Mayes County Republican (Pryor, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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MAYES COUNTY RbPUBLICAN
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Women
as Well as Men
Are Now Trained
as Camoufleursfor
Service With the
United States
Army
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WHAT WOMEN CAN
MTO WIN THE WAR
Conserve Food and Buy Liberty
Bonds—Two Ways They
Can Help.
WOMEN OF AMERICA, WAKE UP!
EC ENT orders of the gov-
ernment to the engineering
department of the United
States army to stop en-
listing men as cnmoufleurs
In a special camouflage di-
vision ends a chapter In military cam-
ouflage In America. A little more
thnn a year ago It was doubtful wheth-
er or not the army would huve any
great use for camoufleurs In the forces
abroad. By the recent decree mili-
tary camouflage Is made an essential
In every regiment, like engineering,
trench digging, mnp making, road
building, and sharpshootlng. There
are now, according to military eamou-
fleurs In New York city, about 500 ex-
pert cnmoufleurs abroad with the Per-
shing forces. The new order makes
It necessary for each regiment In every
training camp on this side to have
at least 16 camoufleurs to train other
men In the new art of camouflage.
TVhence will these new camoufleurs
come? Who is to make them profi-
cient, when even the best-trained “old"
military and naval men admit Igno-
rance?
Until the airplane came in the cav-
alry was the scouting arm of the army,
•ays a writer In New Tork Times.
Nojy n large port cavalry of
UntVhiffli iStfiil finfiy Tias l>een dis-
mounted and put to machine guns.
The airman Is the scout. This was
the chief fnctor In raising camou-
flage to Its present rank of Impor-
tance. A mounted scout could scarce-
ly he deceived by artificial camouflage.
the foot of the telephone poles, out-
ward and on both sides, conceul the
road. To an observer on foot or in
the air at a thousand feet the hill
looks deserted—an almost treeless
plain with no distinguishing feature
save a neglected old path. Yet that
hillside harbors six dugonts, several
observation and listening posts, men,
cunnon, machine guns, and a net-
work of telephone wires.
Beyond Yonkers there are trench
oullage front the defensive and offen-
sive points of view—how to advance
under cover and bow to defend them-
selves under cover. They have Invent-
ed scouting and camoufleurs’ sharp-
shooters' suits which, when worn by
the soldier, make bint appear like a bit
of the landscape, as a boulder, a log, a
stump, or a part of tbe foliage of a
tree.
Women Being Trained.
American women cnmoufleurs are
sections with "No Man's Land and being trained according to the same
Its barbed wire entanglements and dug-' method' ns the men, under the Wotn-
outs. The trenches are dug so tleep I <>n’s League for National Service and
that the heads of the men do not show under Lieutenant Towle, Discussing
above the surface, and the sod re- thujtr work, he sard:
move*] to dig them Is replaced. The^ ‘There Isn't any reason why the
openings of the dugonts,. »f
Benches ari soTnctlmes sup-
posed. far behind the trenches, •hey
are In the trenches with the entrance
on the enemy side. Bombs may fall
In the mouth of the dugout, but sel-
dom Inside,
‘The obvious Is sometimes ns good
women shouldn't do ns well ns the
men as cnmoufleurs— that Is. In "Wink-
ing the materials behind the lines. It
Isn't heavy work, hut It demands In-
genious workers, skilled In details.”
Tryon Hall, the old C. K. G. Billings
place on Washington Heights, bought
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr„ to he
Now the scout passing at heights of . as the Invisible," Lieutenant Towle given, ultimately, to the city for
about 1,500 feet cannot tell whether J sald recently. "For Instance, the fa- j park. Is the spot chosen for the prac-
the camouflage, If clever, Is artificial. | nrnu" dummy fleqt the British used. tIcal experimental work by the worn-
His kodak, however, Is not so easy to | Another camouflage to which the Ger- Pn Hither they go with Lieutenant
mans were dupes was n red cannon, j Towle t0 try out fhe.r cnil,ouflnge suits
scantilv cnmonfliieed nlnreri hv the I___■ i_________, , ..
fool. It will record many things
which escape the eye.
For that reason lights and shades,
depressions and knolls In the terrain,
and shadows have to be carefully stud-
ied by the military eamonfleur. That
makes It necessary for him to know
shade (jnd tone vnl\i? as they register
on the eye of the blrdman and on the
camera lens.
Under the lnstnictlofi of Lieut. H.
I.edynrd Towle of the Spventy-first In-
fantry Is the New York division of
military camouflage, In which the
men belong to the new National army
and wear the uniform and Insignia of
the engineers, and on the sleeve the
letters “M. C."—Military Camoufleur.
