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HEALTH OFFIGIALS URGE
5E OF INFLUENZA SERUM
«,j} minent Atlanta, State, city and
MMtary medical authorities, In dls
© BBBing the serum provided by the
,‘?W"‘ Board of Health for prevention
e 8 plications following an attack
)&_ ~"a:|emu and a partial preventive
ot digease itself, are all of the
g: son that the serum is not an
antit in of pneumonia, but that it
CHRES Zive a stronger vitality to the
é;' b being inoculated. They recom
- me its use.
. g I 8 what one of Atlanta’s most
S Prominent physiclans, in talking with,
L& Bunday American reporter, sald of
Cthe effect of the vaccine, and upon
BRS whe of flu masks, which he like-
S recommended
i "People are no longer doubtful as
TBO the effectiveness of smallpox vae
elr . For ages the whole of Eu-
Frape would be swept at irregular in
lerv: by the plague, but for the last
“deoade compulsory vaccination has
"be standardized by the leadlng ar
i Biies of the European and American
- count ,80 that today there is no
iafi“‘w_‘ thing as dangerous plagues of
jfi; | previous wars people, mostly
- soldle died by the thousands as a’
‘reßuit of typhoid fever epldemies,
‘While today in the army o 7 (he Unit
.od States typhoid fever is unheard of,
A 8 & result of the compulsory inoc
mlution against It
b lu Serum Recommended.
. “In taking the antitoxin for these
Al the pioncers were not abso
“ lutely positive that the results would
jways be beneficlal, yet they took
~ thes Today we are assured that
“umflprovmu by the Btate to
prevent Influenza and the complica
tlons following oan not Injure the
_body and is indorsed by the leading
- med men of the wum. ati
there aré many who, thro ignor
_@ance, superstition or prejudice, re
_ fuse to take advantage of the offer, at
_least to try to protect themselves and
. thelr associates against the dreaded
which I 8 sweeping he coun
~ "Phe patient often says that his
ihysician does not prescribe the se
um A4B a preventive for influenza, so
why take it? Yet the family physi
‘ofan takes the necessary steps to
have his entire family baceinated.
To bave the added stimulus in the
item is but & protection and a help
10 the physical condition, In fact, the
best authorities of the army and elv
an life are agreed that the vaoccine
| & preventive of the complications
Nowing influenza., Aws the ears, eyes
nd heart are weakened b{ the dis
wage, the victim is susceptibie to weak
oyes, pleurisy, pneumonia and many
her complications, o that unythh;s
Mch will strengthen the weaken
Estille H. Laney Killed
By Premature Explosion,
Say Letters to His Father
){{m story of how Hstille H. Laney,
“an Atlanta boy, met his death in the
Mfighting in the Argonne Forest is
1014 simply and appealingly in letters
10 father, Newton W. Laney, of
% Point, from Cuyuxn Robert 1.
B Pittman, Battery D, 320th leld Artil
’ , his commander, and Sergeant
‘James R. Crow, one of his pals, The
wrote from a base hospital in
. Prance, Where he was recovering trom
gis and shell shock.
~ Qaptain Pittman sald Laney's death
WS fiu-‘d by the premature oxplo-
S mlon Of a shell in the gun hls crew
a 8 operating. He refors feelingly to
ihey's fine record as a man and #
der. “He won his full share of
SAIRe honors gained by our forces,” he
- Crow Tells of Last Day.
e nt Crow's letter gives the lit
ate detalls that might be ex
& pected of 4 man's “bunkie.” He and
aney had agreed that if either lost
‘his in the big push the other
would fvt 1o his friend’'s home town
‘and tell the folks at home all about it.
i “This is & hard letter to write,” said
prgeant Crow, “and I am going to
BBP my promise and come to see yoy
JULR a 8 soon as I get back. * ¢ * ]
M not sure what was the last letter
| Wrote you: we did not have much
time to write, as we were on the go
ver ugn. We fought at Chateau
"hie , Ct. Mihiel, In a sector on the
Ul front, and last at Argonne For-
GBt, where Estille made the supreme
e Killed October 7.
. "Estille was killed October 7. Tt
¥as in the mornlnfi and about half
@n hour before it happened he and
tT A together in the kitchen, about
B 0 feet from the guns. We were sit
g on the ground, among the dead —
qu place to be called a kitchen--
PBking & cup of coffee. | remem
her that one of the last things he said
ome was that he and | surely would
Chave one grand time wehn it was all
Ver and we were back in Atlanta
N I had to go down to a cross
: guide an ammunition train ot
Faoks in, and we separated, ho going
Bck to the gun he was sorving: he
A 8 & gunner i what is called the
Pt section on the first plece. He
Balled back to me that as #oon as he
Ad time he v‘muld get some smoking
2eo oul of his ‘roll’ for both of ua,
‘Wi w(om.
b Bunkie Was Away.
H&" won down to the crossrond
ind on my way back when I met
L mbn from the battery who told me
At Laney's gun had blown up and
Biout the crew. My first gquestion,
LeQuse, was about Laney. The an.
PEr was that he was ‘pretty bad.'
