Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 3

English troops collecting German rifles from the battleground of St. Pierre Divion after the terrific battle on the western front. RATHENAU TELLS OF HIS GREAT WORK Germany’s Great Organizer De- scribes How Difficulties Werc Overcome. STRONGER THAN THE ALLIES Declares Success of Work Is Due to Fact That Germany's Industries Quickly Adapted Themselves to War Conditicns. Berlin.—Dr. Walter Rathenau, in charge of all raw materials for the German government, has written a book in which the famous “wizard” describes the enormous difficulties that confronted him when he was called to his post by the war minister, and the wonderful results accomplished. “When we started our herculean work the war department gave us four small rooms,” the great organizer says. “The war minister thought that these offices would be sufficient and he was greatly astonished when I in- formed him within two weeks that I needed at least five times as much space. “After much parleying I got twenty rooms, but In another month I had to request forty more. That necessitated the removal of whole sections of the war department. More than 100,000 important documents had te be trans- ported to other buildings and the work took weeks. Cramped and Crowded. “In the meantime our labor threat- ened to come to a standstill. Although we put desks in every possible corner, and even in the hallways, we were not able to make room for our ever-in- creasing working force. When we finally got our sixty rooms we were as cramped. and crowded as before, and we continually had to ask for more and more space. Our offices now cover an entire city block and we still need more room. “It is difficult to give a description of our work, because much of what has been done and accomplished mtsi re- main secret until the war ends. The public has no Idea of the difficulties we had to avercome and the tremen- dous labor that was necessary to en- able the empire successfully to defy the British blockade. Every man in our department worked from sixteen TEXAS BEAUTY MAKES HIT to eighteen hours every day, including Sundays and holidays, and we all only regretted that the days did not have forty-eight hours, instead of only twen- ty-four. “Conferences were always in prog- ress from cight o'clock in the moruing until midnight, as new plans had to be made continually and often it be- came necessary to alter them before they were completed. Hard Work Won. “It was hard work, but we won out. One of our advantages was that the press paid little attention to us, and we were not hampered by public criticism. Sometimes professors called to tell us that we were all wrong and would have to start anew. Then members of the reichstag came to con- vince us that the professors were as wrong as ourselves. “We had listen to this talk and that meant the loss of much valuable time, but otherwise it did not hurt us. “Our success is principally due to the- fact that the German Industries adapted themselves to the war condi- tions with astounding rapidity and energy. Our manufacturers carried out their task enthusiastically and without losing any words. “While our enemies were telling the world how they would organize and develop their resources we gaietly solved the problem, and now we can confidently look into the future. Ger- many today is economically and indus- trially stronger than the allies and will never break down.” > IS PRODIGY AT MATHEMATICS Six-Year-Old Boy at Findlay, O., Ex- cels in Addition and Sub- traction, Findiay, O.—A child wonder with unusual mental powers, has been dis- covered in the first grade West State street school by Miss Helen Gaskill, the teacher. He is Master Roy Fork, aged six, son of F. L. Fork, well-driller, resid- ‘ng on Franklin avenue. While bright in all his school work, the youngster is a prodigy in mathematics. He knows the calendar by heart and although given the most severe questions with regard to days and dates, never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he cap tell in a sec- ond the year you were born, and If you give him the date of your; birth- day, and ask him what day of the week it comes on he replies_at once, correctly and without fall. His ability cannot be attributed to mental telepathy, for in many in- stances he tells the day of dates in last year’s calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right. Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of months, Roy had them mastered when he went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also lightning fast in problems which deal with addition*und subtrac- tion of the calendar, and catch ques- tlons are easily solved. PAYS FARE AFTER FIVE YEARS Troubled by Her Conscience, Georgia Woman Passenger Settles for Ride. THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE GATHERING UP WHAT THE GERMANS LEFT [EARLIEST MEN AMERICANS? Geologists Say Bonec Discovered in Florida Deposit Are 125,000 Years Old. Chicago.