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ARMY CENSORSHIP
SEYONDTHE RHINE
Close Tab Kept on German Lines
of Communication.
MUCH LATITUDE IS ALLOWED
Col. R. H. Williams, In Charge, Em
ploys 51 Officers and 273 Clerks, and
Expect* to Need 200 More—Mail,
Telephone and Telegraph Service
Interfered With as Little as Possible
—Watch Like Hawk to See That
Nothing Against Interests of Amer
ica or Allies Gets By.
By CYRIL BROWN.
(In New Vork World.)
That occupation Isn’t all piny and
living In Rhine castles, hut Involves
plenty of hard work, Is typically indi
cated by some statistics of our mili
tary censorship, which In turn Is only
one of the numerous activities of U-2
section of the Third army, functioning
unostentatiously but effectively under
the direction of Col. R. H. Williams,
chief of military Intelligence of the
army of occupation. This Interesting
department alone employs the services
of 51 officers, 15 field clerks and 258
clerks, while Colonel Williams expects
that at least 200 men more will be
needed in order to achieve the ideal of
thoroughness.
The work of our military censorship
in keeping a prudent watch on the
mail, telegraph and telephone when
used by the German population has
reached mammoth proportions only
because of our broad-minded, liberal
policy toward the Germans. Not mo
tivated by altruism, but I>y coiniuon
st-use economic reasoning, the Ameri
can military policy has from the very
start fieen, and continues to be. to
grain the natives the utmost limit of
liberty of communication consistent
with our naturally supreme military
Interests.
Allowed Notable Freedom.
The basic idea of our military
formulators of policy has been that
the less the Germans are hampered
in the free use of the mails, telegraph
and telephone and, in consequence, the
less they are economically shackled,
tlie better will he the economic life of
tiie American occupied area and the
greater will be the chance for every
German In it to earn an honest living.
It is not in our best military Inter
est to have the economic life of this
American oasis in Germany throttled,
nor to wake up some fine morning
with a pauper population ou our
hands. The healthier the economic
life of the area, the more smoothly
will our occupation function.
The (tactical result of this general
policy is that the Germans in bur
aera of occupation enjoy a freedom in
the use of the mails, telegraph and
telephone to a degree not enjoyed by
their fellow Teutons In either the
French. British or Belgian areas.
Germans in our area may send let
ters. including registered mail and
special delivery letters, also parcels
post matter, to unoccupied Germany
as well as to the French, British ami
Belgian occupied *nreas. Similarly
Germans in our area may receive mail
matter from unoccupied Germany and
the other occupied areas.
They may send telegrams to unoc
cupied Germany and the other occu
pied areas, and may likewise receive
telegrams from unoccupied Germany
and the other unoccupied areas.
Most liberal of all, Germans In the
American area may communicate by
telephone with unoccupied*Germany
and ttie other unoccupied ureas.
Tiie simple common-sense general
rule of our military censorship merely
bans everything detrimental to our
interests or those of our allies. If they
mind their own business and don’t at
tempt to violate this simple, reason
able rule, Germans in the American
urea may go as far as they like in the
use of the mulls, telegraph and tele
phone.
Our military censorship la on the
job twenty-four hours of the twenty
four. and “Military Intelligence,” un
der tlie direction of Colonel Williams,
watches like an unemotional hawk to
see Unit no Teuton gets away with
anything against the interests of
America and the allies; but beyond
this the square deal spirit of justice
and tolerance which animates the
American brand of occupation crops
out in the military censorship in a
very human way—paradoxically, too,
since censors are not generally
credited with being human. Our com
petent military authorities are proud
not only of the fact that the censor
ship is effective in safeguarding our
legitimate interests, but that It does so
with tiie irreducible minimum of delay
ami hardship to the Germans If they
don’t attempt to’abuse our square-deal
policy.
Long Distance Phone.
Most Interesting, perhaps, Is the
long distance telephone proposition.
Germans In Coblenz today cao talk
with Berlin —If the bolshevik! will let
them. If the operator here get
Berlin or Munich or Dresden It won’t
ne the fault of the American army of
occupation.
