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Show After his successful camps against the Apaches in A:..on,i Crook, m 1875, was to the command of the Department of the Platte and the year, in his expedition against tl e All Is !ot ICelles Sioux and Cheyennes, proved bow valuable a pack Ingrid Had I'rotni' train is. After the disaster to Gen A M usu ian's Needs George A. Custer and his Seventh cavalry on June 25, lUT, the Ily Virginia Vain forces of General Crock and Gtn Alfred II Terry, Custer's superior Reieatl by Western Newspaper Union.) officer, united to pi: sue the PLENTY of bets were won1 hostiles. A in Hollywood when RKO "In two things the coin u hum decided to shelve the first the Yellowstone (Teriy's n was sadly defi enh in Orson Welles film, Heart of Darkness. cavalry and in rapid People in Holly- -' u St writes Bourke. wood were against Welles be-- ! cavalry was in need of fore he arrived there; they half of its or, gin.il like him in advance, didnt i been k.ib or numbers having wounded m the affair of t' Rig and lost few chances to prove , ado up, it. It was too much for the Ilurn; the ns it necessarily was, of an, mats film colony to have a man detaken out of the tracts of the mand the world with a pink heavy wagons, was the sa , st ribbon tied around it, and n burlesque in that direcu, w: eh it has ever been my lot to wit- get it. ness for this no blame was That was practically what Vellei to Terry, who was do- did. He Insisted on producing, writing the best he could with the ii.6, directing and acting In whatmeans allowed him in Washing- ever picture he decided to make ton . . . Crooks pack-trn was RKO agreed. a marvel of system; it mainAnd after some weeks of trying to tained a discipline much severer and finally postponing get than had been attained by any the started, first picture while a second, in ; under column either company Smiler With a Knife, got under the indefatigable supervision of way. It was announced that all beta Tom Moore, Dave Mears and oth- were off, so far as Heart of Darkers, who had had an experience ness was concerned. The reason of more than a quarter of a century, our mules moved with a precision to which the worn-ou- t .p-- Order Retiring Some of Army's jcent fjp achieve 0 make" ' Days ;ed darts buijiess well-organiz- Indian-Fightin- 4' Bat - c WATSON SCOTT , of streamlining now regular army, fyapld process, may l2ry to keep pace demands of modern 1 but as a result of it ' of men iglum group our soldiets They are the who J c-- pack-tram- n have the lmg-eare- d the ma-ju- n, opds used by s andhead-;;rhowitzer the of companies - regiments infantry j v streamlined the Hrst, divisions Second in j East; the the and the Southwest; coast; Pacific on the Fifth, in the Middle in-f- a aeW .j been ordered to their animals to uartermasters depart-a- s n result of the of these kv have k.a?-V- .vl- com-motorizati- on which will speed u tactical movements quarter-er-genera- the waistL's e, a smoct1 ith your an make it ith built-u- rovides for : of whole ward-- t and da: i make the" and values xurious pL rie crepes u make yo. Pattern No izes 36, 38 and 52. as; TnV pack-mul- 8 e. cuss words to which the green pack mule has given rise. He will not mind the bell, will wander away from his comrades on herd and in sundry and divers ways demonstrates the perversity of his nature. To contravene his maliciousness, it is necessary to mark him in such a manner that every packer will see at a glance that he is a new arrival, and thereupon set to work to drive him back to his proper place in his own herd. The most certain, as it is the most convenient way to effect this, is by neatly roach-m- g his mane and shaving his tail so that nothing is left but a pencil or tassel of hair at the extreme end. He is now known as a shave-tai- l and everybody can recognize him at first sight. His d comrade sedate and is called a These terms, in frontier sarcasm, have been transferred to officers of the army who, in the parlance of the packers, are and shaveknown as tails, respectively, the former being the old captain or field officer of many fogies, who knows too much to be wasting his energies in needless excursions about the country, and the latter, the youngster fresh from his studies on the Hudson (at West Point), who fondly imagines he knows it all, and is not above having people know that he does He is a shave-tai- l all elegance of unispick-spanew, well form, and without sense groomed, enough to come in for feed when the bell rings . . . An Animated Sight. There are few more animated sights than a pack train at the moment of feeding and grooming the mules. The care shown equals almost that given to the average baby, and the dumb animals seem to respond to all attentions. General Crook kept himself posted as to what was done to every GEN. GEORGE CROOK mule, and, as a result, had the satisfaction of seeing his trains burlesques, and killed more mules carrying a net average of 320 than they helped in carrying pounds to the mule, while a pamtHeir loads. Crook insisted upon phlet issued by the government d bad explicitly stated that the having each mule provided with for exceed not made especially an aparejo So that, v.ewed in him, saying that it was jut as ridiculous to expect a mule to . 