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The Washington herald., 1918-07-22

cause had his full sympathy, that h.
looked for an enemy victory AMI
hoped for IL and that the Germans
had q right to kill "all in their
path" he landed in Jail He was ar
rested by government agents and
is now confined at RhineIander in
default of $4,000 bail.
Camp SEWER. Greenville. s c.
July 21.-One hundred German pie
oners recently arrived here from
the war prison barracks at Atlanta
under a special guard Of twenty
hve soldiers and were Immediately
put to work unloading hay ani
performing other duties around the
Quartermaster's Department They
will eventually be employed on the
2O0-acre farm now being put under
cultivation.
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Men Of Golden Col,
From Red Cross Class

Golden, Col. July 2l.-Thirty busi-
ness and professional men of Golden
have organized a Red Cross class.
Girls and women Of the local Red
Cross chapter instructed the class
evenings and now the men meet twice
weekly to busy themselves with gauze
making. rolling bandages, knitting
and other work to aid the Greatest
Mother in the World''-the Red Cross
in its wonderful performances Of
mercy and succor.
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5000 ENTERTAINED
AT CAMP HUMPHREYS

Over nine thousand men were en-
recently at Camp Hum
phreys. with a musical entertainment
provided by the War Service Commits
sion on Training Camp Activities.
The program was participated in by
Miss Virginia Squirrel, Robert Klech-
ner. Misses Chatanick. Dorothy Cald-
well, Louis Morgan, Catherine Nor
rison, Virginia Squires. Marjorie Bate,
Agnes Madigan, Marjorie German and
Lois Sickels.
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BOOZE" BILLION SUBSTITUTE
I'd BE FOUND FOR TAX BILL
Ways and Means Members, Some for Pro-
hibition, Puzzle Over Source of Revenue
If Bone Dry Law Prevails.

Taxation at the rate proposed to
raise billion from booze would make
the Washington bootlegging prices
just about the prevailing prices
throughout the country.
Consumption Taxes.
II Congress decides that the ma
tion shall be bone-dry for the period
of the war, then consumption taxes
will surely go into the revenue bill.
They may be thinly disguised as
luxury taxes. applying to shoes that
cost more than IS a pair, or women's
suits that cost more than SIS. and
things like that.
Income and excess profits taxes
cent. This is the limit that has
been reached in any allied country
at war with Germany. but the
United States has gone into the war
upon such a huge scale that she
must tax to the limit.
A fiat rate OF IL per cent on all
incomes. with exemptions of $1,000
for unmarried and $4,000 for mar
ried persons. is expected to raise
an enormous revenue.
Amusement Taxes.
Every cent of revenue will be
sorely missed by the men who are
framing the new bill. and even the
work-or-fight rule. which is expect
ed to put baseball out of commits
sion for the period of the war. will
deny the country thousands of dol
lars in revenue.
II the rule 10 held TO apnIv m
other forms of amusement, 1t will
cut down a good source of reve-
nue.
There are many members Of Con-
gress who favor the scheme Of al
lowing a man to take large profits
in war and then take a club and
take them all away from him.
This is virtually the system in
England, and 1t is believed that the
new bill, when reported. will be
found to follow along the general
line of the English system of war
taxation.
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LOCAL MENTION.

Fish roe, 1sc and zoe, pink sal
mon. zoe; red kidney beans, 12he
can; large cans peaches, 2oc; pure
pepper, 40c; navy beans. lie: lima
beans, l6c; A J. pancake. or buck
Eheat flour; t1hci Log ncT SSSin ssTSD. sTSD
peaches, tic; seeded raisins. 10c;
Booths herring. 1sc; Wonder mixed
tea, SOC; Gunpowder tea, 6sc: Blue
Label coffee. 25c. li2 Fourth ST.
5. e. and all the ]. T. d. Pyies
storeA
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Rockies with Flat Feet
Get Special Treatment

Aver, Mass, July H-All ROCKIES
with fat feet at Camp Devens have
been brought together for orthopedic
treatment. There are two full COM
panies Of them. The two companies
have been made a part of the First
Development Battalion in which II rs
proposed to train for service men who
have minor physical defects.
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W. c. T. u. Hears Speeche,.

