Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 29, 1918, Page 4

w:uo Office, §25 Main Street. o 310-3. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Press is exclusive- therwise credit- in this paper and also the local aetws publisied nerein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also "| mission in coming to the velief of the . That the forwarding of the Austrian S_war aims to President Wilson before “they were set forth in his speech by 2oun: Czernin, minister of foreign af- «fairs in Austro-Hungary, may be re- “garded as a move on the part of that Teountry to break away from its al- “Jiance with Germany and set in mo- ‘tion a movement for tho bringing about of peace, which has been clam- ored for so persistently in the dual monarchy, is eniirely possible. It is not eurprising in that connection that #4t aroused much concérn in the press ~of that country as well as in Germany. 23t is significant, however, as pointed “out by the socialist paper Vorwaerts “of Germany which has been suppressed ~Beveral times for its utterances which @4 not meet the approval of the im- German government, that Von Keuhlmann in his Tecent address de- clared that “We are in agreement with = Whether it is a case where Germany nis Uslg Austria to make the first ~overtures looking to peace negotia- ‘tofis, in view of the feeling which is gFOwig in that country, or whether it s &n attempt to get the entente ma- “tions interestedl :n the peace question I® such an extent that they will drop] their war activities long enough to give Gerthany the advantage which it seeks and permit it to strike a telling blow “or victory Temains to be determined. 'The latter possibility -is thoroughly 4n Wweping with German acts, and “cynning as it may be there can be lit- “tie question but what Pressure will be Jbrogght to bear upon évery war ac- fivity by the allies, inluding this fountry, until thers is something more | ®ertain that Austria, or-those it repre- . 'Sents, is actually sincere in its efforts ‘'and is anxious for peace under the terms which this country has set forth. MAKE USE OF THE WOOD. There have been a great many peo- k: who have made uyp their minds it they will not use wood for fuel if it can possibly be avoided. There are perhaps good reasons for this in nor- oAl times because wood i not as han- 9 2s coal, or ofl, gas or electricity 30d while it gives excellent heat it Uires more attentionm, but when it dificult to secure coal either for ic use or for the needs of the lic utilities which farnish the gas electricity, it is time that preju- {Siee was put aside and use made of Juch fuel as can be obtdined. Just now this part of the country undergoing a shortage of coal the of which has not been known for ears. It is a section where wood is natural fuel and where therc are nds of cords which are going wasté because, except for (bése who live in thé country, therz S oniy a limited demand for it. But with coal hard to get this natu- Tal resource should be developed. There is no need far people to freeze as long as there is enough wood, and the cwners of woodland cannot fail to recognize the opportunity which is presented to them to turn a portion of theiz woodlots into cash and especial- W at a time when their other activi- fHfes are at a low ebh. There is no wonder that one of the state foresters asks “Why should people be freesing in our cities and towns this winter while wood is actually rottipg and wasting all over our state within their very grasp:” THE POSTAL SERVICE. Massachusetts congressman )= on a visit to the American ex- lonary force in France was con- with many complaints regard- the mail service that was being ven them. He made a collection of criticisms that were received re- g belated and lost ietters and it his intention to tall on the postof- department, through congress, for information in reégard thereto. § There is nothing more welcomed by goldiers gin France than a letter Bome. They want to keop in with families and friencs and lly they are anxious to get such Tost, ‘which make that it is not ! trouble arises indicatichs pnm the quiry into the mail service which we|fle husky shot into“the conveérsation are receiving right here at home where | just as soon'as the Iady in blue serge the German submarines are upable to|sto] relating how she had .can torpedo it, but where all sorts of de-|a bushel of corn W Wl lays are being éxpefienced. It is time|the government had takén no notice that an effort was made to improve conditions in general or at least to see being done to at home and abroad what it should be.