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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL / ATLANTA, GA., o NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class SVRSCRIPTION BRICE Twelve months "® c Six months Three months *® c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the short est routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal commission allowed. Outfit free. rite R. R BRADLEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. Charles H. Wood liff. J. M. Patten. W. H. Reinhardt. M. H. Bevil and John Mac Jennings. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named travel ing representatives. v J NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The tabrt wwd for aMraMtn* your paper shews the nm* yocr raboenption expires By at le»»t two weeks be fore the <!it» o« thia label, you insure rettoUr oerriee. In rrdertßr paper changed. he »nre to mention your oxn >• well ■« your sew address. If »» 1 route, pi ease jive the route We cannot enter subscript tone to begin with back number*. Remit ranees sbculd be sent by pootal erder or r gistered mail Address all orders and notices for this Depart met t to IHE SEMIWEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Itie Journal’s Service Flag In honor of the seventy-three Atlanta Journal men who have entered the service of their country. The two white stars are in memory of Captain Meredith Gray ana Captain James Moore. Jr., Journal men, who gave their lives for our country in France. The Victories in the East. CLOSE upon the continued Franco-British- American successes in the West, come the great Allied victories in Palestine and on the Macedonian front, like the piling of Pelion on Ossa. The West remains, of course, fundamental, the destined scene of the decision that will really decide. Events in the East, however, carry not only a dramatic appeal to the imagination, but also a •u'ostantial. perhaps a powerful, military and politi cal effect General Allenby’s sweeping advance across the plains of Sharon, over the field of prophetic Arma geddon. and on to Nazareth would be impressive indeed simply for its deliverance of hallowed ground from Turkish desecration. But his achieve ment is also freighted high with strategic import. Advancing more than fifty miles in two days—a feat unparalleled in the present war—the British forces have virtually blotted out two entire Turk ish armies. Early reports placed the captures at some twenty-five thousand men and two hundred and fifty cannon, with a prospect of these numbers being greatly augmented from forty thousand 6r more of the enemy whom a brilliant maneuver had pocketed. The least that can be said of the victory it that it dooms the Turk's power in Palestine, cuts deeply into the personnel and materiel of his fight ing strength, and shakes bis morale to its very foundations. Still more farreaching are the poten tialities. Being now within seventy-five miles, ar less, of Damascus, the capture of which seems fore gone, General Allenby can look rather confidently beyond to the important Turkish railway junction, Aleppo, where the Damascus and the Bagdad lines join the road to Constantinople. Now, as The Jour nal’s war reviewer, Mr. J. W. T. Mason, points out, the British army in Mesopotamia, working its way northwestward along the Euphrates, also has Aleppo as its objective. Hence, there is the very interesting possibility of these two British expedi tions linking up for a still more formidable cam paign. “The Arabian desert,” Mr. Mason writes, “which now separates General Allenby’s forces from those in Mesopotamia loses its density north of Damascus, permitting the two British armies to unite under a single strategic direction for the ap proach to Aleppo." And he ventures the further remark that with Aleppo in British possession and with the nearby port of Alexandretta also seized, "a major campaign might be begun for the cap ture of Constantinople through Asia Minor." Whether or not so ambitious and, as it now seems, remote a project is undertaken, its mere possi bility is enough to strike consternation into the already sinking Moslem heart. No less significant is the situation of the Bul gars and Teutons in Macedonia, which now prom ises a Waterloo to Germany's Balkan hopes. The ontlooming heroes of this field are the Serbs, whose reconstituted army, the more glorious for the stormy fortunes it has survived, is fighting with the grim joy of exiles, mightily back upon their motherland s borders to set her free from a brutal oppressor's chains. Gallantly, supported by Entente contin gents, including French, British, Italian and Greek troops, the Serbian drive threatens the enemy with disaster. Operations up to Tuesday resulted in the driving of a breach between the eastern and west ern flanks of the Bulgar-German forces, ‘ whose main lines of communication,” the dispatch added, “had been cut.” capture of guns