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YOUNG MAN HAS OLD JOB
... . . .. One of the youngest officials of
the Wilson administration is at the
head of the oldest scientific depart
mcnt of the government, and his ap
\ pointment was not the result of luck.
\ accident or political influence, hut the
recognition of remarkable qualifica
tions which fitted him for the posi
B K it was on the fifteenth of April
ngfgita JjfjL the day following his thirty-ninth
birthday, that Or. E. Lester Jones be-
HBpPyLp came superintendent of the coast and
’"SJ geodetic survey, the service which,
' according to Secretary Redfield, “deals
JL first with humanity and second with
commerce.”
Perhaps no one in the survey, no
| mat,Pr how long he lias been in the
service, has spent more of his life
Sjjfc “TTOf in 0|l " n <han lias Doctor Jones.
■ B»lW' bBHL 4 % Indeed, it would sc-m, that by en
f vironrnent. training, education and
temperament, he had been qualifying
for the superintendency of the coast
and geodetic survey all his life. He was born in Orange, N. J., and as a
small toy was the companion of his father, himself a‘scientist and a student
of nature.
Iloctor Jones was educated at Princeton and Heidelberg; in Germany he
hunted, fished and studied in the Black forest and specialized in zoology.
For five years he was connected with the New Jersey fish and game com
mission, and his first service in the national government was as deputy com
missioner of the bureau of fisheries.
BRUCE ISMAY, RECLUSE
There is one man in the British »■ - ■
isles, at least, to whom the memories
of the Titan c disaster are a dread
and ever present reality. That man
is Bruce Ismay. He was managing fEk
director of the White Star line at the
time of the Titanic disaster, and was jiff
among those saved when the liner
He has voluntarily withdraw him- B ifig
self into almost complete seclusion. w IB^
He is a tragic figure whom care and M
premature age have marked for their w> gsT* /mSfSt
own. A great part of the year he -S J ■lfpffi
passes, oftentimes alone, in Costelloe, V 'sjjs
one of the most remote, most unfro- ’la W
quented and desolate spots on the M
west coast of Ireland. Here his sole ■ jjm
employment is fishing for days and •js|»
weeks on end, occasionally with a V
friend, or perhaps two, but for the \ jßfe.
greater part of his time accompanied i \
only by his servant. jj
Ismay is very popular" among the
cottagers around. He found them
sympathetic and friendly, and he has given them employment in many ways
in connection with the fishing and his lodge. In fact, whatever drove Bruce
Ismay to this remote, inhospitable shore, it was a blessing in disguise to
those poor people, and they appreciate his presence very keenly. They don’t
care whether or not his escape from the Titanic aroused a storm of criticism;
for that matter they take no stock in the Titanic story anyway.
' WORKING HIS WAY UP
At the 1915 commencement exer
cises of Columbia university Ensign
Louis Randolph Ford, U. S. N„ re
ceived the degree of master of arts.
That was only one incident in the
determined fight this young naval
W officer is making to achieve his child
, hood ambitions, which ambitions, it
niay woll lje ’ <io not stoy sh ° rt ° f the
ny. insignia of a rear admiral.
5 As a barefooted lad in Texas,
% j| where he was born thirty-two years
*i ®K°’ Louis Ford made up his mind to
I) MdOu itliilirof enter the navy, but his parents were
not able to send him to college and
the influence to obtain an appointmeit
I t 0 the naval academy was lacking. .So
jrA , lilflA at the age of fourteen Louis went to
XflL work on a Sabine river tugboat, and
three years later became an appren
tice in a machine shop. In two years
more lie was a full-fledged machinist
- and enlisted as such in the navy.
Starting in at Mare Island, he worked
his way steadily up to the rank of
chief machinist, and in 1912 he took the examination for an ensign's commis
sion, passing with the highest marks ever made by a warrant officer. Service
on various vesseis was followed by a post-graduate course at Annapolis,
which included radio engineering, structural engineering, naval construction,
ordnance and gunnery. Then came the welcome order to enter Columbia,
where, as one of the professors said, he “worked his head off.” Ford is
now attached to the New York navy yard and eventually will devote himself
to the designing of all sorts of naval machinery and the organization of the
shops in the yards.
KENT TELLS A NOME STORY
Representative William Kent of
California has many quaint tales of '' '
the north country. One of them deals jl:lifiiin
with the early days in the Nome re- P ' ' s
gion. when gold was plentiful and -f \ \
everything else was decidedly scarce. £
One of the residents, the story runs. t ■
wardered into a rough, ready made
saloon and beheld four bowhiskered.
rough-looking individuals.
They were deeply dejected. They lySll
sat far back in their chairs, hands in > x Jp
pockets. Occasionally one of them > ■ pfe*
sighed or swore. In front of them t, ,'|y v
were stacks of chips representing yPpr , i^ST
several thousand dollars in gold. JM
“What’s the matter?” asked the *•'
“This here poker game is busted
up!” was the reply.