- 3 e A, THE LACK OF LDCOMOTIVES. In a report which he makes to the director gemeral of the railfoads, In- terstate Comnterce Commissioner.Me- that gross neglect on of lodomotives being tied up in - houses and yards because of laek of repairs, and this state of affairs, he holds to be a principal cause' for the present freight eongestion. Commissioner McChord has appar- ently not given any thought to the handicaps under which the railrpods have been forced to operate by the in- terstate commerce commission. !fi recognizes that they have had troubl getting help to repair the éngines but e attributes much of the trouble to neglect because of lack of forethought. In this tespect the roads of this coun- try are no different than those of Eng- land where thousands of locomotives are out of use because of the inability to get help and material to repair them, But while the commissioner appar- ently thinks differently, it cannot help being believed that had there been the proper amount of forethought on the part of the interstate commerce cony: | transportation systems a iong time ago when it was asked and permitted them to have gotten a suffiefent re- turn for their setvice to have pro- vided new locomotives and rolling stoek they would not be in the condi-} tion which they are today ‘and the freight congestion would not Be what it is today. It is quite evident that all the negligence cannot be attributed to the roads however much the com- missioner thinks it ought to go lhereA! el s AN MISTREATED SPAIN. | On several occasions Spain has con- sidered that it had sufficient cause for protest over the manner in which its ships have been treated by the Ger- man_submarines. As this country staried in to do and as other neutrals| have since done repeatedly, Spain has) called Germany's attention to the in-} justice of such aets, demanded that they be stopped and asked for repara- tion. In the case of Spain as it has! been with Norwsv, Denmark and Swe- | den. Germany haz forwarded its re- grets and made promises that nothin§ of the kind wou'd happen agajn, but each reply has been a mass of empty words. Germany had no intentions of feeping any such promises Wwhen it made them, any more than it expected to ohserve the neutrality of Belgium when it agreed with other nations to do so. If Spain or any of the neutrals had any reasons in the beginning to think differently there have been imstances cnough since the scrap of paper.e: sode 10 convince them to the comtraj Germany is disposed to do just- it bt n aq-|flag that prociaims liberty and ffee-}certainly be made to amend it in the{@ traim is the sorting of the load into D e o it pepus | dom to.all, we ave forgotten an in: | intorést of the power vantage, and the mos: eff which comes from Germans the steady repetition of its unjust acts. Another Spanish vessel has just been sent to the bottom, the destruction be- !bnsututivn that ranks as one of the{tration bill. ing preceded by the pillaging ef the|best hospitals not only in Connecticut|{fal] hack m ship. There gcertainly ean be no ciaim|but in all the entife New England |tion and delay thev have nsed so suc- | Pairable; here there is a great deal of in this instance that a mistake was made or that the error was disdov- ered too late. It was clearly .a pre- meditated case_of violating neutral rights which causes the rest of the world to wonder how long that coun- try is going to gondone such treat-!. ment. EDITORIAL NOTES. Preumonia appears to be the worst enemy thus far of our- troops hotit abroad and at home, Tho general impression was that Zovernment cONtror wouwu 0€ an QQ- celerator instead of brake. It he does nothing else it looks as if Colonel Roosevelt was going to ‘put some pep into the war at home. No one Will be satisfisd now until the backbone ef winter has suffered a compound, comminuted fracture. Even during the stress of oresent condition§ scmeone thought it a hit humorous to ask “How old is- Ann Thracite?” There never was a time when a greater incentive existed for the in- vention of a pew, cheap and easily ob- | tained fuel. The Kilauea volcano in the Pacifiz which is threatening eruption may be 1aking its cue from happenings ai ‘Washington. o Boston is quoting sharks