fleet and our main fighting force. It is divided into two commands for vice admirals called "battle force 1" and "battle force 2". Each "battle force" is divided into divisions of four ships each. Any force of large ships operating away from the fleet is squadron. A flotilla is a fleet of smaller craft, such as the destroyer flotilla and the submarine flotilla. 


MINNESOTA SAILOR SEES WAR ACTION DIVER

P.J Schmidt Gunner on U.S. Ship Which Lost Hour's Fight With Foe.

Action of the hottest sort has been seen by Paul J. Schmidt, Minnesota sailor, who enlisted at the Minneapolis recruiting station June 23, 1916 giving his home address as Worthington. Schmidt, a seaman, second class, was aboard the armed American merchant vessel Moreni as a member of her gun crew when she encountered a German submarine in the Mediterranean, June 12, and after a galling two hours fight, was sunk.
The report of the fight, included in a report from Chief Boastwain's Mate. A Copassaki, who commanded the gun crew, has been received in Minneapolis. The Moreni was three days out of the Gibraltar on her way from Beaumont, Tex., to Savona Italy when the submarine met her. After nearly an hour's fight A show was planted in her gasoline tanks, aft. The Moreni broke into flame. Finally the gun crew escaped in the small boats. 
A passage in the report tells on the spirit displayed by the submarine crew, who called the American sailors alongside them, cheered and declared the fight the best they had ever seen a merchant vessel put up. The Spanish steamer Valbaners finally picked up the guncrew and sailors, after exchanging amenities with the German crew. The Americans were taken to Barcelona. From there they sailed to New York arriving July 13. 
Paul J. Schmidt, enlistment records at the navy recruiting office show is only 18 years old have enlisted by special permission when under age. He gave his next of kin as Augusta Schmidt, Worthington , Minn., his mother. 

No Teuton Prisoners Coming to America
Berlin, July 28 - It is officially announced the German government has been informed that no negotiations are in progress with the United States for the purpose of transferring German war prisoners from England to America. 

ENDICOTT FAILS
Fargo N. D., July 28 - "Wild Bill" Endicott failed to lower the state record that he made here last year in the time trials on the local half mile track yesterday, in connection with the interstate fair auto rates, Endicott took first money in several short distance events, and today will race Louis Bergson, army aviator. 

PREPARING TO LAM THE LANDSCAPE
Students in the artillery division at Fort Snelling practising handling the guns. 

SEARCH AT FORT REVEALS EPIDEMIC OF MUSTACHES 

Cute Little Blonde Ornaments Can Be Seen When Owners Stand in the Sun.

Me Danny's in th' soger's camp
A learning' drills and such:
He's learnin' how to shoot a gun
To help and bate the Dutch

I'm mighty proud av Danny
So tall and strong is he, 
But why he wears that mustache
Is a mysthery to me

It's mighty thinly settled
Where it is it's mostly red
And a body scarce can see it
When the sun ain't on his head. 

It's an awful pother to him, 
An' he nurses it along:
I don't behave the thing'll live, 
It don't look very strong

Wid a pistol on his hip
And a mustache on his lip. 
Me Danny's startin' off to be a soger.

Closer observers have reported an epidemic of mustaches at Fort Snelling. The report is spread necessarily by close observers, because the epidemic is scarcely wide enough as yet on any one lip to be noticeable to the casual visitor.
The colors represent virtually the spectrum, with a couple of odd shades the spectrum never thought of. The prevailing color is blond, a weak indefensive sort of a blong, with a pessimistic outlook in the world, and the aspect of never hoping to grow up. 
Must Stand in the Sun.
In order to display the mustache at all the wearer must stand in the sun so the light strikes it most advantageously. Even then it is necessary to stroke the infant ostentatiously in order to call the admiring visitor's attention to the new adornment. 
They are cut in a variety of forms. Some of them are short. All of them are closely cropped, or rather they're not far enough advanced to be cropped. They just are that way. But never, by any chance, are they trained upwards at the ends. Kaiserism is discouraged even in mustaches. 
There are a variety of excuses for the existence of the mustaches. The most popular one is that they are not grow for personal adornment but as time savers. 
SImply A Time Saver
"It isn't because I think I would be any better looking with a mustache," said one of the students, "but it is a time saber. You see it is like this: We are put through such strenuous pace here that every minute we save is that much help. It takes us three or four minutes perhaps to shave the upper lip. Well three or four  minutes is some time in this camp, believe me."
"Gawdelpus!" confided a sergeant of the Thirty-sixth to a corporal a little later, "savin' time! Day is a couple avthim shave-tails 'und spend about half the time shavin' their lips that they do pettin' em they'd have time enough to shampoo thimsilves."

