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The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-13

When 1t came to choosing a career William Nauman, thirteen years old, preferred to be a newsboy to a Caruso. Although William was one Of a dozen or more hoys under train- ing in the Choir Boy School at I:hlnebeck, N. r., under the patron age of Mrs. Vincent Astor, he de- clared that he could see no future as choir singer and therefore was glad to get back to the streets of New York city. where "a man can be a man."
The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-13

Our idea of henpecked husband is one who has to walk the floor at night with his baby on one arm and his wife on the other
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03

less dormitories. through supply de. partments furnished generously by tn. American Red Cross, we passed again into the workroonns
 "Occupation, congenial employment- that is one of the special points in curing these nervous cases" said the director
 Over the work tables bright-colored toys were coming into being, the faces of the workmen lighting up with pleasure as goose girls drove their wards over green fields and brave ber- saglieri made their charge on Austrian foe. Some designed, others carved some painted, and the finished products were the new art toys such delight the childish heart.
 Naturally, this is not a competitive factory-tust an occupational cure for these soldiers" explained pr. Fabrizi. "The boys have two hours here in the morning and two again in the after noon-not enough to tire them. Their days are well planned for treatment, work and recreation-all three equally important parts of the cure"
 We walked through cypress alleys, where naughty peacocks spread their gorgeous plumage, past a swan-deco- rated lake, toward the gateway of the American villa. Before us lay history haunted Rome, glowing in the gold of approaching sunset. as with the glories of the past.
 "All the glories of Rome not of the past" I thought I looked back at pr. Fabrizi lowing farewell from the gateway of the villa of miracle.
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pocket to show his new power A one | time debonair Neapolitan, whose jauntf- ness had for months given way to mel ancholy breeding over his aff1iction, barred a wounded arm, condemned as use- less, which was now working with re- turning power. A nerve-shattered little man, enunciating painfully, asked me if had heard his friend. Fausto, who had re-learned to use his voice here in the Villa Wurts. sing at the big benefit at the Constanzi.
 All tried to do their best as they stood before their beloved doctor. The mutes offered perhaps the most vivid demonstration of suggestions power, es- pecially the newcomers When finally Ia sound came from their bravely strug- gling throats the joy and gratitude which shone in eyes that sought the doctors was something that brought a mist to ones own.
 "A sort of Lourdes here on. the doctor, as the blind saw. the mute spoke and the lame walked.
 'If you will step into this room you ment with radioscopic apparatus, cleo visro therapeutics, physical cure. but above everything else psyche -thera- peutics."
 The doctor led the way through an office where two medical lieutenants and secretary were busily tabulating the data of each particular case, in valuable documents in the field of sci ence. Through dining room and spot
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03

p. Lee, and will care for men from New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia.. Camp Jackson. at Columbia, s. C1, is named and will have troops from Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga, for. troops from Georgia. Alabama and Florida. is named after Gen, J. B. Gordon. c. s. A. Camp ShermansSat Chillicothe,, Ohio, caring for troops from Ohio and West Virginia, is named after Gen. W. T. Sherman, U. s. A. Camp Taylor, at Louisville. Ky. is called after Maj. Gen. Zachary Taylor, U. s. A., and will hold Camp Custer, Battle Creek. Mich Is for troops from Michigan and Wis consin.
 Camp Grant, RockfoHd, IL, is named after Gen. U. s. Grant,t U s. A., and will care for troops from Illinois. Camp Pike, Little Rock. Ark. 5ts named after Brig. Gen. z. M. Pike, U..S. A. and will contain troops from ArleAnsas Eouisi- ana and Mississippi. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, is called after Mai Gen. tirenviile M. Dodge, U. S. A., and will care for troops from Minnksota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota iandr South Kan, is named after Maj. Gen. Fred erick Funston, U. $. A, and will take care of troops from Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. Camp Travis, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, for troops from Texas Arizona New Mexico and okla Travis, the defender of the Alamo Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash for troops from Washington, Oregon California, Nevada, Utah, 1daho,& o,& Mon tana and Wyoming. has had no reason announced for its name.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03
A Sponge.

