Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 2

e s S AT ST “The dismantling of Helgoland, in ac- cordancé with the decision reached by the supreme war council at Parls, ‘marks the passing of the greatest fort- ress in the North sea and the final elimination of Germany as a contender for sea power. Since 1890, when Great Britain ceded this square rmle of crumhllng “=harl and sandstone cliffs to Ceermany for the protectorate of Zanzibar and Witu, the Germans have spent more 4kan $5,000,000 a yeat In fortifying it. Available records show that Helgo- 1and had a circumferénce of 120 miles I the year 800, but had crumbled away at the rate of 100 square miles every century, until the Germans began to dream of world conquest. Large buttresses of granite were put tp to protect the cliffs. Rifts and crevices were filled with ferro concrete. Break- waters were constructed and 2 naval harbor built and 12 and 16-inch Krupp guns were installed in steel and con- crete casemates and sunken battery positions. The island was pierced with a tun- PUSSELDQRF COLOGNE l nel through which ammunition and other stores could be safely taken dur- ing a bombardment. During the war sufficient stores and munitions were maintained to withstand a three vears' siege by its garrison of 2,200 men. Thg North sea for a radius of more than twenty-five miles was mapped In squares, each gun having its square or squares upon which it could be trained instantly should a hostile ship cnter that little space of sea, During the war Helgoland was fur- ther protected by wide mine fields stretching toward the possible ap- proaches of Britain's grand fleet. Behind these sea barriers, of which Helgoland was the center, Germany maintained naval, submarine, Zeppelin and nirplane bases for the four years of the war. By the dismantling of Helgoland and the internationalization of the Kiel canal the German North sea ports and those of the nations bordering on the Baltic will be opened to the unre- stricted commerce of the world. LEADS IN WORK FOR DISABLED Conference on Rehabilitation Shows Steps Taken by United States. CANADA TAKES LIKE ACTION Other Allied Countries Leave Rehabill- | tation to Private Enterprise—Pros- ser Explains Scope of Retrain. l ing Injured Men. in ix': provisions for returning dis- .oled soldiers to profitable employ- ment, the United States government leads the world. This fact was brought out at the Infernutional Conference on Rehabilitation held in this city recent- ty. It was shown that. with the ex- ception of Canada, the United \unvs‘ was the only government that had tak- en official cognizance of the nation’s supreme duty to rehabilitate its sol- diers Incapacitated through wounds or Illness from pursuing their former i means of livelihood. In an interview, Dr. Charles A. Pros- ser, director of the federal board of voeational education, charged with the work of retraining the men from the hospitals, told of the scope of Amer- fea's plans of rehabilitation. “When we took our boys from their clvil jobs and put them into the army to risk thelr lives for an ideal. flw'guv- ernment promised three things to its wounded soldiers, First, the promise of physical care was made; then, the promise of compensation for injury: and Iastly, those who eame back crip- pled were pledged the nation’s honor that they would be retrained, re-edu- eated to assume o responsible plaee in the economic life of the country. Best Surgeons Engaged. “For our first promise, we got the hest surgeons possible and shipped them to France or installed them in this conntry in up-to-date hmpnn'Qw with nll the appliances that science | could snggest for making well :U;MI\; the sick and the wounded. Men and women, experts. devoted their whole ! time to the probiem of teking care of | the unfortunate soldiers who found | thelr way into the hospitals. 'w “For the second promise, we have | the bureau of compensation and the bureau of war risk Insurance. which takes care that a disabled man shall rgcelve a pension, and in addition shall recelve insurance according to the size of the policy he took out. It remains, now that the war is over, to make good our third pledge of occupational re- habilitation. “In this matter, the United States found herself ig a little better posi- tion than did thé governments of our allies. While they were busy with war, private concerns took up the question of rehabilitation and are In general in charge of the problem over there right now. On the other hand, in America, there was already organ- fzed and In operation a board which bad been doing the same work for civillans that the government pow wants done for soldiers. I refer to the federal board of vocational eduecation. “In June, 1918, by the vocational re- habllitation act. coueress turned over o thi§ board the nfire task of ré-ed- ucating and placing in employment the discharged soldiers, sailors and ma- rines who have been so disabled. Schools Found Ready. “We looked about us, first of all, for facilities where this matter of edu- cation might be settled. Did we build schnols? We did not. We found that in the United States there were $300,- 000,000 worth of school facilities, and that there was not a principal nor an instructor in any school who was not eager to take up his share of re-edu- cating a disabled soldier. In addition, shops and factories, offices and farms, all over the country offered us their facilities without stint. “As soon as the man lands in a de- ! barkation hospital over here we have agents who go to him and put the proposition before him cleatly. He s shown that he must not be down- hearted, that he has the backing of 100,000,000 people, and that on his shoulders alone rests the responsibility for making his life a success or a fail- ure. He s advised, of course, wherev- er it is possible, to go back Into his old line of work, and where that is not possible, he is asked where his pref- erences lie, He is educated according to his own desires.” Doctor Prosser gave figures showing the size of the task which the federal board has before it in this matter. It s estimated that about 200,000 men will need the retraining. Of this num- ber half have been crippled by wounds and half disabled through illness. ANCIENT SHIP WAS WONDER There Were Bathl, Glrdrn. lnd a Gymnasium Aboard Old Greek Vessel. Boston, Mags.