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The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
THIS PARADE WORTH SEEING
Take U. S. Army 81 Days to March
Past Given Point.

Washington, Oct. 2.-It would take
tie American army, marching in In
fantry formation, 81 days to pass
given point, Representative Lunn
Dem.) of New York and member Of
tie military committee, told the house
in illustrating a speech showing the
magnitude of Americas war prepara-
tions.
To show the rate at which the army
still is growing, Mr.. Lunn declared
that if such a review were to be held
next June it would take the troops
tree months steady marching to pass
one point.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
ENEMY FIRES CAMBRIA
COUNTER ATTACKS FAIL

Cierges and are operating north Of
that point, nthe road from Exermont
to Gensnes, maintaining contact with
the enemy. In the north our troops are
advancing with the French and Brit
isb and participating in their Sue
cesses. Since September 26, our avi-
ators have shot down more than 100
hostile planes and 21 balloons.
Section B-There is nothing to re-
port in this section"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
TWENTY u. S. SAILORS LOST
Boat From Scout Cruiser Salem Over
turns in Rough Sea.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The navy de-
partment was without any report as
to the exact number Of casualties that
occurred when boat from the scout
cruiser Salem, carrying Liberty
party, overturned Sunday night in a
rough sea off Key West, Fla. Dis
patches to the department confirmed
the reports Of the sinking and stated
that a number of the men were unac-
counted for. No further details were
given, however.
An earlier dispatch stated that 20
sailors had been drowned and II 9TH
ers were rescued. None Of the bodies
was recovered.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
GERMAN BACKS TO THE WALL

Socialist Newspaper Says FatherIand
Faces Death.
Washington, Oct. 2.-An official dis
ratch from France quotes the Ger
man Socialist paper Vorwaerts on the
Bulgarian situation as follows: "Bul-
garia deserts the central alliance to
make peace. We, the German people,
then remain alone to face the French,
English and the Americans, our backs
to the wall and death facing us. Such
is the situation that we have in view
today and we must meet it with the
necessary courage" The Berlin Lo-
kal Anzeiger says: "No cne can avoid
seeing how great the danger owing
tc the Bulgarian crisis. It would be
crime to conceal 1T"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
NEED MORE MONEY FOR SHIPS
House Is Urged to Provide $4OO, O,OOO,-
600 for Steel Vessels,

Washington, Oct. 2.-More than
$4O0,OO0,OO for additional steel ship
construction was asked today by Ed
ward N. Hurley, president, and Charles
liez, vice president of the United
States Shipping Emergency Fleet cor
poration, when they appeared before
the house appropriations committee,
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
rs HUN PLANES ARE FELLED

ives on Hun convoys.
Paris, Oct. 2.-Twenty-f1ve German
atrplanes were destroyed by French
aviators, the war office reports. Bomb
ing squadrons dropped 26 tons Of
bombs on conveys and concentration
points behind the enemy front.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
Valor Medal for Yankee.

Rome, Oct. 2.-The Duke d'Aosta
personally conferred the first Italian
yalor medal to be given an American
infantryman upon Sergeant Albert
Richardson. Richardson saved the
life of an Italian soldier who fell into
q mountain torrent.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
Liberty Loan Speaker Falls to Death.

New York Oct. 2.-Hymie Fuller
man, twenty-six years old, was ia
tally injured here when he fell from
the flfth-story window of an office
building which he was scaling from the
outside in order to make Liberty loan
appeals. The amateur human fly"
had made four appeals and was MAX
Ing q fifth when he slipped and fell.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
NEW U. S. FLssHs!SSs PRAISED
Twenty Machines Arrive in France
DaiIy-ExceIIent in Combat.

Washington, Oct. .2.-De Haviland f.
planes are arriving in France at the
rate Of approximately 20 day and
are performing excellently in combat,
Maj. Gen. William L. Henley, head of
the air service, announced. The first
De Haviland planes, equipped with
Liberty motors, arrived at stations in
France on May 13, 1913. On August
20 they were arriving at the rate Of 20
a day. The planes attain speed of
13O miles an hour and make an alti-
tude of 10000 feet in 10 minutes and
21 seconds, full load, without and spe-
cial effort, 1t was stated.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
GETS Won HERTLlNG'S JOB
Fehrenbach VIII Be Next Chancellor
Of Germany.