"% ran all the way back to the bat
¥, about half a mile; but Laney
B 8 dead! 1 think he must have died
BIOuT a return to consclousness,
BAL afternoon we buried him, a few
pde from where the guns were
BRaing away, and made a nice cross
B mMArk his grave. That night T was
Bied and slightly shell shocked, and
8 aent back to the hognlu!."
itlanta Boy Writes
b ’
if Engineers’ Record
Phe history of an engineer unit from
e day of its :fl-‘nl in France to De
1D 6, in dlni its part in the
.‘uln{ In' rgoéme l?oln-fit. is
fude e rom Corpora Arry
_Gerlaeh. of c:\uny E.'s?lrm Rrfl)-
U, 8. neers, to his mother,
wOO4 muée jfinhor s O
! s . - n er
aeh ;w'tfiat o had n i
\Le ere is t.ha lenetr,?‘ ™ ¢‘Ml
Bt recelved four letters from you,
| wag sure glad to hear from you
*1 have mot been able to write you
_about ‘.&'&h because we have
_hiking last fourteen daye
organs ghould be administered in
time. 'The anti-influenza vaccine is
given by the State to any who wish
to take flt.
The Masks Advisable.
“Many physicians are oppesed to
the idea of using flu masks; thus,
tthe patients are well supported in
't!wlr theory that it (s a useless im
position and Jet It go, saying that
I:}u_s will Bitvs to huve the disease
some day just as they do the measles
a great mistako--#n what is the use
of wearing a horrible mask
“In case of scarlet fover the State
compels that the door leading to the
#ick room be covered by a sheet sat
urated with carbolie acid sg that the
scales which carry the dreaded cons
tagion will be destroyed before leav
ing the room, In the army and navy
camps it was compulsory that flu
masks be worn by people coming in
contact with influenza cases. As the
disease is caused by entrance to the
system through the passages of the
mouth and nose, and as they can not
enter through a four-ply cushlon of
cheese cloth, why not wear the mask
over the lower part of the face-—espe- }
clally mothers and nurses?
“A positive preventive for the epl-‘
demic has not been found, because its '
lorigln has not been discovered. The
Rockefeller Foundation and the hy-‘
glenic Inboratories have not been able
to produce elther, but both indorse
the preventatives or the seml-preven
tatives which are certainly not Injur
fous to the system and are an ald to
the physical development,
Influenza Unnecéssary.
" “You do not have to have the in
fluenza, and If you develop ft, it is not
essential that you develop the com
plications which foliow the disease
and from which roplo die. It is not
the influenza which causes the death
of the person; it is the setting up of
complications which follow in the
wake of the weankening disease. Pre
vent these and the flu will not be as
deadly nor held the dread that ae
companles it now. The conditions
over the country are becoming serious
and even though the Government
make the vaccination to prevent the
epidemic ct:npulwrv. the necessary
time to enable proper State and local
administration will result in the death
of many people who can not be re
placed, \
} “The sane and reasonable thing to
do ir the case is to take every pre
‘eaution to prevent eithor the disease
01 the complications which follow, by
being vaccinated against the influ
‘mzn and wearing flu muasks in 10-.1-
ing with sick people. Do not belleve
that it is absolutely essential that
you have the diseage and that once
‘aone through with you are free from
anger.”
in the offiee again todaf.
“I am well, getting no{l‘, fine, and
have evarythln! 1 need, @ Aare lt:-
go ed about 12 or 15 miles from Cob«
d’;, and expect to beshere until we
start for home. We have nrent a day
and a night in Coblenz, but it was rain-
Ing, and 1 did not get a ¢hinoe to go
up town. 1 am going to try to get a
{mn #oon 10 go there to buy séme poss
al cards and a few gouvenirs,
Germans Glad It's Over,
"“The German people are all glad the
wWAr is over. Food was ntm‘g '"r‘*
f«ree here, Most as the people rl
Iving on potatoes and black bread.
“V&e have been on «Ish( frouts, or
rather at the frent elght mom"t tim
#ince we came over. The r nid
not etll you before was boo“nl d
not want you to be worrying about n‘:
all the time, but now since tk: WAr
over and there is really no danger at
;I:. 1 fil‘n tz\llyou mm-:;l about what we
ve been doing over here.
"a’e went to the front in October,
1917, and stayed there about ten days.
We were the first American troops on
the front, and the firgt shell fired by
the Americans was fired at that time.