They Include landscape gardeners, art-
ists, miniature painters, portrait
painters, photographers, woodworkers,
mural decorators, draftsmen, and en-
gineers. It Is probable that these men
will’ be used to Instruct the various
regiments In military camouflage.
Methods of Teaching.
An observer need only follow these
camonfleurs to the 00-nere truct which
the city of Yonkers donated to Lieu-
tenant Towle for camouflage work, or
Into thPlr great classroom In New
York city, to get an Idea of the chief
methods of teaching the value of de-
pressions, color values, lights and
shades, and locations. There are ad-
justable wires that tilt the miniature
terrain boards to Just the desired
slant, so that the soldier can view
them from the angle of a sharpshoot-
er, as If from an airplane, from the
rear or from In front. Gauzy curtains
create an Illusion of various lights at
scantily camouflaged, placed by the j an(j pe photographed, wearing them, In
°!..a.hl,l; The I different positions, to see that they
blend with different colors of the land-'
scape and would he Invisible to the-
enemy not only on the firing line but
on the plates of the enemy photog-
rapher.
This Is the most serious work.that
has been undertnkpn under the au-
spices of the National League for
Woman's Service. The members of
the camouflage corps, of whom there
are about 40, confidently expect to
cross the water to assist In the camou-
flage work at which English and
cannon was visible to every German
scout flying over It, but It seemed so
obviously a fake that not a single
enemy bomb was dropped on It. Yet
It held Its position for a long time,
and at night poured Its stream of Are
into the erjemy,
“The 'ftthie Idea Is carried out by
the American camoufleurs. who model
dummy men and guns for decoys. The
enemy air scout sees a partly camou-
flaged cannon or machine gun with its
men bending over It at work and the
smoke pouring from Its nozzle Inter- French women are nlrendv busv.
mlttently. He cannot sec, completely Thf>v w|„ nnt ,)p
hidden from view, a real cannon whose
different hours. Thus light blue curs j ho)(j „ regiment. But the enemy
tains make the twilight lust before
dawn. Light rose and blue and yel-
low make down, noonday, and dusk
curtain* the evening.
From 1,500 feet telephone poles,
camouflaged, disappear. Dugouts with
a path crossing over the roof are like
the side of the hill. Even the grny,
blue and red caisson wagon moving
along the road Is a blur of color.
Canvases In triangular shape tied to
accepted by the
government ns regular workers and
enlisted for the service until they have
completed their training and shown
that they have made good, but the fact
that Lieutenant Towle is on leave In
order to Instruct them Is sufficient
proof that their work will be consid-
ered.
No Age Limit for Women.
There Is no nge limit, up or down,
for women Joining the corps, but each
member must huve had some practical
technical training before she Joins.
This keeps from the corps very young
girls. The members are young women
who nre self-supporting. They nre
artists, architects, metal workers,
wood carvers, photographers, etc. It Is
an exceptionally versatile and respon-
sible group. They fake a three
months' course under Lieutenant
Towle.
Each member of the class makes
and develops her own camouflage suit,
according to her own Ideas, with the
has learned that even the "trees and j foundation of Instruction that she has
men are firing a deadly volley from
under cover, and whose ammunition
comes to them through tunnels.
"Such experiments are being made
by the military camoufleurs at Yonk-
ers. There are other tricks to be
learned, for they also do their own
painting of army equipment before us-
ing It. Although an ambulance or
nrmy track may not be entirely Invisi-
ble on account of the various back-
grounds It must pass. It ran he mot-
tled Into n very poor target. In mo-
tion It will np{>ear as a blur caused by
heat rays, for It Is mottled In the col-
ors whose values constitute colors
which the sun's rays would make.”
Natural Camouflage Discarded.
At first natural camouflage was
used almost entirely. A clump of
trees and brush hid a whole machine
^un company, a group of rocks harbor-
ed a listening post, and o deserted mill
stones hear," and a natural camou-
flaged refuge Is never safe wholly
from ulr attack now. The most Inno-
cent seeming object Is nevertheless
an "object” Mnd therefore a target for
the scout, whereas a perfectly smooth
hillside, with no distinguishing marks,
may be almost entirely undermined,
and yet not arouse suspicion.
Lieutenant Towle’s men learn cam-
received. Suits ns they have been «*>n-
structed by the girls so far are In one
piece, like a diver's suit, with a hood
covering the head. A human face
shows white In the distance and the
corps Is exjieriinentlng with veils aa
face coverings.
Earth brown Is the usual foundation
color, and ui>on this go yellows,
g-eens, grays, and splashes of black.
