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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
MASEF|ELD RETURNS FROM DARDENELLES Hospital Barge Which He Raised Money to Equip
 Is Refused

London, December 5.-(Special )-John
 Masefield is back from the Dardanelles. He went out there with hospital barge
 which was bought and equipped as one
 understands. with funds collected by the poet himself, plus. generous donation from his own pocket. but ono of his friends tells me that the military powers that be in Gallipoli declined to accept it. A good many people would be too much nettled by such an experience to attempt further work in the same direction, but Masefield. am told, after brief rest, will once more devote himself to Red Cross work, as he has done since the beginning of the war. He was for some- time an ''ordery'' at the Bradley Martin hosuital in France, it may be remem- bered, and then returned to England to raise funds for a mobile hospital for women and children which. at the time, was badly needed.
 Of course the military authorities at the Dardanelles may now have all the nursing equipment they need, and be in a position to give scurvy treatment to pa triotic offers to help, but such was far from the situation at the outset Some of the first Red Cross nurses that were sent out from England found such a shortage of materials for bandages. among other things, that they were forced to | utilize their own underclothing as such, | and continued to do this until mere de- cency compelled them to cease .For over a fortnight" declared one of them to me the other day. i've had to see | those poor fellows brought in, horribly
 mangled, and were able to do practically | nothing for them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
EUROPEAN MEN OF | FUTURE WILL BE AN INFERIOR LO1 War Already Telling Eugen- ican Story Among the Belligerent Nations WILL TAKE A CENTURY FOR REHABILITATION European States Existence Threat ened by More Virile America and
 Asia-War Increases Crim-
 inality and Suicide
By A. F. LAKAsTER

The Hague, December 5.-(SpeeiaL) War will leave Europe crippled and de- crepit in body and mind. The future will see generations of unGersized, feeble men, tainted hereditarily, unfit for work, given to vice, crime and parasitism. The healthy, the bold and the moral will be wiped out. There will be fewer men and women; and what there are, will be of lower quality. X century of peace will be needed to redeem them. These are conclusions of the statisi;eians and social experts who watch the course of the war.
 They base their conclusion on the dis appearance from civil life of the healthy and young; on tlfe killing off of the healthy and of the suspension of parent age in the socially most valuable classes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
Execution of Miss Cdvell Has
 Sent 100000 Men to COlors

London, December 5.-(Special )-"It has brought 10000 men to the colors."
 That is what the execution in Brussels of Edith Cavell has done in England, in the opinion of an official of the gov ernment who has to do with recruit ing. Not one thing that has happened in this long war of dreadful events has done more to arouse the British people to that fever heat of passion for which their political leaders have been longing. Happenings in Belgiun-the sack of Lou vain, the alleged atrocities, killing of women and children--even the Zeppelin raids of London, with trail of dead and dying noneombatants left behind, have served little to stimulate the Briton when compared to the result on the nation from the execution of Miss Cavell. Were there any chance of premature peace or of compromise it is now gone. for, despite the bickerings of the politicians which is taken as a sign of weakness and dis tress, the people are more than ever determined to win the war. And the in- dications are that the reople are about to take hand in running the war. Nurse CavelPs death is to considerable degree responsible.
 As a stimulus to recruiting it came at an apt time-just when the voluntary system was being given it's last trial before the nation resorted to compulsory service. Lord Derby's scheme for rais- ing 100000 or 2,OOo,0oo more men by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
DRlNK HOT WATER lF YOU DESIRE A ROSY COMPLEXION says , we can't help but look
 better and feel better
 after an inside bath.

