Newspaper Page Text
THE HAYS FSE -PBSS3 EARIM HOUSE w UTSIDE the railroad station at Evian S k les-Bains they had gathered together, l - a group of some 50 or 60. They were fj"""ijil women and children, with a scatter M a I ing of old men. Each bore a- tag Vta I printed In German and with a large number on it. Some carried bundles, others were empty-handed ; their clothing was nondescript. Their faces were drawn and pinched in the evening sun that came over the waters of the lake of Geneva, and the children among them clung to the knees of the women In that pitiful, frightened way so many children of France have of doing these days. Inside the station I could hear the Chasseurs Alpins, three drummers and three buglers, loudly playing "Le Savoyard." There were some cheers as the band, leading the main body of the convoy which had just come in from Switzerland, marched out through the station to Join the group I was watching. Great camions of the American Red Cross stood waiting to receive the infirm among them. Otherwise it was very quiet, not at all the scene I had expected to find here. There were some women and children in the group who fascinated me by their dazed, hopeless expression the still, numb way in which they stood, almost trembling, it seemed to me. I turned my camera toward them to take a picture, when, as they caught sight of my action, there was a cry from them. A very old woman raised her shrivelled hand and tried to hide her face from' the lens. The children shrunk fur ther into the folds of their women folks' skirts, and an old man gasped : "For the Prussian. He Is go ing to send our pic tures back to the Prussians, and they " A Red Cross nurse at my side ex plained that I did not wish to do any such thing that they were safe back In France, their France, again, and that the Prus sians could never touch them. Shenolnr- ed to the arch across the street, a few feet away, through which they would soon pass, with the American and French flags intertwined and the motto in big serawly letters, "Soyes les Bienvenus." She explained that I was an American. They seemed to understand, and their faces lighted up, for this was in early June, and even these pitiful ones, who had been where little news had reached them for nearly four years, knew that the Ameri cans were In France in good numbers now, and were their allies. So the group ceased to shrink from my camera. A woman even thrust her child forward and smoothed its hair so that it would look well in the picture. But, just as I was about to snap the shutter, another woman in the group, standing a little back, looked at me with an expression that was full of condemnation, full of appeal, as she said: "Yes, my friends, let us stand up straight, so that he can get a good photograph of misery ! Then she laughed bitterly, and I well, I did not take the picture. At this moment the rest of the convoy began to come out of the station, led by the Chasseurs' lit tle band. With them came Red Cross men and nurses, carrying or helping those who could not walk into the waiting camions and ambulances. I put up my camera and hurried ahead to reach the casino, whither the procession was bound, be fore their arrival there. Someone struck up "La Marseillaise," some woman with a high, shrill voice. As I climbed upon the front seat of an ambulance and we started to pass the crowd I thought for a moment that I was now going to see, going to hear, what I had come up from Paris for- the glad burst of enthusiasm, of happiness from these people now that they fully realized that they were in France, among their own, free from the German yoke, which had lain on their necks since 1914. But as our ambulance went by the procession there were no other voices raised to join that of the singing woman, and after a few bars she, too, stopped singing and the procession went on, silent, shuffling, except for some small boys, town boys, who trudged ahead of the Chas seurs, still playing their tune on drum and bugle. I reached the casino ahead of the procession and waited at the door for them to come down the Rue du Casino. The narrow, steep street was crowded along Its sidewalks with townspeople, and from windows was flung the tricolor, while the American flag waved here and there, too.' As the procession came around the head of the street the people hailed it with cheers and the waving of flags. ' The Chasseurs played more loudIy--now it was "Vive l'Armee" they were tooting. A few of the children raised their heads and looked with glad eyes on the enthusiastic natives ho were trying so hard to cheer them home. An old man in the procession straightened up and shouted, "Vive le