Pour All Your Saving* Into Uncle
Sam’a Lap—Keep on Saving and
Pouring Until the World*
I* Freo.
By INEZ HAYNES IRWIN.
What cun the women of America
do to help win this war? Two things
are certain; one that they can do a
great deal and another that, unless
the war Insts ten years longer, they
can never do so much ns the French,
English and Italian women have done,
they can never suffer so much as the
French, English and Italian women
have suffered.
To me, returning to America after
two years la the war countries, the un-
touched gayety of the American people
tame as a terrific shock. I hud left a
world aa black and silent as night; a
world in which 1 had seen no dancing,
* world In which I bad heard no spon-
taneous laughter or—except In the case
*f military bands—no music. At first
the atmosphere of America was almost
unbearable. I wa* obsessed with the
Seslre to get back to the allied coun-
tries, to suffer with them, rather than
enjoy the comparative comfort of a
comparatively unaroused America.
The luxury everywhere appalled me.
Those hundred* of motors gliding
:h rough oar streets for Instance!
Private motors have long ago disap-
peared from allied Europe. The beau-
tiful fabrics, the furs and laces, the
gorgeous sport clothes and the dnzzllng
evening dresses which still distinguish
the women of America.
Ban on Evening Clothe*.
The firat time I was Invited to a
Jlnncr party on my return, I wore a
long-sleeved high-necked gray-uud-
blaek gown and found myself a wren
•niong birds of paradise. No woman
*f France would think of weuring eve-
alng clothes. Indeed, both men and
women are prohibited by law from ap-
pearing In eveulug clothes at thea-
ter. On the few social occasions In
which they take part, French women
ire dressed In black gowns with a lit-
tle lace at the neck and sleeves. Eng-
Ish women still wear evening clothes.
When their men return on their rare
leave from the front, they cover their
ichlng hearts with as much gayety as
possible in order to send them back to
the filth and the vermin and the rats
»nd the damp and the cold and the
wounds and the constant sight of death
psychologically refreshed. But most of
die evening dresses that the English
women are now wearing date back to
the beginning of the war. And strung
eat of all, perhaps, for a country at
war, those lustrous streets with their
rows of electric lights nnd their vivid,
Sashing, changing, Iridescent electric
ilgns. In Purls, you piunge Into a
deep twilight when you leave your res-
taurant, nnd In London you grope your
way home through a dangerous Sly-
ginn gloom. Then the careless spewi-
ng In American hotels and restau-
rants. In Paris those places close at
half-past nine. And food! Food con-
ditions huve never been so bud In
France as In the other allied coun-
tries, for France has always fpd hpr-
iclf and Is, moreover, the world's best
took. But In Italy and England, meat
Is a rare luxury to he obtained only
once in a great while; butter and
»ugnr are long-forgotten dreams.
See Their Home* Destroyed.
And then In the case of France and
to some degree of Italy, the allied
women have seen vast stretches of
rarefull.v cared-for ancient forest and
enormous sections of softly-beautlful
farming country turned Into metal-rid-
den dumps; they have seen dozens of
smnll cities and hundreds of little vil-
lages transformed to ash heaps; they
have seen so much old sacred beauty
In the form of churches, cathedrals
nnd historic monuments reduced to
hills of rubble that the whole world
must aeem a desert to them. They
have even had to endure the extra
affront of an exhibition In Berlin of
the art treasures looted from northern
France.
The allied women have nursed the
wounded, the tubercular, the under-
nourished ; they huve taught Dew
trades to the crippled and blind and
those who are Invalided for life. They
lave taken care of thousands and
thousands of refugees from Belgium,
northern France and Siberia. They
huve had to provide for the bringing
up of thousands of orphan children.
This has not come upon them gradual-
ly, but all the time and In increasing
proportion*.
INTERESTING ITEMS
Crops of torn art being burned In
Argentina because of a lack of ships
In which to export the cereal.
Losses from Are In the United
States Increased over $40,000,000 last
year, due to war conditions and the
speeding up of Industries.
The anthracite coal strike of 1002
began May 12 and ended October 21.
The employees Involved numbered
about 147,500. The estimated total
loss was $26,210,000
Building trades returns from 35 <’a-1
nadian cities for a recent month Indi-
cate that employment decrease*! more
than 42 per cent, as compured with
the previous month, and over 46 per
cent, as compared with the same month ;
In 1017.
Tbe royal borough of Kensington,
England, now maintains three com-
munal kitchens, which serve excellent
meals for 12 cents. The menu la: |
Soup. 2 cents; fishcakes, 4 cents; half-
portions of potatoes and cabbage, 2
cents; corn flour mold. 4 cents.
