Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 2

King Alcohol and Reasons Why Czar and King George Want New York, May 4-—A public an- nouncement just issued by the Life Extension Institute, after consider- aticn by its Hygiene 100 eminent American authorities on health, explains, from point of view of science, why the Czar of Russia and King George of Enzland are making war upon King Alcohol. It was prepared by Dr. E. L. Fisk, Director of Hygiene of the Institute. The authorities that al- cohol is essentially a drug, injurious ard of nearly declare even in small quanti lowering the mentl and physical efficiency of the soldic reducing instead of stimulating his qualities as a fight- er. This Ilygiene Reference Board in- cludes amonzg members General William (. Gorgas, the world famed sanita Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, distinguished inventor and stu- dent of David Starr Jor- dan, President ¥Emeritus, Leland Stanford University, and Dr. G. H. Simmons, Secretary of the American Medical Associaton. It also includes such physiologists its engenics, as Prof. Walter B. Cannon, of Har- vard, Professors Richard M. Pearce and A. E. Taylor of the University of Penn., Russell H. Crittenden and lafayette B. Mende] of Yale, Lew- ellys F. Barker of Johns Hopkins, Mazyck P. Ravenel of Wisconsin, Dr. Theobald Smith of the Rock feller Institute, as well as Dr. Wil- liam J. Mavo, the distingnished sur- geon, Dr. J. N. Hurty,, Ex-President of American Public Health Associa- tion, Dr. Henry Smith Williams, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of pure food fame, Dr. George Blumer, Dean of the Yale Medical School, such physicial train- ers as Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Har- Yard Gym., Dr. William G. son of Yale Gym,, Prof. Alonzo A Stagg of University of Chicago Gym., Dr. R. Tait McKenzie of Uni- versity of Penn., and such students of the economic effects of alcohol as Prof. Henry W. Farnam of former member of the famous com- mittee of 50 on alcohol, and Prot. Irving Fisher. Attention is called to data of 43 American life insurance com- panies extending over a period of twenty-five years. This offers start- ling evidence of the effect of alcohol on the moderate drinker as indicated by the death rate. The following excessive death rate among moderate drinkers is shown: Steady moderate drinkers, accept- ed as standard risks, death rate, 86 per cent. above the average death rate. a Former drinkers admitting past Yale, new excesses, 50 per cent. above the av- erage. Very moderate drinkers, 18 per cent above the average. In thrre British and one Canad- Red Cross Nurse _ Tells Of the Horrors Of War " “imia By Charles 11. Adams. This is the story of an American girl at the front. She is Miss Ray Beveridge, whom New York knew several years ago as “the American Venus.” But it is a grimmer—yet, in a sense, an even more beautiful role—which she has been playing of late. For eight months she served as a Ger- man Red nurse, tending thousands of horribly wounded Ger- man, French, English and Russian goldiers, working day and night as the head of the nursing force in one of Berlin's largest hospitals, fight- ing a woman’s battle acainst pain until she herself was overcome. And now she is telling her story of the war and showing the picture she has taken of German life in the trenches. As she tells of her one notes a quiver in her voice and around her lips. Frankly a self- appointed spokesman for the Ger- mans, she is rarely betrayed bitterness against their enemies. Cross experiences, The hardest note came into her|the Exchequer, in Ander- The War; | | | | It Put Under Ban | insnrance the ‘ mortality among so-called moderate | drinkers, accepted as temperate and | healthy risks exceeded the death | rate among total abstainers 37 per cent., 52 per cent., 44 per cent. and | T8 per cent, respectively. “All this mea continues the Bulletin, “that steady drinkers who | exceed two glasses of beer or one 2lass of whiskey daily are as a class extra hazardous risks to the extent of 8¢ per cent., and that there is a distinet extra hazard even on those who drink to a lesser degree. | ‘Experimental laboratory work corroborates the mortality records: {one-half to one quart of beer is Suf- ficient to distinctly impair memory, intellectual power and re-! tard simple mental processes such as | the addition of simple figures. “After moderate doses of alcohol the mind responds prematurely to any outside stimulation, the reaction is hasty—the judgment of the r son limping along after ion. ian life companies lower comes, the hasty act Science does not regard alcohol as, a brain stimulant, but as a narcotic, ' a deadening drug similar to ether and chloroform. This narcotic or influence is first exerted deadening on the higher reasoning powers that | control conduct, so that the lower | activities of the mind and nervous system are for the time released. The | well-poised, self- every-day ntrolled | were, and | zoes to sleep, as it i the primitive man temporarily ! wakes up. | | “This,”” says Dr. Eugene L. l’isk,l Director of llygiene, the poor, | pitiful sham and mockery that al-| cohol has put on the human | e for many and this is the scovery made by the Czar when he ! ted his now famous order. le-l sia is now burning alcohol in stoves, aeroplanes and automobiles and not in her