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Here Is one of the picturesque ceremonies that took place in London on the king's birthday—the parade of the
Horse Guards before King George.
How Italy Helps
' Her Unemployed
Great Construction Work Being
Carried Out by the Opera
del Combattenti.
BILLIONS OF LIRE ARE PAID
Policy Contemplates Using Money as
Investment to Benefit the State —
Reclaiming Marsh Land—
Roads and Railways Built.
Rome. —In spite of the low state of
national finance Italy is attempting to
carry out a broad program for the
relief of war veterans and the unem
ployed by means of land reclamation
snd other public works.
Italy denis with its problem of war
veterans through the Opera Na z ionale
del Combattenti, organized In Decem
ber, 1917, with an Initial capital of
300.000,000 lire, of which the govern- j
„ tnent contributed 250.000,000. The
has a social section for voca
tional training and placing, a financial
section for providing credit to indi
vidual soldiers or co-operatl ze groups,
and an agricultural section, which
concentrates on land reclamation.
Relief for Unemployed.
The general unemployment problem
continues to be taken seriously by the
government, although there is no fear
now of revolutionary outbreaks as the
result of the lack of work. In the last
few weeks the number of unemployed
has decreased slightly, but there are
still more than half a million men out
of work. Arrangements are almost
completed for starting the public
works authorized last August for the
relief of the situation, but at the
moment the apportioning of funds and
the Increase of the amount of work to
be undertaken Is occupying the cham
ber of deputies. The public works
,/ appropriation Is the parliamentary
pork barrel rs the country.
Signor Riccio, minister of public
works, is attempting to hold the bal
ance between the deputies competing
for apportionments and to protect the
national budget from being swamped
with more projects than It can stand.
He stated in the chamber the other
day that In the first three months of
this year there has already been paid
out for labor on public works 1,300.-
000,000 lire, as against 258.000.000 in
the whole year of 1914. He added
that although the minister of finance
had authorized fie expenditure of
3.000,000.000 more for public labor
this year, he did not see where the
money was coming from.
The grave depression In the metal
lurgical districts of Milan and Turin
Is threatening to throw more men on
the streets, and as usual the condi
tion of unemployment In the province
of Emilia Is widespread.
The situation In Emilia is typical of
the sort of problem Italian state offi
cials have to face. For the last 20
years the province has been greatly
overpopulated, but the surplus citi
zens have refused to emlgnte. There
s U. S. CUTS DOWN TRAVEL ABUSES
No More Jaunts in Vacation at
Expense of Government.
Uncle Sam Clanfps Down the Lid
on Government Railroad Travel
Vouchers—Saving of Many
Millions Being Effected.
Washington.—There will be no mer
ry skylarking this summer by Uncle
Sam's army of workers nt seashore
and mountain tops a* government ex
pense.
Your Uncle Sam has put a crimp
In free travel abuses. The lid has been
clamped on government railroad travel
vouchers. In other years thousands
have flocked to the summer resorts on
the easily procured travel slips.
The young “swell” or “pretty doll”
on the government payroll In the old
days ran the gamut of ‘'business” ex
cuses, and drew free travel checks
besides the usual per diem allowance
is therefore a chronic floating popu
lation of day laborers who practically
are a charge on the state.
Plans of Reclamation.
The government’s policy of public
works Is a sound one in that the
money spent constitutes an invest
ment which in future years will more
than pay for Itself. Instead of pro
viding "busy work” the ministry is
carrying out a far-sighted scheme for
the transformation of malarial marsh
lands into fertile territory. Since
18G0 the government has obtained
more than 339,000.000 lire in plus
value from its reclaimed lands. For
this work the government spent 57,-
783.310 lire for reclaiming 394.027
acres, and private consortiums spent
an equal amount, but recovered 394,-
027 acres. This year the government
has appropriated 80.000,000 lire for
reclamation of land in eight provinces
and work began in March.
Other projects of the government
are equally constructive. Roads and
railways are being built in Sicily and
Calabria, and In the latter province
SURGERY IS AN ANCIENT SCIENCE
Were Skilled in Treating Diseases
3,000 Years Ago.
Delicate Operations, Hitherto Thought
Modern, Revealed by Egyptian
Document—Shows Evidence
of Advanced Knowledce.
Chicago.—The restoration of youth
to the aged, attempted recently by
means of animal glands, was also at
tempted at least 3,000 years ago, ac
cording to Dr. James 11. Breasted of
the University of Chicago. An "In
cantation of Transforming an Old Man
Into a Youth of Twenty” is set forth
tn the Edwin Smith papyrus, the
Egyptian document which Doctor
Breasted has declared contains un
paralleled evidence of advanced
knowledge and scientific spirit on the
part of Egyptian physicians of 1800 B.
