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Evening star., 1918-02-02
All "Get a Good Deal"

A few days later the same correspond
ent went through stone gateway INTO
q big yard, where men walked ABOUT
some on crutches, some alone. but sloW :
". with the gait of convalescents On
three sides were big stone buildings
and from the windows other men look-
ed out Some were French, some Amer
lean. Now and then a nurse. IN req
lined blue cloak, hurried across ing
a big ambulance drove through the
gate 1t was marked in red "Roose-
velt-Mackay Hospital Just a rev
minutes talk with any of the AIneri-
cans or with the Frenchmen. many OF
them colonial troops in red fezzes.
brought the same answer: This place
is ali right They give you a good deal
here" or it's French equivalent:
1t is the same at any of the base
hospitals-at the New York Post Grad
uate. Hospital up near one OF the potts
of debarkation. at the Boston Base
Hospital near another port-at any o.
them. That is not strange because.
though perhaps the average soiolef
does not know it, he gets in France
better medical care than he ever weuid
be able to get for himself were he at
home and in civilian life. In fact, there
are few officers in the Army VINO "oulo
be able to afford the services of such
an array of specialists, men who nave
made regulations nationwide IN prac-
tice at home, as are in charge Of the
hospitals here. All their care and su-
pervision the soldier gets free.
This is true now. while the army is
still in training 1t will be truer still
when they get into fighting and instead
of score or so wounded, which is all
we had in a month in the trenches,
there will be, well. more than score.
every plan has been laid Tor the
prompt transportation and care of
American wounded. Within twenty
four hours of the time he is wounded
the American soldier will be under the
care of an American woman nurse.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Obliged to Falsify.

This margin of exaggeration was
fairly small in the early months of the
unrestricted warfare when things were
going along with a certain degree of
Success for the U-boats. 1t showed no
particular increase through April, May
and June, whene the sinkings were
highest. But with the lessening of the
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Just as Many Targets.

THAT is false" he said. 'sailings
day as they were a year ago. There
are Just as many targets for the sub
marines in their zone of operations. but
our improved defensive measures leave
them fewer opportunities to make
bulrs-eyeS."
The correspondent referred to Secre-
tary of War Bakers statement Of few
days ago concerning the German plan
for concentration against American
transports.
There is no doubt said Sir Eric,
that the U-boats will bend every effort
to attack American transports. and II
you are to bring across the Atlantic
there will be losses. and probably heavy
ones, for life-saving in mid-Atlantic is
not easy.
81 do not doubt that Mr.. Baker had
good grounds for his statement, but
we have no evidence to support the
view that. the Germans at present are
Withdrawing their U-boats in prepara-
ton for concentrated attack against
the American lines of communication.
All. our evidence tends to show that
there are just as many submarines out
now as ever, and that they are just as
ambitious and active.
"The steady decrease of merchant
sinkings q do not refer to the abnor-
1nally EOOQ weeks OIL II1S fIlOIlHl Is HOt
due, am convinced, to any withdrawal
of submarines from the shipping lanes,
but to the steady improvement in the
allied methods of dealing with them.
They get fewer chances. and they meet
with disaster more frequently"
The subject of disasters to German
submarines led Sir Eric to the defense
of the British policy of entire secrecy
regarding the sinking of U-boats.
"Our policy of secrecy" he said, ''has,
I believe. much to do with the steady
deteriorat ton in the morale of the Ger
man submarine crews. The exception
made in the case of the U-boat whose
crew was captured few weeks ago by
an American destroyer is not one which
we purpose to follow.
1--WE know from prisoners how much
this policy of secrecy wears on the
German U-boat sailors. Every month
there are German submarine crews
which fail to return to their base and
of which nothing is ever heard
DAY after day they are posted as
missing Their fellows on other boats
discuss and speculate upon their possi-
BILE fate, and finally are themselves
called upon to leave on an errand
which they cannot help feeling is very
likely to end in the same vague and un-
satisfactory way.
Evening star., 1918-02-02

German successes OF July, August and
began to increase. The German ad-
miralty found itself obliged to falsify
its returns more and more flagrantly in
its effort to persuade the German peo-
pie that the U-boat war was a contin-
uing success.
80 1 keep a record of continued in
crease in percentages which marks the
Germans margin of exaggeration, and
this curve, I believe, is fairly accu-
rate reflection of the German official
mind and an official confession that the
C-boat campaign is regarded as a fail
ure by it's own leaders"
Sir Eric referred to the German claim
that the decreased sinkings were due
to the decrease in the number of ships
sailing.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
One Curve Gives Satisfaction.

