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ALSATiAN GIRLS FLEE TO UNITED STATES
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Misses Evil hi and Janet Hluinenthal. daughters of Daniel lilnmentlial, who
mis mayor ot t.olmar at the beginning of the war. until the Germans advanced
«0(1 deposed him. The two girls tied secretly from their home in Colmar to
Trance to save their lives us the Germans advanced into the town, and
trrived recently in this country. Daniel liimnenthal arrived here six months
*-<>. He is well known as a leader in Alsace and as president of the World
League for the Restitution of Alsace-Lorraine.
Weekly Ration Not Sufficient to
Maintain Bodily Health
and Vigor.
8 DUNCES OF MEAT A WEEK
Food Allowed to Germans and Inhab
itants of Territory Occupied by
Germans Is Lacking in Energy
Producing Elements.
Washington.—Information concern
ing the weekly ration now being al
lowed the German people and the civil
ian population of the occupied por
tions of northern France and Belgium
have been received by the United
States food administration. In food
vaiue the ration is insufficient prop
erly to maintain bodily health and
vigor.
The German ration is as follows, the
amount being those allowed per per
son per week :
Flour. 3.45 pounds; potatop|i, 7.05
pounds; cereals (oats, hear • and
pens), 7 ounces; meat. S.S ounces;
sugar. 3 ounces; butter and margarine.
2.8 ounces; and other fats. 2.S ounces.
Stated in terms of American house
keeping. these items amount to suffi
cient flour to bake pounds of
bread; one-half peck of potatoes; a
cupful of beans, peas and oatmeal ;
one-half pound of meat; 12 dominoes
of sugar; G individual patties of but
ter; and an equal amount of other
fats.
In Northern France.
For the population of that portion
of northern France occupied by the
Germans, the allowance is as follows :
Sufficient flour for five pounds of
bread ; one-fifth §eck of potatoes ; one
cupful cereal, 12 1-3 ounces of bacon
and lard ; and 10 dominoes of sugar.
Here meat, butter and margarine
are all replaced by bacon and lard.
The allowance of flour and cereals
are slightly Increased, hut the aberr
ance of potatoes is less than half the
German ration, while sugar is also re
duced even below the meager German
allowance.
The ration for the civilian popula
tion of the occupied portion of Bel
gium is similar to that df northern
France, except bacon nnd lard are re
placed by meat and butter.
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ministration shows that in body build
pounds. In fats, tha German ration
coiffai ns .43 of a pound, as compared
pounds, as compared to 9.9 pounds for
the standard ration. In total calor
les. the German ration aggregates 10.
~ ojnon in the stand
as compared to -4.900
^The * standard ration is regarded as
sufficient oniy for a person in a sed
occupation or one involving
relative!v s'ight phvsicnl labor; and'
f-tt it nrovides two and one-half times
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YALE HAS COLLECTION
OF WAR LITERATURE
Xew Haven. Conn.—Yale uni
versity has collected probably
the most exhaustive mass of ma
terial on the great world war in
this country. Under direction
nt Prof. Wilbur C. Abbott, a
committee. appointed In the fall
of JW14, bas scoured this coun
try »»d Kurope for publications
of all Mml* ,he war - The
volDrtbm consists not only of
book*, but complete files of
»«d magazines from
Europe ami «bl* country, besides
pamphlets, proclamation*, post
«06 ami letters of all kinds and
description#,
as much body-building protein, and
nearly twice as much fat, and nearly
two ami one-half times as much carbo
hydrates as the German ration.
Ration Not Sufficient.
.In the ration for northern France,
the substitution of bacon and lard
makes the weekly allowance of pro
tein equal only three-fourths of the
German ration, and only one-third of
the standard ration.
In the whole, it may lie said that for i
a person in an occupation requiring i
only a moderate degree of activity,
these rations provide considerably less
than the amounts requisite to main
tain bodily health and vigor.
The greatest efficiency is in energy
producing foodstuffs, although the lack
of body-building proteins is physiolog
ically more important, and liable to
have more serious and more perma
nent results.
ROYAL NURSE ON DUTY
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M. Justin Godart. minister of health j
In the French cabinet, on a tour of
inspection of the allied war hospitals
conversing with Princess Xnrishkine
foil PARIS COCHERS
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' United States Soldiers Prove Not
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victimized at First. They Study Rr 3 u
étions and Now Pay Only
Legal Rates.