Members of the w. c. T. U. of the
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church
were addressed last night by Mrs.
James Chase Williams. of Abbeville,
South Carolina and Mrs. NJ. A. Tan
eel Of Alexandria, Va.
A talk on food conservation and
= -Tr saving stamps was given by
Min Gladys Waters. Mrs. r. l.
Lawsos; presided over the meeting.
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Angel Food Cake Brings
$3.50 for Red Cross

New City, Ill, July Alan angel
food cake sold for $3.50 during Red
Cross auction sale here. 1t was ded-
icated by the maker to "our boys
over there" and was decorated with
each soldier drafted and enlisted from
small American flag and a card for
the township.
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Learning Victim Was a
Widow, He Returns Bills

Wabash, Ind. July n-Mrs. Lille
Deeter, a widow. was relieved of her
purse containing 81 in bills and a
note which said the owner was a
widow. The thief returned II TO her
with a note stating he didn't have
to rob widows"
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OTHER TEMPERATURES.

It win not be SO hard to pay an
income tax II you reduce your Ex-
PENDITURE TAx-stop paying a
little more than Is necessary on q
majority Of the things you Duy.
Readers of the ads eliminate, very
largely, this expenditure-tax.
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Have you not always noticed that,
when a store commences to advertise
on an adequate scale. it begins to
render better service-to offer better
Undergraduates to you?
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P. c. Mason On N. Y. Exchange.

P. c. Mason. of p. C. Mason and
Company. 50 Broad street, New
last week. The firm has been es-
tablished for over twelve years.
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GAS GOES UP.
Fuel Administration Allows In.
crease of IL Cent Per Gallon.

Gasoline naphtha and refined on
will advance in the wholesale market
price one-half cent a gallon today,
The Fuel Administration has an
nounced that the advance would be
permitted because Of the increase in
railroad rates throughout the United
States. Any increase over the one
half cent will not be permitted.
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES.

Midnight. rs; lam, 70; 4 an, 60; an,
8; an. 20; 10 am. 81; Il noon, So; pm.
S; pm, 81; pm. q; 8 pm, 90; 10 pm, 70.
Highest. s6; lowest, 6.
Relative humidity: an, s.; pm., 30;
pm, 50. Hours Of sunshine, l4s Per cent
of possible sunshine. loo.. -
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DEPARTURES

Accumulated deficiency Of temperature since
January l. 1918. /; deficiency Of temperature
since July l, 1918. %; accumulated deficiency
Of precipitation since January l. 1873 LIS; de
dciency Of precipitation since July /, 1918. 1le.
Temperature same date last year: Highest s.;
lowest, 70.
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WITCH CHARGE PREFERRED

