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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-02

All right: ace turn over our bonds to the
purchasers, and we purchase bonds from our
European allies to the same umount-achat
qcith?
Son-ln-law McAdoo says that we don't pay
out any money: what then do we pay for the
bonds we get from England, France Italy,
and Russia?
Our Son-in-law says that we will deposit
with the bank pets the $3,000,0O0,O0O paid by
the jubilant purchasers of the Liberty Bonds.
So the pet banks get the cash.
My, That's a sweet pile-three thousand
million dollars!
The pet banks will keep this 20 do business
on; and if you and I behave ourselves in a
truly patriotic, war-whoop manner, the banks
may lend us taste of it-say at II per
cent-provided we can give security as strong
as the Great White Throne.
But if the bank pets get and keep the
money that our Liberty Things sold for what
do the European "allies," as McAdoo calls
them, get for the bonds-equal in amount,
interest, and maturity-that they sell to us!
McAdoo says we pay for the European
bonds by shifting bank credits
All yes, to be sure; but where do 2re get
any credit to shift, except as we deposit the
$3,0OO,00O,0O0 with the pets; and how lis
England, for instance, helped in whipping
the Germans, if the bonds she lets us have
do not give her any cash to handle?
Evidently, the explanation is this: Eng
land and the other Entente powers sell us
three billions of bonds and acquire credit on
orr books, to that amount.
She buys powder, automobiles, guns, pro
visions, &C., to the amount of three billions,
but doesn't pay cash for them.
She gives drafts on our Government, and
our Government accepts these drafts as cash,
and they are handled by the banks as cash;
and everything is sweetly arranged, so that
the foreign borrowers of our So, OOOOO0,0OO.
t0he 1t ont IN trade.
They never see dollar.
But the Powder Trust, Steel Trust. Food
Trust, Oil Trust, and other patriotic combi-
nation of War Vultures acquire east sums to
their credit, on the books of the banks.
As our national Son-in-aw said. "This
money is not going to be taken out Of the
country"
No, indeed It is too much and too good
for the Entente
Much as we love them, and pant for their
success, we haven't the heart to see three
thousand million dollars cross to the other
side.
Let millions Of our boys go across, and
never return, but when it comes to our
hard cash. we must freeze on to it.
This money is not going to be taken out
of the country"
The conscripted men are to be taken out
but not the conscripted ducats
To the dear Entente we say, Owe love you :;
we want you to win; we lend you five or six
billions, but you must trade it out with our
War Vutures."
bethany. by Thos. E. Watson. A Romance
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PAGE FIVE
Flashes Of Liglaa On the Great
War

War
RUSSIAN armies have collapsed, and are
~ in full retreat
French armies are at a standstl.
English forces are not forging ahead
Italian troops are stalled.
Nothing doing in the Balkans; nothing in
Palestine; nothing in Mesopotamia.
Waiting for Uncle Sum-
No CONSUMPTION yet III Canada.
None in Ireland.
None IN Australia.
Plenty Of it-such as it is-in this land of
the free.
During the Presidency Of Andrew Jack
son, the Southern Congressman demanded
that the mails be closed to Abolitionist litera-
ture which was calling upon the slaves to
rise in bloody rebellion against the whites.
"Can't do that said Congress: the Con-
stitution won't let u.s."
"Can't do that said Amos Kendall. the
Postmaster General: ''the Constitution for
bids it,
Cant help ourselves, said President
Jackson 1--WE are bound by the Constitution"
Times have changed, and the 7. 0. Depart
ment is now trinity, exercising the powers
Of the legislative, the judicial, and the execu-
tive.
The Copper Trust is one of the War Vul-
lures, and it is the Kaiser which banishes
1900 citizens from State, when those BIZ
peds don't do to suit the Trust.
John D. Ryan, of Montana. is one of the
head men Of the Copper Trust, and is a
Knight of Columbus, subject of the Italian
pope, &c.
He has been put in full command of the
European operations of the Red Cross, which
recently lifted $1O00OO00O out of the pockets
Of Pr0testants.
Therefore, this Papist and secret Jesuit
ally will have the employment of nurses, at
PENDANTS, supplies, and 50 forth, On every
battlefield in Europe.
Every camp and hospital thus becomes a
mission station for the Pope, financed by the
Professionals.
Not only have the knights of Columbus
virtually side tracked the Y. NJ. G. A. and
made mission stations for R0manism at all
the training camps, but the Pope has made
fine start III getting control of Uncle Sans
washing.
The nuns solicit patronage for the Houses
of the Good Shepherd, and the Protestant
slaves, inside, do the dirty work
The Popes Holy church of course gets the
money.
Miss Kate Stephens, the weI-known att-
thoress, proves the Protestant origin Of the
Red Cross, and I will reprint her article next
week
The Romanist of course claim it, as they
claim everything else except the inventive
genius which devised horrible machines of
torture for those Christians who preferred to
get their faith from the Bible.
Now that the y. $. troops fire two
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Bethany, by Thos. E. Watson. A Romance
of the Civil War, with vivid pen pictures Of
plantation life, before the war. Bound in
cloth. Price. $1.0O, postpaid. The Jetferso
MAN Publishing Company, Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-02
How 10 Lend Europe S5,O0O,OOO,-
600 Without Putting Up the
Cash
How TO Spend $4,000, 600, 900
Without Spending "a