TRAP SHOOTERS INCORPORATE
The Twin City Shooting association filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state today, the incorporators being  Dr. F. J Plondke, Dr. C. A. Van Slyke and George Mannheimer of St. Pail and William R. MeKinnon F. A. Richter, J.C. Famechon and F.H. Austin of Minneapolis, the officers designated being F.J. Plondke, president J.C Famechon, vice president, and E. H. Austin secretary and treasurer. 

MINOT PAYS CASH
Minot N.D, July 28 - Minot came near not playing a recent game with Williston. Just before the game was to start six players went on strike, demanding their overdue salaries from the local management. Rather than take chances of angering several hundred fans, the manager marched the strikers to a bank and paid them in cash.

GOPHER GUNNERS IN ALL KINDS OF DRILL
Artillerymen at Fort Riley End Crowded Week - Heavier Horses Used

BY CORPORAL TRIM
Fort Riley, Kan., July 27 - Minnesota's artilleryman encamped here have completed a week's program of drill today that is declared by regular army officers here, the most comprehensive ever given an artillery organization. The gunners have completed standing gun drill, including every movement of the piece from leaving the gun pack to going into action. The drivers have learned every detail of the harness is the same period and have been taught how to care for their horses and how to recognize ailments common to them. 
The battery commanders' details and the battalion signal details have gone through a strenuous week of map making road sketching horsemanship and computation of firing data. 
Heavier Horses Sent to Fort. 
According to army officers here the war in Europe has shown the need of heavier horses for field artillery work and this is borne out by the 100 mounts received by each battery of the Gopher Gunners. Horses given to the regiment while on border duty last year ranged from 1,100 to 1,500 pounds, but the horses being sent here are of the heavier draught type, some of them weighing nearly 2,000 pounds.
In drawing horses Captain A. S. Gow of Battery F chose all blacks, Battery E. Captain Jerome Jackan commanding, has picked all bay horses and Captain Hugh Barber of Battery D. has selected the sorrels. 

Army Needs More Bakers and Call is Sent Out for 3,700 Men of Trade. 

The only soldiers in the world who eat white bread -
That is a little hint from the front as to what Minneapolis boys now in France, and thousands of others soon to go to France are getting from quartermasters department. 
There is only one hitch in the procedure. There is plenty of flour, ovens for baking the bread are going up, the soldiers have the appetite - but the army needs more bakers. In France today the American troops are eating French black bread and paying for it with white American flour. This condition is to be remedied in a few days, probably has been remedied by now, but thousands more bakers are needed by the regular army. 
Appeals to Bakers
Captain Staley A. Campbell, army recruiting officer here, has prepared ans sent out several thousand appeals for bakers to enlist. Three thousand even hundred bakers [?] wanted at once, the appeal stated., it called upon all bakers from 18 to 40 years old, with no dependants to enlist at once. 
Captain Campbell has also been ordered to examine applicants for the cooks and bakers school at Dunwoody institute who may be referred to him by Dr. C.A Prosser. The need is so great that mild cases of flat feet and other slight physical defects are to be overlooked. 
The white bread American troops in France will eat will be baked with a heavy crust that makes it "transportable and durable" according to one authority. While durable the bread is not expected to prove impregnable.
Wine and No Place to Put It. 
The United States troops are, however, having a terrible time in the matter of comestibles in France. They have on hand a tremendous quality of champagne, red wines, jellies, ham and other delicacies and are at a great loss to know what to do with it. It is a present from the French government made July 14, Bastille day, the great French holiday. Doubt as to the proper interpretation of recent legislation on the distribution of liquor to soldiers keeps the whole feast in safekeeping while brawny Sammies lick their chops and burble drily. 
The American soldiers overseas according to an army publication are now living on the socalled field ration, which consist if 20 ounces of fresh beef daily or 12 ounces of bacon or 16 ounces of canned meat: 18 ounces of soft or hard bread of flour or beans; 20 ounces of potatoes, with a similar amount of onions or tomatoes, an ounce of sugar, with salt, pepper and syrup as well as prunes, dried apples, or peaches and jam. 
When the supplies all arrive there also will be butter, which will be distributed as an extra on special occasions. The plan of the quartermasters department, it is understood is to be entirely independent of the French at the earliest possible date, so as to be no burden either to the government or to the population.