"Busted up?” repeated the visitor, W * jr
in astonishment. “Why, you've got ■■ f'
enough money there to play for a B , "
week!" 51 X
“Yep. stranger, ’ agreed the be
whiskered man. moodily, “we got that, but somebody’s lost all the aces and
two jacks in the deck!’’ and resumed his stare at the useless chips.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
EPITOME OF THE
WEEKS EVENTS
In a Condensed Form the Happenings of
Ail Nationalities Are Given
For Our Readers.
WEEK’S NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Events of the United States
and Particularly in the
South.
Foreign
It Is stated that the German emper
or has made an offer of peace to Rus
sia through the king of Denmark. Rus
sia answered that the time was not
propitious to consider peace negotia
tions.
General Carranza’s attitude towards
any intervention by foreign powers
in Mexican affairs was indicated in a
message he sent one of his military
chiefs. He stated that the situation
in Mexico soon will be adjusted in a
favorable and dignified manner.
One hundred and twelve Belgians
escaped into Holland through a clev
er faked bicycle race.
The English language is to be sub
stituted for German in most Russian
commercial schools as one of the com
pulsory subjects of the curriculum.
This step was ordered by the minis
ter of finance at the request of the
school authorities.
There is much interest in diplo
matic negotiations in the Balkan cap
itals. Reports indicate that Servia
at last is willing to cede Macedonia
to Bulgaria, but that Greece opposes
any suggestion that she should return
Kavala, the seaport in the vilayat of
Saloniki to Bulgaria.
Steps are being taken by Russia,
England and France to bring about a
Balkan agreement whereby Bulgaria,
Roumania and Greece may be mus
tered on the side of the triple alli
ance.
Domestic
Practically every American citizen
in the three southernmost counties
of Texas—Cameron, Hidalgo and
Starr —is resting under arms in fear
that the overwhelmipg Mexican pop
ulation of the whole section may
break out in a race fight. The belief
is increasing that the movement is in
reality an attempt to turn back part
of Texas to Mexican control. It is de
clared that information is at* hand
that organizers are working under the
plan of San Diego, which calls for the
death of every American male over
sixteen years of age in communities
along the Rio Grande and along the
border of New Mexico, Arizona and
California.
At Tallahassee, Fla., August Or
bolph, alias Rudolph, alias Adolph,
an alleged secret agent of the German
government, was arrested on a war
rant charging him with having made
drawings of the military reservations
and lighthouses at Flag Island and
other places.
A bill absolutely forbidding the cul
tivation of cotton in- the state of Mis
sissippi during the year 1916 will
be introduced before the next legis
lature. It is believed in Mississippi
that the Texas legislature will take
the same course.
An Atlanta steel company is now
engaged in filling a SIOO,OOO contract
to supply the allied nations with barb
ed wire, which will be used for war
purposes.
The president of an Atlanta com
pany has heen approached a number
of times regarding the manufacture
of munitions of war for European
countries.
Capt. Victor Del Franctis of the Itah
ian army has arrived in New York
City to purchase leather goods for the
Italian army.
Five Mexican bandits and one Mexi
can woman were killed in the fight at
Norrias, 68 miles north of Browns
ville. For an hour fifteen Americans,
eight of them United States cavalry
men, stood off the attack of sixty Mex
icans. Five of the Americans w'ere
wounded, three of the latter soldiers.
The fifteen were saved from death
just as their ammunition gave out,
by the arrival of seventeen Texas
rangers.
Resolutions urging the warring Eu
ropean nations to conclude an honora
ble and lasting peace, and praising
President Wilson’s course in handling
foreign complications, were adopted
by the convention of the International
Typographical union in session at Los
Angeles.
Gen. George W. Goethals’ resigna
tion as governor of the Panama canal
zone, recently sent to Washington,
designates November 1 as the date
of his retirement. He designed be
cause his work in the canal zone is
completed and the canal is operating
successfully. He will retain his com
mission in the army.
Sheriff A. Y. Baker of Hidalgo coun
ty. Texas, is quoted as saying that
300 Mexicans have crossed the Rio
Grande from Mexico, and are now
traveling over Hidalgo county in par
ties of three and four, apparently
making their way to some concentrat
ing point.
On orders from the governor, the
state militia swooped down upon
Southport. La., at night and took into
custody the proprietor and employees
of one gambling house and about one
hundred and fifty patrons. Southport
is the Mecca for the gambling ele
ment of New Orleans.
Indictments charging manslaughter
and criminal carelessness were return
ed in the criminal court in Chicago in
connection with the Eastland disaster.
Among those named were the owners
of the Eastland.
Washington
Secretary of State Lansing and dip
lomatic representatives of Brazil,
Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and
Guatemala have signed an appeal ad
dressed to the leaders of all factions
in Mexico, petitioning them, in the
name of humanity and national pa
triotism, to assemble a peace confer
ence.
Prosperity reports from one hun
dred national bank examiners were
made public by the comptroller of
the currency.
According to reports received in
Washington crops show ‘‘generally a
marked improvement, an improvement
especially noted in those sections
where there has been some depres
sion.”
The financial centers throughout the
country declare that the demand for
money appears to be about normal.