After leaving the rrgnt. which was neat
3‘““'(‘““' we went to the rear and
rilled and }\rm‘tll}«d until January 18,
when we left for the front again. We
arrived on the front northwest of Toul
and relieved the French on ‘hut sector
on the 20th of January.. This was the
first front taken over entirely h{ Amer
fenn troops, as on the Luneville f%&
m wera with the French. At the Taul
nt the engineers bullt and repaired
trenches, barbed wire entanglemente
}:d dugouts. During the first part
brusg A sergeant and myself ha
about infantrymen bui’ding bag'
Lqu entanglements in “No Man'y
nd" for nine successive nights, Luek
ily none of us were hurt, but we had
several close escapes. We romllnodhon
the Toul front for twe and a hall
months, leaving there for the rear on
March ho Pleardy B
n cardy Front
“On April 26 we arrived at the Pi
cardy front opposite Montdidier. Be
fore arriving here we had about a
Week's rest and were moving the rest
‘uf the time. This fmng“'sl a gfil‘:t
deal more lively than t Toul ks
The artillery was firing day and night
On May 28, if 1 remember oom\guy
(the dates are hard to remember) part
of our division took Cantlgny, the first
town captured by the Americans. The
engineers were well represented In this
operation. Our division was the first
over; first on the front: first to Olg
ture a tdwn: in fact they were the
first In about everything except leav
ing the front Also, we have been
oltedt in peneral orders a half dogen or
more times, and have one -Pchl elta
tlon, which no other division in the
American army hag recelved.
“Well, T suppose vou are getting
tired reading, so I will write about the
other fronts we have heen on and gquit
We left the Ploardy front ghout Jlfl! 8
for a rest, but were ru,hml to the
front opnosite Solssons, where we atart.
o 1 the big Allied drive of July 18, We
were at thin front five days and cap
thred 3,600 prisoners, 188 eannon he
sldes a number of machine gung and
sunplies, From the Rolssons front. we
went to the Pont.a-Mousson front This
was a real guiet front, and we called
it the Rest Front. After being here a
couple of weeks wo went to the rear
Aenin to train for the 8t Mihiel drive '
"On the morning of Reptember 12 at
b o'clock we went over the top. Our
fompany was to out the bharbad wipe
in front of the infantry. This was the
| MOost dangerous work we ever had to
40 as we were aheadt as the infantry
Our company was very lueky in this
drive. 1 had several close escanss, bt
luckily was not hit From here wa
wont to the Champagne {n October
\} e drove there through the Argonne
Forest for about two weeks and were
relleved hy the Forty-gecond Diviston,
After resting for about two weeks, we
went to the same front again, and was
ehasing the Germans at Sedan when
the armistice was signed. Since then
we have been hiking, but l”“w stopned
now‘” .\vv;nln\“.nu!hrm a plstoard of a
Cler n village where we o 0 |
“‘:M. > are now sta
“The iermans call our divigion the
Hiack Snake Division, becauss we were
i B 0 mmny different fronts, 1 sup
‘ Fm ve good billets ana ove 11
L““ The reason 1 did no'f‘ ..n
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Father Enlists Private Sleuths in
Search for Sons He Charges
Wife Holds.
Private detectives have been en
listed in the remarkable hunt for the
two missing McAuliffe children—
Mack, 11, and Jack, 9--by their fa
ther, J. W. McAuliffe, who still in
slsts that the boys are being kept in
hiding by their mother, Mrs. Bleanor
’loAuhffa, of No. 122 Bonaventure
avenue., Hhe, in turn, accuses Mc-
Auliffe of having spirited them away.
With no ¢lew to the whereabouts
of the missing boys fecund by either
slde, both the father and mother de
clared their determination to con
tinue the search until they had been
found,
Announcement of the entry of pri
vate detectives into the case served to
increase interest in the mystery,
which has become even more mysti
fylng since the arralgnment by Mrs,
McAuliffe of her husband before
Judge W. D, Billis, in SBuperior Court,
in an action to force him to give up
‘the boys and the digmissal of the pro
coedimys by Judge Ellis. Both Mec-
Auliffe and Mrs. MeAuliffe expressed
the greatest concern Saturday as to
the welfare of the boys.
Father ls Confident,
McAuliffe confidently expressed the
belles that he wil find his boys—so
confident, in fact, was he that he as
serted he would be willing to wager
money on the result,
“These boys will show up all right,
and then we'll know definitely who
spirited them away,” said the father.
“1 would be willing to bet SIOO that
the boys are found -l am just that
confident."”
Attorney VWalter A. Bims, counsel
for McAuliffe, said Saturday that no
court proceedings would be taken
against Mrs, McAuliffe until the boys
are found and It develops positivaly
that she hid them away. llnf inti
mated that in such an event imme
diate action would be taken to re
cover the children for McAuliffe,
. Boys Believed in Atlinta.
McAuliffe and Mrs. McAuliffe both
expressed themselves as sure the
missing boys still are in Atlanta, |
“l am satiefled my husband has
placed the children In an orphanage, |
or some other such place right here
in Atlanta,” Mrs, McAuliffs said. |
“And 1 don't Intend (o stop my
search until I find them, too," she
added with determination, "My hus
bend said he didn't know where they
were, and I'll have him in jall for
perjury if it takes me years."
Mack and Jack disappeared last
Thursday afternoon a week ago from
the home of their mother,
Mrs. McAuliffe's negro maid, who
was said to have been arresetd at the
instigation of McAuliffe for alleged
qomvlnfli" in the disappearance of
the two children, Saturday was out on
bond.
Mrs, McAuliffe declared the arrest
of the maid was nothing more not
less than a ruse on the part of Me-
Aupliffe to cover his own act in spir
iting away the children by making i}
appear that he real'y thought she and
the mbald had hidden them.
