The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-19
DENTISTS IN LINE
FOR PREPAREDNESS
REGISTRATION BUREAU HAS
BEEN OPENED, AND GUARAN.
TEES TO PREPARE MOUTH OF
APPLICANTS FOR SERVICE.

Buffalo, N. Y, June 18.-The Pre-
paredness League of American Den
lists, with headquarters in this city,
has opened a registration bureau in
the hope of enrolling twenty thousand
dentists who will each one agree to
prepare, free of charge, the mouth of
at least one applicant to meet the
requirements for enlistment in the
army, navy or marine corps, and sub
ject to such rules as shall protect
them against imposition.
The standard of enlistment for the
United States marine corps requires
the applicant to have at least twenty
sound teeth, with four opposed molars
and four opposed incisors. Properly
filled teeth are counted as sound, and
many men now rejected for defective
teeth will be saved to the ''first line
of defense" by the patriotic members
of the Dentists Preparedness League,
is the belief of league officials.
DR.. J. w. Beach of Buffalo, is chair
man of the registration committee.
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in nid-winter and the rarest heroism
in a craft which might sink at any
moment. Once they remained on the
bottom for two hours and thirty-five
minutes as a test of endurance, pre-
cisely as modern boats ego to sleep"
on the bottom to rest the crew. But
the Hunley had no oxygen tanks or
other artificial ventilation; they
breathed the air of their thirty-fve-
foot boiler. At last the night came
when conditions favored an attack.
With Lieutenant George E. Dixon in
charge, the boat reached the Federal
sleep-of-war Housatonic. The deck
officer hailed; there were shots fired;
but this extraordinary engine of death
drove steadily on, its hour came. The
brave men within steadily turned
their crank-shaft, not knowing what
second their lives would end, but pre-
pared for the worst.
Five minutes after the officer Of
the deck discovered Something like
a plank upon the water" the Housa-
tonic was on the bottom with the loss
of two officers and three seamen
Neighboring ships sent boats crews
to the rescue, though wondering
whether they, too, might not perish
in the twinkling of an eye by this
same mysterious agency that had
stolen into the middle of the fleet
like a thief in the night. But nc
sign did they see of the craft. Ashore
men strained their eyes for sight OF
her, anxiously hoping that the Hun
ley had fioated out to sea on the ebb-
ing tide and would return in due
course. But no mortal eye was ever
again set upon the men who, in the
darkness Of their boiler afoat, faced
eternity unfincing. For them the
path of glory had led but to death
and fame. Several years later divers
found the Hunley in the wreck of
the Housatonic, either sunk by the
explosion or by being sucked into
the hole the torpedo had created
twenty-five feet was not sufficient
distance from her own engine of de-
struction. This time the iron coffin
was not raised; she, the first success
full submarine, is till the tomb of
the men who paid nine lives for a
Yankee sloop-of-war, and now have
a share in the monument to those
heroes that stands on the Battery at
Charleston.-Harper's Weekly.