ssrU>HE way the Germans treat the
 Austrians and Turks" said a publisher at a dinner at the Players Club in New York reminds me of Skinner.
 Hello. George! said Skinner one evening" Got a clove?
 'I gave him a clove.
 "Yes, old man, here you are. said l.
 "Thanks,' said Skinner NOW nave you a match?
 Sure thing I said, fetching out my matchbox. Help yourself.
 "'Thanks awfully. Lend me your cigar-cutter, will your
 "'CertainIy, Skinner, old man, but where's your cigar? I asked.
 "'Why. George he confessed, I was just going to ask you for cigar.
 q handed him my cigar case with harsh laugh.
 "'The match you borrowed was to light your cigar with, l suppose. but, skinner I inquired, what did you want with that clove?
 "'The clove, George, he mildly ex- nlained. is to chew after I take the drink you're going to buy me-"
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which would be necessary in order to ask for competitive bids before the work must be started, the Quartermaster Corps, acting in conjunction with the emergency contracts on the percentage, or cost plus, bases, at the same time using all possible safeguards in the shape of guarantees from the contractors to their capacity and integrity.
 "The profit system was decided only after weeks of study to find a basis for the fees which would assure the country of the highest grade of work from the contractors and at the same time prevent extravaganza through the payment of ex- tribute to the loyalty and patriotism of the great majority of contractors who have come here to discuss the question with us. With a few exceptions they have acquiesced willingly in our conten- tion that the profits must be kept down grade work Some firms have offered to do the work a cost basis, but we have considered this an unwise policy both economically and nationally. The utmost speed and efficiency must be developed in these and, future building jobs for the government, and the acceptance of of fers of free service might easily disrupt the high grade acting firms best qualified to do the work effectively
 Steps are being taken by committees also to safeguard the government from paying unreasonable prices for mate rials. These committees are mobflizing the resources of materials in the vari- Ous branches, co-Ordinating the supply and demand and fixing prices which will give the material interests a fair. dency in all cases to make these prices somewhat lower than the prevailing market rates for each comm odity.
 The War Department bespeaks of the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03

E c. PRICK said in Birmingham, 1e where he had come to attend a liberty loan meeting:
 "The crack troops of the kaiser some call them cracked troops now are hiding in caverns forty feet under ground. The man who now thinks German militarism a wonderful thing is as badly doped as Cal Clay of Nola Chucky.
 Cal was escorting some ladies from Nola Chucky to Paint Rock, and as they passed a planters the planter was play ing with a powerful new searchlight he had just put on his. water tower. and he happened to turn it down the road, where it streamed into the eyes of Cal and his two girls.
 "'Here come one O dem powerful racin' cyahs. to jedge by dat ere head light said Cal We'll jest hustle to de side O de road fo' safety till she's parst, ladies'
 50 they hustled up against, the hedge, and the planter, after playing the light along the road for about a minute, suddenly turned it off.
 "Cal gave grunt of astonishment..
 "tJee -rusalem" he said How fast dat cyah muster been a-goin'! Here she's done parst us by, an we didn't even see herr ." or f
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