'e mc . soi did light, the care t' behowed mg Ger:J Crook wonderful carry a burden with an be to ercc would it as yielded ins tiams upon aparajeo ' ;l a soldier to march comfortably r;i'cd th,lt resubs. fit not fiom one d'd with a knapsack which tbe gc rral u i r.ut shounal ir. pec rs and s back in his boui to to pi t.io squarely lders. Every article used in these la n f t,i e wotk.ngs if hiS tiams be t e t M me pack trains had to be of exthec lent , ' i e IS t ( "tn es cni at n i n tl the for very materials, pspr t tad reason that while out on sooi.i. d t ! i rt it r'C r, was impossible to replace no- t c be 3 to m.g' thing broken, and a column e ire la1, J cf be embarrassed by t' of a train to arrive with an. muv)i s vw4re pack-maste- shoulder 1 yard s er to mules. The 5 not mean, however, "army mule is a vanish-'enca- n. does Dept,, R: a., San Fra: 5 cents (it ki Take the word of Van Voorhis has been in the cav-b- r Daniel 3! He almost 40 years and he and commanded iem mechanized Seventh ty brigade at Fort Knox. He 's that the day will never hen an army can get along mules and horses and organized Cougb non co!i! Hang s eves prompt tothe seato enn laden p and aid as." t iw, tender, ,cous memt: my medics ur druggist1 lomulsionv; it you are to allays the ( your money ULSIC Colds, Broot upon motors. cient though .e!y can and enduring hen munitions and be ' types of transported terraine. s more tb to ; have -- Proverb. hyp- sup-t- o over Pack Train Tamous. future of the oiule may be, he has n a permanent and hon-ac- e in the military his- over the al-o- our ndthrift Speedy trucks and motorized vehicles may be, never entirely replace retorted country. Especially true during the Indian in the West and the of that era is filled with "ces t0 the pack trains of 5;? their masters, the i,,whlch accompanied e army expeditions v.e redshns Outstand-- ; g the successful Indian-i!?,- S -- Gen' 5 -- George Crook part of his success his recognition of the 'g0d Pack train and his ot,on to hae one of the this ib'pan ducinPing to the forces dlinn2 the :n Arizona in is.. Fadesprfn(ties ;,rd some of Ptionc of the opera- tram are to C?tbok "0n the Bor- (Polished by cam!mmanri 4Sk bcrjer.s Sn,.s bell-shar- high-shoul- ill-fi- -, i c -- nition or rations therefoie. or. the score of economy, it v os potter to have all the very it t m in the first place . t ( - Wise Old Mules. mules of a tram old The jn hf' V r f cl V V 41 c b t:e J t - . Crock d'd not 1" e to the c, ; t tiers e f f tl C I C '.i j . j . t l t r, in lun i ;t, 'to.Vas J.. API o v f ci V f Lire Rung f rty ri v. , j ues n r ii t f Frazer n H rk J m ) Nell, Vthe i i - iN of i rn e t er i r- e it Cl to corn-- n T r v 'g'-.- . L s i cpi- r-- as Captain Bourke did Crook, let it be added even severer criticism tered by an officer in enth cavalry. He was General that an was utthe Sevthe late WEEK of r u- er- - i N 1895. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, who as a young lieutenant fresh from West joined the Point (a shave-tail)- , Seventh a few weeks after the disaster to Custer. Two years later young Scott was stationed with his regiment in the Black Hills when General Sheridan arrived to locate the new post of Fort Meade. In his book Some Memories of a Soldier (published by the Century company m 1928) General Scott When Ingrid Bergman arrived recently In New York on her way back to Hollywood to make Joan of Arc" she made two definite statements to the press. (1) If she becomes famous she will not forget her husband, back in Stockholm. (2) During this stay In the United States she absolutely will not lose her head over American Ice cream, as she did the last time she was here. As a matter of faet, she has already become famous. Contrary to custom, she was introduced to the public in her first American picture, without the usual Intermezzo, trust-bustin- o bal- 1 - ' Ge--r,- e -' .'.ns, - -, e'f-r.enr- I - -- ? - t pro-(ffec- cd : ! c ' 'T'lIE of free for-al- l American Journalism, in which public officials sometimes owe their high status to an understanding Bf newspaper U. S. Has r.i n ! i e in r e. .