ran high into the hundreds, and of prisoners far into the thousands, while the entire strategy of the situa tion was growing continually darker for the re treating enemy. A continuation of the Balkan and Palestine suc cesses will inevitably strip the Kaiser of his Bul garian and Turkish support and will hasten the collapse of Austria as well. With his Western line wavering under relentless blows from the sea to the Alps, the Kaiser dare not divert any considerable force of reserves to cope with the mounting peril in the East. He must leave his accomplices to shift as best they can; and they cannot be long in realiz ing. if indeed they do not realize already, how des perate is the German cause. Is it not quite possi ble. then, that we may see rather an early dissolu tion of the conspiracy that joined the unspeakable Hun to the unspeakable Turk and the venal Bul garian? Is it not conceivable that in 1919 we may see Germany, the arch criminal of the black crew. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL’, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. fighting alone in a desperate stand against freedom and civilization? Let us beware of the folly and the danger of fixing our hopes upon any particular time for the end of the war. or of imagining that we can bring the enemy to terms by anything short of our utmost exertion. The war will not end until German mili tarism. the most deeply entrenched and resourceful power of its kind the world ever knew, is crushed into unconditional surrender: this at least will be the case if the Allies remain true th their cause, as they undoubtedly will. Hence the importance of fortifying our minds for as long a conflict as com plete victory may require, whether it be (The year or five or ten. At the same time we are well warranted in drawing great cheer from the present course of events in both the West and the East, and in acting upon the assumption that the more vigorously we as a people support the efforts of our heroic armies at the front, the sooner will victory and peace shine upon our banners. If Germany IVere Sincere. If the German Chancellor speaks with any meas ure of sincerity or responsibility when he says he is ready for peace "based in principle on President Wilson's fourteen points,” he can have no objection to demonstrating his good faith through particular instances. At the very heart of the fourteen propo sitions set up by the President in an address to Con gress on January the eighth, we find this: “Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any at tempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other* free nations. No other single act will serve as thip will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they themselves made and deter mined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of interna tional law is forever impaired.” Germany, of course, need not expect her words regarding a matter of importance to be taken at face value. To win credence or trust she must give guarantees beforehand, must pay strictly in ad vance. If, then, there is any honesty of purpose in this latest peace talk from Berlin, why does not Germany evacuate Belgium forthwith, and not wait to be driven out by Allied bayonets? It is stipulated furthermore in the "fourteen points,” to which the Imperial Chancellor says he is willing to subscribe, that French territory shall be freed and the invaded portions restored; and that “the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has un settled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted.” The German army, it will be granted, is quitting France at rather a lively pace; but its deeds of foul brutality as it retreats are sug gestive of anything but the "freeing” and the "restoration” for which the American terms so plainly call. There is another of the President’s propositions which afford Germany ample opportunity to prove in advance, as she must prove, her readiness for a just tettlement. That is "the evacuation of all Rus sian territory,” and such an adjustment of all ques tions affecting Russia "as will secure the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unem barrassed opportunity for the independent deter mination of her own political development.” Is Germany ready to cancel the infamous Brest-Litovsk compact made with her hirelings of the Bolshevik!? Is she ready to surrender she huge booty which she gained through that perfidious deal and which would repay her a thousand times over for the largest relinquishments she might make in the West? The President declared also for the restoration of Serbia, Montenegro and Rumania: for the re adjustment of Italy's frontiers on "clearly recognizable lines of nationality,” for the estab lishment of an independent Polish State and for the emancipation, with rights of self-determined gov ernment, for the Slavic peoples of Austria-Hun gary. When Germany is minded to make the