RAMP! Tramp! Tramp! The CO boys are marching
 marching away in Septem-
 S Der from their homes in every city, town and hamlet in the United States to get ready to do their part in winning the war for dem ocracy Whither are they going for this military training which will make more than a half million brave, stall wart soldiers out of as many lads who have known little before of the real meaning of discipline? What IS to be the immediate life and environ ment of the men who are to make up the first 800, 900 draft of the ten mil- lions who registered for military pur- poses on June 5?
 More than JoO,O0O mothers who see their sons march out may take com fort from the fact that the govern ment is making every possiDae s;csI- psT vision to safeguard the boys, physicai, 1y, mentally and morally, who are to compose the new national army, WniIe they are spending the autumn ana pos sibIy the winter in the sixteen army cantonmentS to which they Will go and where they will remain until they are trained sufficiently to go overseas for final education as soldiers.
 The first apportionment of men of the new national army, with the addition or over 150,0O0 officers and extra men who will take up their serious military life on September 1, will make their homes Tn sixteen model army cantonments now III course of erection throughout the co'ln- try in sections where population is most dense The military towns containing their equal apportionment of the men will accordingly number over 40,o0o lnhaDl- tants each. They are to be made as com fortable- and convenient as is compatible with their purpose and with the time at the disposal of the constructors
 The sites of the sixteen cantcnnlentS now being completed for the reception of their soldier citizens were chosen care fully with view to their general fitness must be high and well drained and To- cality healthful, that pure water sup made available, that, for transportation facilities and general convenience they are accessible to cities or large towns
 The locations of the cantonments are Aver. Mass; Yaphank, L: l.; Wrights- town. N. J.; Annapolis Junction, Md; Petersburg, Va; Columbia, S; C.; Atlanta, Battle Creek. Mich; Rockford. 1n; Little Rock, Ark; Des -Moines. Iowa; Fort Riley. Kan: Fort Sam Houston. Tex, and American Lake, Wash. The areas of the cantonments vary with the topography, the minimum being from 1,500 to 2.000 acres. Canton justment of the architectural schemes to the land are among the interesting features of the planning of the camp cities. Provision must be made not only for the domestic life of the sol diers. but suitable space for parade grounds, ma1euvering fields. target practice ranges etc, must be arranged for. Each cantonment will be virtually city in itself, with streets, blocks. sewers electric lights it's own railroad tracks and yards. water lines, thou
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03

rfz There were those who, on crutches dragged seemingly useless limbs and those who came proudly forward, crutches thrown aside. stalking like tiny children, glorying in their newly found motor ac- complishment. There were those whose limp arms, showing bullet wounds, were but lifeless Jumps of flesh, others who. re- spending to Dr. FabriZiS suggestion raised supposedly useless arms to their i, foreheads in military salute.
 'Stop trembling!'' cried Dr. Fabrizi. an unfortunate, shaking with the palsy, took his turn in the line of inspection. The man whose ever-moving arm showed 9 bullet" wound, continued to twitch and shake. Only by keeping his hand in his coat over his chest was the violent trem- bling less distressing.
 'I tell you to stop trembling you know you can. there's nothing the matter with your arm.''
 The man whimpered as the doctor seized the offending member and held it firmly.
 "Now you you don't have to tremble," he cried, looking into the sol- diers eyes. ''See, you are all right now
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struction of each camp. over 1900 car loads of lumber, something like 26,- alone.
 Here are some of the other items: Over 28,000 squares of roofing, sixty cars, twenty carloads of nails and hard ware, 20, carloads plumbing, 192 car loads tanks, heaters. stoves. ranges. piping, refrigerators and the like; rail- road materials for five miles of track, divided into thirty carloads of ties and other timber, twenty carloads of spikes. rails, etc, and 114 carloads of ballast; 10 carloads of electric light poles. wires, insulators, etc. Materials for 12.0O0 cubic yards of concrete will take seventy carloads of cement. $50 sand.
 The men of the Santonments SH11tH Tnll will means that there will be 4O,OOO separate hunks, each with mattress. To trans port the mattresses 125 cars will be required and the hunks will take sixty two more. Water and sewer lines will take sixty-ffve carloads each, and 150 carloads of hospital equipment will be necessary. Three carloads of screens are also included in the estimate.
 To handle this vast quantity of ma terials and the work of actual con- struction, nationally known town plan ners and landscape architects are now on the job both in Washington and at the cantonments. Contractors are on the ground with their forces, number ing something like 4,O0O men for each camp, and the houses spring up over night The one great aim is to do the best possible job in the time allowed.
 Many general features of the canton ments have been provisionally adopted by the specialists who are cooperating with the military authorities The losses in the French army due to in adequate housing and sanitary pro- visions in the concentration camps were carefully considered in planning the American buildings. The difficulty of making untrained men. obey the sanitary regulations of the regular army was fully recognized.
 The scheme of payment for this work is worked out by the committee on emer- gency construction and contracts and ac- cepted by the Quartermas depart Tnent It is fee system of contracts whereby the fees vary from 10 per cent
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And don't put your hand back in your coat; let it hang free"
 <
 There is nothing organically wrong with his arm," said Dr. Fabrizi. Indeed the first thing ascertain when the wounded are brought here is to see if the trouble is organic functional If organic we turn the men over 60 other hospitals"
 The man in question had been found wounded by shrapneI after several hours exposure. He had been given first aid at the field hospital and then sent on to
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03
F1ealin9 Mutilated Italian Solo

