The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 25, 1915, Page 2

used in the superdreadnaughts_now . .-Mare Island Yards with an estimate . will"be ‘made to _induce:the ship‘com- - 'panies to reduce their figures before it is determined to give the work to " the navy yards. ~ : s crop. Lord Rosebery Says Smtzerland Though Returns from Bier Ten Thoasand Babes “Preparedness” of | Surroundedbya | To Find Bables Fall Victims of -} U. S. Means Wall of War | Crying for Plague of Al Burden . AtPeace e Bread ) War_ - . = 8 With eight children- to. feed and (By Harry ‘Payne Burton:) ESR 7 IR clothe, and, the. rent two months| New York, Nov., 23.—A new story .- : 7 in arrears, Mrs. Elizabeth McCallion,| of “Babes in the Woods” comes to ! 9521 South street; ‘wias confrented | tear the hearts.of Americans as they with the problems of destitute wi- | prepare to give thanks for the bless- : . dowhood recently, following the fun-{ings of peace. i eral of her hushmd Arthur. McCal-| Babes in the woods!: Not two f | lion. babes bat, God' help them— . i Naturally, no woman is cheetful _TEN THOUSAND! S 5 Mrs. McCallion’s spirits were not ele- |- Ten thousand ' little children in \ vated upon her return from the cem- | stricken, overrun Serbia—starving, e i ’ etery to hear her youngest’ ehlldren' freezmg, dyingt” 0 : l plead for food. ! Eat Wat Dogs Refuse. Besides, the widow was sick and weary from four years of manual labor in the effort to keep her fam- ily together. Switzerland- is a haven of peace in a weary waste of war. Switzerland is the best equipped for fighting—size considered—of all the nations. Every man from 20 to 48 is a trained soldier. Tkose who .are nneble physically are formed into trade ang professional groups and are availabte for supplementmg the work of the army. ' ; " Free People Fm Bomfry. The system is compulsory, but it is also a voluntary: syst:m, since: it was installed, by direct vote. The peo- ple of switzerland decided they were ‘free citizens of a free republic, and that it was their ‘duty to keep it a London, Nov. 23.—“I know nothing more disheartening than the an- nouncement recently made that the| United States—the one great country. left in the world free from the hideous, blood burden of war—about to embark on the building of a huge armada desined to be equal or second’ to our own.” Lord Rosebery said; presiding at the Rhodes lecture in the University of London tonight. “It menas,” he: continued, “that the burden will continue or; the other nations, and be increased -exactly in .proportion to the fleet of the United States. Sses U. S. Taking Up Burden. - Ten ‘thousand children, fatherless 5 and motherless, wandering helpless . ErSa | through 'the forests, living like ani- h ¥ mals; eatng that which even the dogs S [ “I confess that it is a disheartening | free country. Every man is more than Lingering- Ilmess. refuse. prosprct that the United States; so | willing to do his bit, ahd the service| McCallion died after:lingering from| It is-the worst calamxty of child- : i remote from the European conflict,|ig held in such high respect that bank |8 complication of diseases, including hood- in a century of world history. e B The stories of horror are coming in thick and fast and the worst are sworn to by respomsible Americans - = o - should voluntarily in these days take up the burden which after this war will be found to have broken, or al- most broken our backs.” Old Europe, Lord Roscbery said, was disappearing, never to return in its present shape. On the conclusicn of the war the form it would us- sume, he thought, would be unlike anything with which the world had asthma, heart, kndney and liver trou- bles. Four years ago he was inca- pacitated for work, “and for four years Mrs. McCallion has made a fight | who are coming in from the-stricken against odds which excited the ad-|Balkan country. . : i miration of those who know ‘her:|: Typhus Sweeps 50“"“’! e R She has scrubbed and toiled in office| = When the war started Serbia had buildings, receiving an average ofi 4,500,000’ citizens. Over 60,000 old - about’ $4.50 per week. mien, iyoung ‘men ard boys: have. been Then in the evening, while. achmg mobilized. - There -have already been - rupts and criminals are denied the vrivilege of taking part in the nation- al defense.. Instead, they are required to pay a special tax in lieu of service. Little Time Required. It is surprising how little time each man is required to contribute to the army. He enlists at 20, and that year he spends from sixty to ninety days training, depending on the branch 5 T 7 wernty . grown familiar, n R B S in evéry muscle, she has earned a lit-| 200,000 casualties' ' in four years. [ of the service to which he is attached. B 4 3 Vs (3 Must Mave Treaties Guaranieed. From then on he spends two- weeks ‘tle extra money by sewing. ....{ Typhus, which last winter and spring - Pe A Mrs| McCallilon, received a 1; help six weeks ago, when her ol child; Florenee; 13 years old, wen work in a bakery for $4 a week. three weeks ago. . Florence stricken with rheumatism, and is confined to her ‘bed.. s Gollapsed Under Strain. Also. about three weeks ago Mrs. McCallion collapsed from the strain and worry, and now the family has no income. If neighbors had not 'helped = out with contributions of food they would have starved. Mrs. McCallion realizes that if she does not. receive help ske will have o | swept like a withering plague over the land, took toll of 60,000 men: . ‘and: ‘women, leaving perhaps unmer- | A it | cifully, ‘the children, who seldord : | contract this' loathsome dicease. Many Serbian villages ‘have -been .