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The Washington times., 1917-10-27
PULLMAN PLEADS
FORMORE MENAT
HIGHER Salaries

Major Raymond Pullman, superin-
teadent of the Aetropolitan Police
Department, in his annual report
submitted to the Commissioners this
afternoon. asked not only that Con-
gress be called upon to increase the
numerical strength Of his depart
ment, but that q corresponding IN
crease in the salaries OF its members
be given
One Of the most important pieces
OF legislation enacted BY Congress-
Major Pullman says, was the provi-
sion for 1o6 additional men. bringing
the quota of the Metropolitan police
force from T15 at the beginning oe
the fiscal year 1918 up to S21.
The creation OF q traffic branchs
with q captain, lieutenant. and Sera
geant IL again recommended.
The total number Of arrests made
during the fiscal year ended June %.
1917, was 3o,562, as compared with
39.377 for the preceding year.
The number OF arrests made by the
detective bureau was 2,oe6. a. COM
pared with 2.516 in 1915
Attention Is directed TO the excel
lent work of members Of the police
department during the Inauguration
period, the Confederate Veterans re-
union. and the street car strike.
One Of the most important features
OF the work undertaken by the po-
lice department during the year. the
report states. was the Organization
OF the Home Defense League.
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prison camps in Germany. He did
much to help the mental and physical
conditions of the prisoners in Ruhle-
ben, the English civilian camp near
Berlin. The American Y. NJ C. A.
built a great hall where religious ex-
ercises were held, plays and lectures
given, and where prisoners had q
good place to read and write in DUR
ing the day. A library was establish
ed In. this building.
The work carried on by the Y. N.
c. A. may be briefly described as
coming under the following heads:
Religious activities. educational ac-
tivities. workshops and gardens, ply
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CAVALRY USED IN
FLANDERSATTACK
BY GENERAL HAIG

LONDON, Oct. 27.-For the first
time in many months cavalry has
supplanted the infantry, and reports
from two fighting fronts indicate that
cavalry charges have proved highly
effective.
From the British headquarters in
Flanders comes the report that in
fighting in Gheluvelt the British were
fighting astride for the first time
since early in the war. Haig flung
his cavalry into the fray, and they
fought successfully.
Cavalry was also reported in action
around Passch endaele.
An official communication from Sal
onikR, dealing with operations In
Macedonia, says that the cavalry and
infantry have captured the villages
OF Salman. Rispeki, Ada, and Ra-
kassICa, all located on the northern
shore of Lake Tahinos. One machine
gun was taken with 100 prisoners.
Based on advices OF experienced
lighters, who declared that cavalry
in the present war, American officers
in all cantonment camps have been
devoting much time to training
American soldiers in bayonet fighting
The London dispatch would indicate
that cavalry may yet prove more ef-
fective than infantry charges. This
would mean a radical change In the
tra1nlng program In the cantonments,
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FORMER SOLDIERS
NOW IN us. ARMY
WILL GET CREDIT
Passed by Censor.

Former national guardsmen who
have been included in the draft, and
those who served enlistments in the
regular army, and are now included
in the draft army, will be given
credit for the time they previously
served as soldiers. the War Depart
ment announced today.
Directions were sent to all divis-
ion commanders that the depart
ment desired to not deprive former
soldiers OF their longevity rights, and
that efforts should be made to de-
termine information as to the for
mer service OF all who are now in
the national army.
The order also applies to those
who Joined national guard organiza-
tions prior to the liberalization OF
the State troops on August last.
The directions to the division COM
manders set forth the increases in
pay former soldiers are entitled to
under the regulations OF the army.
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A war always causes Z great IN.
settling OF business and trade; peo-
pie no longer buy a. many articles
Of luxury, and the workers engaged
In the production Of these articles are
thrown out Of employment. In Ger.
many the National Women's Servica.
acting with the labor exchanges. AID
its best TO ind new positions for those
thrown out OF work. Women were
helped over q period Of poverty until
they could md new places and were
Instructed In new trades
Many women engaged In the work
OF sending packages containing food
and comforts to the soldiers at the
front and to the German prisoners Of
war IN other countries
Through the efforts Of the Americas
Association Of Commerce and Trade
and the embassy a free restaurant
was established In Berlin In one %
the poorer districts- About 200 per.
sons were fed here daily In . hall
decorated with hags and plants. This
was continued even after we left Ger.
many.
At Christmas, 1915, Mrs. Gerard ana
I visited this kitchen with Mr.. and
Mrs. Wolf and General Won Kessel.
Of the Mark OF Branden-
burg. and one OF his daughters. Pres
ents were distributed to the children
and the mothers received an order
for goods In one Of the department
stores. The German Christmas songs
were sung, and when q little Germaa
child offered q prayer for peace do
not think there was any one present
who could refrain from weeping
Many Of the German women OF
title, prineesses, etc. established base
hospitals Of their own and 1eemed
to manage these hospitals with sue
(ConeHuded Tsnsrrow).
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WHY NOT Give SOLDIERS
LIFT, APPEAL TO TIMES

