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Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
Scenes at Big Base Hospital
Described By Omaha Nurse

wonderful and do all they can to re-
lieve the suffering, but can't un-
derstand why some things have to
be. The boys are so grateful. l
don't think | have ever moved an
arm or a leg but what they have
said, I think that is better 1t is
such a satisfaction to be able to give
even a little relief. You can't imagine
the endurance these boys have.
Their patience and fortitude | shall
never forget. Whenever | feel a
little tired, all l have to do is to
think of the boys lying out there
week in and week out, without cover,
getting only the little rest they can
snatch.
Brothers Are United.
There are many happy and sad
condolences we will always remem-
Der. The other day we admitted
patient, and by accident laid him
right down beside his brother. Such
a happy meeting. And then we have
the other side. The other night
CiiC vi TIC Uoys was VII MS way
west" and asked repeatedly for his
pal. The name appeared familiar
to one of the wardmen and he
finally though of boy in another
ward. 1t was the boy. Our boy
recognized him for just few min
utes. He asked for a Bible and laid
it over his heart. The next morning
they looked in the Bible and found
the date of his arrival and a note
saying how lonesome he had been
for his mother here in France, but
that he had tried to follow the Mas
ter's teachings.
Last night I was talking to a
boy and he said: Since coming here
I've lost mother and dad and a
sister, who was an ambulance driver
was killed by a bursting shell.
When | hink of the other boys 60
ing back with everyone to welcome
them, and realize that | have no one
left, I'd rather stay here Life is
surely strange.
Since coming here I have lost
my young brother. He died on the
field of honor. | would not have it
otherwise, but it is hard, Richie. l
loved him so and looked forward so
much to seeing him. and then when
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
Coup Fire
Girl"

A council fire of local Campfire
guardians was held Wednesday eve
ming at the Young Women's Chris
tian association. Mrs. w. T. Moore
was in charge. Special honors were
awarded as follows: Woodgatherer.
Mrs. {. J. Hubbard; fremaker, Miss
Gladys Shamp; torchbearer. Miss
Zoe Schalek, and honor beads were
given to Mildred Titzel, Mrs. Hub
bard, Miss Shamp and Mrs. H. P.
Gates.
Ruth Hatteroth lit the candle of
work; Herberta Barker of Health,
and Zoe Schalek, the candle of love.
Committees are announced as fol-
lows:
Finance: Chairman, Mrs. H. P.
Gates, Miss Myrtle Hall, Miss Nellie
Ryan, Miss Helen Anderson; War
Activities: Chairman, Mrs. c. J.
Hubbard, Virginia Offutt, Eleanor
McGilton; Local Honors: Chair
man, Herberta Barker, Virginia
White, Alois Berka, Margaret Bliss.
Dorothy barlow, Katherine Sturte-
want, Floy Yarges, Mildred Titzel,
Vera Dubois; Publicity: Chairman,
Gladys Shamp, Margaret Wood
ward, Sue Moriarity; Entertain
ment: Chairman, Alice Chamber,
Mrs. ]. 0. Beebe, Mrs. Jane Buck,
Mrs. Edith Chantry, Mrs. N. A.
Nisewonger, Esther Hauser; Camp:
Chairman, Bertha Vaughan, Zoe
Schalek, Mrs. Ryan, Ruth HATTIE
roth, Lois Howell; Cooperation.
Chairman, Mabel Workman, Miss
Knox, Mrs. Thomas Jones; Organi-
Iation: Chairman, Mrs. w. T.
Moore and Eleanor Potter.
Okita group, of which Mrs. c. J..
Hubbard is leader, will hold coun-
I'll fire Sunday afternoon at her
home.
Last Sunday the Salem Campfire
Girls hiked to Mandan park to eat
breakfast in the woods. Standing
on high bluff they watched the
sun rise and the mist clear away
from the river. The girls built a
fire with damp leaves and wood but
nevertheless they had an excellent
meal. They liked back to church
in time for Sunday school,
Miss Gladys Stamps group, the
Assandawis. met Monday at the
home of Miss Helen Williams.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

artillery division of the Nebraska
Fighting Fourth" in March, 1917.
He was sent overseas last October.
When Ivan, who had been absent
from home several years, wrote
that he had enlisted and was about
to sail, he begged his mother to try
to keep Paul at home, as he was too
young for war, but the baby" had
enlisted long before. Ivan is a gun
ner in the heavy field artillery and
the family believe that he is in Italy.
Carleton is in the tank corps. He
is a graduate of the Blair High
school and was a sophomore in the
state university, taking a course in
agricultural engineering. He orig
inally enlisted with the base hospi-
tai unit No. 40, but was in the hos
pital having his tonsils removed
when they sailed, and was left be-
hind. Later he joined the tank
corps and is now overseas.
II. Byron enlisted in the engi-
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
GIr5. cNJ. Taylor a

With five sors in the service and
two more wa,,;ng a call, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Taylor of Blair, Nebras-
ka, were not among the least thank
full when the news came that the
war was over and the soldiers and
sailors would no more have to give
their lives in the trenches and be-
fore the submarines OF Germany.
The mother of the seven big boys
is 81 years of age. Besides her sons
she has four married daughters and
nine grandchildren. Until late last
spring she was kept close at home
by the care of an aged relative, but
since that time she has been con-
slant worker in the Red Cross
rooms. Besides the Red Cross
work, she has knit five sweaters, six
pairs of socks and II pairs of wrist
lets at home.
Paul, the youngest son, not quite
II, was the first to get the war few
err. He enlisted in the heavy field
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

Heartbreaking scenes at Base hos
pital No. 40 are described in let
ter received by Miss Florence Rich
ards of the Visiting Nurses asso-
citation. from Miss Beatrice Arthur,
formerly with the Visiting Nurses,
but now with the hospital unit
overseas.
She describes the voyage, the
wonderful sunrises and sunsets
across the water, and the landing in
England. Then the trip across the
beautiful English country. with its
castles, abbeys and beautiful green
farms, and arrival in sunny France,
which happened to be disappoint-
ingly rainy at the time. In France
they saw many German prisoners,
as we'll as American officers and
boys.
They told US truths" she writes,
land l was not bit sorry for these
prisoners when we saw them work.
ing at something that was unpleas-
ant. We had only to to think what
they had done to our boys and to
Frances women and children"
Work is Strenuous.
Our camp" she writes, SIS much
on the order of any American
camp, wooden barracks without
many conveniences, but we think
Uncle Sam does we'll to get the
provisions and food across, consid-
ering all the risk. The boys had
done much for our comfort and it
is surprising how much one can
learn to do without. l only wish
there were more things we could do
for our boys.
Il am on night duty and have
been ever since | came, and every
night two, three or four trains come
in. All the wards has Cd beds and
a tent of so for the less seriously
wounded. You can imagine what
it is to wash all these patients and
take all the temperatures before you
leave in the morning. And you have
to carry all your water from the
main kitchen and have only candle
or oil lamplight.
Soldiers Are Grateful.
But, O, Richie, we are sometimes
SO heartsick' Our medical men are
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
$4,000 ASKED
ON MONDAY FOR
BIG U.W.W.FUND
City Must Give That Sum in
One Day if Omaha is to
0versubsCribe Fifty
Per Cent.

Ten thousand dollars an hour for
nine hours!
This is the amount Omahans are
asked to donate to the United War
Work fund on Monday, the day on
which the drive will officially close.
This large sum will be absolutely
necessary to place Omaha in the
class of American cities that have
not only subscribed their original
quotas-which Omahans accomp-
lished Friday-but have given the
so per cent additional, asked by the
national committee in charge of the
drive.
After checking over the actual
donations in this city up to Satur-
day night, the committee announced
that $4,000 had been given. The
goal set for this city is 100000,
making it imperative that the slogan
for Monday, $4,000 an-hour-for-
nine hours" be not only words but
an actual accomplishment.
Omaha can accomplish this duty
and will do so" declared Bob"
Manley, in charge of the publicity
for Omaha. 1T seems like large
amount. but Omaha has come for
ward in a greater manner than this
before and it is not possible for it
to fail this time. We certainly are
going to hit that mark"
And in order to do this. the COM
mittee in charge of the drive has de-
clared Monday the general Clean
up" day. Specia! committees have
been named to mop up" the city
and any tagging citizens will be
called to task.
The general instruction for all
workers Monday is: Go get 'en"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

neering corps at Denver. He is a
second lieutenant, attached to the
personnel staff in the adjutant gen.
erals department at Camp Shelby,
Miss.
Edwin B., enlisted at Salt Lake
City in the tank corps, and was soon
made a corporal. He went overseas
last October.
Max w. is registered at Whittier,
CAL, and was placed in class 4. He
is manned and has one child, so was
not called upon for service.
Fred J. has served in the signal
service of the navy five years. His
navy service was spent on the Pa
cihc coast among the Samoan Is
lands. He registered at the last call
for men.
The boys were all born in the
same house in Blair. Their mother
says she has often wondered why
so many boys came to her, but now
she knows. 1t was so they could
20 and help lick the kaiser.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
New Deposits Of Rich
Ore Found in the Abe
Lincoln Copper Mines

Word has reached Omaha that
additional rich strikes have been
made in the mines of the Abe Lin
coin Copper company at Wicken-
berg, Arizona. The last strike is
said to assay 2960 per cent copper.
Georeg w. Platner. the Omaha
lumber merchant. is president of the
company and E. w. Getten. of Oma-
ha is treasurer. Practically 90 per
cent OF the stock in the company is
owned by Omaha people.
Officers of the company say that
the machinery is all installed and in
operation, that every available team
IS being used to haul the high grade
ore to the smelter. saa a new
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
Doctors Vigil is Unbroken
Over u. S. Wounded Soldier

ings and how kindly and reassur-
ingly he speaks to them.
The ambulance drivers and
stretcher bearers spare no pains to
see that the sick and wounded in
transit from the front over broken
French roads suffer no hardship or
discomfort.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17
HOUSE ACTION
ENABLES BANKS
TO HELP U.W.W.
If National Banks Are Per.
mitted to Subscribe 1t Will
Swell the Fund by
Millions.

O. H. Menold, publicity director
of the United War Work campaign
received telegram Saturday from
national headquarters, stating there
is every reason to believe that as
quickly as the committee of the
house of representatives in Wash
ington can master quorum the
resolutions passed by the United
States senate empowering national
banks to make subscriptions to the
fund will become a law.
This will result in many millions
of dollars being poured into the
fund.-" he said.
Late Friday the following tele-
gram was received in New York
City by John R. Mott, director gen.
eral of the war fund drive, from John
Shelton Williams, comptroller Of
the United States treasury:
John r. Mott, director general,
united war work campaign: In reply
to your inquiry, regret to advise
you that the joint resolution empow-
cring the boards of directors on be-
half of national banks to make sub
scriptions to the united war work
campaign, which has passed the SEN
ate, has not been reported upon by
the house committee for lack of
quorum. 1t is hoped this resolution
may become a law shortly. Mean
while there is no reason why nation
al banks desiring to do so should
not make conditional subscriptions
to the fund, such subscriptions to
become effective only when the bill
becomes a law"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

With the American Armies in the
Field, Oct. l4-Correspondence Of
the Associated Press.)-War has
not calloused or dulled the sensibili-
ties of the American army surgeon.
Nothing stands out finer or nobler
than the tender care and earnest
solicitude with which American mil
itary doctors handle their soldier
patients.
In a three-day trip through the
Saint Mihiel sector the correspon-
dent of the Associated Press had
many opportunities of observing the
work of the American medical men,
He visited a number of field dress
ing stations and also several hospi-
tails just back of the battle line
through which hundreds of wound
ed Americans were passing.
Disabled American soldiers, from
the time their wounds are dressed at
the advance casualty station to the
time they arrive at the last base
hospital, receive the most sympa-
thetic and tender care at the hands
of the army doctors. They get bet
ter care and more attentive treat
ment than an average person would
in peace times. To render the sol.
der free from pain, to make him
comfortable, to cheer his spirit, the
American military doctor will ex-
haust every recourse, will sacrifice
sleep and food and all personal
thought of himself.
Thousands of instances occur
every day where army physicians,
so absorbed and so sympatheticaliy
interested in their patients, will
keep night after night an anxious
and unbroken vigil over the progress
of their condition, and will rest only
when ordered to do so by superior
officer.
Besides the use of anesthetics, the
Yankee doctor, caring for his fight
ing comrade only as he would care
for brother, resorts to a hundred
other means of relieving the wounded
mans distress. In the actual battle
zone he has to act as physician anc
nurse, for no women are permitted
in the front lines. 1t is always i'm
pressive to see the gentle, cautious
way he places his patients in bed,
the infinite pains he takes to cause
them as little suffering as possible
when applying or removing dress
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

| arrived he had to be taken. But It
is no worse for me than for anyone
else, and | know while he lives in
my memory it will help me many
times to be a sister to these boys
while ! am here"
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-17

road is being rapidly constructed
in order to take care OF the increas-
ed output. E. w. Getten is now in
Phoenix, Arizona. making arrange
ments with freight contractors for
handling the large volume of bust
ness, which will soon be $50 tons
daily as the development work is
nearly all done and from now on
the ore will be shipped steadily.
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EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side
by Frances Jones. Telephone 1880.
The Novelty club was entertained Thurs
day afternoon with Mrs. Joseph Moore as
hostess. Her guests were: Mrs. f. f.
Karr, Mrs. +. r. Griffith. Mrs. w. vardy.
Mrs. Alvin Renbarger. Mrs. W. w. Starr
and Mrs. w. J. Nussbeck. In two weeks
the hostess will be Mrs. w. j. Hussbeek,
) Oak street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Obenland of Clay
Center are visitors at the home of M and
Mrs. George Long and Mr. Carl Magnusen.
The Olive club was entertained Thursday
evening by Miss Ann and Miss Katharine
Flynn at their home, FOG Jefferson street.
The evening was enjoyed by Mrs. Roy
Cremer, Miss Anna Johnson, Miss Nettie
Peterson, Miss Myrta Haight, Mrs. Richard
Hammer and Miss Frances Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Munson, 1916 East
Eighth avenue, are the parents of daugh-
ter, born Monday. They have named her
Charlotte Louise.
Mr.. and Mrs L. P. Oldham, 1901 East
Tenth avenue are changing their residence
to Kansas City where they expect to make
their future home.
Ernest p Greer returned Friday evening
to Aberdeen, Maryland. after spending a
short furlo with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
L. NJ. Greer. Sixth avenue and Locust
avenue. Mr.. Greer enlisted last spring and
Is now in a school of Railway Artillery at
Aberdeen.
II. NJ. Slaybaugh of Bakersville, Calf, is
visitor at the Joseph Moore home Reno
avenue. Mr.. and Mrs Slaybaugh changed
their residence from Topeka to Bakers
field several months ago.
Mrs. Alvin Renbarger of Kansas City Is
guest OF her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Michael. Sardou avenue.
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| THREW AWAY $1,000
Began to Lock Like He'd Never
Get Well.
Takes Taplac and Troubles
Disappear.

well, sir I have spent all of one
Thousand dollars for treatment and
I. medicines during the past few years,
: but 1 have never found anything to
help me like this Tanlac," said Rich
ard W. Hall, a well known employe OF
the Columbian Tank Works, living at
1895 Olive street, Kansas City, re-
Gently.
II have been subject to rheumatism
for a great many years" he continued,
''but for the past five years ! have
been SO crippled up with 1t that L
could hardly get around. There was
a dull, throbbing pain in my hip joints
which at times would go down into my
legs and every step 1 took / could feel
that pain My kidneys were in bad
shape and my back panied me terribly
and would be so stiff some mornings
that l could hardly get out of bed. My
legs wp;ld get SO stiff and hurt me so
at times 1 could hard hobble around.
One time / was laid UP for several
days in such agony that 1 couldn't
raise myself up, and many day L
! have wondered if / would be able to
pull thru another day at the works.
! couldn't get over an elevation two
feet high without holding on to some
thing and pulling myself over. 1t had
begun to look like 1 was going to get
down and out for good.
Z II decided to get me some Tanlac
and see IL it would Shelp me, and be-
fore finished my first bottle | could
tell 1t was doing the work. L have
taken three bottles now and it's the
honest truth, feel all of twenty years
younger. The rheumatism bothers me
very little and the stiffness has gone
out of my legs entirely. Ny kidneys
are in fine shape. my back don't hurt
me any more and 1 can get around as
well as ] could when a boy. Another
thing. Tanlac has given me a fine
appetite and L don't remember ever
getting more pleasure out of eating
and / can do a good days work and
still feel fine. There's no getting away
= from it, Tanlac has certainly done me
a world of good and I will always
boost it."
rheumatism is not only one of the
MOST prevalent, but one of the most
painful and difficult to treat of all
present day diseases. When the diges-
tive organs and bowels are not work.
ing properly, and the kidneys become
eclogged up, the whole system becomes
deranged and saturated with uric
acid poisons and other impurities.
which accumulate in the joints and
other parts of the body and produce
the condition known as rheumatism.
Tanlac is a wonderful reconstruc-
tive tonic and quickly overcomes this
condition by acting directly on the
vital organs, toning them up and
enabling them to perform their proper
functions, so that the impurities are
soon eliminated from the system in
the natural way. Liniments and ex-
ternal applications, as a general thing,
only afford temporary relief. Tanlac
is constitutional treatment and gets
right at the root of the trouble by re-
moving the cause.
Tanlac is sold in Topeka by FULLY
Mcfarland Drug Co.
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SANTA FE NOTES
Notes and personals from Santa Ee
by Frances Jones. Telephone $3.50.


