The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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OUR ARMY
Men about to leave ttyeir
homes for Camp Travis who
have any desire to become offi-
cers can increase their chances
materially by a few days review
of some of the subjects they
have studied, in grammar and
high schools. All candidates for
Officer's Training Schools are
now compelled to take an ex-
amination in History, Geogra-
phy and Arithmetic for the In-
fantry Branch of the service,
and to this is added Algebra,
Geometry and Trigonometry for
the Artillery Branch of the ser-
vice. . /
The questions are not such
that would necessitate a thor-
ough knowledge of any of the
subjects for the officers in
charge of the examinations are
well aware of the fact that many
men entering the camp have
keen out of school for some
years, and it would take months
of review to thoroughly grasp
these subjects. For instance, it
is advisable, since the United
States, and her allies are fight-
, ing the great world's war in
France, that the candidate know
something of the country on
which all eyes are centreed, its
geographical location, the loca-
tion of principal cities, historic
rivers, of the adjoining coun-
tries, prominent ports, etc. This
extends also into Italy and into
Siberia. Ability to draw a rough
map, locating principal rivers,
cities, etc., is something that
every successful soldier of to-
day and more especially an of-
ficer should have.
Then the history of that coun-
try, its former rulers or warri-
ors of prominence, such as Na-
poleon, or the Duke of Welling-
ton. The former great battles
of the world's history that have
been fought, many in the same
spots over which our own men
1 are fighting today are valuable
to remember. Also some of the
history of our own United
States and of the great con-
flicts in which this country has
taken part are facts and matters
that every person should well
know v/hetheK examined upon or
not. i
In geography, only general
questions are asjced, such as
draw p general outline of the
course of the Mississippi River
and its principal tributaries and
name several cities of promi-
nence pn its banks; what is the
principal wheat producing state
or the principal corn producing
state, or the biggest lake or the
deepest ocean, etc. \
The arithmetic problems are
of the simplest, but a knowl-
edge of conversion tables from
galloi's to pecks and ounces to
pounds and bushels to qua/rts is
invaluable at all times. A knowl-
edge of fractions and decimals
and a clear head will pass any
of the arithmetic examinations.
For those who contemplate ar-
tillery camps, i. knowledge of
the fundamentals of plane and
solid geometry as well as trig-
onometry an dalgebra is re-
quired.
Those entering training camps
have the prospect, if they re-
main, of being made officers in
the army of the United States
in lour or five months time.
Those whose ambitions may be
to become an officer can do noth-
ing better than to brush up on
some of these formerly despised
and forgotten subjects and grasp
the opportunity and the timely
tip offered. It would be well for
all those who have any books
care to study of the text book
nature to bring them with them
to camp. There are some books
available, but not nearly enough
for the demand and when you
.have completed the study of
them they can be turned into
the camp or Y. M. C. A. library
and may help some other fellow
get a commission.
So/ the men who are soon to
enter training camps, especially
Camp Travis, can take time by
the forelock and prepare them-
selves. They can do more. They
can pat themselves on the shoul-
ders and congratulate them-
selves upon the opportunity Un-
cle Sam is giving them to be-
come officers. Nor are those
who h^ve had little schooling
previously, despair. There are
night schools conducted at Camp
Travis where any may attend
and a man witfi no education
can in a short time master the
fundamentals and by application
acquire an education while he is
wearing the uniform of the
United States Army.
Hundreds of men have gone
to training camps and returned
as officers. Hundreds of others
will go. You may be one of
them if you prepare yourself.
Buy Liberty Bonds
BOHEMIANS
IN WAR
Washington, Sept. 10.—The
American lads are not the only
soldiers who look upon singing
as an, important part of military
life. The Bohemians too are
great singers. Immediately af-
ter the .recognition of the
Czechoslovaks by France, one of
the Bohemian-American boys in
the army wrote to his family.
' "We sing going to and from
the drills, and we sing in our
barracks. Imagine the French
mountains echoing Bohemian
and Slovak songs. And when we
sing, it is real singing. At first
I could not understand why, but
now it is clear. After-three
hundred years of silence, our na-
tion is raised to life again, and
is taking its place, which until
now has been usurped by Aus-
tria. For the first time since
the Battle of the White Moup-
tain in 1620, our troops are
fightipg for the Czechoslovak
cause. It was no wonder that
they broke through the Aus-
trian line."