= .. absolutely ~depopulated. - The -whole - el Aol countyy. is in mourning. The enemy ¢ not ‘only destroying the crops, but the ‘farm implements as well. And . X this in a country where 90 per cent of the population live by the soil. e LAY S This was a blow at the very hearh : of the people. Ten Thousand Orphans. So the two great forces of destruc- One obvious aspect of this transi- tion, he: thought, was that in_ the future it would, be quite impossible to make treaty arrangements .be- tween the great powers without first obtaining some guarantee: of their observance. ‘The signature of Ger- many to a document of any kind, he said, would have little:value 'within ary measurable time that could. now bz contemplated. : It was likewise true .that this ob- servance would have to be generally applied beyond Germany, because no ration would, feel itself safe which obtained ‘ the girice. of peace.on any- a year, for a period of years, ih brush- ing up the military knowledge he has gained and in acquiring néw training. That is all. There is no rigid-system that compels him to give up two to fiveof his most frultful years with the colors. It’s a free man’s system, conducted, by freemen. v The beautiful thing about the Swiss plan is that it works. Surrounded by: thundering cannon, Switzerland is a% peace. Govm’t Investigator thing but some material guarantee 1 1 to break up her home and send her |tion, war and disease, have thrown e e of its own. This ultimately meant Finds Sta,rvatlon children to an institution. urpn the shoulders.of neutral Amer- : : s “We will be all right,” ske said,|ic2 the care of 10,000 wandering or- o § - : Is Cause of “if we can live until Florence and I|phans. Many of them 'are in parts , BATTLESHIP-COMBINE Peuagra get back to work.” The chidren are:|of the coulry which are strange to | 2 : Florence, 15; Arthur, 14; John, 12;{them. They do not kndw who nor B Vashinkton: Novi 98- Bassase. ob Thomas, 10; Margaret, B; Elizabeth,| Where their relatives are. Many' of L Washington Nov. 23.—Discovery: of the cause and cure for pellagra was announced formally fonight by the public health service. The announce- 7; Anna, 6 and Helen 3 years old 7 UNCLE SAHI OPEHS I.AND ~| them*do: -not even: kmow their own / Shapris ‘I'names, - They- are- roaming atmlessiy R e : “|'about ‘the country, in_ ‘the fields and : Washmgton, Nov. 23-—Although woods, caring for themselves ‘or-dy- the apparent failure of private bld- ders to keep their proposals within the $7,800,000 limit of cost et by congress for the hulls and the mach- x 2 ment follows the reeent publication bt for lack’ of care! B R L inery of battleships Nos.43 angd; ‘44, 7°" B not all of it is public land, Franklin ing for lack of care! . ¢ bids for which were opened today at of & vepart. by Su gfon Josgph EOI(}' K. Lane, secretary, of the interior Slecp ||3 'f!lfl quds.- ; i the navy department, construction ofi_«berger of ‘8 yonr of SxEcrmene 0 has designated as nonirrigable. more: _They wander in little forlorn bands - Sy co-operation with south:rn - state health officials demonstrating the correctness of the theory that a oné- sided, diet, lacking in proteids, would cause the disease and that well bal anced diet would cure it. Spreads at Great Rate. “The spread of this dread malady, which has bsen increasing- in the United States ‘at a terrific rate in the.. last. .few years, may now bal.: checked- and eventually eradicated,” the sefvice statement says. It is astimated that 75,000 cases of the Similar designati disease will ‘have occurred in the|peen made as to United States in 1915, and at least | ; of $7413,156 for the: turbine ship{ 7,500 persons will have died before |, was. next lowest. ‘|the end of the year. In many sec-|p One. Moro Ohauce. tions only tuberculosis and: pneu- -Seeretary Daniels: was. willing to monia excéed it as a cause of deaf:h," say : tonight’ ‘what course he would| - Discovers . the Cause. follow should all private bids be out-| The final dietary tests were ‘made §ide the Timit set by -congress. It is|by Dr. Goldberger and Ass:stnnt Sur- understood, however, that an effort|geon G. A. Wheeler at' the farm of ) the Mississipni penitentiary where half a dozen convicts were given: rel-|i lazrra by :feeding them for five months on bountiful meals’ consist- lirg c.h:efly of cereals and lackmg in ‘about desolate parts of the country, ‘or‘if they are near +villages they go to these settlements and beg fox: both vessles may bes undertaken”at government navy: yards. Government Plants Lowest. The N'ew York ‘ond: Philadelphia government plants submitted esti- mates of less than $7,000,000 each, for shipsipropelled, with the combina- tion steam and-electric! drives, to be 'than 2,000,000° acres in Stanley and] Lyman counties, South Dakota, “in the Pierre land district. Much of this land is already in 160- , acre homesteads. Where the.pr sent, holder of such. a.homestead s adjoins the public land. now ‘design ed as nonirrigable, he may take by - entry enough to compléte summer - the babes ng and “it “is not. difficult - 5, if one is wiling.: to. Face bulldmg at the -New .York yards. These were -the- Jewest'«blés and- same yards alse submitted the lowest figures: for ships equipped with Par- sons steam turbines, the bases of ull ‘but . one of the private bids.. The d, Dawson, 3800 in Teton, 2,600 1 ferson and, 1 300 éach in Yell “selves to not hoggmg the :