soldiers. over d | “videnee is now available from so many different sources thnt‘l ‘sri--nro can speak with precision and | | authority in this matter. The moral indictment against alcohol cannot | be denied, but the present attitude | towards alcohol of the Czar, King | i(}nnr;:u, and of many prominent American leaders is fully warranted by scientific evidence. The world is inow recognizing what science has :hm-n telling it all along—alcohol is .a handicap for a nation at war, and it is a handicap for the individual in the struggle for existence. This is not the judgment of weaklinzs and 'faddists but of men of science and (of the practical, strong-fibred men upon whom has fallen the tremend- ous burden of guiding great nations through the most momentous war crisis in history.” girl. She put buttons in the empty sockets. Ile died, of course, of blood poisoning. ! “l don't dare let myself think of some of the things I saw in that American Volunteer (uf motor cars represents many tipes | the { American types have ialry Ambulance Corps Does Great Work (By Associated Press.) London, May 4-—No ambulance corps at the front is attracting more attention than the American Volun- teer Motor Ambulance Corps under the leadership of Richard Norton. Recently, the British Red (ross, with which the corps is affiliated, ordered it to return for service with the British forces from the second French army with which it had been operating since it reached French soil. But in the meantime the whole ambulance organization of the Sec- ond French Army had been based on the American corps and the French department objected strongly to giv- ing it up. The result has been a scompromise whereby the Corps wiil be enlarged to work with both arm. The corps consists entirely of vol- unteer workers, who not only their own services but provide auto- mobiles as well. Both have dis- tinetly made good, the French give authorities having paid the warmest ¢ iency of the work- { s. The squadron tributes to the effi ers and their cs with American cars proving the fav- orities as their clearance gives them a distinct advantage in traversing rough battlefields and wrecked roads. Among these cars the small rendered tremely useful by avoidinz what might be termed the light cav- the ambulance service While not being able to carr a heavy lgad these small cars bring the wounded from fields where the hig antomohiles cannot One ambulance of the ries a steam heating plant and tubs for supplying the wounded with hot baths. The corps bas placed this work in charge of A. E. Kemp of Paris and it has proven so success ful that he is appealing for funds to inerease the number of cars equip- ped with the apparatus. Inspector General Dziewonski of the sanitary department of the Second Army has written to Mr. Kemp thanking him for the tubs which have been suc- cessfully tested, one tub giving from 25 to 30 baths daily. Lord Rothschild More Interested In Zoo Than War (B London, ex- service of venture, corps car- Associated Press.) May 4 -The new Lord Rothschild who is almost as much a strangzer to the banking district and the Jewish community of London as he is to the general public, is still receiving considerable attention in the press. That he is a distinguish- ed naturalist who keeps a z00 of his own and used to drive a pair of zebras through the qgiet lanes K Buckinghamshire is about all there is known regarding him in the cir- cles in wheili his late father was such a distinguisheq figure. Whether his new position with its many obli- 1 spital.” and Miss Beveridge's hands clinched convulsively. “There is nothing horrible about ordinary surgery; it is almost artistic. But gunshot wounds, especially shrapnel, are terrible. Then there were the mutilations. The lowest class of Belgians are dreadful people. If you reprove your Belgian maid you may expect her to poison you. “Besides the actual nursing of the goldiers one of the doctors and 1 gave demonstrations of nursing for women of the court some of them members of the royal family. 1 have seen Duchesses washing the feet of common soldiers. And the wives and mothers of those who fell did not stay at home to weep; they came to the hospital to work, One woman in my ward was the mother of four sons, all of whom had fallen in the trenches.” THE GERMAN VIEW By Hugo von Kleist “We are fighting Germany, tria and drink, and so far as 1 can see the greatest of these three dead- Aus- intog ly foes is drink,” said David Lloyd Chancellor of his reply to a George, the Entlish Jow tone when she said: “The Ger-|deputation of the Shipbuilding Em- mans have just begun to hate Amer-|ployers Federation. jca, and 1 don’t blame them. Think of our helping to prolong this dread- ful war, to kill more thousands, by the sale of arms and ammunition. The greatest- American Ambassador [able news to many, for there we ever had requested Germany not |large classes of people Much as some Americans have wished to see Germany portrayed as deadliest foe of England and man- kind, the above quotation is accept- are here who to sell arms to Spain during our war |look upon drink as the deadliest foe with her, and Germany heeded the |of 1f we accepted such treat- request. mankind. To a certain extent they are right, ment we should be willing to give|for, given a temptation and individ- 1t uals of such weakness of character gations will divert