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HIS JOB TO BANDAGE
WOUNDMOUSES
American Bess Carpenter Putting
French Villages Back on
the Map.
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It was a monotonous stretch of ugly
trench, wire entanglements, gaping
shell boles, accented by the blackened
skeleton of shell killed forests silhouet
ted against a dull, hopeless sky.
This bad once been beautiful rolling
land like our own Ohio and Indiana
rich in grain fields, orchards and gar
dens. Now it was desolation —nothing
could live there —seemingly nothing
did.
We bad come on some rising ground,
and as we climbed we reached the
brow of the slope, and of a sudden it
seemed that some giant bad suddenly
twisted the old world under our feet
and we were back home, for of a sud
den the sounds of life came up to us
out of a hustling center of Industry.
That satisfying chug of an honest ham
mer head sinking willing nail into
sound wood, and before us was a pan
orama of new building, with piles of
clean lumber stacked here and there,
and the framing of many new build
ings told where the wood was going.
Then we heard the voice of a man
who talked real “United States” —tell-
ing 27 other carpenters what to do
out in this foreign land thousands of
miles from home. Z"
We Inquired of the l£ 88 a8 t 0 who
he was, and with trud BeDße of hu .
mor he said: “I am a Bed Cross nurse.
-My Job is bandaging bounded houses.”
Putting Villages- Back on Map .
“This was oncs a French village," he
went on “in the center of fine
■sugar beef country. We are living
now OQ'the site of the sugar mill." he
’pointing to a long, low barracks,
" which plainly had been recently built.
‘•We are working for the American
Red Cross-putting villages back on the
map. In four more weeks we 11 be out
of here and on our way to the next
ruin, for there are many villages that
need us. We go from place to place,
always finding that our lumber has
reached there first, so we can get right
to work, clean up and move on again.”
It is Just like pioneering, this re
building work of our Red Cross—only
more important—more Important be
cause it is vital to the winning of the
,war that these people come back to
■their soil and plant new crops—for. fu
iture years of war or peace.
And so the tide of war sweeps back
from whence it came, a Red Cross
army follows close behind in uniforms
of overalls, armed with Yankee ham
mers and nails to coax back the found
lings that have been brushed into
squalid helplessness In the south and
east
They are coming back home now,
Just a few days behind these carpen
ters—back to the beet fields, the gar
dens and the farms. Soon they will be
feeding themselves and thousands of
others.
WHITE PLAGUE KILLS
r MORE M£N THAN BULLETS
L**— 1
■ It seems longer, but It was less than
four years ago that the nations had
hot yet started In to wijje jgch other
off the map and that the only times
when one heard of the Red Cross were
times of flood or disaster and at
Christmas time, when the peaceful lit- :
tie Red Cross tuberculosis sea is made
their annual appearance.
Perhaps, In fact, it was the long, ar
dent tight in America against the White
Plague which, in spite oi the war’s
enormous new demands, Is responsible
for the especial interest being taken by
the American Red Cross in Frances
frightful struggle against consumption.
This scourge seems to mark the
trench fighter for Its own. It kills
mors men than do bullets and poison
gas combined. Until the American
Red Cfoss was permitted by the
French government to start its drive
against tuberculosis it looked as If,
•ven with a victory over the Hun,
France might eventually be conquered
by this deadlier foe.
Already things are looking brighter.
The Red Cross has taken over old hos
pitals and built new ones. More than
800 tuberculosis dispensaries are to. be
opened throughout the country, and
Red Cross doctors and nurses— scores
of them —are devoting themselves ex
duslvely to this fight, doing over there
exactly the same kind of tyork which
Is financed In America by the little
Christmas seals. It is one of the ways
in which by our contributions to the
Red Cross America can repay her debt
to France, 1
MILLION RIFLES
SHIPPED TO U. S.
NEW YORK, May 15.—Reports that
thousands of rifles had been secretly
imported from the Krupp works at
Essen in order to “Germanize" the
United States were related Tuesday
at inquiry conducted by State At
torney General Lewis into rumors of
hoarding of arms by German interests
in the United States.
Edgar A. Holmes, of this city, a
witness, as a broker, tried to buy the
rifles, but was unsuccessful, he said
During the negotiations he'said he
was told that some 1.000,000 rifles had
been imported from Essen via the Ho
boken docks of tw’o German steam
ship companies, and were to be used
in the United States if the Germans
were successful in reaching the Eng
lish channel ports.
| Mr. Holmes identified a copy of a
letter written by himself, offering to
’sell 1,000,000 Mausers and 1,000,000
' cartridges. The letter, dated June 9.
*1917, was addressed to Dr. Thomas
■ Darlington, of New York, former
health commissioner.
Robert T. Tucker, a tanner of
Charleston, S. C., testified of hearing
, of the rifles through hi s acquaintance
i'with Russians in busines. According
to the witness, a New’ York lawyer
’ I
told him the rifles had been sold.
| “I am thoroughly convinced that
, those rifles are in this country,” said
[ Tucker at the close of his examina
tion.