To look ones best and feel one's best
 IS to enjoy an inside bath each morn-
 ing to flush from the system the pre-
 vtOuS days waste, sour fermentations
 and poisonous toxins before it is ab- i sorbed into the blood Just as coal, when 1t burns, leaves behind a eer-
 tain amount of incombustible material : in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken each day leave in the ali- mentary organs a certain amount of < 1ndfgeSttble material, which if not eliminated, form toxins and poisons (which are then sucked into the blood sthrough the very ducts which are in . 8tended to suck in only nourishment to Sustain the body
 If you want to see the glow of Iahealthy bloom in your cheeks, to SC. &your skin get clearer and clearer, you 5are told to drink every morning upon
 arising, glass of hot water with a &teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in &it. which is a harmless means of wash &lng the waste material and toxine Efrom the stomach, liver, kidneys and Fbowels, thus cleansing, sweetening and Epurifying the entire alimentary tract, Ebefore putting more food into the stom- Each.
 # Men and women with sallow skins, E1ver spots, pimples or pallid com Eplexion, also those who wake up with ID coated tongue, bad taste, nasty Epreath, others who are bothered with
 neadaches, bilious spells, acid stomach <br constipation should begin this phos- #ohated hot water drinking and are
 issured of very pronounced results in Epne or two weeks.
 # A quarter pound of limestone phos- #phate costs very little at the drug #Ftore but is sufficient to demonstrate &hat just as soap and hot water Mleanses, purifies and freshens the
 bkin on the outside so hot water and Rhinestone phosphate act on the inside We must always consider that
 nternal sanitation is vastly more inn #portant than outside cleanliness be- #auses the skin pores do not absorb
 Impurities into the blood, while the & &owel pores do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
Europe for the Europeans"
'entury Magazine.

FIOIl tfle century MaSaZlne.
 There are two sides to the Monroe doctrine-the American for the Americans and the inevitable corollary, Europe for the Europeans. And while the Europeans are only scornfully tolerant of the first proposition, they are inclined to be scrup- ulcusly insistent on the second It has been maxim of modern diplomacy that the United States has no interest in Tu- rope. Any intervention on our part is an intervention has been solicited-are amusing. The people who from time to time have invited us to the council table of Europe have done so because they thought we would vote on their side and they have at once become vehement ad- vocates of the Monroe doctrine if we opposed them.
 There has never been a time, for in- stance. when the British press has had so many kind words to say for the Mon- roe doctrine as when at The Hague con- ference our delegates showed signs of siding with Germany in regard to the freedom of the seas. At that time the English would have been willing to recog- nize our protectorate, even annexation. of all South America if we would only go home and not vote on this purely Euro pean issue.
 'uninformed public opinion in the na- tions of the entente group would like to see us abandon our traditional attitude and protest against the German violation of her treaties. but the British diplomats certainly would not. We should also have to protest against their occupation of the neutral Greek isles. The French foreign office certainly remembers that we dc ,1r.f r.pn ct xxyhn <<x, cras treaty. and the government clique in Russia are not anxious to have us start any judicial inquiry intto atrocities They have ravaged too much of East Prussia and Galicia themselves to be en. thusiastic for atrocity protests.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12

well-equpped factories and shops with out masters; and there will be vast ac- cumulations of capitai threatened with to control them. To some extent the sur viving healthy women will adapt them- selves to conditions and work will go on as before. But where will such wom- en get husbands. They will not take them from the physically and mentally unfit; and the supply of physically and mentally fit men will be far less than the demand. Europe will probably be flood ed with fortune hunters from all quarters of the earth Strong and capable men from somewhere must come to replace the strong and capable whom tho war has destroyed" In this way Europe may find salvation from the physical and moral desolation which is the fruit of universal WAT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12

there is a shoemaker in the Rue de Ia Paix. in Paris, who won't take a first order for less than 5000.
 T once visited his shop. The costliest pair of shoes he showed me was made of feathers, the iridescent feathers oi the humming bird.'
 Did you get pair?" asked Wich itan
 "No." the duchess answered. q didn't get a pair. I was afraid they'd givt me 8 down at the heel appearances"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12

