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Atlanta. »•- ******** Khe Journal’s Service Flag the sixty-one Atlanta Journal men (he s-mv-.ce >f t.hmr coun’ry Th*> IBiis in memory of Captain Meredith KJ gavtThklife on the French Battlefield. KT/?e Russian Situation steps the Allies may have decided the. German menace in Russia, it Is that the period of waiting is over HI official announcement has been made. g|9 common understaing that the Supreme at Paris has urge 1 speedy interven- is a well defined impression that States has concurred. President Wil- Mueved hitherto to have doubted the wis- Hmilitary intervention in Russia, having to that effect by his counselors of the con c idered the undertaking at this ■ unfeasible Reasons to the contrary. B seem now to hold sway, and indeed to Kwn imperative. It thus appears likely that krt of a joint expedition designed to arrest irman peril in Russia, and eventually per is wage a broad offensive, will soon be under | immediate occasion for action lies in the ■t- Finnish-German troops to seise vast Ks of military material at Archangel and Kd to close these ports which, with the ex ■cf Vladivostok, are the /Sole channels of Bicaticn between the Allies and the Russian I. American and Entente naval contingents ■r guarding the stores at all three of those Kut their number is far from sufficient to permanently a really formidable move part These dangers, however, arc compared with the overshadowing Hi Germany s firmly establishing hereslf in Kid of organizing the country's enormou? Br for her military advantage. It is this Kbssibility. fearful for distant decades as BffV the present, that gives chief concern ■a prompt action. ■English view of the problem, which Is the Hand Italian view as well, has been stated Irce and succinctness by Harold Williams, Endon Daily Chronicle’s Petrograd corre nt who has studied at first hand all phases ■Russian situation from the outburst of the Bn to the rise oi the Bolsheviki and their fiasco. ' Allied intervention," he writes. H|tely necessary ’• It is necessary to oppose German expun r eastward. It is necessary to restore to [Russian people liberty of choice and ac . It is necessary to prevent Germany's Kration into Asia and her exploitation of Huge resources of the East. ... Allied inter- Bn Is not concerned with internal Rus- Bplitics. Our action must be disinterest- object must be to help the Russian MBs a whole to protect the::; against and urs We cannot dictate |H^Bo*.crn:!. t We ■ •..?. only hMp ir.e < 7L-.;r;zc •<> <. rhoi- the .S.ato in the .'ur-n ■■> p:« a them. W ■ :,.ust '»*• <i; in the- /. al! with iittb- - ' ''..o ■ . c: the BBra-'.-.-d .-.nd shall .ind a ■BH ! '‘ icr * ; "..°d > .rci> ntstance. if the pr«- - th' 1 bri.Thteft pro<p»c. of BBB x P ed i t i° n - Once given a rallying point F German aggression and given capable Lh:p whom they would trust, the Russian kwould become a mighty factor in the war. I of them are reported to be eager for the an Allied army to which the*- intend to leir own forces They have felt and still ie disastrous consequences of the Bolshevik 1; they have seen and still see the German i gathering their country into its fatal coils; By realize that only from the Allied powers liverance come. This certainly is the view of the more enlightened and thoughtfully patriotic element of the Russian people; and it Is in their influence and co-operation that such an expedition as is now being discussed would find its most farreaching and most fruitful possibilities. It is exceedingly important, however, that the movement be above suspicion of sinisterly selfish motives. Hence the desirability of a joint under taking by Great Britain. France, Italy, the United States and Japan instead of an isolated effort on part of only one or two members of the group Japan's proximity to the scene of the proposed ac tion makes it logical, if not indeed necessary, that she take an important part. It would at once be ap propriate and helpful—vastly helpful—if China went heartily into the project. The presence of the United States would be particularly reassuring to Russian factions who are skeptical of Japan’s good intentions; and the participation of our major Al lies will give the expedition the composite charac ter as well as tae actual strength required. The detafls remain to be worked; only the broadest outline of general principles has yet been inti mated. .and that but vaguely. The significant thing » is. however, that there is to bo au end to waiting. American Troops in Italy To the American Red Cross and encineerinc amts long in Italy and those more recently arrived, there is now to be added a substantial contingent of our Heating men. To begin with, a regiment will go rrom the expeditionary forces in France, taking the historic route across the Alns. Their presence will answer once for all the German propaganda that we have no heart interest in how Italy fares, and will emphasize afresh the oneness and fraternity of the Allied cause. In thia respect alone the expedition will be highly valuable. It is likely, moreover, that other regiments will follow, and not unlikely that they may follow in numbers sufficient to play a truly formidable part. A writer in