The two day intepsive campaign for mem;
bers for the Railroad 'Y" was finished
yesterday evening with a total of 40 mem-
bers added to the list most Of whom are
new recruits to the "Y" ranks. The shops
was divided into sides, the Army and the
Navy, the Army winning with 30 members
and the Navy securing 10. On the first
and the Navy &c, ON the second day the
Army brought in 126 and the Navy "A.
making total of 40 new members. The
members of the teams had banquet Thurs
day evening at the Association building.
Percy Atkins, chairman of the state person
cipal speaker. Mrs. Charles Laird sang
and the Santa Fe orchestra furnished music
turnout the evening Dan Lane. chairman
of the membership committee presided over
the meeting This NUMBER of members Sc
cured in the two days is exceptionally fine
AND the workers are congratulating them
selves Several years ago in an Intensive
departments of the company, only 500
members were secured in ten days.
Fred Mackenzie, formerly of the ma
chine shops but now with the Missouri
Pacific. is visitor in the city. He and
Mrs: Mackenzie nre guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Sims.
Ira Neiswinter, fer four years storekeep-
Virginia, with an engineering crops. Mr..
Neiswinter has been commissioned second
lieutenant. Before working at Emporia
Lieut. Neiswinter was employed in the
stores department at Toneka. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Neiswinter
Miss Irene Lauterbach of the auditor
of Disbursements office is spending a va
cation in California She was accompanied
by her sister, Miss Bertha Lauterbach of
the stores department
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QUAYLE FLAYS HUNS
Bishop Declares Pulpit and Church
} Press Should Demand Justice.

Bishop Declares Pulpit and Church
Press Should Demand Justice.
Chicago. Sept eo.-Returning good
for evil by flowing Germany is trea-
sonable to America and God" Bishop
william A. Quayle of the Methodist
Episcopal church declared today in an
article published in the Northwestern
Christian Advocate.
Not War But Murder.
1.-The German people have not been
conducting war but murder" he said.
"The new atrocity which recently
appeared was spraying prisoners with
burning oil. This is Germany's most
recent Jest.
"All the decencies, honors. humanf-
ties, international agreements and
laws have been smashed by them day
by Gay from the rape of Belgium until
now IS
Germany has ruined cathedrais
and cities in sheer wanton fury.
"She has stolen from little and big
alike; playthings from children, finery
from women. bank deposits, railroads
end factories, Isl
Pulpit Should Demand Justice.
1.-THE pulpit and its pres should de-
mand justice down to the last farth-
ing. Any other attitude will be trea-
son to America and God"
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.TOPEKAN IN LIST
John Black, Former Santa Fe
Machinist, Is Wounded.
He Is Reported As Canadian
Casualty Gassed. .

Ottawa, Sept. 2o.-Thursday's. Cana
dian list names as wounded H. B. Bax-
ter, Hartford. KANSAS. and ]. Black,
Topeka, KANSAS.
According to statements made by
his relatives today, John Black was
overcome by fumes from a gas shell
which burst near him while he was in
action on September L.. He is now in
a French hospital in a serious condi-
ton, II Is said. 1t was stated that he
had been on the front line for more
tina ma year and half.
Enlisted in 1915.
John Black, who is about "a years
old, enlisted in the Canadian army in
June, 1915, and is a private in an en-
gineer company. His rela tives have
received information to the effect that
ihe has been on several of the fighting
fronts. including those of Belgium
and Flanders. He was confined in
il hospital with the fever for six
weeks, and had been back in the
Fighting about three weeks when
wounded.
Prior to his enlistment he was en-
ployed in the Santa Fe shops as a
smachinist and lived with his father,
James Black. at 1414 West Seventh
street. He was one of the first Santa
Fe shop men to get into the war
against the Huns.
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FROST ALL OVER KAN.

Continued from Page One.)
Horton and Phillipsburg. Manhattan
reported the only killing frost. Frosts
covering the same degrees of severity
are predicted for all parts of Kansas
tonight.
The lowest temperature recorded
was "a, which occurred at Macksyille.
The lowest temperature in Topeka was
IS, which occurred at 1880 this morn
ing. Phoenix was devoid of shivers
with a mercury reading of 80, the hot
test place in the United States.
The prediction for tomorrow calls
for a temperature of around 40 in the
early morning. which will rise to
around SIS tomorrow afternoon. mo
rains fell in Kansas during the last
twenty-four hours, nor are any pre-
dicted for Saturday.
The extremes for this date were "a
in 1898 and 81 in 1901. The wind at
10 o'clock this morning was blowing
three miles an hour from the north.