Two American battleships, the Lou
isiana and the New Hampshire, sailed
from Newport News for Vera Cruz in
response to an urgent request from
Commander McNamee that his little
fleet of gunboats be reinforced in view
of anti-foreign demonstrations at Gen
eral Carranza’s capital. It is stated
in official circles that President Wil
son himself ordered the warships sent.
The United States has dispatched
a note to Vienna rejecting the Austro-
Hungarian views that the great scale
on which war munitions are being ex
ported from America to enemies of the
Gerrmfnic allies ‘‘is not in consonance
with the definition of neutrality.”
Though friendly in tone, the reply is
understood to repudiate flatly the sug
gestion in the recent Austro-Hungarian
communication that the United States
has permitted violation of neutrality.
The United States will continue to
act alone in representations to Great
Britain regarding neutral trade. It
has been learned that negotiations be
gun in Washington by the Swedish le
gation to obtain American co-opera
tion in proposed concerted action of
neutrals to protest against the Brit
ish orders-in-council have brought no
results.
Washington hearts that the British
board of trade actual figures for the
month of July show an increase in im
ports of $80,858,315. The principal
increases were in food and metals.
Exports show' a large decrease, chief
ly in coal, yarns, textiles and ma
chinery.
North and South American powers
have agreed on a definite plan for
dealing with the Mexican problem. It
is stated that a large part of Mexico
and a vast majority of the people have
not been involved in the fighting that
followed the overthrow of Huerta. It
is confidently believed that a consti
tutional government will solve the
problem for the people of Mexico. Of
ficials in Washington believe it would
suppress promptly any dissatisfied
groups.
European War
While the Russians are fighting des
perately to extricate themselves from
the Austro-German cordon pressing
them in Poland, their allies are work
ing feverishly and with considerable
success to open the Dardanelles,
through which they hope to pour
much needed war munitions into Rus
sia.
The heavy losses which have been
inflicted on the Turks have discourag
ed the Ottomans, according to Greek
reports.
An attack by German airships,
which flew over the English coast at
night is announced by the English
official press bureau. The statement
says one of the airships was dam
aged by British aeroplanes and was
towed into Ostend. Eight women, four
children and one man were killed, and
six women, four men and two children
were wounded.
The British auxiliary cruiser, India,
of 7;900 tons, has been torpedoed off
the Norwegian coast. Eighty mem
bers of the crew were saved. The res
cued men were picked up by the Swe
dish steamer Goestaland.
The appearance on the Italian front
of Austrian troops released from the
Russian campaign is announced. To
the number of 30,000 these troops,
equipped with artillery sufficient for
two army corps, attacked the Italians
outside of Gorizia. The Italians forced
the Austrian tq retreat, leaving 2,000
dead, after a 15-hour battle.
It is stated that Italy will send 650,-
000 fresh troops to either France or
the Dardanelles within the next three
weeks.
Gradual gains are being made by
the Italian forces against the Austri
ans. Sir John French, command
er of the British expeditionary force,
reported a fierce artillery engage
ment in which British and French
forces captured trenches at Hooge
along a 1,200 yard front.
Pragra, the suburb of Warsaw, on
the eastern bank of the Vistula, has
been occupied by German troops, ac
cording to the German official state
ment.
The Turkish battleship Khoyr-Ed-
Din Barbarossa, of 9,000 tons displace
ment, formerly the German warship
Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm, has been
sunk by a submarine of the allies. A
majority of the officers and men of
the battleship were saved.
Petrograd is full of wounded. The
Russian casualties are estimated at
3,500,000 up to the middle of July in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
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HOUSE HELP AND THE WAR
So Many People Are Staying Home
That It Is Hard to Get Good
Servants.
“Well,” snapped a New York lady
as she came out of an intelligence of
fice, “I don’t think the war in Europe
would make any difference to me in
my daily affairs, as I don’t run over
to the other side every few weeks as
some do, and miss it ever so much
■when they don’t, but I am learning that
It is really a great inconvenience.
“You know usually in summer good
servants are not nearly so hard to get,
but now so many people are staying
home and keeping their servants that
it is almost impossible to get a good
one. One agent I saw yesterday told
me she had had 12 calls in the morn
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of one kind or another and she had ab
solutely nothing to offer. I understand
that 200,000 people will not be going
abroad this year and every one of
them, or their families, are exhausting
the summer servant supply. I always
did think war was dreadful, and now
I think it is worse than ever.”
“Safety First.”
An American soon to sail for Lon
don will wear while asleep a specially
made rubber suit with a cork lining.
He takes no chances. There are sev
eral pound of lead in the feet of the
suit to keep the wearer's body in an
upright position.
NO IDEA
What Caused the Trouble.
"I always drank coffee with the rest
of the family, for it seemed as If there
was nothing for breakfast If we did
not have it on the table.
“I had been troubled for some time
with my heart, which did not feel
right. This trouble grew worse
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at other times very slowly, so that I
would hardly he able to do work for
an hour or two after breakfast, and If
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pain.
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There are some people that make
Postum very weak and tasteless, but
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a ve\y delicious beverage.” Name
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Mich.
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