House Passes Bill Giving
Mrs. Roosevelt Pension
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25--With
nine Representatives voting in the
negative, the bill hestowing an an
nual pension of $5,000 uxon the widow
of former’ President Roosevelt was
pasgsed by the House late today. Those
voting no were Representatives Black,
Blanton, Buchanran, Connrplly. Garrett,
Jonet and Slayden, all of Texas:
Doughton, of North Carolina, and
Quinn, of Mississippl. ~
The bill already bad passed the
Senate, :
that Thristmas package coupon wnd
because 1 did not know where we were
likely to be at Christmas. 1 know now
that 1T won't get home for Christmas.
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now since we left mn'lut:o." T
New Stimulation for
Trade Needed, View
Of British Nobleman
(By international News Service.)
LONDON (by mall)—"Bolshevism
means begguary,” declared Lord Lev
erhulme In a recent interview to J.
l}'ercy Watson, Imndernational News
ESnrvkre stafl correspondent,
~ “l have just seen a friend of mine
from Russia who showed me two
Russian rouble notes, and he told me
how the value had depreciated under
Bolshevism. In Russia money now
has little value,” continued Lord Lev
eérhulme,
“lI can not help but think that any
disregard of ownership of either CAp-~
ital or other forms of weaith simply
must inevitably bring disaster upon
the whole nation, |
“Put upon its most narrow basis,
surely it 18 obvious that what we eall
wealth is merely commodities—it may
be ships to one firm, it may be iron
works to another, and cotton hcto-‘
ries or woolen mills, and these forms
of wealth are, in the hands of thelr
present owners, the implements and
tools with which they work, \
Serious Loss. |
“To take these implements fmm‘
those who have proved their power (o‘
use them by the success with whlchl
they have built up their businesses, |
mostly from very small beginnings,
and to place them in the hands of
other untrained and Inexperienced
users, as they would undoubtedly M.J
would be just as sensible as to take
the hamer and chisel from the work-\
man and give it to a man who never
handled a hammer and chisel, |
“The only result could be a serious
loss to the whole community. |
“I think Mr, Gladstone acted right
ly Whenever he had the option of re
dueing income tax or leav.ng income
tax and other forms of taxation un
touched to pay off larger amounts of
the national debt. |
“Mr. Gladstone invariably adopted
a medium course of somewhat reduc
ing the taxation and slightly increas
ing the rate of reduction from the
standing debt, The reason he always
gave was that the best use of money
was to leave it tc fructify in the
pockets of the people. |
“There is not the slightest ‘doubt
that the load of national debt was
never felt, that the money that was
left to fructify in the pockets of the
feople has been capital which has
ound increasing employment fér the
workers, reduced the cost of the
goods produced, so that with increas
ing wages their purehasing power
was not impaired by increasing costs
of articles to be produced.
Encourage Business. |
“In my opinion we can only racov-‘
er from the present load of debt by
stimulating and encouraging new en
terprises and new sources of wealth,
not only in the United Kingdom, but
throughout the British Empire. |
“New devalgpments and new:
sources of wealth can not be elther
financed by Government or under
taken by Government, They are too
risky and too speculative. They re
quire that even balanoe between
rashness and cautious prudence which
is only attaiped by the man who has
‘risked his own money in the enter
prise, :
“The British Empire and the Brit
ish trade and shipping have not been
built up by the Government. They
have been built up by private citizens
in that spirit of venturesomeness
which has characterized the British
race through the centuries.
“This Empire has been built up and
endures, notwnhntandmg that the
men who built it up and made our
shipping and commerce te flourish
have passed to the great majority
and joined the ocean of eternity. |
“They were, after all, only tenants
for life, The nation is the residuary
legatee, \
Not Capital Alone. |
“If buriness could be built up to‘
order merely by the provision of cnp-{
ital, then other nations could achleve
what has been achieved by the Brit
ish race. '
“It is not capital alone, but behind
the capital the man, and the man has
to be bold and cautious without rash.
ness. No Government, by any syss
tem of selection or by exemination,
could provide itself with the men for
these undertakings.
“It is the fact that in the past the
man has been contending for the
fruits of his own industry, which has
Leen the cause of his disregarding
luxurious ease and choosing laborious
toil.
“We are all of us too apt to con
sider that the liberty of a people
could be attained through Govern
ment A Government can only be free
when the individual is free and has
full liberty: |
“An individual controlled, eribbed
and cabined by Government restric
tions his enterprise or Government
conlemtion of the frults of his indus
try, is not free, nor can the state, with
eitizens living under these conditions,
be considered democratic or a free
state.
“If we want a working model of
conscription of wealth, we can not
find it better than in the Congo for
ests, where village life {s such that if
one man owns one or two chickens
more than another, or a goat or iwo
more than another, he is in danger of
being murdered, and if one man were
to dream of building a hut of differ
ent pattern to other huts in the vil
lage, of larger size and more conven
fent, he would certainly pay with his
life the penalty of his advanced ideas
and thoughts, -
Held To Be Enemy.