When our army first occupied Cob
lenz all long distance trunk telephone
lines out of Coblenz, sixteen of them,
were immediately cut as a self-under
stood military measure. Colonel Wil
liams then let It be known that, sub
ject to our censorship, a certain num
ber of long distance telephone trunk
line* won't! he permitted to resume
business for such legitimate Teuton con
versations as might be required by the
needs of the community. And he left
It to tlie Germans themselves to decide
which long distance telephone lines
they wanted to use most, and put It up
to the municipal authorities and the
chamber of commerce and the Ger
man business community generally.
The Germans requested that five
trunk lines be reopened for public use
as being most essential to business;
pud this request was complied with.
tiuter, as business increased, tnree
more long distance telephone lines
were reopened to the public, so that
the Germans In our area of occupation
now enjoy under military occupation
50 per cent of the long distance tele
phone service with unoccupied Ger
many and the other occupied areas
which they had before occupation.
Censored 100 Per Cent.
German long distance telephone con
versations are censored 100 per cent
on all calls coming Into or going out of
our area. This involves no loss of
time; the operator puts all such culls
through our military telephone cen
sorship office, where competent khakl
clad linguists umpire the flow of Teu
ton talk, and cut In If anything Is said
against our Interests or those of our
allies.
There Is also a partial censorship of
German telephone conversations con
fined within the limits of our area of
occupation. These Internal telephone
talks are liable to be cut In on any
time by our military telephone cen
sors. •
Tim Germans are also availing them
selves of the generous freedom ac
corded them In the use of the tele
graph. As In the case of local and
long distance calls confined to the in
terior of our area of occupation, there
Is only a partial censorship of German
telegrams within the American area.
All telegrams coining or going out of
the American area are, however, cen
sored 100 per cent. Np telegram Is
held up more than flve minutes —If
legitimate.
All German mall going out of om
area Is censored 100 per cent. Ger
man mall coming Into our area Is con
sored up to 20 per cent, which Is con
sidered the Ideal of necessity siip.*r
vision. Our mail censorship functions
at Coblenz and at Trier—Coblenz,
however, doing the bulk of the cen
sorship work.
Every precaution Is taken by Colo
nel Williams’ section to see that nc
advantage is taken of our liberal pol
ley regarding the German mails by at
tempted smuggling In or out in thf
mail cars.
TAME CROW IN PERIL
Bird Bring* Wild Mates to Owner 1 *
Cornfield-
Last August Simon Tixel of Platt
Center. N. Y., while working In the
woods, caught a young crow. He
brought It home and It became very
tame and a great pet. hut its life Is
now hi jeopardy, Tlsel declares.
For the past few weeks, lie says,
his farm lias been overrun with wild
crows. Ills tame crow flies Into the
woods, perched itself upon a limb of
a tree, caws a few times, and soon the
tree is full of crows. Then the tame
crow flies home, followed by the wild
ones. Tixel says he has no .objection
to the crow bringing home Its broth
ers. but when he coaxes them Into
his barn and they begin to banquet on
his oats, corn and wheat, it Is more
than lie can stand. He will give the
crow one more chance, and if it does
not stop its performance off goes Its
head.
Tixel says he has shot close to 100
crows in his barn, hut It does not de
plete the ranks. They have eaten at
least ten bushels of grain, he de
clares.
FARMER COULDN’T MARRY
Couple Told by License Man That
This Was Not Russia.
A Hungarian girl and a Russian ap
plied for a marriage license in the
Franklin county probate court at Co
lumbus. Ohio, and everything went
smooth until It came to Ailing In the
name of the officiating minister.
"Who will marry you?” asked the
marriage license clerk.
‘•Him,” said the groom-to-be, point
ing to another Russian who had ac
companied the couple.
“Who’s him?” asked the clerk.
"Him a Russian farmer,” was the
reply.
“This Isn't Russia, and ‘Him’ won’t
do.” said the clerk. “You will have
to get a preacher or a Justice of the
peace to do the splicing In this coun
try."
Got Old Wedding Fee.
Forty years ago Rev. J. A. Sutton
of I.a Rue, 0., performed a marriage
and the bridegroom forgot to hand
over the customary fee. Through the
mall Rev. Sutton has received a $lO
hill and a note accompanying says It
Is from a "stricken consctence.” As
Reverend Sutton has performed 714
marriage ceremonies, he does not re
member the man who “forgot."