There is still another curve which I
keep. l never told the public about it,
but it gives me personally much satis-
faction. 1t is the curve representing
what 1 call the factor of exaggeration
in the German official statements of
U-boat results. Let me explain that
curve briefly. e.--
= Every month since the unrestricted
submarine war began the Germans
have issued an official statement of the
total amount CT tonnage alleged to
have been sunk during that month
Every month that statement comes to
my desk and is compared with the
actual total as shown in our records.
1t would only be natural to expect some
differences. for submarine commanders
would naturally include in their reports
few ships which they torpedoed but
which We're afterWard saved
But we found there was a greater
difference than could be explained in
any such way. We found from the very
first month that there was a certain
margin of exaggeration'-that is, the
German admiralty always added few
thousand tons for good measure.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
DOUBTS CHANCE Of
| REVOLT IN ENGLAND
Edward Price Bell Asserts,
However, Britain's Food
Needs Are Urgent.
SOCIAL DANGER GROWS
SOCIAL DANGER GROWS
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 1918.

LONDON. February 2. Speculation
relative to a possible revolution in
Great Britain is a marked feature of
discussion, ir this country. Recently
the Times treated the subject frankly
in a series of articles entitled THE
Ferment of Revolution" This morn
afresh. affirming that there really is
rank and file" movement in British
labor.
Henry W. Massinghams radical
weekly, the Nation, says:
THE world would not listen to Presi-
dent Wilson when he talked of peace
without victory, nor to Hjalmar Bran
ting when he proposed peace by demo-
cratic conference, nor to the Pope when
he called for Christian peace, The
penalty for it's deafness is the emer-
gence of Trotzky and the portent of a
red peace"
Sidney Webb. in the New Statesman,
writes that the industrial unrest is SO
acute as to create very serious pos
Sibility of a sudden spontaneous indus
trial disturbance" The New States
man recognizes that moderation tri-
umphed at the Nottingham conference.
We're full of apprehension lest discon-
tent with the governments failure to
give the people their daily rations,
failure to enforce equality of sacrifice
on rich and poor, might burst onto a
flame which the industrial leaders
would be unable to suppress.
Doubts Idea of Revolt.
Now. have made inquiries about this
unrest. Besides. I have been more or
less familiar with labor thought and
conditions in England since 1895, when
/ lived several months in the very midst
of the working people of Liverpool and
London. My own conviction is that
there is no more ultra revolutionary
sentiment in this country now after
these terrible years of war than there
was twenty-five years ago But this
does not mean that there is not more
social danger now than then.
There is much more social danger
now for one outstanding reason. name
ly, that food is scarce and dear and
that thus far the government has not
succeeded i'll effecting a satisfactory
distribution of what there is If Brit
ish labor in mass were to falter in its
support hitherton on the whole so mag
nificent. of the armies in the field. the
calamity would be due not to any faint
of bolshevism in the British working
man, but mainly If not wholly to the
lack of the necessities of life
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Special Operating Teams.