C. or earlier.
The incantation, on the contrary, he
said, is characterized by reliance on
hocus-pocus. Doctor Breasted's theory
is that an extraordinary book on sur
gery and external medicine fell into
the hands of a quack who was more
interested in charms for making old
men young, and who had the incongru
ous texts combined in the same roll.
Thus In the papyrus magical formulae
Jostle an exposition of delicate surgi
cal operations heretofore believed to
be decidedly modern.
The handwriting indicates that it
was probably written about 1800 B. C.,
and it was thought to be a copy of a
manuscript that Is at least a thou
sand years older. The original may
have been written as early as 3400 B.
C., it Is thought. by some of the words
which appear In the manuscript and
which were long out of vogue in 1800
B. C.
for subsistence while absent from
Washington.
Later on the usual thirty days an
nual vacation leave with pay allowed
government workers was utilized to
drive dull care away.
Now, however, under a rigid econ
omy drive, useless travel by govern
ment officials or employees of any
rank is forbidden.
Bureau chiefs are held responsible
strictly for abuses of the free travel
privilege. It Is effecting a saving to
the treasury of many millions of dol
lars annually.
Treasury exports declare that In
preceding years the government out
lay for this purpose was something
In the nature of a scandal. Every
government department lias its corps
of special Investigators and experts,
many of whom want to gallop at will
nt government expense.
Until recently officials complained
that the hardest work performed by
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* the quartet fled with several J
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the government is building artificial
lakes to store water for the hydro
electric plants in the Sila plateau.
This part of the country being dry,
irrigation and not draining is the
problem, and the government has of
fered to help local irrigation consor
tiums by paying one-third of the cost
of irrigation projects of benefit to the
whole country.
The manuscript also contains “The
Incantation of Expelling the Wind of
the Year of Pest." This shows the
widely prevalent notion which Ims
persisted to the present day that the
winds carry malignant plagues. The
last two parts of the papyrus are
written in a very different handwrit
ing from the front page.
The columns in front treat of the
head, the mouth, the neck and the
spine, here the papyrus stops, but it Is
evident that the remainder treated the
lower body.
The first group of ten cases de
scribed treat of wounds of the head, of
which seven are knife and sword
wounds. The surgeon is Instructed
how to probe the wound and in case
of a severe knife wound told, “You
should have made for him a wooden
brace padded with linen (and have)
the head fastened to it. His treat
ment should be sitting, placed between
two supports of brick, until you know
whether he is making any progress.”
Case 8 deals with “a fracture of the
skull under the skin." The surgeon is
told to operate, to open at the point of
contusion, and “to elevate the depres
sion outward." It is possible trephin
ing Is involved here; if so it is the
earliest mention of it in history.
Woman's Love Fails to Lift.
Denver. Colo. John Randolph,
thief, whose wife said she was for
merly Miss Elizabeth Calhoun, a
graduate of the University of Chicago
and daughter of Mrs. C. W. Dawson,
wealthy resident of Kankakee, 111.,
was sentenced the other day by Dis
trict Judge Butler to serve from five
to nine years in the penitentiary. Mrs.
Randolph declared she married Ran
dolph to reform him after her mother.
Mrs. Dawson, had secured his release
from the Missouri state penitentiary.
some of this class was that of draw
ing their semi-monthly pay.
The efficiency and economy pro
gram has done much to speed up work,
and to eliminate waste time and
waste motion. Under reorganization
plans government workers do not find
Idleness such a Joy as in the days of
old.
Tills has come through the program
of reducing the bureaus to normal
strength. It has meant a lot of trim
ming In personnel. Still a lot more
will be done before peace time basis
Is reached.
Hen Slays Rat.
Barbourville, Ky.—A singular com
bat was staged at the home of Charles
Smith here, when a rt. trying to
capture the chicks of a bantam hen.
attacked them. The hen Immediately
went to the rescue and nil that was
to be seen was the feathered bantu.n
covering the rat and jiecking vio
lently at the intruder. The rat pm
up a l.ard fight, but the bantam perked
out Its eyes aud then proceeded to
kill it.
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By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
NCLE SAM’S pension
> rolls are naturally
brought to mind by the
days that the nation has
observed for 1922 —Lin-
coln’s birthday. Memo
rial day. Flag day and
the Fourth of July. And
discussion over bonus
legislation continually
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brings them to the fore. Republics
are popularly said to be ungrateful.
They may be, but the United States
pensions are a tremendously big thing.
According to the figures at the end
of the 1921 fiscal year the following
pensioners were on Uncle Sam’s rolls:
War of 1812, widows. 64.