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Alas and Alack.
“Dry” upper Michigan's stomach
aelies have been cured. The. epidemic,
which began several weeks ago, was
Immediately followed by an Influx of
hot-water bottles —hut, alas, one bot
tle leaked, and the officials won’t let
’em have any more.
Hen Letter* Her Egg.
James Albert Pigg of Terre Haute
has a hen. The rooster’s name
is Tom. Now Pigg says when he
lifted the hen recently he found “she
had laid an egg with a monogram
initial ‘T’ In raised shell at one end.”
U. S. SAVES FARMERS MILLIONS
End of War Releases 151,000 Tons of
Nltrataa to Be Sold at Cost
for Fertilizer.
Washington.—More than $1,500,000
will be saved by the farmers this year
as a result of the action of the govern
ment In making available at reduced
! prices large quantities of nitrate for
fertilizer.
After the armistice was signed the
war department released to the de
partment of agriculture 111,000 tons of
nitrate produced during the war for
use In explosives. To this quantity Ic
added 40,000 tons received from Chile
by the agricultural department, too late
for distribution last year.
Under authority of the food con
trol act the nitrate Is to be sold at
cost and already, says a statement by
the department, farmers have taken
np the full 151,000 tons in orders rang
ing from 200 pounds to 300 tuna.
ALLY COUNTRIES •’
AWAIT TOURISTS
Expect Many Americans When
Travel Becomes Normal.
MILL VISIT BATTLEFIELDS
Sngland to Give Preferential Claim to
Parents and Families of Fallen Sol
dier* —Feared That Anti-Alien Leg
islation Will Have Effect of Severe
ly Circumscribing Ordinary Chan
nel* of Traffic —Merchant* Are Hope
ful.
Representatives of American tourist
trganlzatlons are now in London, and
tome others have gone to Paris to sur
rey travel conditions with a view to
j iscertninlng when America’s great
I jeace time army of sightseers can hope
i :o cross the Atlantic. They are not
1 wen optimistic, especially as there are
1 ’ears that passport restrictions, even
| ivlien the transport Is available,'will
1 make the sightseer’s lot a nerve-ruck
ng experience.
! There are several classes of travel
which are to be considered. The
! greatest sympathy Is felt for parents
i imi relatives "who wish to visit the
minefields where sons or brothers
fell. England hopes to give a prefer
ential claim to this class of traveler
is compared with those who are Just
carried by curiosity to the scenes of
‘he great world battles. But families
n England who have not had some
relative fall In the war do not form a
'urge proportion of the community.
Anti-Alien Regulation*.
What is troubling many of the
agencies which arrange for large
numbers of travelers In ordinary
| years Is the fact that anti-alien legis
lation here, and perhaps In the allied
countries on the continent, will have
the effect of severely circumscribing
ordinary channels of traffic. Accord
ing to the proposed nntl-allen legls-
I lotion In England It may he neces
! sary for Americans as well ns other
, aliens to continue the system of po
lice registration before moving from
one place to another. There has re
cently been some a melioration of this
nuisance for Americans In England, on
(he Initiative of Consul General Skin
ner, who has made It possible through
negotiations with the aliens authori
ties to have Americans, after an Ini
tial registration, able to leave their
j permanent plnA-s of residence for
other parts of the country without re
| registering In visiting spots, as long
ns the traveler Is not away from his
permanent address more than 80 day?
It has been of the greatest assist
ance to business men, and if contin
ued will eventually save lots of time
and trouble to ordinary visitors.
European hotel men and pleasure
j resorts generally expect that 500,000
■ Americans will visit the allied coun
tries, particularly England and
! France, In the first six months after
| there is any normality in travel;
Americans are estimated to have ex
pended In the United Kingdom alone
in the course of a summer $25,000,000.
For that reason there Is every hope
that the tide of travel will not he long
postponed. Merchants are more san
guine of an early start of the tourist
tide than are some of the experts who
have been identified In the past with
tourist travel, who estimate another
six months before any considerable
number of travelers will bo able to
come to Europe,
Express to Constantinople.