'I believe that some plan is re-
quired whereby soldiers and sailors
on our streets and avenues might
know what automobiles would be glad
to give them q ride" suggests a
letter to The Times.
Il want to suggest that the auto
mobile owners OF Washington attach
q red, white, and blue ribbon to the
right-hand side OF the wind shield
when they are willing to pick W SOL
diers or sailors going in their direc-
tion. This would make Il possible for
the boys to approach an automobile
without hesitation, Introduce them.
selves, and climb in.
81 think the majority of automobile
drivers. like myself. are only too
glad to pick up one OF Uncle Sans
men and give them q lift"
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ENVOY DESCRIBES
WORK OF Y.MC.A.
IN WAR ZONES

commission in Europe. Not only
were the ideas of the commission
excellent and businesslike. but the
men selected to carry them into effect
were, without exception, men Of high
character, possessed Of rare execu-
tive ability.
Ridieuled BY Newspapers.
As have said in a previous chap
ter. was ridiculed in the American
newspapers because 1 had suggested,
in answer to a cable of the League
of Mercy, that some work should be
done for the prisoners Of war
1 do not know whether the great
work undertaken by DR.. John R. Mott
and his associates was suggested by
my answer or not-that does not mat
ter. But this work, undertaken by
the American Y. II. C. A, certainly
mattered q great deal to the prisoners
Of war in Europe. DR.. Mott, after
serving on the Mexican commission,
went to Russia as a member of the
commission to that country.
The Y. n. c. A. organization, head
ed by Dr. Mott, who was most ably
assisted by the Rev. Archibald c.
Harte, took up this work, which was
financed, have been told, by the Nc
Cormick family of Chicago, Cleveland
H Dodge, John D. Rockefeller, and
others. Mr.. Harte obtained permits
sion from the German authorities for
the erection OF meeting halls and for
work in German camps. When he
had obtained this authorization from
Germany he went to Russia, where he
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MITE BOXES ADD
TO TINES SMOKE
FUND for TROOPS

The Washington Times Tobacco Fund
was enriched today with q food Of pen.
nies. nickels. and dimes. and q few
larger pieces. amounting in all to ;s6A.
the result Of collection made from the
various mite boxes Of the city.
Patrons Of the Strand Theater 1em-
onstrated that they regarded their box
as something more than, q recipient for
mites" as IT contained s1as7. the Iarg-
est amount yet collected from any enc
box. The Strand box and the one at
Moore's Garden Theater have always
contained most liberal contributions.
The latter box this time fell slightly be-
hind its former record. Its offering be-
ing s4.6z. but at that the second largest
In the city.
The box at the Gayety Theater con-
tanned S3s7: the American Security and
Savings Company, $33s: Riggs Bar.
s2s1. and the National Savings Bank.
A7a
George Oujeval, of 121s Pennsylvania
avenue. little fellow Of tender years.
who bought q bond yesterday. concluded
that he would do even more. and today
came in with q Scent subscription to
the Smoke Fund
Contributions to The Washington
Times Tobacco Fund thus far received
include:
Previously acknowledged, S4.02o.7o.
Mite boxes from the following:
Strand Theater. S10.s7; National
Savings Bank. R4.73; Continental Ho-
tel. S2.75; Garden Theater, S4.62; Fed
eral National Bank, t2.o2: Eboitt (first
box). $2N; Gayety Theater. Nd;
American Security and Trust Com
pany, S3.2s; Crandalrs Theater, S2.s4;
Columbia Theater, $2-2s; Riggs bar.
1851; Ebbitt (second box), S1-32; Mey-
ers' Military Shop, S2.12; KafkR's
Shop, $1.55. Munsey Trust, S1.77;
willard Hotel, S1.62; Powhatan Hotel.
SIPS; Afflecks'. S1.O2; Riggs Bank,
$1.51; W. B. & A railroad, n.36:
Commercial Bank, $1.45; Washington
Loan and Trust Company, sec; Har-
ris Hotel, SIC; Elite Theater, soc;
Southern building, ssc: American Ma
tional Bank, 77c; Merchants Bank,
25c; Metropolitan Hotel, lac; Press
Club, 75c: Washington Academy. of
Music, soc: Andrews Paper Company,
35c; Ograms' drug store, 27c; Capital
Park Hotel, 15c; Leader Theater, 25c;
National Hotel. CSC; Kings Palace.
26c; Empress Theater, lee: CONNER
cial Hotel, 25c; Penn Garden. SC: mis-
&c. George Oujeval, 121s
avenue, 26c; Andrew J.
621 I street northeast, soc.
Total, S4.oS7.39.
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BOURNE ASKS WHAT
PAPERS ARE SUPPRESSED