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Paris.—Paris cabmen have not yet
decided whether the American sol
®prs will prove a welcome or an un
welcome addition to their patrons,
When the men from across the sea first
arrived they were all hailed by the
cabmen as millionaires and the tips
they received were in keeping with the
reputation thus bestowed upon them.
But trust the Paris cocher to kill the
goose that lays a golden egg.
He practiced his old game of taking J
the most indirect route to reach his
destination and never had any change
when tendered payment. At night if
no policeman was in sight he always
balked at taking an American uniform
without first extorting a promise to
pay a fixed price for the course.
which was at least twice his legal fare,
The Americans stood this imposition
for a time hut finally got tired of being
continually bled. Now they give no
more than the French as a tip and as
they become better acquainted with
the city check the wily cabman when
he attempts to take them t>y round
RED CROSS EXPANDS
Growth of Organization a Marvel
of the War.
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From a Membership of 20,000 It Has
Increased ta More than 4,000,000
Members.
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Chicago.-—Tin' growth of tho Amerl
can II.mI Cross in the last year lias
boon one of tin* marvels of the war.
The public tniml has in some measure
kept track of the army, the navy, the
aviation corps, the marines, ami other
parts of Uncle Sam's great lighting
machine as they expanded. Hut con
sider the case of the lied Cross—least
known of all three years ago:
When the war began there were 20.
000 memlvers of the lied Cross scat
tered about the country, chiefly in the
larger cities. Not one citizen in twen
ty could have told how it worked or
what It did, except that In great dis
asters it cared for the victims.
Even one year ago, when the war
had been going on for more than two
years, and it seemed inevitable that
we should be dragged in, there were
only 1C.",.587 lied Cross members and
250 chapters.
Today there are more than 4.000,000
lied Cross members, and 2.720 chap
tors, with new chapters being formed
and new members enrolled all the
time. Four hundred thousand of these
4.000.000 members ere paid subscribers
of the Red Cross Magazine.
Of course Ibis tremendous expan
sion, coming in a single year, has ut
terly overwhelmed the scheme of ad
ministration which was adequate for
170.000 members. An entirely new
system was imperative, and it is now
being installed. Briefly, this Is how
it works :
The active head of the Red Cross is
General Manager Harvey D. Gibson.
will) has volunteered his time for the
duration of the war. The work Is
apportioned among bureaus—those of
development, publicity, women, nurs
ing. civilian relief, military relief, sup
plies and accounting.
The territory of the United States
has been divided into thirteen sections,
each headed by a division manager.
Each of these managers, like Mr. Gib
son, has volunteered his services with
out pay so long as tfie war shall last.
Each manager Is now reorganizing the
administration of his division to cor
respond with that at Washington, with
a director at Wie head of each bureau
—many of them also volunteers, work
ing without pay.
TOLD TO ELOPE BY SPIRITS
Then Girl's Companion Pleads Guilty
Under Mann Act at Frank
fort, Ky.
Frankfort, Ky.—Roger W. Dale,
alias Frank Hancock, pleaded guilty
before United States Commissioner
Wiard to violating the Mann act by
bringing sixteen-year-old Bessie Lu
cille Smith <>f Toledo, Ohio, to Frank
fort, where they have been living since
October 3.
According to the girl's story she met
Dale in the building where her father
has his office. Dale became the go
between for written questions and an
swers passing between the girl and a
trance medium, whom she never saw
and who was supposed to live at 2010
Putnam street, the home of Dale's
mother.
One of these communications from
the medium conveyed the information
to the girl that she was In love with
Dale, who would marry her. Then
Dale asked her to run away with him.
Dale told her they were married and
showed her a certificate.
Arrow Cost Father $2,500.
Virginia. Minn.—Twenty-five hun
dred dollars was the amount awarded
\V. F. McDonald of LvHeth for who a
few years ago was shot in the eye by
a dart from an arrow in the hands <*f
Simon, the four-year-ohl t«n of Mr.
in*. Mr, ............. ft.* « Kvt.lt.th. TJw
about routes. They have solved tit
night holdup by climbing into the cab
despite the protes*ati-*ns of tie* cab
men. If it is not fitter than the hour
fixed for him to quit work he must
take them at the regular fare, where
thf . y , vjsh tf , ,, r , ]rive to
station and justify lus refusal,
As the average cocher went« as little
to do with the police as possible, he
rarely lf ever apro.fi to them,
M one of the sects used by the
Americans for landing troops the cab
nien charged the soldiers such exor
bitant prices that the men went to the
p.dice, obtained copies of the regula
tions governing the cochers and there
after paid only regular fares, giving
no tips. The coche«s retaliated by re
fusing to take American soldiens as
passengers, and if the men got into a
cab anyhow they stopped dead where
they were and refused to move. It
was some days before a compromise
was reached.
