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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1918
THE COMING TREATY OF PEACE
Paris papers are expecting that
the Peace Congress will begin its
sessions in that city about January 1,
and that two months of hard work
must pass before a peace protocol
can be agreed to and signed.
The protocol will be a sort of tem
porary treaty. It will roughly out
line the terms of peace but leave
many details unsettled. These de
tails will be put into the final treaty.
That will come after Germany and
her allies have signed the protocol.
The final treaty may require months
more to finish. It is likely to be the
longest peace treaty in history. There
are numberless questions to be settled
about damages; disarmament; a
League of Nations to enforce Peace;
new boundaries of nations; the con
stitutions of small states, and many
other problems. The map of Europe,
Africa and the Pacific islands will
have to be made over.
INSURANCE, NOT PENSIONS
Though peace be here, the United
States government will continue as
the greatest life insurance company
in the world. The Government has
insured the lives of most of the 4,
000,000 men in our Army and Navy.
If the men choose to keep up their
premium payments the Government
will keep their policies in force at a
low rate on a peace basis. The reg
ular life insurance companies will
thus have the keenest kind of com
petition.
This plan is expected to be a sub
stitute for pensions. Those who are
enthusiastically in favor of the
scheme think it will in time growj
into a wonderful system of old-age!
insurance. Nobody who is willings
to be reasonably prudent during his
or her working years need fear an j
old age of poverty, once this plan j
gets well under way. The details
are not yet complete, and Congress
has not been asked for its consent.
Vice-Preaident on Duty
On the eve of the President’s de
parture for Europe it was under
stood that he had asked Vice-Presi
dent Marshall to remain in Wash
ington, ready to act for the Presi
dent at a minute’s notice if that
should become necessary. Mr. Mar
shall had intended to be away bn a
tour of the country, speaking for
the League to Enforce Peace. He|
cancelled these speaking engage
ments and stated that he would re
main in Washington.
Peace Talk May Be in English
It is expected that the delibera
tions of the Peace Congress will be
in English. This would be some
thing new. In times past such pro
ceedings have been conducted in
French, “thelanguage of diplomacy.”
It seems that there will be many del
egates who do not speak French, and
only two or three who do not under
stand English.
Unsinkabla Ship Possible
It is now known that the “unsink
able ship,” Lucia, justified her title
in part. She remained afloat almost
24 hours after being torpedoed in
such a way that any ordinary vessel
would have sunk in a few minutes.
The Lucia was hit in October, and
was the last American victim of the
German U-boats.
KEEPING HOME FIRES BURNING
UNTIL THE SOLDIER RETURNS
The Red Cross has for years been
associated with hospitals, doctois, sol
diers, sailors, battles, disasters ; but It
Is only within the lust few months
that those who do not come under
any of these classes have come to real
ise the Importance of the assistance
rendered by the Red Cross.
Soldiers and sailors must be encour
aged to “carry on." Their ^norale
must be upheld. The sailor or soldier
who Is worrying about the welfare of
his family Is not able to put his mind
on the business before him. For this
reason the Home Service Section of
the American Red Cross has been or
ganized, and to the folks at home It
means nelghborilness, counsel and aid
—the nation’s assurance to the enlist
ed man that his family shall suffer for
no essential thing that Is within its
power to give.
In practically every large city of the
United States there Is already a class
for training the workers of the Home
Service section, so that they may be
able to efficiently deal with the very
real problems that are before them.
It Is not the policy of the section to
force upon families the aid of the Red
Cross nor to burden them with Inter
ference. No family should be ap
proached unless some member of the
family or some person capable of
speaking for them has asked for the
service. Because It is the desire of
the Committee on Civilian Relief, un
der whose direction this work comes,
to keep the service of the bureau
strictly confidential, the wearing of
any uniform by the Home Service
workers has been discouraged. They
call simply as friends and try to call
Immediately when requested.
In no Instance is a visitor permit
ted to pry into the secrets of the fam
ily. Help Is always ready, and the call
usually comes from the man In the
service himself. Through the work
ers In the camp or at the front he
learns that his family may be assisted,
and If he does not bear regularly or
encouragingly he is quite apt to talk
over with the Red Cross man or wo
man the affairs of hlB home when he
learns of the friendly Interest, and
thus send local workers to his family.
The school teachers also are often the
Informants, for they know through the
children of the needs at home and are
glad to see the family's problems
solved.
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Patriot’s Plenty
c=^gp' '
Bqy less - Serve less
Eat only 3 meals a d^y
Waste nothing
\bur guests will cheep
fuDy snare simple fare
Be Proud to be
a food saver
U. S. HEALTH SERVICE
ISSUES WARNING
Increase in All Respiratory Dis
eases After the Influenza
Epidemic Probable.
Influenza Expected to Lurk for Month*.
How to Quard Against Pneumonia.
Common Colds Highly Catching—Im
portance of Suitable Clothing—Could
Save 100,000 Lives.
