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A veteran column lauds American Marines and other troops after World War I. It profiles Joseph Cummings Chase’s official portraits of generals and soldiers, highlights Lt. Philip Benson and Corporal Brocki, Corporal Gaultney, Private Devereaux, and Alvin C York, and notes York’s famed Act at Hill 228 and his moral awakening.
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Hun
Joseph Cummings Chase
War College
Chase
The
America
Philip Benson
Aero Squadron
Benson
Misczyslaw -Brocki
Sixteenth Infantry
Soissons
Brocks
Walter EB. Gaultney
Eleventh Infantry
Gaultney
Samson
I. J. Devereaux
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry
Qureq
Bolg Pelger
Devereaux
Sergi
Alvin C. York
Fall Mall
Fentress County
Fenn
Three Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry
York
Argonne
Chatel-Chehery
Leutenant
Church of Christ and Christian Union
E. C. B. Danforth
Camp Gordon
Ife
Tennessee Society
New York City
Pall Mall
Alvin
Grace Williams
God
General Federation Announces Americanization Plan
The General Federation of Women's Clubs with 2 000 000 members adopts an Americanization program led by Mrs John Dickinson Sherman with Mrs Thomas G Winter as director. Plans include institutes for practical work conferences neighborhood outreach and naturalization observation and education through schools libraries and community events.
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Naturalization Courts
General Federation Division of Americanization
Uncle Sam to Breed Horses for General Purposes
The United States will create a permanent horse breeding program for military and general use. A 14 member board will design the plan. remount service and Bureau of Animal Husbandry back it. 800 stallions may be needed nationwide with stations to be set in about a dozen places and five districts.
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United States
Remount Service
Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Jockey Club
Montana
Oklahoma
Virginia
Battle Over School Garden Army Funding in Congress
Lawmakers clash as the interior department touts the United States school garden army with 2,000,000 children while the agriculture department seeks control and funding. Baker of California and Boer of North Dakota press for placing the program under education. They cite costs, curriculum integration, and nationwide activity from cities over 2,000 population.
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Ebate
Interior and
Agricultural Departments
Bureau of Education of the Interior Department
United States
Agricultural Department
Interior Department
Baker
California
Houston
Boer
North Dakota
Bureau of Education
United States School Garden Army
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Equal Month Calendar Aims to Reform Year Structure
The Equal-Month Calendar association seeks a four week per month system to replace date-mixing. Proposed changes insert Liberty between February and March and create New Year and Correction days, making the year perpetual with uniform weeks and months starting on Monday.
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Minneapolis
Joseph A. Barnes
Congress
Ann Cyeonth
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John Dickinson Sherman
Ark
Joseph C. Lincoln
Chateau Thierry
Aris
United States Military Service
Uncle Sam
Ion
Fighting Men
Oran
National Guard
National Army
Spa
Belgium
von Rundsteadt
Ludendorff
von Rondsteadt
Pennsylvania National Guard
High Command
Michigan
Wisconsin-National Guard
New England
Prairie
Ohio
J.C. Chase
Cora Walter Ecaultiney
Lied Louie
Cora Susczyvilaw Brock
Glub Women
America First
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