Pottery the Oldest Art
Pottery Is the ..blest, the longest and
most widely dlffu«.-d of nil human arts.
Its history, If recorded, would he as
old us (he history of mnn; It* record-
ed history begins with the building of
I he tower of Babe!. The oldest pot
lery known Is Egyptian, hut every pe*>
pie. civilized or harbnriun, bus prac-
ticed the art in one or another form
All study In every departnwni of art
begins at a period not long after th»
Mosaic deluge, but pottery la th*
earliest of all forma of art
But, after all. these things are as
nothing to the death of the flower of
their male youth. England and France
and Italy have lost so much In man
power that no member of our genera-
tion look* for happiness again during
his own lifetime I Thpy hojte only
for one thing—to Insure the freedom
of the next generation.
Son* All Gone.
"My husband Is a Parisian." said
a beautiful American woman married
to a Frenchman. "He has always
lived In Paris. He has many friends
Here. Me la forty-five years old. HU
friend* rang* In age from Try n
sixty. Not one has u son left.”
“Thank you for your kind lei Ur,"
wrote an English girl to a woman who
had Just sent a letter condoling with
her on the deuth of the last of three
brothers. "We find the country a lit-
tle dreary now and we are returning
to town the last of the month. We
shall be at home Simdny evenings. Be
sure to come to us often. We want
to see nil our friends and hear what
they have been doing In the last three
months. Mother and fulher look for-
ward with special pleasure to meeting
you all again. Please bring any sol*
filer friends; we will try to make 11
gay for them."
“What news do you get from Fred*
crick," a friend of mine asked of till
mother of Frederick, a beautiful mid-
dle-aged English woman who was
making a great success of a dunce
given for some convalescent Tommies.
"Oh, you haven't henrd, have you,” the
mother of Frederick answered. "He
was killed two months ago.” And she
turned to answer with her ready sym-
pathetic smile the inquiries of a group
of Tommies guthered about her.
Fight Same at Men.
But that Is not all. In a mnnner of
speaking, the women of Europe are
fighting the war Just uS the men are.
They have not, except In the case of
the famous Bnttallon of Death, died
In battle; and yet a half to three-
quarters of a million women have been
killed as the direct result of war ac-
tivities. More women huve been kill-
ed In this war thnn men on both the
Northern nnd Southern sides' In our
Civil war. That nearly three-quarters
of a million Includes the women mat-
sacred by the Turks In Armenia, by
the Austrians lu Serbia, by the Ger-
mans in Belgium and northern France;
It Includes army nurses and women
munition makers; It Includes civilian
women killed by shells In the war
zone or near It, womeq killed by Zep-
pelin and airplane raid* and by sub-
marines.
What can the women of America
do to equal all this service and all
this suffering?
For three years, th* French and
Eugllsh, and for two years, the Ital-
ians, have stood between us nnd the
death of our democracy. What can
we do to make up for that long, heal
tntlng neutral Inaction of ours? Th#
men of our nation have responded gal-
lantly. We have a real army In France
now. As Lloyd George suld In parlia-
ment to n listening empire, “The Amer-
icans nre In." We are lu and of
course we are In to stay, In for a
century !f need be, until the snfety of
the world democracy is assured. The
men of America nre doing their part—
doing It with suffering and death.
What can the women do?
What Women Can Do.
It Is the geographical misfortune of
us women of America that we cannot
possibly give the personal service that
the women of Europe have given.
They are near and we are far. They,
so to speak, are In the front trenches
and we have not entered the war sone.
Only a very few of us, In proportion
to our numbers, can work In the hos-
pitals or canteens there. Only a few
more In proportion to our numbers can
do Beil Cross work or Y. M. C. A.
wqrk here. There nre, however, two
things we can do all the time and
with all the strength that Is In us.
One Is to conserve food. The other
is to buy Liberty bonds. We can help
the government by buying bonds. Yet
again we have an advantage; It Is our
peculiar misfortune that most of gs
fan help the government only by help-
ing ourselves. For the purchase of
Liberty bonds at the generous rate of
Interest which the government grants
Is not self-denial but In line with self-
interest—legitimate of course, but still
self-interest.
Women of America, wake up! Pour
all your savings Into Uncle Sam's lap.
Then save more, and pour them Into
his Inp. Keep on snvlng and pouring,
pouring and snvlng, until the world
Is free. You have given generously
of the sinews of war In those mng-
nificent hoys you have sent to France.
Give as generously In the monrgr which
will keep them well and happy there.
EXIT THE GERMAN DACHSHUND
Marine Poster Cauees German Dog tc
Be Driven From Streets of
Cincinnati.