These men will continue to
fight with even greater zeal
now that the United States has
recognized their status as an
independent nation. Their sing-
ing is one of the potent forces in
their attack on Austria. The
Czechoslovaks in the Italian
army sing in the trenches, and
their brothers on the other side
hear them and manage as best
they can to desert ' from the
Austrian lines and get into the
Italian camps.
Buy Liberty Bonds
FIVE MORE
NEGROES HUNG
Participants in the Houston Riot
Are Executed Near San
Antonio.
(Associated Press Report.)
San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 17.
—Five negroes were hanged at
Fort Sam Houston this morning.
They were recently sentenced to
death for participation in the
Houston Riots. No civilians
witnessed the executions, which
vwere carried out with great se-
crecy.
——Buy Liberty Bonds
To win the war—produce
more, eat less, waste nothing.
VOLUNTEER
MEDICAL CORPS
The Central Governing Board
of the Volunteer Medical Ser-
vice Corps of the Council of Na-
tional Defense announces that
the Texas State Executive Com-
mittee of the Volunteer Medical
Service Corps is comprised of
the following doctors:
Bacon Saunders, M. D., Chair-
man, Fort Worth.
W. L. Brown, M. D., Secretary,
El Paso.,
R. W. Knox, W. D., Houston:
J. E. Gilcreest, M D., Gaines-
ville
Frank Paschal, M. D., San
Antonio.
J. F. Bunkley, M. D., Seymour.
W. P. White, M D„ Hender-
son
D. J. Jenkins, M. D., Dainger-
field.
S. P. Rice^M. D, Marlin
J. M. Inge, M. D., Denton.
T J. Crowe, M D., Dallas.
The purpose of this Commit-
tee is to co-operate with the
Central Governing Board in
prosecuting all activities per-
taining to the mobilization and
enrollment of members of the
Volunteer Medical Service Corps
throughout the state
The Central Governing Board
of the Volunteer Medical Ser-
vice Corps also authorizes the
appointment of one county rep-
resentative in each county in ev-
ery state of the Union. The
county representatives for Tex-
as are as follows:
E. T. Ezell, Kosse.
-Pay the President
Y-M-C-A-
Because of, the increasing
number of students entering the
Southern Department training
school for war work of the Y. M.
C. A., at Camp Travis, and the
growing demand for overseas
workers, another building has
been added to the school and will
be ready for use at the beginning
of the September term. This is
the announcement just made by
W. E. Adams, executive secre-
tary for the Southern Depart-
ment.
The new building was former-
ly Y. M. C. A. building '73 at
Camp Travis." Soldiers who have
been using this building will be
provided for in other buildings
within a short distance of 73.
The September term of the
training school will begin Sep-
tember 11. According to a state-
ment from Southern Depart-
ment "Y" headquarters at San
Antonio, Texas, this will prob-
ably be the largest session in
point of attendance since the
school was launched about four
months ago. A class of 145 was
graduated Wednesday, Sept 4,
and the graduates are now being
assigned to duty in the various
camps of the Southern Depart-
ment, preparatory to their sail-
ing for overseas.
With few exceptions all stu-
dents of the training school at
Travis are drawn from the
states in the Southern Military
Department, Texas, New Mexi-
co, Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkan-
sas and Lausiana. This school
is the only permanent educa-
tional institution of its kind in
the world, as it is used exclusive-
ly for training men for domestic
and overseas service with the Y.
M. C. A.
w.s.s
To win the war—produce
more, eat less, waste nothing.
War-Savings Stamps!
KILLED IN
FRANCE
FIRST MEMBER OF MEXIA
COMPANY TO FALL
IN BATTLE.
Mr. B. F. Oakes of Hubbard
has just received a message
from Wafehing^on announcing
that his son, Tom Oakes, a
member* of Co. E, 144th Infan-
try, was killed in the fighting in
Lorraine a few days ago.
This is the Mexia company
and there is no doubt now that
our home boys were in the big
push.