voluntary method was just being ini- tiated at the moment An organized pro- gramme of recruiting had been set under way when came the news of the execu- ton. The press of the nation burned with the story. Recruiting speakers took it up. From one end of the island to the other the tale was told and told again.
 Who will avenge the death of this no- ble martyr?" was the cry, and recruit after recruit stepped to the front There is no telling just how many men, un- certain in their own minds about joining
 the forces, not sure on the one hand whether they were needed most now, wa vering over the sacrifice of personal in- terests, reached their decision when the foreign office published the reports from seems likely that England is going to escape the ignominy of being obliged to
 resort to conscription. If England does Nurse Cavell will not have died in vain. 1 Nurse Cavell was executed because she assisted certain enemies of Germany in escaping from Belgium to join their ar miles, The German authorities in Brus- 1 sells carried out the sentence as an ex-
 ample to others, to prevent further es- | capes of fit men from that country so
 l that they might not again bear arms I against Germany and cause the loss of | German soldiers. From this point of 1 view it was proved a mscaculation for
 l in possibly preventing a few militarily fit men escaping from Belgium the action
 has sent thousands to the British army and ere long they will be in France,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
A Duchess, Wit

From the Washington Star.
 The Duchess of Manchester, one of our American duchesses. was talking on the St. Louis about French shoe makers. M
 Tt Is positively true, she said. "that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
WOMEN ALSO DECLINE

Lack of healthy fathers is aggrayated by decline in the number of healthy mothers. Since the snen disappeared women have done much of mems work; and this means injuring health and neg iecting children. Germany's medical Journals say that female overworlx is in- creasing the maternity mortality, the mortality among very young children and the mortality among children from
 accidents. "Germany's iron and coal pro-
 ouctlon, says the medical inspector of Bielefeld, lis only IS per cent under pea ce figures. This, though nearly all the healthy miners and metal workers are With the army. The rough work is being done by women. That is the hardest work. It means that the women are n-
 turing their health; and that their fam lhes are suffering. Young girls who ought to be learning housekeeping are dragging coal wagons. They will prove
 unfit for mothers The work done by women may prove glorious page in our national defense. but It will have dis astrous influence on the health of genera tlons to come"
 Europe's worst dread is that it will
 never get back from the fronts it's healthy males At least no longer in health. The belligerent states are flooded with returned wounded or invalided soldiers All are in bad health; and only a small proportion recover. Germanys chief army medical inspector, Otto von Schier- ming, says that the slightly wounded re- cover immediately, and that the badly wounded never really recover at all The | slightly wounded are kept in field or base | hospitals and do not come home The l thousands who come home are weakened | by bloodshed, are limbless or blind. bic proportion are suffering from traumatic | neurosis and other nervous afflictions | caused by pain, shock or fright The, l are unfit to be fathers. But no check
 Is put upon them; and they join the home l staying unfit, immoral and insane ir | producing unfit children to plague flu.
 ture generations. The eugenic results oI
 the breeding of the unit wounded vii prove even worse than she loss of births
 which result from the killing off of fath. ers For every one dead man ther, will be four or five wounded men, al more or less injured in their capacit, l of fathers. Estimates put France, l wounded at 900,0O0. Germany's at 1.3O0. .OO ! and Russias at 2,10O00o. Such of thes, l as have been made physically unfit re
 main physically unfit; the others slight, wounded, are cured and sent back to tn, front; and this will be repeated until the, l are killed, maimed or made incurably un fit. The chief belligerent countries vii I not get back many of their fighting male
 in healthy state.
 SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT
 Pessimists say that this var will hay for the belligerents the same effect a had the 30-year war. The present wa will not last 30 years, but 1t can do mor damage in three The s0-years' wa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12

| dren of the unfit fathers left behind are proving inferior. Municipal Councillor 1 Ebert predicts that worse effects will be | seen a year hence. After another F months of war;" he says, ''the results may be such as will threaten our exis- tence as a nation. The young, healthy men now approaching manhood would normally marry and have healthy chill dren. They will be drafted to the front; and one more year of healthy posterity | will be lost. Soon nearly every man whose 1 physique is not hopeless will be at the | front, and only those whose physique I is hopeless will become fathers. From the l standpoint of national safety, this may not matter much. All the other belliger- | ent nations are in the same way. But I it will be fatal after the war from the i standpoint of national efficiency and ] commercial and industrial success The i European states will see their existence l threatened by the peoples of America and | Asia who have not violated in war the i first law of eugenics-breed from the fit" l Europe's states are here not all affect- 1 ed to the same extent Worst off are ! Germany and France, which have sent
 nearly every fit citizen to the front. Next | come Italy and Austria. In proportion to | population, Italy and Austria have small l CT armies than Germany and France Russia is better off still. She has 175,- 1 00o,000 citizens against Germany's 67000,- | 900, but Germany has put more men in | the field Great Britain is still better l off only small fraction of her healthy male population is at the front. The
 hundreds of thousands of soldiers kept
 under arms in England are gaining in l health and brain. From the standpoint | of moral and mental health, Austria suf- 1 fers most.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT

1 Pessimists say that this var will have | for the belligerents the same effect as had the 30-year war The present war will not last 30 years, but 1t can do more
 damage in three The sO-years' war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-12
INCREASES CRIMINALITY

t1cles to show how war increases crim-
 irality The articles were stopped by the
 censor. Figures published by the An
 thropological society show that since war
 began crime, suicide and lunacy have gone up, and that the rate of increase is
 progressive. In six months of war Vi enna's population fell by 75,000. The 75 GOO
 were men sent to the front. The number of crimes and offenses increased The men taken for the army nearly all be-
 longed to socially fit classes; the crimi- nals, parasites and psycaical degenerates remained behind and these produce more crime and disorder than in peace time The war" says the president of the city police commission, relaxed re straints; the good moral influence of the socially better classes was removed be- cause all members of these classes were on the battlefield Six months after war broke out crime reached it's zenith; after that 1t declined little; now it is going up again, and reduced cIvil population IS producing as much crime as the normal population did in peace time Only the
 weddings and criminals are reproduc- ing their kind. Children born after the first year of war will practically all be tainted by heredity. To be a war child
 will be an indication not of honor but of shame. If the war lasss altogether three years, we shall have q three-years
 growth of population entirely springing
 from the unfit"
 Suicide is badly increasing in Germany and Austria. In Germany, figures for
 Munich show suicide increase during
 1915 of per cent. In Upper and Lower Austria suicides aEe fifth more numer-
 ous than in peace time. The number of
 male suicides in proportion to the mum.
 Der of males at home Is two and a half times greater than in peace. The suicides are all among the unfit; there are now only unfit. In Moravia war psychosis takes the form of religious mania, ending in suicide. Budapest municipality reports that it's birth rate has fallen off IS per cent; and that the ratio of stillborn chi- dren and unhealthy children to normal children has doubled s.nc., Ira Star. 1o1s
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
Mrs. Bennett Dead.

Sunday evening Jan. 81 at 7.30
the death angel visited the home of
B. T. Bennett and claimed his dev-
oted wife, who was a Miss Nellie
Afford before marriage. She was a
member of the Second Baptist
Church and always took a deep in
terest in religious work. She leaves
besides her husband an infant baby
aged mother, three brothers and five
sisters to morn her loss. We extend
our heart felt sympathy to them.
Mrs. R. Breitling, of Mississippi
Ave. received a letter Monday an
nouncing the death of her uncle
Geo. J. Schepp, one Of the best
known Germans in New Orleans.
He. was IS years Of age and en-
Gagged in the real estate business
Mrs. Breitline received the news toe
late to attend the funeral services
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
BAND MEMBERS GIVEN
Bic ENTERTAINMENT
Good Things TO Eat. And
They Give Some Talks.

The members of the Y. M. c. A.
Band were entertained at their
rooms In the Association building on
last Tuesday night. After having
enjoyed a light luncheon, while
seated around the festive board,
different ones were called upon for
short talks. C. A. Piedra spoke first
and proved his ability as an orator.
MIR. Piedra is the leader of the band
and his remarks were very helpful
and encouraging to all present. w.
E. Seldner acted as Toast Master
and kept things going. He is one
of the oldest and most experienced
band men in Bogalusa and thinks
that the prospects are brighter now
for the band than ever before. Mr..
Seldner stated, Our band at present
is an organization to be proud of
and judging from the progress being
made, in six months time the 7. NJ.
C. A. Concert Band will compare
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04