at 20 cents a pound. No one would cothplain if certain of the land variety eould be corraled at that price. The man on the ecorner says: The most interesting thing for which the people are looking these days is a prediction of warm weather. , Over in Lendon butchers are being urged to kill horses for food, but there are a great many people who do their best to kill them for just pure cussed- ness. . The most disturbing thought just at present is that by the middle of July indfistries will have to Be run night and day in order to keep up with the sup- ply of coal. In view of the many suspects who are being arrested following fires an: explosions, any innocent man & ought 1o know that it is a poor poliey te be caught these days in suspicicus places, Thet promised to be quite a go be- tween Semator Stone and Cqlamel Rooseveit, but it proved to be phly @ preliminary to the main bout between Senator- Chamberlain and President Wilson. y That New York magistrate . who warns motor drivers to respect the: righte-of pedestrians, to turn cormers. slowfy, to show the teuch of chival- ry to women and children, the aged, feeble afid heélpless mrust have greater. faith in his appeal than in the power, e taw, jon earth started with a cold? Ku of the feat. ¥ » I must say,” she remarked, “that I am beginning to think there is gome- thing in Albert's sysf all! One of the trials of my married- life has been: the fondness Albert always ad_for taking mediche. & r he has had any slight n.umanht that did_pot call for a e been just as happy os a small W‘*et loose in the china cupboard with a hatchet. His pleasure in doctoring himself has b ad, but he went on the theoty gé-dl&y'nevei again would e be have the chance, so he always 14 take everything in “You :;‘mm cold . or a or a tummy a pain in his héad or little toe.1 have Dbeen kept in a state of constant per. turbation. mnot to say apprehension, as 1 , I could never rid of the wretchéd feeling that any minute Albert was going to double up in con- vulsions or some unheard of stretch out paralyzed from Oh, yes, he always teok knew ation. Sout, 2% 1 whs ihe SoEbY, "t u was ina- fions which wortied me! ‘Ever since I once read that it you rank chartreuse immediately after “ml'd‘ a banana the m:hgtnl psh:g ‘would cause you to drop “fl—ulfl\l why anybody with a bottle of char- treuse should pick ont 2 banana to go with it I don't, see—I have been wa So far Albert has let me alene with his combinations, but the other night when I said I had been chilly all day 2nd my throat felt sore he sprang to his guns. said T wae'on the way to a hard cold and that the only thing to do was to nab it while yet thefe was time. He began to stick around in that ominously happy way of his which alwavs precedes a raid on the medicine cabinet and I began to fight for air. 1 assured him that all I need- ed was a hot bath, a hot lemonade and to go to be B “Albert pushed me back into my chair and fixed me with a stony eve. Didn't T know that half the diseases And he had been saving a perfectly cracking g00d thing that Bellows had told him about. something that ‘worked mar- velously with colds and Mere it was! He thrust two Httle pink pellets at me and tyey looked so silly and harmless that T swallowed them. o had sured him croakily that ly ever +3 A &d. My 10| throat hurt. my head huft, my back t was dreadful, - Albert 'the way wnma mfih:d wnkh“ til it had rum into haven hmzphat He had just stuff he had taken the, s telt the way I was foeling: was upstairs by then unheeding my protests, whistling merrily as he dived int othe medicine cabinet. ~He dash- ed down again with 2\ spoon and a fhundmdnoboo my mouth. “protestéd vielemtly but I felt téo horrid to argue W o long. how, if this “was the end why not meet it courage- ously? So I took the second dose. Al- bert was terribly i nterésted. He walkéd up and down, askifig whether I.didn't begin to feel bettergand was very much disappointed I as- 'ached and I had all the symptoms of too . ill to argue. throgt went the medicine for grip and L inext he anneunced he had my het bath turned on. Shivering as though the tub was located om an iceberg, I megotiated the hot bath and staggered into bed. “By this time I knew that I never should afise from it. I had very queer feelings all over me. But Albert in- sisted on my drinking the hot lem- cnade, Mh;; that he had put in a few dro; something which he knew we help. With feeble moaas I lay bagk on the piliows while he surveyed me meditotively. “Presently Albert wanted to know again whether 1. felt better and I feigned slumber, ‘Heavens!' Albert . ‘She’s unconscious!’ and in a few seconds I felt something fiery tickle throug my lips! ‘There!’ cried Albert, ‘T thought that would bring you to! Just the thing for a faint! Do you feel better now? -Say, I be- lieve you have a fever!’ ‘SMAN OFTANUD~—, (91T o1B noi ISpUOM ® ST ;I¥U) |[e IsureSe 94TY D[OD BYAWS ¥ PIP 1UTYD VYA, ‘o818 omiq up APW] 2} PIES . jUWLH, e 1 8% 05—4Si [z Aposgied ey 1 Sup -uTow 3XeU 9y} 38U ST 31 InoqE Bupyy DPO oUY ng °PRFERO 3IsqQIV 910jq DPIMO[[EAS | 8S5[3 IBUM MoOUY LUODP | 2aRS LT pUe. ‘ed10A ANSOU ADUSHS SUY Wi APY[ SW PIvS, /Syl dn 9aeS 1, LisaATou og) oy yms 1@ 338 e, PIAD WATY . {SROMMRP £.90S, LA 1 ioM1 pl P[ #piq (11— ‘JelswioqJayy Yl pno paR 03 eawp mnof N0 108 1 .Meqiv, ‘dn perSSoxs 1 smy 3v. Hospital Needs X-ray Machine. Mr. Editor: The city of Nerwich has withiv the iast six months given ample proof of what it can do when the call cowes to rally around the flag. at the liberal subseriptions to both is- sues of Liberty Bonds, the Young len's Chris! Cross and Knights of Columbus? We can feel justly proud of what we have dome. In the midst of our enthusiasm to do anything that ‘will make the kaiser respect our liberty and will re- call to him the fact that no mation las ever compelldd us to lower the stitution ‘that all Norwich citizens can feel jus I mean Backus h i We have in the Backus hospital an states. When the time comes that our siek and wounded soldiers return from abroad Backus hospital will be ealled on to do its share and we can be as- sured its excellent staff of physicians and nurses and its able superiritendent will do their duty. ‘The attention of the writer of this article has been called to the fact that it lacks apparatus which it must have to hold its place among modern hos- pitals. An X-ray machine. Only the other day the writer saw the incon- venience a poor sufferer had to un- dergo to be dragzed to the top of the Shannon building to have the X-ray applied. The expense of an Xeray ma- chine is only about $2000. If we can subscribe so liberally to all undertak- ings. why can we not raise sufficient funds to purchase this machine for our own need? When our soldiers come back this machine is absolutely neces- sary. Let us net be caught napp Let us be prepared. Send your sub- scription to The ‘Bulletin and if every one is as free with his donation in this case as in the cases mentioned .|above in a few days we will see the fund ready for the purchase of the X-ray machine and our Backus hos- pital will be ready to do its mite ‘when called on. A SUBSCRIBER. Norwich, Jan. 28, 1918. The Administration Water Power Bill. Mr. Editor: The twelve-year fight to keep the nation’s water power from capture by the power momopolists is at last on the verge of being won. The administration water power bill, now before congress opens the way to save for the people of the United States their most valuable national asset. Some fifty million water horsepower i§ at stake. The bill in question was formulated under the direction of- the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of war, aid’ the secretary of in the interior, was submitted to the president for his arproval, and recently put forward as ar administration measure. It deals with the water power in mational for- ests. public lands, Indian lands, and navigable streams. A special com- mittee of the house has been created to_consider it. 2 It is an admirable measure, drawn with thorough knowledge and unusual skill. ~ The principles essential for the wise use and development of our pub- lic water powers in the public in- terests are all embodied in it. Tn my letter to you of November 1§, 181, 1 urged your support of the fol- fowing seven principles in water pow- er legislatio 1. The thing to do with water power Is to develop it. Whatever retards or restricts the development of public watér powers on terms fair to the public is against public policy and is ‘pstile to the general welfare. 2. Water power belongs to the peo- ple. The sites where it is produced ould always be held in public lands, T only so can effective control in the general interest be secured. 