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The Cordova daily times., 1918-05-04
ALASKAN BEDS OF PHAGNUN
 FOR WAR USES

SEATTLE, May 4.-One million sphagnum moss surgical dressings before July 1 is the order that has been received by J. w. Hotson, as- sistant professor of botany at the University of Washington and North west director of moss work for the Red Cross. Urgent demand for the dressings caused an increase of the original order for 50,000 for testing purposes. An Eastern expert to as- sist in organizing the work in the Northwest will be sent here soon.
 "Auxiliaries composed of moss gath erers will be formed throughout the districts where the moss grows" says Professor Hotson. From Alaska large quantities of the moss can be obtained free of charge. I expect to go there soon and locate beds of the moss"
 Freshmen and sophomore girls at the university are spending two hours each week making moss pads. A moss pad requires no sewing, but is made by folding layer of moss, a layer of highly absorbent paper and layer of nOn-absorbent cotton on gauge. The special virtue of moss dressings is that they are more ab- sorbent than cotton, are cheaper, and more effective in use, as they will ab- sorb from ten to twenty times their weight of moisture without becoming soggy.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-05-04
VETERINARY HOSPITAL
 FUR CARE WAR HORSES

CAMP LEWIS. Wash, May At costs money to buy a horse these days, and the government is almost as careful about the welfare of tho thousands of steeds supplied to the army through the remount depot al Camp Lewis as it is about the health of the men in the service.
 An elaborate veterinary operating room has been built, into which horses with curable ailments are taken 1 operations. An operating table is used which permits the placing of a horse in any position desired without injury to the animal, and the room is kept as clean and sanitary as pos sible and smells very much like the operating room of a general hospital in a large city.
 The floors are all of cement and
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Americas Man.Power
From n speech In the Senate by Mr. Cumnins
OF Iowa reported in the Congressional Record.

From a speech in the Senate by Mr.. Cumming.
OF Iowa. reported in the Congressional Record.
Our man-power is not utilized. | venture
to say, and l believe 1t can be established,
that there at least 100000 men between
thirty and forty who had far better have
been assigned to military duty instead Of a
similar number of men between the ages of
twenty-one and thirty II would not have
been necessary to have assigned all of them,
but they could have borne their proportion.
There are nearly 100000 between thirty
and forty who have 10 gainfu occupation
whatever. and even IL these men had been
classified with the men between twenty-one
and thirty it would have relieved many hun
dred thousand men engaged In useful and
necessary occupation between twenty-one and
thirty. We would In that way have actually
added to our man power. in my Judgment
ii Is, of course, in part an Sstimate-we
would have added before Glass l had been
exhausted a million men to effective
working useful laborers, and that without the
slightest infraction upon the right of n work.
ingman to choose his own occupation, and
without the least infringement upon their
privileges against the conscript!on of labor
Let u see. For the moment | disregard
the men above forty-fve, although l think
there should be an assimilation and an as
signment OF men above forty-five, just as |
think there should be imperatively one below
forty-fivc. There were registered of men be-
tween twenty-one and thirty. In round
ages of eighteen and forty-fve in the country
omitting the men between twenty-one and
thirty, 1898, ,04s men. / am using the per-
centage of increase since the census of 1910
that has been adopted by the provost marshal
generals office-that Is to say, have added
is per cent over the census of 1910 In order
TO take in the growth OF the last eight years.
Mr.. Warren-Takng them by States sep
arately?
Mr.. Cummins-Altogether; all the returns
from the States
Mr.. Warren-The sum of them, altogether?
Mr.. Cummins-Yes; the entire man-power
between the ages of eighteen and forty-five
will be found TO be 23,49s.049 men, You will
remark that the division made by the
provost marshal generals Office Is not Just
the division made by the Census Bureau
that is the Census Bureau classifes men as
engaged In gainful pursuits and otherwise
There were engaged In ganful pursuits men
OF eighteen and over, and l am estma ting
the men between sixteen and twenty. giving
to each a half, because those are the periods
taken by the Census Bureau - 30,970.2O3
men. These include all ages without limit
above eighteen years. Engaged I'm ganful
pursuits from eighteen to forty-fve, 22,-
5O0520 men, about 1000, 900 men fewer than
the population of men between eighteen and
forty-hve. Not only so, but there are a
great many men between the ages Of thirty
and fcrty or forty-five who are engaged in
gainful pursuits who are not engaged in any
productive or necessary or essential pursuit
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Member Of the Associated Press
THE BLOODY FIFTH AGAIN