some of his ac- tivities from the field of zoology to politics, finance and philanthropy remains to be seen. The present Lord Rothschild is in any case known to his intimates to be a thorough-going Britisher in his sentiments. Prior to the war, he spoke publicly on many occasions of the necessity of Britain putting up sharper competition against German trade. He sat for eleven years in Parliament, but the only speech he is said to have made there was on the subject of fisheries. He chiefly noted in the Commons as the first member to appear in a tall and his love of color caused his clothes to contrast rather csharply with the sober black of his associates. His beard at that time was trimmed into fine points, like a Spanish grandee's but latterly has become square-shaped. He is large, was square-shouldered man, with thick hair on the back and sides of his head but quite bald on top. [His features are English rather than Jewish. the streets, especially of London, Liverpool, and other large cities. THE ALLIES VIEW (By Albert W. Bryce.) The Dutch government, prior to the outbreak of the Katwyk case, had withstood much and severe pressure from the direction of the allies to enter the war on their side. ) The advantage to Great Britain and | France of Holland's participation, with them, is so obvious that this “How did you come to be a war |that they cannot resist it, and defeat nurse?” [ asked her. “ wanted to help,” she said Thousands of them, rich alike in Ger Iy. and poor “Every woman many wanted to help, about the Reichstag in Berlin, dur ing the first days after the declara tion of war, bezging the Govern ment to give them something to do SWarmed “I remember holding the knees of , drink to the extent one Russian soldier for two hourswith the exercise of while they picked out the bits bone which shrapnel had driven in to every part of his leg. shall forget how the poor emiled at me. And there was anoth simp- er boy of 19, a German, whose eyes people was that h{enlmged out by a Belgian too, were no unusual spectacle obgiven to the cause of the allies. becomes inevitable. From this point of view Mr. Lloyd George's prenun- i ci*mento deser serutiny, - for without wishing to be unfair to d England the conclusion is appar- - ent. The average Englishman - insnflicient strength of character to - resist the temptation of drink. Drink . (in this semse implies, of course, of interfering one’s duties. s closer has - |have been well aware of the fact 1 never :tl\at shameful drunkenness was pre- fellow valent among the English - |classes.. And what disgusted most drunken pressure must have been inevitable. | The Rhine, across whose mouth | Holland stands, is the gateway to . ———— . ———————— A ———— 119,000 Germans Living In Britain; | Will Remain There | \ { (By Associated Press.) London, May 4—Of the '_'T.utm! male Germans above the age of sev- enteen years in the United Kingdom, only 8,600 have been interned in the concentration camps. The re-| maining 18,600 are, save for having to report to the police at certain per- iods, quite as free as the neutral aliens in Great Britain. | These figures were made public in a government paper containing the correspondence between the British Foreign Office and the American am- bassador regarding the treatment of civilians. The British government allowed German subjects to leave the coun- try in the early days of the war as follows: “Women and children, males un- der sixteen and over forty-four and persons betwen these years not lia-| ble to military service, pro\'idinu' they would give an undertaking to take no part, direct or indirect, in tinz in the operations of war.” Persons who were not allowed to leave “Those under duty of military service in Germany. held in custody on a definite suspicion of espionage. Persons between the ages of sixtecn and forty-four although from military or naval duty, would not the undertaking to.” were: naval or Per- sons for crimes or who, free give referred An made betwen the two governments. But elderly invalid British officers who were taking cures at the Ger- man baths at the time of the out-| break have not Britain allowed retired German offi- cers to return home, but Germany | now demands an equivalent number of German offic captured in battle in exchange for the invalids. agreement was accordingly yet been released. (By Associated Press.) Paris, May 4--Sixteen thousand | lamps--eleetr and gas light | Paris now from ten o'clock until midnight, and 10 only are left burning from . midnight on. In times of peace 55,000 are burning all night. i 656 0 G R ) FATEFUL FOOTSTEPS S i ght, 1916, by W. . Chapman,) It was hard pulling, for the busi- ness was a petty one. The stock con- sisted mostly of candies, cakes and the more common and popular delicates- sen commodities. However, there came from the trifling sales sufficient to keep the two children in comfort and the patient mother was content. How she longed to have them with her and how she hoped that such a consummation would soon come to pass! The echoing footsteps of pass- ing pedestrians brought her rare dreams. ' This night the dreamer aroused to a lew sound. It was at the echo of a | strange, unfamiliar footfall. First, | there was the sliding swish of a halt- | ing foot, then a weird echoing as of an | iron ferrule striking on the hard; smooth concrete pavement. | Mrs. Howard leaned