Washington, D. 0.—With the subsid
ence of the epidemic of Influenza the
attention of health officers Is directed
to pneumonia, bronchitis and other
diseases of the respiratory system
which regularly cause a large number
of deaths, especially during the winter
! season. According to Rupert Blue,
Surgeon General of the United States
Public Health Service, these diseases
will be especially prevalent this win
ter unless the people are particularly
careful to obey health Instructions.
! “The present epidemic,” said Sur
geon General Blue, “has taught by bit
ter experience how readily a condition
beginning apparently as a slight cold
may go on to pneumonia and death.
| Although the worst of the’epidemic is
j over, there will continue to be u large
number of scattered cases, many of
them mild and unrecognized, which
will be danger spots to be guarded
against.” The Surgeon General likened
the present situation to that after a
great Are, saying, “No Are chief who
understands his business stops playing
the hose on the charred debris as soon
! as the flames and visible fire have dls
i appeared. On the contrary, he con
tinues the water for hours and even
days, for* he knows that there Is dan
1 ger of the fire rekindling from smol
Living fa more difficult for every one
In war times, and the mothers are lone
ly and discouraged, and this brings
hardship on the heads of the little
children. Sometimes the wife and
mother Is worrying over financial prob
lems, and here the Home Service bu
reau Is always helpful, for It tactfully
assists her In properly managing her
affairs, In planning her Income and,
of course, seeing that she Is receiving
sufficient allotment, and this regularly,
and then If It becomes necessary the
Red Cross is always ready to supple
ment the Income. Where medical care
or operations for the welfare of the
children are necessary the Home Berv-(
Ice Is ready to assist, to secure proper!
care for the children needing It and to
ease the mind of the mother. i
Milk for 8lok Babies.
Everywhere In the war zone there*
are sick babies and babies needlngj
milk. The American Red Cross Is es-,
tabllshlng milk stations, and the babies)
of Italian soldiers are beginning to,
thrive already under the competent,
care of the nurses, some of whom were
Infant Welfare nurses In our own
country before going overseas At,
. * 4k •»'
Children of the Crusade
I
By JEANNE JUDSON.
Frightened and pitiful, they walk apart,
Through the familiar village street, grown strange.
Hand clasped in hand, they hear weird echoes start
From ruined homes. Fear dumbs each small, child heart.
No tears rain down like dew to ease their woe;
Horror has dried the wells from which they sprang.
Like wee crusaders of the long ago,
Their phantom banners in the breezes blow.
If one should call out “Follow 1” thev would run.
Grime of the highway on their tiny feet,
Heedless alike of dust and blazing sun,
Forget, as dreams, the horrors that were done.
None calls; weary they rest within the shade,
The ruined church, where once they learned to pray,
Long years before the war had come, and laid
Then' homes in ruins, made their hearts afraid.
Before the Holy Mother low they bow,
Perhaps she hears and soon will bring them aid,
It must be she whose voice is calling now.
For see the cross is shining on her brow!
The light around her head, a nimbus gleams,
A Red Cross worker, not from Heaven, they know,
Yet Mary heard an^ sent her here it seems,
To lead them home to shelter and to dreams.
f ■ '
dering embers."
“Then you fear another outbreak of
Influenza?” he was asked. “Not neces
sarily another large epidemic,” said
the Surgeon General, “but unless the
people learn to realize the seriousness
of the danger they will be compelled to
pay a heavy death toll from pneumo
nia and other respiratory diseases.
Common Colds Highly Catching.
“It is encouraging to observe that
people are beginning to learn that or
dinary coughs and colds are highly
catching and are spread from person
to person by means of droplets of
germ laden mucus. Such droplets are
sprayed into the air when careless or
ignorant people cough or sneeze with
out covering their mouth and nose. It
is fjso good to know that people have
learned something about the value of
fresh air. In summer, when people
are largely out of doors, the respira
tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo
nia, etc.) are infrequent; In the fall,
as people begin to remain indoors, the
respiratory diseases Increase; in the
winter, when people are prone to stay
in badly ventilated, overheated rooms,
the respiratory diseases become very
prevalent.
Suitable Clothing Important.
“Still another factor In the produc
tion of colds, pneumonia and other re
spiratory diseases is carelessness or ig
norance of the people regarding suit
able clothing during the seusons when
the weather suddenly changes, sitting
in warm moms too heavily dressed or,
what is even more common, especially
among women, dressing lightly that
windows are kept closed in order to be
comfortably warm. This Is a very in
jurious practice. •
Could 8ave 100,000 Lives.
“I believe we could easily save one
hundred thousand lives annually in
the United Stales if all the people
would adopt the system of fresh air
living followed, for example, In tuber
culosis sanatoria. There is nothing
mysterious about it—no specific medi
cine, no vaccine. The important thing
Is right living, good food and plenty of
fresh air.
Droplet Infection Explained In Pictures.
“The Bureau of Public Health,
Treasury Department, has just issued
a striking poster drawn by Berryman,
the well-known Washington cartoonist.
