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3,580 GERMAN PRIMS war ana men States Entered the War Are Being Treated in Most Humane Manner. By FREDERICK C. for United States Commissioner oi Immi-i tt lire .1 Now York. I n.u„.. Mid Thu ileveloned it nnu It hag becu nearly sixty years since I hp Vailed States has held any pnno- nn American soil.

And the prl onera of the Civil war were our own people split asunder by the strife over slavery- Already there are matelv S.500 German prisoners in the United States- Tliey are not captives In battle. They have never seen the trenches, but portion of them were active participants In the war ns officers and seamen on the Gorman sea rntdcr Prlnz Kltel Frledrlch. widen ventured Into Hampton Kouds for 11114. But iBlnnd iinmlEVlition stntl New Tori; and on na In Bostnn harbor under the Jurisdiction of the United States Immigration nuthorllles. The officers nnd sailors of the Frlnz Bltel Frtedrlch were ilrst taken tc Philadelphia and then to Fort thorpe.

Go. Under the provisions of The Hague tribunal, agreed to by all the pollers, prisoners of war hnve certain rights. They may not he compelled to" work at anything that will contribute to the military activities of the government. They arc to hnve means of communication with (heir friends. If they do any Industrial work, they ure to be paid on Ihe same schedule of wages ns thnt paid to officers nnd soldiers of the same grade In the ormv.

ninis of Aiaerlcn and i hiimnni that our humanity would serve ns menns of protection tn American sol illers who might become ol i war In German camps. Camps Built by Germans. TTot Springs, In Ihe mountains North Cntolinn, vns selected as an Internment ennip for Ihe Interned sen men. It lies far from the sea and nestles In the midst of mountain ranges In western North Carolina. Other war prisoners lire Interned FoTt Mfl'hPrsnu and where cantonments have been erected Similar to those occupied by troops.

These camps were built by Ihe Germans under direction of American officers and are surrounded hy sKick-adep. Belays of oflirers and seamen were irniisported from New York end Bos-Ion to Hot Springs during (he summer and early fall months of 1017. and from out the crews of the ships nil kinds nf mechanicians nnd artisans were selected. And the German prisoners were S't 1" w-ork hulldiue their own camp. When the work was completed ther.

was nothing for Ihe men to do. Then was no provision for nctlvltles except such sports ns the men themselvc: A larse number wen migiit Aud the Germans hove been per- ihd. perfected It until what a few months ago was merely an Internmeui has now become a center in kl nd of activity- the river banks a German vlllaKe was lain out, 11 is suggestive of Old neldelbcrg, the crooked streets of Nuiuln-rg. or some Utile Ullage 1" the Black mountains. One almost forgets that one Is In the mountains North Carolina as lie walks along I he narrow, crooked streets nr (his German flanked on either side by nrlistlc plnyhmiHes buHt by the men themselves.

The f.w llv lie ill. the erent majority of our prisoners enlous stovcs 1 nr war are officers and sailors, the ir are omcers ni.u keen mem v. aim while over BO ncruuiiis were a rrnrden. And bronglit across (he Pacific hi Wns comiileted the men York from the harbor of wnononou. tnnmiese.

Since Ihe outbreak of (he war. too, German and Austrian subjects, Horn bankers to stevedores, have been arrested as alien enemies and placed in temporary detention at various plnces throughout rbe United Stntos awaiting dual action by the government. We were new In war unprepared lor prisoners of war. And whatever the treatment or Germany to American prisoners, the United States (hat German iirisoiicrfl held here should be treated oa the assumption of the president that this whs a war not ngniust the German the great majority of prisoners were here on a peaceful errand; they lind conic in thole ships, of which Ihe greatest of nil was the Vntcrlanil, now the Leviathan, and were marooned In American waters. They remained Siy their ships for nearly tliree years.

But they were trained men. Many nr all of them were reservists. Identified with the fa therland (Hlllt. tn picked stewards and employees of the l.er-1 And me man inorciiaiil -nouses nre seined bv our rovenmieni thn of war and men who are held ns suspects who nave been arrested la vnrlons of the country. There were 20 merchant ships which hnd tpon In the harbor of New York since September, 101-1.