The European food problem, bol
| shevism, and racial antipathies on the
i continent In particular are believed
to he serious problems which stand In
the way of any early resumption of
normal travel. Numbers of Germnn-
Americans or students of social con
ditions may decide to visit Germany
within the next 12 months If the
shadows of war and bolshevism are re
moved, hut it Is thought that the al
lied countries and the Riviera will at
tract many who formerly went to Ger
man health resorts.
Within a few weeks an express
service between London, Paris, Lau-
I sanne and the near East, with a ter
minus in Constantinople, will he In
working order. This route, according
to travel experts here, Is being estab
lished not only for economic reasons,
but because a large part of European
traffic to the near East will want to
avoid Germany.
Until definite air rules for peace
time flying are decided upon In the
different allied countries, travel
agencies are unable to make up a
“flying schedule” for intending Amer
ican travelers, but they sjiy that in
the future air travel will be very pop
ular with wealthy Americans.
BOYS ATE 1,460 PANCAKES
One Hundred and Twenty Lad* Ex
hausted Salvation Army Cooks.
One hundred and twenty boys ate
1,460 pancakes In establishing a ne.w
record for food consumption at the
Salvation Army home at Lytton, Cal-
Each cake was one-half inch thick,
spread with sirup and large enough to
cover a dinner plate.
The lads procured the feast by clear
ing an orchard of prunlngs. Five
cooks almost dropped from exhaustion
In an attempt to supply the food. The
youngsters averaged 13 pancakes each.
The fewest any boy consumed was
eight; one lad tucked away 17.
No casualties have been reported as
• result of the feast.
I
“Personal Liberty” Hit.
Spooners, beware! “Personal lib
erty" Is due for another rnp in Kansas
City. Superintendent Dunn has an
. nounced his Intention of making
Swope park "light as day” with a
new lighting system.
Some “Clean Up.”
It was some “clean up!" Chris
Christianson flashed a SIOO roll In a
washroom In Boston. Two men aaw
It, and after one minute's cleaning
the* left—with tbs 1100.
MAKES INDIANS RICH '
Developments in Southwest Net
Them Big Returns.
Oil and Coal Add to the Fortunes of
the Aborigine* In Okla
homa.
Washington.—There are 300,000 In
dians scattered throughout the 48 '
states of the Union; many of them,
the Osages, Creeks and Quupaws. are i
rich In natural resources; ell'll In oil, i
gas, coal, asphaltum, zinc and other
minerals that not alone make wealth
for themselves, hut for the country of
which they were the original occu
pants.
Oklahoma ranks first of all the
states of the Union in Indian popula
tion. The interior department, through j
Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian
affairs, leased during the last fiscal
year 1,053,020 acres of land for oil. 1
This vast estate is being administered
through* the Indian office In Washing- ■
ton, through the commissioner of the |
five civilized tribes at Muskogee, and j
through the several Indian agencies
scattered throughout Oklahoma.
The total number of barrels of oil
produced from these rich fields during
the last fiscal year Is 24,103,267. The
value of Ibis oil In dollars would ag
gregate $50,000,000.
The royal tTes alone during the lust
fiscal year actually paid to these In- i
dlan tribes approximated $8,050,008,
and for the six years preceding there
was derived In royalties alone and ac- *
tually paid to the'lndians for their
benefit In oil royalties $26,000,000.
The total amount of oil taken from
these Indian lands in Oklahoma, all
told, since oil was originally discov
ered, aggregates 383.000.(H)0 barrels.
The total amount of royalties and
bonuses paid the Indians by oil oper- |
a tors during this development Is s3l),- -
000,000.
With the coming of the white people
to the state and with the marvelous*
Improvement going on In the construc
tion of railroads, wagon roads, school
houses and churches it will be seen
that the Indians are fast becoming as
similated Into society, taking their
place and assuming the role of citizen"
ship.
Form Squad to Sell
Blood for Transfusion
Santa Barbara, Cal. —A “blood
transfusion squad,” composed of
physically perfect men and
women, to hold themselves avall-
I able at any time their services
arc needed. Is being formed here.