General Joffre." But otherwise there were no cheers, no thrills of happiness, nor any thing but Just that down-bent attitude, that shuf fling walk, that dazed, whipped, cowed expres sion. It was, as the woman at the station, had said, misery. For Evian is the clearing house of misery these days. It was not so at first, the American Red Cross doctor told me, and so the subprefect of the de partment of the Haute-Savoie also assured me. "Which is why we make such a great effort to cheer them as they come In nowadays," he said. "They are crushed, these people; they are like dead men and women, and the children, even the little ones, are scarcely alive to the situation. Free from Germany once more? They cannot be lieve it there is scarcely enough strength left in their poor minds and bodies for them to be able to understand." "Yes," added the Red Cross doctor, pointing out a girl of eighteen or nineteen who passed; 'look at the expression on the face of that girL" I looked, I caught here eye as she turned in my dl- MISERY LOT i I-m j ur l -L y S X, .TV.-. l V -rSrrr vv- ! " ; -if I? J- . - i - w - V ,--:: i-h. .-S -' -r f t - V f s St.".. ' A - AJYAfrc cfjz?7r of 3U.cvsfY aFVAM SfO&V7AL. rection, but I do not think she saw me at all, or saw anything. Her face was blank for a mo ment, then, as in looking aside she nearly collided with someone ahead of her, she shrunk from him with a sort of cry, as if she had expected to be - beaten down. We followed the procession into the large hall, now, where the people of Evian greet these home comers, and where, at long tables, they feed them. Over the balcony hung the flags of theallies, with the French and American closely intertwined. The people were placed at the tables, numbly obeying the Red Cross nurses who flitted about assisting them. They ate the food which was set before them without a word. As they ate and drank there was some 850 of these people I walked about with the Red Cross doctor and studied their faces, their demeanor. Occasionally as one saw us he or she smiled, but for the most part it was like walking through the halls of an asylum for the mentally deficient the eyes were dazed, the expression empty, vacant. By now some young women had passed among the crowd giving to each a little French flag. I noticed a boy of about twenty, tall, well put to gether. The girl had to thrust the flag Into his. hand and explain to him what it was. "That boy hasn't always been an idiot, I would say offhand," said the doctor at my .side. "He looks beaten, whipped. That's the sort they are sending back, to us, nowadays." The boy still' holds the flag, looking at It as If trying to recall where he had seen that combina tion of colors before. I recollected that he would have been about fifteen or sdxteeil when the war broke out, when he, with these others and so many thousands like them, were caught In that first southward rush of the German horde through the towns of northern France. The subprefect was mounting the platform to speak to the diners. The Chasseurs played their tunes loudly. The the subprefect began to talk to them. He told them they were safe among their friends once more, that never again would they be slaves of Germany, that homes would be found for them and an effort made to find the friends and relatives whom they had not seen nor even heard from for four years. He told them that France soon would conquer, that she was now joined by America with her millions of young men, and then he gave the signal for the band to start the "Marseillaise." This it did. As the first notes were heard some of the faces lighted up. There was an effort to sing the won derful song, and after a fashion it succeeded. But Though before the refrain had been finished there were many voices hushed,' many hands that could not wave the little French flags for a moment patriotism, love of country, hope and trust had been awakened. A few minutes later I followed the Red Cross doctor Into the big room where he examines every child who comes Into Evian with these convoys of repatriated people. So far ha has examined nearly 50.000. I saw 280 little chil dren examined. They ranged In age from three to twelve years, and of them all there were barely more than 50 per cent whom he could pass as be ing even fairly well nourished. "They have been fed mostly on turnips and black bread for months," he explained, "and with each convoy there are more undernourished ones and more like this little fellow." He Indicated a thin wisp of a boy he was ten years of age it was tuberculosis. This explains, furthermore, why the American Red Cross hospital, as a part of its war burden, has been obliged