Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 18, 1921, Page 4

i TWOSECRETARIES ARMY AND, NAVY CLUB GIVES A RECEPTION IN HONOR OF " WEEKS AND DENBY. * s —_— ls A PICTURESQUE AFFAIR |Gengral Miles, There In New Uniform | of Old Type, and Gerieral Pershing . Wearing 8am Brown Belt Forbidden ;" By EDWARD B. CLARK, * . Washington.—Soclety affalrs in .| Washington generally are intrusted for review, description and gentle com: ment to the care of the woman writers, but occasionally a man dares to enter the fleld, pen in hand, and to take his |chances, taking due - precaution to !dodge anything resembling an attempt !to describe the gowps of members of |the superlor sex, Winter In Washington usually is the |reserved season for semi-officlal re- ceptlons, (but there has just been !given in the capital an affair which |seems ‘worthy from a plcturesque view- |point, and also the importance view- !point perhaps, of a few words in de- lineation thereof. The members ot the Army and Navy club have just )given a reception in honor of the ,two chiefs of the service, the secre- tary of war and the secretary of the navy, John W. Weeks and Edwin| iDenby. | The invitations to the affalr were| limited to the actual members of the| club and to the adult women members | of their families. The reception was| given for the purpose of bringing the| two secretaries into at least passing| acquaintance touch with the army and; navy officers In Washington whom in a sense they command, and to allow the wife of each secretary to meet the wives and daughters of the servica men, "'The Army &nd Navy club Is a propserous club and in a way a most plcturesque club. It has in its keep-| ing hundreds upon hundreds of flags, portraits and materiel which are of historic interest because of their asso- \clation with the wars in which the re- public has been engaged. When one | ienters the club on a gala occasion| he can have no doubt as to the nature | of the organization. Great Gathering of Warrlors, . At the reception the other night{ there were gathered hundreds of men, nearly every one of whom had a story which he could tell if he only would| tell it. There were present veterans| of the war between the states, the, Indian wars, the Spanish-American avar, and_the .great-'war. ' There were active. oflicers, reserve officers, and re- tired officers. The reserves and the re- tired ones got back Into uniform for the occaston, 8 Gen. Nelson A. Miles, 81 years old, was In the column which passed in hand-shaking review before the secre- taries. General Miles was a striking figure. The years have paid little attentlon to him aus they have passed by. He is sturdy today, although he is eleven years beyond the Psalmist’s allotted limit of life. He wore the full dress uniform of a lieutenant gen- eral of the army, the old type of uni- form, but a new uniform nevertheless. It was a swallow-tafled blue coat with brass buttons and with coiled gold shoulder knots. There were a white waistcoat and a broad expanse of white shirt bosom to offset the dark ‘blue of the dress coat. In the upper left hand button hole was the little| ribbon denoting that this old soldier had received from congress the highest honor in its gift, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous personal gallantry in| battle. Pershing Wears §am Brown Belt. Gen. John J. Pershing, ranking officer of the U, S. army, was present wearlng his Sam Brown belt which no other officer of the army servlng{ anywhere except in Europe may wear * without incurring reproof for violation of the regulations, During. the great war an order was issued that American army officers ‘should wear the Sam Brown belt serv-| ing with the American Expeditionary Forces, but that no officer In the United States should buckle one about him. Gen. Pershing however, by virtue of his position as the general of the army of the United States,! prescribes his own uniform. He still wears the Sam Brown belt and the hint s that within a few days an order may be issued which will give to Am- erican officers everywhere the right to wear the belt, which is a com- fortable “harness”™ and which gives a better effect to the olive drab uni- _form of the service. ‘51! $15,000 Due French Widow. Uncle Sam has owed a Frénch widow $15,000 ' for sixteen years, has acknowledged his indebtedness, and frequently has asked con- gress to approprinte the money to pay the bill, but congress never has done it, and appavently will not do 1t until some expletive gentleman with | a profanely plcturesque way witlt him, like the budget master for instance, tells the legislators what he thinks about - it. Only recently the indebtedness of _.the Unlted States to various persons, and the duties of the court of claims i conunection therewith, have been dis- dhssed. - The cnse of the French wid- AN AR SRR AR —a- ‘State: made the award to the woman, and then asked congress to appropri- ate the money. This was back In 1904, ‘or possibly 1905, but the lady in France stlll 18 whistling for her money if she gecounts ‘whistllig as one of her ac- Aomplishments. 