London. Oct. 2.-President Fehren-
bach of the reichstag will succeed
Count Won Hertling as imperial chan
cellor, according to wireless press re-
Le ert received here.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
Takes $7,oOo,o00 Bonds.

Milwaukee, Oct. 2.-The Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance company
subscribed to $7,OOO,OOO of the fourth
Liberty loan bonds
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
IOWA GERMAN SOUGHT BY US.
Dr.. Theodore n. KieffeI, Des Moines
Teuton, Is Wanted.

DeS MOineS, Ia, Oct. IA preStden-
tial warrant has been issued for the
arrest and internment of DR.. Theodore
II. Kleffel. prominent Des MOines Ger
man and vice president of the Ameri-
can Hog Raisers' association of Iowa,
according to federal agents here, who
declared Kleffel was suspected Of spy
activities.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
TURK CITY is SURROUNDED
British Forces Established North,
West and South of eDamascua.

London, Oct. british forces
marching north from Palestinea have
virtually surrounded the city Of Da-
mascus They are established on the
north, west and south Of the city, It
ives officially announced.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02

The home paper-Watertown News
Read the News.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
POWER MEASURE IS PASSED
Bill for Government Acquisition OF
Plants Goes to Senate.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The house
passed without dissenting vote and
sent to the senate the administration
emergency power bill, providing for
government acquisition and extension
of electric power plants. It authorizes
the expenditure of S175,O0O,OOO for ex-
tending existing plants or building
new ones.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
VENICE is RAIDED BY FLYERS
Austrian AIrmen Also Attack Avoiona
Some Loss of Life.

Rome, Oct. 2.-Enemy aerial attacks
on Venice and AvOlOna were reported
by the admiralty. Two women and
children were injured at Venice. No
material damage was done. In the
attack on AvalOna there was some
loss of life, especially among the Aus
trian soldiers in prison comps.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-02
Peace Demonstrations Reported In
Berlin and neutrality-suspicious.
Armistice Includes Surren-
der of Everything Of
Military Value.

Amsterdam, Oct 2.-The VossIche
Zeitung sums up the probable conse-
quences Of BuIearia's surrender as
follows:
Turkey will follow suit
Rounnania will rejoin the allies.
The southern SIavs will be aided by
the allies against Austria.
Austria's capituIation is likely.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
THE MODERN HUN IN THE WORLD or ART

anything, higher than before the
war. Let US not forget, either, that
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in
San Francisco, in the summer of
1915, France made fine contribu-
ton to the art collection, necessarily
smaller than it would have been in
times of peace, but still on a gen
erous scale and enthusiastically
creditable. There has been great
quantity of brilliant work done by
French artists at the front, paint
ings and drawings by Flameng, Sa-
batter, Hoffbauer, Jonas and many
others, invaluable as records and
sometimes of much artistic charm,
for which the world will long be
grateful. But chiefly the thing which
we shall longest remember is that
which l can only describe as the
ground swell, the national spirit un-
DERIVING these individual perform
ances, the French passion for beau
ty, defying the Hun forever.
What is to be the upshot of it all?
How will the genius of art emerge
from the war, not only in France,
but everywhere in the world where
art is honoredc All the countries
are involved, and though France and
Belgium, for obvious reasons, have
chiefly concerned US in this inquiry
there are matters of interest to be
noted elsewhere. Italy has suffered
much, especially in Venice. Eng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