3. Where public development is not desired,” the right to use water power sites should be leased for periods long enough to permit sound, attractive, and profitable investment, but nevar longer than fifty years. of each lease all rights should return to the rzople who gave them, 4. In order to protect the consumer against extortion, ratés and ice ould be regulated by féderal authori. 4 when state or local authorities k4 5 Reasosably prompt and complete Look | At the end| teur' development and continuous opera- tions. subject to market conditions, should be required. Already millions of water horsepower are held out o use to further monopoly by private vorporations, 6. Corporations or individuals who ‘make money out of rights granted by the people should share their profits with the people. 1. The public has a right to complete Information about every business bas- ed. on the use of public propert: 1t is a real pleasure to tell You that n Association, the Red|€Very one of these principles is fllv| easily récognized but gotten } safeguarded in the _administration’s water power bill, What remains, therefore, is for congress to put this meéasure throuzh without delay. The administration water power bl will first come befors the house or representatives, where an effort will interests, It that fails, the water power Inbbyists the | will endeavor to have the indefensible | immense disinfecting tanks that are in provigions of the Shields bill substi- tuted in the semate for the adminis- Beaten in that. they will the formula of obstruc- cgsstully for the last ten years. This measure is practical, fair. and twise. The friends of conservation should insist that their friends in con- Fress shall eive their prémpt and full support to the administration wa- ter powet bill. and shall ses to it that {it is nassed without emasculation, sub- stitytion, or postponement. Tt is of vita] interest to our country while the war is on. and will be equally import- ant after the war is over. The passage of this bill will secure to the Ameritan people forever vart resourres whose use for the ood of all will make this Jand a safer and a bpter place to lce in. AUl the forces of conservation are beRind it T nize you to give the administration wateér power bill vour strongest ap- proval and support. Sineerely yours. GIFFORD PINCHOT. Milford, Pa., Jan. 27, 1918. STORIES OF THE WAR Pat O'Brien’s Story Flight Lieutenant Pat O’Brien. the former Santa Fe railway man who ef- fected 3 remarkable escape from Ger- many after being shot dewn in an aerial battle as a member of the Roy- al Flying Corps and who walked across a part of Germany, all of i Lutemburg and Belgium before dig- #ing under the “wire of death” and reaching Amsterdam, has told his story to the King . at - Buckingham Palace. And O'Brien and the King have formed complimentary impres- sions of each other. “I have mhet some of the heads of departments on the Western division of the Santa Fe, some of the big bus- iness men-in Chicago and a few of the men doing the fighting in important positions n ths war, and I want to say that the King is one of the best” says O’'Brien, who is a nmative of Momence, 1N, and a resident of Saa Francisco. “1 don’t think he knows what side mean: ‘We shook . hands heartily three times—on my arrival, when 1 thought I might be taking ta> much of his time and started to go, and finally when we said good-by. “I rece.ved a telegram to call at 10:30 o'clook and, arriving two minutes before, found the King on railroad time. 7 was not kept waitinz a mnute but was taken directly to him by one of his sacretaries who withdrew on presenting. 1ie. We then chatted for 40 ‘minutes. the King show: ereat interest in iy expetience and quos- tioning me minv! as 10 my route from the tim2 I jumped out of the tran window until 1 conceaed mvaclf nearby and studied the electrically charged barrier between Belgium and Hplland for about a week of nigits before succeeding in a plan of es- cape, “The King rst offered my 2 shair, but when 1 declived politely stood with me throughout our conversatien. He certainly had more than an ama- 's knowledge of electricity, as 1 gathered by the lively interest he dis- Dlayed at the sevéral ways 1 bad in mind as to how best to put the live wires out of business. I thousht first of grounding the current in the sev-. eral wires with a horizontal metal bar, then made a r of saplings so .green that the wocl proved a cop- through the the guard’s effort to hold me in. I think he laughed most