Zurich Herald, 1915-07-30, Page 2GS
HE SES
MMIS OCCASIONAL-
LP THEMSELVES.
Away With a Precious
and Fell in a
Mudhole.
a military, term for ae-
tithing without paying far
crime to be caught looting
ish Army; the punishment
Ct's worse than that, how -
're caught by the owner.,
now what the German
e, but if it's anything like
If an indignant French
't must be pretty aw-
e S. Harris Deans in
my had one experi-
ook my nerves so
lways put my hands
id whistle whenever
hat doesn't belong to
urse, it looks like
ants cherishing.
night, "some-
three of us went
d. It was pretty
ed the salad "by the
ng charted the ground
Young 'Ills seeured the let-
cottie found something which
ted was sorrel, though whyhe
it was sorrel, or what led him
to suppose it was edible even if it.
was, he didn't know. I—this was not
heroism; it was simply lack of
thought—I carried the onions.
th
in th is
no mea , b • ation to _ say
with th:. •, of yet a year old,
number of soldiees with amputat-
limbs in all the belligerent come-
s already is not short of 50,000.
1,000 Maimed Soldiers.
I visited a number of the hospitals
ngland and France, and conferred
h many of the surgeons. I was tak-
by the distinguished surgeon, Dr.
ler, of the Maison-Blanche Hospi
some 12 miles out of Paris, and
e I saw in one enclosure, 1,000
Idlers on whom .amputation had
n performed. Some had lost a
some both legs, some one arm,
e both arms; and I saw one poor
low both of whose legs and hands
been shot off.
'The AT.aison-Blanche is a hospital
considerable . size, and is used ex-
iv:i•w. for soldiers who are conal -
mg after an amputation. It
1,00 beds, and I was told that it
been filled fifteen times since the
began. This is only one of many
spitals in France •: where patients
o have experienced amputation are
ed for
"The artificial limb manufacturers
France are few and their product
archaic. The maximum output of
the artificial limb makers in
ranee is not more than 100 limbs a
onth, so I was told, and it takes a
.each manufacturer from three to
re months to fill an order. His
nited equipment being now over-
xed, and most of his regular em -
oyes now being in the army, there
now no prospect of an increase in
e output.
' Trench surgeons realize that the
.ench maimed can be better equip -
d and be more fully restored to
eir ability to resume their former
notions by American artificial limbs
an by any other kind. French soldi-
s who are thus supplied will be able
return quickly to their homes,
rile those who choose to remain in
e service can perform clerical work,
king the places of able-bodied men.
io will thus be released for the
int.
Suggests Relief Scheme.
"The French are asking that Am-
lean artificial limb factories be es-
blished over there so that the de-
rnd may be net on the spot, but I
not believe that it would be prac-
able for an American " manufactur-
of any proportions to establish a
-tory in France .that would be corn-
msurate with the demand. It
uld require too much time and ex -
se. In my opinion a better plan is
each hospital in Prance to ap-
nt as many surgeons, nurses, or
^dens as possible to measure the
tiers for artificial ' limbs and send
measurements to the United
es, and when the limbs are sent
to have the -same measurers ad=
thews: Neither measuring nor
g is difficult, as full instructions
,,sue'd. " We ourselves will under-
to guarantee both construction
perfect fit.
he method I suggested to the
nch surgeons is the one adopted
the Panama Canal Commission in
plying artificial limbs to employes
were maimed during the eon-
ction of the canal, and was found
• e entirely satisfactory. If this
hod is adopted by the European
ntries, the maimed soldiers will be
sipped in thequickest possible
3leesed is the woman whose hus.
ed can always findwhat he is look -
for Ju.a
twhere he left it.
, f
On our way to the barn where we
were billeted, we ran into the lady
who. owned the farm. She looked
quite effective in the moonlight; her
sleeves were turned up and she was
leaning on a pitchfork. She had the
air of an avenging angel, except that
she hadn't much of an air of an an-
gel. This was the same lady who had
pursued, a few days previously, one
of our number into the gun park, with
a poker in her hand, alleging that he
owed her a sdu.
.A Ten -Minute Job.