had never been exposed to measles.
Under conditions of camp life large
numbers Of cases of that disease of
childhood, properly speaking, arose;
and, following the measles, form
of pneumonia, known to succeed it at
times in children, became unusually
frequent and severe. This pneu-
monia is caused by other bacteria
"a streptococcus, midlothian
those causing the usual pneumonia
Of civilian and military life. This
particular medical military problem
is now being studied from every
point of view known to sanitary
science, and it is fair assumption
that the near future will see it
solved in greater or less measure"
AS is generally known, the war
has produced new diseases of it's
own. The most familiar of these,
"shell Shock" is not strictly medi-
cal problem. But DR.. Flexner has
investigated another, the so-called
trench fever" which has been the
subject of much scientific study, and
which is now on the point of being
mastered as a result of the work of
an American army officer, Major
Richard P. Strong.
"ln the East as in the West" says
DR.. Flexner, "a very battling and
highly prevalent disease has arisen,
to which for the sake Of convenience
tie name of trench fever has been
applied. The disease possesses, how
ever, series of synonymes according
to the locality of it's occurrence. 1t
is known to prevail in Flanders and
France and from the Vosges to the
sea, on the Italian and Austrian
fronts, at Salonica, and to a small
extent in Mesopotamia, but not ap-
parently in Egypt, Syria or East
Africa. This particular fever rarely
kills, but it is the most prolific source
of disability with which the armies
have had to contend. Moreover, the
disability it causes, while usually
measured by a few weeks, may eX-
tend into MANY months and not in
frequently it's victims are perma-
nently disabled and unable to return
to the ranks. AS a side effect it pro-
duces cases of irritable heart, in turn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

What is to be the effect of the war
schools. The question is. frankly.
unanswerable. There is no evidence
on the horizon. No one knows what
the artists are going to do when
they get back from the fight. But
any one may guess, and | have, for
my own part, no expectations what
ever of revolutionary movements.
least of all contemplating the likeli-
hood of that kind of independent
activity which is illustrated by the
cubist and his fellow faddists. l
think the artist will be very weary,
in mood for rest and the old sane
titles Of home. He will turn to the
time-tried masters as he will turn
to the people he loves, his family
and his friends. The classics will
steady his harassed mind and spirit
as the quietude of familiar, cherished
scenes will soothe his tangled nerves.
That, after all, seems to me a rea-
sonable hypothesis. For if there is
one thing that the bestiality of the
Hun does it is to throw US back
upon the ancient inviolable law, to
make us cling with renewed faith to
all that is honest and of good re-
port. No matter how much the war
may stir the imaginations of artists
and there, l believe, we NAV
look for remarkable developments
1t ought to strengthen rather than
weaken their hold upon the funda-
mental standards which are the life
blood of art.
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Continued from Page Sin)

gracious of all the European art pc
riodicals, was compelled by force of
practical conditions to suspend pub
LEGATION for a time, but it has been
revived, and now appears in thick
quarterly numbers, alert and lumi-
nous as ever. Some time after the
war broke out l wrote to M. Doucet
about the half dozen societies to
which he has been in some sort a
Medici, the society for the reproduce
ton of old drawings, the society for
the promotion of the engraver's
cult, and so on. Would the rest of
the st. Aubin catalogues be brought
out? Would the Pisanello facsim-
lies be completed? Of course they
would. But the STATS had all gone
to the war. When they returned,
triumphant, the various publications
would be resumed. No discourage
ment, meanwhile.
Paris is never discouraged In this
new Salon there is picture by Gull
laume, "The Hour of the Taubes." A
group of idlers, child with his hoop
in the foreground, is looking on as at
a show. 1t is the spirit of Paris in
carnate. The art sales continue
even while shells are dropping in
the city, and as the dispersal of the
Degas collection clearly showed
onlv a few weeks ago. prices are. if
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

