The courier-index., December 28, 1917, Image 3

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■ Weekly War N-?ws Digest
I Answers by Draft Registrants
Not Open to Public
iwers of registrants on the se- j
e draft questionaires relating,
ialth and answers under the I
“dependency,” with the excep- j
if the names and addresses of j
ns claimed to be dependent, will ,
e open to inspection by the pub-1
ithout consent of the registrant,
risonment for not to exceed one
will be the penalty imposed on
e connected with the adminis
n of the selective draft law who
make this information public, j
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Demand for Men With Scien
rraining Will Steadily Increase
retary of War Newton D. Baker j
men in scientific institutions to
ue their training,
e government service will de-|
more and more scientifically |
d men,’’ said he. “and I hope;
who are in charge of scientific
itions will impress upon the
men the importance of con
g their studies, except to the
that they are necessarily in
ted by a mandatory call under
■ovisions of the selective service
I
ry effort will be made to use [
students’s special training in i
ction with specialized occupa-}
in the Army, to afford technical j
its liable to call as great an •
tunity through the national j
as if they had enlisted. ,
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of Illumination of Electric
Apply Throughout the Nation \
irs governing the use of elec- J
gns, made by the Fuel Admin
on, to assist in conserving fuel, j
to the entire country—villages
small cities as well as the 1
centers. Among these instruc- j
ire?
ctidnal signs on retail stores
be illuminated from one-half,
ifter sunset until closing time,
ot later than 11 p. m.; such
on theatres may be illuminated
one half hour after time of
uicement of last performance. !
y advertising on theatres and j
stores may only operate be- ,
T;ss5 and 11 p. m.
srcement of the order is in the
of state fuel administrators.
I Unexpected Efficiency in Conserva
. tion of Food Fools Camp Contractors
[ In some army and national guard
I camps contractors who undertook to
j dispose of garbage at a price based
j upon the amount they expected to get
! are threatening to throw up their
I jobs because the amount is so small.
I The Surgeon General’s office and
1 the Quartermaster’s Department are
co-operating to secure the best nu
trition of soldiers with the least;
waste. Officers of the food division
give instruction in food values, bal
ancing of menues, and methods of
cooking and serving. At one camp a
conference of this sort was attended
by 750 cooks, mess sergeants and j
mess officers.
The allowance provided by the
army regulations is liberal and per
mits of considerable savings. These
accumulate to the credit of the or
ganization if there is careful man- j
agement.
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Editors of Belgian Paper Find Safe
.-Office in “A Cellar on Wheels”..
La Liber Belgique, the publication1
issued “somewhere in Belgium” |
which the Germans have been unable
to suppress, thus defines its office
location:
“The editorial establishment being
no place of repose, a cellar on wheels
has been found more convenient.
“Business being at a standstill j
under German domination, we have
suppressed the page of advertise- j
ments and advise our readers to;
save their money for better tims.”
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20,000 Graduate Nurses Will Be Re
quired in Army Hospitals
With a continuance of the war, in
the next year at least 20,000 nurses
will be needed in army hospitals at j
home and abroad. Of the 80.000
graduate nurses in the country only 1
a.nuu nave so iar oeen assignee to
duty In army service, and of this
number 1.500 are in France.
An army nurse must be a graduate
of a training school for nurses and j
must have served for two years in a
hospital. They are assigned to duty!
in the United States or abroad, and]
preferences are granted when con- i
ditions permit. Nurses who prefer
not to have service abroad will have
their preferences respected.
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Extracts from Diaries of German Sol
diers in New War Publication
The 94 page' booklet ‘ German War
Practices” published bv the commit
tee on public information, devotes
one section to extracts from German
war diaries, among them being the
folio wiiffe: *
' A shell burst near the Eleventh i
company and wounded seven men,
three men severely. At 5 o’clock
we were ordered by the officer in
command of the regiment to shoot
all the male inhabitants of Nomeny,
because the population was foolishly
attempting to stay the advance of
the German troops by force of arms.
We broke into the houses, and
seized all who resisted, in order to
execute them according to martial
law. The houses which had not al-;
ready been destroyed by the French I
artillery and our own, were set on
fire by us, so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. It is a
terrible sight when helpless women
and children, utterly destitute, are
herded together and driven into |
France.” (From the diary of Pvt. |
Fischer, Eighth Harvarian Regiment i
of Infantry, thirty-third reserve di-j
vision.)
Copies of this book may be secured :
free of charge by application to the
Committee on Public Information, j
10 Jackson Place, Washington. D. C. <
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Post Exchange Furnishes Little Lux- !
uries Which Makes Camp Life Easy;!