The program at the Magic City
Theatre next week is one of the best
that has been shown at this popular
house for some time. Saturday
the last and best installment OF
The Trey o. Hearts in three reels
will be shown. Monday Warren
Kerrigan as Terrence O'Rourke in
Inn Of The Winged Gods. also
unique comedy, played entirely by
animals will be shown. Wednes-
day Grace Cunard and Francis Ford
will appear in The District Attorneys
Brother. It's a Long way to Tip
peray will also be shown. Thursday
Mary Fuller in Heart of The Hills.
and another installment of The Per-
lis of Pauline.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
BOGALuSA, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1915.
BOCALUSA MAN WAS
APPOINTED SUPERVISOR
MIR. Lindsey Before Police
Jury TO Talk Finance

The Police Jury of Washington
Parish met at Frankinton on Tues
day. Finances, as usual was the
principal theme of discussion. Mes
SIS Sanford and Keaton were ap-
pointed by President Smith as a
Committee of two to confer with the
Washington Bank and Trust Co.,
Fiscal Agents, for the purpose of
finding some way out of their
pecuniary difficulties.
In the afternoon, the task of Sc
lecting an incumbent for the new
position of Road Supervisor was
tackled. After three hours of bal
loting and discussion, Mr.. H. E. Will
lis of Bogalusa was chosen. Mr..
Dyson Booty of Franklinton was
the nearest competitor, receiving a
tie vote with MIR. Willis for four Sue
cessive ballots.
Mr.. Willis has been a resident OF
Bogalusa for over five years during
which time he has been employed
by the Great Southern Lumber Co.
where he had charge of most of the
street and construction work. Mr.
Willis is we'll fitted for the work
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
Rivals The Armours.

While making a social call on our
good friend MIR. M. X. Pearce, Of the
Ozone Ice Co, Tuesday a member
of The Enterprise was accorded a
most pleasant surprise. After ex-
changing few pleasantries, Mr..
Pearce was indulgent enough to show
him about the plant, and it is safe
to say it is a plant that cities many
times the size of Bogalusa could
be proud of.
Mr.. Pearce showed him the cold
storage and the sight which met his
eyes! Besides the usual things
found in these chilly places there was
an enormous supply of home made
pork sausage, ham, cracklings, lard
and in fact everything that comes
from the porker except the grunt
and all of it was raised and made in
Bogalusa.
DO you like sausage? asked MIR
Pearce. Can a duck swim? replied
our man" We'll take some of this
and--that was as far as he got. Oul
man took some. Say we had then
for supper, and you never saw such
sausage, the best ever"
Mr.. Pearce has a big supply of thi:
elegant sausage, ham cracklings anc
lard on hand and anybody wh(
wants any of these products will DE-
we'll to ring him up.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
Commission COUNCIL
HELD BUSY SESSION
Several Ordinances Passed
And Claims Allowed

At a regular meeting Of the Com
mission Council on Tuesday after
noon with all members present, sew
eral important matters were dispos-
ed of. An ordnance regarding the
lettering of boys under Is years of
age in pool rooms was passed. This
ordnance was favored by both par
ents and pool room projectors.
Other ordinance of minor import
ance we're also passed.
The ordinance regarding the pro-
hibiting of boxing exhibition in the
city on Sundays was discussed but
no action was taken. 0. j, Sherman
and G. G. Timberlake represented
the followers of the manly art" and
contended that the ordinance, in
their belief, was unjust as Sunday
was about the only time when the
laboring people could attend a con-
test,
De Witt Richardson asked the coun-
Gil to take action regarding a ditch
which overflows following heavy
rains. The matter was referred to
the committee in charge of this dep.
artment. Several claims were all
owed, the minutes of the previous
meeting, with two slight changes
were accepted.
Bogalusa enterprise. [volume] (Bogalusa, La.) 1914-1918, 1915-02-04
Several Changes Made.

An Arrangement has been made
between the Directors of the Associ-
alton Of Commerce and Secy. j. G.
Valadie whereby he will devote
part of his time to architect and
engineering work at which he has
already won considerable local fame.
Two assistants have been employed
at the Chamber of Commerce to
assist in the work.