the blood, with which it is carried to
the membranes about the brain and
spinal cord, which are the sites of
location or election for it's growth
inside the body. But not every per-
son who carries the meningococcus in
his nose and throat is in danger of
acquiring meningitis. Indeed, con-
siderably more persons carry that
germ than develop the disease. These
contaminated persons are called
healthy carriers of the meningococ-
Gus, and they are source of poten-
tial danger, since they convey the
germ by coughing, sneezing, ETC., to
other healthy persons who are less
resistant to infection and hence may
develop the disease. At the present
time bacteriology is competent to
discover the dangerous healthy car
riers OF the meningococcus, and when
they are present within the military
organizations they are thus detected
and segregated until they become
clear. This process requires from
ten days to several weeks, but it can
be FASTENED by appropriate treat
ment.
I'm this manner meningitis may
be brought under control. Here
again, should conditions warrant it,
protection can, it appears, be con-
ftrred by vaccination. Moreover, we
now possess an efficient and specific
method of treating epidemic menin-
gifts by means of a curative serum.
Hence we feel forearmed to high
degree with reference to this disease,
which in earlier wars in the char
acter of spotted fever was regarded
as one of the most fearful of pesti-
lences."
One of the peculiar medical prob
lens of war time was particularly
related to American conditions. This,
a severe form Of pneumonia, has
been the result of so trivial disease
as the measles.
Unusual conditions surrounding
Americas entrance into the war;"
DR.. Flexner explains, "necessitating
the rapid assembling of recruits in
large numbers from all parts of the
country, led TO certain unforeseen
problems Of disease. 1t happened
that in rural districts many adults
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
New Serums, Antitoxins and Surgery
Methods Will Remain as Perma-
nent Gain in Years of Peace
An Interview
Dr. Simon Flexner, Lieut.. Col U. S. Medical Corn.
An Interview With

Director OF Ldboato7es Of The Rockefeler Ist;tte f
Medical Research ~
Copyright 1918 xew York rr,,un
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

delightful annual. Even as ]
write there comes to my desk a
luxurious folio by DR.. William
son, published by the John Lane
Company. 1t is "The Life and
Works of Ozias HUMPHREY" the
sumptuous kind of volume which
one would have supposed the war
had postponed Indefinitely. And an
English publishing house, that of
the Macmillans, is collaborating
with Hachette, in France, over the
making of q new series of European
guide books, to take the place, once
and for all, of the hitherto ubiqui-
tous Baedeker. What a cheering
bit of news that is. Baedeker has
been serviceable, to be sure, but the
very name is hateful now, when one
reflects that the Germans who made
those books, and prepared the maps
for them, may easily have takes.
part in the work Of espionage which
the Hun has never developed more
skilfully than while enjoying the
hospitality of foreign lands.
The new Anglo-French guides
may be set down as one tangible
blessing which is to be vouchsafed
students of art after the war. But
it is the intangible fruitage of the
future that interests most inquirers.
upon art, they ask, and wonder if
it will not include the liberation of
new ideas, new principles, new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
a disabling affection.

disabling affection.
Under the circumstances it is
obvious that the solution of the rid
die as to it's nature and mode of
propagation became of immediate
military Importance. The best scien-
tific medical talent of the European
belligerents devoted themselves to
the task; but the solution was denied
ito be yielded just the other day
to a medical commission headed by
Major Richard P. Strong, of the
United States army! The half dozen
medical officers-with the exception
OF one Englishman, all Americans
who solved the riddle deserve, with
the sixty-eight volunteers from our
ranks, the credit of this great and
highly important discovery. Trench
fever is now to be regarded as an
infectious and communicable disease
o. verminous origin, since it is
propagated by the body louise. Thus
to all the other reasons for carrying
out a vigorous anti-louse campaign
among the troops is added the SUI
premely important one of reducing
or abolishing trench fever. The army
which accomplishes that task first
will have won large potential mill
tary victory over it's adversary.
Typhus Routed
By Hygiene
"The discovery of the verminous
transmission Of trench fever recalls
the ravages of typhus in Serbia and
Rumania after the Austro- German
invasion. The underfed, unhoused
and neglected crowds that swarmed
out of the occupied regions fell ready
victims to typhus, which prevails cpl
demically in the Balkans. Serbian
and Austrian prisoners alike were
stricken and died by thousands. The
plague was arrested by improving
hygienic conditions and by reducing
louise infestation.
"Typhus fever disappears before a
hygienic manner of living. Hence
the advanced Western nations have
become free of it. It's last strong
holds, as considering its nature is
now obvious, were the prison and the
poorhouse. But the disease still ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