Men at the cantonment buy many, j
articles at the post exchange for less j
money than they would have to pay <
in their home town stores. And the
post exchange manager is authority
for the statement that 40.000 men ;
make a tremendous demand for 5
cent packages of candy. About four
o'clock In the afternoon there Is a
general rush for apples, sweet crack
ers, and coffee or milk, despite the
fact that big dinners will be ready
: a couple of hours later.
The problem of supplying the men
! in army cantonments with small ne
cessities and luxuries which the gov
ernment does not furnish is met by
| the commission on training camp
activities through these post ex
j changes. They are to be found at
j each cantonment, there being as a
1 rule one exchange for each regiment,
j Each carries an average of $10,000
I worth of goods.
Business is nearly all done on a
credit basis. Men obtain books of
five and ten cent coupons and pay
for them at the end of the month,
i Post exchanges average $1,000 a day
I in sales, and there are about 250
| in operation, the yearly business will
j aggregate many millions of dollars.
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I Gymnasiums and Workshops Included
In Plans for Wounded Soldiers
Plans for caring for members of
the expeditionary forces who may
j be returned from Europe unfit for
! further service include, beside the
! necessary surgical and medical at
j tention. instruction in the use of in
j jured and artificial limbs, and voca
■ tional training. The expert nee of
' Panada and European allies in this
! wofk has been of great vjflue to the
! United States government in arrang
1 ing its plans.
Equipment for heat treatment and
| electric and hydro therapy will be
1 provided; gymnasiums will furnish
! opportunity for special exercise for
reeducation in the use of joints,
muscles and nerves which have been
affected in service; in curative work
shops the man will perform useful
work which at the same time will
bring these parts into activity.
The aim will be to return every
man into civil life able to be self
supporting end useful, and not de
pendent merely upon the pension he
will receive from the government.
"Godmothering’’ of soldiers and
sailors is not officially sanctioned.
No postmaster’s pay will be in
creased during the war, according to
an order by the postmaster general.
The Red Gross has asked for
pumps to be used in France, to take
the place of those destroyed by re
treating Germans.
Many officers of the Marine Corps
and the navy are members of a class
receiving instructions at Washington,1
D. C., in defense against the use of
gas.
The woman’s committee of the
Council of National Defense has ar
ranged to ..furnish a badge for every,
woman who registers to work in!
co-operation with the committee.
In five years the portion of the
world’s gold monetary stock (coin
and bullion used as money) held by
the United States has increased from
one-fifth to more than one-third.
The retail price of milk in England
has been advanced from 14 to 16
cents a quart. The sale and use of
cream has been prohibited, except
for invalids, infants and for butter
making.
Work of the Woman's Committee
of the Council of National Defense
has already been started in Porto
Rico, and plans now made include its
introduction into every territory of
the United States.
A nation wide campaign for econ
omy in the use of coal in steam
plants has been undertaken by the
Fuel Administration. The bureau of
mines is conducting the campaign,
with the* help*of the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers.
At a children’s hospital recently
established by the Red Cross in
France, an average of 360 boys and
girls are being examined each day.
In connection is a dental dispensary
located in an old kitchen, with a
dental chair improvised from a wine
barrel.
In its campaign for the saving of
coal the fuel administration declares
the average American home is super
heated. Eminent American physic
ians are quoted as saying that a
room above 68 degrees Farenheit is
too warm for health and exposes the
occupants to catarrhal diseases anc
pneumonia.
Among the speakers to be heard Ir
the war conferences, which are t(
be held in every state in the Unior
during the next few months. ar«
Secretary McAdoo. Secretary Baker
V’ice President Marshall, Henry J
Allen. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Bishoi
Charles D. Williams, and Lieut. Pau
Perlgord, of the French army.
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ONE RESULT OF DEAFNESS
One of the most disastrous resulti
of deafness is its sense of incapad
tating. Tt works a psychological hard
ship, not alone in daily intercourse
but In the personal feeling of th<
potential difference between the for
mer and present self. A writer or
the subject who spoke from exper
ience has said that a deaf person is
partly dead. I have heard every deal
person I know make identically the
same remark.—Margaret Baldwin in
the December Atlantic.
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FALSE ALARM
“Wasn’t it cold last night?”
‘‘Cold? Why, I was awakened by
the noise of my wife’s te«?th chatter
ing on the bureau.”—Boston Tran
script.
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I ran over it.’’—Louisville Courier*
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