- “"We are rapidly tending in that df
rection,
~ "Fifty years ago ‘Smiles’ Self-Help'
was an inspiration to many young
imen. Today the idea apparently is
that any man who has prospered by
industry and frugal habits is an
enemy of the race, or that the result
of his enterprise should be confiscated
to some general funds,
~ "Under such a system we can only
kil the goose that lays the golden
R,
~ “lot us take the illustration of the
Standard Oil Company. It is an Amer
fcan company, and therefore 1 can
use this the better for having nothing
personal in regard to the British Em.-
pire, but identically. corresponding
cases can just as readily be cited
among our British industries.
“A young man named Rockefeller
conceives the idea that he can greatly
economize refining paraffin ofl if he
owns a number of wells and refines
the product of & group of wells at a
bigger refinery more economically
worked than would be possible with
ividual wells.
“He put this idea into practice, and
it succeeded. He then concelved the
idea, Instead of paying freights to
rallway companies, to lay a pipe line
from the oil refinery to.‘bo centers of
distribution, such as New York, ete.
“Next he conceived the idea of tank
oil brought in pipe lines to the port,
steamers for the ocean to convey the
. .
i Chicken Sings
{ When Petted
!
g By Real Owner
4 (By International News Service.)
§ ARION, OHIO, Jan. 26.—1 t i |
M & mighty hard task to distin- ]
§ guish between cnickens, as
many a policeman and con
§ stable who has veen called®on to ar
§ bitrate in neighberhood disputes con
cerning the ownership can testify.
g But Mre. Frank Bechtle has solved
the problem.
é She separated her seven chicks
from a flock in Oakley Miller's barn
here In the presence of Officer Burt
§ Powell by an odd little cluck which 1
they recognized. They followed her
to the barnyard. Then she knelt and
one of them eame running to her and
fi Jumped on her knee. ‘“That is May- i
belle, my chorus girl chick,” she in
former the wondering patrolman.,
i “She crows when the sun sets and l
goes to roost when it rises. Hasn't
she pretty legs?” and she patted the
shapely supports of her pet. “BShe
sings, don't you, Maybelle?"
“Now sing for the genteman. He
has been nice to us.”
é And Maybelle sang. |t wasn't a |
canary bird's song, but it was a song,
thence across the ocean to distribut
ing centers in England and elsewhere
in Burope. |
Reduced Price.
“The result of this was that he was
able to reduce the price of paraffin oil
from @ver 18. per gallon to a prewar
price of somethin g like 3d. per gallon,
and out of the 3d. per gallon he paid
all these expenses, so that it may be
fairly assumed that out of the 3d.
there would not be more than Id.
profit after payment of all freight and
other expenses.
“But the penny is said to make
Rockefeller ten million sterling per
annum, and it is considered that he
is an enemy of the human race, be
cause, as a capitalist, he has received
too much for his services to the com
munity.
“The fact that he started as a poor
boy with only energy and ideas is lost
sight of. The result of his energy
and ideas was that he reaped the re
ward of his intelligence, and he might
equally have met with failure and dis
aster.
“Because he has met with the re
‘ward of his intelligence and business
‘acumen, both the American press and
unthinking sections of the British
press have reviled the Standard Ol
‘(Tmmny and Rockefeller as an ene
| my of the human race, forgetful of the
fact that if he makes ten millions a
year profit on the oil, the public have
made over one hundred millions a
year as their share of the profit,
namely, the reduction in price from
Is. to 3a. y
Consumer Helped. -
“I am confident that this will
similarly apply if we discourage pri
vate enterprise, and that the enor
mous harvest reaped by the consumer
in cheap and good commodities sup
plied in abundance, which we enjoyed
before the war, will be sacrificed,
“There is not a single capitalist en
gaged in preductive enterprise ' who
does not make for others a sovereign
for every shilling he makes for him
self.
“If it were not so, the system under
which the world has prospered could
not have continued, If there is any
other system under which the world
could equally have prospered, by all
means let it be well considered before
it s put on trial.
“The ramifications of commerce are
world-wide. The producers are also
the consumers, and we have to con
gider the producers not only as wage
and income earners, but also as con
sumers.
“The Bolsheviks in Russia have
made money of little value. They
have brought their country to the
verge of starvation.
“We are not under any fear o( the
repetition of these follies in the
British Empire. Our workman is too
hard-headed and practical to be led
away with shadows. He must have
the substance.
“The greatest danger, in my opin
ion, today is that the Government do
not face this situation by making a
pronouncement of their intentions
but allow public opinion to drift along
lines that can lead only to disaster
and ruin to the whole British Em-«
pire.”
Exalted Rulers’ Night
For Elks on Feb. 6
Exalted Rulers' Night will be cele
brated by the Elks of Atlanta Febru
ary 6, on which occasion each chair
in the lodge will b«-\’occupled by a
past exalted ruler. lans for the
meeting were announced by Past Ex.
alted Ruler Pihilip M, FEssig at a
luncheon given by the KElks at the
Piedmont Hotel.
The committes on arrangements is
composed of P. M, Essig, R, A. Gordon
and George C. James ‘The commit
tee In charge of the ceremony will be
composed of Walter P. Andrews, past
exalted ruler; A, L. Dunn, esteemed
leading knight; R. A. Gordon, es
teemed lecturing knight; George C.