War with Mexico (1847)7 soldiers,
widows, et al., 2,135.
Indian wars, soldiers, widows, et al.,
3,784.
War with Spain (1898), soldiers,
widows, et al., 31,066.
Civil war, soldiers, wMows, et al.,
218,775.
World w’ar, soldiers, widows, et al..
82.
Regular establishment, soldiers, wid
ows, et al., 4,081.
By classes, the pensioners are:
Soldiers, 267,629; widows, 290,9.55;
minors, 2,163; helpless children, 919;
other dependents, 4,285; nurses, 102;
total of all classes, 566,053.
The total paid as pensions from 1866
to 1921 is $5,993,086,114.
The largest number of pensioners on
the rolls was 994,446 in 1902.
The largest number of Civil war sol
diers on the roll was
The deaths in this division in 1921
were: Soldiers, 24,775; widows, 19,-
451.
Forty-nine widows of soldiers who
fought In the War of 1812 are still
alive —or were on Memorial day, 1922.
This is one of the many astonishing
and interesting facts brought out by
examination of the pension rolls. They
are very old, th/ase widows, and In the I
course of human events will not much
longer be Uncle Sam’s pensioners.
There were 71 in 1920 and 64 In 1921.
And now there are 49. The oldest Is
one hundred and four and the young
est Is sixty two. Three are centena
rians; eight are over ninety; 22 are
octogenarians; the remainder, wit)
cne exception, are over seventy.
Mrs. Elizabeth Riggles Tyler,lo2 South
Cary street, Baltimore, Md., is the old
est of this remarkable body of women.
She is the widow of Private George
W. Tyler of the Maryland militia. In
the War of 1812 he was a seaman
.>n one of the ships that participated
In the battle of Fort McHenry, which
Inspired Francis Scott Key to write
"The Star-Spangled Banner." In tiie
forties and fifties Tyler was the skip
per of famous American clipper ships.
He died in 1862, the commander of a
Union supply ship, having thus served
his country in two wars.
The husbands of these "1812 wid
ows” served In the militias of 13
states, as follows: Connecticut, I; 1
Green-Mountain Boys
The Green-Mountnln Boys were a
band of Vermont settlers, organized
In 1773, under the leadership of
Ethan Allen, Seth Baker and others,
for the purpose of protecting them
selves against the attempts of the
governor of New York to drive them
from their lands and take possession
of their territory, on the ground that
it belonged to New York, under the
charter granted by Charles 11. During
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Georgia, 4; Kentucky, 1; Maryland,
4; Massachusetts, 2; Mississippi, 1;
New Jersey, 1; New York, 5; North
Carolina, 2; Ohio, 2; South Carolina.
3; Tennessee, 2; Virginia, 15. One
was a midshipman on the U. S. S. Con
stitution; one a seaman on the U. S. S.
Comet; one a private in the U. S. Ar
tillery; one a seaman on the U. S. S.
President; one a private In the Sev
enth U. S. Infantry.
These widows now live in 21 states,
10 of which were not In existence
when their husbands fought for the
Flag.
The “baby” of the number, only six
ty-two, and the youngest by 11 years,
is Mrs. Arminia I. Anderson of Cedar
Grove, Ga., the widow of Musician
Robert Anderson of the South Caro
lina militia.
Several of these “1812 widows”
are sprightly old ladies. Mrs. Matilda
Showacre of New Market. Md., one
hundred and one years, the widow of
Private Showacre of the Maryland
Militia, reads her Bible and newspa
per every day, and goes about the
house and climbs stairs with a cane.
She has 2 children, 15 grandchildren,
and 15 great-grnndchildren.
There are 73 veterans of the Mexi
can war on Uncle Sam’s pension rolls.
What history these old fighting men
have seen! They fought in a war
when all the Union stood together, saw
or took part in a war when the North
and South fought each other, and in
two later wars saw a reunited nation
again battling under the Stars and
Stripes against a foreign foe. Memo
ries of nearly all the brilliant suc
cesses of the Mexican war are recalled
by this roll —Vera Cruz, Matamoras,
Monterey, Palo Alta, Chapultepec,
Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo, Contreras,
Churumisco.
Os these Mexican veterans all are
ninety or ovea, except two, and they
are past eighty-nine. The oldest of
them, William Roddeto of Cross
Plains, Tenn., of the Third Tennessee
volunteers, is nearing his one hundred
and second birthday, another has
passed his ninety-eighth milepost,
seven have celebrated their ninety-sev
enth anniversary, five are more than
ninety-six, another six are ninety-five,
sixteen have seen ninety-four sum
mers come and go. and there are fif
teen in the ninety-three-year class, 1
seven are more than ninety-two and I
eight have passed the ninety-first mile- i
stone. The other five are all nearing !
the ninety-first mark.