The Santa Barbara County
Medical society has issued a
call for a dozen volunteers.
The merit of the plan, It Is
1 stinted out, Is that physicians
will have names of persons who
can he called on immediately In
emergency cases, whereas by
the old plan valuable time was
lost In examining volunteers.
When one of the members of
the “perfect squad" Is called
upon to give blood for some pa
tient he or she, as the case may
be, will be paid S2O for the red
corpuscles given up ,to save
someone else.
BALZAC’S HOME IS RESTORED
Includes Trap Door Through Which
Famous French Author Es
caped Creditor*.
Baris. —The home of the famous
French author, Honore de Balzac In
the Hue Haynouard at Bassy has been
reopened as an artists' center. The
house had been sadly neglected, but
has been restored to present the ap
pearance It had In Balzac’s time, with
Its vestibule painted blue and the orig
inal oak carvings and dark red tapes
tries decorating the apartment where
Balzac wrote bis masterpieces.
On the table stands the big china
coffee pot from which the author was
wont to refresh himself, for Balzac
was a mighty drinker of coffee. Old
wood cuts and original printing proofs
adorn the walls. In the garden the
vine that Balzac tended still grows and
his beloved lilacs have been replanted
there.
In one room there is still the trap
door through which Balzac used to dis
appear when Importunate creditors
called.
NEW YORK 12,556,186 IN 1950
Transit Facilities Must Be Multiplied
by Four, Says Service
Commissioner.
*New fork.—Traffic problems of N'ew
York In 1950 were pictured In a predic
tion made by F. J. H. Kracke, public
service commissioner, who said that If i
thg present rate of growth is main- i
taffeed the population of the city will
then be 12,556,186 and that its trans
portation lines will be called upon to
curry more than 8,000,000,000 passen
gers annually. To care for this growth,
Mr. Kracke said, the present transit fa
cilities must be multiplied by four.
Mr. Kracke’s analysis was made In
connection with an application by the
Belt Line Railway corporation for per
mission to abandon its little used
tracks along the water front.
He recommended abandonment of
such trackage In all parts of the city
so that transportation companies him
concentrate their funds "upon the d*
velopment of facilities much more use
ful and beneficial."
Says Hs Has Smallest Dog.
Kenosha, Wls. —H. L. Stein says he
Is the owner of the smallest dog In
the world. This distinction for Ken
osha came with the advent of h toy
black-nnd-tan puppy which tipped the
scales at two ounces. The mother dog
and another pup died and the light- j
weight champion survivor Is taking hla
nourishment from an eye dropper. '
17-YEAR LOCUST
IS SLOWLY GOING
Causes Leading to Disappear
ance Outlined by Departme.it
of Agriculture.
TO BE EXTINCT IN TIME
Circular Gives Succinct History of In
sect and the Protective Mean*
That Can Be Taken
Against It.
Washington.—Have you an Ideal In
the absolute In hopelessness?
Well, let It he said that the house In
which yon live is comparatively new—
built within the lust' 17 years. The
ground on which It stands was orlg*
Inally woodland. In the summer of
1902 all the trees thereabouts were full
of 17-year locusts. Eggs were depos
ited In the the larvae came
out. dropped lightly to the ground, and
dug in. The long period of subter
ranean existence Is almost ended. In
May (be inserts will start toward Ibe
light and air—and will come In con
tact with the concrete floor of your
cellar! There may he another situa
tion ns hopeless, but certainly none
more so.
That clearing up of woodland for
the building of bouses and for cultiva
tion Is tbe principal agency that Is mak
ing the 17-year locust, whose real
name is the periodical cicada,a van
ishing species. F>r. Gideon B. Smith,
one of tlte earlier scientific observers,
allowed rather a melancholy note to
creep Into bis Invaluable manuscript
when be wrote that future generations.
If they his writings at all. would
shake their heads and think of him as
a rdmancer.
Being Slowly Exterminated.
In the same note. also. C. L. Maria ft,
one of the latest systematic observ
ers, writes In his bulletin, “To the
bAer of nature there is something re
grettable In Ibis slow extermination of
an Insect which presents, as does the
periodical cicada, so much that Is In
teresting and anomalous."