- i i' u-(ut ,.,rv , . long , p York. Mystic Ilad Come Short On That Routing Service The man sat with his hand outstretched as the fortune-telle- r read his palm. See that line? asked the mystic, pointing to the fellows palm. "That means that you are going to take trip in tlie very neai future. To Chicago, perhaps. When he left the fortune-telle- r the fellow hurried to the railway station. "A ticket to Chicago," he directed. Right, sir, replied the clerk. Single or return?" The fellow stuck out his palm. I dont know, he said. Take a look! i g easy-goin- Edge On Europe in . Press Relations meB ,nd how to get on with them, has m glv- - coun. try an advantage over Europe in wartime presa relations. In the World war and now in the present war Europe has demonstrated the limitations of even the most intelligent of its bureaucrats In with the press. While England and France have, traditionally, a free press, the human contacts between the correspondents and high officialdom are still lacking, and both countries are snarled in censorship troubles At the start of the war, libiral opinion noted with satisfaction that France and England had appointed. of re'pi ctivcly, to their minstrus irifi rmation, a distinguished hti rary man and playwright, and a lending vholar. It seemed to tie an exern pUiontion of their war aims But. I, he Hie brass hats of the past, they d dnt seim to undi rstand newspj l s or new I 'paper men. MacMillan The scholarly of England has faded hito the haikground, and his press tensor, ice Admiral C. V. Ishorne, Is replaced by the cluhhy and gregarious Mr Walter T. Moni In $ ranee, Jean Glradoux, tlie pla wriglit, Is still minister of Information, hut bis office lo-- I spires bitter stories in the Amer-- ' reli an press about fantastic strictions. The censorship tangle is an issu- - at daily mounting im-- i parlance In I ranee. Newspaper men liked M. Gira doux tremendously when he was ap( kc smsn for the French ministry of fore pn affairs a few years ago H w s perhaps, in Goethea phrase, "all to human" for any careful gr((V,rp of public opinion his own is iron c and whimsical and has been s.irri unded w.th a bulwark of buir aucracy agi.nst which pew-p- a for a loss He pi r rr r arc er,n rg mom-- led gr ot'e-- ui is a 'of rA. wh w o s eve rili pas, eel n i ' j ll"n i . -- k lyhoo. experienced actress the toughest kind of opposition. a Disgrace. Miss Bergman should be perfect The Seventh cavalry officers for Joan of Arc; her beauty, all made an official call on Gen- talent and sincerity make it fitting in the eral Sheridan in a body that the role should be hers. tent of our colonel (Samuel Sturhospital tent, gis). It was a large boy t in ODDS AM) hM)S-- Th but it was so full and my rank so Johnny Green I Johnny i'rrirnts" innot could I entirely get low h in e diyrovrred a neui way of side. Sheridan expatiated upon refining after rehearsals ; they hold a the value such a post would have, jam lemon on toy instruments . . . when Indians broke away from Kofierl Jay lor sot the coreted role oj the Nebraska agencies and went the hero of "K alerloo Bruise oppo-- I north toward the camp of Sit- site J n ian I eigft; it uas rumored that to Fort Laurence Vln I er, lie hero of her pri-ting Bull; a telegram enable a i ale life, rmgfil set it , . . Greer Gar Meade, he said, would off son, instead of Norma Shearer, uill do cavalry force to head themhand "1ride arid I'ri pidire . . . So Joan in I took my courage here. Cranford S1' the had in "Sioan and and asked if he thought that post God," for it ho h Miss (, arson u si hed would be any good here without tiled . . . And Miss Xieorer mil do the Instead of having hlrn iminn ol the llroatlu in smress, a pack-traiW " me thrown u it, it seemed to 1 he if orld e hike ho for r gut, him just str.ke The mm of m i. y a s'ud r t rnu-- i to o.ir (o'.tc), saying t nan is to inn! 8 ; b in radio, pri f w.u t a pack-traido yen 'Sjin, tra i r.iblv on a r 'work iiT nrcht I 11 give you o e r It's a 52 '.i'!' a v ir Job, nt a s u linev-i-had i th i l:y Sc. The t .i - .tv odi r ng a d grec f tiain before, st,on had a uni p di ult to find anywhere s r Terry thought t ejrmtyir t.'-L,.tuU-I d .ins with vou con cl c: Frankie sx-iruteam, i ,gh he never eor.dut .T g Moits iif t . V,never we en d.d it hin f r n- re ti o a d no General on hy ,our tired a ivice to t1 si- - trv f the Platte Crooksd.p- - i.M the 'Dont expel t to gel anywhere Just r awav fum evident, for n your ability to plav onp type of e father of music well on one instrument, he General Cr k staff mush ian's daily Cus- sas. J train. r. the moi.cn :p a range from swing rovers lmoro-visc- d work n w-,ace. a ter's tra n to svmphony, and the mush lan who S taken froni fiom Ue c that range hasn't tv.e w ugiii ti aii c o hs packers ran't enronipass And theres s constant IDs a ihance. vere vu'hu' r r miles and demand for men who lan play two i train w as u been lv caplured or more inslrumr nls. could it.it. k about m hadthelndc J an Je ,r' firms to have been frugal quar tv. :thc' " 'd br'dc when the vi rv v.e' orhe - - ' terma-e- r ft e marr d 'A a 'c r Warger. the b us : t r She w re i ix, Ar'7 in H General S J 1 r. " H78 surviv. n a and a mi rs rire-- s iv j bege even ! And hr the tat ;r r'it ne.iwr the aim th:d t. e Batchei : ie-- i a groom a n ever, sn e v. ,i s of muhe .vl i b.t r nt after ( rr it n'e it ,i ' a" w It i ir " .t rt c S; ;m r r r hoTllir il i You sent te ' " ; ,ic hi r ( ; 1u tn.it y,2 w ar d , r i I t ,n n.e ( t- step-by-ste- g to-da- r. button-up-the-bae- stenographer and court clerk at 18, and soon thereafter a law school graduate and practicing lawyer. Ills appointment as national commissioner of baseball grew out of the "Black Sox scandal In 1919. She saved Uie picture, despite the faet that Leslie Howard, Edna Best, and two enchanting children were also In the cast and an enchanting child ran give the most frock to make them pufeetly at home in that modern dining room. If your chairs do not have tlie suppoits ihown at the sides of the scat they will be even easier to This cover is of medium blue cotton rep with darker blue for the bias binding and the cotton fringe around tlie bottom. Large button moulds are covered with tlie slip cover material for tiie opening. If you are not expert at making bound buttonholes, snaps may be used under tlie buttons. The narrow ties sewn to the corners of the inside of tlie seat cover hold it neatly In place. Mrs. Spears Sewing NOTE: Book No. S contains six other interesting ways to use slip covers, with directions. There are 32 pages of fascinating ideas. braided rugs; Spool shelves; crazypateh quilts; many embroidery designs with numerous stitches illustrated. Ask for Book 3 and enclose 10 cents coin to cover cost. Address: Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New slip-cove- fine. He was a newsboy In Logansport, baseball player; a Ind ; a semi-pr- writes: Custers Train - is en up brought the courtroom hub-hu- b Into something understandable. I managed to write a story about It without breaking my arm and got my first pat on the bark from a city editor who was no spendthrift with such gestures. The voltairean little Judge Landis was like that, and any newspaper man who ever knew him will Insist honorarium that his $C5,000-a-yea- r as baseball commissioner isn't half enough. He was a corporation lawyer before he began calling strikes on big business, and waa appointed to the federal bench by Theodore Roosevelt at the peak of T. R.'s rampage. In his dual capacity he has punished two of the major institutions of America, the Standard Oil company and Babe Ruth, the former with a $29,000,000 4 December, w Mountain Landis, freeing an oppressed minority of major and league Newshound Got minor baU pUyer5 Landis Aid and reminded this courier of the Praise of Chief blf bilzzard in Chicago, along about 1900. I was a new and bewildered reporter from the sticks, tossed Into the maelstrom of a federal court railroad case be- cause there was nobody else to send except tlie office boy. It was as intelligible as a squirrel cage. The defending attorney loosed a gas attack of statistics and my pencil dropped from my limp fingers. The Judge, a little, brown wheat-straof a man with a chrysanthemum thatch, got me tn the sharp focus of his bright agate eye. I hadn't been wrecking any trains or robbing banks, but I began to fear the worst I wondered whether my elaborate ignorance of what was happening could possibly be construed as a federal offense. Then the blow fell. The Judge gavelled down the spouting lawyer and aaid the court would take a brief recess. Then he beckoned me into his chambers. He asked me to ait given was that the budget for the picture well over a million dollars so high. It cost the company $160,000 to settle things up with Welles and the cast that he had assembled for the filming of the Conrad classic. And various Hollywoodites are collecting bets made with friends who were sure that the picture would reach the screen. Cinching up a pack mule from a drawing by Frederic Remington, illustrating On Frontier Service, by Lieut. G. TV. Van Deusen in the Outing Magazine, PARTON WN U Servlet.) (Coiuoliduled Kture YORK. The recent emanci- pation proclamation of Kene-sa- ORSON WELLES -- e e-- Of t n on y s in g ' e k c i lemm-- I n.r i well-behave- d hope-train- ci i: l T'i i a n sjority t . bp CM CCed, .i i ,c. n origin. 