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Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
NURSES STILL NEEDED
 WOUNDED, SICK SOLDIERS

Phoenix, Arizona, Nov.-More than 10000 nurses are needed at once for the army nurse corps, and 25 ,0OO more will be needed before June lst, ac- cording to information received from Washington this week by the Arizona divison of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense. The popular impression that no more nurses are needed for service in mill tary hospitals is absolutely wrong.
 Nurses are needed, and needed bad ly, and Arizona is being called upon to supply as many nurses as can be spared for this work. A recent sur vey of Arizona showed comparativ- ely large number of graduate nurses in this state, many of whom had not as yet offered their services for mill tary hospital work This is not be- lieved to be due to any lack of pat riotism, but rather to the fact that the urgent need for more nurses has not been brought home to them.
 Graduate nurses should apply to the State Committee, Red Cross Nursing Service, Box 2S5, Phoenix, Arizona and women wishing to enroll in the U. S. Student Nurse Reserve shoulc personally consult, or write to the nearest recruiting officer \ in thei1 county for application blanks .ant should state their age and education when applying. The recruiting off cer for Mohave County in the drive tt enroll 10000 nurses for army hospi tals before January 1st is Mrs. R. G McDougall of Kingman, Arizona.
 No transportation is furnished t' student nurses from their homes tt the hospitals to which they are as signed.
 The Surgeon General also offers tt married women between the ages of 9 and 40, who are not eligible for army or civil hospital schools of nursing an opportunity for service as hospita assistants in the military hospitals t. which convalescent, sick and wounded soldiers are to be sent. All appli cants for this service should write fo information and blanks to Miss An nie W. Goodrich, Dean, Army Schoo of Nursing, Office of Surgeon Gener al, Washington, D. c.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
FORMER CHLORIDE MAN
 WRITES FROM FRANCE

Clyde Glenn, formerly of Chloride, Arizona, writes: q have been here some weeks enjoying the best of health, eating three big meals day and sleeping with bull yearling, only I sleep up in the hay nov, for we are billeted in a small village of French farmers we'll back of the fir ing line, putting in most of every day except Sunday, drilling and getting ready to land the Hun a finishing blow. This is very pretty part of France, we'll dotted with small villages supported by small farms. There is no extensive farming, all seem to have small herds of dairy cattle and sell their milk to a cheese factory. They also raise grapes and make wine which sells for forty-two cents a quart and that is the only thing besides milk that sells for anywhere near as cheap as we buy them at home Any time anyone tells you that aa Amerl- can dollar will buy five times as much here as it will at home, you can be sure they haven't been over here. Why some things are twice as high, for instance eggs are eighty four cents and all other produce is equally as high, grapes are twenty cents pound. Most of the people in this vicinity who have anything, to sell "see an Ameri- can coming"
 We see none of the style and friv- olity in this section that we have heard so much about. l am having an awful time learning to speak French. The only amusement we have we make ourselves, excepting the Y. M. c. A. and they have "moVe' for us twice week. One night last week a sextette of American ladies and gentlemen came over and sang a number of late songs for us. Harry Adler was with them with a fine bunch of jokes.
 We have half of every Saturday and all of every Sunday on which to play games and do our writing. We play baseball, football, medicineball and other field sports. There are no cleo 'tric lights here so we have to use candles for light at night. Reading matter is very scarce. The "Y" gets few American made magazines and we get few copies of the Paris edi- tion of the New York Herald, which carries on the average of one column of American News, the rest of its four pages being given over to war news and French advertising.
 We have had several days of rain since we have been on this side and two big white frosts."
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
ALL WE LACK IS ALCOHOL

A remedy for pneumonia has been sent out from the office of the Sur geon General of the U. s. at Washing ton, D. C., which is said to be an ab- solute cure. Here is what the gov ernment advises:
 Saturate ball of cotton as large as a one inch marble with spirits of alcohol. Add three drops of chloro- form to each ball of cotton. Place it between the patients teeth. Let the patient inhale the fumes for fiji teen minutes, then rest fifteen minutes and repeat the operation as directed twenty-four times. The result will be that the lungs will expand to theil normal condition. In "A hours the pa tient is out of danger. Change cot ton often. It ought to be changed twice in fifteen minutes.
 The above recipe is good one, but where will the inhabitants of a dry section obtain the alcohol with which to saturate the ball of cotton ???
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
either minimum or maximum.

these items is neither minimum maximum.
 Victory bb. bag GA pounds) .$75 Wheat flour Is bbl bag GA b) IO to l75 Il .0712 Barley flour Is bb bag GA bs) 195 .oo Rice flour (buk), per p Cornmeal (bulk), lb OS Corn flour (bulk) per lb JUG Victory bread (price oaf 16 l3 Victory bread (twn oaf "A 10 Oatmeal rolled oats (bulk) pound 10 to III quality lb l2a to l712 Sugar granuaed (bul) pound .os lS granuaed buk) lb 111s Beans (navy) pound l1 z .O4 to O4 12 Rasins (seeded) 16oz pkg l5 Prune (600s), per b l5 (standad graie,, (No 2a can) IS (standad grss (No p 10 Canned (standard grad) 2Ooz (No p IS 22 pink Aaka) (o 22 to 2 Canned salmon tall red Aaska) 16o Mo- 1) 80
 Eavaporaed milk (unsweetened per 6oz O8
 Evaporated milk (unsweeteped), 16oz Butter, per lb to 6s 70 92 Cheese New York ocal), b 40 to 5 Lard pure leaf in tins) pound pail LOS to 1O substitute in pound pail 200 Bacon (not sld standard grade b 55 Bacon (sced) (fancy grade (Swif Prem) lb 70 Ham moked) standard h. whole) AS 34 (smoked), fancy grade per A s4 Premum sliced 61 to 63 Round Steak b 35 to 40
 On charges made for articles here listed of the list price should reported County Food Administrator Stewart
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-11-23
FAIR FOOD PRICES
 As Fixed By Food Administration