the New York World adduce, opin ions from numerous observers, including n uitarr leaders and critics as well as statesmen, -io the effect that the short way to win the war. “i'_ to co into Mittel-Europa by the back door —by Laibach with the Italians and from Salonica with the Greeks and the Serb veterans.” We are more con cerned, it is true, with the sure than the short way to win the war; and there is a deepening con viction that ft must be won by crushing the enemv on the Western front. Yet the Italian front is vir tually one with the Western front, and certainly a decisive campaign against Austria—decisive enough, that is to say, to eliminate her —would be the next thing to a decisive blow against Germany. The growing unrest In the Dual Monarchy, amounting in some to revolt, would be markedly favorable to an Allied expedition that would press beyond the Isonzo and get fairly into the Hapsburg-Hohenzollern realm. Plans to this end may already be. maturing in the mind of the Allied War Council, but they will hardly be under taken until more man power is available. In meet ing that need American resources will play a maior part; and the first regiment to bear the Stars and Stripes across the Alps may prove the precursor of entire divisions and army corps. Germany's Idol “He is the crudest creature that ever drew breath.” Thus the Countess Laura Turczynowicz who is visiting America describes Hindenburg. She has lived through the frightfulness of a Ger man invasion of her native Poland; has witnessed the systematic brutalities on which the Huns pride themselves; has watched their foremost chieftain as he ground her helpless people, women and children and aged men, under the heel of his boasted Prussianism; has studied his countenance, his gesture and bearing; has seen him as he is; and this is how she portrays him: “You know his pictures. That is just (he way he looks, only rftore so. He is ( purple and red. I don’t think it is apoplexy. It is temper and alcohol. He is the crudest creature that ever drew breath.” And this is Germany’s idol. This brute who holds that the daughters of a land he invades shall go as spoils to his soldiers and who sanc tions looting and murder as treatment of defense less civilians, this is the incarnate ideal of the German nation. Is it to be wondered that the Huns are barbarous, when we consider whom they adore? The Bread of “We must do our utmost,” declares the Na tional Food Administration, “to see to it that the bread ration of France is not cut down a single ounce more. France must have bread if it takes our last bushel of wheat to give it to her.” This appeal is prompted by the news that again the French have reduced their daily bread allowance, this time one-third. And the corre spondent adds, “Still she keeps on fighting bravely and as well; the home folk keep on work ing as is their wont. That’s France!” Surely, no American worthy of the name can fail tb respond to this heroic self-denial with a resolve to practice keener economy in the use of wheat in order that our noble allies may not have to go further in painful sacrifice. For ail her courage and fortitude. France cannot keep fighting on less wheat bread than she now has. Let us see to it that out of our own supplies she shall have more. Major John Purroy Mitchel. The untimely death of Major John Purroy Mitchel brings nationwide and heart-deep regret. Though not yet turned forty, he was among the outstanding figures in American public life. As a leader of anti-Tammany forces he showed a cour age and resourcefulness that caught the entire country's imagination, and as mayor of the metrop olis gave proof of an idealism at once sturdy and splendid, it was characteristic of him to enter the army aviation corps with a view to the earliest possible service i France. That dream was not realized, but he died in striving tor it and died as truly for his country as if he had fallen in the fire of battle. His was a gallant personality, a richly serviceable life, a spirit worthy of his na tion's knightliest traditions. JOURNAL, ATLANIA, OA. HIE AILAIYIA btIYU-WEEKLY I UESUAT, JULT V, TVI3. . The President \ Resolute ' Pour th of July Speech President Wilson's Independence Day address breathes out the calmness of the serene and hal lowed spot where he spoke. On the green hillside, where sleeps the Father of his Country and where in the days of old he and his counselors “looked out upon the world and saw it with the light of the future upon it,” the President found an abiding quietness that well accords with moments of great resolution. That is the presiding spirit of his Fourth of July message, with its unbending and untroubled determination. He envisages the war, as few men can, in its terrible wholeness and in the earthwide tangle of its issues. He sees as few cMn its disasatrous chances, its heart-crushing sacrifices, its grim ordeals before victory shall come. But seeing all this, he says with a calmness worthy of the nation's strength: “There can be but one issue. The settle ment must be final. ,There can be no compro mise. No half-way decision will be tolerable. No half-way decision is conceivable.” If Prussianism has a lingering doubt of Amer ica's purpose and resolution, there