heartily at Y e o o Wwhen 1 c ed of our havi ride in fourth-class compartments. The that we rightful- iy n‘lfi’u 5 in hog trucks, 1 ISWe) that 3:. to riding with Gemmcd, undluun English-speaking guard exploded o gutterals, probably mot, knowing profanity in a foreign to ngue. *7 couldn't realize the King' was a king. ‘other men, ~ |CAST . He seemed just like i The Kind You Have Always ‘but more mtgn:ted in l(-hy ab:ry. o expressed great sympathy for my meromuherlmbeuduml been kilied, it indeed having been so inthe Britsh official I, have been gven leave for months to visit her at Momence, IN, but my time may be extended. It is very likely that I shall be trans- ferred to the American Flying Corps, in which 1 received my first training and was mfl&n 8an Dego before becoming restless and -¢nlisting with the Gapadians in Victora. I have now about recovered from the effects of seventy-twb days' diet of cabbages and turnip: Wastage of the Battlefields. (Correspondence of The Associated < Press.) On an average. eight trains a day are bringing to Le Mans the wastage at the battlefront, comsisting of thous- ands of tons of damaged and ruined soldiers’ equipment. There have been as many as seventeen trains a day heavily loaded nvith this picked up on battiefields and around camps. Le Mans would be the para- 4dise of ragmen and dealers in second hand goods were it not for the fact that the French army is finding its own use for such of this material as it is able to recuperate or repair. | Bstablishments located at Le Mans, | France, by the quartermaster’s de- partment recuperate monthly 50,000 outer garments, 125,000 under gar- ments, 3,560 pairs of shoes, 60,000 boots, 25,000 steel hel- 70,000. sheep-skin capes _and 120000 pieces of equipment. These articies are made ready for use again by disinfection, renovation and re-l pairs. There are in addition, made each month from pieces of clothing that are not repairable, 100,000 pairs of slippers, 120.000 cases for soldiers’ canteens, 50,000 forage caps, 75000 shoe laces, 20 000 clotl cases. for bread loaves and 10.090 wash rags. The recuperation and repair of worn and damaged articles began in the spring of 1916 in vast warehouses and repair shops in which 5,000 persons in- cluding 2,000 refugees, mostly women, are employed. Here and at Les Murlins, northwest of Orleans, among the quays from which the mobilized men of the 5th military region went off to war in Au- gust. 1914, German prisoners of war now line up in front of incoming freight trains and unload quantities of sreat sacks that loek like the product of a gigantic ragman’s shop. This in- degcribable mass invokes the confusion a8 ‘well as the tragedy of the battle- fieidd. ‘There are pierced and dented helmets worn and stained pieces of uniform, forage caps, great coats, leg- ;gmss. army shoes and trench boots, some of them pierced by bullets, some torn by shrapnel and others shredded by violent contact with barbed wire. All of them are covered with layers of mud of varying thicknesses and not requently a garment presents a stain of an indefinable color, always! rid of with difficulty. These garments re- -ceive special treatment. They are first thtown into a receptacle where they g0 through a long and thorough cleansing before being treated as oth ‘er garments. The first operation on the arrival of re) 1 trench had been blown in and there was no sign of eny of the men I had been talking with. 1 crossed over to where the shell had exploded and found one of the men I had been taiking with lying at the bottom of the tremch _lifeless. Along a little piece further was an- other of our patrol, done for. I went back and ordered stretchers and a couple of men with picks and shovels. They were soon digging dut the trench, and there they found the ser- geant who had started out on this inspection with me, buried, blown to pieces. Of the nine men that were there that night 1 was the only man | who got out. It was only a chance shell but it certainly did its work—and from that hour 1 had more respect for the Ger- man whiz-bang shell A man often goes daring attack unhurt, through the mest perilous patrol duty, through raids and ecouting parties, and then at some time when all seems quiet and serene, a chance shot will do its work. through some OTHER VIEW POINTS three piles, leather, metal and cloth. The cloth and canvas go at once into who hold There are a good