anesthetic. and skilled surgeons knife
 The American villa, given with a starting fund" by George Wurts to the Italian government as a hospital is the Neyroconlic Miltare, scientific institute, where psycho-therapeutics demonstrates the reality of miracles Here the false blind," the false mute." who, having been given the ordinary cure for physical wounds, had been passed on to the inevitable human wreckage of war. are being rescued through the power of sug- gestion.
 The results which the director, Dr. Giovanni Fabrizi, famous a1ienist and psichiatra, has attained give com plete cure of two-thirds of the mutt lated who have passed beneath his skilled eye since MT. Wurts turned over his villa |! for this work five. months ago. Italy already has 3O,00O' of these ''mutilatti,' men who should come under the psyche therapeutic cure. The Villa Wurts has accommo- dations for eighty and Dr. Fabrizi is working with unfagging. devotion to
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03

sand houses for the men, beside officers quarters and other necessary buildings The houses which will quarter the mer old one-story shacks of Napoleonic de- sign, but are large, two-story frame structures with modern ventilation Sys- tems and abundance of wide window
 space. In many cases they have one
 story kitchen wings which relieve the m ono otonous roof1ine and give an actual touch of homelikeness to the spacious barracks. The artificial lighting will be electricity, and for winter warmth they will have steam heat equipment in the north and stoves in the south. In every case what is described by army officers good plumbing has been fur nished.
 The building of these cantonments for the new national army is one of the numerous herculean tasks the govern ment has accomplished since it's dec1a- ration of war, and as matter of fact it is unique in constructive history The work is under the supervision of the quartermaster's department of the army, Col. I. w. Littell, U. S. A., being the officer in charge
 To supplement and advise the quar- termaster's department the. council of national defense has appointed an emergency construction committee of it's munitions board. This committee is composed of probably the ablest men in construction work in this country to- day. They are working without pay and most of them nearer twenty-four hours day than twelve.
 Every resource of those connected with the work is being strained to the utmost. To quote the words of clever writer, they are doing it "by tramp1ing down all of the orderly ways of doing things, amenities and the red tape, or by using orderly ways so scientifically that the amenities and the red tape naturally fall into 1ine-'
 No such task the building of these soldier cities was ever undertaken be- fore in twelve weeks. In the three months between June 1 and September more money will have been spent than went intoAthe Panama canal in the course of any one year, moderate es- innate of the amount being $4O,OOO, ,OOO. The count of materials used nearly staggers the imagination when it is cal culated that over 4,000 freight carloads of materials will be used in the con-
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on small contracts of $100, ,000 more tc per cent on contracts of $3, 300, 900. with all cases cover both profit and overhead expenses, so that clear profit in any con- tract will rarely exceed 31A per cent, the contractor furnishes bond for $25O, ,OOO.
 A recent statement made by Col. Littell is interesting in connection with this matter of payment. He says: 'In decid- ing on the cantonments contracts we have had to consider three main points of prac- tfcally equal importance. The first has been the absolute necessity of speed; the second, proper construction, including sanitation and communication and trans portation facilities; the third, economy. Taking all three into consideration and also the fact that time will not permit the completion of drawings and specifications
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save all the big number from the fate of going through life physically dis abled, when the real trouble is merely functional nervous disturbance. It is a rescue work of double value to the soldiers and to the Patria, to separate these victims of nervous disorders from those organically crippled.
 There were fifty of these interesting cases called from the cool workrooms where they were making toys, to pass be- fore us, showing their respective wounds and progress of recovery They were in all varying degrees of cure or helpless ness. those from whose struggling lips and throat sound and those who, with only an occasional hesitancy. told the stories of their gratitude to Dr. Fab
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03
The Fool Minister.
GARRISON WILLARD said w ;,, Naur Work addraSS-