is its assurance. If Foreign Minister von Kuehlmann was putting forth a peace query when he recently told the Reichstag that the war hardly could be ended through a military decision, there is his answer. If the Potsdam Gang expects to patch up a settlement in the West on the condition of holding its bandit spoils in the East and retaining the power to launch another onset against civilization, it should fina disillusionment in President Wilson's latqst decla ration. For he lays down as the prime requisite to peace: “The destruction of every arbitrary power that can separately, secretly, and of its own . single choice disturb the peace of the world; .or if it cannot be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotence.” This reaffirms and re-emphasizes America’s pur pose to fight on until German militarism is van quished. We could have peace today, were we content to take it on the Kaiser’s terms; and ere long perhaps he will be offering peace with cunning ly camouflaged concessions. But the only peace we dare accept from him and his conspirators will be the peace of their complete surrender. That is the only settlement to be trusted, the only one worthy of the brave legions who have poured out their life blood for freedom. What assurance of the future would we have if Prussianism came out of this war unconquered and holding a,'substantial part of its spoils? What covenant would its leaders keep? What law of nations would they respect longer than their own criminal interests dictated? ■ Not until Prussianism is beaten down and stripped naked or its conquests will the German people forsake it; and not until then will there be hope of a morally responsible Government in Germany or of durable peace in the world. It is America's unshakable resolution, as it is of her heroic Allies, to fight until those ends are achieved. They cannot be achieved, the President truly declares, “by debating and seeking to recon cile and accommodate what statesmen may wish, with their projects fo'r balances of power and of national opportunity.” They can be achieved only by pressing intrepidly on in the way we now are going. The Italians on the Piave, the Americans at Chateau Thierry and in Belleau wood, the French in Picardy and the British in Flanders —in these and the gallant millions behind them lies the world’s hope of justice and concord. Let these be now our sole concern. Let us support them with our labor and love. Let us prove worthy of the supreme sacrifices they make, scorning the thought of a peace that would betray their ideals and trust ing them as the glorious embodiment of thosv forces that have at their heart “an inspiration and a pur pose which are deathless and of the very stuff 01 triumph.” Senator Tillman. There has passed in the death of Senator Benja min R. Tillman one of the most picturesque and most useful personalities of his generation. His picturesqueness was of the kind that springs un bidden from native wit and rugged Integrity. “Pitchfork Ben” they called him in his earlier Senatorial days, and he never resented the sobriquet. But his aggressiveness was not that of the swashbuckler. It was that of a strong, courage ous man deeply devoted to the public welfare and impatient of all insincerities. What he believed in, he believed in with all his mind and heart; and whom he liked, he liked with all his mind and soul. As is usual with such temperaments, his hostilities were as pronounced as his friendships. He was a good hater, and a fighter unexcelled. These were his qualities that stood out most conspicuously when he first entered the Senate nearly a quarter of a century ago, in his unconven tional dress and wholly unstudied manner. In Kwse days the Senate was nothing like as demo cratic a body as now. It was not elected by the people and on the whole was not in sympathy with popular movements. But it was a punctiliously dignified body and believed above all things in nrecedent. It was not surprising, then, that so plain a speaker as Senator Tillman shocked those “most potent, grave and revern'd Signiors.” He said what he thought and said it when he pleased, and said it moreover with an incisiveness that never failed to jind its mark. But the shock to Senatorial conventionalities gave way before long to a serious study and at last to a cordial appreciation of the bluff Carolinian's basic virtues. His colleagues came to know him as a keen and earnest thinker, as a worker whose zeal never fagged, as an ardent seeker of truth, as the enemy of shams, as the friend of the people With experience and service he grew in wisdom ana in moderation. His earlier mission was to tear down the defenses of hypocrisy and privilege; his later years were given to building stronger the fortresses of truth and freedom. As chairman ot the Senate committee on naval affairs he was an able as well as earnest student of the nation's maritime needs, and was largely instrumental in steering to success the great naval legislation of the last three years. He was a loyal supporter of the Wilson Administration, an intense believer in all the principles of democracy, an American worthy of the country's virile traditions, and a Southerner worthy of South Carolina. —"— - J In Russia Germany has something more than-a bear on her hands. HUN AIRPLANES BOMB WOMEN TO DESTROY MORALE OF FRENCH ' Bv HERBERT COREY WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, June 3.