—Human_ beings } the North American continent more ithan 125,000 years ago, according to inhabited the findings of E. H. Sellards, state | geologist of Florida, and Prof. Oliver | P. Hay, who made public results of a study of fossil remains discovered in Florida some months ago. ion, however, is not fully in by other scientists, Human bones intermingled with those of the mastodon, saber-tooth tiger and other extinct animals, were concurrel thither six geologists and anthropolo- gists made their way Immediately to study the find. Their report will be made In the January-February (1917) issue of the Journal of Geology. Ad- vance sheets quote Mr. Sellard as say- ing “The study of the fossils of this stra- tum, although not yet completed, has brought to light a considerable number of extinct species which suggest the reference of the deposit to the Pleisto- cene period. This Is the oldest deposit from which human remains have ever been taken,” Doctor Hay, who Is research associ- ate of the Carn Institution of Washington, exp s similar views; but four other scientists, whose ar will ypear in the Journal of y, are skeptical. They are Prof. Chamberlain of the University of Chicago, Thomas Wayland Vaughan of the United States geological survey, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the United States National museum, and Prof. George Grant McCurdy of Yale. They are not convinced that the human race existed on this continent at so early a period. MISS LOLITA ARMOUR Miss Lolita Armour, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chi- cago, recently made her debut in Chi- cago society. Miss Armour is one of the most charming of this winter's debutantes. It is only a few years ngo that it was almost vonceded that she would be a cripple for life. The fume of the noted German surgéon, Doctor Koch, having reached this country, J. Og- den Armour, che little Miss Lolite’s fa- ther, decided after having heard of the marvelous bloodless operations per- formed by the famous surgeon, to bring him here from Berlin. That his faith in the physician was well placed is shown now when Miss Armour, a healthy, vivacious young society bud, fond of all outdoor sports, is about to make her debut. Her addition to the ranks of this season’s debutantes 1s looked forward to with pleasure. BURNS CURED BY SUNLIGHT Johns Hopkins Hospital Tests Open- Air Remedy With Success in Number of Cases. Baltimore, Md.—A new methed of treating serious burns that involves the use of alr and sunlight has been put Into practice at Johns Hopkins hos- pital, and already in a number of cases has been successful, “Nature cures” have been recegnized as the most practicable in a rapidly increasing list of ailments. The gen- eral idea back of all these methods Is that nature, with a fair chance, will do more for the sick body than will drugs or surgery. In treating burns a small part of the injured surface is exposed directly to the sun and air out of doors. The best results are obtained in temperate weather, when the patient can. lie at ease for hours under the direct rays of the sun and the influence of the afr, In colder weather only ire indirect exposure is possible, and then the re- results are not rapid. As a result of the treatment skin grafting will not have to be used ina numberof cases. The effect of the air und sunlight cure is to keep alive much of the burned tissue, and In time this tissue grows out over the burned surface. Bell Heard Forty Miles. Santa Barbara, Cal.—The same elec- trie power employed in ringing bells has transmitted sound through space 40 miles. In experiments by Dr. “H. B. Arringer Gox, the ringing of an alarm clock at Los Olives has been faintly recorded at his station outside the city limits. It is wireless and tho power used is the ordinary dry bat- tery, which Dr. Cox invented several years ago, Their opin- | found In the deposit at Vero, Fla., and | | ere at deal, Shocks Awaiting Laggard Lovers |MILK AS A “BRACER” By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. Do you think because you fall me, And draw back your hand today, ‘Thx: from out the heart I gave you My strong love can fade away? What would any man think of a man who came courting his sister, season In and sea- son out, but never made any preten- tions of being a marrying man? That's the situa- tion in many a family where young men have been calling for a year or more. The renson for not speaking out is often | justifiable. The man may be waiting fora raise in his sal- ary, or a score of other good rea- sons. Being sure that the girl he Is calling on regularly is in love with him, he considers it justifiable to wait until he is good and ready to propose. It is a decided shock to such a lag- gard to see a stranger step In and in no time win the girl from before his very eyes, He has only himself to blame, There are a few little things about girls that men should remember, One is that their interest Is keenest In a young man during the stage of their earliest acquaintance. After a girl has summered and wintered a man and he has not proposed, her interest be- gins to dwindle. She looks upon him as a friend, and begins to cast sheep's eyes on other men as possible beaux. No man should be too sure of a girl's love until he has placed a betrothal ring on her finger. Even then, he should see that the marriage is not put off too long. A pretty girl once had one of these laggard lovers of whom she thought a But pop the question he would not. Her aunt advised her not to waste time with him. At an after- noon affair, to which she had gone with girl friends, she met a new ad- mirer, who escorted her home, They encountered