sort of peace the AHies can afford to accept, she will not talk in vague and really meaningless generalities as her Imperial Chancellor and other spokesmen now do. She will give definite evidences of good faith, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance. In fact, the man who doesn’t own an automo bile admitted Sunday that walking was delightful. Foch Sums It Up. With characteristic French incisiveness and his own soldierly sense of fact, General Foch sums up the war situation of today by saying: "The enemy is shaken up and shaken down but Is still holding out.” The Allies, he adds, having surmounted the crest of their difficulties, haveNi less hazardous if not tar easier path ahead; and, "If we gather im petus as we go along, so much the better.” Heartened as we are by the great Entente- Amerlcan successes of the last two months and by the highly favorable aspect of our battle lines West and East, we should bear constantly in mind nevertheless that the enemy "is still holding out.” He is beleaguered, alarmed, desperately eager for a negotiated peace, but he is still clinging to French and Belgian soil, still hopeful of saving at least his Russian loot, still far from disposed to that unconditional surrender wttich Is the basis of the only terms the Allies can afford to make. It is obvious, writes a Journal correspondent from American headquarters in France, that while the Hun's morale is not as high as it was early in the summer, he is far from having lost his fighting spirit. Further: "From a great mass of digested prisoner-information and observations from other sources, military authorities say they find the en emy for the most part well fed and well clothed.” It is no flock of tatterdemalions that we have to drive back across the Rhine and there beat into the dust; it is a typical Hindenburg army—the brutal that Prussianism can muster for a last stand against civilization. But while taking full measure of the enemy’s will and endurance power, let us keep uppermost the realization that we now have him completely on the defensive and that steady blows will bring him inevitably to defeat. There is no longer' a doubt of what the end will be if the champions of freedom continue faithful to their cause. Prus flanism’s death warrant is written and is in the hands of the Allied armies for execution. Re sourceful and fortified though he is, the criminal is doomed. It remains only for justice to cleave out the way to his finish. And the more vigorous ly the people behind the Allied armies support and encourage them, the sooner will the triutnphant end be attained. A World- Wide Shortage. The South should Pnd a valuable suggestion in the fact that the increase in meat animals in the United States, though especially pronounced during the last few years, has fallen far short of balanc ing the decrease in the world-at-large. According to recent estimates by the National Food Adminis tration, there are some seven million more cattle in this country now than in 1914. but for the world as a whole there are upwards of twenty-eight mil lion fewer. The increase of 6,275,000 hogs in the United States is offset by a general decrease of 32,425,000. As for sheep, there has been a de crease of 3,000,000 in this country and of ,54,500,- 000 elsewhere. Summing up the situation, the Food Administration shows that there are approxi mately one hundred and fifteen million fewer meat animals in the world today than in the autumn pre ceding the outbreak of the great war. This means that for long years to come the demand for cattle, sheep and swine will be extraor dinarily great. Europe, belligerent and neutral alike, has been drained of its food animals to such an extent that millions of head must be imported to restore anything like normal conditions. It is largely to America that the Old World nations will turn for this replenishment. Consequently the productive possibilities of our live stock industries will be taxed to the utmost to supply the com bined foreign and domestic demand—a demand for food animal and dairy products as well as for the animals themselves. These conditions and prospects afford the South a peculiarly inviting opportunity; for of all parts of America -this region has the richest resources of climate and pasturage for the cheap and abun dant production of cattle, swine and sheep. SPANISH INFLUENZA By H. Addington Bruce. THE so-called Spanish influenza, widespread in Europe last year, has now assumed the pro portions of a really serious menace on this side oi the Atlantic. Epidemic in various parts of the country, it threatents to become pandemic —that is, to spread everywhere. There seems to be some doubt as to its being a true influenza, a special streptoccoccus germ be ing blamed for its occurrence. But it acts like in fuenza, running a similar course clinically, though usually a shorter one. Its onset is sudden, beginning with chills, severe