—The captain from Kansas ex pressed the general sentiment when the German plane camo over last night: “I feel like a cussed prairie dog alongside a road,” said he. “Every time any one throws a rock at me I djick into my hole and chatter.” The psychological aspect of the German offen sive in the air is intensely interesting to me. The actual damage done on any single night is probably inconsiderable, but the manner in which the planes are handled seems to indicate that the direct attack is on the courage and staying power of the French civilian. The air offensive is by no means an un important part of the German general offensve. It has L<_ « ineffective, but it has been devilishly well planncu. 11 the bomb-dropping psychologists haa been dealing with people of their own breed it might have been more successful. "Hum and hum and drop a bomb and hum ana hum and fly away and come back two hours later and hum and hum and hum and drop a bomb or two and hum and hum—” That m’ight almost be a copy of the orders given these night bombers. It is precisely vvhat they do. Lust night one plane came over the tiny town in which 1 am living now. We heard it buzzing overhead, lor ail the world like some malevolent in sect. It buzzed on and buzzed on, out of sight in the clear, luminous night, but within most distinct hearing. The Archies banged away at him helplessly. Ont, grew to have a contempt for an Archy at night. It is obviously blind duck when a piane is brought down by gunfire at night, unless the flyer can be pinnej by two shafts of light from projectors, like a butterfly against a wall. Firing into a spangled void seemed useless. By and by the Archies almost stopped. Then he dropped a bomb or two and flew away and flew back and dropped more and flew away— • • “Four nights now that I haven’t slept,” sighed the captain from Kansas. The poches fly over in two waves or three now adays. If it were only a matter of dropping the bombs, they might come as well in a single wav*. One wave may get past the barrage where two might not. But the psychologic end would not be accom plished that way. The women and little children and girls who make up the better part of the popu lation of French towns nowadays must be kept awake and in fear. Where the barrage is a danger the waves come on at intervals of an hour or THE ALLIED FOOD SUPPLY —I. ENGLAND—By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C., July 5. —England is to day importing sixty-five per cent of her es sential foodstuffs from the United States. Much of this food goes to France, to feed the civilian population there, ana even larger quan tity finds its way to the armies at the front. With in a few weeks the larger percentage of the men in England between the ages of 40 and 50, called to the colors um er the provisions of the new man power aet, will increase the quantity of mili tary rations needed. In the meantime England is cultivating every tillable toot of soil, her population is indulging in the most rigid and thorough-going economy. For many months now she has barely been able to feed her population. The demand of the moment has been met but at no time has a reserve stock of foodstuffs of.sufficient quantity been on hand to tide the population over for a month if importa tions were suddenly shut off. Conservation in America has alone made possible the vast stores of food which have been sent across the seas from our shores. Only a few days ago it was announc ed by the British ministry of food that owing to the co-operation o, America Great Britain would have a sufficient supply of food to last until the next harvest. We in America, although we have foregone many of the gustatory pleasures which we were formerly wont to Indulge in, have not been com pelled yet to make the sacrifices that every man, woman and child in England is making today. Public dining in England is today rather more of a formality, a nabit attended by little pleasure, than the joy it used to be. The stranger reach ing English shores has rather the better of it — that is. for several days—for upon registering at a hotel he is allowed four days in which to procure a food card. During this interval, he can by filling out the proper application and going through numerous formalites obtan meat each of the four days and at each meal except breakfast. In other words in four days he can have eight meat meals, whereas only four meals a weak under the regula tions of the ministry of food carry with them the permission of the meat luxury. The stranger does better to await the expiration of his four days of grace rather than to obtain his card on the day of his arrival. However, to obtain the so-called temporary cards at any hotel one must carefully fill out a long application setting forth his pro fession, nationality, country last visited, reasons for visting England, profession of father, first name of father and mother, parents’ birthplace, whether he has been in England before, how long he expects to stay, whether he has eaten meat in England