James, esquire; Theo Mast, secretary.
and E. R. Lowry, inner guard,
The Order of Klks has taken a
prominent part in the various war
activities, having svent 'arge sums of
money in bullding hospitals and in
aiding the Salvation Army in its
financial problems for war work. The
membership of the Atlanta Lodge is
400 active members, and it 18 stated
that 17 per cent of the membership
18 in the service of the United States.
Maembers are not required to pay dues
while in the army, and dues are re
mitted for some time after the mem
bers have been discharged from the
service
Arthur H, Peek, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Peek, of No. 307 High
land avenue, who is a member of
Battery E, 320th Field Artillery,
157th Artillery Brigade, Eighty
second Division. This picture was
taken in La Courtine, France.
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Spirit of Revenge Prompts Levia
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~ than Shot by Skipper of
} Gulf Smack.
St
ARANBAS PASS, TEXAS, Jan. 25—
But for the heroic efforts of the crew
of the fishing smack Lucy May, the
skipper, seven sallors, the vessel and
4,000 pounds of red snapper would have
today been at the bottom of the gulf in
-Bstead of enjoying the hospitalities of
ithla port.
It was a spirit of revenge on the
part of a huge swordfish which jeop
ardized the lives of the men when
they were 200 miles Jout at sea—-a
monster which had been angered by
Captain Tom Sharkey as he sailed for
his port with one of the best catches
of the season. g
~ According to members of the crew
,who spent thirty.six hours bhailing
water out of the vessel as she limped
into the port, the Lucy May bad just
lifted anchor and spread her sails for
home when the trouble began.
Sallors Are Happy.
She had been out of port for sis«
teen days and the crew had taken a
fine lot of snapper. During the fisn
ing a large swordfish, numerous among
snapper reefs, had been playing about
the ship and taking fish from the lines,
When the ship got under way the
swordfish followed in the wake, the
sallors believe, to pick up any food
which might be thrown over. After
following the Lm‘i May for fully
thirty miles the skipper decided that
it would prove a "Jonah’ &nd took a
couple of shots at It with a rifle,
The sallors declare one of the shots
took effect and that the angry fish
lashed the water to a foam and
charged the vessel. The skipper
thought notbmg of its action.
Fish Gets Even,
That night, the sallors declare, and
the lklxpor will not contradiet it, the
nn:ry sh swam %under the Lucy May
and with its swosh slashed a lar.zo
hole in the hull. Parts of the blade
were found on the edges of the hole
and a gloce of it floating in the
water when the leak was discovered.
The crew was without -extensive re
pairing outfits, and since the hole
was a slit some ten feet long runnln{
across two sections of the hull, i
was impossible to fully repalr it.
The seven men composing the crew
formed a bucket brigade and worked
for thirty-six hours without rest, sfeep
or food, throwing the water out of the
wounded vessel. The Luocy ‘rny is now
In dock and will soon be ready for sea.
| Weighed 2,000 Pounds.
~Captain Sharkey declared the fish was
one of the largest he ever saw. The
sword, he says, was more than four
feet long and the fish ftself would
iwg!l{h between 1,600 and 2,000 pounds.
| © skipper avers that the Lucy
May, if attacked by the swordfish, is
not the first small vessel wounded by
these monsters of the sea. He says
the{ frequently injure smaller boats
wit thgler swords, sometimes after
having en made angry and some
times just for the pleasure of it, prob
lhév searching for food.
aptain Sharkey says if the swordfish
rlp&wd open the *\ull of the Lucy May
it did soo to secure fish and not because
he shot it,
Believes Crew's Version,
~_He confirms the story of the lal‘l‘orn
that the fish did follow the Lucy May
for some thirty miles and that he saw
nothing of it after nightfall on the
erening the boat was stabbed,
One member of the crew, more super
stitious than others, declares he will
not sail on the Lucy May ‘until the
skipper has the wound re%nlrod and
annd with fish 011, since this, he de
clares, will prevent other attacks from
swordfish and other monsters of the
briny deep.
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Requisition Asked for
‘ .
Girl in Ring Theft Case
A requisition Saturday was issued
by Governor Hugh Dorsey on the
Governor of South Carolina for the
return here of Miss Ruth Simpson,
V. ho is charged in Fulton Couaty with
the theft of a ring valued aL.NOfl
from K. C. Trottl, It was alleged
that the girl had asked Trotti to let
her wear the ring for a few days and
that she disappeared from .\umu‘
when he asked for its return.
Faithless Women of
Ostend Are Branded
By Tattoo and Cuts
OSTEND, BELGIUM (by mail).—Bel
glan women are Imposing their own pen
alty on the unfaithful of their sex who
were the companicns in revelry of (er
man officers and soldiers during the
Hun occupation of the city.
They are bobbing girls’ hair, tattooing
curious marks on their cheeks and cut
ting out pleces from the lobes of their
ears,
The ceremony is public. It is rough,
erude and eertain. Almost daily, since
the British entered Ostend, the faithful
women have been putunf their brands
on those whom they consider m:‘yorthy.