CENTRAL CLUB WITHDRAWALS
Cedar Rapids,Iowa withdrew from the Central association yesterday at a meeting of the directors of the league at Waterloo Efforts are being made to place the club to Webster City. If it is found impossible to place the team by Aug. 1 it is said the league probably will be forced to disband.

BIRTH OF A CHARGE OF THE INFANTRYMEN
Members of the First and Second companies of the Officers' Reserve camp crawl on their knees from a prone position to start a bayonet rush.

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PAGE TWELVE, Editorial Section, THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL, Sunday, July 29, 1917 STUDENT OFFICERS READY FOR FINISHING TOUCHES Pouring a Deadly Fire Into Make Believe Hindenberg Trench at Fort Snelling Students of the officers reserve camp working on a battle fire problem on the rifle range. The absence of smoke from the rifles constitutes an interesting study, The second rifle from the right of the picture was fired at the instant the camera shutter clicked. STUDENTS OF THE TRAINING CAMP SEEKING BY RIFLE FIRE TO THROW DISORDER AND DEATH INTO THE RANKS OF THE MYTHICAL RED ARMY. WAR STUDENTS AT SNELLING PREPARE FOR MASS ATTACK ON FORTIFICATIONS OF "FOE" Raid on "German Trenches" and Grenade Throwing Have Part in the Maneuvers By JOHN H. KITCHIE Our officers' recerve students at General Sage's miniature West Point at Fort Snelling now are approaching what in the ordinary university might be generally termed as commencement week. Last night they completed the rudiments Tomorrow the trouble begins. They started away back in May with the kindergarten school of the soldier, and school of the squad. They worked their way on up to the battalion parade and general footwork and muscular requirements of the soldier. They have had specialized instruction in bayonet work, advance guard and patrol duties, and beginning tomorrow they start on their final dash for military knowledge and the application of what they have already learned to battle practise. During all the long weeks they have toiled away at military problems and all the finesse of strategy mostly from text books - the theoretical side of the chief work of the soldier in battle. Tomorrow they begin the last two weeks of their work under as close an approximation of battle conditions as can be devised without fatalities or injuries. Tomorrow four companies are to go over the system of trenches which have been prepared by the students and the regulars in the Snelling post. This crew will repair all caveins and make revetments wherever it is regarded as necessary. Barbed wire entanglements of every sort and description will be stretched in front of the parapets. Preliminary to the last two weeks of battle problems all of the observation points, hospital stations, ammunition depots and headquarters will be connected by telephones. The field artillery will occupy positions in the rear of the trenches and machine gun squads will be taught how to attack a modernity equipped trench and also how to defend it against a terrible attack. Ready for French System The French system of attack is to be taught this week. This calls for a first line of grenade throwers followed 25 yards behind by riflemen on bayonet duty intent, and after them machine gunners and the small field pieces to be placed in the captured trench. Dummy grenades will be used in the maneuvers, but on Wednesday and Thursday of this week Captain C. H. Mason will give a lecture on and demonstration of "live" grenades. Lectures will also be given on gas, the use of gas masks and peculiarities of gas. The students will for the remaining periods devote most of their time to trench warfare, with a few hours each day devoted to personal and army hygiene and drill subjects. It is an altogether different group of men in the barracks now from what it was in late May. The discipline and the work routine has had a wonderful effect. No "health farm" or gymnasium has produced such a mass improvement as General Sage's outdoor work has produced. The drill and discipline has straightened backbones thrown back shoulders, lifted chins, even changed furtive looks to straight steady ones. The men are bronzed from the sun and wind of the summer and have reduced weight or built up weight, General Appearance Changed Regular hours hard work, plain food cooked and served under sanitary conditions have worked miracles in the general appearance of almost every man in the camp. No matter whether he receives a commission or not, every man who has been in the camp for the fill period has been physically and mentally paid many times over for the effort he has made. There is no slouch to the gait of a man who has been in the school It would be hard to find as fine a group on men physically unless onee went to another officer reserve camp where the regime has been practically