headache, pains in the back and limbs, and some soreness of the throat. The face flushes, fever of from 101 to 104 degrees develops, and there are general feelings of discomfort. The one safe rule when these symptoms are experienced is to go to bed at once and send for a doctor. The only medicine he is likely to prescribe is an eliminant, with perhaps aspirin or quinine. He win insist, however, on dieting and rest in bed. When his directions are faithfully followed recov ery is likel yto be rapid. But there must be no return to work until the doctor gives permission. This is of special im portance. Otherwise there mhy be a relapse, with pneumonia developing as a pdssibly fatal com plication. The disease is highly communicable, so com municable that attendants in Spanish influenza cases are warned to wear gauze masks when near their patients. Plates and cups, handkerchiefs and towels, and all other objects used by patients may convey infection unless extreme caution is used in cleansing them. Coughing, spitting, and sneezing are, however, the commonest means of conveying the infection from one person to an other. Consequently it is of the utmost importance, as a preventive measure, to keep out of crowded places as much as possible, especially when one is tired. Even more important is the leading of a generally hygienic life* —avcfldance of late hours overeating, etc. Observation, goes to show that, like any or dinary germ disease, this Spanish influenza germ’s power to harm is proportioned to the resistive vitality of those whom it attacks. If the resistive vitality is high, it may be thrown off immediately. But if the resistive vitality is chronically or temporarily low from any cause, the development of acute, perhaps serious, symptoms ipust be looked/ for. Hence the importance of hygienic habits of living as a preventive measure—habits now doubly important because of the present shortage of doc tors available for treatment of the civilian sickJ (Copyright, 1918, by thp Associated Newspapers.) KEEP YOUR MIND By Dr. Frank Crane. Keep. That is the main word in this article. So look at it, spell it, repeat it, feel of it, say it, chew it, swallow it, and digest it. ♦ Don’t you ever take one word and turn it over and over in your mind, finding new signifi cances, connotations, adumbrations and echoes in it? Looking up its etymology in the dictionary we find that Keep has just come down to us plump from the old Anglo-Saxon. It means nothing but Keep, and always has meant just that. It’s a comfort to find a word once in a while whose ancestry has not wobbled. Os all Keepings the best is to Keep your Mind. That, of course, does not mean not to- let any one take it away from you, but to defend it, to maintain its integrity, to preserve it against at tacks that would weaken it or unbalance it, or loosen or dilute it. The greatest enemy that threatens is Fyir. Fear paralyzes or arouses destructive activities. It is the great enemy of sanity. Our chief strug gle is to keep Fear out. Fear has many fellows, such as Premonitions, Suspicions, Ignorance and the like. The Mind is a river; upon its water thoughts float through in a constant procession every con scious moment. It is a narrow river, however, and you stand on a bridge over it and can stop and turn back any thought that comes along, and they can come only single file, one at a time. The art of contentment is to let no thought pass that is going to disturb you. Keep your Mind. Keep it as an inner citadel of peace and poise. Then you can sleep. Insomnia is due to let ting upsetting Bolshevik thoughts pass in and start trouble. , Outside the inner ring of quiet and common sense is a fringe of ugly and bandit thoughts al ways ready to break in, a fringe of horror and panic and distress. Keep your Mind. Let not the evil enter. Disturbing suggestions are constantly being shot as arrows at you. Look to your shield. Keep your Mind « Jinx-thoughts, spook-thoughts, bugaboo thoughts, goblin-thougbts, bad-luck thoughts, devil-thoughts, are always flying in the air like mosquitoes. Look to your screens. Keep Mind. If, a matter causes you uneasiness face it, think it out, decide upon the best course of action —and forget it. Don’t say you cannot. You can do a deal more with thoughts than you suppose. You can manage them, drive them away, dodge them, invite them and otherwise master and manipu late them. But to do this requires two things. First, that you believe you can do it. And second, practice. You achieve ability to Keep yonr Mind as you learn to play tho violin; that is. by wanting to do it, by studying, and by infinite practice. But the result is worth the effort. THE HEROES HARDEST-TRIED—By Frederic J. Haskin BALTIMORE, Nd., Sept. 23.