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Operated Upon Monkey,
Pt Paul. Minn.—Adherents of the
Darwinian theory of man's decent
see additional evidence in its support
in the announcement that "Joe," a pet
monkey belonging to Frank A. Ubel.
had just submitted to a successful ope
errtion for appendicitis. The monkey's
miment was diagnosed by Humane so
. . physicians, and under an acaes*
thetic its appendix was removed.
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ROCKEFELLER, !R.,
WINS HEARTS ÛF
COLORADO MINERS
Proves to Men and Families That
He Is Human and Interested
in Them.
FIRM AND KNOWS N3 FEAR
How Son of America's Money Mag
nate Brought to an End One of
Country's Greatest La
bor Wars.
By CHARLES N. WHEELER.
Mr. Wheeler Is a reporter on the Cht
;ago Tribune stuff, amt was sent to Colo
rado to report Mr. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, visit
during the coal miners strike. He gives
an Interesting impression of the world's'
richest man's son and only made heir.—
Editor.
A rather mediocre literary person
once advised all young and mediocre
reporters—one of whom I am, both
young and mediocre—to pick the big
gest subject in the world if he would
get away with it. He mentioned two
subjects as the "biggest"—money and
the Bible. He put the Bible first.
Both subjects, somehow, tit into tin*
story of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., but
of the two subjects the Bible end, or
the man himself, is the one worth
bothering about. Fortunes change.
Character usually is fixed.
To write about a million dollars is
easy. To write about a hundred mil
lion dollars is easier. To write about,
say, a half billion dollars—the approx
imate size of the Rockefeller pot—is
easiest. But to write about the man,
entirely disassociated from his money
-—that is a horse of another color, but,
withal, not unpleasant, if one happens
to know his man.
Believing every wallop ever aimed
at the Rockefellers, and it was con
genial believing. I hurried off to hob
nob with the very rich man's very rich
son, gloating in my soul at the oppor
tunity to break another lance on his
supposedly soulless hide—and, also, to
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First Row, Left to Right:. C. N. Wheeler, Chicago Tribune ; John D. Rockefeller,
Jr.; William Hooter, New York American. Second Row: A. C. McGregor,
Secretary to McKenzie King; C. O. Heydt, Secretary to John D Rocke
feller, Jr.
be perfectly fair about it. But it sure
was to be "spurlos versenkt" for John
D., Jr. !
An old philosopher said that while
distance lends enchantment to the
view it also begets a dimness fatal to
our.purposse.
Hand to hand, elbow to elbow, soul
to soul, right up close where men can't
camouflage—well, it was a violent dis
illusionment !
I make bold now to assert, mindful
of inherent prejudices, that this is the
man:
Take all his money from him, set
him down on the top of the mountain j
or in the midst of the interminable !
desert and he would be all there—
just a man. the Tightest of the right
est merely as man-to-rnan stuff goes.
He'd do his r>art—without a whimper,
He'd be the last man to give up.
He went up against a sure-enough
proposition in Colorado. He won over
to him—as a man—hundreds of una
fraid men in the mountains who judge
fellow humans by a stern standard—
nerve. They might hate tin* power of
his money, probably still do in a way
but they liked this human being.
That's the acid test in the high hills
and on the desert. He went through
unscathed.
There wasn't a man among us after
two weeks who wasn't ready to agree:
"Weil, what do you know about
that? He's human !"
At the hearing by the federal trades
commission in New York, aft, r he had
surprised the members with his ape j
parent grasp of industrial and sociolog
ical problems. Mother Jones, angel of
the miners everywhere, laid 1e r hand
on his shoulder and asked him to come
to Colorado.
"I believe in your sincerity." she :
said, substantially. "I believe you
mean to do what is right, but you don't
know. Come and see for yourself,
John."
He said simply:
"I'll come."
Some one a=ked him if he didn't
fear such a trip.
He said : "No."
Common Everyday Man.