the same. The drawing in the commission lottery of chance has been made. The announcement of the results will be announced from Washington. The men in the camp are on the knees of war gods so far as knowing where they will land when the results of the instructor reports are announced. On Way to Washington The verdicts as to commissions to the men in the camp have been for the most part completed. The reports are on their way to Washington for final confirmation, which is regarded as more or less perfunctory. An emphatic [order ?] of the war department is that no publicity be given any commission {?] the findings are announced from Washington. Despite this. a few men in the camp who, through personal friendship with instructors or by reason of intimacy in details of the training work, have been given confidential tips and to where they will land. But the great mass are still in the dark as to their possible rankings. It is not expected that Washington will announce these dates before Aug 10, according to reports reaching Minneapolis. History repeated itself at Fort Snelling last night when the aviator group entrained at Fort Snelling. The Neys are going back to France to fight. When the nine aviator candidates left, they were in charge of John Ney of Minneapolis, who is a lined descendant of Marshal Ney, France's most famous fighter. THE QUESTION BOX Military Bureau: Is it possible for a man registered under the selective draft law in another state to report for examination to an exemption board in Minneapolis? The rules and regulations for the draft prescribed by the president provide that "any person who when called for service and notified to appear for physical examination is absent from th area over which the local board by which he was called has jurisdiction and is unable to appear in person for examination by such board on or before the 10th day after the mailing of the notice directing him to appear for examination may, on or before the 10th day, file with said board an application, supported by satisfactory proof for another directing his examination by another board." Military Bureau: Can a young girl get training in wireless telegraphy in Minneapolis? Miss D.W. Mankato The woman's section of the Navy league of Minneapolis, 908 Nicollet avenue, is considering the establishing of a class in radio work for women. Military Bureau: Can you tell me what branch of the U.S. service a young man (22 years) would do best to enter who has no particular leaning except towards horses? A C. Batchelder Farlbault. It is suggested that you communicate with Colonel George E. Leach. First Minnesota field artillery, Fort Snelling, Minn. Nick A. Lefor, Lefor, N.D : Consult the official list of numbers in The Journal of July 26 Military Bureau: To what extent will the Canadian conscription law, if passed, affect Canadians in this country who have not taken out their papers but have registered under the American selective draft law? W.S Unless you claim exemption you are eligible for service in the United States army under the selective draft law. Arrangements are being made, it is understood, for the return to Canada of Canadians eligible for service in the Canadian army under the Canadian conscription law. Military Bureau: Will the Minnesota men commissioned at the Fort Snelling R.O.T.C command troops of the National army from Minnesota or will they be shifted to other states? R.C The war department recently announced that men chosen from the R.O.T.C would as far as possible, be assigned to command troops from their own state. Military Bureau: I read about a squadron of warships visiting Uruguay about fleets in the north Atlantic and about flotillas going overseas. Give me some distinctions between fleet, flotilla, squadron and similar words? In the American navy the word fleet is reserved for the three major subdivisions of the navy, the Atlantic fleet, Pacific fleet and Asiatic fleet. The Atlantic fleet is the battleship fleet and our main fighting force. It is divided into two commands for vice admirals called "battle force 1" and "battle force 2". Each "battle force" is divided into divisions of four ships each. Any force of large ships operating away from the fleet is squadron. A flotilla is a fleet of smaller craft, such as the destroyer flotilla and the submarine flotilla. MINNESOTA SAILOR SEES WAR ACTION DIVER P.J Schmidt Gunner on U.S. Ship Which Lost Hour's Fight With Foe. Action of the hottest sort has been seen by Paul J. Schmidt, Minnesota sailor, who enlisted at the Minneapolis recruiting station June 23, 1916 giving his home address as Worthington. Schmidt, a seaman, second class, was aboard the armed American merchant vessel Moreni as a member of her gun crew when she encountered a German submarine in the Mediterranean, June 12, and after a galling two hours fight, was sunk. The report of the fight, included in