—1 n the beautiful suburb of this city known as Roland Park, is a group of handsome buildings, surround ed by spacious and delightful gardens. Gloom never pervades this place; no darkness enters it but the friendly darkness of night. Yet those who live here have eternal night for their portion. It is the estate of Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, a wealthy woman of Baltimore, which, for the period of war, has been taken over by the government as a hospital for blinded soldiers. It is known as General hospital No. 7. There are now twenty sightless patients at the hospital. If the veteran who has seen much of war, who has fought with his comrades dropping about him. who has beheld from all angles the cruel suffering wrought by war—if such a soldier were asked what he most feared, very likely he would answer: "That I may lose my sight.” It may be that these men who are now in the hospital at Roland Park held something of the same fear in their hearts. It may be that realiza tion came to them .first with a terrible and over powering sense of helplessness. But if they had grief, they hid it well, and now they have genuine ly lost it. They spend their time learning things which will fit them for the rest of life, not desper ately, but and with cheerfulness not born of simulation. A middle-aged man, accompanied by a young woman, was leaving the hospital a few days ago. Before passing through the gate the man spoke to one of the medical officers. ’ George is happy,” he said, almost with a smile. "At first I thought he didn’t want us to know how badly it hurt him. But now I believe he’s really happy.” He spoke of George Calvert, of Syracuse, who lost his sight in the fighting of early June. His father with a daughter was in Detroit when a noti fication from the war department reached him that his son had been blinded and was invalided home. The journey to Baltimore was filled with heart breaking misgivings. He fancied his son crushed under the affliction which had befallen him. He pictured him hopeless and helpless for the rest of his days. He found him confident, cheerful with a boyish eagerness to display the things he had learned in the hospital. These things will form the means of an independent livelihood after his dis charge. Without exception, this attitude is true of all the patients. Despondency often disappears after the first week in the hospital. This may be caus ed by association with men similarly afflicted, or by the realization that they may regain a place as use ful members of society. Perhaps it is both. A visitor offered his arm to one of the patients who was going from a barracks to the mess hall. "You needn’t do that,” said the soldier gently. “I can show you anywhere in the hospital.” Among the pa ients at Hospital No. 7, is Ser geant William H. Zimmerman, the first American soldier to be blinded in action. He was in charge of a truck which was taking supplies to the front line, when the truck overturned and pitched him into a shell hole. Most of the truck fell atop of him. "I’ll never see again,” said the sergeant, "but I hope it won’t be that I’ll never work again. There’s a chance for me to get back into everyday life and I mean to make that chance good. ."When I went over I had a girl. My first thought when they told me I was blinded for good was that I’d have to give her up. I didn’t know blind men could make a living. I’d always thought of them as selling lead pencils and shoe laces.” It has been said that "adversity makes strange bedfellows.” It might better have been said that common affliction makes for closer communion be tween man and man. Among the blinded soldiers at Roland Park are three known to the officers and nurses and the rest of the patients as "the three musketeers.” The friendship between these soldiers of misfortune is as strange as it is com plete. The three were widely separated when mis fortune cafne to them, and it came to each at a different time. Each is of a distinctive American (Savannah Morning News.) Action by the trustees of the University of Geor gia on Saturday practically admits women to the various courses at the state's highest institution of learning. Leading men and women of the state have contended for a number of years that Georgia was not "playing fair” with her daughters in not providing for them at the state’s expense educa tional opportunities equivalent to if not precisely equal to the facilities afforded the brothers of these daughters. The state has not had an institution where the young women could get the same degrees which the boys may earn at the university. Senti ment for years has been for equal opportunities; on the question of co-education at the state uni versity the friends of education for women parted ways and the few old-fogies who yet oppose higher education for women generally dhuckled. Rapid change of conditions to a situation in which the women are being called upon to take the places of men, in which vast and varied new fields are opening to and inviting Georgia womanhood, has forced the necessity for opportunity for train ing upon the attention