He would not p,erroit a detective or
policeman to accompany him. He wore
the kind of clothes Le wears in New
York—fabrics of ordinary t«-xture.
probably costing about £4o a suit. He
wore an ordinary overcoat that prob
ably didn't cost as much. He wore an
ordinary I
heavy shoe:
as the new
edora bat and ordinary
He wasn't half as showy
-paper men who were with
him, not at lus invitation but unbe
known to him until they burst in on
the landscape and discovered him—
calm, pleasant and unafraid.
We went into Fremont county one
day. The misers bad been in an ugly
mood. Rockefeller couldn't be distin
guished. by them, from the others, for
they had never seen a Rockefeller. ID
inquired for one of the miners. This
fellow bad the reputation of being a
bad actor. Rockefeller found him at
tlie mine mouth. They chatted a few
minutes and then stepped on the cage
and down they went, several hundred
feet into the earth.
At the first level the rich man's son
stepped off the cage and peered
through the dimly lit streets of the
underneath. Then he said:
"Men, I am John I). Rockefeller, Jr.
What seems to be the trouble out
here?"
They were dumfounded, helpless.
Then lit 1 walked with ids men into
the dark places with bis face taking
on a goodly veneer of black dust, lb*
looked bis men straight in the eye,
firmly but kindly, and asked them what
they thought could he done or should
be done to better conditions. He didn't
patronize, apologize, strut or talk
loudly.
So be walked, in the earth, with his
men who had hated his name.
When he came up to the top of the
world again lie walked down the min
ing town street to the Golden Iiow
saloon. This was the only town in the
Rockefeller group that had a saloon.
He inquired for Tony, the burkeep.
Rockefeller shook hands with Tony,
while Tony's eyes all but jumped out
of his head. Tony was disappointed.
There was no plug hut, no policeman,
no proud and haughty person before
him, no sour face, no overlording bus
iness—just a pleasant, mild-mannered
and unafraid man.
John D., Jr., said he bad heard Tony
was interested in him and he had j
taken tie* trouble, which was no trou- j
bit* at all, to come and say hello and !
wish him well, although doubtless \
wishing to himself Tony would get
into some other business.
Down south of Trinidad, up high in
the hills where the fourflusher lusts j
about a second, Rockefeller sent j
everybody back to Trinidad. He stayed j
for the night—alone. He rolled up In j
a miner's blanket The next morning
when we found hirn he was washing
his face in si tin basin. Then he looked
out over the receding slopes of the low
er pluteau and observed earnestly that
it truly was a noble country.
We came Into Walsenberg finally. In
the civil war some of the Bulgarian
miners placed a cannon on the moun
tain top and fired into the militia.
Just how piany were killed was never
stated.
They were surly, Rockefeller had
been informed. He was advised to
watch himself.
Well, wonder of wonders, he had a
"society" evening at the big camp
some miles from the town. They hud
an orchestra—trombone, accordion,
fiddle and organ. They played selec
tions from most of the Italian operas,
and then Rockefeller suggested a
dance. Not such another dance was
ever held in the eternal hills of Colo
rado. Rockefeller is some dancer, too.
He danced with the miners' wives and
daughters, and before they knew it be
v ; * s the one normal p rson there. Tie y
forgot lie was the s**;, of J ihn D. Rook
■ felb-r. after a while, and had the
time of tln-ir lives.
Again he fired us all back to town.
rmng.
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i.*rs. as he called them,
ck in the morning. He
he mines with his men.
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ID had inquired about the school fa
cilities. how they would like to have
a handstand, provision for small gar
den«. a Y. M. C. A. and a lot of things
like that. •
We found him. as down beyond Trin
idad, standing on the high bluff, look
ing out over the foothills, wrapped in
the flooded -old of the sunrise.
"I'd like to live here a part of the
year." he said.
And so from mine camp to mine
camp, always insisting that he go alone
to see his partners.
The Big Meeting Called.
At one mine camp he went alone to
the homes of 'he miners to taik with
the wives and the children. He was
so affable, so mild-mannered, so aj>
par-ttlv sincere, that the half-billion- j
dollar busim -■« s.«on was lost sight of
and they feit somehow—tie se human
beings with only a wretched chance at
the l*e«t but with a soui and a love of
life like his—they found a friend.
They were coming together from the
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widely separated poles, like a flush
lightning.
After weeks spent In living their
lives, tin* big meeting was called at
Pueblo. It was attended bv delegates
from all tin* mines. Tin* delegates
were selected by the men themselves,
in secret meeting and by secret ballot.
No company Influence was exerted.
He laid before them bis industrial
scheme, since adopted by all tin* min
ing towns in tin* district and officially
approved by the Colorado industrial
commission.