They hnd on hoard about 1,100 Germans who were taken from the ships nnd interned at islinrV There were other Ger- alili.u nf Boston, l'ni-lll IllCtl, linnlii'p. trom nroki-u branches of trees, from nine piece-- wood. They are shinned witu and are papcreil wllhla unci uuieu very little expense. At of the roadway is a miniature Gothic church, lis lines are good; it lins pews within it. a pulpit, and all the accessories of a church.

But it Is merely a piny church. Flowers of nil kinds are planted, and In a diort time the German village was a thin worn ho hnd con ducted these iialhllnfTs ork'iinineu classes for study. One of those nooses Is an artist's studio; two or three ml cnblnetninklai; simps. Sonic old men are Tliey are iilyln.c; all the Irades that they learned In llieir idle hours on shipboard. Wonderful mu sic work iniuli; nut of lii-'iir Is turned out, as ace Ml He ships compu-ie In every detail.

M. C. A. Takes Hold. Vniinj.

Men's Christian assocla- llnn followed the Oermnns to Hot II- has followed our sol diers to their eimkmmeuts. mid II ranie with plans for service, with enonch to buy lumber, hut an money Men's Christian association culled a number of the Herman sen- In llieir and assert lliciu if thev would he willing to hnlld a Tilling Men's Chrlstlnu nssoelntlnn building If supplied with uuiterlol anil tools. Inimedlnlely tlie men organized a consl ruction sipiad. They gave their Inlior griilnltously. They erected a big building, probably COO by 150 feet, ar-, tlsticnlly duslirned.

ns cluliroom and The great majorlly of these prison- I elnsses were filled. Four hundred men h.i,i fur sit months at the enrolled. Tlie Ger- produceil their own teacliers. Classes were csiahllshed In elr Sccretarv of Liihor Wilson, when dcnlng. confronted with the maintenance and Life Is Irksnme In any camp care of 2.000 German subjects placed men get what (he call th nnder his care, ninny ol wl i had Ihu-Ik v.

Stntesi ahOUld set II fitflll (III Fll I with llOlhlug 11) lli of prison admtnlslinlinn in harmony with the disinterested and nonpunlti SMOKES MADE 3 TRIPS BEFORE TRUTH KNOWN Pittsburgh, Umca during the last two years box of cigarettes was sent to Tnhn Grnhnm. wlin me I Hie Fifth Regiment Iloyul Irish Hides nffirprs and Men From the Vessels Interned at the Beginning oi tne FrincCi llirec tnS omoers ana men Unjted tM tack not until the last time Ihat the scDder, Thomns Crnhani, knew his brother was dend. A letter iiuin jnroroment came wllh the cigarettes the Inst time. It was said that John Graham had been killed In action December 1010. one day after he went Into the trenches.

CHINESE OFFERS TO HELP Widow Offers Her Services as Stenog rapher, Bookkeeper or interpreter. T.inhr, ihe wom en of Boise City were bflna registered secretary should there be Home posi for war work, the registrars were to I earn ihat women of all nationalities were wining to offer their services to Ilic government. A little Chinese widow expressed her willingness to "go anywhere" as a steuug-rnpber, bookkeeper or private secre-I ary. there is a pusltlou wncre my knowledge mlKht he of special nine to mv couniry, she nnueu cttlv as she registered. "I would be, ns iiil eriiret er nnd private tion In the government service wuere a knowledge of Chinese would be need ed." Airs.

Chin Sao, or Lena Ah Fouk, as tike Is known to her many Bolsa friends, was graduated from the Bolsa public schools, eraauatliie with the second highest Honors aer lolned the Congregational chnreh of Boise and became so popular Ihat wheu she was married the churcn members deeornted liic cluircli for the She has acted as alliclal interpreter it tlifl Boise courts for a number of critter. "He's a splndlln'. worthless, mangy and wouldn't even have the sann to bark If soaie one got In our hen roost," said Mm. with a sarcastic tnna In his voire. mind." replied airs, lien.

with a knowing smile, "try hlru out. Give iiliu a chance- has only pup. Coming home after dark a few nights later, Ben hnd occasion to go to ihe hen house to see if all were them. Nero henrd the noise. So did lira.