A LII that is sordid and shameless in the
"a practices and methods OF political
cliques has been evident in the Fifth
Ward murder cases, which shift to the
Chester County courts with a preliminary
argument today. The question of a fair
and impartial trial has been secondary.
Delay and confusion seem to be the aims
Of the persons most intimately concerned.
1t may not be too much to hope that the
aignihcance of the Fifth Ward and its
shooting scandals is not altogether lost on
the larger jury that renders every final
Judgment in public affairs-that is the
reading and thinking public. In proceed
iags such as have characterized the
Deutsch case politics on the one hand and
legal practice on the other are stripped Of
their traditional dignity. The instructive
faith of the people in the institutions Of
government and order is confused. A day
of reckoning must come sooner or later
Mr.. Rotan as the prosecutor in this in
stance is called upon to defend more than
the rule of law. The ethics Of his own
profession are involved as we'll as the
safety of law-abding men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Japan TO AMERICA

XTISCOUNT ISHII, the Japanese Ambas-
sador, made an Independence Day
address at Fair Haven, Mass. which was
typically japanese in gracefulness and In
sight. 1t is only natural that the public
consciousness has been largely focused
on President Wilson's magnificent words
at Mount Vernon. but Viscount Ishii's mes
sage was also important enough to merit
a moment of retrospection.
Viscount Ishii, in giving a Japanese
sword to the town of Fair Haven, pointed
out the peculiar sacredness and symbolism
that the cleanest and keenest Of weapons
has for the Japanese mind. The sword Is
the old chivalric emblem of the Samurai
honor code. No other gift could so elo-
uuently testify the regard of the nation
from which it came. And the ambassador
did we'll to point out that one of the most
persistent efforts of the German suspicion
factories is to create hostility between the
United States and Nippon.
Japan is not only a proud and chival-
rous nation; she is a grateful nation. This
sword was sent to Fair Haven because an
| old whaling master of that town once be-
| friended the japanese donor. Japan has
| a peculiar sentiment Of friendliness toward
| the United States because we have been
| of service to her In the past. There Is
every reason for increasing understanding
| and good will between the two nations. In
! all sincerity we echo Yiscount Ishiis corr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
MR.. PoTTER's NEW ALLEGIANCE

AS THESE crowded days go by 1t is i'm.
"A possible to avoid the conviction that
Colonel Roosevelt must write another au-
tobiography Some Of the biggest things
that ever happened to him are happening
now. William Potter, former minister to
Italy, is one of them.
Mr.. Potter used to be one of the Chosen
Disciples. He was tireless in his devotion
and his energy in the days when he graced
the inner councils of the Bull Moose. He
is a veteran of the Retreat from Chicago.
And now he has cast all tradition behind
him and declared explicitly for third
term for President Wilson.
Times change and men change with
them. Mr.. Potter is now fuel administrator
In Pennsylvania under the Democrats. He
sought no counsel from his lonesome chief
Of other days. He beat the rest of the
country to a definite conclusion in relation
to the third term. His tone and his man.
ner suggest a cheerful willingness to make
the election immediate without waiting
for such trivial things as years and events,
settlements and victories to justify or ne
cessitate the odd procedure
No extraordinary stretch Of the magma
ton is required to picture the consequences
and reactions in the broodng spirit at
Sagamore Hill-the drops of sweat, the
reeling minute in which the brain refuses
to react to a calamitous circumstance.
Here, indeed Is impious heresy. Where
was 1t learned? Mr.. Potter used to be one
of the most favored of eekenders at the
prophets hearthstone. Can it be possible
that the maxims of the Third Cup Of
Coffee have corrupted his judgment? is
the Colonel's bread returning upon a sea
Of tears?
Well. we'll! There is no telling. But one
may be sure that at Oyster Bay one Bull
Moose will be accused of the weasel word
and, for all you know piloried as a male
factor OF great originality.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
MAYOR SMITH AND A FLAG