before, and when he expects to go back home. After remaining at a hotel for four days, one is allowed a daily allotment of sugar, a quantity sufficient to sweeten a cup of coffee. It is sup posed to last through the three meals, including tea, and is done up in a tiny envelope, like a sam ple packet of Milady’s favorite talc. Sitting down to dine in the London case, one scans the bill-of-fare with rapidly growing dis appointment. Some of the cartes-de-menu are of pre-war days and contain names of tasty viands which have long since been shoved into oblivion by the edict of the food controller. The up-to-date menus constrast vividly with those of antiquty in that they contain about a tenth of the dishes found on the old ones. Prob ably the restauranteur keeps the old ones to show the guest what his place onoe was. Roast beef, steak, lamb chops, stewed chicken, one reads —then underneath —four ounces per person. However, on filling in an order contain ing one of the above mentioned tje waiter will say: ‘‘Give me your meat card, please.” If you have none, “Sorry sir. but no meat without the card.” If you chance to be fortunate enough to possess a meat card, the servitor will detach one coupon and presently will set before you a por tion of meat, the only function of which could be to serve as an appetizer for some dish which is not forthcoming. Fish and eggs are the principal sub stitutes for meat. Eggs cooked in countless ways, fish fried, broiled, shirred, baked and done in ways new to those uninitiated in the mystery of modern cuisine as affected by war conditions. Each person is allowed one piece of black brown bread, or a very hard roll. The bread is usually made of potato flour. Last year the min istry of food waged an intensive campaign aimed at increasing the production of potatoes with such success that more potatoes were raised than could oe used. Consequently Lord Rhondda urged the bakers of the land to use potatoes in making bread. If you possess a sugar card you can ob tain a small quantity of sugar which you must carry about with you—that is, if you are a tre qenter of public eating houses. The trouble en countered in procuring sugar is so great, and the pains taken are rewarded with such a small quantity of the sweet stuff, that many persons pre fer to do without. A Britisher recently arrived in the United States declared he had not tasted sugar for over a year. It is forbidden to serve it in public eating houses. A guest invited to the country for the week-end is usually forewarned by the hostess to bring his own sugar. As a substi tute, a little saccharine pill is offered. Better can be obstained at breakfast only, and in nine cases out of ten, the butter is not butter but margarine, and worst of all, it is not what one commonly supposes niargaine to be, but a white pasty sub- so and bomb the city and fly back. Where the bar rage is not a danger—as in our little town last night -one lone flyer may come and hum and hum. One waits underneath, knowing that the bombs are freighted with death. In the earlier days of air fighting it was thought that planes could fight other planes by night. Now it is recognized that this is quite impossible. The nose of the motor drowns all other sounds, so that the flyer cannot hear his adversary. If the friend ly plane is unmarked, it is quite as much a target for the blind barrage as is the enemy. If it carries* lights it enables the enemy either to avoid it or attack with a presumption of success. So that th# defensive reliance is entirely on the barrage a< night aided by the microphones and the projectors, to pick up the sound and to spot the planes. The one adnger—or almost the only danger— to the night bombers lies in the clock. He must leave his home field after dusk has fallen and get back to it before he can be seen by the enemy flyers who have been put on his track as soon as the listen ing posts have reported his return route. Otherwise he Is free to do as he pleases. Not only have the Germans had an enormous number of planes on the western front during the recent offensive, but they have been handled witn a recklessness which may indicate a recognition on the German part that they must win quickly or not at all. In all the recent fighting planes have been active, flying very low and machine gunning the allied lines and trenches. When the Americans took Cantigny six German planes were in the air at one time over the Yankee lines, each crackling with ma chine gun fire. It is difficult for a rifleman to hit a plane, no matter how r low it flies. I do not believe the allies have ever had the superiority in numbers of planes they have claimed from time to time, although the French and British flying men have established an undoubted superior ity over the Boche as individuals. Now that the Americans have begun to send planes to France the balance should soon be shifted. It is officially stated that 1,300 American planes are now on their way to France. Ten thousand would be of enor mous value. The Boche does not like the death that flies. • “Scores of times I have been talking with Ger man prisoners at the front w*hen their own ma chines flew overhead,” said an officer of the intel ligence service. “Invariably the