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nother soldier’s wife, and her four children of eleven, five, four and one and a half.. The day 'lj
of blood. Adnot had been shot; the breast and the arm of Mrs. X. wane completely cut off; the ,f|
five had his throat cut. (sth Regiment of German Infantry.)’’—From the official French ac- ■’.’’g
' 1914.
to the Daily Herald from the paintings of Ferdinand Gueldry. They were painted especially for the
al reports, the accuracy of which is vouched for by President Poincare and General Joffre. The paint
ork, the house loaned to the Committee for the Relief of Disabled French Soldiers by Colonel Cor-
(By Courtesy of Augusta Herald.)
and thirty feet
■Szith the glory of
and at night it
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his country. It
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ning for his last
t a car out to
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and he had on
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ters. He shook
' 'staff; he saw the
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■ Germans sure.”
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ployers and em
ince of the war,
•narkable docu-
Its board, with
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arbitration and
pita! and labor
it over for 20
, gslatures, and
aployer and la-
L a copy of this
k chart and com-
pass’ from now until the Hun is
whipped.
The Committee on Public Informa
tion is now printing the report, and it
will be ready fir free distribution now
shortly.
RED CROSS WAR WORK
DRIVE SET FOR MAY 20
In order not to detract even slight
ly from the forthcoming Liberty Loan
campaign the War Council of the
American Red Cross has postponed the
campaign to raise thu second war re
lief fund of $100,000,000 to the week of
May 20th from the week of May 6th,
as was originally intended, it was an
nounced in Washington today.
This action fixes the date of the sec
ond Red Cross campaign eleven
months after the first, which was
started on June 18th 1917. The war
council has been appointed by Presi
dent Wilson only five weeks prior to
the beginning of this campaign, so
that its first great task was to provide
means for carrying on relief work dur
ing the war on a sc: 11 commensurate
with the military operation.
More than $100,000,000 was con
tributed in response to the first call
for" financial aid and contributions
plus interest brought the total re
ceipts from the first drive up to $105.-
099,527, Os this amount, $17,006,121
was refunded to Red Cross chapters
for local relief work. Os the balance,
$77,721,918 has been appropriated,
leaving a balance of $10,371,2117 avail
able for appropriation. France has
received appropriations amounting to
more than thirty millions. During the
week proceeding Christmas the Red
Cross conducted a membership drive
which resulted in the enrollment of
approximately 22,000,000 new mem
bers. This was followed last month
by a campaign conducted by the jun
ior membership of the Red Cross
which resulted in the enrollment in
the collateral organization of practic
ally all of the school children in Amer
ica.
Government Official—Miss Jones,
where’s the ied ink ?
Office Flapper—Oh, I borrowed it to
dye my blouse with. I’ll bring it back
in the morning.
RUSSELL H. CONWELL’S
LETTER TO STUDENTS
To the Enlisted Students of the Tem
ple University, Soldiers, patriots,
friends, comrades:
Your devotion to your country in its
battle for human liberty, deserves the
praise and love of all mankind. Os the
duty," sacrifices and glory much has
been said that 1 need not repeat. But
with a paternal interest in your per
sonal welfare and with a view to your
patriotic usefulness to your country
after the war, I most earnestly advise
you to use your spare hours in the
wise development of your mind, in
f the direction of your chosen life work.
Many of the private soldiers of the
Civil War became the leaders of the
Nation in consequence of the knowl
edge and discipline they secured In
the camp and field. They carefully
studied valuable books in the line oi
their chosen calling and came home to
be Judges, Governors, Congressmen,
College Presidents, Authors, Editors,
Preachers, Millionaires and great ben
i efaetors, having laid the foundation in
faithful study. Don’t waste any time
in camp. Get the needed books for
your life woik and study hard. Waste
no money or time on self indulgence.
You are brave soldiers, not pleasure
seekers, or loafers. Get wisdom every
day,—what man has done you can do.
Temple University expects every man
to do his duty. It also expects every
man to go right on with his education.
God bless each one in his endeavor
to serve and to make himself more
serviceable.
Fraternally.
RUSSELL H. CONWELL.
“Big Mason” Leaves
For Other Camps
Mr. AV. G Mason, known throughout
the United States as "Big Mason,” after
a month's stay in Camp Hancock, where
he accomplished a great religious work,
speaking twenty-four times to a total
audience of nine thousand men and hav
ing 500 war rolls signed, "is now con
tinuing his tour through the Southern
camps.
Mr. Mason made many friends in Han
cock and leaves behind many wishes for
his return,
DR. G. V. DANIELS RETURNS
TO PHILADELPHIA
Having labored industriously and suc
cessfully for two months with the religi
ous problems that present themselves in
a largo and varied military camp, Dr. G.