1fGen. Horace Porter, diplomatist 'and soldier, who died in New York {a month or so ago, had known of the {plightof the French woman whom Un- cle Sam owed money which he would (not pay, he probably would have udd-i {ed @ codicil to his will taking care of | the matter, for it ‘was General Por-| {ter, with former representative in con- l |gress Henry T.'Ralney of Illinols, who | tion of a situation ‘just now troubling | |a woman of Frange and the American | |state department.: " i | Result of Search for Jones’ Bones. | | The French,woeman, who Is a wid-| ow by the way‘and has lttle or no| | means of her own, owned some prop- | lerty in Paris which Americans dnm~§ |aged Yo, the ‘extént.of $15000. while \trying to find the body of John Paul| Jones, the old sea fighter, called the| |father of the American navy, who was | buried in a cemetery in Paris years ago. | General Porter in 1904 was the| American ambassador to France. Hen- ry T. Rainey of Carrolton, Ill, who then was a member of the house of representatives, recelved some infor- \mation’ from an old Scotchman con- cerning the probable resting place. of the sallor who himself was a Scotch- man by birth. Rainey becamc inter- ested and immediately interested Gen- eral Porter. The old cemetery in Parks was lo- cated, and a large part of it was found to be covered by modern build- ings. ‘The old map of the burial place was discovered and after a search of the records it was determined that the body of John Paul Jones lay in a certain place. In order to reach the grave It was necessary to do some tunneling, and to destroy some property. The French .woman, new a creditor of Uncle Sam, owned a part of:the property which ‘was destroyed. She made her claim, ithe state department looked into fit, {found it was valid and granted her $15,000, and asked congress to ap-| -propriate " the necessary money. Con- gress never has acted in the matter. Senators Told of Shell Shock. Members of the senate com- mittee charged with investigating government agencies which have supervision of the care of the in- valided soldiers of the great war| have been'told by a Binghamton, N. Y., witness that the shell-shock pa- tlents In_ the hospitals at Perryville, Md., and at Fort Thomas, Ky., arej driven into a condition of hysteria every time there is target practice with the big guns at the near-by gov- ernment posts. One veteran of the great war told the committee that he had expended’ jover $12,000 for medical service in an| attempt to recover from the el!ects1 of shell shock. _ Attention is being called more sharply day by day to the condition of men who suffer from what Is known as shell shock. Their iplight seemingly is worse than that iof the ‘men who received actual body /wounds, for direct application and dli- \rect manipulation can be used to rem- jedy wounds, while what'may be called iindirect treatment must be given to the patlenit whose nerves were shat- tered or whose mind was unbulnuced: by the shocks of the explosions on the embattled front. | Much has been written about shell| shock by physicians who became ac-| quainted with Its maulfestations on| the front in France, or who hawe be-| come acquainted with them since the| shell-shocked ones were returned to| the United States. The layman can write about shell shock only as a lay- man, but the resulting comditions as| they appear are as plain to a layman | as they are to a physician, although, | of course, the layman cannot look be-| low the surface to discover the seat of trouble. In a Shell-Shock Hospital. In 1018, about two months before the armistice went into effect, I was detailed as conducting officer for a party of prominent Americans who were the guests of the United States government in the Toul sector which included the St. Mihiel district and| ihe lines north of it where the Amer- leans were locked with the Germans after the snlient had been captured by our men. | The army medical authorities had established a so-called shell-shock hos- pital some little distance back of the line. One day I took the visitors to the hospital. I had seen shell-shock patients before, but never after they had been gathered together In large numbers for treatment. Few, If apy-of the patients in this advanced zone hospital had been wounded, and'yet seemingly their con- ditfon_was_ worse thilh “that ot any | wounded man. ~ Most of them were| up and dbout;-and some of them as! they walked up and down the wards | of the hospital were dodging imagi- nary shells nt every step they took.! Others were waving their arms in the | air, and still others were lifting their | foet at least & foot from the ground at each step taken. ! One of the hospital stewards told | me that at three o’clock on the morn- | ing of the day that we arrived at ine | hospital, an. automoblle tire had ex- ploded just outside one of the bulld-| ings with a loud report. Instantly, he said, three-fourths of the patients| in the hospital jumped from their beds | and fled through the doors luto the| darkness. It took some time to round |is speedy. ;lngely was responsible for the crea-|:« VERY once or twice.in a while the student of styles and fashions is constrained to think of the importance ofdiccessories of dress. The success of the aspirant in the gentle art of dress- Ing fanltlessiy s to depend upon her judgment in the choice and use of finishing touches, at least as much as upon her cholce of gowns. It is by means of ‘these niceties of the toilette that women vary their daily dress and make it interesting. There is a long list of these aids to beauty, to be worn from head to foot and with admirable effect, as every woman knows, when some one touch “makes” her dress. They include coif- fure ornaments, jewels, trinkets, fans, gloves, scarfs and other neckwear, sashes and other garnishings for the gown, as corsage ornaments, buckles and other