~SwALD GARRISON WILLARD said " in New York address:
 "The new German war minister de- clares that mankind can never get along without war and armies. He re- minds me of the Nicois.
 "A Nicois emigrated to the prairies of the west. In his mountainous home country the railroads are all tunnels it's like travelling through a fiue-and so, when the denizens of the flat west ern pradries told the Nicois that they were going to build a railroad, he laughed at their ignorance.
 t'You can't do it. he said.
 "'Why not? said the prairie people.
 'Countrys too fiat said the Nicois. You ain't got no mountains to run your tunnels through"
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country in this great undertaking both it's sympathetic understanding and it's active cooperation. It must get out of the way while materials and men are useful suggestions will be welcomed. This is the country's work and the whole country should combine cour- ageously and understandingly to see that it is put through, as far as essen tialS go, on time.
 It recently has been decided to name the cantonments of the new national army after American military heroes of past wars. In each case the name Se- lected is that of man from the section Short names were chosen for conven- fence, and names of immortals like Washington and Lincoln were omitted because of the temporary nature Of the camps.
 The name of Camp Devens Is given memory of Gen. Charles Devens. U. S. ", of assachusetts. The troops will go there from Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Camp Upton, at Yap- hank, L. T.. in memory of Maj. Gen. Emery Upton, U. S. ", a native of New York, will care for the troops from New York city. Camp Dix, Wrights-' town, N. J., is named after Maj. Gen. John Adams Dix, U. s. ", and will take troops from New York state and north ern ois RennsylXania. I,syt;a , Camp o Meade. Az Meade, U. s. A.. Is for troops from southern Pennsylvania. The camp at Petersburg, Va, bears the name of Camp Lee, in memory of Gen. Robert
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-03
The Retort.

Ss,T-wo wrongs don't make a right.
 Still"
 senator was discussing the food control bill. ..t
 While the bill has it's drawbacks." |" he went on, there would be worse drawbacks without it.. and so- we can face our opponents like the lady. tV
 My love- her husband said to this lady, you spend all your money get ting your palm read
 "She smiled Swectly. '-1 F
 " And you, dear.' she retorted 'spend all yours getting your nose red." V
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tranquil beauty, such as to wipe out forever the scars of war. Here is a vision to renew hope as they look through towering avenues toward the great panorama of Rome stretched at their feet against background of green Campagna and distant purple mountain.
 In this lovely spot the generosity of George Wurts of Philadelphia has made. it possible for one of Italy's most valuable and interesting cures to be effected.
 The miracles performed are not by
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beneath dirt and debris. I was there perhaps three hours when I regained had happened. could hear % our men l moving about. I tried to call to them.
 knew they were stretcher bearers. understand, then I screamed-nothing nothing. It was horrible to know
 they were near and not be able to make them hear. Then once more I lost consciousness. The next I knew I was in the field hospital. And then, after fifteen months silence. I was The man suddenly caught the hand of Dr. F'abrizi and kissed it. trembling with emotion.
 There there." said the doctor. run along back to your work
 But it waA plain to see that the gratf- fought and suffered for the Patria was more to him than the praise and re- I mqneration of wealthier patients. Dr. Fabr1Z1, now capitanome medico in the service of his country. is one of Italy's alienists. famed in celebrated criminal cases.
 It was his expert opinion that saved Cifariello. the sculptor. from paying the penalty for wife murder At the out break or the war pr Fabrizi gave his services to Italy; It was Gen. Cadorna who. realizing the greater need of his skill in saving the nervous victims of the war, insisted that his place was not in the field hospitals On recent visit to Rome the commander-in-chfef of Ita!y's army visited the institute in the gestion that perhaps he could serve bet ter at the front he gave a definite re- fusal.
 You are fighting one of our big bat ties here on the Janiculum. My soldiers can't spare you.
 And as. they came forward these sol- diers proved how they could not spare him.
 wiry little Sicilian, whose hands had