Thus, the present-day experts of the
United States department of agricul
ture agree with the* early observer that
the time will come when there will he
no periodical cicadas left.
That time, however, is a long way
off. There will be multiplied millions
of them this year and in other years
to come. For many persons the cicada
will he as new a sight as it was to the
first observers when they came from
Europe to tbe American forests. Mod
ern writing on the subject (s done, of
course, In the light of all the observa
tions that have been made through
more than 200 years. They lack tbe
freshness of the writings of men who
saw the cicada before a literature of
the Insect had been built up. Those
early writings, therefore, possess an
unusual Interest.
Accompanied by Fever.
In 1669 Nathaniel Moreton, who
lived at Unmbridge, Mass., wrote "New
England’s Memorial.” In it be told of
“a kind of a pestilent fever" that had
prevailed in 1633 and "carried off
many of the whites and Indians in and
near Blymouth.”
“It Is to be observed," he says, "that
the spring before there was a numer
ous company of files, which were like
for bigness unto wasps or bumble-bees,
they came out of little holes In the
ground, and did eat up the green
things, and made such a constant yell
ing noise as made all tbe woods ring
of them and ready to deaf the hear
ers.”
Th> old gentleman Is to lie excused
for believing that.the cicadas “did eat
up the green things.” The appearance
of the dead and withered branches
doubtless was such ns to justify such a
conclusion. One “T. M..” supposed to
he son of Samuel
Matthews, governor of Virginia, who
observed the cicadas In 1675, fell Into
the same error.
For nearly 300 years, then, the writ
ten record of the cicada has been
piling up, undergoing corrections now
and then, receiving new discoveries
from time to time. As nearly as can
he judged it is complete now. The
latest addition Is a circular, “The Sev
enteen-Year Locust In 1919,” by Dixon
Merritt of the ofiice of Information,
United States department of agricul
ture. It does not pretend to present
new facts, but It gives n succinct his
tory of b - cicada and the protective
means that can he taken against It.
The circular will he available to inter
ested persr - in tbe 21 states where
the periodical cicada will this
year.
DISCOVER GOLD IN CASSIAR
Prospectors £n Route From Vancouv
er to Unexplore-! Regions—Traffic
Conduibns Bad.
Vancouver, B. f ’Tospectors are
en route from Vancouver to unex
plored portions of Cas c ur, where gold
has been discovered, according to re
ports relayed from Indians and trap
pers in that wild region.
These reports have been forwarded
to the Canadian geological survey.
The only formal attention the reports
have received is a statement that the
survey considers transportation prob
lems In the Caasiar region "almost an
surmountnhle."
Government officials have warned
citizens against possible fraudulent
activities by "blue sky” promoters.
Sppport Health Work.
Washington.—" Public health Is pur
chasable,” says the United States pub
lie health service, and adds that a
first-class health protertlon service can
be provided for line dollar per head
per year. In fact some city health
departments render excellent service
at a cost of 75 cents per head. Let’s
all ft together and give better sup
port to health work in this couunu-
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g Mis citation rends; “When bis %
y entire platoon had been cut oft
g by an enemy barrage and all of g
V Itis cannoneers but two laid been
>J killed. Lieutenant Smith made g
g repeated trips into the shelled V
>J ttrea nmh removed tils wounded
g comrades to places of safety, g
•J Me refused to accept surgical >J
♦< treatment for four wounds he g
g had received until all of his
►*< wounded men had received
treatment.” g
DOG HAS SERVICE CHEVRONS
Also Wound Stripes, for He, as Well
as His Master, Was
Gassed.
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Waynesboro, Pa.—Private Robert L.
Ingels, with his war dog Sport, who
followed him all through the battles
of the western front in France, is
home from C’ump Mix, honorably dis
charged. Tlie two divided the hon
ors in the home-welcoming. Both
were gassed and sent to hospital, and
both had a touch of inlluenza. Hie at
tack developing into pneumonia for tlie
master.
The dog, a fox terrier, with lots of
pep, was the pet of the soldier before
lie enlisted in company F, Twenty
third engineers, known as the “Penn
sylvania Casualty” company. Sport
was smuggled on board tlie ship and
became the mascot of tlie company,
the boys rechristening him Casualty.
