Evening journal., 1914-11-25
protecting ARMIES
AGAINST cholera
Vienna Paints Roads With
WhitewaSh to Kill
Germs
NO FOOD SUPPLY
IN SUSPECTED PLACES
BY MILLIAM G. snEPnERp.

PRzEMYSL, Oct. 2S.-(By Mail to
New York; The road from Vienna
TO the town in Galicia (name cut out !
by CENSOR where the Austrian T
"kriegspresse quarter" is establish
ed is a great White way"
Jack London may tell of his great |
white way in snowbound Alaska. |
George Cohan may chant Of his own
Great White Way" in New York.
There are other white ways" that
are interesting But this one out
does them all.
Having called at the press head
quarters in Vienna, received my in
structions and then been formally
accredited as correspondent with
the Austrian army, | received a sum-
mons to be at the depot az seven
o'clock in the morning.
Before we had gone many miles
discovered that we we're traversing
Great White Way" First I no.
ticed that a pile of coal at wayside
station had been whitewashed.
White-washing coal is an old joke at
my home and my sense of humor was
struck Immediately. / thought that
perhaps a carload of lime might ac-
cidentally have been overturned on
the coal. Then the matter left my
attention until we came to another
station. Here was another white
washed coal pile. Then I noticed
that the cement pavement Of the de-
pot platform and the cinder patti
ways between the tracks were also
white. The whiteness was aplashed
everywhere. I saw it on poles and
posts about the station yard, man
high. II was on the steps of the
cars. 1t had been thrown on car
wheels and even on car roofs.
The choleral | was getting my
first view of the many methods which
/ the great medical men of Vienna are
using to fight the tiny terrible germs
which the Russian prisoners bring
with them into Austria-H Hungary One
minute germ may slay a townful Of
! humans and that one tiny germ must
be found and killed. He's a deadlier
/ foe than a Russian; a deadlier than
one hundred thousand Russians.
And so our great white way grew
winter and whittier as we neared Field
postant No. 10. But / was TO see
more Of the cholera signs as ! went
on nearer the lighting ground. Be
fore we left Vienna, a young lieu
tenant named Rado gave me some
advice:
"You must be careful Of your
health" he said. That's the chic
thing. You will be Obliged to submit
J to an injection of anti-chOlera serum
, It won't hurt you a bit and may d'
you much good
The medical men of Vienna have
SO thoroughly instructed the Aus
tro-Hungarian officers in the matter
of taking preventive measures against
cholera that the lieutenant who was
acting as my escort was doctor
wise" about the disease and would
not permit me to buy any food at the
wayside stations.
Il have telegraphed ahead to a
large town to have a good dinner
brought TO us on the train he said
We we're dead hungry by the time
our train drew into the white-washed
railroad yard. but no dinner came ia
us. Instead there came railroad
official wearing a military cap.
I'VE have a cholera suspect IN the
depot." he said, "and we have closed
! the restaurant You wouldn't want
anv food from it anyhow. It's better
to go hungry"
We decided that it was better and
we did. Just as the soldier believes
that there is only one bullet out o
all the millions OF bullets marked FOL
him. so along the great white way
Won find yourself believing that on
, of the multitudes of cholera germs
there is one that bears your name oi
his back and if you can only dods'
him you're safe.
, We went hungry for another tive
hours until we came TO a station
where no cholera suspect had been
I'm sure that American soldier
would not behave more intelligent
or careful under the circumstances
in fact, in Mexico. saw our soldier
disobey health rules with a reckless
ness that would mean almost certai
death in Galicia now.
II was nearly midnight when "
drew into the whitewashed yards {
the town in Galicia (name cut out b
censor). Autos we're waiting for u
and our luggage and we made IN
last fifteen miles of our twenty hou
tourney wrapped in big blanket
speeding through the wintry air.
These hills we're covered wit
snow two weeks ago" explained III
lieutenant "but warm spell can
and melted it,"
The end of our trip was a sma
interior town where the Kriegspress
auartier is established.