Recently they marked their twenty-first
woman, according to one of the residents
who had passed through all the turmoll,
Scores of such women in Bruges and
other places, who ls. known to the rm
eral feminine ‘popu ation, have recelved
the same punishment. More than 600,
the people say, escaped this fate by
flecing with the Germans.
The most recent performance was
typical. There was a sudden shriek
from a woman nnndmf close by the
tower of the railroad station. In an
other moment a girl was seen dll’fl:‘
across the wide stretch of round
topped cohblestones toward the canal.
The woman was losing, l:y]t shrieking
every few steps. From directions
back of her came other women and
girls. Men trotted out and followeg in
the wike of the women. Some of them
grinned. They seemed to be making
no effort to catoh the girl. They were
leaving that to the women, From houses
and stores other gml and women ran,
The pursued scurried into the wrecknge
of a house blown up by a bomb. The
pursuers were right after her. They
dr“:ed her out.
@ im was sullen. The women
were determined. They led her to the
front of the railroad station. They
formed a large circle, gerhlpl fifty feet
around. The girl fought for a few sec
Thirty U-Boats Sunk as
Big Searchlight Barrage
Revealed the Monsters
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 25.—Vice-Admiral Sir
Roger Keyes, speaking after being made
a freeman of Dover, revealed some se
crets of the patrol.
The first barrage searchlights, he sald
were invented by the late Commander
Brock (killed at Zeebrugge), and later
they were worked from speclally built
ships, whieh could ride out the heaviest
eale. One line of ships was from Folke
stone to Gris Nez; another was seven
miles farther west. Between were scores
of drifters and obsolete craft, and un
derneath other anti-submarine meas
ures.
If a U.-boat got through on the sur
face they usgl depth charges and drove
it down on the hidden perils below.
Between January and Sefitember 3
last the Flanders flotilla lost U-boats;
15 have been identified lying under the
lighted barrage patrol, and 2 L““ out
side of it. 80 successful was t e Dover
Patrol that the submarine-hunting flo
tillas . lower down the Channel com.
plained that ‘the bread was taken out
of their mouths."”
Describing the fight when th?\ rctrol
were surprised by an overwhe ming
State’s Duty to Find Jobs
'Fovr: Dlsabl ed Fighting Men
By E. G. FITZHAMON,
Universal Service Staff Correspondent,
LONDON, Jan. 25.—Summing up what
she learned from prospective voters dur
ing her campaign through artistic and
industrial Chelsea as a candidate for
Member of Parllament from that dis
trict, Miss Emil Phipps, B, A., says: |,
“I found discharged soldliers and sail
ors have their grievances. They are
indignant because, owing to some quib
bie, men of the mercantile marine are
refused pensions. They deeply resent
the posters, ‘Don’t pity the disabled sol
di"—?v. him a fi)b,' their argument
belnj hat men having been wounded on
behalf of the State, it is the duty of the
State to find them jobs rather than leave
them to the cold.mercy of private em
ployers.
“The women blazed when they talked
of the boche. They don't argue; they
demand. They insist that all Germans
must be turned out of Great Britain;
also that Germany must be made to pay
in full for the war,
“As for the Kaiser, they confess that
they can not invent runlnhmcnu baq
enough for him and his War Council.’
Miss Phipps does not live in or any
where near Chelsea, nor had she any
interests there, other than securing the
necessary number of votes,
That is one of the peculiarities of the
British parliamentary elective system.
The candidate may come from any
where, |
Miss Phipps is principal of the Girls’
Secondary School at Swansea, which is
in Wales. She has been gresldent of the
National Federation of Women Teach
ers and did ten years of suffrage work
for the Women's Freedom League. She
says she has been appalled at some of
the houses of the poor she visitea mn
Chélsea. |
“The question of small houses and
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan, 26.-~With
210,000 unemployed laborers in indus
trlal centers for the current week the
situation is becoming serious, accord
ing to a statement issued tonight by
the United States Employment Serv
ice of the Department of Labor.
Since the signing of the armistice
there has béen a steady and consist
ent decrease in the shortages, while
the surplus has been steadily increas-
Ing. The percentage of cities report
ing a shortage has dropped to 13 per
cent, the cities reporting. surpluses
hag jumped to 44 per cent, and the
cities where the supply equals the de
mand has dropped to 43 per cent. On
December 10, 25 per cent of the cities
were short of laborers, 12 1.2 per cent
reported a surplus and 60 per cent re
ported a supply equal to the demand.
On December 3 there was a total
shortage of labor in industrial cen
ters of 34,000, This shortage has been
wiped out in eight weeks and a sur
plus of 210,000 substituted.
New England HMopeful,
In the New England States the sit
uation is hopeful. Boston and Spring
fleld report a supply equal to the
onds, but three or four very sturdy
young women overpowered her and held
her hands with firm grips.
Two women stepped out from the ring.
