The San Francisco call., 1913-08-24
Eminent Company of Sol
diers to Assemble in Sile-
sia on Personal Invita-
tons of Kaiser
10000 MEN INVOLVED
IN SHAM BATTLES
Progress in Worlds Fight
Against tuberculosis to Be
Set Forth in Conference


IN the world wide fight against tuber-
culosie be clearly set forth at the
elevent irrational anti-tuberculosis
conference TO be held this year in
Berlin from October % to 26. One evil
ueRce will be the attendance Twenty
eight states will be represented by
delegates, and although no cure" for
tuberculosis can be reported, encour-
aging progress will be recorded to-
ward the scontrol of the disease by
natural restorative means, food and
fresh air, and by modern methods of
sanitation. disinfection and isolation.
Or. +. +. Freidmann has not applied
Tor a place on the program, and, ac-
cording TO one member of the COM
mlttee of arrangements, none would
have been given him had he done so.
the German experts being more than
ever skeptical and insistent on the
submission of the Friedman serum
to the conventional tests before tax
ing the doctors pretentions seriously.
The American visitors to the confer
ence Will, however have opportunity
TO see the patients on whom DR.. Fried
mann based his original claims of sue
cess, eighteen months to two years
after treatment was begun and to
Judge how his claims have been borne
out by time.
TALKS ON TUBERCULOSIS
Aside from the social and business
sessions, the program shows reports
and discussions under the general
topics of Tuberculosis and Mankind -
'The Surgical Treatment of Tubercu-
1osis," THE Role Played by Life In
surance in the Struggle Against Tu-
berculosis." professional Schools for
Children Predisposed to Consumption .
and an afternoon devoted to misceI-
1aneous topics. American delegates
are expected to contribute largely to
the program. the United States being
admittedly in the lead in many re-
Epects in the successful handling of
tuberculosis problems. In Europe, al
though the Scandinavian countries.
particularly Sweden, have scored the
greatest results in combating the
white plague, Germany is considered
TO show the highest degree of organ
1zation.
The delegates will find that Germany
has made substantial progress since the
first Of these conferences in 1902 in re-
ducing the terrors Of consumption. From
the reports of 34S cities of more than
$4,000 population each, 1t appears that
the yearly death rate from tuberculosis
was reduced from 1926 per 10000 popu-
1ation in 1895 to 1870 in 1911. For the
whole kingdom OF Prussia the rate for
1912 was only 14.49. The reduction has
been particularly rapid in hospitals and
within Is years from 81 to II. In peni-
tentiaries and jails, formerly regarded
as breeding centers for tuberculosis
diseases, the mortality is now only
about one-sixteenth of what it was
some Is years ago.
GALAXY OF MILITARY MEN
Major General Leonard Wood. who
will attend this years grand or kaiser"
rnaneuvers in Silesia, September to
10, at the personal invitation of En-
peror William. will find himself in emf
nent and august company, the en-
perorrs other guests including General
Polio. chief of the general staff of the
italian army; General Ramon Ruiz chief
of the general STAFF of the army of the
Argentine republic; the king of Saxony;
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, head of
the Bavarian army; Prince Friedrich
Wilhelm Of Prussia, and long list of dis
tinguished German generals, headed by
Field Marshals Won der Goltz and count
Won Haeseler Even military women"
viii be represented. the emperor having
invited his sister, the hereditary princess
of Saxe-Meningen. in her capacity as
chief Of the Second Silesian Grenadiers,
to take part in the campaign on the ma
tive soil Of her regiment.
The kaiser maneuvers are held be-
tween two army corps and involves
about 10000 men. The emperor always
attends in person, for these are the
most important army exercises OF the
year. They are, however, preceded by
smaller maneuvers. in which the de-
mands upon the men and officers are
fully as great. Probably indeed, these
preliminary maneuvers are harder
test than the kaiser maneuvers, since
they start with the men not yet condi-
toned to the hardships of strenuous
campaigning.
WORK FOR SOLDIER
%a co1d he
and autumn maneuvers mean hard
work. long marches on hot days.
the fording of rivers. bridge building
and every actual hardship that a real
campaign can bring except wounds. But
the private is in some ways TO be en-
vied when compared to the officers of
the rank OF major and upward The
latter IL is true have no so pound pack
or rifle to carry. and they are on horse
back, but an officer gives every COM
mand with the consciousness that sharp
eyed observers are watching him and
that an error may and probably will end
his military career. Every commissioned
officer under normal conditions eventu-
ally becomes a major as matter of
course: whether he goes higher depends
upon the yearly maneuvers.
The officers test begins when the
brigade divides for maneuvers Each
major is likely to be entrusted with the
command of his side for day, and a
brigadier general and force OF umpires
observe him. The division maneuvers
bring more opportunities for the
colonels, and the corps maneuvers fur
nish the final test.
Manifold are the pitfalls awaiting
the commander of any unit. He may
become excited in the heat OF the sham
battle and fail to keep well behind his
men, as a commanding officer should
do Presently an orderly from the gem
eral staff observers approaches him.
Colonel" he announces. you and your
orderlies and staff have been killed.
You will please withdraw"
The commanding officers are held
strictly to a high degree of perfection.
Not only are mistakes counted against
them but any officer who uneasy at
the close scrutiny to which he is sub
1ected, becomes nervous and excited,
is lost There is no room for the
nervous and excitable officer In high
places in the German army. Errors in
the disposition Of his forces may on
occasion be overlooked but the general
staff which represents the emperor.
demands that men intrusted with COM
mand over others shall have no nerves.
LIVES SOMETIMES LOST
Occasionally the maneuvers cost a
life or two. Colonel Bode, for instance,
commander OF the Fifty ninth regi-