In the evacuation hospital every kind
of operation is performed. even opera
tions on abdominal wounds, the most
serious of all. There are special
operating teams on duty all the time,
with special wards for each special
kind of wound. 1t is expected that so
per cent of the men operated upon will
recover, and that is a good percentage.
for naturally such cases are serious to
start with The wounded man remains
in the evacuation hospital until he has
convalesced sufficiently to be sent to
n conyalescent hospital.
He goes there on a hospital train.
If his condition requires it he will be
sent in one of the special hospital
trains recently ordered in England. the
first of which was completed recently.
Each train will carry 375 bed patients.
They are the last word in railroad
comfort, with every possible conven-
tence and hygienfc appliance. equipped
for every emergency. Other hospital
trains hayse been made by transform
ing former Wagons-Lits cars of the
French railroad service, the equivalent
Of our P1llmans II the patient has re-
covered sufficiently to be Sitting
case" as wiM travel in trains composed
Evening star., 1918-02-02
TOLL 'U-BOATS
LESS THAN \ YEAR AGO
Fewer Sinkings Than When
Ruthless War Began, Says
Sir Eric Geddes.
U. S. MUST RUSH SHIPS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON. February 2-"The subma-
rine is held" Thus in four words Sir
Eric Campbell Geddes, first lord of the
admiralty, summarized the results Of
the first year of Germanys unrestricted
submarine warfare, which began Feb
ruary 1. year ago.
A measure of its failure, he added to
the correspondent. was found in the
fact that the sinking of merchant ships
now had been reduced to a level lower
than before Germany cast aside all re-
straint.
IT am an optimist regarding the T.
boat war;" said Sir Eric. The subma-
rine, restrained and unrestrained. has
been met and has not proved fnvincl-
BILE. I am inclined TO think that now,
since / made my last public statement,
Germany can build them My curves
are all good and 1 cannot foresee any
way in which the situation can be
changed except for the better.
Must Have More Ships.
THE sooner the better is now the al
lied navy's aim. But-you see there is
one-we must have more ships If we
are able to turn this German failure
into positive allied victory. The sub
marine destruction of the worlds ton
whole, but the submarine destruction
still exceeds the production of ships
and meantime the demands for tonnage
are increasing by leaps and bounds.
Americas participation in the war
must inevitably make large demands
on merchant shipping. Yet we must
continue at the same time to keep UP
with the demands of the allied armies
and with the vital necessities of the
European civil population.
the most important corollary of the
war How far can we rely on American
effort for these ships? I have no doubt
the United States will do it's utmost
but I want to urge again the vital i'm
portance of its merchant shipping pro-
gram.
Is United States SucceedingP
when we first asked the United
States for ships there was quick re-
States help more than in building ships
Is she succeeding? Is she throwing
her best brains and great energies into
1t? It's worthy contribution to oul
great cause: hope she is.
Meanwhile We shall not be idle
Great Britain is straining every re.
source to launch every ton of which
she is capable. We are at the present
moment building merchant ships at q
higher rate than ever before in oul
| record before the war. and before 1915
| is over we shall be building shipping Of
all kinds at rate more than double
| that record year. But great deal de.
pends on American effort. and 1 should
greatly regret if anything I might sa.
regarding the failure of the German
| submarine warfare should be construed
| as minimizing the need for 'ships anC
yet more ships"
| Turning to the progress of the cam
!; paign against the German submarine
| Sir Eric again referred to the satisfac-
/ has referred in several of his speeches
| "All the curves continue to bend ir
J.; the right direction" he said. "The de.
| struction of allied shipping decreases
; rapidly. the construction of merchant
| shipping increases steadily and the
| sinking of German submarines steadil.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Men Treated in Dugouts.

This is usually in a dugout anywhere
from a hundred yards to a half mile
from the first line trench. Here a
medical officer is generally on duty.
The moment it is known that the man
has been wounded. a telephone message
goes back to send up an ambulance to
the nearest point behind the lines
where it is safe for an ambulance to
go. The Germans like to shell am
balances as they like to bomb hospitals.
Meantime, in the advanced dressing
station. the wound is bandaged again
as well as possible and the soldier re-
ceives an injection of anti-tetanus
serum. Then the ambulance takes him
to the field hospital. about four or five
miles behind the front. There he is
operated upon only if the need is press
ing.
Generally the idea is simply to change
the dressing, cleanse the wound and
the patients condition is good enough.
send him on at once to the evacuation
hospital. If he cannot be moved he is
kept in the field hospital for time.
Minor operations are performed there.
Evening star., 1918-02-02

A door at one end of the barrack open
ed, and in came a cheerful, capable
looking. rosy-faced woman. usherins
correspondent.
There they are she said. down at
the end of the room. Go and talk to
them IL you like"
The men at the end of the room were
some of the first American soldiers to
be wounded in actual combat with tne
enemy. The barrack was one OF the
wards of the Johns Hopkins Base HOS
pital And this is what the men sald.
so you're a correspondent. are you
Well, here's something for you to write
up for your paper. We just been tax
ing about it.. We been here now osns sls
days, time enough to size the WORKS
up. an it's all right. You just put IN
your paper that the men here get
treated right. We have the best OF care,
the docs know their business, the
nurses kid us along and make us feel
cheerful and the chow is good. we
think the medical department OF the
L, S. A. is o +. We got no KICK
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Woman Nurses at Every Front.