the old beau. His jeal- ousy was straightway aroused. The sight of ker with another showed him how dear she was to him. The ques- tion faced him as to what life would be without her if another won her. He called that evening and lost no time in asking her to be his wife, de- claring that an open confession was good for the soul. He had been too sure of her and because of that came near losing her. The wise girl does not devote aJl of her time to one caller, She treats him as she finds him—simply as a friend— until he has given her reason to be as- sured otherwise. There would be no long-drawn-out courtships which end in parting if girls pursued this plan. Oe eee Common Sense Exercises. Do simple setting up exercises, es- pecially rotary abdominal exercises for five or ten minutes every morning, advises Cleveland Moffet in McClure’s Magazine. Form the habit of doing abdominal exercises or muscles tens- ing and flexing exercises at odd times through the day. You can do these anywhere without attracting atten- tion. Walk three or four miles a-day and form the habit of breathing deeply and rhythmically through the nose as you walk—so many strides (usually five or six) to the outgoing breath, then the same number of strides to the incoming breath. Do this rhyth- mical breathing occusionally as you feel like it, and avoid making this or any other part of your plan irksome or monotonous. Do these things be- cause you wish to do them. Do not force yourself to do them against your will. Train your will to be a consenting, an approving, ® controll- ing power behind your actions. Men are at fault In calling upon one girl steadily when they have no serluus intentions of matrimony. If they call upon many young women, making no secret of the fact, no one maiden is apt to build her hopes upon them, only to be disappointed at last. (Copyright, 1916.) Paying Doctor to Keep One Well Not a Fantastic Idea We havent yet learned to take ad- veatage of the resources of civillza- tion in anything like the extent we might. For instance, we walt ontll we get sick and then we pay the doc tor to help us get well. It would be much more sensible to pay him to help us keep from getting sick. Fantastic idea, you say, Not at all. It already is working in a large num- ber of college communities. Right here at home, In the state universgies of Missouri and Kansas, for fnstance, says the Kansas City Star. In both institutions the pupll is charged a fee which is applied to safeguarding his health. In the University of Missouri the plan ts still further developed so that the fee covers medical and sur- gical attendance, The important point ts that these universities and other schools are proving that health can be made much more of a community matter than had been supposed and that the wise thing to do ts for groups to pay medical men to keep them well. Billions in “Movies.” Every time you visit the movies you help to pay the wages of 205,000 em- ployees who draw 300,000 weekly. There are 21,600 moving-picture thea- ters In the United States and about §2, 000,000,000 .nvested in the business, By DAVID STONE KELSEY. The Pasteur institute of Paris makes the declaration that one of the most powerful stimulants known is milk. It has been In use for months now as the one stimulant for the French sol diers In the trenches, and its effect op them has amply justified the state ment made by the famous institute tr regard to it. Milk has been used liberally to stim- ulate the French soldiers before they go into battle and its effects have been such that the French government has urged the sale of milk in prefer- ence to other soft drinks behind the trenches when the soldiers go off duty fer their spells of rest and recreation. That ‘the qualities of stinulation should be demonstrated on the fight- ing men should commend the beverage to those engaged in the pursults of peace In tho; parts of the world where Mars ¢oes not now rule. While alcohol may fire the brain and dall the sensibilities and thus impart a false courage, milk, according to the learned scientists of the Pasteur to- stitute, performs the work of keytng up the individual without affecting the keenness of his senses or the coolness of his judgment. High courage and a clear perception of what they are doing Is necessary for the best work in all the arts and professions, as well as in the handicrafts and in trade. This fluid hitherto has been constd: ered synonymous with all that is mild and peaceful, Advocates of prepared- ness have referred to “these milk-and- water pacifists.". The “milk of human kindness” has no suggestion of power- ful stimulation. But science has discovered, among its many wonders, that the patient cow has put a puch in milk that ne- cessitates the addition of no product of the still to make itself felt on the human system, It has discovered a new and a harmless “bracer.” FAVORITE OF THE FILMS RHYS ALEXANDER, Star Who Has Won Wide Favor With Movie Patrons. tron Duke’s Doctor Still Living. It is rather bewildering to read in these days that one of the Iron Duke's medical attendants is still alive, Yet it is a fact. The victor of Assaye and Waterloo died in 1852, and it was tn the year before that he was ettended by a very young medical man attached to one of the London hospitals. Re- cently the doctor in question, Dr, Hen- ry F. Holland, celebrated his elghty- seventh birthday at Godalming.