The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 50, Ed. 2 Thursday, September 18, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CANADIAN RECO RD
j| VOLUME XXVI—NO
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,
1919
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 THE YEAR
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Back to the Old Time
Congress Kills Daylight Saving Law; Senate Follows House in
Overriding President's Rejection of Repeal
Repeal of the daylight-saving act. has been accomplished. The senate
voted to sustain the house in passing the repeal measure over President
Wilson's veto. The vote was 57 to 19.
The repeal of the law, which now takes its place among the very few
•which have been passed over a presidential veto, becomes effective after
i.be clocks are turned back to normal in October. It will go down in legis-
lative history as one of the very few measures which twice have been
vetoed by a president and become law by the vote of more than two-thirds
u: both houses of congress.
Agitation for repeal of the daylight-saving law first came from
farmers, but recently was buttressed by labor unions, mothers' clubs, rural
school authorities, and many other interests.
Urban opinion also became divided and officials of many cities and
smaller towns demanded repeal. Congress was flooded with petitions for
repeal and with petitions urging retention of the statute.
Loss of time in farm labor was the principal objection raised to the
ifiT. This complaint came principally from fanners employing "hired
hands." Opponents of the law declared all farmers, at some time during
the summer season, are employers of labor am] sulIVrwI from the law.
The complaint of loss of labor was based principally on the shorten?
nig of the working day on the farm by the advancing of the clock one
hour from March to October.
The farmers declared, they could not adjust farm work to the
advanced time because, with the clock advanced an hour, farm work could
not be begun as early in the morning as under the normal time schedule
and must close an hour earlier.
HE BAGGED 256 GERMANS
Himself a Prisoner and Wounded,
This Fittingly Named Son of Greece
; Persuaded His Captors to Surrender
and Led Them Into the American
Lines—His Friends Think He Haa
Earned a Congressional Medal.
Sergt.
aruiv of
Hercules Korgis, one-man
Lynn, Mass., cantor in one
(lay hi -0(i Hermans, including a major
and seven other officers, recipient of
l lie Croix tie Guerre and French
Modaille Mil it aire, was especially hon-
ored upon his home-coming. On his
arrival at Camp Devens he received
his first hotne greeting from a com-
mit lor of Lynn citizens who had gone
there to meet him. He has been ac-
claimed the Sergeant Yorke of New
England. Before he volunteered In
the army he was the chef, second cook,
dishwasher, waiter, cashier and pro-
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ket square, Wcm t.ynu. lie gave up
his business and His ambition to con-
duct a big restaurant to tight for Un-
cle Sam, enlisting at Syracuse; N. Y„
soon after America entered the war
and was assigned to Company L of
the Twenty-third infantry.
Early in July, 191S, his division
went "over the top" for the first time,
near Vierssy.
The story of Sergeant Korgis' feat Is
told in the Stars and Stripes, on the
authority of the captain Of his com-
pany.
"It was In n deep, Inaccessible dug-
out that one high German commander
was found—the one the Yankee regi-
ment concerned in his capture believes
to have been a major general," the
story goes. "Certainly 35 men guarded
hiin as if he were very precious to the
German army, and he was whirled
away In an auto to a high French
headquarters as if he might have In-
formation important enough to seek
without a moment's waste of time.
His Bag of 256 Boches.
"But no prisoner capture was more
Impressive than the bag of 2f>G boches.
Including eight officers, whose meek
and painless surrender was negotiated
on the first day by a single Yankee
sergeant. The sergeant Is only Ave feet
high and his name is llerc'ules. Sergt.
Hercules Korgis, Twenty-third in-
fantry, lived tip to the reputation of
his given name by walking into a large
dugout, extracting therefrom six Ger-
man officers and 250 soldiers, and
marching them back, under a small es-
cort:, to the regimental prison cage,
obliging them to police the field of
wounded men on the way.
Sergt. Hercules Korgis is a Greek
by birth. He was in the Greek war
that preceded the present explosion of
Europe, and he was gay with many
medals when he went to America and
settled down in West Lynn, Mass.