1t has been decided that woman
nurses are necessary in evacuation hos
pitfalls, which are only eight or ten miles
behind the front and which the Ger
mans delight to bomb. SO the American
woman will get as near as any woman
can get to the actual firing line
The better to insure the comfort and.
with badly wounded the life of the
American wounded man new stretcher
has been designed, on the hammock
principle, so that it can be readily car
r;ed through narrow. winding trenches.
Large ndumbers of automobile am
balances have already reached France
and though some were found insult
able for the purpose and are now used
as runabout trucks, the supply is am
pie.
But before fnquiring further into the
manner in which American wounded
will be handled some explanation OF
the organization planned for expediting
their recovery should be given. The
first and foremost principle is that the
quicker a wounded man is transferred
from the confusion and noise of the
front to comparatively quiet surround
fngs, the more rapid will be his re-
covery. Everything is done to obtain
rapidity in getting him to the rear. and
at the same time insuring the comfort
that is essential.
A soldier is wounded, we will say. in
a front line trench, by a shell explo-
sion. call is sent back for stretcher
bearers. or, If they are not available.
one or more of his comrades start back
with him. Now, if the trenches be mar
row and winding. as most trenches are,
the old type stretcher will not do
Either the man must be carried. per-
haps in d blanket, or perhaps the new
hammock stretcher will do the trick
The soldiers wound is bandaged as
well as possible with his own first aid
kit, contained in a little tin can about
the size7and shape of pack of cards
and he is taken back to the first aid
dressing station.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
Our Own Movie Dept.
tRaplle., TO correspondents.


Brown Esei: Yes. Mary fiektcG
gets d little more than we DO. About
two dollars. She recent. celebrated
her twentieth birthday Ter he eah /
time. Call again.
Miss Hcloya SouseE So nera ~
are again. We've missed yop. No
Douglas Fairbanks VAS not cGnf1 {
in kankakee ut the time YOU rlcaticn
don't blame you FOR making the ~ y
take. I've otten thought so myself
"a There are no squirrels alioWet
inside moving picture studios thlts
how they get BY,
Shek.ssa: Troubles never couG
sirely ~, | don't think the vampire
crop .ill be good this year Better
tiot right home to mother the sane
girl you vent away, On. Send a
quarter II you want our picture, he.
cause rats are terrible things. No
We amt bothered with EN- now.
lndus'tive; The costume Annette
keilerinan were In the Daughter OF
the Gods was imported from Australia
| believe t2) It's not new shes
had it about twenty seven years. 81
No, don't think they'll over become
fashionable in Ottawa
John. Evelyn Thaw IL not in
mos 'eg now We dent kn0" her ad.
dress. hut q letter addressed 10 The
Examjuer' viii probably reach her
You son 4fa.9un,
Tom: Send me Il stamped boli.au,
dressed envelope II ypu van. to BE-
a movie arton t2l No chance IN tat
world Ihcdi. engage her leadln2
men ~ the dozen two years in ad
vance. HoWeNt., | Win send you n
application blank
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05

t"ze tlou In IN, se,e Of thy broth
er "A those eyes WHERE plays the lam.
heai tfc al kindness, or In those where
tasrs Tie lurid confederation u, anger
t.-i how thy own 81 quieJ @uul is
sirpishtway insoluHLtiil tiudled with
tlr Ike, and ve blaze and reyathefa,e
on each other. till i, is ~ one limit.
les,. c"niIuent flame Ob embracing
io>c. or Of deadly, srasping tacl, ana
then say what miraculous virtue goes
out ot luau Into mgn.--Carilic.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
Human Ftiends,

Isa you id2alzc your friends? Some
tiBes q perscu who has worshiLed al
the shrine of Il teacher or schoolmate
III shocked into cyniclsln BY the dis.
cavery of Il ilaw In the one who was
fancIed perfection embodied. Human
nature Is faulty. and it IL always dan.
aerous 10 identlfy the virtues which
drnand our lealty with any human
being. Keep Oh loving and honorlng
truth and kindness, even though You
detec! sosne acquaintance IN false
hood. or are treated unklndly by u
friend. - Exchange.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
MACON DEFEATS D.
\. s. IN OPENING
GAME Of SEASON
GRUMPY COUNTY BOYS PILE UP
30 TALES AS AGAINST RED
AND WHITES tc-FoulS MAR
BETTER FEATURES or COMBAT.