—Lon- don Globe. Poultry Pointers —@—e—@—8— 8-8 &— o— 8-8-8 -—-8-—-@ A hen, like a human being, needs to be made comfortable in order to do the best work. As soon as the breeding season is over the male birds should be sepa- rated from the hens. The business of our domestic hen is to produce plenty of eggs, and we must feed her for them. Ducks and geese require deep drink- ing vessels, especially if reared and kept on land. Spoiled or decaying flesh, if eaten, will surely cause limberneck. Burn or bury the dead. A little beef scraps or cut, fresh bone will help the pullets and the well- molted hens to start laying. Feeding fowls on one grain, or not feeding them enough, is very expensive, because it produces a loss instead ef a profit. Remember that an egg is more than huif water and that the fowls must have plenty of clean, fresh water to drink at all-times, If the most of <he grain fed t6 the fowls is corn it must be balanced by giving them plenty of wheat bran and beef scraps or cut fresh bone, When the hens cannot obtain green “tuff in the flelds, it must be supplied © them in the form of cabbage, man- els or something of that kind, While plenty of fresh air is neces- sary to keep the fowls in good health, it must be admitted to the henhouse in such a way that a draft does not blow on the fowls, especially at night when they are on the roost. Walking Chalkline. The same sensations, minus the al- cohol, experienced by an intoxicated person who is trying to walk In a Straight line or on a narrow sidewnik which is only thirty inches wide, ean be had by anyone who takes the trouble to draw a straight line on the floor and then look at the line through a pair of opera glasses in a reversed position, says the. Popular Sclénce Monthly. After the glasses are focused try to walk on the line. You will find it impossible to follow it closely. The line will look like an ink scratch on a surface miles away, and the closer you look and try to follow the line the more vexed your vision becomes, and a6 a result your feet wunder from side to side, getting farther away from the line all the time, Even with the naked eye it is difmfi- cult to “waik the chalk” for any dis- tance without growing dizzy and stag- gering suspiciously, S-mack! “When you come right down to it,” New Optical Device Rival of Telescope in Probing Mysteries of the Heavens An optical device, which Is said to rival if not surpass the telescope in revealing the mysteries of the heav- enly bodies, was exhibited at a recent meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York, The invention was exhibited by Dr. John A, Irashear of Pittsburgh, “This tnstrument is called a dif. fracting grating,” said Doctor Bra- shear, as je showed what looked like a rectangular piece of metal about 2 by 4 inches long that changed colors under the electric Hghts. “On the plane surface of this polished plate, made uccurate to one-tenth of a light wave, or within one-forty-five-thou- sandth of an inch, are ruled more than 45,000 lines between which there Is no greater error than one-two-ntillonth of an inch, “With this delicate piece of appa- ratus, made possible, first, by rigorous scientific research; second, by the skill of the artisan; third, by a knowledge of and vigorous care to avoid tempera- ture changes, and, fourth, by the accu- racy of the mechanism, the astrophysi- cist has been able to tell the composl- temperature and distance of the Wise and Otherwise It makes any man nervous to have a woman gaze at him. He is a poor sign painter who can- ‘not make a name for himself. remarked the old man, “the dimple in| a is one of the prettiest things world.” a ‘es——when you come right down to it,” admitted the young man. girl's cheek in the “Ye It Is easy for a man to follow advice that meets with his own views. A womin may know just what to say, but she invariably adds more to it, And the girl -who counts on her fingers never overlooks the engage- ment finger. A revolution may be the same thing over again, He's a wise butcher who can make both ends meat. An egotist imagines he is in the best society when alone. If the goud die young it fs because they have no say about it. No, Cordelia, the clearing house has no connection with the weather bu- reau, It is easy to appreciate the fine points of a sermon when they jab the other fellow. Every man is satisfied that he is worth more to his employer than his pay envelope indicates, Somehow the more you are willing to do for your friends the less time you have in which to do things fo¥ yourself. Houses Go to Sea. Houses do not ofter. go to sea in a boat, but quite a number of those be- longing to the Pan-American exposition at San Francisco are having this ex- perience, They have been sold to buy- ers at a distance and are being trans- ported In barges drawn by tugs. The Ohio building, which Is 132 feet long, 80 feet wide and nearly 50 feet high, has been moved 82 miles down the bay to San Carlos, where it will be used for a clubhouse, Two 600-ton barges were so placed that they were out of water at low tide, when the building was placed upon them, and floated out at high tide. far as to take Frepch leave at the ball when they started to dance the german.” i f 2 if 5