"The Brst morning of the advance
Sergeant Korgis was shot through the
neck by a German machine gun, and,
thus wounded, he was taken prisoner.
He was borne off Into an easily de-
fended, well-munitloned little ravine,
where a whole German company lay
unnoticed by the Yankees, who swept
by them and far beyond. As the day
wore on these Germans saw that they
were trapped, but they also saw that
they could make their captors pay a
heavy price for their final submission.
Persuaded Them to Surrender.
"Sergeant Korgis, who speaks a
smattering of half a dozen languages,
drew on all the German he knew for
an eloquent harangue that carried the
day. Early in the afternoon they de-
cided to surrender, and sent him forth
to negotiate their sale passage to the
rear.
"With his wound dressed, but still
paining him. with mud and blood all
over him, he wa$> a wild-looking envoy
when he ran into some French sol-
diers, who decided lie was a spy and
wore all for shooting him then and
there. He dissuaded them, pursued
and caught: up with some stray Amer-
icans from his own outfit, laid the
case befoik them, and, led by one Cor-
poris Wiley, they went over for the
formal surrender.
"There was one nervous, excited ex-'
change of shots between one unruly I
German machine gunner and One dis- j
trustful Yankee before the whole 265
marched out of the ravine and were !
escorted by the sergeant to regimental
headquarters. There his own officers
pounced on the sergeant and had him
sent back in the ambulance to the field
hospital. His wound had been well
dressed by a German surgeon, who
later became one of his prisoners."
Sergeant Korgis has not yet been
recognized by the American army for
his deed, beyond the regular citations
for bravery. Officers of the Second di-
vision and friends in New England are
working to obtain a Congressional
medal for hi in.
FORMER KAISER PUTS
SILENCER ON BARBER
Wiliam Hohenzollern Gets Morn-
ing Shave Minus the Cus-
tomary Gossip.
William Hohenzollern, formerly em-
peror of Germany, still packs a DUjich.
He lias compelled the barber of Am-
erongen who trims his beard and mas-
sages Ids face every morning to do
bo In silence, according to T. Walter
Williams, a New York newspaper man
who huts Just returned from Holland.
The barber told Williams that the
ex-kalser prefers to have him worls
without talking. At the same min-
ute every day the barber goes to the
castle where Mr. Hohenzollern re-
sides. First he trims the Vandyke
beard which the former kaiser is af-
fecting, after which he rti#s«o o «-•-
face. The "former emperor Is very
sensitive about tills operation, and be-
fore the barber begins he tells him to
iron out all the wrinkles.
Williams said the barber told him
the exile is enjoying excellent health.
He Judges this by the condition of his
close-cropped hair, which is still hard
and wiry. Both hair and beard are a
snow white.
The children in the village fear
that there will be no Christmas trees
left this winter, for the former kaiser
is still at his labors of sawing wood.
One of the three staff officers who
have remained faithful to him gets nt
the other etui of the cross-cut saw and
assists Mr. Hohenzollern.
The only persons living in the castle
besides the servants are the ex-kais-
erln and Gen. Von Gented. The other
staff officers live at a hotel in the
village.
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_ "AN ESTABLISHMENT OF QUALITY"
HAD THEIR REGULAR HOURS
All Summer Boarder Had to Do Wa
to Observe the Habits of the
Pesky Flies.
A city man went for his vacation
to a country hotel. There was a liam-
in o c k in t li e
grove at the hack
of the .building,
and one after-
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Into It witlj pipe
and book. But
the flies torment-
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disgust, determined to enter a protest.
"Look here, landlord!" he complain-
ed, as he entered the hotel. "What'a
the good of a hammock In such a fly-
ridden spot as that grove?"
"Oh," said the landlord, "you didn't
use the hammock during hammock
hours."
"What are hammock hours?" asked
the guest. ,
"Twelve to two, sir," said the land-
lord. "You'll find no flies In the grove
then, sir."
"And why not?" demanded the puz-
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Loomis, L. P. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 50, Ed. 2 Thursday, September 18, 1919, newspaper, September 18, 1919; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125414/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.