Former Senator Jonathan Bourne,
as president OF the Republican Pub
licity Association, today challenged
Postmaster General BurIeson to make
public the names of the newspapers
he has suppressed.
No 'spurios Versenkt,'" is the
declaration of Senator Bourne. He
says the Postmaster General 10 quite
likely Justified in suppression OF
papers, but he is not Justified In
sinking them without a trace. He
says every American who believes in
freedom Of the press wants to know
"who has been sIlenced and why"
The Washington times., 1917-10-27

There is no question that the suf-
ferings Of the people of Poland have
been very great; when the history
Of Poland during this war comes to
be written, the world will stand
aghast at the story Of her sufferings.
It is a great pity that these vari-
Gus schemes for relief did not sue
eeed. The Rockefeller commission,
however, up to the time I left Ger
many, did continue to carry on some
measure Of relief, and succeeded in
getting in condensed milk, to some
extent, for the children of that un-
fortunate country. These negotia-
tions brought me in contact with a
number Of Poles resident in Berlin,
whom found most eager to do what
they could to relieve the situation.
/ wish here to express my admira-
ton for the work Of the Rockefeller
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was able to get a similar authorize.
Allowed Great Liberty.

was able to get a similar authorize
tion.
Allowed Great Liberty.
At first, in Russia, as have heard,
the prisoners OF war were allowed
great liberty and lived unguarded in
Siberian villages, where they obtained
milk, bread, butter, eggs, and honey
at very reasonable rates. As the war
went on they were more and more
confined to barracks, and there their
situation was sad indeed. In the win
ter season It Is dark at 3 in the after
noon and remains dark until 10 the
following morning. OF course, 1 did
not see the Russian prison camps.
The work carried on there was sim
liar to that carried on in the German
The Washington times., 1917-10-27
AGED MAN A SUICIDE.

BALTIMORE, Oct 27-Edward
Morris, ST., seventy-three. one Of the
founders Of Morris & Co., manufac-
turers, is dead here, a suicide. He
took his own life by taking illumin-
ating gas. Continued I'll health Is
said to have driven him to end his life.
The Washington times., 1917-10-27
CLUB WILL
AID RECREAT|ONAL
WORK At CAMPS

The Rotary Club Of Washington is
to give its support to war camp com
munity recreational work OF the War
Council under direction OF Henry
White.
Members Of the Rotary Club pledged
their aid and cooperation in the
movement at the quarterly meeting
at the willard last night
Major c. Fred Cook. former WASH
ington newspaper man and rotarian,
who is now at q cantonment near
Washington, told his fellow members
OF life in a camp and Of the need Of
recreational work for the men.
Pullman and Cooper Speak.
Major Raymond W. Pullman, chief
of police, and William Knowles
Cooper, general secretary OF the Y. NJ
C. A, spoke for the support of the
training camp work. Mr.. Cooper,
who has directed the work of his
organization, which Is represented in
every camp, told Of the work from
the inside.
Major Pullman told OF enorts ne 10
making to have the National Museum
and other public buildings opened at
night for the benefit of the soldiers
stationed in and near Washington.
Trustees OF the corcoran Art Gallery
have already taken action he said to
keep the gallery open for soldiers and
sailors.
Assures Of Coal supply.
Assurance that there would be no
coal famine in Washington this win
ter was given by John L. Weaver,
Federal fuel administrator. Mr..
Weaver outlined briefly the coal
situation as II had come under his
observation since its appointment.
L. Bert Nye was elected secretary
of the club to succeed John Brewer,
who resigned.
John Poole and Charles Semmes
made Liberty loan addresses. Mr.
Poole urged bond buying. and Mr.
Semmes asked for support and the
service of members in the motor
truck campaign being conducted by
himself and other members of the
Commercial Club, who are holding
old-time street rallies.
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cHALoNER HOME ATTACHED.