| n his address to the Iowa bankers and bust
ness men, at Des Moines, May q, 1917, our
national Son-in-law, Mr.. McAdoo, said
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06
To Make Book PIafAs

One way to make effective book
plates is to have Il stencil, through
which you can work up the slips in
water-colors. Stencils are cut from
oiled stencil paper or board, but II
you are going to make very many.
1t might be well to have a metal stem
ell cut, as the paper or cardboard will
soon wear out. Look through the maya
zines for some appropriate design or
group and trace it to your stencil pa
per. Cut 1t up into little portions, as
you would n .jigsaw puzzle, so that all
the design is in parts, all Joined by
small bridges" to each other. Cut
out the design, leaving the bridges
firm, with a sharp knife, holding the
stencil over glass or marble as you cut,
When complete proceed to color
through the stencil onto thin cardboard
or water-cOlOr paper. A dozen or so of
these book plates at n time will not be a
strenuous task and the result will
easily repay labor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

brio In 1t and a dressmaker's name.
quin-the raw materials for her magic I
Rose couldn't draw a bit. She
hadn't the faintest impulse to make a
beginning by putting a picture down
on paper and making a dress from II
afterward. She couldn't have told just
why she had bought those three shades
Of paper cambria.
What she had felt, Of course, at the
very outset, was the need Of something
to indicate, roughly, the darks and
lights In her design. And, short Of the
wild extravaganza Of slashing into the
fabrics themselves and making her
mistakes at their expense, she could
think of nothing better than the
scheme she chose.
Rehearsal "a dismissed q little
early that night. and she was back in
her room by eleven. Arrived there,
she took of her outer clothes, sat
down cross-legged on the floor, and
went to work.
When at last. with n little sigh, and
a TREMENDOUSLY smiling acknowledge
ment Of fatigue, she got up and looked
at her watch, 1t was four o'clock in
the morning. She'd had one Of those
experiences Of which every artist can
remember a few In his life, when 1t is
impossible for anything to 60 wrong;
when the vision m%lraculously betters
Itself in the execution when the only
difficulty is that which the hands have
In the purely mechanical operation Of
keeping up.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

II the American Red Cross had never
done anything else than organize, equip
and supply the base hospitals which
are 10Y backing our armies, 1t would
have justified its existence. OF course
1t has done, and still Is doing. count
less great things for America and for
the world; but its accomplishment In
the line Of base hospitals Is just now
Of prime Importance.
As briefly as 1t may be defined, a
base hospital Is an institution which
cares for the sick or wounded soldier
from the time he ia sent back from
the firing line, until he is able to be
removed to a hospital In his W coun-
try.
1t Is almost unbelievable, but ever
theless a fact, that until the American
Red Cross took hold Of the task a
year ago, no nation in the history Of
the world had ever organized a base
hospital until after war had been de-
clared and the fighting begun, and the
wounded men lay writhing on the
ground.
Always, of course, there have been
a few army surgeons with each regi-
ment, who patched up the slightly
wounded and got them back into the
firing line as quickly as possible. Also,
of course, there have always been In
all countries some sort of hospital sys-
TEN for the are Of the sick and
wounded when they got home.
But always the intermediate insti-
tuition, for the ARE and transportation
Of the sick and wounded between the
front and the home hospitals, was
missing. This has invariably led to
a terrible congestion of wounded on
the battlefields, where thousands suf-
fered needlessly, lost arms and legs
that might have been saved, or died
when a little care would have pre-
served them.
Col. Jefferson Randolph Kean, U. s.
A. Medical corps, director general of
military relief Of the Red Cross, has
llkened the former organization to a
bridge of which the end spans were
complete, but the middle span-the
hospltals-was entirely lacking.
When Il man Is wounded In battle,
the method of caring for him Is this
modified, Of course, by varying condi-
He lies on the field in No Mans
Land between the lines, or in the
trench until he Is able to drag himself
away, or the stretcher bearers can
reach him, and carry him to one of
little f1rst-aid stations. These are
very lear to the fighting lines
in a part of the trench
the men are fighting.
There an army surgeon shameless the
fow of blood, puts n dressing on the
wound to keep out infection, binds on
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06
CHAPTER XVIII.
A Business Proposition.

Buzzing around in the back of JOIN
Galbraith's mind was an unwordcd
protest against the way Rose had Just
Killed her own beauty, with a thick
whit" veil. so nearly Opaque that all II
let him see of her face was an inter.
mittcnt CLEAN of her eyes. The bust
ness between them was over, and
all she was waiting for was a word
OF dismissal, to nod him a fare
well ana 90 swinging away down the
avenue. Still he didn't speak, and she
moved a little restlessly. At last:
do you mind crossing the street?'
he asked abruptly. "Then we can talk
as we walk along" She must have
hesitated, because he added, ITS too
cold to stand here"
"Of course" she said then. All that
had made her hesitate was her sur
prise over his having made a u
instead of giving an order.
DO you think you'll be able to con-
vince Mrs. Goldsmith she asked.
as they walked down the east side of
~ "''i"' ''S'ihti' that ItT SONuS
don't look well on the stage?"
"Probably not" he said. mo, she
won't be convinced, and If I know
Goldsmith, he'll say his wife's taste is
good enough for him. So If we want a
change, we've a fight on our hands,"
The way he had unconsciously
phrased that sentence startled him a
little.
THE question u.s." he went on,
whether they're worth making a fight
about. Are they as bad as 1 think
they are?"
"Oh, yes" said Rose. They're dow.
dy and fourth-class and ridiculous. OF
curse I don't know how many people
in the audience would know that"
"And l don't care" said John Gal.
with a flash of intensity that
made her look around at him. That's
not a consideration I'll give any weight
to. When I put a production under my
name, it's the best 1 can make with
what I've got. When l have to take
| cynical view and try to get by with
work because most Of the people
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06
Luminous Eyes.

Cats among mammals, and owls
among birds, says w. II. Hudson in his
book "Idle Days in Patagonia" are the
most highly favored of any creatures
in the matter of luminous eyes. 1.-THE
feline eyes, as of a puma or wildcat,
blazing with wrath, sometimes affect
n like an electric shock; but for in
tense brilliance the yellow globes of
the owl are unparalleled" Mr.. Hud-
son asserts that nature has done COM
paratively little for the human eye
either in these terrifying splendors or
in beauty. He says that in Brazil he
was greatly impressed with the mag
nificent appearance of many of the ne
gro women; but that If they had only
possessed the golden rides" of GER
tain intensely black tropical birds
their unique loneliness would have
been complete.-OutlOOk.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