It took the guard, the sergeant-ma-
jor,-
ergeant-major,• official interpreter, and seven
amateur ones, ten minutes'.. persua-
sion beforethey got. rid of her; and
even then I think it was the sou they
gave her more than the persuasion..
As soon as we got within range
she opened fire, and as the wind was
RUSSIAN PORT IN POSSESSION OF GERMANS
The above view is of the harbor of Libau, in 13altic Russia, showing the Russian vessels taken by the
Germans when they occupied the place. In the foreground is seen a German torpedo boat flotilla.
blowing in our direction she did great
damage.
"No compels," we said, at every op-
portunity,, but we were like three
broken -winded pea -shooters opposed
to a -"Jack Johnson."
Young 'Ills, with lettuce sprouting
through his tunic until he looked like
one of those earthenwarefiguresthey
plant with grass seed, pointed to the
moon, and. did the goose step to indi-
cate we had been for an evening
stroll.
Scottie, who had the sorrel in his
cap—which was cooling for his head,
but bad for the salad—wiped his per-
spiring brow and tried to indicate,,
without being too indelicate, that we
had been for a bathe.
As for me, not being a linguist, I
just stood around trying to keep the
onions quiet. -
In the end it was the_ onions that
gave us away. We were all. four re-
volving in a circle, with the prongs
of the pitchfork as theaxis, when a
gust of wind carried the odor , of
onions towards the farmeress, and
before we could clap p, respirator;n•
her, we were discovered.
She blackmailed us two w frame for
that crushed and scrubby salad, and
ten minutes later the . S.M. came sir
and trod on it, and ran us all in for
E C
(IT'S A FOOD)
Tlie consumption of City Dairy Ice Cream is in-
creasing every season. The local dealer has not the
facilities, besides he mak es so little that he cannot
turn out a uniform Ice Cream. Discriminating shop
keepers everywhere are selling City Dairy Ice
Cream instead of their own make, and their patron.
age is increasing because City Dairy Ice Cream is
better and the quality is uniforms.
We want aro Agent in everytown.
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having an illumination after "lights
out."
`The Great Temptation.
The eggs were a great temptation,
however. As Lew said,; if _ you go
in your barn and find, a hen's been and
laid an egg on your " bed-well,you
aren't going to tread on it. Certainly
not; you pick it up and carry it over
to the kitchen: and, give ' it to the
cook to -look after for you until,: tea
time.
The official •.hen roost . was ;':next
door to the guard -room; all welled'is
ciplined 'hens went in there _tor lay;
it was only the stragglers, who laid
about just anywhere and gave us
others a chance of a stray egg. ' I
never knew a guard guard so well as
our guard guarded that chicken house.
If it hadn't been for the fact that we
ill had {urns of being on guard, there
would have .been a mutiny.
Men whom a "Jack" Johnson" would
r at wake up ordinarily, would jrunp
up 'end grab for their rifles at the
emirs; of rn egg -shell when on guard.
Only one man, to my knowledge,
c er sukeeeded in getting away with
•sur egg from the guard -room.
Sjput 'Murphy was his name. , He
had to wriggle about 50 yards across
muddy ' ground -to pass the sentry,
and crowd through a. small slot cut
in the door to get to the nest. Just
as he was fumbling in the dark, the
guard heard hini, and turned out.
Spud madea hurried grab, got an
egg, and turned and ran for his life;
followed by the guard; they had
strict orders to prevent looting, and
they meant catching Murphy and get-
ting that egg. They'd have fired at
him only the report might have
brought the lady farmer out, with the
risk of her claiming the egg. They
chased Murphyover three fields and
through four ditches before they gave
up. And then they only gave up be-
cause Murphy fell in ea midden, and
they had to fish him . out with long
poles. When they'd rescued him,
they laid him ' under a pump and
pumped water on him..
"Have you broken the egg?" they
inquired after they'd pumped on him
for ten minutes and could get near
enough to converse in comfort.
"N -no," said 1Vlurphy; "I reckon it's
a stale egg, it seems . pretty hard."
That egg bounced twice, before it
broke; it was a chinanest egg.
THE GERMAN -AMERICAN
SITUATION.
