Ohio "Victory Girls" to Earn $5 Each for War

This city has an organization known as "Victory Girls" and its membership consists of some of the most prominent young ladies of the city. Each has pledged to earn $5 for war work funds.

To all the girls, Mrs. Caresia Ohman has opened an employment bureau at her home, and the young ladies are going to do real work for their money.

WAS NOT DESIRED BADLY WOUNDED SOLDIER REFUSED TO BE TAKEN TO THE REAR, DESTROYED TAG.

Annals of the American army in France provide many cases of "deserters" who left rest billets or "quiet sectors" to get to the front and into action. A recent citation for the posthumous award of a Distinguished Service Cross brings to light another remarkable breach of discipline.

When a soldier is injured and it is found necessary to send him to the hospital, an evacuation tag is tied on his uniform. This means that he is out of the fight; no more respectability rests on him and for the war is over temporarily.

Lieutenant I. Berry of the 5th Machine Gun Battalion was in action near Bontblanc, France, the first week of October. When he learned that his company commander had been filled and that the second in command had been wounded, Lieutenant Berry went to the hospital.  Front line and carried within a few hours he was seriously wounded in the head and the surgeon seeing that quick action was his life. 