NEME. -HEINK is a sweet
AVA singer Her great voice lends new
glory to our songs Of patriotism. On the
Fourth Of July she moved Mayor Smith
almost to tears when she sang the Star
spangled Banner at a great public demon
stration. A magnificent silk flag, which
Mr. Smith had given the singer to wave
was thrust again into her hands. Take
III" cried the Mayor with great feeling
Keep 1t In memory of Philadelphia" II
was a glorious flag Of rich silk, of vast
size. with a mahogany staff and streamers
OF gold cord.
We wish Nine. Schumann- Heink JOY Of
the flag, which she took with her TO New
York. The Mayor didn't know whose 1t
was, He had a remote idea that it be-
lonsed to Councilman John Bailey. Coun.
Gilman John had borrowed it from some
one else. Now the city will pay for the
nag joyfully. But the owner is said TO
have been angry for an hour or two. He
shouldn't be.
al Independence Day would Justify itself
doubly IL every time 1t came around it
showed as vividly the Joy that a practiced
politician fnds in giving away the things
that do not belong to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
LET'S BE FAIR

THE figures given out by the Treasury
- Department showing the alleged ex-
oFbitant profits of merchants and manu-.
zacturers, supplementing the information
oontained In the report of the Federal
Trade Commission, are unfair and mis-
leading.
small business man with $4,000 cap
ital who turned his money over twice a
year before the war may have turned his
capital over four or Ave times during the
last year because of increased business.
And he may have made only fair profit
on the business that he has handled. To
compute his profits on the basis of his
capital and to say that he has made rs
or 100 per cent is manifestly unfair to
him. 1t holds him up to scorn as a
profteer when he has been handling his
business only on a safe margin.
There is nothing easier than to make
figures lie. 1t cannot be that the Treasury
Department is deliberately attempting to
create the impression that all business
men whose capital has been working over
time since the war began are dishonest
profteers. When dealing with such vital
matter 1t ought to give out the whole
truth or none. Fairness will pay in the
long run.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
What Do You Know?
QUIZ

QUIZ
l. who was Cardinal RieheIieu?
2. Where IL Ha{ehroucks
5. Name ~. author Of "The Fair Msid Of
Perth"
l. wsSs W.; E,iss HseD and what was his
s. How many divisions comprise an army eerpss
q. Was Washington n general Of full Fankf
Z. What is an anti aircraft sun?
T. What Is an admiralty?
o. Identify 1.-THE Admirable Doctor"
10. Who was Mohammed W
Answers TO Saturdays Quiz
of the United States.
2. The rose Is the national floral emblem Of
ENGLAND.
g. Vlttorio Emmanueie III is the King OF Italy.
!. smith College Is ut Northampton. Mass.
"The Men,"
9. Enn'cdins; .raking with gunnre In the a.
sefn. ns q q 4ceus sss ,."Tth 're"eh' parapst
Z. A homiiy a = sermon o. presc,,ment. either
strictly technical or slightly humorous
sense
o%a,tiee ss shs Rscnbsas me nat. ~
D. Quit claigi 4, dsed of release or rsIiraslsh-
ment 81 u claim. 1'ti
l.. Newport ,s . mort town e northwest Belalum,
near the French frsntSer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