of the board of trustees. The admittance of women, it appears, is not quite 0/ an all-round, equal footing with the admittance of young men, though one of the members of the board insists that the law which created the uni versity specified "youths” and that "youths” by every token of common sense interpretation means "girl's as certainly as boys.” Women are to be ad mitted next fall, by act of the trustees, to the agri cultural college’s courses in various lines and to the Peabody school of education, a branch depart ment of the university on the university campus. However, the courses in the agricultural college and ONLY THREE GENERALS IN U. S. HISTORY The American army has had three full-fledged generals in its history—Grant, Sherman and Per shing. It has also had eleven lieutenant generals, the next highest in rank. George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war, was the first of these. Winfield Scott took command in 1841. For many years he was an artillery captain, and later put in command of a camp of construction at Buf falo. At the outbreak of the Mexican war Scott was in command and it was his shrewd military tac tics that whipped the Mexicans and brought the war to a speedy conclusion. Next in line was Ulysses S. Grant. He was graduated from West Point in 18 43, and served under Taylor’s army in Texas and Mexico. At the beginning of the Civil war he had resigned from the army, but later offered his services in any capacity. His ability soon won him promotion, from the grade of colonel to brigadier-general. After the Civil war he was raised to the rank of general, the first man f’o hold that rank in the United States army. William Tecumseh Sherman was in command of three armies in the Civil war, and also served in the Mexican war. He was a brave and daring general and author of the phrase, “War is hell.” Sherman was named after the famous Indian chief, Tecum seh. When Grant became, president, Sherman was promoted to lieutenant-general and held the supreme command for fourteen years. Philip H. Sheridan was a dashing cavalry of ficer, and his brilliant and effective work brought the army to a high standard in drill and discipline. He served in the Civil war with Grant and Sher man. John M. Schofield became commander-in-chlef of WOMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY army type and in the ordinary course of events};** events went before the war, none of them wo®ld have come to know the others. The first musketeer, to whom the nurses hate given the name of “Porthos” is typically repre sentative of the regular American army of pre war days. He might even be described as "a hard boiled.” He went to France with the first detach ments, and his name appeared on the earliest American casualty lists. The second musketeer wnose affliction has aot subdued his impetuosity or good nature is called “D’Artagnan.” He is a well built, smooth faced boy of eighteen or nineteen who •‘went over” with the Rainbow division of National Guard troops. The third, who suggests something’ of both Aramis and Athos, belongs to that group of Ameri cans who disdained commissions and entered the ranks. Evidently a college man, grave and thoughtful and possessed of a delicate refinement, his most noticeable characteristic is his affection for the other two. These men are constantly together. They pace the corridors, or walk about the gardens. They snare their secrets as they share the gifts and little luxuries which are sent or given to them. Each musketeer seems to live for the others. As soon <lB the United States went into the war, even before American soldiers had been landed\in France, it was realized by the war department and the public, that it was the nation’s duty fo ward the soldiers who .were disabled, to recon struct and fit them for places in civic life. A*' with many other things, they had precedent for this in the experiences of England, France and* Germany. Those countries learned to see in the wounded soldier a civic asset rather than a liabil ity. In Germany, for example, after the first few 4 months of fighting, there was a demand on thel part of several newspapers for the government to» establish homes and asylums where the returned* soldiers might be retained for the rest of their< days in upproductive idleness. The government, however, was quick to see the folly of such a' course. They stated that it would be unjust to i both the soldier and the state to dismiss him with.’ a home and a pension. They said that the disabled soldier should be allowed to take his place in in dustry as far as his injuries permitted! Voca tional schools for disabled troops were established all over the empire. As a result more than ninety three per cent of soldiers trained in these institu tions have been able to earn a living. ; The same has been true of England and France. The thought of pauperism was repel lent to the soldiers of both these countries, and; they eagerly applied themselves to the learning of new crafts or to the development of their old ones, under the changed conditions. Accounts of the remarkable work accomplished in this direction at, the St. Dunstan’s hospital for blind, London the hospitals for blind soldiers in Paris, have often been published. i Reconstruction work at Hospital No. 7 has-ijot yet been perfected. When the new laboratories and worshops have been erected and equipped an effort will be made to fit each patient to resume his vocation of before the war. Where this is im possible, new vocations will be taught. There- are already classes In typewriting, hammock weaving, chair caning, mattress and rug making, telepb.dhe operation, farming, piano tuning and massage? j Recreation is a very considerable factor in Re construction. To keep the blinded soldier in'tfce happiness so necessary to his new education he must be given plenty of outdoor exercise. Asio ciation football is a favorite sport of the patterns, and they play it with a remarkable degree ;of skill. It would be very hard for a casual onlook er to know that the players are blind. They J ire also fond of walking and are taken on long wajks through the woods behind Roland Park. General hospital No. 7 is in command of Colo nel James Bordlay. When it has been completed, there will be provision for about a hundred'.pa tients. . *ji in the school of education are all interlocked With the regular literary courses and lectures in the qld Franklin college so that to be of effect the new ruling virtually opens the class rooms and labora tories of the academic department to the youhg women of the state. It is not provided that Xhe state institution yet shall offer dormitory or board ing facilities to women, but that will no doubt be * the next step —after the war clears the way for ex pansion of the state’s plant at Athens. For several years it has been possible for women who have obtained a degree from an accredited woman's college to take three years of summer school work and some ad interim study and receive the master’s degree from the stage of the historic chapel on the old university campus. Miss MaryT). Lyndon, a graduate of- Wesleyan, was the first woman in Georgia thus to earn a degree from the university—four or five years ago. One eminent woman prior to that time had been given an hon orary degree. Others have since in cap and gown received their master’s degrees from the stage along with the young men who received- that and bachelor’s degrees. This fall the agricultural col lege opened its doors to women for regular courses in home Economics and a half-dozen other lines. The State Normal School at Athens and the Geor gia Normal and Industrial college at Milledgeville are empowered to grant degrees—but the univer sity proper has not given the young women full, fellowship in opportunities with their brother*. Aside from the question of the plans by which it is to be accomplished, the fact remains that Georgia is now as never before dne her young women just as full, thorough, broad educational opportunities as the young men have had for morw than a hundred years. the army on the death of Sheridan. During hie command a corps of Indians was enlisted in the ca valry as scouts, with distinctive uniforms. He retired in 1895. Nelson A. Miles has been a lieutenant-general 1 since 1900. He has distinguished himself as an In dian fighter, and was one of the youngest of the Civil war officers. He kept up the training that brought the army to its highest efficiency, and also saw service in the Spanish-American war. Samuel B. M. Young succeeded when Miles re tired in 1903 He held office only a short time. He had seen service in the Spanish-American war Adna R. Chaffee was appointed chief of staff in 1903, in General Young’s place. He served in the Civil war, Indian campaigns, the Spanish war and Chinese expedition. For his meritorious work he was raised to the rank of lieutenant general. In 1906 John C. Bates was given the rank of lieutenant general and chief of staff. He was a lieutenant in the Civil war and reached the rank of colonel at the outbreak of the Spanish war. Next last man to hold the rank of lieuten ant general was Henry C. Corbin. He was a Civil war veteran, cited twice for gallant services dur ing that conflict. In 1 900 he was adjutant general. Provost Marshal General Crowder for his serv ice in the selective draft was offered the rank *of lieutenant general for the duration of the war, he refused, saying that it was not only him but hundreds of others that helped make the draft pos sible. <—< NAMES IN THE NEWS VOLTIGEUR pronounced vol-tee-zher —-iif the, name given to members of light-armed, picked companies, such as formed the old-tilne infantry of the French army. A voltigeur’s arms consist mainly of a rifle and spade and he accom panies advanced grenadier parties, sometimes acting as their munition runner.