Rose, "the roirrt model you showed
me before the others came in? I'll
try it on"
The SaleSWOman'S name was diff
fcrent now, and she grumbled some
thing about its being closing time.
"Th"n, if you'll bring it at once =. ;"
said Rose. And the saleswOman went
on the crrand.
Five minutes later, Galbraith, from
staring g%lOonily at the mournful heap
of trouble Mrs. Goldsmith had left on
his hands, looked up to confront =
vision that made him gasp.
Il wanted you to see if you liLed
this" said Rose.
IF | like it," he echoed. Look
here. If you knew enough to pick
ont things like that, why did you let
that woman waste everybOdy's time
with junk like this? Why didn't you
help her out?'
Il couldn't have done much" Rose
said, "even If my offering to do any
thing hadn't made her ~angry-and l
think 1t would have. You see, she's
got lots of taste, only it's bad. She
wasn't bewildered Il bit. She knew
just what she wanted, and she got it.
It's the badness of these things she
likes. And | thought . :" She
hesitnted II little over this II
thought that it would be ensier to
throw them all out and get n fresh
start"
He stared ut her with Il frown of
curiosity. "That's good sense" he
said. "I;ut why should you bother to
think of it?'
Her color came up %perceptibly as she
answered. "Why-I want the piece to
succeed. of course :" Rose turned
rather suddenly to the saleswoman. 81
wish you'd get that little Empire frock
in maize and ~cornflower," she said.
I'D like Mr.. Galbraith to see that,
And the salcswoman, now pla-
Gated, hustled away.
This thing that Eve got on" said
Rose swiftly. costs IL hundred and
nifty dollars, but | know | can COPY it
twenty. | can't get the materials
exactly, of course, but | can come
near enough"
Twill you try this n on, miSSY"
the SaleSwOman, coming on the
scene again with the frOck she had
sent for.
"No,' said Rose. ".Just hold it up"
9 -. ~ ~
'ut wasn't overwhelmed at all as he
lad been by the other.
ITS not quite 81 much your style,
$ it? No drive enough?"
ut isn't for me-" said Rose. ITS
or Edna Larson to wear in that All
Alone number for the sextette."
Galbraith stared at her a moment.
Then, Put on your street things" he ,
aid b~rusquely. "Ill wait" !
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

out In front won't know the difference,
I'll 80 out to my little farm on Long
Island and raise garden truck"
There was another mOmentary ST
lence. for the girl made no comment
Mt all on this statement of his credO.
Blu he felt sure, somehow, that she
understood 1t, and presently he went
on speaking.
would 1t be possible, do you think,
to get better gowns that would also
be cheaper? That argument would
bring Goldsmith around in n hurry. It's
ridiculous, Of course, but that's the
trouble with making a production for
amateurs. You spend more time fight
ing them than you do producing the
show"
II don't believe" said Rose, that
you could get better r%eady-made cos
tunes Il lot cheaper; the two or three
We might be able to find wouldn't help
rs much"
"And l suppose" he said obviously,
its out of the question getting them
any olHtI way tHull It1iuS illlit, tHul
is, and cheaper, too
The only sign of excitement there
was in the girls voice when she an
swered, n a sort of exaggerated mat
ter-Of-factnesS. 81 could design the
costumes and pick out the materials"
she said, "but we'd have to get a good
sewing woman-perhaps more than
one-tO get them done"
He wasn't greatly surprised. Per
hnps the notion that she might suggest
something of the sort was responsible
for the tentative, dubious way in which
he had said he supposed it couldn't
be done.
you've had-eXperience in design
ing gowns, have your tiaIbraith
asked.
"Only for myself" she admitted.
but | know l can do that part of it.
I'm not good at sewing, thOugh'-she
reverted to the other part of the plan.
I'D have to have somebody awfully
good. who'd do exactly what | told
her"
"Oh, that can be managed" he said
a little absently, and at the end of a
which lasted while they walked
a whole block Il vas just figuring out
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

requires an operation, ne is in the
hands Of the best surgeons Of the land,
with the finest surgical tools to do
their work. And the hospital has an
ample supply Of wound dressings, pads.
splints, hospital gowns, surgical
shirts-all the thousand and one things
a first-class hospital must have.
That Is the service which the Ameri-
can Red Cross has provided for the
American soldier before our country
was Mt war-before a single American
ship or unit Of the American army
was headed for Europe. Thirty-six Of
these hospitals-enough to care for the
wounded Of an army of a million men
have been made ready to the last
strip OF bandage and the last enrolled
stretcher bearer. Several Of them are
now In France, helping to are for the
wounded Of the allies, and ready to
care for the American soldiers who are
sure to fall into their hands before
many weeks.
Each Of these base hospitals calls
for the services of % surgeons, 2
dentists, rs Red Cross nurses and $50
privates, including orderlles, ambu-
lance drivers, stretcher bearers and
clerks.
The permanent minimum equipment
of each hospital consists of three car
loads of beds, mattresses, scientific ap-
paratus, operating room paraphernalia,
and all utensils. Units going to Eu-
rope these days, however, are taking
double or triple equipment.
The consumable supplies of each hos
pital consists Of IS crates of b~andages,
wound pads, splints, fracture pillows,
dressings and hospital supplies Of
every kind to the number Of 4 2,492, all
made up to army standard, packed.
boxed and labeled so that surgeons and
nurses can put their hands on them
in a moment.
NOw-frOm this 1t might seem that
the Red Cross has done every
thing needful, and that there is moth
ing more to do for the base hospitals
but to wait until the wounded begin
to stream IN. and give them the bene1t
Of all this foresight.
Not so. 1t has been established that
the supplies Of bandages and splints
and wound pads and gauze in a base
hospital last through just about four
days Of heavy fighting. Then, unless
there were a great store of supplies
to draw from, the hospital would find
itself with 500 wounded on hand, and
no dressings for their wounds.
Here, again, Is work for the Red
Cross. All over the land, wherever
were made for these SO base
hospitals, are women trained in max
-ng hospital supplies. 1t is for these
not only to stand ready to fur.
1ish other supplies, but to train still
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