Wheeling, w. va--Mrs. Mary Love-
all was charged with being a witch
in Criminal Court here by Mrs. The
resa Kullman, who alleged that Mrs,
Loveall obtained $500 from her to cast
OF q 'tspelP' from her son.
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To pay more than a fair price Is to
pay a penalty tax-not a tax arising
from war needs. but a tax on your
carelessness in failing to study buying
problems.
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pears almost inexhaustibe for it con-
tains almost every mineral used by
man. It's. gold fields have produced
millions of dollars worth of the
precious metal both by placer and
quartz mining and there seems to be
no let up on the output Much Of the
work is done by hydraulic mining.
turning on a great stream OF water
and washing the sand with its gold
deposits into sluice boxes. The fam
GUS Treadwell mine near Juneau, in
the southeastern section OF the ter
rtory has already produced seven
times as much gold as the United
States paid for the entire territory.
The compan-' operates the second
largest stamp mill in the world, it's
size being exceeded only by the one run
by the De Beers property on the Wits
watersrand, South Africa. Besides
gold Alaska produces copper, tin,
silver, gypsum, marble. graphite.
petroleum, mica, lime and mineral
waters of various kinds. In metals
and minerals prospectively valuable.
but not produced a commercial guam
titles are tungsten, arsenic, antimoney,
manganese, bismuth, quick silver.
corundum. slate, zinc, Earnets and
other minerals. Great iron deposits
both maGanite and hematito have
been discovered in MANY places and
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a strip of antiseptic gauze. Sometimes
after a battle the wounded are
brought in faster than they can be
attended, so one physician goes over
the men and tags them according to
their needs. The men marked urgent"
are operated on at once. while those
marked "send to next station" are
placed in an ambulance and the
machine is sent out with its load OF
poor creatures who only few hours
before were strong, sturdy fighters and
now Jumps of humanity as helpless as
babies. The trip for the first few
miles over roads filled with shell holes,
which are difficult to avoid in the
darkness, is frightful, anG at each
bump the groans of the wounded can
be heard. There is the sound of guns
and the weird light flares throw un-
canny shadows over the road. some
times think ! cannot stand the cries
of the men," said a young American
Ambulance Corps man, "but then /
think how much worse it would be II
we could not get them out of the
range OF fire." A number of ambu-
lances have been hit by shells and
their occupants killed, and in one in
stance only the driver was killed, and
the machine rushed on until It finally
ran into q ditch and turned turtle
killing several Of the wounded oc-
cupants. Sometimes there is n gas
attack near the dressing station and
for this reason the ambulance drivers
are all required to wear gas masks
when in the danger zone. frequently
kitchen ambulance is sent out to
the dressing stations from which hot
broth is served to the wounded, who
are waiting their turn. After one of
the battles on the West front the
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has during the past half century real
price, S720O,OOO, while tho commerce
Of Alaska has amounted to about
S500,OOO,O 900 or about 100 per cent. a
year. During the administration of
President Pierce, Russia offered the
land to tho United States. but the
offer was refused Later It was Of
fered to President Buchanan, who also
refused to purchase, declaring that
5000 900 was too high a price to pay
for q land OF snow and ice.
Purchase Ridiculed.
However. when William II. Seward
became the Secretary Of State in the
cabinet OF President Lincoln he be-
gan to think over the advisabllity OF
Investing Government money in
Alaska, but It was not until 1857 that
the actual purchase took place. Sec
retary Seward was optimistic over
tho future OF the territory in the
northwest, but few people shared his
views and Legislators and newspapers
were opposed to its purchase. How
ever the secretary was adamant and
although the opposition became moro
intense each day Seward went on with
his plans and finally AT dawn on the
morning Of March 30, 1867, the treaty
Of purchase was duly signed by Russia
and the United States and sent to
Congress for its ratification on the
same day. Obstacles Of all sorts were
put in the way OF the ratification, but
finally the Senate confirmed the pur-
chase on April 10th, and the bill be
came a law on June 3Oth. The news
papers ridiculed the transaction and
spoke of Alaska as Stewards ice box"
Zero Island" American Siberia" B."
"Walrussia," "Polaria" and ice
bergia"
Figured by the acre Alaska was
purchased for less than two cents an
acre. Today the timber land on the
Government reserves alone is worth
many times the purchase price to say
nothing Of its rich gold fields and coal
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Rescuing and Attendingt the Wounded UnderFneI Is
No Easy Task, Yet This Is Being Done Daily By
Members of theFieId AmbulanceCorps and
Physicians neutrality-suspicious.
Copyright, 1911, by The luternatIonal Syndicate.

cued. Occasionally the Germans send
up a fare and II they discover moving
objects the guns are at once trained
on the spot and the rescuers are fire.
quently killed while trying to bring
in their -ounded comrades. One par
ucularly atrocious case of this kind is
vouched for by a member of the
Amerlc Ambulance, that brave set
o: young Americans who are doing
such valiant service on the French
front AS tho story goes, two soldiers
members OF French regiment oc-
cupying a nearby trench--were sent
out one night to repair some of the
barricades. While they were at work
there was noise in the German
trenches not far away and 1t is pre-
sumed that the Frenchmen crept a
few yard nearer to listen. They were
discovered and fired on. Both were
wounded and unable to move. When
the French Captain learned of It he
ordered three Of the men to 20 ont
and bring them in. The Germans were
evidently expecting this and when the
rescuers had almost reached their
comrade-. there was another fare
from the German trenches followed
by shots and now five men were lying
helpless on the ground either dead or
wounded. When no other rescuers
were sent from the French trenches
to their aid the wounded men began
to call to their comrades entreating
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them to help them back to the
trenches. At first the captain declared
that he could spare no more men, but
two soldiers begged to be allowed to
go to the men and he finally consent
ed. No sooner had they reached their
comrades than they too were fired on
by the Germans, and only one escaped
and succeeded in getting back. After
that rescue was impossible and the
next morning all six Of the soldiers
could be seen lying dead only few
yards from their own trenches.
Physicians Under Fire.
Hundreds of physicians have been
killed by the deliberate bombing Of
dressing stations. "The Red Cross
means nothing to the German officer"
said surgeon. "and he fires on the
flag as quickly as he does on q
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British brought their wounded in on
little cars over an improvised track
laid in the snow. They did this under
fire and several OF the cars were hit.
In Italy the wounded are sometimes
brought down the mountains in sleds.
while in Serbia curious two seated
saddle is rigged up and put on a mule,
and in this way those who were unable
to walk were taken to safety.
Divisional Hospitals.
When the divisional field hospital Is
reached the men are examined and
placed in classes. For instance, all leg
cases are sent to one ward, all head
cases to another, all abdomen wounds
to another, while the hopeless cases
are sent to ward to die together.
In this way no time Is lost by the
surgeon who knows exactly what kind
of work he will have to do before he
enters the ward. From this point the
wounded are sent to the base hospital
and are taken to a warehouse or
freight station, which has been fitted
up aS u hOopltdl VI tNdCudllOu anu at
this place they are loaded on hospital
trains and sent either to Southern
France or to some channel port to
be sent to England. Recovery Is often
slow, but under the gentle ministra-
tions OF a nurs" at some beautiful
French chateau or English country
home the soldier usually regains his
health and strength and frequently is
able to get back in the trenches.
Surgeons Duties.
This problem of getting the wound
ed to safety, which has cost the lives
Of so many physicians, was vividly
described in recent lecture at Cornell
University by an eminent surgeon who
Is a member of the Royal Medical
Corps of the English Army. In the
course OF his remarks he declared that
"a regimental medical officers duty
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mines.
The early settlers in Alaska suffered
many hardships The Indians had
been badly treated by the Russians
and they soon came to hate all white
men. While the country was gar
risoned with soldiers the Indians
were well behaved, but as soon as the
garrison had been withdrawn the In
dams killed many Of the settlers in a
most barbaric manner. At one time
the settlers neglected by their own
country appealed for help to the Brit
ish warship a. Vancouver and aid was
sent TO them A few weeks later an
American vessel arrived at Sitka, and
the officers soon brought order out of
chaos and laid the foundation for an
admirable government While It is
true that many times graft and poll
tics have crept into the administration
Of Alaskan affairs, It has on the whole
been well governed and settlers have
with few exceptions been fairly treat.
ed. During rush to the Klondike
in 1S97-9S, many undesirable citizens
came to Alaska, and it took years to
weed them out but this was done in
a systematic fashion and today Alaska
shows less crime per capita than any
State in the union.
V st Territory.
Even at the time of its purchase
few people realized the vastness of
Alaska which is twice the size OF the
German Empire, and almost thirteen
times the size Of New York state. 1t
contains approximately 21,0oO,00O
acres Of coal land thousands Of acres
Of which are still undeveloped. The
great value of these coal deposits are
brought out by a government statisti-
clan, who estimates that the available
coal in Alaska at the present rate of
consumption would sustain the popu-
lation of the United States more than
five thousand ycars--if transportation
is made available.
Mineral Wealth.
The mineral wealth of Alaska ap-
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another asset OF this treasure house
of the northwest for aside from the
large amount Of hemlock and sItka
spruce, red cedar and yellow cypress
there is any amount of timber excel
lently suited for pulp manufacture.
Indeed. at present vast quantities Of
this class of timber is going to waste
in southeastern Alaska because there
is nobody to handle it. There is plenty
of water power in that section and
it only needs to be set to work in
producing wood pulp which is now
on the upward trend in price.
Much OF the wood used in con-
structing our war aeroplanes comes
from Alaska, the spruce from that
territory has no superior for the work
because OF Its great strength and close
grain. The logging industry also
tlourishes in Alaska, where the forests
are close to the shore line. They are
sent down the mountains on Chutes,
bound together and foated to saw
mills.
Farm Land.
For many years there was an
erroneous idea of Alaska's climatic
conditions and this kept settlers from
going to what was known as 1.-The
Frozen North" Climatically Alaska is
as favorably situated as the Scandi-
navian peninsula, and in some parts
Of the territory Is not an unpleasant
place to live at any time during the
year. For instance. the temperature
at many points in Southwestern
Alaska is not so cold as New York
City in winter nor as warm in sum-
mer. The atmosphere in this section
of Alaska IS tempered by the Japan
current. 1t is, however, very cold in
winter and very hot in summer east
OF the Coast Range. Except in ex-
treme Northern Alaska vegetation is
extremely luxuriant and wonderfully
rapid in growth. Nearly every variety
Of hardy fruit and vegetables grow in
abundance while grass flourishes on
the plateaus and forms excellent pas
turage for cattle The agricultural
experiment station OF the territory has
done excellent work In finding out
the various kinds OF fruits, vegetables
and grains that are adapted to Alas
kan soil and today there are many
fine farms in Alaska. where prize po-
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Copyright, 1917 by The International
Syndicate.