V. Daniels, pastor of the progressive Wey
land Memorial church of Philadelphia,
has returned to his congregation.
Dr. Daniels was a popular speaker in
camp, was always ready to fill the many
engagements required of him, and leaves
behind him a very frifcudly feeling.
NIGHT DRIVING OF ARMY
MOTOR TRAINS BEGUN
The highway transport committee of
the Council of National Defense has
issued the following statement:
Night driving of nt iter truck supply
trains from the west to seaboard has
just been started by the Quartermas
ter's Department as a. step toward the
final training which will best fit men
for service m France.-
Starts from Detroit.
A division supply train, comprising
38 cargo and 2 tank trucks, started
last night from Detroit on its 600-mi'e
journey eastwards
The experience gained" through this
cross-country convoy work now finds
the truck companies self-contained and
able to travel entirely independent of
the countryside. Camps are made at
the proper hour no matter where the
company is located, with the exception
that the point is made of selecting the
open country rather than tlio cities.
Important Step in Training.
This driving of motor equipment in
regular formation from factory to sea
board has proven a most important
step in the training program. Each
motor supply train will make two trips
the first trip being made in the day
light and the second at night. .At the
front most of the motor trucks are run
at night, so our drivers will now have
the chance to accustom themselves to
such operations. This night driving
here will tend to decrease, the daytime
traffic congestion on some of our main
highways.
SECT MOO URGES
NAMES
10G,0G0 Smiths In Allotment
Files
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Meets Many Repetitions and
Similarities. Legible Writing
Necessary.
There are more than 100,000 ‘'Smiths”
listed in the allotment and allowance
files of the Bureau of War-Risk Insur
ance of the Treasury Department—l,o4o
John Smiths, 200 John A. Smiths, 1,560
William Smiths and 200 William 11.
Smiths. It takes 110 card index trays and
a good sized squad of filing experts to
keep track of all the enlisted men in the
fighting forces of the country who
answer to the name of ‘‘Smith.”
There are more than 2,000,000 cards in
the allotment and allowance files of the
Bureau of War-Risk Insurance, and be
cause of the great repetition of certain
names Secretary McAdoo today asked al’
soldiers and sailors to give their full
names, not initials, in applications and in
correspondence, and to write all names in
a clear, legible hand, printing them out
rather than using script.
There are 262 John J. O'Briens in the
files and in 50 cases the wife’s name is
"Mary.” There are 15,000 Millers and 15.-
000 Wilsons on file in the Bureau. There
are 1,000 John Brown’s, and 1,200 John
Johnsons. It is not enough to say “Geo
Miller,” for there are 1.040 of these, noi
ls it enough to say “George J. Miller,"
for this is not unique. The full ijame and
the complete post office address are both
necessary to identify a man.
Soldiers and sailors are therefore’urged
to give explicit, complete, and careful
information concerning their names, post
office addresses, and rank and organiza
tion at time of application. in their appli
cations and in letters addressed to the.
Bureau.
The honor of holding first place in the
alphabetical card catalogue system goes to
Clayton Aloysius Aab, Second Class Sea
man, now somewhere on the high seas on
an American battleship. He is clpsely
pressed, however, by Earl Olaf Aabe). The
names then run by the hundreds of thou
sands through all the letters of the al
phabet and end with Joseph Zyny.
The importance of clear legible hand
writing is strongly emphasized by the
Bureau of AVar-Risk Insurance. . Allot
ment and allowance awards have some
times been delayed by baffling signa
tures, by incomplete addresses, and by
failure to notify postal authorities of re
moval. In correspondence with the Bu
reau and on all applications, names and
addresses should be printed, rather than
written in script
RED CROSS ITEMS
OF INTEREST IN CAMP
Mr. W. C. Denny, formed Field Direc
tor of the American Red Cross at Camp
Hancock, has been ordered overseas.
Mr. W. S. Moore has now assumed
Mr. Denny’s duties as Field Director A.
R. C.
The personnel of the American Red
Cross at Camp Hancock now consists
of the following;
W. 8. Moore, field director; Frank
Lnndader. assistant director in charge < f
home service. E. S Atherhold, associate
director at the Basj Hospital ,
May 1
DISEASE RAMPANT *
IN “GOOD OLD DAYS”
Microscope One of the Chief
Agencies in Ending Dark
Ages, Says Dr. Krause.
An appalling picture of the ravages of
disease and death and the horrible squa
lor of even the better living conditions
in the early ages, usually painted with
the colors of glorious romance, is drawn
by Dr. Allen K. Krause of Johns Hop
kins Hospital in the current number of
"The Journal of the Outdoor Life.”