One of them drew a pair of scissors
from her shawl. She chopped the girl's
hair off short, straight across on a line
between the lobes of her earS. It took
om‘l‘y‘h. few seconds. »
e girl was turned loose. Her hmir
was thrown into the canal. The women
opened the circle to let her go away,
pulling their skirts around them. One
of the women grabbed the girl's walist,
tearing it nearly off. Some of them
spoke to her with scorn. The others
stood aside and looked at her as only
a !womta’:n can. -o) ’un
n other cases, the people rou.
women are tattooed with four little
marks on the cheek; still others have
the lobes of their ears ohlpf:‘d out.
“They deserve this treatment,” said
one of the women. ‘All the rest of us
have suffered for want of food and
clothing while these girls have gone
about with silks and having wines and
all the food they couk} eat—-—men butter
and sugar. If the girl had the favor of
an officer all she had to do was to ex
press a desire for anythinfdln a store
window. The German would give it to
her. Sometimes he would pay less than
the article was worth. Sometimes he
would pay nothing at all. Many times
he would put his own price, and there
was no argument,
“We have suffered a great deal at the
hands of the German officers. We have
been openly insuited, some of us_ fined
for slight affronts to German officers.
If you bumped into an officer on the
street you received an order to go to
the commandateur. The word of the
officer was never questioned. You were
fined whenever the commandateur want
ed to fine you, It was horrible, horrible.
Those dirty Germans! It Is not such
nice language, but it is the only thing I
can say.”
force on a dark and misty night and
lost seven vessels, he said fext night
the patrol went out again, thus showing
their pluesk. :
The idea of blocking Zeebruggs was
not his, but he got together a special
staff and special oqul&mem. and the
affair was perfected. e made a mov
ing reference to the gallant men at
rest in Dover Cemetry.
Th Mayer stated that a fund of $150,-
009 was to be started to commemorate
the Dover patrol by the erection of two
monuments on the cliffs at Dover and
at Cape Gris Nez, and by the provision
of a home for the men of the Dover
Patrol.
Lord Northeliffe supported the pro.-
posal for the memorial to the Dover
Patrol and undertook to raise $50,000
toward it,
This guarantee was received with en.
thusiastic cheers, and the fund was
started by subldflfl%’flt\l from Admiral
Keyes' two childfen and others,
Sir Roger Keyes unveiled a large bell
from Zeebrugge mole which the King
of the Belgians flvo him for presenta
tion to Dover. a bell had been used
ts ‘:lve warnings of attacks, and he
could tell the audience that it nn‘
g;etty loudly on the morning of Apri
‘homes for the war brides and their re
turning warrior husbands, as well as for
other newlyweds of the expiring and
coming years, is likely to become most
difficult of solution,” said Miss Phipps.
“The Government has a nlan for build
ing 300,000 small houses this year, but
this program ean not be carried out un
less there is a great increage in the
output of bricks. More brickyards will
kave to be opened.
“‘One can not help wonaering why the
materfal in the many thousands of army
huts and temporary barracks coudd rot
be used toward building the innumers
able homes needed. In them the Gov
ernment has mililons of feet of lumber,
acres of glass, thousands of doors and
mnl‘lonl of bricks that could be wused
again,
Also in the Government's temporary
offices there are miles of linoleum, hun
dreds of carpets and rugs, thousands of
chairs and tables, all of which would be
better to bestow upon wounded and
erippled heroes than practically give
them away to seqond-hand dealers,
“It I 8 estimated that during the war
there have been in Great Britaln nearly
160,000 more marriages than during the
{reocdlrr four years. Hundreds of
housands of young fellows concluded
they might as well ‘BO to It' hefore de
smlnc to be killed .in the trenches or
rowned by submarines, It is wonder
ful what a large percentage of these
young husbands are returning——some
rather unexgeetodly. rrh:gn.
“Du_rinf the war there has been no
house building, consequently there fg g
shortage of more than 500,000 homes,
expert economists say.
In addition there are a vast numbnr
of very old houses, with Abominable
plumbing and other drawbacks, that
ought to be pulled down.”
.
demand, and New Britain, Conn., re
ports a shortage. Lynn and Law
rence report a surplus of several
}lhnuund unemployed, but there has
‘been only a slight increase in the
‘number during the last few weeks,
‘ In New York State a surplus of la
bor is reported in every large city,
‘whuc iln New Jorsey and Pennsyl
‘vania the supply about ennals the He.
‘mand. In Cleveland the surplus has
increased from 40,000 1, 50 000 un
‘employed, with other Ohlo cities re
porting a similar condltltn.
| Middle West Has Surplus,
| The situation in tho Middle West
is far from satisfactory, Detroit has
a surplus of 25000, Grand Rapids,
Jackson and Flint al report a sur
plus. Illinots reports surpluses at al.
most every point and the expected
lay-off at the Rock Island arsenal will
affect both Illinois and Towa,
On the Pacific coast and in tha
Southern States the situation is not
80 acute, but a shortage In labor ex
isting in the larger cities of the two
sections is being rapidly reduced and
in auite a few instances changed into
a surplus,
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D. R. Francis Plans Paris
Trip; Then Coming Home
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan, 25.~David R
Francis, United States Ambassador to
Russia, now in London recoverina
from an operation, will g 0 to Paris
not later than February 1, and from
gmro he \‘v’m le‘uye égr the United
tates, said a dispa to the State
Department this alternoon,