Bon. "Sick him, N'ern," called Mrs. Ben. He grabbed Mr. Ben mid advanced Enidlsli.

Other classes amj a few minutes. tore his ciotn-were rormed In French and la Span- shreds. Then he got a good Gl.r.„M„inrf elieilllStrV. 1PI7. TlOO COt bUSV.

murine eaKlneerlne. ami navigation nre taught. All day nnd all evening Ihese classes are ul work studying viirbniH suhji-els. Similar were orgnnlwd In the "Ulcers' detention camp. The Young Men's Christian nssncla-(ion has also stnlloned snci etnrles nnd inntigurated work at Fort Oglethorpe nnd Fort Mcriicr.son, and lit Fori Douglas.

Tllah. They hnve hvnrtllv Willi ihe Kovermaeut nnd have rendered most vnlnnlilo serv-Ice along the lines of work usually carried on hy ihe religious, eiluenrloniil. aihletlc. innalc, and gnr half an hour to pry open the Jaws Nero. Ben has changed his TO GROW A "B0SC0BEL OAK" Oregon Students Plant Aeorns From Tree Charles II.

0 Hldlno Plate. Acorns from tlie oak trec which King Charles tne seconu used ns hiding place from the Lroni-wcli forces were planted on the Uni versity of Oregon campus here and nra. expected to produce a second "Bosco-hel onk." The story Is told thnt while Charles IT was hiding In the nrlglnnl Boscobel "Wis dew mil, 1'rlgbteaeii hy ihe That is the most Cromwell men. nnd that he King nrlsonek Is relatively easy. so gave up the chase.

VICTIMS OF THE BOCHE PIRATES I ALL PUPS NOT WORTHLESS Nero Proves Csse to Hlu Master When Latter Comes Home After Dark One Night. Snillh Center, Mrs. Ben Butler took little spindling bull pup to i employed In the kitchen tliey kept no pliotograph of the three sole surviving members or ir, nrrter: ran the pumping i Gecmnn U-hoat. m.iw otheri. looked after the water the crow of a snip whkh the sailors cllni- and electricity.

Picture was takci by one- of the fl(JRIe(1 th(1 wflterg Fr'fictMly nil the work inside the i lug Jo camp Is performed by the Germans. 1 1 day and a Half. (o ulcturlze the explosions of The photOKi-npher with moving picture caracrn i. h'lllton iUlVe Just iouud the range. man shells in the vauey ueiuw, Make Fortunes by Smuggling i -J I kroner on a coffee deal, Is spending It, Traders Goods From Finland buyillE for Dverj, BUe who win accept.

Into Sweden, uringmy Enormous Returns. AIDED BY FRONTIER LAXITY Haparanda Is the Dawson of Sweden1 Now Klondike Where Gold and Wine Flow Typical Night Scene. Toruea, The Tornea river la frozen over again and business is good In smugglers haven, iruu n. tmidcn of Lapland down tn ice-fllled Tornea oaj, oo dies soutli of the circle, sledges i-Plnileer. dOES and ponies are crunching acrtisa the river by night, laden to the runners wim reii.

coffee, rubber and sugar, nil nouuu iui Sweden, where they am worth ainio-si. their w-elglit In gold. Their sources are Hussia and ..,,.1 tKoir immfidiate destiaation Haparanda, an the Swedish side of the Tornea river, where ex-sallors, hotel waiters and a typical collection of hand over ftst and drinking chempngne for breakfast. Haparanda is Swedish, as diHerent from war dtsrxaclec! nnd revolution-ridden Busslan Turuea as If it were hundreds of miles away, instead of being separated only by a ten-mlnutc sleigh ride In winter and a ten-minute i Bummer. iierOSS the milc- wtde.

salmDn-Olied river. Hapurauda in tho rimrsnn of the new Klondlk and Its gold comes from sledges I slip by tin llussinu frontier guards, full of the commodities Sweden needs. It is nearly Arctic.rfinu in uie of winter, there Is daylight only five hours. Frontier Customs Post, npfore the war Haparanda wus a tiny village, a frontier customs post. The Busslan frontier gendarmes were vigilant and Uiose who slipped through from Finland with smuggled goods were very few and far between, nnd there was less Incentive to smuggle, for Sweden Imported freely from across tlie seas.