whose sons have gone to war and whose
daughters are married advertise their
house for sale. the old family place where
everyt corner has a memory, every stick
and stitch history-yet they feel they
must get into town nearer the girls, nearer
the stir Of war that makes the loneliness
Of war little less empty and silent.
Young business woman" writes out her
want ad. Room wanted with congenial
family: breakfasts and dinners" Don't
tell me she isn't sick and tired of the sky
light and the cheap restaurants; that she
hasn't been wondering lately whether she
didn't make mistake to come away to
the city when home had been so comfort.
able and pleasant. Well. she knew some
thing was the matter with her, so she
thought she'd try for "congenial family"
THE farmers wife takes her chance and
L asks for summer boarders. Maybe the
work won't seem so hard" she figured out
to herself, III there's somebody around be-
side the hired man and a little money
coming in." So she goes to the garret and
gets out the old lace bedspread and rum
images in the cherrywood chest for the best
dishes and milking time she opens up the
spare bedroom in preparation for the city
folks who may come up her road in an
swer to the announcement that Farmers
wife will take summer boarders; garden
vegetables, fresh eggs and milk; near Chau
tauqua and fair grounds
60 is it, after all, such stupid reading
~ back there in the want columns2 Are
Eleanor and nosey old women to devour
the little paragraphs so eagerly? Are we
spirited and picayune to turn there
first and back to the headlines later? Are
we less loyal to the great world issues Of
the day, to art to politics and to- ye gods
the great financial market. just because We
prefer a little human interest" first, not
the kind manufactured to order, but the
unconscious little tales of life and living
that stand there in'all their pith and truth,
sometimes just three lines long?
No, we say; the allegations Of him who
takes his paper as his editor would have
him, instead Of as the business manager
would choose, are false. But I'm afraid
we're going to have even more intimate
experience with the want page some day,
be pitched headlong into it ourselves some-
what like this:
Friend Husband-Come home. Well
promise to read the paper in the Older as
she is wrote
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

In 1917 there were 42,917 babies born in
Philadelphia.
In the same year 4617 Philadelphia
babies died under one year old.
This is a vastly greater death list
year Of war we have lost 1897 soldiers, in
cluding deaths in action, at sea, by wounds,
accident and disease.
The 1917 infant death rate in Philadel.
phia was 1916 per 1000.
In New York 1t was sS.s per 1000
In Grand Rapids It was II per 1000.
The infant death rate in Philadelphia
will probably be higher this year than II
was in 1917. Each month of 1918 so far
has shown a higher mortality than the
same month last year. In May, 1917, it
was 96.76 per 1000. In May. 1918. 1O1.03.
Kari De Schwenitz, Of the Society for
Organizing Charity, gave us these figures
And he adds, very justly a city's infant
mortality accurately indicates it's standing
in civilization and good government
John Kendrick Bangs is back from
France, but there are still other sounds
over there to disturb the Kaiser's peace.
The Turkish infantry who called them
selves janissaries were abolished In 1925,
but the term has taken on a new and more
.honored meaning since the doughboys In
France adopted Elsie Janis as their pa
tron saint.
When William Thomson, the famous
| English electrical scientist, was made Lord
Kelvin did the electrical wits of that day
say that he was raised to the ampeerage?
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
OUR HOUSE
By AndretU McCiH

TT SHOULD be yours, II could build
L The quaint old dwelling desire,
With books and pictures bravely filled
And chairs beside an open fire,
White-p -paneled rooms with candles lit
1 lie awake to think Of 1t!
A dial for the sunny hours,
A garden of old.fashioned flowers
Say marigolds and lavender
And mignonette and fever.few.
And Judas tree and maidenhair
And candytuft and thyme and rue
All these for you to wander in.
A Chinese carp (called ManddrinD
Waving a sluggish silver fin
Deep in the moat: so tame he comes
To lip your fingers offering crumbs.
Tall chimneys, like long listening ears.
White shutters, ivy green and thick.
And walls of ruddy Tudor brick
Grown mellow with the passing years.
And windows with small loaded panes,
Broad window-seats for when 1t rains.
A big blue bowl of potpourri
And-yes, a Spanish chestnut tree
To coin the autumn's minted gold.
A summer.house for drinking tea
All these Gust thinkD for you and me.
A staircase of the old black wood
Cut in the days Of Robin Hood,
And banisters worn smooth as glass
Down which your hand will lightly pass.
A piano with dear yellow keys
For wistful twilight melodies,
And dusty bottles in a bin
All these for you to revel in!
But when? Ah well, until that time
Well habit In this house OF rhyme!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
NOISE

