Mayes County Republican (Pryor, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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“Major Billy” an Authority on Draft Regulations
WASHINGTON.—The thousands and thousands of drafted men In the
TV National army realize but little how Important a part a little woman
played In the grent gumble which sent them Into the military forces,
senators and congressmen and war de-
partment officials sing the prulses of
the draft system they always mention
Provost Mnrshal General Enoch Crow-
der, Lieut. Col. Hugh Johnson, Lieut.
Col. Allen Gulllon and a few others,
but none of them seem to know that
“Major Billy” Wellborn Is a mighty big
factor In the draft machine which Is
running ao smoothly.
“Major Billy” Is a little girl who
keeps the thousands and thousands of
I rules and regulations for draft boards
! running straight. She Is Just a little girl and she lisps, but she has been a
real major In handling oift of the most difficult tasks In this war.
I When the plnn of draft wus first announced there were a few rules and
regulations laid down. “Major Billy” learned the rules and regulations. New
rules and new regulations were added every day as new situations and new
cases catae up, and "Major Billy” remembered every one of them.
The1 rules and regulations grew too fast for the big officers to remember
them all and so they begun calling on "Major Billy” for Information nnd she
had It. The time has now come when she Is generally recognized as the best-
informed person in Washington on the draft system. There Isn’t anything
about It that she doesn’t know.
Secretary of War Baker can’t commission women In the army, but if
he could It Is a safe bet that General Crowder would ask for a commission
for “Major Billy." Her associates have given her the recognition of her
ability, however, because they have dubbed her "major." Lieutenants, cap-
tains, majors, colonels and even a brigadier general all salute “Major Billy”
as one of thsm.
"Major Billy” always signs her name “W. Wellborn." It is strongly
rumored, though, that her parents christened her Wilhelmina Wellborn, but
the officers in the Judge advocate general’s office just call her "Major Billy."
Fighting Spirit Shown in Veteran, “Only 68”
IJE WAS old and weather beaten—Just the sort one would Imagine stayed
II at home and took only a passive Interest in outside affairs. But his
eyes were bright and there was a stiffening of his shoulders as he walked
Into headquarters and asked If he
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Tells How Lydia E.Pinkluun'a
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.
Philadelphia, Pa.—“I was very weak,
always tired, my back ached, and I felt
sickly most of the
time. I went to a
doctor and be said
I had nsrvous indi-
gestion, which ad-
ded to my weak
condition kept ma
worrying most of
the time —and ha
said if I could not
stop that, I could
not get well. I
heard so muchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com-
pound my husband wanted me to try it
I took it for a week and felt a little Bet-
ter. I kept it up for three months, and
1 feel fine and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness. ’’—Mrs.
J. Worthune, 2842 North Taylor St.
Philadelphia Pa.
’The majority of mothers nowadays
overdo, there are so many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably a weakened, run-down,
nervous condition with headaches, back-
ache, irritability and depression—and
soon more serious ailments develop.
It is atsuchperiods in life that Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will
restore a normal healthy condition, as
it did to Mrs. Worthline.
There's Magic, in
In thoflrt.Hm 'I;6 the *D’erlcan telePhone girls who are going to operate the switchboards for our soldiers
In the fighting lines, photographed on their arrival for duty In France.
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nurses take gas training GEN. MARCH’S DAUGHTERS WED OFFICERS
To fit them for duties on the front,
hospital army nurses nre receiving gas
Instructions at Camp Kearney, Cali-
fornia. This official photograph shows
pne of the army nurses leuvlng the gas
Chamber.
Japanese Hero Worship.
The Japanese are a hero-worshiping
people who treasure their own prist.
American history has none of the pic-
turesque atmosphere that adorns feud-
al Japan, still an actuality In the lives
iof many of the grandfnthers of young
people now In school. Through their
(tales, history Is fresh. No alchemy
(compounded of modern disillusions
(can convince the young Japanese (hat
“the glamor of the past Is not all gold.
The rich brocades and gorgeous attire
tof the feudal lords of the Tokugawa
nays, the beautiful elaboration of tem-
ple and palace, the exquisite art and
(craft productions, the ritual of elegant
Ceremony attached to court life, the
fcnclent Ideal of Bushido, or knightly
conduct, everywhere encountered In
allusions to heroic and loyal deeds, all
lend their vibrancy to old Japnn.
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could see the general. He was told the
general was busy, but would see him
presently. This didn’t satisfy him.
He had come some 300 miles "to see
the Jlnrul, and wanted to see him."
Just then the general walked oul
of his office. The old chap sprang te
his feet, crying: "Hello, Jake; I see
that you are a Jlnrul now, and—”
“Come right on In, Mack,” said
the general, and they shook hands.
"Come right In. I’m powerful glad to
What has brought you so far away from home?”
“Well, suh," the old fellow said, “I don’t get to see many papers, but I
got ho!d of one t other day and it said you were a Jlnrul and was going to
fight anything that needed fighting, an’ that you were getting up a passel
of cavalry to go with you. Now listen. Jake; ’scuse me. Jlnrul, I want to go
I am only sixty-eight years old, but I can ride a hoss with the best of them
ana can shoot a rifle against any German I ever saw. I have fixed things at
home so everything Is in good shape. When will we start?”
Then the general began to explain. The regulations said this and that
No one over forty-five years old would be accepted.
But the explanations didn’t satisfy. "I am just bleedged to go with you.
Jake, was the reply to every one. •
“And don’t you remember.’’ said the old man, who Lad begun to plead
n earnest, ‘the time you stayed at my house—when you were running for
the senate. You are Jest like you were then—one of us folks. Whv. vou set
at my table and talked to the ole woman and the chllluns, and you sholyl
ain t going to not let me go after that, are you?”