a report from Chief Boastwain's Mate. A Copassaki, who commanded the gun crew, has been received in Minneapolis. The Moreni was three days out of the Gibraltar on her way from Beaumont, Tex., to Savona Italy when the submarine met her. After nearly an hour's fight A show was planted in her gasoline tanks, aft. The Moreni broke into flame. Finally the gun crew escaped in the small boats. A passage in the report tells on the spirit displayed by the submarine crew, who called the American sailors alongside them, cheered and declared the fight the best they had ever seen a merchant vessel put up. The Spanish steamer Valbaners finally picked up the guncrew and sailors, after exchanging amenities with the German crew. The Americans were taken to Barcelona. From there they sailed to New York arriving July 13. Paul J. Schmidt, enlistment records at the navy recruiting office show is only 18 years old have enlisted by special permission when under age. He gave his next of kin as Augusta Schmidt, Worthington , Minn., his mother. No Teuton Prisoners Coming to America Berlin, July 28 - It is officially announced the German government has been informed that no negotiations are in progress with the United States for the purpose of transferring German war prisoners from England to America. ENDICOTT FAILS Fargo N. D., July 28 - "Wild Bill" Endicott failed to lower the state record that he made here last year in the time trials on the local half mile track yesterday, in connection with the interstate fair auto rates, Endicott took first money in several short distance events, and today will race Louis Bergson, army aviator. PREPARING TO LAM THE LANDSCAPE Students in the artillery division at Fort Snelling practising handling the guns. SEARCH AT FORT REVEALS EPIDEMIC OF MUSTACHES Cute Little Blonde Ornaments Can Be Seen When Owners Stand in the Sun. Me Danny's in th' soger's camp A learning' drills and such: He's learnin' how to shoot a gun To help and bate the Dutch I'm mighty proud av Danny So tall and strong is he, But why he wears that mustache Is a mysthery to me It's mighty thinly settled Where it is it's mostly red And a body scarce can see it When the sun ain't on his head. It's an awful pother to him, An' he nurses it along: I don't behave the thing'll live, It don't look very strong Wid a pistol on his hip And a mustache on his lip. Me Danny's startin' off to be a soger. Closer observers have reported an epidemic of mustaches at Fort Snelling. The report is spread necessarily by close observers, because the epidemic is scarcely wide enough as yet on any one lip to be noticeable to the casual visitor. The colors represent virtually the spectrum, with a couple of odd shades the spectrum never thought of. The prevailing color is blond, a weak indefensive sort of a blong, with a pessimistic outlook in the world, and the aspect of never hoping to grow up. Must Stand in the Sun. In order to display the mustache at all the wearer must stand in the sun so the light strikes it most advantageously. Even then it is necessary to stroke the infant ostentatiously in order to call the admiring visitor's attention to the new adornment. They are cut in a variety of forms. Some of them are short. All of them are closely cropped, or rather they're not far enough advanced to be cropped. They just are that way. But never, by any chance, are they trained upwards at the ends. Kaiserism is discouraged even in mustaches. There are a variety of excuses for the existence of the mustaches. The most popular one is that they are not grow for personal adornment but as time savers. SImply A Time Saver "It isn't because I think I would be any better looking with a mustache," said one of the students, "but it is a time saber. You see it is like this: We are put through such strenuous pace here that every minute we save is that much help. It takes us three or four minutes perhaps to shave the upper lip. Well three or four minutes is some time in this camp, believe me." "Gawdelpus!" confided a sergeant of the Thirty-sixth to a corporal a little later, "savin' time! Day is a couple avthim shave-tails 'und spend about half the time shavin' their lips that they do pettin' em they'd have time enough to shampoo thimsilves." TRAP SHOOTERS INCORPORATE The Twin City Shooting association filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state today, the incorporators being Dr. F. J Plondke, Dr. C. A. Van Slyke and George Mannheimer of St. Pail and William R. MeKinnon F. A. Richter, J.C. Famechon and F.H. Austin of Minneapolis, the officers designated being F.J. Plondke, president J.C Famechon, vice president, and E. H. Austin secretary and treasurer. MINOT PAYS CASH Minot N.D, July 28 - Minot came near not playing a recent game with Williston. Just before the game was to start six players went on strike, demanding their overdue salaries from the local