II way to work it," he said, explaining
his silence. 81 shall tell Goldsmith and
Block (Block was the junior partner
in the enterprise) that I've got hold
of a costumer who agrees to deliver
twelve costumes satisfactory to me, at
an average Of, say, twenty per cent
less than the ones Mrs. Goldsmith
picked out. If they aren't satisfactory,
it's the cOstumer's loss and we can
buy those that Mrs. Goldsmith picked
out. or others that will do as well, at
Lessing's. l think that saving will be
decisive with Them
But do you know a costumer?'
Rose asked.
you're the cOstumer." said Gal
braith. "YOu design the costumes, buy
the fabrics, superintend the making of
them. AS for the woman you speak
of, We'll get the wardrobe mistress
mt the Globe. l happen to know she's
competent, and she's at a loose end
just now, because her show is closing
when ours opens. You'll buy the fab
RIGS and you'll pay her. And what profit
you can make out of the deal, you're
entitled to. I'll finance you myself. If
they won't take what we show them,
why, you'll be out your time and
trouble, and I'll be out the price of
materials and the wOman's labor"
IL don't think it would be fair" she
said, and she found difficulty in speak
ing at all because of a sudden dispO-
sition of her teeth to chatter-"I don't
think 1t would be fair for me to take
all the profit and you take all the
well, l can't take any prcft, that's
clear enough" he said; and she no
ticed now a tinge of amusement in his |
voice. "You see I'm retained-body |
and soul-to put this production over.
l can't make money out of those fell
lows on the side. But you're not re-
You're employed as a member
the chorus. And, so far, you're not
even paid for the work you're doing.
So long as you work to my satisfaction
on the stage, nothing more can
De asked of you. As for the risk, II
1on't believe it's serious. l don't think
you'll fall down on the job, and l don't
Goldsmith and Block will
brow away a chance to save some
money!"
And then he pressed her for an i'm.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

splints In case of broken bones, and
makes it possible for the patient to be
moved to the little field hospital a
short distance from the fighting line.
This field hospital is usually a tent
sometimes a hut or n barn or even
a space In the open air sheltered by a
hill or a clump of trees. It is really
little more than an enlarged f1rst-ald
station, with n capacity for not more
than 125 wounded, who lie on the
ground on tarpaullns. There r no
beds. and seldom any cots.
From the field hospital the wound
I'd are taken, as rapidly as possible, to
the evacuation hospitals, still farther
from the danger zone. Each evacua-
ton hospital cares for the wounded
from three field hospitals. This, too,
is an emergency station, and has no
.permanency. 1t is a collection station
FOR wounded, where the worst cases
may be given a little more attention
han has been possible before.
As rapidly as the motor ambulances,
he hospital trains, the hospital ships,
n other agencies. are able to work,
the wounded are taken from these col
stations TO the base hospital,
located at the army base some distance
tc the rear.
Here, for the first time, the wound
ed man finds himself in a real hos
pital. in the hands of surgeons and
who have the time to give his
hurts every possible care.
He is put into a real bed in a real
hospital, supplied with X-ray, bac-
THEOLOGICAL and pathological labora-
tories, a diet kitchen presided over by
skilled cooks, and with surgeons and
nurses drawn from Americas most
highly trained to wait on him. II he