many people are patriotically willing to- take and work for the war provided they get twice as much pay as they ever had in peace times—Meriden Joursal. operation night and day, and from there to the laundry. Then they go to another warehouse where they are separated into repairable and unre- ripping to separate trimmings from garments and to divide the garments thmeselves into pieces of as nearly un- iform size as possible to facilitate their transportation into comfortable slip- pers. The. sheep-skins are purified by a sulphur application in the abandoned vault of an old cemetery mearby where 6,000 of them are treated each day, after which they are made pli- able and ready for wear again by a beating machine. Some of them are able to take another turn at the front but the most of them, along with | pieces of wuniform are distributefl among the assembling stations at the rear for the equipment of auxiliaries and amonsg the hospitals for the cloth- ing of convalescents, Rags are sold here at the rate of a hundred bales per day, weighing in the aggregate about twelve tons. This represents the wear and wastage of clathing received at Le Mans alone; an ‘equal quantity = is received at Les Murlins. Kettles. braziers. lanterns, = drums, musical instruments and all kinds of tolls also pass through here on their way to Rennes to be dealt with by special establishments where the per- centage of recuperation is said to be very slight. 0ld General Zero is an ‘enemy hard to defeat. When once he gets a grip it holds. And this winter he has had things about all his own way, defying and deriding the ef- forts of humanity to keep warm. He has tied up the transportation lires and blocked traflic more _effetually than submarines could. The result is anothe: series of embargoes to en- able the railroads to make another try. It is all exceedingly humiliating to our boasted American . efficiency and ability to do big things in a big way. But perhaps the humbling will be salutary. 1f the lessons are taken to heart they will have good results in the future. We have been taught our weakness in a most disagreeable but effectual fashion.—Bristol Press. Faetory, workers ‘cannot possibly be in such bad shape financially that they will be forced to underzo’ dépri- vation in this brief shut-down. They have been receiving more wages, and bonusues, and overtime, than ° ever before in the industrial history of -the nation. Their pockets are filied. The rest will not hurt them physically or mentally, if they use good judgment and refrain from excesses. One:crit- icism, and one only, of. the Garfield move is justified. That is the way it was donme. Guarded preliminary warnings should nave been given and the public mind prepared for it, Then the order should have been g0 clear that all might understand who read it. The American people are in the war —in it to stay. Let us stand the gaft just as we p:pecl oun soldiers to stand it when they go over the top or meet the Huns face to face in the Flanders trenches.—hartford Times. BROUGHT FROM AFRICA. MEN WHO CAME BACK EXPERIECE WITH A WHIZ-BANG Copyrighted by the British-Canadian Recruiting Misson. By Major G.'P. Morton Of the 46th Canadan Infantry T'll tell you my first experience with a whiz-bang, that is, at close range. It was on the Vimy sector last winter. We were making an inspection down the line. When we came to the last post we called oyt to the sentry on @Quty and asked how everything was. “All right, sir,’ came the answer. At that place at the end of the line| they had fixed up a place where the boys could go in and smoke, corru- gated iron covered the top with sides of rubber sheeting to keep the wind and rain out. And there I found a few of the patrol inside, 1 asked what they were doins there and the Corpo- ral in charge explained he thought it not_dark enough for them all to stay outside. T was just telling them they had better £0 out on duty when & whiz-bang exploded. It was quite close. " T 4id not think much of it, but in a minute another one exploded a little nearer. Just then there was a flash and an explosion in our midst. Congo. Ivory Carvings in the Amer- ican Museum of Natural History. The extensive collection of carved ivories secured {rom the Mangbetu negroes of Africa by, the Lang-Chap- in Expedition of the American Muse- um of Natural History, has for the first time been instailed for public view, in the