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AMERICAN SURGEONS TO MAKE OVER FACES
THAT HAVE BEEN DISFIGURED IN WAR
New York, Nov. 12. Disfigured
faces of Europe's battle victims are
to be remade by American surgeons,
backed by American dollars.
Faces minus nose, jaws or lips are
to be built up into buman semblance
again at an American hospital
There are thousands of such faces
awaiting reconstruction. The num
ber repaired depends on the rfumber
of dollars America is willing to con
tribute to prevent Europe from be
coming a continent of ghastly freaks.
Dr. R. Anema, a Paris orthodonist,
who has been on the battle fields and
in Paris hospital for many months
and is now in New York, said today
that plans for an American hospital
to be devoted entirely to the treat
ment of face wounds, are rapidly
nearing completion. Backed by the
American Red Cross, which will fur
nish nurses, Dr. Anema has interest
ed a number of American surgeons,
dentists and orthodontists in the
plans. An initial subscription of
$20,000, of which the Red Cross will
contribute $2,000, is sought to estab
lish a hospital of 100 beds and main
tain it for six months. The French
government will furnish the building.
"Up to May 5 there were 55,570 in
stances of severe face and jaw
wounds in allied armies at Franco
Flanders front," said Dr. Anema to
day. "The appearance of many was
ghastly in the extreme. The few
cases treated have shown need of a
special hospital for them.
"Dr. H. Morstin, Paris surgeon,
recently decorated with the Legion of
Honor, has agreed to devote the
greater part of his time to rebuilding
faces of the wounded. We need, how
ever, many American surgeons and
dentists for jaw and teeth structure,
preliminary to the rebuilding of
noses, lips and shattered facial tis
sue. The men we treat may not look
the same as before wounded, but
their appearance will be nearly nor
mal." Photographs show the transfor
mation such surgery works. Faces
that before treatment appeared to be
one ghastly wound are nearly normal
when rebuilt Lips, cheeks and facial .
tissue are grafted on. The tissue is 9
taken from the wounded man's
thighs. A rib, spared without dan
ger, serves to build a nose or a jaw
bone. Even mustaches can be formed
by grafting pieces of the scalp, with
the hair remaining.
Miss Mabel Boardman of American
Red Cross, one of patrons of Amer
ican national committee for founda
tion of a special hospital in Paris for
wounds of face and jaws, which the
organization is called, is aiding in re-
ceiving contributions. J. P. Morgan
& Co. also will receive them. Gen. !
Gorgas, Dr. Samuel Lamber of New
York and a number of prominent
dentists and surgeons are included
in the committee as patrons.
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PEACE OVERTURES SOON
Washington, Nov. 12. Definite
overtures by a group of leading neu
tral nations to the beligerent powers !
for the purpose of bringing about a
cessation of the European war will be
under way by Christmas. This pre
diction was made today at the White ,
House by Dr. David Starr Jordan of
California, president of the Interna
tional Peace Conference, which re
cently met at San Francisco.
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HER WATERLOO
Young Mrs. Justwed's gone insane;
They say that she will die, for A)
She found her hubby's diary book
And it is writ in cipher. Judge.
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The prize for the best homemade
jelly at the Dallas state fair was won
by Miss Ima Cook. And yet some
old mossbacks still say there's noth-
ing in a name, . ,