Again the general explained the lmpossiblllties-that he himself would
like to have a regiment of Just such men. but the government ferbade.
And pretty soon the old fellow and the general went out arm In arm.
one pleading and the other defending.
Many Lonesome Girls Working for Uncle Sam
“T™ (C‘ty °f Lonesome GirUes” That is Washington. It Is safe to say
.n * !ha, “10r?/1,rls cry themse,ves t0 sleep In Washington each night than
In any other city in the whole world. Approximately 60,000 girls have corns
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_ Whl" Jasephlne March was married the other day to MaJ. Joseph M.
Swing, the three daughters of Gen. Feyton C. March, chief of staff had be-
come war brides within six months. Josephine Is shown below at the right.
At the left Is Mildred, who married Cnpt John MlUlken. and above is the
general s second daughter, whose husband Is Capt Paul Russell Frank.
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UNITED STATES MARINES IN A TRENCH
busl-
Hle Day Cut 8hort.
"I don’t understand this law
fceae.”
“Hub?”
"They said I was to have my day In
leourt. All the neighbors turned out."
"Well?”
"The Judge disposed of my case In
leas than a minute.”
Evasive.
“Did your husband speak of the
punch he got at our house V
“Well. I must aajr be came home
fust full of It”
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to Washington since the war began.
Every one of the 50,000 Is a little home-
sick girlie, too. They have come from
every corner of the Union and from
every city and hamlet. Every one of
them wants to go back home, too.
It Is all because Washington
just a great big lonesome town. Ii
n town of grand distances and every
little stranger Is overawed by the big
things and the big people here and
she wants to get back to the home
folks and the family circle. Uncle — —r-r*
Sam can’t spare her, though, because he needs every bit of help that he can
get to win this war. Each day sees a new flood of girls coming to Washington
to work for the government.” Each night finds the new girls looking for •
home, and a terrible task it Is. With housing conditions overworked already
j and rooms « scarcity, the lone girl has a pretty stiff proposition before her
The 1. C. A. and other organizations have tried to help her, but they can’t
bring in fl»e comforts that mother provides.
All oJ the brave hearts in this war are not on the battlefields of France
There are thousands of brave hearts in the lonesome girls of the national
CEpit&i*
A hundred years ago, the magic,
dazzling whiteness it gives to the
coarsest as well as most delicate
fabrics would have caused its user
to be hailed as a witch. To-day
she is the envy of her neighbors,
et much less labor to herself. *
Makes clothes beautiful.
Buy it—try it-and you’ll stick to it
• At all good grocers
6 Cents Almost Free!
Your Best Asset
— A Clear Skin —
— Cared for By—
Cuticura Soap
BRING THEIR (ft/N WELCOME
Advent of Twins Not Displeasing to
English Father, for Somewhat
Peculiar Reason.
Capt. Norman Thwaites of the Brit-
ish Intelligence department said in
New York the other day:
“The sugar shortage is felt keenly
over the water. It’s odd how you miss
your sugar over there. You long for
It ns you’d long for tobacco.
“A Bayswater special constable hur-
ried home from his beat at the Marble
Arch the other evening to be present
in a very intersting occasion, and, as
he sat In his library In the small hours,
the nurse came to him and said:
“ ‘It’s all right, sir.’
“The Bayswater man swallowed; he
moistened his dry lips; then he asked:
“‘Is It a boy?’
The nurse smiled soothingly.
“ ’One of ’em’s a boy, sir,’ she said.
“And the Bayswater man, Instead of
turning pale or smothering an oath, as
he’d probably done In peace time, ut-
tered a glad cry of joy.
“ ‘Thank heaven 1’ he exclaimed.
That gives us two extra sugar ra-
tions.’ ’’
Here are some of the American marines in a trench In the American
sector In France, ready to meet a ruah of the Huns. M««y of UatU*
corps are now on the fighting lines.
Probably All Symbols Looked Alike to Him
IIE WAS marching through a park. You couldn’t call it walking, because
U he marched. I erhaps he struck the gait that suited him because there
was no one around—unless you count sparrows and a woman feeding a
squirrel. Anyhow, he was marching,
by* J 'if holdInS before him a Jonquil with a
Av/J f If *0DB' MPPy stem- He must have seen
*“ tbe blossom something more than
y,\ j an everyday five-cents-apieee flower,
HtwiV J For he held It before him as an altar
\ _ boy carries a blessed candle. The
11 flVX ‘ woman stopped peanuttlDg the squlr-
rel to look at the slow-moving figure,
. but the man paid no attention. The
^i ^on<lu11 mIsbt have been a magic wand
- i.. that was visioning to him jonquils that
v bloomed in the garden of his youth.
You never can tell what wonderful thing Is going on In the heart and
soul and brain of any man or woman you pass on life’s cross-roads, especially
a man who goes marching through a park carrying a jonquil as If It wer. a
Dtanoa candle.
The man was marching himself oat of the incident when a tiny girl
troticd trom around a hush, and he handed herthe Jonquil with ths chivalry
of an ojd-time cavalier. 1
™ea ,he, unhooked his cane from his arm and held U before hlm-ta M
altai boy holds a biassed candle—and marched on,
So you see you never can really tell
Times Had Changed.
Mrs. Henry Peck—“You used to say
fhat I look good enough to eat.” Peck
—“I haven’t as good an appetite as I
had then.”
No Fool Like an Old Fool.
tl'n 1 « TT „ t I rrtl — a* • • a
auauc—an, nu i iuvrva utttl OIU
near sighted Mr. Duck trying to flirt
with that decoy.
A new political broom sweeps clean.
It Is necessary to raise the dust
DoYou Know
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Harding, L. D. Mayes County Republican (Pryor, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1918, newspaper, July 4, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc956783/m1/3/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.