—An ancient Syracu- san ship-—a Greck Maunretania—that carried vast eargoes and had a gym- naslum, bath, lounge and gardens aboard, was described by Prof. W. S. Ferguson of Harvard in a lecture here on Greek economic development. Professor Ferguson gave a minute description of the great ship, the won- der of its time. He said it was of the three-deck type, with 20 banks of oars, that required one whole year in build- ing. and which was manned by a crew of 300 sailors, together with 600 ma- rines. In Its hold it could carry 110,- 000 bushels of wheat, wool, thousands of jars of salt fish and ether food- stuffs. Its eabins were decorated with elaborate mosaics, one set of them pic- “turing all of the Tiad. Its chambers included a gymnasium, a lounge with a “book shelf,” a bath provided with 50 gallons of water, stalls for horses, “gardens” or conservatories, and, in addition to all-these luxuries and ne- cessities, it had equipment and en- gines of defense which gave it the character almost of a ship of war, In such achievements as these, the ship having*been built at a time even when etonomic decay had begun to beset Greece, Professor Ferguson said he could not avoid the conclusion that theories of Greek infantility in eco- nomic development found little sup~ port. No More Jokes for Him. Glen Ray, W. Va.—Clarence Wikel is “off”” practical jokes for life. He poked his head through the window to scare his wife, Thinking him a burglar, she knocked him unconscious with a poker, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER CLAIMS LAND IN LORRAINE Woman: Gave Up Her Possessions Three Years Ago When Germans Came. /Altoons, Pa.—~When Germany took possession of Alsace-Lorraine 48 years ago, Mrs. Franz Hsslinger gave up her possessions rather than submit to Ger- man domindtion and came to Altoona. Establishing & stand in the city mar- ket, she has become well known as “the market woman.” b Now that France has regained her lost provinces, Mrs." Esslinger bas, through legal channels, presented her claim to a considerable -tract of land near Strassburg which belonged to the family and for which she holds the title papers. If her claim is honored she will become independently rich.” —_— Japanese Wanted to Make Suicide Certain With a strange, almost de- moniacal ritual, Kumatro Saka- moto engew bis life at Los Ange. les, Cal. : Sakamofo, who came from Japan ten years apo, suffered from tuberculosis., He was thir- ty-nine years old, but was.not wiarried, and had no friends nor relatives. He decided to die. That he might utter no warn- ing cry, he first cut off his tongue, X That vanity might not stop the deed, he cut off_his nose. Then he hacked his throat with the razor until he dropped unconscious. When found in his room he was lying in a pool of blood. He dled six hours later in a hos- pital. And the Pigs Got It. “Portland, Ore.~*“Cops” .threw Jer- ry Lolic’s whisky into-a trough. Jer- ry’s pigs got drunk on .it, awakening the neighborhood crying for water in the cold gray,dawn of the morning after. Easter Plants In Holy Landas, * The lly of -the vialley, as spoken of in the Bible, is evidently not the flow- er of that name of the present- day, because it does not grow in Palestine. | But the jonquil, the barcissns jon- quilta, eur lovely white and yellow spring Hlles of scveral varleties, fa. wiliarly known as Ehster flowers, grow abundantly in the Valley of Pal- estine. The large anemone; irls and the water lily ave :like native ‘of Pal- estine ‘and generally belleved to be tncluded under the generic term of Mly, as used In the Bible. Certaln authorities think that the lily to which Solomon was compared 1s the amaryl- Iis, that glorfous bulb with glorious red and yellow blooms which grows in the vales of Palestine. TLongfellow, 1 think it i3, who so beautifully speaks of the flowers as “stars that in earth’s X firmament do glow.” Little wonder that they are so unanl- mously accepted as the expreéslon of i divine energy permeating the unl- verse and a vivid reminder of that dream of immortality given to our Jewish ancestors thousands of years ugo as symbolic of the resurrection or the body und the soul, Automobiles and gosslps are al- ways running people down. * From Business College toBank®® reads like a page in fiction. Yet, of §3 young'men and <women employed by banks in Fargo, N, Dak., 49 attended the DAKOTA BUSINESS COLLEGE Bankers and big businces men arc cager to employ D. B. C. graduates because of their thorough prac- tical training. Manyofthese present-day cmployers are ex-students of Dakota Business College. The commercial knowledge secured here wastbe stepping stone to success. The same opportunity is open-to YOU. For full information address F. L. Watkine. Pres. 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