It was In the Argonne campaign that
Private Ingels and Sport or Casualty
were gassed.
Sport wears a blanket of olive drab,
which bears his gold wound stripes,
two service chevrons ami the red .key
stone.
PUTS BAN ON TERM “LUNACY”
New York Medical Journal Says Moon
Has Nothing to Do With
* Madness.
New York.—lt would seem that such
words as “lunatic” and “lunacy” may
be dropped from the vocabulary of
medicine, not only as being n stigma
on those affected mentally, but as of
fensive to the kin of those unfortu
nates. Sa.vs the New York Medical
Journal In this connection:
“Mankind insists on classifying his
world in great grwups, and the individ
ual who happens to fall into an un
popular category Is doomed to a cer
tain amount of ostracism. Perhaps
those who suffer most from the gener
ic vagueness are those styled ‘luna
tics,’ though the old belief of the in
sane being particularly affected by the
moon has long ceased to exist, and at
a recent conference of asylum authori
ties In London it was decided that this
word and some others equally indefi
nite, yet which cast a slur on the peo
ple so designated, should he aban-
Two-Legged Hog.
Hamburg. Ark. —A two-legged hog
with feet shnped like an elephant’s
has bean exhibited by O. P. Williams,
a fanner who lives near here. The
hog Is one year old, has only two feet
and bat a tail shaped like that of a
iMik.
SAVED BY 0. ?■ FOOD
Destitute People of Roumania Are
Grateful to America.
Timely Arrival of Supplies Prevent*
Growth of Bolshevism and
Revolution.
Bucharest.—American flour and
clothing are saving the lives of thou
sands of destitute people throughout
Roumania. The United States food
administration lias already brought in
to tlie country nearly 20.000 tons of
flour, while the American Red Cross,
which has it large mission established
here, is distributing clothing and gen
eral relief supplies of all kinds among
the needy population.
Tlie flour from America arrived at a
time when conditions were at their
worst and when local supplies for the
Roumanian people were almost ex
hausted. It was feared that tlie want
of food would result In a state of bol
shevism and revolution.
This American flour has been a tre
mendous factor In preventing tlie un
rest. From its relief stations estab
lished at Bucharest, Jassy, Constim/.a,
(hdalz. Foesj.ni and Pitesti. tlie Ameri
can Red Cross is distributing its sup
plies. and in every important village
an American Red Cross soup kitchen
is helping to feed llie population.
Queen Marie, who lias taken the
greatest interest in this relief work,
has assigned Prince Carol to co-oper
ate with the American Red Cross. Col.
Henry W. Anderson, Red Cross com
missioner to the Balkans, said that
three large consignments of relief sup
plies had already arrived in Rouiua
nia, and that the fourth was already
on its way from Toulon, so that the
American Red Cress would soon be
able to cure for every destitute person
in Roumania.
TRAINED WORKERS ARE BEST
Do Much More Efficient Work In Fac
tones Than Those Without
Training,
Washington.—lnformation reaching
the training service, department of
labor, from establishments where fac
tory’ training systems are in operation
indicates that foremen, after brief
experience with Hie training system,
insist upon having trained workers in
their departments, for the reason that
they do much more efficient work than
those who are put into the factory on
production work at the start. Many
workmen also ask training, in or
der to increase (heir earning on jiao
ity, and so valuable has training
proved for peace time that last week
17 factories adopted training systems,
a number almost equal to the average
Installation of training departments
during the war.
In one large plant, there was a feel
ing of hostility to training at the
start on the part of a number of fore
men. When the first graduate of a
training department was put on pro
duction work within a week and was
found fully qualified for production
work, the foreman insisted that the
worker was exceptional. Under the
old system from three to six months
were required before workers were
able to produce Hie quantity and qual
ity of work required for a /air day’s
output. 1
When n considerable number of per
sons had been promoted to production
work after a week or ten days In train
ing, however, tlie foremen’s views
changed very radically, and they re
fused to take any applicants for work
who had not had the advantages of
the training system. At one time,
when the training department was
full, a new hand was sent at once to
the factory for production work, and
the foreman protested vigorously.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA