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ianks Take First.

4 New York, May 1.-The New
YORK. Americans took the first game
of their series from Philadelphia here
yesterday 2 to o. Superior support en-
ahled Love to win a left handed
pitchers battle from Gregg The only
run scored off, Gregg came in the fifth
inning, when Pipp was safe on. Burns
muff at first. reached second on
Bodies sacrifice and scored on Mill
er's single. Only two Philadelphia
players advanced as far as second
base on Love. .#F
R. H.. e.
Philadelphia 200 900 ooo-o 8 1
New! York ....0Qp 01o 01x-2 4 0
Gregg, Watson, Myers and McAvoy;
Love and Hannah.
petroit-St. Louis, postponed, rain.
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S8sNtlwaukee, wis. Nay An au.
St4THobiie :paIaAsfthrough tho DOWN
EA0wn streets, to be followed by 81
Military drill at the. hall park were
|tllAnnsds as features Tor usherinf ID
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE

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pendents, either wife. children. grand
children. mother. father. sister. or in
valid brother dependent upon him for
support. who does not want to take
life insurance for them"
Gen. John J. Pershing, commander
of the American troops in France, was
one of the first to take out ten
thousand dollar policy with the bureau
of war risk insurance. In applying
for his policy. Gen. Pershing sent a
message. saying: The Army in France
is pleased at the announcement that
the soldiers and sailors insurance bill
is now a law. BY this act our gov
eminent has given its soldiers a priv
ilege which. no country has ever grant
ed That the soldiers in France have
taken enthusiastically to the provisions
made by the government is shown BY
the number of applications. totaling
$4,000 900. made up to November l..
Applications for insurance are pour
ing into the bureau at the average
rate of s55,0o0,000 a day. Up to close
of business December 6, 1917, 194.222
applications represent sl,665. $4,000 of
insurance. The average amount APP
piled for per man is Ss,574: the min
imum fixed by law is $1,000 and the
maximum. $4,000.
There are 10 figures at hand on the
number of applications sent in by
women, but they also have acquainted
themselves with the details of the pro-
visions and at a fair estimate two
thirds of them have taken advantage
of the law.
Approximately $50 persons are en-
ployed by the division OF war risk in
surance, and the staff is growing
rapidly At fair estimate, two-thirds
of the clerks are young women, and
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them for a living, remuneratiVe positions
in hospitals and private practice to go
beyond the seas tG render their much
needed services.
The records of the deeds of these
twentieth century Florence Nisktingales
are reaching this side and are heartening
others of their sex TO give their much
needed professional help. The War De-
partnent is calling for more of these
women. Word went out that AIS grad
uate nurses for urgent Army service
were needed before December IL last.
that in the course of the next year. at a
moderate estimate, 0.000 would be re-
qr4red In Army hospitals In this coun-
try and Europe. The calculation was
that of the total number OF graduate
nurses IN the United States. approx
rnatsly 10000. only $500 have so far
been assigned to duty in the Army serv-
ice and OF this number 1.5oo are in
France. The superintendent Of the Army
Nurse Corps recently stated that there
should be on file the names Of thousands
Of nurses who could respond on short
notice.
,rhe Red Cross. which is the reservs
of the Army Nurse Corps. enrolled
eDouU 1900 nurTes and hundreds of
flsese women are now in the service.
huf. for various reasons. grea. ma
soY{tE Of this 10000 have not reported
SIS available for Immediate duty. How
eseF. FROM these figures it is evident
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ES1HE new year is witnessing a pro-
American drive which is being
started as the main feature of the
< third America first campaign
Instituted by the United States bureau of
education and promoted by the national
committee of one hundred, which is the
advisory council on Americanization to
that bureau.
Make the English language the Ian
guage OF the United States and break
down sedition,' was a slogan originated
by the committee in token Of the first and
most important step in the process OF
Anericanization. and it will be one Of the
foremost features OF the new year cam
paign.
One hundred races and nationalities.
com prising il. 900. 900 foreign-born and 3d.
coo, 600 people of foreign parentage. live in
this country Since the census of 1910. A.
900, 600 have arrived from non-English-
speaking countries. There are To-Day
8 GOO coo foreign-born whites who do not
speak the language of the country that
is supporting and protecting them. and
there are the same number OF Aliens OF
military age who are unnaturahzed.
X
realizing sense that Americanization
of its foreign population has been neces-
sary TO form united people back Of
its fighting lines was the reason for
the opening last spring of a Washington
headquarters of the committee OF one
hundred. This committee is composed Of
one hundred men and women from
every part of the country who are
prominently identified with the educa-
ton of the foreign population OF the
United States. The executive commit
tee of the committee of one hundred
has six members, and one of them Is
a woman, Mrs. Frank II. Bliss OF But
falo Mrs. Bliss also serves as assist
ant to the chairman of the executive
committee, DR.. Harrison Ii. w heaton.
To her was given the privilege of in
PRODUCING the subject of Americaniza.
ton as war measure-the 1ederai
plan of the United States bureau OF
education-for the first time in Amerl-
can history before a state war confer
ence, when she spoke before the war
conference called by the Indiana coun-
Gil of Defense to meet IN Indianapolis
late in December. To the recent seeker
after information as to how foreigner
may be Americanized she added some fur-
Their telling facts to those given above.
One of those facts was to the effect that
1275902 aliens are registered under the
selective draft law; many Of them can
not speak English. and military training
must wait until they can understand
orders.
THE committee is bringing about CO.
operation of the independent forces OF the
country that are working for the Ameri-
canization of the foreign people by means
of public educational program, said
Mrs Bliss. 1.-THE first plank in our plat
form is to expand and extend the public
school system of the United States to meet
the need of a tremendously large unas-
simulated population. Persons who are
not speaking our language are not think
ing our thoughts. Persons who have
no means of understanding the privileges
and responsibilities of American citizen
ship require our help.
cation in all its qualifications must be
strengthened during this critical war
period. and with that in view it's members
have. at their own expense, opened head
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A Secret of Value.

TIT AIRY LACEfMAN, the young -Amer-
III lean painter. whose work has cap-
tivated both London and Paris. said IN
Il Piccadilly restaurant:
I'VE American art students are SO ac-
customed TO privations while pursuing
our studies that the privations of the
trenches should he nothing 10 u.s.
Il know an art student who claims
that he can always have clean shirt
without ever getting any washing done.
As such a secret would be valuable to
our young soldiers at the front. look
ed the student up and asked him about
1t. ~
Yes he said, with no little pride.
it's quite true 1 only own two shirts,
yet can always change to a clean one,
and my laundry bill is zero. The
scheme you see. is this. You put on q
shirt and wear it a week or two. Then
you put on the other one and wear it
three weeks, or till it's dirty that
the first one seems clean by comparison..
You then go back to the first shirt, and
so on indefinitely.
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Women Battle Receive Benefits Risk

0T must be reassuring to the patri-
otto women of America who have
so unselfishly given their time and
x money to the many branches of
the government engaged in war work
to know that their sisters who have SO
whole enlisted or enrolled in
the active service of the military and
naval forces of the United States are
TO receive in the war risk insurance
compensation the same privileges and
benefits to which the men of the two
arms of the service are entitled.
The bureau of war risk insurance of
the Treasury Department located in
the National Museum, is bureau OF
the government bubbling with human
interest. 1t conceals in its files the life
histories Of thousands of men and
women The files are secret and their
contents are known only to those d.
rectly interested. They sometimes re-
veal heartaches, disappointment and
bitter resentment. but they are part
of the business of life insurance and
must become part of history in order
that justice may be done
This women who are to enjoy the
benefits of the war insurance act are
the women who are me- to sit at nome
and knit. or, after pursuing the work
of the day in the service of their coun-
try, return TO their homes at night and
ground their fresides enjoy the comforts
of domestic companionship. They are
the women who are to foreRo an TINS
consolation and go over there TO aid
in the cause of humanity and help re-
store American fighting men to the mr.
ing line wherever it can be done. tax
ing such fortunes of war a. may fall to
their lot, thinking always of those who
must have their care
The woman doctors and nurses are to
help the women and children of the war
zones TO battle with diseases which are
affecting them and restore to France and
Belgium. in as far as scientific skill will
do it, stronger and healthier genera
ton of people. Many OF these women
have left behind them loved ones who
were wholly or partly dependent upon
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tween them as may be provided by
regulations"
\
These are some of the vital condi-
lions and provisions of the war risk
insurance. 1t is further provided in
the act that the insurance shall not
be assignable and shall not be subject to
the claims of creditors of the insured or
OF the beneficiary. It shall be payable
only to spouse. child. grandchild,
parent. brother or sister, and also dur
ing total permanent disability to the
injured person. or to any or all of
them"
There is no age limit. as any man or
woman in the active military or naval
service of the United States may be
insured. The cost for each thousand
dollars of insurance is G5 cents a
at age of 81. A $4,000 policy for a
person Of % would cost $3.50 a month.
The insurance Is yearly renewable
term insurance with premium payable
monthly. Each months premium in
sures just for that month, and the
premiums become little larger each
year as one grows older on the ami
versary Of the policy.
After the war this insurance may be
kept up as term insurance for five
years. Within these FIVE years, how
ever, the insurance must be converted
that Is. exchanged--into any form of
policy Issued by the bureau, such as
whole life insurance, twenty payment
life insurance, endowment insurance
etc. The insurance will be paid If the
sured IL totally or permanently dis
abled or dies from any cause. or at any
time, so long as the policy Is kept up
1t makes no difference whether the
insured is then in the service or out of
it,
In response to a call from Surgeon
General Braisted of the Navy, eight
naval station hospital units have been
organized by the American Red Cross
One unit with Its entire personnel al
ready has gone into service. 1t is
stated by the director general of Red
Cross military relief that three more
are being modified and others will be
called upon shortly. Each unit in
cludes Ave medical officers. ten Red
Cross nurses femaie) and twenty-nine
enlisted men.
typical base hospital unit. which
is larger than a naval station hospital
unit, is designed to care for a hospital
of $50 beds. has personnel of Ill,
including ten medical officers, one
dental officer. forty female Red Cross
nurses. twenty reserve nurses and 100
enlisted men. The Red Cross has or
ganized five of these units. two OF
abroad. 1t has. however. been found
necessary to increase the capacity SO
that each hospital can care for 500
beds, and the necessary doctors and
r,irses are being added to these units
Many women who have been de-
TERED from offering their services to
their country owing to pressing obli-
cations at home will doubtless feel
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craft built on the theory of bird navfsY
gat.on-that is. he provided head.
and a tail, presumably used as steeringy
devices. while on either side were wings
like devices, used as propelieTs.
The body OF this hydrepiane was siun-s;
iIar to a goBdola, with a curving canopvy
yer II and at either end balloon Eheth<3
er or not it proved successful Is a matters,
of con lecture. the onty point known toE
history heiag that its inventor was oniys'
rewarded by being cast into prison: -
In IsS2 came The Moatgolaer brothersTt
balloon This was the first hot-air bai-t
loon in history. and the first aircraft upon
which a patent was granted, Louis XVE
granting the inventors patents. The trs0
craft rea2sy to fcldH the purpose fos~
which II was designed. Il is now typA
with which most persons are familiar. Boz
suspended basket for passengers. The
first fight of ;bfs balloon was made witil1
rooster. sheep and dpcS for pas-
seagers. a successful ascent and descencS
The following year 4. blanchard ind
vented two kinds Of airplancs. They hadA
wings on the sides and tails One InoaetJ
has two great propeliers directly abovcS
the car for passengers and tan for-
steering purposes,
- SEE
Following the general idea of the Mont.
golfer brothers patent. Sir George Cay-a
ley. In 1916. perfected a dirit;ible. which. he5
claimed. could be steered. an Improvement
over the first balloon. To his balloon no
added a parachute. and between this and
'the hot-air bag were attached two great (.
arms. these. beng supposed 10 direct thai
progrssa of the strange-looklng craft.
In l345 FFenchnian by the name ot9
Petin originated the idea Of tslng a serie2i
of separate baIions instead OF q singi0s
huge casing for the lifting power, the<i
theory which was later put to practically
Use by Count Zeppelin. -
Although Ir. Roussea1s colIections
includes many models that would seers.
TO have given Httle to the sum totals
Of scientific knowledge OF aeronauticss3
he has not failed TO include those inenl
who have given the greatest iElpetusl
to the science % aerouautics. Langley 81
lying machine. the invention Of Edison;
the Wright brothers alTpiare and the
great CaProai ;rlpfaDe. which -eceatiyi
thrilled observation-disclosures Ia an exhibi-;
ton Night, are all faithfully shown irp
miniature.
As the capstonc of his display. Mrs
Rousseau has Tuodeles = Zeppelin. thes,
machine az used by Germany today. ands,
which represents cost OF s. COZ. 900 for-
every dirigible built
As Mr.. RouSsc2u's study OF aeronautfos
progresses. it ~ his Intention to add to-,
his collection of :no'lels Until IL is rep
resentative Of the progress of aero-i
nautics in ali its stages. When COM
plete he intends 20 present il to somes
museum. where future generations NAV
see visuailzed the steps IN what hot
claims is The most important science o6
the day.
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Mack. section 400. provides THAT in
order to give every officer and enlisted
man and to every member of the Army
Nurse Corps femaie) and Of the Navy
Nurse Corps (female) when employed
in active service under the War De-
partment or Navy Department greater
protection for themselves and their
dependents than IS provided in Article
III. the United States upon application
to the bureau and without medical ex-
animation, shall grant insurance
against the death or total permanent
disability of any such person in any
multiple Of $500. and not less than
$1,000 or more than $4,000. upon the
payment Of the premiums as herein
after provided"
Section io1. which sets forth the
terms of this article, says: Such In
surance must be applied for within 100
days after enlistment. or after entrance
into or employment in the active serv-
except that those persons who are in
the active war service at the time of
the publication of the terms and con-
ditions of such contract OF insurance
may apply at any time within 12o days
thereafter and while in such service.
ANY person in the active service on
or after the 9Th day OF April, 1911,
who. while In such service and before
the expiration of 100 days from and
after such publication, becomes or has
become totally and permanently dis
abled or dies. or has died, without hav-
ing applied for insurance, shall be
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A Good Suggestion.

nEAJ. FREDERICK PALMER, head
Paris. was visited at his Office in the
Rue Ste. Anne the other day by an old
friend
The friend said from his cloud of to-
bacco smoke:
Palmer. l want to do n1y-hic-bit.
want to be IN az the finish Of the Hun
I've got alcoholic sore throat, 2 tobacco
heart and hardened liver. X would
he difficult for me. I'm afraid. to give
up my soft habits and live in the cold
mud of the trenches. still, Palmer. I'm
determined to do MY hit. There's sure-
" some billet ] could I'LL with honor.
Well what-hic--is it?''
George" said Maj. Palmer. the only.
suggestion ] can make is that you go
10 the front IS a tank.
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wyoming is at present holding a con-
ference of the governor. the state coun-
Gil of defense and the educational COM
mission, in connection with the neces-
sity of appointing a supervisor of i'm
migrant education of that state. In
Wyoming the foreign population is not
congregated in the cities, but is to he
found throughout the entire state--in
the mines, and on the ranches and in
every remote district.
:. :
organized and anti-American propa-
ganda among aliens is being conducted
In the United States. Investigators re-
port that disIoyal utterances of soap
box orators and other agents are used
to spread sedition in foreign sections.
Many of the 1900 foreign-langua. re
newspapers published in this country
are willfully spreading anti-American
IDEAS Anti-American intrigue has ere
ated opposition to Americanization in
recent political campaigns. We realize,
therefore, that the movement is subject
and in large cities, where appropriations
for boards of education have been ad-
vocated for this purpose. there have
been many hindrances placed in the
way.
"The making of English the common
speech Will break down the menace of
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streamline recognized by scientists as
essential, the tuborigible Is OF the Ahori-
zontal vertical type, and is capable Of
being steered in any air conditions.
Also, the Zeppelin averages about 700
feet in length by some sixty-fve feet in
diameter. as against S76 feet in length
and forty-six feet in diameter in the
tuborigible.
while it was my intention primarily
to design 2 craft capable of being put
to mail and commercial use, the tuborigi-
BILE having a lifting power OF seven tons. it
can, nevertheless. be made a powerful
factor in war. uigh-power guns can
be mounted on top, as well as an air
plane. which can be kept ready for in
slant service. ] have already signified
my desire to turn all patent rights over
to the government IL 1T wishes to carry
my invention into the field OF actual
use.
aeronauts and the progress of this art,
especially as related to lighter-than-the-
air machines. realize how 1T has grown
to an important field of scientific en-
deavor from a mere tiny fame of ambi-
ton to conquer the air. And | have be-
come convinced that a mere gas bag is
not capable of being properly steered
in any desired direction--it simply drifts
at the mercy of the winds.
What inventors desire IS some means
to steer a dirigibie properly. Like a
boat. it must fight the storm no matter
what the current OF the air may be. It
must also be possible to preserve the
gas in the compartments without loss
or leakage I believe this is the most
valuable and important problem which
we have to improve.
1T is my BELIEF that the Tuborigible
type will be far beyond the Zeppelins.
the Republic. the America. the Akron or
any other dirigihle ever built. because
of the special design whereby IL is Hos-
stble to navigate In any current ana
against any air resistance.
Il am confident that America will be
far ahead of Europe in aeronautics.
are entering upon a scientific develop
Inent of warfare that will lead to inven-
tons not now dreamed of. No greater
stimulus could he given the building of
aircraft than the extensive use of air
weapons in this war.
II believe that the dirigible is espe-
cially worthy of experiment II needs
development. Since the eighteenth CEN
fury the balloon has undergone few
changes. The torpedo shape. the popular
model of today, is unv"ried through a
century of use. Its serious faults toler-
ated by experimenters since its intro
duction. That 1t is not yet satisfactorily
developed is shown by the failure of the
Zsppelins, the most noteworthy exam
pie to fulfill many requirements. Many
Zeppelins have been burned or destroyed
while others have been lost in storms
showing that they are not dirigible in
storms and are dangerously unsafe be-
cause their great bulk offers such resist
ance, TO lateral currents
A Frenchman by birth, Mr.. Rousseau
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as one enters the screened space In 4
the great corridor of the museum orrA
the street hoor he sees futteringi
mass of feinininfty and sea of type-t
writer's stretching before him Thef
war risk bureau is already taking uni
$1,000 square feet and is promisedi
$4,000 square feet of additional spaced
some time in February. 1t will probab-t
ably need 100000 square feet beforet
the end of the fiscal year, Ii is estf-i
mated. Its headquarters are now in !
three buildings The quarters in thej
National Museum are perhaps. from thei
standpoint OF art and scientific rel
search. the most palatial offices N thei
United States and the most unique in
the world -
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The Way of the, World.

MFRS. NORMAN wHITEHoUSE. head
Owe of the New York woman suffrage
party, was talking at the COLONY Club
about the RUSSIANS o.,
The Russians found war distaste-
ful." she said. 80 they knocked on
and had i revolution instead. But their
distasteful war made men Of them,
whereas their easy. lazy revolution is
turning them into beasts.
The Russians are in a position to
agree with little Nillie's di'etum.
T cant understand groaned little
Willie. with both hands pressed to his
stomach. why good things like mince
pie and plum pudding make me sick.
while nasty things like castor oil and
nux vomica make me well. Confound
it! 1t ought to be the other way
about"
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quarters in Washington and are working
with every immigrant state in the Union
to promote interest in the administration
OF public education in its relation to the
foreign people.
New York has been the first state to
take a definite step in the matter. A
supervisor of immigrant education las
been appointed by the board Of regents.
w. c. Smith, recording secretary of the
committee of one hundred. is that SUI
pervisor. Pennsylvania is thoroughly
Tense, with DIR. II. H. Wheaton. chair
man of the executive committee of the
committee of one hundred. directing the
activities in sixty-seven counties. Indi-
ana also is taking active steps in the
matter of Americanization. The COM
missioner of education Of the state of