sSocMtfon (rhe NeW York; Tribune,
c'vlAlan communities, it is all but un-
known in our military establish
ments.
The Russo-Japanese War. it had
been supposed, was the high-water
mark of sanitary wars. There seems
good reason to believe, as matter
OF fact, that the Japanese at least
gave their troops the benefit of mod
ern methods in sanitation. But the
data available on which to base an
estimate of the actual success with
which the Japanese suppressed the
medical diseases within their fighting
forces are not great.
The present war, of course, can
not be compared with any previous
war, because of the disproportion be-
tween the numbers engaged and the
manner in which the fighting is be-
ing conducted. Where formerly we
reckoned in thousands we now reckon
in millions of men engaged in actual
warfare, and where formerly we
spoke of hundreds we now speak of
thousands aggregated behind the
lines engaged in the manufacture of
munitions and the other parapher-
MALTA of warfare.
Hence the medical problem of the
present war embraces as never be-
tore enormous numbers of persons.
both men and women, and not alone
IN the immediate theatre of fighting.
but also in remote places where they
are assembled in factories, etc. For
the first time, therefore, entire popu-
lations of the belligerent countries
are engaged in the operations of
war. Just as it may be stated with
truth that the scale on which the
great war is being waged would be
impossible without a high degree of
industrial development, so may it
also be said that it would be equally
Impossible without high measure
of sanitary control.
This sanitary control has been
gained laboriously within a genera
ton, through the discovery of the
nature of the bacterial causes and
the manner of their propagation of
the infectious diseases-both of med
ical and surgical nature"
Scientists divide the diseases of
modern warfare into three groups.
DR.. Flexner declares. Of these, the
group emanating from intestinal de-
engagements is now the least feared,
having been effectually met by vac
cination and sanitary control.
"The medical diseases attendant
upon military organizations" he
said, may be divided into those
causing intestinal nfections-they
are represented by typhoid fever,
dysentery and cholera; those origi-
mating in respiratory infections and
represented by the various forms of
pneumonia and epidemic meningitis;
those associated with eruptions of
the skin and including smallpox,
measles and scarlet fever; and then
certain more irregular maladies. of
which mumps may be taken as an ex-
ample, since it may become very
prevalent.
Formerly the diseases of intesti
nal origin were most, while now they
are least, feared. The reason for this
change of view is to be round in the
great measure of control exercised |
over them. Typhoid and the related
paratyphoid fever have been abol-
ished by vaccination; cholera has
been and can always be brought I'M
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laboratori e S
of the Rock
efeller In
stitute f o I
Medical Re-
search.
w i t h GU t
m g d i c a |
science sug-
gests, t h e
w a + condi-
tons would
be of unim-
aginable hor-
70 +. T h e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

THE Great War, now approach
ing the close of it's fourth
n year, has seen a smaller per-
centage Of death and disability due
70 disease than any previous war of
which there is adequate record, as
serts DR.. Simon FleXner, director of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Fighting Spread
OF Pneumonia

VI llCuIIlOIlld
Those who had supposed that
pneumonia was merely an after eff
feet Of taking cold" will be sur
prised to learn that wartime science
has met the disease effectively with
incubation or vaccination.
"The commoner forms Of pneu-
monia," says DR.. Flexner, "have in
a large measure come under control.
The bacteriology of that affection has
now been wholly worked out; the dis
ease is now recognized as contagious,
which fact essentially affects the
handling of the sick and the pro-
lection of the we'll from avoidable
exposure; and for one of the severer
types of this pneumonia we now pos
sess a curative serum. Moreover,
here again vaccination is holding out
hope of substantial accomplishments;
and if present indications are upheld
it will be not outside the limits Of the
practical to immunize by a harmless
kind of incubation or vaccination
even millions of men who would thus
be protected from acquiring pneumo-
MIA of the severer FORMS"
Spinal meningitis, at one time one
of the most battling and cruel of dis
eases, has now largely come under
the control of preventive medicine,
DR.. Flexner points out. The meth
oG, largely developed during the war,
he describes as follows:
"The germ cause of epidemic men,
ingitis-the meningococcus-enters
the body through the mucous men,
brane Of the nose and throat, the So
called upper respiratory membrane
From that location the germ enters
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land, whose monuments have on the
whole escaped injury, has also her
share in the artistic annals of the
period. She has sent some admira-
BILE artists to the front, Muirhead