to extend its work into the foun dation and maintenance of homes, here, there and everywhere throughout France, for these unfor tunates whom Germany is sending back by the hundreds of thojisands. For they are unable to ' work, unable to make their own homes, and the civilian population of France, bent double with the pack of its own problems, has been increas ingly powerless to cope with this, Germany's in sidious effort to break the morale of France. It was all new to me when I went up to Evian from Paris to see the repatriates come In. I had beard of how Germany had begun sending them back in 1916, and how, as the numbers of them in creased, the American Red Cross stepped in and undertook to look out for the sick children, finally extending Its work to caring for the hundreds of tuberculous women whom Germany returned to France. But I had heard, also, of how the repa triates, sent through Switzerland by the Germans arrived at Evian, singing, kneeling down and kiss ing the soil of France and gladly taking up their share of their country's work In factories and on farms. I had looked for a scene of joy at the station there in Evian, for cheers and heart-thrills at the casino. Here was a people being returned to the country that it belonged to; here were ban ners of welcome, here were hands and hearts open to it. But I had seen something entirely different, and when I inquired it was explained to me. "It is plainly," I was told, "part of the German plan of breaking down French morale, of destroying the efficiency of the American Red Cross, which it has learned l doing such a large part In the work of handling repatriates. "At the same time that Germany Is hurling her big shells Into Paris by day and a$r raiding It by night; at the same time that she Is driving refu gees by the thousands from their homes in towns along the line of her proposed advance; at the same time she is filling the hospitals with wounded French and American soldiers, taxing the equip ment of the American Red Cross to the limit, as she believes, she has tried a new trick during this offensive. "If this is not so, how can it be accounted for ' that each succeeding trainload of repatriates Is larger, contains more sick and completely used up individuals than the previous one? How' can you account for the large number of young women with babies born In Germany since they were taken there babies whose fathers may be Ger man, but whose identity will ever remain a mys tery which are unloaded on us every day?" Even at that it seemed rather a difficult task, These people who were coming In I saw several trainloads of them seemed such hopeless things. What could be done with them? What a burden thev would be on the French! How little result there would be from anything done for them or with them! "That is far from being the case," I was told. "They respond In an Incredibly, short time to all we do for' them. Their health improves, their minds clear. From being liabilities they soon be come 'assets. Germany sends these people In, wrecks, so cowed, so starved, that they can scarce ly tell where they have been, what has happened to them In the years of their slavery In the .mines, the mills, the fields of their captor country. Tuber - culosis seems to have a firm grip on many of them, and the children are filled with the germs of con tagious diseases. But either by happy ability of the French to rise under difficulties, or the Joy of finding themselves back in their own land, the rapidity with which they rally, the quickness with which their minds clear, is remarkable." A French woman. In charge of the casino ves tiaire at Evian, where clothing 1b found for these unfortunates, said: "The more they send, the better we like it. We can care for all, with the help of our friends, the Americans. And the faster they send them back, though their coming so fast unquestionably taxes our resources to the utmost, the more quickly will France get back her own people." Women and Politics Years ago a certain witty American said: "Attempt not to explain ma chinery to a woman; and on politics shalt thou keep thy mouth shut." The American wrote well for his time, but ha wot not of the day which Is now upon us, when women control half the nation's politics and drive two-thirds of the country's motorcars. Women like to hear politics and machinery--modern women. Most of them under stand the' subjects, and those who don't are flattered when someone as-( sunies that, they do understand. Only' the other day we heard a man who always gets on .well with women we heard him tfl Iking politics Kansas politics to a group of women. And when he reached a complicated situ ation he Illustrated, his point with a draw poker story, 'about a' man who held four aces! Were' these women bored? Precisely not. They were modern women who" understood, and they would" have stayed to listen all the afternoon If the man hadn't lost his head and begun talking about what a fine pair of twins he has been grand fathering since last spring. Kansas City Star. Summed-Up Instruction. Jack lived in a village' and was about five years old. Away on a visit he acquired in a modest way the art of whistling. Upon his return home he soon was demonstrating his new accomplishment to his little playmate, Conine, who lived next door. She, of course, was anxious to learn to whistle also. Jack tried in various ways to teach her, but with slight success. Finally In desperation he said: "Ah, Just make a hole In your face and push." Yes, He Was in Bed. Andy was sent upstairs to bed. Later his mother hearing him running around, went to the door, and cried, "Andy, are you" in bed?" The answer came quickly back; "Wait Just a min ute, mother now I am." MACHINE FOR MAKING ROADS Apparatus Invented by Nebraska Man for Forming Roadways With Ma terial Directly at Hand. The Scientific American in illustrat ing and describing &j road-making ma chane, the invention of M. N. Latta of Valentine, Neb says : "This Invention relates generally to road-making apparatus, and more par ticularly to roadway machines for forming roadways with the material directly at hand, where good horse Side View of Road-Making Machine. roads are difficult to make, the gen-, era! object being the provision of a machine movable along a selected roadway site, capable of the formation of wheel tracks in the course of its movement. A further object Is to pro vide a machine capable of ready ad justment and Interchange of parts for other purposes ; for Instance, It can be transformed Into a freight car In a very short time. For the grading of roads the machine Is self-loading and self-adjusting, automatically throwing the high side to the low side, whether at left or right. DEFINITION OF ROAD TERMS List of Technical Names Taken From the Program of the Canadian Good Roads Congress. With the progress of road building there has come into use a number of terms more or less technical, but which should be well known. The fol lowing list is from the program of the Canadian Good Roads congress : Aggregate. The mineral materlal, such as sand, gravel, shells, slag, or broken stone, or combinations thereof, with which the cement or the bitumin ous material is mixed to form a mor tar or concrete. Fine aggregate may be considered as the mineral inert ma terial which will pass a one-fourth-inch screen, and coarse aggregate the material which will not pass a one-fourth-inch screen. Binder. (1) A foreign or fine mate rial introduced Into the mineral por tion of the wearing surface for the purpose of assisting the road material to retain its Integrity under stress, as well as, perhaps, to aid in Its first construction. (2) The course. In a sheet asphalt pavement, frequently used between the concrete foundation and the sheet asphalt mixture of graded sand and asphalt cement Bond. The combined action of In ertia, friction, and of the forces of adhesion and cohesion which helps the separate particles composing a crust or pavement to resist separation under stress. Mechanical bond Is the bond produced almost wholly In a well-built broken-stone macadam road, by the Interlocking of angular fragments of stone and the subsequent filling of the remaining Interstices with the finer particles. Water-Bound. Bonded with the aid of water. Cement. An adhesive substance used for uniting particles of other ma terials to each other. Ordinarily ap plied only to calcined "cement rock," or to artificially prepared calcined and ground mixtures of limestone and sillclous materials. Sometimes used to designate bituminous binder used in bituminous pavements, when the ex pression "bituminous cement" (q. v.) Is understood to be meant. Cement Concrete. An Intimate mix ture of gravel, shell, slag or broken stone particles with certain propor tions of sand or similar material, ce ment and water, made previous to placing. Course. One or more layers of road material spread and compacted sepa rately for the formation of the road or pavement. Courses are usually re ferred to in the order of their laying, as first course, second course, third course, etc Also a single row of blocks In a pavement. Crown. The rise In cross-section from the lowest to the highest part of the finished roadway. It may be ex pressed either as so many Inches (or tenths of a foot), or as a rate per foot of distance from side