The war made rivnl of Archangel and lis "orl of entry tuto Russia. Haparanda shared the gain. Business buildings of wood and a large hotel thnt looks like a typical American small town bull sprang up almost 'crulght. II is still growing, Th. Ami the golden egg thnt buys wine and keeps the poker games going lives over la Finland, wldch.

although sliorl or loan "sen, uenuiis millions "i kroner worm to slip through every mouth. A year ago a Swedish prcacnor, on an Innocent mission, was shQt by a Russian frontier gunrd. The trouble that resulted led to almost complete laxity at the frontier, and now on any dark night scores sleighs slip river, unmolested, and tie-' posit their cargoes on the Swedish nf Ihe coeds co through the Swedish customs hoii'-'i-s, and the duty Is pnld. Evan with the Swonisn duty there Is (rciuendouH proSlt on the shlnments. n.nt tin, Finnish acents se cure for ten kroner a kilo nound-) brings -0 across Ihe ironder.

Small boys, mullled in great overcoats. waddle across the river on skns wiin rubber lires for automobiles wrapped around t'neir ami rubber la ihe most difficult of nil commercial prod nets to obtain la Sweden. Its export from Russia is forbidden. "Gay White Way" Always Filled, I The are Ihe richest, but Hnparnnda's 'tiny White the is filled dilways with other spenders. Mere Is a lypical picture of any night In llapnnin.la when business Is good on the Tornea.

The coffee room is crowded early. A Serbian "kappel- melster" tunes np his vioiln. A younji Austrian with bass viol ana tnreo pltinip, smiling German girls, with mandolins, the rest, ol nrcnesrra, play American ragtime. Swedish bar-BiBios hurry about with ehnmpigne other wines, just as expensive, i TtiTinF SwhIc. with r.

blank-look. fice, v.t,v has Jast made lO.OOO liilile. lIllSV but digni rroun of Swedish officers stiffly re ject such familiarity. At the other ni-o Russian officers. In civilian clothes, who have slipped cross irom prohililUon Tornea to make night of It; Finnish smugglers, over ior same purpose, nnd perhaps dozen Englishmen, Americans or renuina.ii.

Just escuped from Russia's troubles and stopping until the night train for Stockholm, all glad for hreuth of gayetv in a neutral town. This is any but un "punch days," the three days each month when it it in sell brandy Mid oth er spirits, the line or 'Slcuges imu Hio Tnmea Is continuous, and In ttie bedlam of noises the 'knppelmels- tDr" mid his nlaveis cannot make themseivcB heurd. So tliey make It unanimous and join the crowd PLANS TO DROP BOMBS NEAR DAD'S OLD HOME Madison, "I'm going to fly back to Berlin, where you came from, dad, nnd drop a bomb somewhere near your old home." That's the wny Lloyd A. Lehr-bass, a student In tile course In journalism at the State University, informed Ids falher that he had enlisted In the aviation service of Ihe United Stales Army. The father's reply to ihe ernes-sage was lod hless yon, son.

nroud nf YOU." Lenri'iisx-s lacker was npvlln. hut enme to Amerlcn Ids pnrents when only four years years OWtrWrWW Kaiser. with www- SOLVES THE SPEED PROBLEM Lathe Turns and Bores Sb'slls With Entreme aiant Planer First Metal aVorklng Machine Built of Concrete and Iron. While the entire country I. i ii.

iAL.ii.Kii In" furnishing munitions for war pur poses? Chleagonus have been quietly solving Ihe proDiem in now niHvlmuni number nf big guns and shells In the shortest possible time. As a result, Chicago 1ms nccome an active center for ihe manufacture of machinery for smashing Von lllnden-hnrg's defenses. The first of the newly Invented machines being made here Is a lathe which turns and horcs shells with extreme speed. 'I he second is machine M- enns of anv size or length, nnd the ihird Is a planer of record-breaking size. The planer is l.uiit nt concrete nnd lion and is the tlrst metal-working machine that has eier been bail I of that combination.

It Is the biggest machine of Its kind in ihe world. These machines nre so unusual In construction, and enn be unlit with such speed that the methods ol mnuu-fiicture have attracted wide attention nmong experts. Eaves Two Years' Delay. Machinery used for wnr purposes formerly wns made so slowly that It ImmiSBihle to sutinlv with 11 the present demand for tiulck con struction. An nttempt to nuuu me Wg planer of Iron, according to tneihnds.

would have meant delay of at least two years. The machine for boring guns la B0 fceu long and weighs 00 tons. But It ccn be placed in the mammoth planer, which has bed 184 feet long and weighs noch more than 2,000,000 pnunds, The of Ihe mnehlnea la FATHER, HUSBAND AND SON Loyal Woman Experiences War Hor rors Thrice ana Right On. Helena, Four '-vara have torn the life nf Mrs. IV.

C. Almon, but she struggles brnveiy to do her bit In this the greatest struggle- Mrs. Almon, who is seventy-three years old. Is a nr lenlrmniit. Mont, and Is here her son, W.

S. Almon, a prominent rnerehnnt. When she was two years old, ber father left their Illinois home to light the Mexicnns. He returned snieiy, tho civil war broke out lie again enlisted nnd was killed nt Vlcks- hurg. Mrs.

Almou's tneu ner In the same regiment, Mrs. Almon was a Woman's Belief corps leader during the Spanish war, giving both her money and her time to the cause. Now she Is here to bid -oortbv lo her son who shortly goes to the'front In the aviation corps. And she knits right on. LARGE FEET GETS HIM OFF Negro In Discharged From Army Be-cause of Enormous Pedal Extremities.

San Antonio, Private Ivey Cleveland, negro, Twelfth company, Third hattnllon, Oue Hundred and Six-tv-flfth Depol brigade, Camp Travis, wk ro the Brazos "bottoms," here shoes are not essential, tie will take with hlru an honorable discharge, as lie lias tlie biggest feet of any man who ever I rod the parade ground at Camp Travis. Tie niiivcd at the eunip wen ring -o pair of No. hrogans. which were too small. Hv nnd hv Cleveland's No.

14's tn wear out, and nrmy oflicers tried to find a shoe to at him. They tried a pair of No. double shoes, but Cleveland could not begin to get fppt In them. Rather than go to the expense of having shoes made at a cost of or $20. Private Ivey was given his honorable discharge.

MACHINES SPOUT SHELLS AND GUNS Monster Creations of Sled Concrete to Help Crush tlie family has produced since the days when one of his ancestors made muskets for the Revolutionary army. Font- of the big planes are being built and one lu almost finished, al- llaiugh the drawings for It were not ready until Christmas day. Instead requiring two years for the work, the first machine will be wurklng within two months from Hie time its foundations were dug. Can Handle Big Cannon. Each of the planers costs S85.0G0.

A all the uiaiurial upou ih'jy work will be eitremelv hcavv two traveling crimes nre being put op nearby. The boring machines whicli nre to he made on the planers can handle a eauuoii oS feel long and having a caliber of 1-4 or ifi inches, close to the limit nf heavy ordinance. Several thousand of tho shell mnk; lug machines hnve been produced. Each of. these machines ran turn and bore a shell in from lo to 50 minutes and is usually run -1 hours ti diiy- One company has Just placed an order for more lhan 100 of (hose machines, a second ordered and a third 30.

They make the American 8 nnd flinch shells and the British O.Mnch shells. The French are the same size as tbs American. These machines (urn out shelis tnat are meant only for high explosives. The shop In which these mnchioes an; being made was built In IS dnys and great speed has marked every step In the work. The machines weigh ten tons each and nre sold at SS.0OO.

They are to be turned out in immense DUxn-hers during (lie next few months. Girl Yell Leader. Berkeley, Junior class at the University of California has shat. tered oil precedent by electing girl as yell leader. She Is Miss Marlon Sutton, and she rtcelved more than twice as many rotes as her male ml-veraary, J.

F. White, who that many of the men of the cists thrflw bltn down t'u.