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. Oct. III
John Armstrong Chaloner's homa.
Merrie Mills. in Albemarle county.
has been levied on to satisfy judg-
ments aggregating S11. 900 obtained
by lawyers who represented him in
his vain effort to obtain possesston
of HIS New York property.
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Ambdssddor Gerard, S5ho, dETiHo the
-four years preceding the deeIdratioH Of
>Sdr, tOos IN Berlin and in coRstdHt
touch SOIfh German Affairs, hos tUTttteH
Q OtvSd story Of his experiences. This
story The W0shiH0ton Tbnes toiH pub
ItSA IN daily iHstdIIHeHts. Of schteh the
1oIIoSOISo q the forty-second. No docu-
sssHt Of diplomacy iods epsT more vital
- 1soTe Interesting.
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TERRIFIC STRAIN
BEGINS TO TELL
ON WARLEADERS

the war burden, and has been i'll in
bed.
SubordInates, Too.
What is true Of the bigger men is
equally true of their staffs and sub
ordinates. Washington is a war-fac-
tory working on a twenty-four-hour
basis with only one shift OF skilled
laborers to keep II going.
A certain group OF cantonment en-
gineers started their task with a con-
tinuous session OF three days and
nights. They have been at 1t con-
stantly ever since, and even now
eighteen hours Is short days work
for them.
lesson long ago, ard keeps fit by TAX
ing frquent brief vacation. Should
his staff OF volunteer helpers con-
fine themselves to an eighthour day.
Americas war program would be set
back from six to nine months, for
they average sixteen to eighteen
hours a day on the job.
Under Great Strain.
They are all Under tremendous
strain, hurried AID driven by the
realization that the war branches
they are organizing are desperately
needed to help the allies give Ger
many the final shove.
Not least among those battlers with
time is Provost Marshal General
Crowder and his staff, to whom fell
the task of getting the nations man.
power organized al .. .Gr .aEE-
Nara
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SPECIAL NOTICES
The Corcoran
Gallery of Art
Corner 18th Street and
New York Ave. N. w.
For the especial accommodation
of all
Officers, Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines

stationed in and near Washington,
this Gallery will be opened. informal
ly and free OF charge, on Saturday
Evening, October eth, from 700
until 1000 o'clock.
All men In the service uniform. and
their friends. are cordially invited to
be present on this occasion.
FRANCIS @. wALLACE-RspresentIn Bas-
tian Bros. Co.. Manufacturers Advertising
specialtiss in eelfuloid and metal. Emblsms.
badges, buttons, signs, etc. SIS. WAahingtop
Loan and Trust Buiiding. ---|4h
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NOT so FOOLISH.

Babies have more sense man adults.
They never 60 round telling the smart
things their fathers said.-Milwaukee
Sentinel.
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Accompanied By YIN. C. A. Men.

When left Germany on tho break
ing of diplomatic relations a number
of these Y. N. C. A. workers left
with me.
The German women exhibited nota-
BILE qualities in war. They engaged
in the Red Cross work, including the
preparation OF supplies and bandages
The Washington times., 1917-10-27
By JAMES W. GERARD.

American AmhGsador to Germany. July -,
Is11. to February Z. 1871.
iCopyriEht. United States. Canada, and In
ternAtionAl. 1871, by the Public Ledger Co.)
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sical exercises and outdoor sports.
diet kitchens for convalescents, IL
braries and music. including orches-
tras. choruses and the like.
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Vital Records
Blrtha

Births.
walter r. and Ruth n. Thomas, girl.
Arthur r. and May +. Thompson, sirl.
Charles l. and Hattie E Smith, girl.
Joseph L. and haude L Percy. gfri-
John +. and Nellie T. Lloyd, boy.
william p. and Estelle Z. HutchlnBnn. -.
Thomas J. and Anna n Flynn, boy.
Chester T. and Anjeanetts O. DIvi1, glrl-
Edward and Charlotte Collins, girl.
Spiro J. and Elsie ChaconAs. boy.
Henry and Christina Bless, girl
William Z. and Hsnristta J. Bromley, nj.
Wiley @. and Matte 7. Westray, bog.
Harry G. and Emma T1bbs. boy.
Robert and Susie Howell. boy.
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Deaths.