beyond the open doorway to observe a man pass swiftly by, despite a hindering infirm- . ity. One lower limb was missing and he wore a wooden stump, metal shod and propelled with decided celerity. | She noted that he used haste. He got | past the little shop and stared excited- | ly in all directions. He suddenly ob- served her and ran up to her. [ “Have you noticed a tall, thin, dark | young man pass by here carrying a! bundle done up in a shawl?" he shot | out quickly, forcibly. i “No,” replied Mrs. Howard, recoil- | ing from a sinister face set with evlll eyes that seemed to glow into her very soul. The man disturbed her—nay, more, the front door. rear room to secure it also. As she cold substance upon its knob smeared across her hand. “Blood!" she gasped and trembled all over. Then she carried the store lamp into the middle living apartment. It was to confront a new amazing dis- closure. Upon its floor lay a man— “tall, thin, dark!" Across his fore- head was a lurid gash. In one arm he shelteringly held a shawl-enveloped burden. She made it out to be a cherub-faced infant, slumbering peace- fully. The spectacle dumfounded her and then appealed to her deepest emotions as would a thrilling and entrancing picture. The man suggested a poetic nature. In a sense his face was beau- tiful. The child was like some stray cherub dropped from the skies. It was clear that the young man was in- sensible. He stirred and she drew back. He raised up and stared about Germany. Tt has lon. been main- tained 1y Faslsh o e weiters that th vt etwoeon the erlands and Cordiny i ey e W d 1 troops across Holland, 2s Germany marched them across Belgium, the |war might be brought to an end much sooner than is likely in any of | Visitors to England in recent years other case. And if to their resources {were added the Very jarmy and navy of Holland, and the enormously rich little country, a respectable | in a dazed way. Then he shivered and cowered ment in tie shary ed, repassed, distance. It was just here that the wounded , man discovered the woman. “Madam,” he faltered, “forgive! See, I have affrighted you. The intrusion —the shock—the blood—oh, forgive! Because of the little one, as you love | children, protect this dear innocent aded away in the lower | resources in cash and credit of that | child. She is pursued—by murder! She is the last of a doomed family. women, great additional impetus would be | Madam, do not be terrified. Allow us ! shelter Lere tll the scourge has ‘ ~ | grandfather of the little orphan in; " two darlings, brought by Badein, were | 'in her arms. alarmed. She closed and double-locked | The rear one had been | left open to insure a circulation of air. | She hastened through the unlighted | closed it Mrs. Howard felt some wet | passed—the dread, menacing foot- steps!” | Mrs. Howard went for towels and a bowl of water. He seized her hand and kissed it fervently when she had ! dressed the wound. By sections his tragic story came out. He, Arlo Badein, had been the friend and companion of one Victor¢ Ramonez. An old world vendetta pur sued Ramonez and his lovely wife The man with the false limb had h)‘f‘ cated them, had murdered them.|the Nearly at the cost of his life Badein had saved the child. ag of told Mrs. Howard. hiding until he could get word to the| real Portugal. Would she shield him, pen-| niless, until Don Castro Ramonez ar-| rived to take the menaced child out of the country? Ah, surely the don would reward her! {the anly sympathy, Leila Howard consent- ed. Badein aided her in making can-' dies for the little store. He assumed the domestic cares. | . Then one day the don came. He & 7 took the child away, but not until he the 'DON'T | June victors, after the work was done. But, according to writers, “Wellington did name chosen Because of her good heart and Wom- | jng it might indicate in history that | as Blucher and not he who won pesides, it was his habit it wi (B Amsterdam, newspapers have T¢ use st th loo as denoting the 1815 the barttle is Belle-Alliance. At Waterloo, in the strict sense of 18, word, all, and Marshall Blucher gave or- ders that the hattle should be nam- | There was but one thing to do, he]‘.d after the farm of He must remain in ty;, .o pear which the ly fought, elling! Blucher, met | 2 Wellington ang | homes and gone to live wity The war has presenteg . fight followed in the Peninsula, to nome after attle WANT BATTLE CALLED WATERLO Assoc this occasion.” ted Press.) May 4 The German snewed their plea of the word \Water- at battle of name ( By The proper LaBelle Al-|¢¢ battle Wi two and where the German | parents. not Blucher, the by fear- the place where s had talked long and earnestly \\'ilh‘ Badein. They departed together, but | with an eager lovelight in his eyes, | Arlo Badein promised Mrs. Howard to shortly return, H She sat listening to the footsteps | that evening as usual. Suddenly ! heart beat fast. Tripping feet crc d | the pavement. In another moment her “I have brought them to you and five thousand dollars from the gen ous don,” he said “And oh, dear lady! Those dreaded footsteps—' | ou mean?” queried Leila Howard “That the assassin, still seeking the | chijd, the don, carried a dynamite || x-ur*ri(lge in his false limb. It ex ploded, killing him. Lady, one word more—I love you!” | She could not doubt him. 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