to center, that is, "the crown Is four inches," or "the crown Is one-half Inch to the foot." Roads for Main Lines. The main lines of travel can, and must, be given some other kind of road than a simple dirt road. Every state in the Union has deposits of gravel, and a good gravel road is very food If it Is properly maintained. Binder for Stone Road. If a broken-stone road gets very heavy auto trade then it must be laid with a tar or asphalt binder to keep the pieces of stone from grinding on each other and finally powdering up under traffic Splendid Garden Fertilizer. Wood ashes make a splendid garden fertiliser. Save your ashes and use them for this purpose. But don't try coal ashes that way, or you "will be sorry. Good Tools Required. Efficient work cannot be done on farms with poor and inadequate farm Implements. - Made M a. Well Man j .V "" - " i.. urn ..'.- .in"' ii . ... I. .. --':"--- . "" " 1 " " 1 ' "m " 1 "' . t , " , j f suffer3 for thlrtr Tears stomacH iritb chronic kowvt tremble. mfwm - trouble znd bjhT! tooiti ftStaanoi1! tcnacTrlitges of the Bowel. bma to f el better- Mr wife persuaded zne to con tlaue, sod I took ft for. some time S3 directed. Kew X am m T ., . . LITTLE JOHN HAD CAUGHT ON Tractor Aids Feed Production. The tractor will help la food prodo tion. Dad's Experiment .Certainly Success ful in Teaching Small Son to Be Businesslike. A Terre Haute father has prged his children to earn the money with which to buy Thrift stamps. "It will teach them to be businesslike," he told his wife. It was hard for little John to earn money. But finally father found a way. "I want to go fishing tomorrow," he said. "If youll dig me a can of fish ing worms IH give you a quarter. John dug the bait, earned his quarter and bought his first Thrift stamp. "Now, see. boasted the father to his wife. "I was right In what I told you. It is teaching John to be husinesslike. The mother merely listened, but a few days later she rushed Into the house. "Yes, you're teaching John business," she said to her husband. "This morning when I went over to Sirs. L 's I saw a can of fishing worms on her porch and didn't think anything about it. But on my way home I stopped at J 's, and right on their front porch I stumbled over a can ex actly like the one at L s. A mil lion worms crawled out. Mrs. J laughed and said: 'I see your son brought us our supply of worms earlier this morning than usuaL I guess you are teaching him business." Indian apolis News. Oculist s "Break.' A woman alert of figure and attrac tively groomed was having her eyes tested. And while he oculist treated them she seemed to think it necessary to explain: Tin .afraid I have overtaxed my eyes. I use them all day and then read half the night." The oculist Interrupted to contrib ute his share to the sociability: "Nothing to worry over. The eyes always need stronger glasses as one gets along In years." For the barest flash the woman had the appearance of one who has received an unexpected shock. Then she rallied and took another turn: "Of course, I never thought of that. I ought to realize that I am getting old. but. somehow. I feel k young Inside. Which shows that one oculist in this town would be In a bad way If his skill was on a level with his tact. Washington Star. Happy Thought. The manager of the prison baseball team was bidding farewell to his star pitcher, who had Just finished serving a sentence of five years. "The team's going to be bady crip pled without you." "Maybe so," answered the great in tramural slab artist, who was also a modest man. "But I don't see how I can stay any longer. The authorities, you know " "Of course, not now. But after you've seen all your friends on the out side and had your fling, why not crack a crib or something and come back to us?" Birmingham Age-Herald. When a young man finally get3 mar ried, the girls who "also ran" are unanimous in condemning his choice. A well wisher Is one who Invests his coin In oil wells. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot resell the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one way to cure Catarrhal reafnesa. and that Is bv a constitutional remedy. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE acte through th Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Catarrhal Deafness Is caused by an InSamed condition of the mucous lining cf the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is tnflamed you have rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can be re duced and this tube restored to Its nor mal condition, hearing may be destroyed forever. Many cases of Deafness are caused by Catarrh, which is an Inflamed condition of the Mucous Surfares. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. All Druffists 75c Circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co-. Toledo. Ohio. And Then He Wasnt Pleased. After Thomas Soar, Esq.. had been a member of the city council for several years he thought that at the earliest opportunity he would endeavor to get a permanent record of his term of of fice there. Nothing would be more fit ting than to have a street called after him. After having expressed his desire to several of his cronies on the strict Q. T. he got his wish. They had a place named after him: "Soar place." London Mali. Seems So. "You can't fool all the people all tha time." "Seems to last a long time in Germany, though." GOOD-BYE BACKACHE, KIDNEY AND BLADDER TROUBLES For centuries all over the world GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil has af forded relief in thousands upon thou sands of cases of lame back, lumbago, sciatica, rheumatism, gallstones, grav el and all other affections of the kid neys, liver, stomach, bladder and al lied organs. It acts quickly. It does the work. It cleanses your kidneys and purifies the blood. It makes a new man. a new woman, of you. It frequently wards off attacks of the dread and fatal diseases of the kid neys, elt often completely cures the distressing diseases of the organs of the body allied with the bladder and kidneys. Bloody or cloudy urine, sed iment, .or "brick dust" Indicate an un healthy condition. Do not delay a minute If your back aches or you are sore across the loins or have difficulty when urinating. Go to your druggist at once and get a box of Imported GOLD MEDAL Haar lem Oil Capsules. They are pleasant and easy to take. Each capsule con tains about oue dose of five drops. Take them just like you would any pill. Take a small swallow of water . If you want to. They dissolve In the stomach, and the kidneys soak tip the oil like a sponge does water. They thoroughly cleanse and wash out the bladder and kidneys and throw off the Inflammation which is the cause of the trouble. They will quickly relieve those stiffened Joints, that backache, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, gall stones, gravel, "brickdust," etc They are an effective remedy for all dis eases of the bladder, kidney, liver, stomach and allied organs. Your druggist will cheerfully refund your money If you are not satisfied after a-, few days use. Accept only the pure,, original GOLD MEDAL Haarlem OH Capsules. None other genuine. Adr i The first sign of stomach rniseryV muckly and thorauhly. It makes ? iae sxomacn pure, sweet, cool and usually comes after over-eatinar. The doctors call it "superacidiry . The people say "soar stomach". Millions of people who have lost their ambition, energy, courage, vitality and stre ngttL who are weak, pale and listless who go through life just dragin one foot after another tired end worn out nearly all the time nervous, irri table, subject to"""-, severe headache, ( insomnia, and a A i I comxarts&ie. Itblpyoatzgtza!lctraoftii rfk i oat cf erary laoctMal of food ran mi: sad T'j- uniem yoa do gvt roil stracs-th froca yrxzr fyi food you caaaoC enjoy robnst, TigoroBS EATONIC 1m in tablet farra. Tbey f $leunt tarttna fast tkm bit of cmtr sd are aJxolataly friinilnn T&k ZAT0HIC and find oat for yearcelf benr wonaerrai7 qui -rent yoa wlU (aL ftow aticuy KAXONiC the S Saehbioa. torttarn. bai "v hfas. food wpwring. tm X aow qmefcqr ywr aw dumbfounded, to 1 learn that it is -fust A an add-fitcmaeh that is causins th em all their misery. Yet in nearly cine cases out of ten that is just where the trouble starts. Now a sour , sId-tomaeh, or tep craeidity", of course, simply cyans too much add in the stomach. Yoa can now quickly rid your stomach cf its excess acid A wonderful modern remedy called EATONIC literaDy wipes It out. It does the work easily. yocr food bow m Bon oaaOy yMi ; bqm and trrftSrty3a tr. Axd a w??t iacna. bv tails EATQICiC ma hava. rfcS Txiut Ktrmarh of a fee at i acid that baa beea v-u bask aaal mtVfnar roar HI ni in i aii m. So rat a U box of EATONIC tno rear nr3at today. Ha la aatboRaad t guaraat EA.r0 NIC to plcaaa yoa and ym trort bin tm taaka taia roaraets rood. Lf EATON iC t2 la asy way. taka tt back ba rxj ffgad J u t noagy. If year drerrlat ooam set r L ATONIC writ to a iraet aad r wt3 i tml yoa a He 50e boxsad roe eta and na tba0;ftcs yw receive it. Addreae EL L. Kraatar, Pram, tetanic &s Co. JOLS WtbaabAva. CfcJcasa, Dsae, 23 Price Est Greet is fcsCosi As Age Advances tha Liver Requires ' CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS ccrrect CONSTIPATION 1 rrnx a ccai-iisa TrtlcH "will fca tfeltd fey ' 2iL. J