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SAMMIE’S NEW FRIEND
IS ARMY “DE-LOUSER”
I i
. j WITH THE IN
. LORRAINE, March 29. —The American
I armv 1112 “ue-iousing” machines.
I The army medical corps operates
» them. They look something like bug
■ jtrucks carrying huge casks.
. f Lice may not be exactly popular in
' polite society in America but the folks
at home can rest assure that they are
i recognized in the very best families
i over here.
; They are popularly known as
s "cooties.”
. After a fellow has served eight days
in the front line trenches he may be
so lonesmoe for a while after losing
his “cooties,” but he must be “de
loused.” He strips, throws aside his
• inhabited clothes, gets a tingling hot
bath with delousing solution, and
then gets clean clothes throughout.
1 His discarded clothing goes to the
“de-lousing” machine.
The motive power of the automobile
carrying the delousing tanks is steam.
With the machine standing still, the
steam is diverted from the engine
to the tanks. The clothing of the sol
diers' is then thrown into the tanks,
sealed up, and —exit "cooties.”
The hot iron treatment comes after
the steaming. . The “cooties” hide in |
the seams of clothing. Uniforms and
underwear are laid out, and a hot iron
run along every seam. After this .
traetment the clothing Is cootie-free. ,
| The “de-lousing” wagons move from '
one rest camp to another, steaming out
“cooties a» fast as the men come out
ot the trenches.
I It is estimated that a mother "coo
tie” has something like 3,600 children,
grandchildren and great-grandcild
ren in the course of 24 hours, so once
she gets ahead of the medical corps
I "de-lousing” wagon, there is a battle
bn.
I It has been established that the
louse is responsible for trench fever.
Every man ill from trench fever re
duces tfifi fighting strength of the ar
my.
| It is war to extermination against
the “cootie” with the medical corps.
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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
RED CROSS WILL
HAVE BIG PARADE
SATURDAY MAY 18
Plans have been made by the Am
erican Red Cross for the biggest na
tion-wide series of parades ever held
on one day. Fifteen hundred cities
and towns are included in the plans
which contemplate the participation of
*more than five million men and wom
■ en. These parades will be held on
1 Saturday, May 18, two days preceding
the second Red Cross Campaign to
raise one hundred million dollars for
' war relief.
Red Cross nurses will have the place
of honor in the parades. This is be
cause the arduous and heroic labor to
, which the nurse is assigned, and fur
thermore, since nursing was the funda
mental service on which the organiza
tion was founded, she symbolizes in
the public mind the spirit of the Red
Cross as nothing else can.
The nursing section will be led by
members of state and local committees
preceded by banners giving the total
number of Red Cross nurses from the
particular city or county on active duty
with the army and navy, or directly
under the Red Cross. A Red Cross
nurse bearing a Red Cross service flag
with blue star s representing the num
ber on active duty will also precede
the uniformed nurses.
A number of different uniforms
showing the scope of Red Cross nurs
ing service, will be in line. The
nurses in the military hospitals of this
country will wear the regulation white
uniform with blue cape and Red Cross
cap. Those on European service will
i wear their street uniform —blue' serge
'suit with ulster, dark blue hat, and
tan shoes. There will also be a ser
vice uniform of grey crepe, white col
lars and cuffs and Red Cross cap; the
rainy day uniform or song rubber coat
'and hat; the
! gee suits; panama hat, tan shoes, long
blue veil, nad the dark blue uniform
of the Town and County Nursing Ser
vice After these will come the Pub
' Health nurses, who are on duty in the
zones surrounding the cantonments.
I Then there will be the nurses on spe
■cial service who will wear a chevron
'on their sleeves. They will be follow
ed by the Home Defense nurses, avail
able for special duties in their home
localities. They wear a special Red
j Cross badge and a white hat, but not
the regulation Red Cross uniform.
Closing up the nurses’ line will be
the dietitians in uniform, including
the First Aid students and the depart
ement of Red Cross instruction.
| The second section of the pageant
will be the chapter members of the
j women leading. This section will
I close with a "Human” Red Cross in
s inarching line consisting of women
women forming the Red Cross flag.
Those in red read-dress will form the
; cross with others in white Red Cress
uniforms making the field.
O. C. JOHNSON,
Publicity Chairman.
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TO RESIST THE ATTACK
of the germs of many diseases such as
• ix?ju- Grip, Malaria,
means for all cf
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These germs are
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air we breathe.
Th® are irt
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germs, if the liver is inactive and tae
blood impure.
What is needed most is an increase in
the germ-fighting strength. To do this
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We claim for Dr. Pierce’s Golden
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It cures troubles caused by torpid liver
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40 years, and can
say to those suffer
ing with torpid liver,
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918.