Will :It• Lead to. War?
Many people in this ,country think
the last word has been said, and that
war is inevitable.
The recent . reply of Germany's
minister.' to Pres. Wilson's last note is
far from assuring, and may be sum-
med up as raising " the wrath of
Americans still higher at the Kaiser's
impudent and evading special plead-
ing.
Ever since the mapping out by
Germany of the so-called "warzone,"
wliieh includes a large strip of neu-
tral waters of the ocean over which
she has no rights of exclusion, what-
ever, this country and Germany have
been in controversy, accentuated at
times by sinking the ships of neutral
nations, and finally by the sinking of
the great British liner the Lusitania
and the loss of :many lives, including
115 Americans, under circumstances
ofwicked, wanton cruelty.
America, basing her claims upon
the law of nations, recognized the
world over since civilization began,
demands that the rights of neutrals
and of non-combatants be respected
on the open sea' by all belligerents.
Germany, • while not denying these
rights tinder international lawe.
claims that Great Britain's attitude
in shutting off the impartation of all
food stuff's, ete., justifies her sub-
marine warfare as the only means
she has of proper retaliation for this
deprivation.
The negotiations between Germany
aid America have proceeded several
months, 'end the two nations now seem
to be as far apart as when they be-
gan, so far, as settling the rights of
neutrals andnen-combatants on the:
high -seas is concerned. •
There are two supreme considers
tions byy which the U.S. must be
guided in the course she ,adopts:
First, her own rights ; and the rights
of her citizens; and second, her moral
obligations . to those humanitarian
ideals which she has always pro-
fessed.
Germany claims that she was
forced into this war, and is facing "em-
battled Europe in defense of her very
existence. That foodstuffs are ex-
empt from the rule, of- contrabrand,
and that her submarine warfare was
made necessary by Great Britain's
announcement to cut off all imports of
food and other essentials to her ex-
istence'
and that, faced by starvation,'
she had no other • recourse than to
strike back by the submarine, the
only means at. her elisposal. She
claims that the submarine cannot
•
open ate under-- the reco
naval warfare, regeir'
s�ax�.ri,:a�,•i,,,Yice
neutrals: a•1 .non' . bateenes, " an
this being so,- these rules, should be
waived.
She also claims that the"; British
Admiralty has offered inducements to
merchant vessels to ram submarines,
and that this fact exempts such ves-
sels from the operations ' of inter-
national law, and while she asserts
her humanitarian impulses, she in-
sists that these must not interfere
with her' obligations to her' own citi-
zens. It is on these grounds she
justifies the destruction of the Lusi-
tania, and refrains from giving.
America the assurance it has demand-
ed that submarine warfare shall con-
form to the rules of naval warfare.
Back of` these considerations is the
German viewpoint concerning "Na.
t'ional destiny," and war as a means
of its achievement, as set forth boldly
in von Bernhardi's great book, which
has become, so to speak, the. German
mom
oaQ e',r
jlIr. il.
pre
of ha
ism 'stead of
ciate the' Germ
incentive of h
end justifies t
means the. glo
German Kultz
German citizen
world, a new hu
ed, purified and b
Nietzsche's "Der.
or, will to power,
plriloeophy of the
in • a nut -shell.
From this we ea
the German mind,
point, may regard 1
tection'`of neutrals
ants as less import
to use any weapon
festive' in extending
German "Will to pow
Of 'course, America
nize any abridgment o
her citizens, simply bee
bitrary . mapping out o
The physical "limitatior
marines do not exempt
ing with the rules of vi
provision for safety of
non-combatants before
treme measure of sinki
volved.
All this is forcibly s<
President's 'communise
of Germany's ple
Frits s o z nrty !ar
{
the eessities`of war
blockaded situation is
cidents Qf war due 'to
the allies holdin posit
strength and for which
no way responsible.
Germany refuses, or s
our demands, and she
cede the rights of trave'
ace - on the merchant f.
gerent nations, and if "1
word on the subject, I
other alternative than
of war, or a square bac]
tion by. one party or th
many can rest assured
Will never, recede fever
and if war comes Am
there with all the .f.rc
ible resources and
ery.
Denver
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