decorations for footwear. They cannot all be dealt with at one time, and only those for the street or other outdoor wear appear in the pic- ture above. Appraising the carefully and attrac- ‘ler now. tively dressed lady at the right of the. group, we find she wears an embroid- | ered vestee, a small one-skin scarf of baum__narten, a short necklace of pearl beads, and white mousquetaire gloves made of kid. These are all of good quality and ‘she has seen .to it that none of them is too counsplcuous for the afternoon promenade. At the top of the picture one of the new fiber sillk scarfs is shown, knitted in two colors. These are among the new “outdooring” things of which sport clothes ‘were the forerunners, Many s ted jackets or conts of fiber silk, and sometimes hats and parasols to match in the vivid tones worn with white for midsummer. knitted of silk ;and shows large col- ored disks on a-plain ground. Vg COMMIONT BY VISTIRN NEVSPATER UNIOR. WALLACE REID PICTURE SHOWING' LAST TIME TONIGHT Ninety-six hours without sleep, is the condition in which Wallace Reid as Jim Glover, begins his latest Para- mount picture, “The Love Special,” which ‘was shown at the Grand the- ater yesterday. Nevertheless, the young chap keeps his head up well, and after he grabs off a few. winks, he has pep without limit and the real excitement starts. ‘The picture 4is an adaptation of Frank H. Spearman’s railroad story, “The Daughter of the Magnate,” and carries a delightful romance between the young construction engineer and ‘the daughter of the new president of the road. The production is packed with Mg outdoor scenes which give the athletic star ample opportuniy o display his strength and courage. One of the big fextures of the pic- ture is a wild ride by the star and leading ‘woman in a locomotive over the mountain roads. Agnes Ayres plays the role of Laura Gage, the president's daughter, Theodore Rob- erts is the president and others in the cast are Lloyd Whitlock, Sylvia Ashton, Alexander Gaden. and: Clar- ence Burton. ' *“The ‘Love Special” together with 4 Paramount cartoon comedy will be shown tonight for the last Ulmes. at the Grand theater. “THE BIG TOWN ROUNDUP” AT REX THEATER TODAY Tojn Mixt has ‘“gone and done it again.” WNch is another way of stating that he scored heavily yes- terday at the Rex theater, where he opened an engagement in “The Big Town Roundup,” his latest Fox pro- duction. The story by the noted William McLeod Reine, ‘is a rapid, rough- riding romance in which both ranch lite and city lfe figure; in which Mix, the cowboy, falls in love: with a scciety - belle. following an 'acci- dental meeting; in which he battles fiercely. at intervals with thugs seek= ing Mis life, and ‘appears to acquire the hahit of heroic rescue of mai i peril. At ig a case of thrill after thiill, ‘of marrow escapes, of manly daring and shrewd resourcefulness. This play shows Mix at his very best. But it also contains a vein of humor that is contaglous and serves as a relief fram the high: tension which accompanies the development of the young rancit owner's adven- tures in the city in pursuit of the rcmance born ‘‘back home.’” The story is as;clean as the action No. more satisfastory en- {tertainment of the ‘“lve wire" sort Ow, however, never has been a court! them up, to get them back to their ;. “joap presented here, The Ci- .of claims matter. The department of Qarters and to quiet them. .~ READ THE PIONEER WANT ADS rection by Lynn F. Reynelds is most {skillful. g "' dens | . NEWS OF THE THEATRES “DYNAMITE ALLEN” AT REX THEATER TUESDAY Al: the Rex theater Tuesday, “Dy- namite Allen,” a:William Fox produc- §XOn, will be shown.. George Walsh is the star, and the story comes from the pen of Thomas F. Fallon. “Dyna- mite Allen” is a tale of the mirving districts, and abounds in tense dra- matic situations. Many sensational scenes are intreduced to thrill the audience—such™f3$ the burning of a large house, the’flooding of a mine, an explogion that 'destroys a giant sluice, and a.racing loccmotive which plunges through’an -open bridge intc the iuiver. In addition, the picture contains a-delightfully - sweet 10- mance. . Edna Murphy:. makes a charming leading woman for the star, who is otherwise ably 'supported by such well-kncwn' players as Dorothy Allen. Byron . Dotglast “and ' J. Thornton Bastan. 0. HEVNRY STORY IN FILM— ‘WILL BE HERE WEDNZSDAY As “Whistling Dick,” the tramp, in Geldwyn’s picturizafion of O.Hen- ry's popular story ‘“Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking,” renamed ‘“‘An Unwilling Hero,” for the silver sheet, Will Rogers has one of the most char- acteristic roles in which he has ever appeared. It fits him to a T and is filled to the brim With.the charm, the humanity, and the homely appeal which Rogers always exerts over an audience whether he is’before them in the flesh or upon the screen. ‘The picture which will be shown Wednesday and Thursday at the Grand theater, was directed by Clar- ence Badger and in the supporting cast are such favorite Goldwyn play- ers as bew)tching little Molly Malone, John Bowers, Darrel Foss, Ed Kim- ball, Nick Cogley, Jack Curtis and cthers. Qur Dry Cleaning practically means <that—can ‘we show you? y DRY LEANER HOGANSON BROS | 305 SnosT__Puo NE 537 lcalled treatments they did me no; ~lgood.. My right arm was so stiff I ¢s are made to match short knit- | The scarf at the left is| JUST GET IN TOUCH - WITH ME. 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