Semi-weekly herald., 1915-06-21

today-enjoy this easy, pleasant laxa-
tive.
said that the Austrian army was not
as well drilled as the German, neither
was it as well equipped, which was
also admitted. Finally the Austrian
said: But we have the advantage of
you in one respective have a better
ally than you have.
The Germans have accused the Aus
trians of being too lax in their me-
thods and have said that anybody
could get into Austria without any
trouble. After these accusations had
gone on a long time Austria became
more exacting as to her visitors, and
got into Austria just in time "a
become victim to fresh and close
system of scrutiny. This was admit.
ted by the commissioner who had mt
in charge at Innsbruck.
| Vienna is Beautiful.
Vienna is a beautiful city Of mort
than two millions of inhabitants. This
is the only large capital which is far
down toward southeastern Europe,
where all the political and military
troubles for some years past have
been happening. Vienna is on the
/ great Daunbe river, which is broad
and carries great body of water,
the current running at about six
miles an hour. Boats can go down
stream rapidly but require lots of fuel
to go up stream. The Danube has
been conspicuous in the history of
: that part of the world. 1t leads to
Asia practically, and it empties itself
into the Black sea.
:, When there are troubles at Con-
: stantinople the news is general wired
from Vienna, and this is also true
( when there are revolutions in the
Balkan states. Vienna, therefore, is
the center of many kinds of trouble. If
conspirators are at work in Austria
|, Hungary, they make their headquart-
ers in Vienna, which also applies to
troubles emanating from the Balkans.
American Nurses.
/ Vienna has given much attention to
art, and could almost be called the
home of music. There are beautiful
monuments and buildings in Vienna,
, the streets of the city are clean and
. -lS-- i---- isnantifn marks Her stores
are also beautiful and attIactively
I arranged. Vienna has been compared
p to Paris, but it is not necessary to
compare her to any city. In many re-
. spects she is superior to Paris. In
recent years Vienna has become cele-
, brated as the center of medicine and
surgery.
, While in that city we visited the
, American Red Cross hospital in charge
OF DR.. A. Cary A. Snoddy, whose per-
manent home is at Knoxville, Tenn.
He has as assistants DR.. p A. Smith,
of Oklahoma and DR.. Fred G. Ben
ton, also an American. All the sur
geons are Americans and the nurses
are American.
The miscellaneous management of
the hospital is under the direction of
the military which relieves the sur
geons and others of a number of
cares and assists in making the organ
ization work smoothly. l have visited
many American hospitals in Europe,
some OF which to the casual abserv-
er would seem to need a directing
head-a boss. This criticism, how
ever, does not apply to the American
Red Cross hospital in Vienna.
Schools for Hospitals.
The hospital oaccupies a series of
new school buildings. DR.. Snoddy is
yet young man but has had charge
of hospital work in the Spanish
American war as a surgeon in the
United States army. He is modest
= but efficient and thoughtful. He said
that there had been but one amputa-
ton in the hospital since it was OPEN
ed several months ago Il think he
began his work in October.)
He called my attention to the ar
rangement of the building and its
rooms and said that all the public
school buildings in Austria construct
ed during the past few years were
arranged with hospital purposes in
view in anticipation of wars, and
these buildings seemed so well adapt
ed to hospital work that | am salts
fled he was correct in his statement. |
Avoid Amputations.
Modern military surgery refuses to
perform amputations until every other
recourse has failed. We saw men
with limbs which had been patched up
where the bones had been mended and
where fingers had been Strengthened
and where the men had been mt in