The poster exemplifies the modern
method of health education. A few
years ago, under similar circumstances,
the health authorities would have is
sued an official dry but scientifically
accurate bulletin teaching the role of
droplet Infection in the spread of re
spiratory diseases. The only ones who
would have understood the bulletin
would have been those who already
knew all about the subject. The man
in the street, the plain citizen and the
many millions who toll for their living
would have had no time and no desire
to wade through the technical phrase
ology.”
USE /nm
COLDS. INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND
TUBERCULOSIS AM SPREAD THIS WAY
Copies of this poster can be ob
tained free of charge by writing to the
Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health
Service. Washington, D. C.
NO ONE 8UFFERED HERB.
The marvel of our voluntary food
saving, now that we are “getting re
sults,” Is that no one ever actually
suffered any hardship from It; that
we all are better in healtn and spirit
and better satisfied with ourselves be
cause of our friendly self-denial.
Food control In America held the
price of breadstuffs steady, prevented
vicious speculation and extortion and
preserved tranquillity at home.
In no other nation Is there so willing
a sense of voluntary self-sacrifice as
In America—that was shown In the
abstinence from wheat.
Find more wheat. It came; more
pork, It came; save sugar, It was done
So Americans answered the challenge
of German starvation.
Good will rules the new world as
fear governed the old world. Through
sharing food America helps muke the
whole world kin.
Food control made sufficiency from
shortage, kept the rein on food prices,
gave the nation’s full strength exer
cise.
Starvation by Germany challenged
all the world; food conservation in
Americu answered the cliulienge.
ELKO ATTORNEYS MIX IT
Monday’s Elko Free Press ss
Judge George E. Talbot, formei
Supreme Justice of the Nevada coui
and recently special prosecutor
the cases of the charges of malfei
ance brought against the Elko Cou
ty Commissioners, was assaulted Si
urday evening at the Mayer hotel
Attorney Van Fleet, the counsel i
the defendants in the above cases.
The event was the main topic
conversation yesterday and to-di
and according to one of the bystar
ers the following is about what h£
pened: Van Fleet had come into t
hotel lobby and seeing Judge Talbi
invited him into the bar room to ha
a drink. After some conversation
which hot words were passed, Vs
Fleet suddenly viciously kick*
Judge Talbot, and grabbing him 1
the shoulders attempted to thro
him to the floor. By this time Oss
Miller, who was standing nearb
grabbed Van Fleet and threw him
one side, when Judge Talbot quiei
left the room, going into the lobt
From what Van Fleet said aft
Judge Talbot had left, the spectate
gathered that in some way Van Fie
blamed Judge Talbot for the acti
of the grand jury in bringing agair
him three indictments, charging
two of them subornation of perju
and one of perjury.
12:01 A. Mi, Dec. 17
Will Be Dry Hoi
Goldfield Tribune: It is a cru
world. At 12.01 a. m., Dec 17, .
D. 1918, A. D. in this instance mea
ing “Awful Dry,” Nevada will ceai
to be wet, and Goldfield, being
Nevada, will also cease to be w«
Water will again be used for oth
purposes than washing by the mo
radical of the drys and the koo w
come into her own.
Already the lips of the wettest
the wet are becoming thick, th<
noses are broadening, their foi
heads are receding and humps t
coming evident on fheir backs, f
whether they want to or not th
must become such an animal. T
law says so and when the law says
man must be a camel he must be
camel.
The Attorney General or somebo
says 12:01 is the time and that ext
minute surely will help.
Elko Murderer Sentenced
A sentence of from ten years
life has been imposed on Arth
Fern, Elko County trapper, w
pleaded guilty to murdering Rj
mond Fern, his half brother.
In pleading guilty, the murder
gave a short statement of the crin
saying that he shot his brother f
lowing a violent quarrel between t
two which started when the mr
dered man objected to his brott
sleeping with his overalls on. F
ally the two men fought as a resi
of an argument over their mother
Fern said his brother attacked h
with a knife and that he shot him
protect himself from harm. Aft
the shooting he said he lived sevei
days in the tent in which his brothe
body was found.
Official advices from Washingt
to Dr. M. R. Walker of the Neva
committee named to secure a conv
lescing hospital for this State are
the effect that the United States sur
eon general has advised that no mo
new hospitals will be established ar
where for the present.
The first woman to be appoint
special agent in the Federal land i
fice is Miss Felice Cohn of Cars
City, who reported on December
to M. D. McEniry, chief of the fii
division of the general land office
Denver and began her duties. Besit
being the first woman special agei
Miss Cohn is the first woman lawj
to be a hearing agent for the Gove
ment. She will handle land hearir
in Colorado and Nevada. j
Captain Joseph Raphael De Lam;
capitalist and well-known mine ow
er of Utah and Nevada, died I1
vember 30th at Roosevelt hospit
New York City, of pneumonia, wh
followed an operation for gall stow
Captain De Lamar was 75 years <
and made New York City his hom<