management. Rather than take chances of angering several hundred fans, the manager marched the strikers to a bank and paid them in cash. GOPHER GUNNERS IN ALL KINDS OF DRILL Artillerymen at Fort Riley End Crowded Week - Heavier Horses Used BY CORPORAL TRIM Fort Riley, Kan., July 27 - Minnesota's artilleryman encamped here have completed a week's program of drill today that is declared by regular army officers here, the most comprehensive ever given an artillery organization. The gunners have completed standing gun drill, including every movement of the piece from leaving the gun pack to going into action. The drivers have learned every detail of the harness is the same period and have been taught how to care for their horses and how to recognize ailments common to them. The battery commanders' details and the battalion signal details have gone through a strenuous week of map making road sketching horsemanship and computation of firing data. Heavier Horses Sent to Fort. According to army officers here the war in Europe has shown the need of heavier horses for field artillery work and this is borne out by the 100 mounts received by each battery of the Gopher Gunners. Horses given to the regiment while on border duty last year ranged from 1,100 to 1,500 pounds, but the horses being sent here are of the heavier draught type, some of them weighing nearly 2,000 pounds. In drawing horses Captain A. S. Gow of Battery F chose all blacks, Battery E. Captain Jerome Jackan commanding, has picked all bay horses and Captain Hugh Barber of Battery D. has selected the sorrels. Army Needs More Bakers and Call is Sent Out for 3,700 Men of Trade. The only soldiers in the world who eat white bread - That is a little hint from the front as to what Minneapolis boys now in France, and thousands of others soon to go to France are getting from quartermasters department. There is only one hitch in the procedure. There is plenty of flour, ovens for baking the bread are going up, the soldiers have the appetite - but the army needs more bakers. In France today the American troops are eating French black bread and paying for it with white American flour. This condition is to be remedied in a few days, probably has been remedied by now, but thousands more bakers are needed by the regular army. Appeals to Bakers Captain Staley A. Campbell, army recruiting officer here, has prepared ans sent out several thousand appeals for bakers to enlist. Three thousand even hundred bakers [?] wanted at once, the appeal stated., it called upon all bakers from 18 to 40 years old, with no dependants to enlist at once. Captain Campbell has also been ordered to examine applicants for the cooks and bakers school at Dunwoody institute who may be referred to him by Dr. C.A Prosser. The need is so great that mild cases of flat feet and other slight physical defects are to be overlooked. The white bread American troops in France will eat will be baked with a heavy crust that makes it "transportable and durable" according to one authority. While durable the bread is not expected to prove impregnable. Wine and No Place to Put It. The United States troops are, however, having a terrible time in the matter of comestibles in France. They have on hand a tremendous quality of champagne, red wines, jellies, ham and other delicacies and are at a great loss to know what to do with it. It is a present from the French government made July 14, Bastille day, the great French holiday. Doubt as to the proper interpretation of recent legislation on the distribution of liquor to soldiers keeps the whole feast in safekeeping while brawny Sammies lick their chops and burble drily. The American soldiers overseas according to an army publication are now living on the socalled field ration, which consist if 20 ounces of fresh beef daily or 12 ounces of bacon or 16 ounces of canned meat: 18 ounces of soft or hard bread of flour or beans; 20 ounces of potatoes, with a similar amount of onions or tomatoes, an ounce of sugar, with salt, pepper and syrup as well as prunes, dried apples, or peaches and jam. When the supplies all arrive there also will be butter, which will be distributed as an extra on special occasions. The plan of the quartermasters department, it is understood is to be entirely independent of the French at the earliest possible date, so as to be no burden either to the government or to the population. CENTRAL CLUB WITHDRAWALS Cedar Rapids,Iowa withdrew from the Central association yesterday at a meeting of the directors of the league at Waterloo Efforts are being made to place the club to Webster City. If it is found impossible to place the team by Aug. 1 it is said the league probably will be forced to disband. BIRTH OF A CHARGE OF THE INFANTRYMEN Members of the First and Second companies of the Officers' Reserve camp crawl on their knees from a prone position to start a bayonet rush.