Morgan Hall of Gems at New York. The collection consists of images, fetiches, war trumpets, musical in- struments, cups, bracelets. hair orna- ments. weapons, boxes and many oth- er articles carved by these primitive peoples, with primitive tools. Conspicuous are the great carved horns made from huge tusks, portions being covered with elephant hide and okapi skin. Thése are used on fest- val occasions. Sections of diseased elephant’s tusk hear images of chiefs, in use for over over 30 years, Children Cry for Fletcher’s has borae been made ceNune CASTORIA Auw. Bears the Signature of " In Use For Over 30 Years The Kiad You Have Always Bought 5 n SRR their wives and children. Thére are huge drinking vessels, made by join- ing the horns of the forest antelope, fancifully ~ decorated . wofen's wotk boxes, and numbers of hoxes and jars of various sizes and shapes. As a whole the carvings ehow such technical perfection as to suggest the use of the'lathe and other modern tools. Yet all of the work is done with native iron tools of primitive simplicity. Fashioned by the artists themselves, who. never follow a plan, having at the outset of their task bitt a general idea of the form the ob- ject will finally assume, the tusk of Diece of ivory s first trimmed viith a hatchet, ‘as if it were a piece of wood; with an adze, rude outlines are shaped, and crude knives' and saws cut the deeper and finer moldings. Finally the whole is smoothed with the edge of a sharp knife. The pic- tographs are made by carving fine- lined portraits in tke tusk, and rub- bing into these lines grease and chr- coal, after which the ivory is highly polished. . The polish which so augments the beauty of the ivories is produced by natiFe “sand-paper,” gathered from the trees. These péople have found that the leaves of certain trees con- tain particles of silicates. those con- taining the finest crystals producing a brillian polish when rubbed over the surface of the earvings. Nearly all of the |spetimens on viaw were secured from the famous King Okondo, who died in 1918, and whose realm, for administrative reasons, was afterward divided among dozens of smaller chief: Mr. Lang, who stayed for a consid- erable period in Okondo's domain, learneds that among the Manghétu and some other of :the African tridés, 2ll ivory belongs to the king and' thht such objects as are in the collection may be used only by the king and those to whong he presents them. One would assume from this' that large stores of the carved art tréasures might be found in the courts of the kings. But their barbarian cuStoms demand the complets and immediaté destruction of all the propefty of a king at the time of his death, so that only new objects are fouhd. in the royal household. The museum's party was_therefore’ extremely fortunate in securing this finé collection—an op- portunity which came about through the chance that, moved by some su- perstition. Okondo, the last of this jeld line of kings, was willing to part with the best he had. In this way the museum has acquired a unique collection which will probably never be duplicated. GERMANY HAS FAILED ers Pay of Their Gra ‘Washington, Jan. 28.—Germany has failed to reply to the proposal of the United States that German commi sioned officers held prisoners here, ré- ceive the pay of their grade in return for similar privileges being accorded American officers held in Germaiy; so e war department today cut off the ‘payments which were being made to Germans. Secretary Baker sent the follu:ig official memorandum to army pay of- ficers ‘on duty at detention camps: “The government of Germany hav: ing failed to make any reply to th agreement ' proposed Dby our govérn ment through neutral diplomatic ehan- nels, regarding the pay of commission- ed officers held as prisoners of war, it is directed that no further paymehia be made to.any such prisoners in the custody of the United States, until Germany, shall have expressed its wil- Lingness to reciprocate.” Dear Dead Years. Do you recall those days of vester- year when one might crawl through a hole in the back fence and borrow a cup of sugar off a benign ncighbor” —Macon Telegraph. Fire Whén Ready, Alli Neither does our delay at going to war with Turkey keep us from urfing those who are to tear 'em up.—Kan- sas City Star. E When T came to I was laying up the trench o piece. 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