These veterans —more’s the pity!—
will not bp with us long. Already their
average age Is ninety-three and one
half years—more then 13 years above
the average age of the “1812 widows” ,
—which Is a little over elglity-live. .
Those who have passed the ninety
three and one-half year average are: j
1 Abney, George IL. Clay. Miss., 94. •
the Revolutionary war the Green-
Mountain Boys. 3<X) In number, led by
Ethan Allen, rendered great service
In securing the passes Into Canada,
and thus preventing the British
troops from overrunning Vermont.
Why Does Water Rise to Tree Top?
One of the most puzzling questions
In botany is, "Why or how does wa
ter rise to the top of a free?" Vari
ous explanations of the phenomenon
have been proposed, but none is re
garded as altogether satisfactory. One
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South Carolina Volunteers, the Pal
metto Reghneht.
Ballard. Thomas IL, St. Joseph Ky.,
94. Fourth Kentucky Volunteers.
Bartleson. Augustus C., Muskogee.
Okla., 94, Second Bllnols Volunteers.
Baskett, James P., Onaga, Kan., 97,
First Missouri Mounted Volunteers.
Benson, William V., Los Angeles, 95,
Second Illinois Infantry.
Boyd, James F. Dinuba, Cal., 95,
First Arkansas Cavalry.
Brown, Calvin M., Ina. 111., 94, Sec
ond Illinois Foot Volunteers.
Brown, James N., Concord, N. C. t
94, First North Carolina Volunteers.
Buckner, William Camden, N.
J., 94, Second Missouri Mounted Vol
unteers.
Chandeur, Urban, San Francisco,
98, Tenth United States Infantry.
Choate, Gabriel, Field Creek, Texas,
95. Texas Rangers.
Clark, Amos, Bandera, Texas, 96,
Third United States Infantry.
Davis, William K., Admiral, Texas,
94, First Virginia Volunteers.
Flowers, Levy, Glencoe, Okla., 96,
Second Missouri Mounted Infantry.
Genovely, Alfred, Louisville, Ky., 94,
Sixteenth United States Infantry.
Glllihun, William W., Blandinsville,
111., 95, Gray’s Battalion, Arkansas
Volunteers.
Gonder, Danie, Rippey, lowa, 96,
Second Ohio Volunteers.
Hardy, John A., Flat Rock, Hl., 94,
Third Ohio Volunteers.
Harrod, James, Los Angeles, 94,
First United States Artillery.
Jordan, Enoch G., Chapman, Kan.,
97, First Louisiana Volunteers.
Kirk, Thomas A., Milano, Texas, 96,
Texas Mounted Volunteers.
McGuire, William, Balton, Ont., 97,
New York Volunteers.
Madara, Peter 8., Reading, Pa., 97,
Second Pennsylvania Infantry.
Mitchell, James, Princeton, Ky., 95,
Fourth Kentucky Infantry.
Read, John, Perry, 111., 95, Four
teenth United States Infantry.
Repseto, William, Cross Plains,
Tenn., 101, Third Tennessee Volun
teers.
Shirk, James W., Vonore, Tenn., 97,
Fifth Tenessee Volunteers.
Stough, Oliver J., Sun Diego, Cal.,
94. Third Ohio Infantry.
Thompson. Calvin R., Smithshire,
111., 96, Second Indiana Infantry.
Truesdale. Matthew C., Kempner,
Texas, 97, First Tennessee Volunteers.
Wedlg. John, Granite City, 111., 97,
First United States Dragoons.
Williams. Isaiah IL. Jr., Stafford,
Kan.. 94, First lowa Volunteers.
Wise, Josephus C„ Ladonia, Texas,
94. Third Tennessee Volunteers.
Wright, Chanies, lonia. Mo., 94,
First Missouri Mounted Volunteers.
These Mexican veterans and their
comrades won a war which fixed the
i boundary of Texas at the Rio Grande
' and gave us the region now occupied
I by California. Nevada, most of Ari-
I zona. New Mexico, Utah and a part of
• Colorado.
Investigator attacked the problem by
means of Interesting and novel ex
periments. For instance. e con
structed an artificial tree of plaster
of purls and found that water moved
upward in it, more than 46 feet high.
Yet he was unable to base any defi
nite conclusion upon the results .hat
he obtained. The water travels a
large part of the way In a film, be
tween bubbles on one side nd the
wall of the conducting vessel „n the
other. But the physical properties of
the film are yet unknown.