The thing was going along smoothly
when a delegate from up Fremont way
arose and said that the boys back In
the mine were skeptical. Some bad
told him the man who came to them
was an impostor, that they didn't think
it was Rockefeller at all. for a Rocke
feller wouldn't have dared to come
t here.
Rockefeller's face broke Into a
smile.
"Well," he said pleasantly, "You
think 1 am the man i represent myself
to be, don't you? You remind me of
tin* story of the man who entered a
passenger eoaeli and sat down on an
other man's hat. ID quickly got up
and said to the owner of the crushed
hat : T think 1 sat down on your bat.'
'You think you did?' the other yelled
at him. "You know mighty well you
did !' "
The delegates returned to their
camps and reported that the rich
man's son was no fourflusher, and that
he seemed to want to do the right
tiling by them.
The younger Rockefeller possesses
a rare degree of the saving grace of
humor. He doesn't take himself too
seriously, nor seem to think the weight
of the world rests on Ids ample shoul
ders. He enjoys a good joke, a whole
some joke. Perhaps no excessively
rich man In tin* world gathers more
smiles and optimism out of the day's
work than he.
One day the son of one of Ills su
perintendents asked if he might take
his picture.
"I want a good one," said the boy.
Just then a donkey, feeding in tho
yard, walked up to give the Rockefel
ler person the "once over."
"Get on the donkey," laughed the
boy.
John D. threw himself astride the
surprised donkey.
The boy's camera snapped, und he
run into the house, rejoicing.
His father was afraid he would of
fetid the mighty Rockefeller lf he per
mitted the newspaper men to use the
picture.
V' t entertained no such solicitous
notiifts. We put it up to John D.
ahead," he said with u smile,
[help you out. When you write
caption for it just say; 'Two of
had some tire trouble between
ml Lester mines. We news
men were trying to be smart and
how indifferent, we were to him
ring him. He butted into our
conversation gracefully, and asked If
we ha-1 seen the "Follies of 1915." The
New York highbrows had, but we
Western men were still in the wage
earner class.
Rockefeller expressed an expert
opinion to the effect he thought it
great. This was "good stuff" for us—
feature stuff for which the managing
editor constantly is yelling in his wak
ing hours und dreaming about in his
sleeping hours. We gathered around.
He thought the hit of the show wa.4
the stunt in which appeared imper
sonations of Bryan, Billy Sunday and
Rip Van Winkle.
"Bryan inquires of IUp who he may
he," Mr. Rockefeller explained. 'Why,'
says Rip, T voted for you every time
you ran.' Whereupon Bryan exclaims:
'Are you the man?' "
Day after day we Journeyed through
the foothills, forgetting about Rocke
feller's money, enjoying the compan
ionship of a man, and day after day he
ever was finding something that was
bright, smiling and hopeful. At times,
too, he was very serious. We were
ready to agree that he was thinking of
the men most of the time, and not
merely tin* investment.
Eulogizes Father and Mother.
Then carne the final meeting ut Den
ver, where the men with the money in
vested in the institution sat around
the tables. John D. delivered his
farewell address for that trip. It was
not different from the other talks to
the miners—his partners, as lie per
sisted in terming them. But in clos
ing he paid a tribute to his father and
mother. It was simple and eloquent.
It explains the younger Rockefeller,
in a way. Perhaps, it is w >rth pre
serving. Here it is, word for word:
"The word 'fear' is not found in my
father's vocabulary, nor does D- know
v. hat that .«' a-ation is. though seventy
tight years of age. and y< t he lias the
gentleness of a woman. Although h*
has been accustomed to think in world
terms in tin- development of the busi
ness and philanthropic enterprises to
which his life has D en devoted, there
is no person in his house hold too hum*
hie to receive his frequent, kindly p« r
sonai thought. Criticized, maligned
and condemned these many years, not
only for his business success achieved
through his ability to gain the co-op
eration and confidence of men, to
bring all parties into harmony and to
effect ecor. ses in every possible way.
but also le-cause of his philanthro; ic*
endeavors, there is still not the slight
est trace of bitterness in his charac
ter. and he holds nothing in his heart
hut good will toward every man. And
if, in the kindr.e«s of the people of
there has been found any
thing in me that may have seemed
admirable, that, and whatever eD.- I
am or may be, I owe to ruy sainted
mother and ny honored father, whosd
training and example I regard as v
priceless heritage."