WN FORMER WARS the surgeon
and his stretcher bearer were re-
garded as neutrals, whose duty II
q was to care for the wounded of
both combatants and guns were never
trained on the dressing stations or hos
pitals. Today, however, all Is changed
for the German treats the surgeon as
though "his scalpel we're q sword and
his tourniquet trigger" and recent
war statistics show that more than
10000 physicians have lost their lives
up TO the present time in the great
European war Most of the physicians
have been "killed in action" while
attending the wounded who have been
dragged into the trenches from mo
Mans Land" by the stretcher bearers,
who have many times been deliberate
ly fired on by the Germans. while
carrying out this act of mercy.
Ambulance Units Suffer.
In this the men OF the field ambu-
lance unit are the sufferers and the
percentage of deaths in this branch
of the service is the third highest, the
infantry and the artillery being the
first and second. Much Of the work
is done at night when the men creep
out on "No Mans Land" between the
trenches and drag the wounded along
the ground so as not to draw fire from
the Germans. In many cases this is
torture to the suffering soldier. but It
l. the only hope he has of being res
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was to keep as near the commanding
officer as possible. II the attack is
successful there will be a certain num-
Der of wounded in No Mans Land
the rescuing OF these and tell each of
those wounded who are able to walk
and go back. taking shelter as much
as possible until they reach the
stretcher bearers. The wounded who
are unable to move should be shell
tered anywhere possible In she'll
craters or trenches and first aid :ound
as rapidly as possible. The medical
officer must at all cost keep in touch
with his battalion and move forward
with 1t. His presence in the trenches
is of immense moral value. He can
forthwith set about imprc Using a reg
mental aid post with shelters for the
wounded meanwhile attending to any
casualties as they occur" 1t can be
readily understood from this why the
mortality among physicians at the
front Is so large.
The loss of life among the surgeons
OF the British Army has become 80
great that the London Lancet, q we'll
known medical magazine, runs an
obituary column in each issue telling
how and where each medical man met
Is death and in nearly ever. instance
o-e reads that they were killed in ac-
tion while attending wounded.
The great guns used make the
danger zone very large one and
whether by accident or purpose the
German gunner has found a mark in
many of the Allies hospitals. Today
hundreds Of our own physicians are
either on their way or preparing to
follow Pershing and his "Sammies"
to the firing line.
Already the Johns Hopkins and
Harvard units are in France estab-
fishing hospitals about twenty-five
miles from the front. These units
comprise some Of the most noted
medical men in the country. They
have left lucrative practices, which
1t has taken years to build up, and
families as we'll, and like the knights
of old stand ready to do their "blt"
with a rare chlvalry and self-sacri1ce.