Trounced 10 the tune OF 81 10 10.
the Ottawa high school qaintet last
nigh, inaugurated It's l9lS basketball
season against the crack Macon vet
Grams. the game being played IN the
school gymnasium before fairly
large crowd OF Red and White root.
ers.
pitted against ono ri the fastest
teams in this section oil the state the
local lads were handicapped thru
lack OF sufficient practice and sore
absence OF the right kind OF victory
making team work. The visitors
found no trouble in emlssng q thirty
score while Ottawa was following IN
the rear with only 10, the marksman-
ship Of the former being far superior
TO the Ottawa tossing and shooting
Larson. the Macon left forward,
was the particular shining lght On
the enemy aggregation. lie Hoped
the big sphere into the iron ring
seven times during the two halves
while Bundy and Dusky went j0''o
On the other six field goals Captain
Hitter, OF the Q. Il. s, shot two OF
tawa baskets AID Esmond ore
Tho conflict vas marAed re
quent fouling, / total OF II toulh te'
Ing called on Macon a. against To-
Ottawa. Hitters tossing eye was of
color and he managed to make only
. small percentage of the heaNes
stick for tallies,
Sentiment among the rootera '..d.-
Gated that the FIRST singing deis Il
would be great Boon to an Increase
Ia the quality oi play dshcd NJ hs
Ottawa in the remaining games OF
It's schedule. The loss Of last. night
battle, they argue, VIII put The BOYS
on their meitls amt TO make practice
and thoro reheafs'ns OF team plays
greatly to be desired. -
III the first half Macon counted y
taiiies and camc back In the second
with H. Ottawa took ) IN each h t..
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
FOR TENDER FEET

Tlis is n practical item, given by
on who has endured almost cndle s
torture as a result Of tender feet ala.
coius. 70 remove the corns, soak the
feet in tepid suds. Soap Il toilette
tumice aud rub over the corns until
the callous parts are worn of. Con.
tinne his every day until the corn
disappears. Keep 1t soft with oil.
" th. torn Is too sore IN The begin
hing for This treatment apply M.
Eentine iog several day. 10 Xiii the
pain. II the feet are afflicted with
SOIL cufns. powder prepared cbalk
without making 1t TOO fine and
sprinkle between the toes This does
not absorb The moisture or become
csbed like taleurn powder. and b.
being eoaiser than the powder it sep
afates the Two portions OF the corn
Always use white wool in preference
to Uottcn IN place between or under
The toes, because il is spriDey and
will NOT harden like cotton Welr
white footed stockings, II the shoe
fits iato ihs curve OF the foo, aud iis
heel is not raised too high. il will pr.
vent Tie unnecessary friction ono
weisht 90 the toes and overcome
many Of The painful eorus, bunioh,
and sore Feet. For a hlnion there /,
no better remedy than thin slices ~
fyesti, raw beef, cut and soaked TO"
Il hours 10 pure cider vinegar Keel'
enough IN vinegar to apply a FRESH
piece 10 The bunion until II is well.
Weir one piece. about a day. until
Il dries, then apply second piece.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05

~ Fetl5aa Tor 81 IaJgne.ISn based
upon a souev hat doubtful assertion
II fact. sass = New lorE lawyer,
'-,arle before cue Of the iustlceS 81
he supreme court OF this STAGE. After
tahSldsFtIlsf al th" sfldsSit o. tbs
petitioner. thu justice remarked. In
this cJSe aG IaiunrlIaa u.II no, tie,
even II fht rrl@tgr does Z 'aSe and
taWHHu..
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
FINDS DIAMOND IN MULES HIDE
Valuable Gem Concealed Under Skin
of Animals Shoulder.

Gillespie. Ut. Grsbner. resi-.
deaf OF Saweryille. who receives
srstis" the injured and worthless.
laules 0I The Superior Coal company.
the price OF their hides he receives
after shipment being his part. was
much surprised on reaching the
Shoulder OF one OF the animals To
lind q one and one half carat diamond
h.tied beneath the skin. 1t is SUP
posed that il had been placed there
h. some one ior safe keeping, but no
one las come forward 10 claim Il.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05

Try 'hr Free TRACER Journal Want ADS
for results
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05

II ~ hecoin!n. custom among non.
Christian 'h'bc'e III Horneo 10 20 &c
the Methodist chapel for their mar
ring" ceremony. Because of the iura.
ence OF the mission, idolatry amoar
them has practically ceased.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-05
GETS A SILVER CHEEK BONE
Eye Also Destroyed by Explosion
of Rifle

Couy, Wyo.--John Hancock, a ClarE
'ahcbman. will go thru The rema!ndel
OF his life with a sterling silver
,heek bone. as 4 result OF the eX-
pioslon OF a high.power rife which he
was testing Just after he had re-
ceiyed il at the ranch. The explosion
drove the breech.blook Of the rifle in
10 his face, destroying the right
cheek bone and gougins out the righI
eye.