1 on th s trip r fit o- t ri ns if t .r! t s ci s an : i e I e e i t cim i - neces-C-an- tj i,;.', their business perfectly wi.l. a tm Bourke, who They need no one to sho.v a when is where their place or" ta ;Csrkwr:Sat a11 times evening's feed is toandbein an eve am ?amr,Ure W his men tioned on the canvas sedaa ad the d way deport themselves as members to do that he prim, vest ges er Wlde Sat exPeri- - society, from whom all of youth have frivolities of the to nothlng T1 ey nf;f.r elll organ- - been eradicated. C wander from the soun of the bel.. could foUnPPed PaCk train e t! to paCK a command and -- Wbvrt ' give no trouble tnP Uo m?1 aRd lnt every ers on herd. tl p r l mimt lnw But a far d.fferent story rcky, I" s insert ied or how be told of the inexner ey m. pn ? 'm fre.-,if made the study skittish young mule, tat study of the blue grass of Mism ,ri or and ha ui m A,ns the sati5 Nebraska. He is the sc uce s the V ,PC that the more profanity than he is under it not that the Rc eo wpa!t'-ene'e n such admir- - and were the understands Angel c moment tion in the case, fie w on il t r,'li :n other hands full in entering a G- THIS By LEMUEL F. By Rl'TII WYETH SPEARS NY dining room may be made fresh and smart with built-cupboards, a little paint and i. But what curtains. expensive may be done to bring a set of outmoded chairs The one sketched at the upper right is typical of many that are substantial and sturdy though scarred by long use. All that they need NEWS down. I hadn't Bern Then he said: you at the preaa table before. This rase ts confusing. I thought I might help you In getting It straight. It'a tike this . , . In a few concise sentences he pack-trai- n bell-shar- n . damaged more stores than Crooks command had spoiled from the same causes from the tune when the campaign commenced. But lest this unfavorable comment on the efficiency of the of a rival outfit be ascribed to the natural prejudice of an officer for his commander whom he admired and respected, well-traine- pack-cushion- s, of p Jr sections, his pack trains were selected as being best suited for the most arduous work . . . The idea upon which Crook :er infantry divisions as worked, and which he success iecome motorized. What fully carried out, was to select trains under the redone with these faith-easwho had enjoyed the widest expehas not yet been rience, and were by nature best l, nined by the adapted to the important duties but it is cere- they would be called upon to peral henceforth the mule-- : form. Those who were too much machine gun cart in addicted to alcoholic stimulants, or were for other causes unsuited, Sams army will be a were as opportunity presented rei the past. placed by better material. As reafter recruits will with the men, so with the anicollection mals; the the care of motors in-of bony giants and undersized mules and as a result Sonora rats, whose withers were .rite army joke will have always a mass of sores and whose hoofs were always broken and out revised. For years there of sorts, were as speedily as posm a saying among the sible sold off or transferred to mule-ers- " ihoys that the other uses, and in their places have associated we saw trains of animals which in their cantankerous weight, size and build, were of the type which experience had :es for so long that not shown to be most appropriate. their dispositions but "The aparejos or their facial characteris-im- e formerly issued by the quato resemble those rtermasters department, had been ts , comparison of clockwork is justly adapted. On the first days march, after meeting Crook, Terdropped, lost or rys pack-trai- n army during the Sioux Indian eiPA Ge,r,ge 1876-7war up a (From a photograph by Stanley J. Morrow; courtesy, University of South Dakota museum.) 7 miles per hour to 35 the same per hour and u in store for the mules I CnMk - O f v. all of ;ents A 1 e For Old Chair Set WHOS 1 these mule-me- IDaisi nt Mules Slip (w tl0n to e- tr:.n-.feue- Recalls Valuable Services of Pack Trains in g specially Heres New Dignity s , i, , e r d .i v v ' ' , , - i i x .ind a d i R i j i 1 ; i V. hi .o-- rt c r t .i.i a i, Hat a cold mada It burt ven to talk? Tliroat rough ad scratchy? Gat a box of Ludraa. Youll find Ludras pacial inffadiaoti, with cooling menthol, a greet ad in helping eoothe that aand paper throat P LUDENS j 1 r ' ' HI 'll, I '"I 5 Manthol Cough Drop! Let Sorrow Sleep When sorrow sleepeth, wake it not, but let it slumber on. Miss M. A. Stodart. WOMEN Heres amazing way to Relieve Regular Pains c. 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