German was more frightened than his captors. It is a phase of na tional psychology which we should recognize.” stance, the size of the ordinary butter chip and of the thickness—or thinness —of a knife blade. So-called coffee is in many cases made from chicory. Even tne tea is very poor, and in Eng-, land this is the culminating disaster, for what would England be without her afternoon tea, a custom for which she is famoffs? Milk or cream ? The Britisher can hardly recall the taste of the two latter. Never under any circumstances is real milk or cream served in a public eating place. With coffee one is given a small pitcher of hot water and a pitcher of condensed milk diluted with warm water. No cereals are obtainable. Corn flakes, shreded wheat and the like are of the past. One can obtain oatmeal, called porridge, but no milk or cream to go with it and usually no sugar. There is apparently no shortage of salt or pep per, although it is said that in the early days of \ the war England faced a salt famine, and, as a matter of fact much of the salt served is said to be pulverized bone. Ice cream is a delicacy, a luxury, which as far a* England of today is con«- cerned might have been sacred io the table of William the Conqueror. In fact it cannot be called a luxury, for a luxury is something that can bo procured at a price and ice cream cannot be pro cured at a price. There is not a soda fountain England. Once in a great while one may find a candy shop. It is open only one or two hours during the day, however, and scarcely any shop will allow the customer to purchase more than half a shilling’s worth of what stuff it has to offer An American recently returned from the British Isles tells of accidentally finding the original old curiosity shop made immortal by the 'pen of Dickens, tucked away in Portsmouth street. “My surprise was much greater,” he affirmed, “when the next day I actually saw the first candy shop which I had seen in England.” Taking it all in all, the gormet and the epicure find little comfort in England today. Breakfast, a roll —very, very hard —sugarless and creamless coffee, an egg, porridge, but with no sugar or milk. Luncheon, another hard roll, another cup of sugar less and creamless coffee, a piece of fish, an omelette. Dinner, practically a repetition of luncheon, possibly with the exception of a taste less salad. The bill-of-fare seldom varies from a certain tiresome repetition. Once in a while a pud ding is offered, or a tart, but it has no sweetness. You always rise from the table more inclned to draw up a notch cr two in your belt than to give it any slack. Never, if you are in good health and are endowed with the happy faculty of enjoy ing you meals, do you rise from the table with the feeling of hunger completely satisfied. There is always something lacking. Under all these discomforts, these departures from the old order of things, the people of Britain maintain,their courage and continue to make sac rifices. It must be remembered that England has always been a land of plenty, a paradise for him who caters to his stomach. It is surprising that the discomfort is borne so stoically. TRAVELETTE By Niksah THE OLD ALE HOUSE Some Philadelphians of a sentimental and con vivial turn are disposed tQ regard the possible ad vent of prohibition with gloomy mien, if for no other reason than because it would mean the pass ing of the old ale house on Drury street near Thir teenth. It is not age that gives flavor to the old ale house. The legend on the rusty sign board which states that it was established by Mary McGillan in 1870 does not count for much in a city where many taverns'can trace a direct lineage from the days ol Penn. It is rather the garment of tradition with which the old tap-room has covered itself. It was there that this and that heavyweight signed articles for an immortal bout. It was there that politicians hatched a celebrated deal about which newspaper editorials are still being written and public speeches still being made. It was there that many a young genius found the inspiration which changed him from a Bohemian hack to a suc cessful author. Over it all “Mother” McGillan pre sided with a discipline at once gentle and stern. The brawls were rare. The old ale house is no less a landmark than a sight. The visitor is usually taken there in the early afternoon, and while he sips the ale from his mug the attentive guide recounts the history, add ing a line or two from personal reminisence. The ale house seems to fit all moods and to attract a variety of minds. It is furnished in mission wood after the fashion of the English inns of the eighteenth century, but that is as far as an attempt at atmosphere has been made. A HERO EVERY DAY Secretary Daniels has commended David Gold man, machinist’s mate, second class, for gallantry in jumping overboard on the night of October 30, 1917, and rescuing from drowning. Arthur G. Palmer, water tender, attached to the U. S. S. O’Brien. As a strong ebb tide was running and Palmer was unable to swim, Goldman’., prompt ac tion in jumping overboard saved his life. Gold man enlisted November 22, 1911, at San Francisco. His mother, Katie H. Goldman, resides at 411 Moore street, Philadelphia, Pa.