Mary Hayes, q yrs. GeorEst0wn Univ. Hes.
Earl Galliher. n yrs-' On troop train. DcE-
ington, d. O.
Margaret A. P. Gibson. 9 yrA, 100 Hsuy
st N. W.
Elizabeth 8. Lawson. 70 yrs.' 1iS Aonros =.
ne.
sarah Atkins. % yrs. PTovidsnes Hoa-
Louis Pfaff, IS yrs, s0s Mass. ave. nv.
Thelma Miller, Z mos, Children's Hos.
Laura J. Tyler. 81 yrs. 7s2 Lamont st. nv.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
THE Patient Knew Nothing
i About It'll

"The surgeon, persprng, looked quickly
at the patient. He had not moved. Another
inch! The surgeon, emboldened and fearful
lest the momentary effect should pass,
stripped away the gauze from the burn in
single movement And those strange, fright
ened eyes never left the ceiling. The patient
did not even realize that his wounds were
being treated. He felt nothing There was
no sound in the operating room while the
dressing proceeded. When it was over the
attendants slowly wheeled away the reband-
aged figure-back to life from the very vale
of agony that slopes down into death. For
if his wounds could be dressed and the pain
Cultivated he was saved
There is no need TO describe the enthusi-
asm of the surgeons, many of whom had had
their nights turned TO hell through brood
ing on the suffering they daily inflicted. An
other soldier, with a suppurating hole
through his thigh foot long which neces-
STATED the passing of strips of gauze
through the tunnel, usually suffered agonies
On this day he announced that he would
rather die than undergo dressing another
time.
az promise you il will not hurt a Bit
Edwards said earnestly.
THE man looked up, and in his eyes the
American read the infinite hostility Of the
long deceived sufferer against those hale and
hearty persons who take the name of others
pain in vain Yet such was the effect of
nikalgin that he permitted the surgeons to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
T Je Was Dependent Upon
| l American Gifts

1t is just as well not to count the suffer
ing that might have been saved between
December II, 1914, and the summer of
1916, when General Nivelle, then COM
mandng the Second French Army, invited
Edwards to visit the Verdun front and
demonstrate his solution. For in all that
time Edwards, almost penniless and de-
pendent on gifts from Americans for his
supplies, tried in every way to bring his
discovery to the attention of the medical
corps of France and England Abandoning
his attempts to break through the wall of
officialdom and medical skepticism which
barred his path, he tried new method.
Establishing a producing laboratory, he
sent letters to nearly every hospital in
England, and to such as replied he sent
samples and instructions for the use Of
nikalgin. All who used it sent for more
He talked his discovery wherever he went.
The British War Office, following the rec
concentrations of many physicians, finally
adopted it for the British Army, but made
the mistake of trying to make it up itself
The solution, unlike the secret mixture
which only Edwards could make, did not
work.
Back in Paris, where Edwards's inven-
ton drew favorable comment from great
Japanese bacteriologist and famous Rus
sian, all doors remained closed TO him. He
gave up dealing with officers and officials
He met Miss Anne Morgan, who could not
believe his tale of official indifference until
she herself was baked as many as fifty
times attempting to help him. But in July
1916. he received an invitation to give
demonstration at the Belgian front, and
there saw the need for a new technique.
As result he invented small pressure
let which would throw a small but steady
stream of liquid with force enough to pene-
trate through bsndage and infection to the
raw flesh.
Then came tiy fateful invitation to 60
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

mangled living bodies than the one in the
operating room the following morning. The
surgeons, used to the worst, grew pale at
the sight of some of the cases Edwards,
the layman, had never imagined anything
awful. Twice during the mornings work
he nearly tainted; but he did not faint.
After a few comparatively simple cases
the attendants wheeled forward closely
swathed figure half upright in chair. 1t
was a victim of liquid fire. The head was
almost entirely enveloped in gauze One
hand and arm had been burned black, and
they, too, were partly covered with white
tandages. But there was worse. The victim
had been struck in the chest by the fluid,
and the result surpassed Dante's imagin-
ings. sheet Of gauze eighteen inches
square covered burn on the body that
stretcheS from neck to navel. The outlines
of the gaping hole wherein the flesh had
been burned away showed through the stuff,
which in places was stuck to the flesh be-
meath. What one could see of the face,
black, spotted with flaming red holes, gray
where the flesh had been reduced TO a elm
der, shocked the spectators almost 70 nau-
sea. For from out this frightful ruin stared
two living eyes! Chance had saved them