A NY city dweller who adventures into
"A the country for a night realizes on
his return that he lives in bedlam.
Noise is growing. The down-at-the.heels
ears of the p r. T. provide most of it.
They hit the cross tracks at street inter-
oections with a crash that seems to grow
louder and more discordant every hour
Through the night. Motortrucks increase
and multiply. They use bigger motors
and for some reason or other they make
most OF their uproar after dark. Oil seems
10 be scarce. II seems never to be used
On street car brakes OF on the brakes OF
1motorcars.
There is one consoling aspect Of the
oituation: When the soldiers return from
~ tumult of the battlefront they will
have no reason TO feel homesick
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
We Don't Think So, Harold

Harold Begbie, a well-knowns English Jour
nalist went to the Fourth OF July base
ball game in London, But" he says, 1T
you think I understood the game or the
brilliant strategy of the players. who wore
Jockey caps and long stockings and boxing
gloves and fencing helmets and swung Indian
clubs, gentle reader, you are In error"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
The Economic Circuit

The Economic Circuit
Mary had a little SOW
The SOW had seven shoats
When sold they brought enough to buy
Two gowns and several coats
-Warrensburg CMo) StarJournal.
The shoats were tanned, but profiteers
Got most of Mary's 0clt:
She bought them back at n ruinous price
In the form Of a Sam Browne belt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

Every American city
Brave Citizen will condole with New
York on the death Of
Major and ex-Mayor John Purroy Mitchell.
Within a fortnight of his thirty-ninth birth
day he had made a remarkable record
vigorous and fearless citizen a clean-cut and
high-spirited man. 1t natural that he
should have chosen to enter the aviation
service, which appeals so strongly to all men
of adventurous arteries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

The Germans can't understand why our
men go into battle shouting "Lusitania" as
their war cry. The idea that we still feel
angry about little murder on the high seas
is SO preposterous
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

They say that the
Rectifying Facial Russians are adopting
Frontiers the electric fan. This
is sure proof that
the pan-Soviet republic is shaving of Its
whiskers, because man with a full mantle
of sargasso cares for electric fans. They
whirl that dignity round his map until he
feels like blizzard
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

News headlines prompt the suggestion
that there two Houses in Washington
and that Congress often has less to say Of
government than its rival from Texas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

The news that Germans can seize sup
plies from China" Is calculated to make en-
vious many sweet-toothed American res
taurant patron who has failed to get a second
crack at the, elusive sugar bowl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

II the Sultan was assassinated some one
put something over on the boss of Hades.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

And next winter we may be advised to
put in summers supply Of ice well in ad-
vance of the days of necessity.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Seasonable

1t Is pleasant to contemplate that the
weather has become warm enough again to
permit the resumption of furs During those
cool days they had to be laid asde.-Cn-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

Uncle Sam is listening for the step OF
the postman who will bring him an invitation
to 60 TO the help of Russia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

yhe food administrator has not yet put
1 ban what is frequently described as
linked sweetness. long drawn out"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

Students of ceramics assure us that no
potter has ever yet made a President.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

The familiar wash tie seems to have de-
rived its name from the fact that It always
needs washing-Kansas City Star.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

Bcefy meals may return, but the Ham
burg steak is still an outlaw, unprocurable
in the city of its origin and patriotically
metamorphosed into Salisbury" here at
home
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
dial words. which should BE- impressed On
the memories Of thoushtful Americans:

We trust YOU we love you, and. X you
will let us, we will walk at your side In
loyal good fellowship down all the comins
years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
Try 10 Find II

The uncommonest thing now Is common
Louis Globe Democrat.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08
A Bitter Prospect

1t Is doubtful whether rhubarb will ever
rally from the blow of the Governments .
sugar-ration order.-Chicago News. ~.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-08

There has been a
Snow Mans Land heavy snowfall In Aus
tria, but the unfor-
tunate Austro-Huns will not find that
Ukraine winter wheat arriving any quicker
on that account