"We forget the disease and death and
the corpses that rotted by the wayside.”
he says, speaking of the Canterbury pil
grimage. “We are unmindful of the
tilth, of the squalor, of the matted hair,
of the rotted flesh, of the maggot-in
fested monks and flagellants. We fail
to remember that the knights of old sat
in baronial halls with blinking and sore
eyes because there were no chimneys to
carry off the smoke from the huge flres
that at table they ate not with their
spoons and forks, but handled all food
with their own fingers; that they threw
the bones and offal on dust-covered floors
that were perhaps never cleaned save by
domestic animals—the dogs, swine, the
chickens that haunted the feast waiting
for the scraps. We forget that Dante
was involved in the feuds of the AVhites
and Blacks, and suffered all the horror
of civil war. We do not remember that
Boccacio’s company shut itself up in the
villa on the outskirts of Florence to es
cape the great pestilence.”
These conditions went on unchecked
and pestilences like the Great Plague
■swept Europe without intelligent effort
at prevention. Dr. Krause points out,
because of the total ignorance of the
cause of disease and its spread. The
discovery of disease germs, he says, was
the beginning of the end of this reign of
terror. The writer traces the develop
ment of this new knowledge from the
first use of crude microscopes by men
like Athanasius Kircher in the middle of
the seventeenth century up to the revo
lutionizing discoveries of Robert Koch
in the latter part of the nineteenth cen
tury. och’s life work culminated in the
isolation of the germ of tuberculosis,
laying the foundation of exact knowledge
on which our present day preventive
work is based.
WHAT AIRMEN
MUST SEE
French Aviator Outlines Work
Nov/ Done By the Fliers. Os
Vast Importance.
Washington, D. C.—-The vast respons
ibflitics which devolve upon the youthful
airman before a successful infantry attack
can be made on the western front age set
forth bv an experienced French aviator in
the following communication to the Na
tional Geographic Society, issued today
from the Society’s Washington headquar- ,
tors as far geographic Bulletin:
| ‘The time has passed when one could
make an improvised attack upon the en
emy. relying simply upon superior num
bers and the morale of the attacking
troops to gain the victory.
"To search out, in all their details, the
defensive works of the enemy (barbed
wire entanglements, trenches, block
houses), the position of all his batteries;
to locate the trails, railways, munition
and supply depots, and headquarters of
the commanders: such is the work to be
performed by the scout planes before
every offensive operation.
"To direct the firing of all the artillery,
whose task is to destroy the barded-wire
entanglements and the trenches; to bom
bard the batteries and destroy the larger
part of them, to set on fire the munition
depots within its range, to prevent or ren
der perilous any passing along the roads
and railways, to delay traffic in the sup
porting railway stations, to control the
destruction of objectives and the efficacy
of long-range firing; such are the prin
cipal tasks of the scout planes during
the preparatory period of an attack.
"Moreover, they assume the enormous’
responsibility of the faithful execution of
this program, which is carried out en
tirely through the intermediation of their
eyes.
“Finally, on the day of attack, it is
they who. flying at a low altitude over the
assaulting waves of the infantry, signal
its progress to the superior command; it
is they who discover the active batteries
and reduce-them to silence by causing
them to come under destructive' fire; it is
they who cause the dispersion of wagon
trains and troop columns venturing along
the roads and trains near the battlefield
it is they who watch for the possible
launching of a counter-attack, always to
he feared, and which they must announce
at the right moment to the infantry and
to the commander in charge.
"Thanks to the promptness.of their re
ports. sent by radio, the' commander is
enabled to make his authority felt dur
ing the progress of tie operation. When,
tn the midst of the hazards of battle,
the energies of the combatants become
scattered, causing confusion and disorder
the scout planes, by the accuracy of
their reports, permit the harmonizing
and vo-ordinating of effort necessary to
the final victory.
"To describe the airplanes used in
scouting, the details of their armament
and the devices with whiclt they are
equipped, would carry me beyond the
limits of my space. Evidently it is the
observer who must have charge of the
mission of reconnaissance, of photog
raphy, of artillery adustment, or of in
fantry communications; but he is great
ly assisted by the pilot, whose skill and
decision contribute in no small measure
to the successful accomplishment of the*
aerial task.
"This, then, is a brief sketch of tHe
immense task of the scout aviators. You
can understand why both France and
Germany first organized this class, so in
dispensable for conducting land opera
tions, offensive as well as defensive.”
Sergeant (after investigation as to
parentage, etc.) —Mon, ye seem to have
no qualifications for entrance into a
Scottish regiment—think noo, think;
have ye n; a property in Scotland?
Recruit (hopefully)—Well, yes, I
have a pair of trousers at the Perth
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