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IMPORTANT
DECISION
Holds State-Wide Law is Inop-
erative in All Counties Where
Local Option Was in
Effect.
Dallas, Sept. 11.—State-wide
prohibition is inoperative in
Dallas County and all other
counties where local option is in
effect, according to a ruling
made yesterday by Judge C. A.
Pippin of Criminal District
Court No. 2, when he quashed
one count of an indictment
which alleged violation of the
State-wide law. The action was
taken in the case of the State
vs. Geoi*ge Theophilicas.-
The court sustained the mo-
tion, not upon the ground that
the State-wide law is unconsti-
tutional, but because, in his
opinion, the Legislature was
without authority to. pass any
law repealing or in any way
amending the local option law
that was adopted in Dallas
County prior to the enactment
of a State-wide prohibition law
by the Legislature.
The court held that the State
wide law was inoperative in
Dallas County, but that the lo-
cal option law, which already
was in effect, is operative at
this time and is not affected by
the State-wide law, and pro-
secution for the sale of liquor in
Dallas County would have to be
had under the local option law.
Judge Pippin said:
"The constitutionality of the
State-wide prohibition law is a
very serious question before the
people at this time, and, while
I have a fixed opinion as to the
question of the constitutional-
ity of that law which is raised
by counsel in this case, it is not
necessary to pass upon that
question at this time in order
to decide the question raised by
counsel. ' And I do not express
an opinion as to its constitution-
ality or unconstitutionality, it
in nowise affects the local option
laws of this county or of any
other county iri this State
which had a local option law
prior to the passage of the
State-wide prohibition act. And
for that reason I will hold that
prosecutions in this county for
violating of the liquor lawtf
must be had under the local op-
tion statutes and not under the
State-wide act."
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THE MAIL
ORDER HOUSE
The government advises buy-
ing at home in order to relieve
transportation. It. pays to trade
at home, anyway. No commu-
nity was ever benefited by mail-
order buying.—Milam County
Enterprise.
The "Mail-order Evil'' does
more to prevent the proper
growth and development of the
country towns and small cities
of our country than any other
cause.
There are just two classes of
people who are responsible for
the evil, and they are equally
culpable, and should be held in
equal reproach by those not re-
sponsible.
First comes the merchant who
either will not part with his
goods unless . he can get two
prices for them, or who will not
use his local newspaper to let the
public know that they can find
in his store just as good arti-
cles, and just as good assort-
ment, and at just as reasonable
prices, as they can find describ-
ed in the catalogues sent into
every home in the country by
the mail-order concerns.
Second comes that class of
men and women who think that
anything they send out of town
after is just necessarily better
and more reasonably priced than
what they could buy at home.
They send their moneys out of
town for the things they need
without ever giving the stocks
of the home dealers "the once
over." ]
Gentle reader, most of the
lines of merchandising in Hearne
are represented by one or more
dealers who, with ample capital,
and with ample capacity for
judicious selection of the needs
of the buying public, search the
markets of the country for the
best and most reasonably priced
goods in their respective lines,
and who buy/their goods to sell
and not to rot and deteriorate
upon their shelves.
These men pay taxes, contrib-
ute liberally to all the commu-
nity needs, and are entitled to
your preference when you are
making your purchases in their
lines.
' This editor has never con-
tended and will never contend
that local patriotism and town
pride should compel you to pay
double prices to some local
lepch; but he does urge that
those many Hearne business
men who have a real conception
of proper merchandising and
who give high-class goods and
high-class service, at reasonable
prices, are entitled to your
trade. Give these men your
business and watch Hearne
grow. The other kind of mer-
chants will shrivel up and drop
out anyway in course of time.
—Hearne Democrat.
Pay the President
PIANOTUNING
Tuning voicing, repairing, and
action regulation.* Charges reas-
onable. Work guaranteed. I
will appreciate your work. Tele-
phone or drop me a postal.
Lauris Mallard,
, Tehuacana, Texas.
W.SJ9
For a first class lunch, either
hot^or cold, visit Paul Ander-
son's lunch room in rear of Par-
ker's cold drinks place. Service
to families and lunching parties
a specialty.
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Houx, N. P. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 19, 1918, newspaper, September 19, 1918; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth302551/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.