Cincinnati.—Exit the German dacha
hund from the aodety of Cincinnati
dogdnra.
A United States marine corps poster
was responsible for the German dog
gle's social demise here. The poster
depicts an American bulldog chasing
s German dachshund with the words:
“Teufel hund (A>vll dogs), Germao
nickname for U. S. marines.” Since
the appearance of the poster the local
dachshunds, of which there are * great
number, have led a miserable existence,
as small boys hove "sicked” bulldogs,
terrier*, hound* and every other ca-
nine breed on the poor "Frltzlea," un
til at last they have been virtually
driven off the streets of Cincinnati.
Navy Bean Lauded.
The navy bean, besides betng plenti-
ful In that branch of the war service
which bears Its name. Is also well
stocked In the artnv. It follows the
flag to the front nnd Chicago food ad
uilnlstrators say It should be used UK
orally at home to save other foods for
the soldier hoys.
Quest* Provide Own Sugar.
When friend* go “a-vlsltln'" at At
ton. Ill, they bring their own sugar
along for sweetening the refreshment!
served. A two-pound sugar ration tr
each family compel* It. Sugar ha-
been unusually scarce for some" time
MS SWINDLER
FOljnHIS
Death of Jim Jordan Closes Ca-
reer of Picturesque
Character.
HIS VICTIMS ARE MANY
Gold Brick Artlat of Early Border
Daye, Who Stole Million, Dies
In Baltimore Hospital Dead
Broke.
. Baltimore, Md.—The death of Jinx
Jordnn at the ripe age of sevenly-flve-
fears In the Johns Ilopklns hospital,
has brought to un end the career of
one of the greatest nnd most pictur-
esque swindlers that America has ever
produced. Jordan was not a "yog"
or a "gunman" or a "holdup man.” H»
played the confidence game In the
early border days, when three-card,
monte wns the center of attractions In
the numerous gambling shacks In the
West, and later sold "gold bricks" te
the Innocent tenderfoots. Toward the
end of his career as a confidence man
Jftrdun became a poker shark. He
crossed the Atlantic on the luxurious-
ly-equipped liners nnd never was
averse to play a "quiet little game.'’
He made a fortune estimated at a mil-
lion during the half century he op-
erated as a confidence man, but when
he died he ran true to form and won
broke.
Began Career a* “Steerer."
Jordan served his apprenticeship un-
der "Canada Bill," the most successful
confidence man who roamed the West
during the early days. He first was
employed os a “steerer," but showed
such early proficiency that he rapidly
came to be full partner to "Canada
Bill." Jordan soon abandoned the
monte game and went Into the broad-
er and more lucrative field afforded
by the “gold brick” Industry, and rose
step by step to be one of the most suc-
cessful poker sharks that operated on
trans-Atlantic liners plying between
New York city and European portB.
Jordan had a close call on the Ill-
fated Titanic, which was destroyed at
sea several years ago. The swindler
had been booked for passage and
would have sailed had not the stewurU
discovered his Identity.
Jlra killed two and perhaps three-
men lu the early days of the West.
One of his victims was "Bill” Mat-
thews, killed In Chicngo. Jordan made
a run for It and reached California,
but came back and was picked up by
the police In a Chicago cafe. Jlra wns
convicted nnd sentenced to 20 years In
the penitentiary. He served four yearn
when he was pardoned. Jlra then
joined up with some railroad gamblern
and went to Denver, Colo., where be
He Shot Cliff Spark*.
•hot Cliff Sparks, an Innocent bystand-
er, In a fight In a gambling bouse.
They didn't bang a man In those duy*
for mistakes and Jordon came clear.
"8porta" of Border Day*.
In the early border days Jordan's
name was known throughout the West
With his partner, "Canada Bill,” head-
quarters were established nt the fa-
mou# Marble ball, the rendezvous of
"sports." They posed ns farmers and
didn't need any makeup. During th*
Leadvllle excitement Jordan and sev-
eral of hla confreres organized a gang-
that worked the cattle ranch gnm*
near Denver, Colo. They secured a
■mall ranch of about forty acres that
hud a wide range extending Into th*
foothills. In those days there wer*
many Englishmen going to the West
looking for ranch Investments and
some of these visitors knew very little
about Western wByg.
Jordan wonld get In touch with one
of these tenderfoots and take him out
te his ranch where he would round up
a number of cowboys who would
(each “headquarters" Just for the fun
of trimming their guest. They would
have a fake ranch superintendent aud
a fake set of bonks, showing how many
calves they had branded that season.
They would point to the wide expans*
around their mlnlnturc ranch and call
It th*r range. Jordnn and his gang
orobably sold the ranch a dozen time*
or big figures.
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