The following official quotations the maximum retail that be charged for the foodstuffs of Food Administrations
 Owing of the the above price on these items isne mnimu
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
H00C TO End UiteraCy.

The decrease of six and one-tenth per cent In
illiteracy among Georgia. children of school age
during the last five years impresses the Savannah
Morning News being "a large dividend on the
amount of money invested by the State in the edu-
cation of her children fair return for the labor
and sacrifice of the teachers, but very small per-
centage of results as compared with what should
have been done in five good years by Georgia for
her future citizens" How that should be
carried to accomplishment? How in the next five
years can the reduction of iliteracy be made fifty
or seventy-fve or one hundred per cent instead of
only six? The answer is not far to seek We find
it in those counties which have adopted local
school tax to supplement the educational funds
they receive from the State treasury. Though the
figures are not available at the moment, we dare
say the record of those counties will show that they
are lifting the cloud of illiteracy fast it can
be by good schools operating within conYen-
lent reach of all the homes and that is wondrous
fast. Most of Georgia's school problems are funda-
mentally financial Give leaders of education
and our splendid army of teachers adequate funds
to work with, and they will soon go over the top
with the ideals they long have cherished. Those
funds will be forthcoming easily and freely when
the system of local, county taxation for schools
prevails throughout the State; but not before.
bill proposing a Constitutional amendment for this
purpose was lost at the last session of the Gener-
al Assembly for lack of few votes. The measure
should be pressed persstently until enacted, as it
certainly will be or late. Meanwhile let the
friends of local school taxation continue their good
work of winning over individual counties. In so
doing they will shake illiteracy from its linden
burg line and quicken the advance of all forces
that make for Georgia's glory and well-being.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
OBEYING THE LAW

"Gasless Sundays" prove the possibility of what
may be done without law when the sentiment of
the country is back of a movement which has
distinct social value over against the passing of
legislation which doesn't have the backing of the
people.
It's as much mans social life is worth to
run his automobile for pleasure trip on Sunday
if his neighbors find out about it. He'd be com
PEELED to move to another community else would
have to face boycott" which would make him
decidedly uncomfortable.
There are certain so-called blue laws on the
statute books in some states to which nobody pays
any attention. They laws which made to
other generation, but the legislatures in these
states haven't had the courage to annul them.
1t would be almost impossible to secure the
conviction of anyone who might break these laws.
But-for fear that somebody might jump to
the conclusion that it's bad business to pass any
kind Of legislation unless it has the almost unan-
imous approval of the people, and unless the peo-
pie may be depended upon to keep these laws, let's
remind ourselves that the ten commandments have
never been annulled, although every one Of us
breaks one or more of them every day of our lives.
There at least two kinds of laws which af-
feet the life of the communicative having So
cial basis, and laws having moral basis.
While all social laws may have a moral basis
there are certain laws which distinctly moral
in their nature.
The latter fundamental in character and
will never change. The former really appl-
cations of the principles found in the ten COM
mandments which are formulated according to the
judgment of lawmakers.
1t is concerning these that there is often diff
ference of opinion. But regarding the great moral
principles themselves there should be no dispute
and usually there is none, excepting among those
ing about morality or common decency.-Rev.
Charles StelZe.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
German efficiency. .

German efficiency, like Macbeth's ambition, is
of that "vauting kind which does o'erleap itself.
With all his careful plans and infinite deal of prep
aration all his brute strength and resourcefu cum
ming the Hun has never yet accomplished In this
any of his major detectives has never yet car
ried any of his larger projects to contamination
Up to certain points he has succeeded famously
and at times has appeared almost at his goal. But
invariably at the crucial moment he has been halted
despite his infallible efficiency. So it in both
his gigantic drives for Paris and for the Channel
ports Every detail of the offensives was plotted
in advance, every imaginable contingency provided
for, every cog and belt in the marvellous machinery
Of Prussianism perfectly adjusted. Yet the Hun
was checked almost in sight of his coveted prize
and hurled disastrously back. So, too, with his
most pretentious conquests He overran Belgium,
but he failed to break her spirit to destroy her
gallant army, which today is driving him back to-
ward his own border. He crushed Serbia under an
iron heel, but in the last few weeks revitalized
Serbian army, supported by Entente troops, has
laid low his Balkan hopes-So low that Rumania
herself will burst her bonds and return to battle.
In Russia the Hun came nearer than anywhere else
to contamination of his plans; but even there his
best laid schemes going all awry and threaten
ing him with ealamitous results.
He almost the war, but in the end he lost
it, He almost escaped decisive defeat, but at last
he will be completely crushed. German efficiency
is the efficiency of the criminal who in spite OF all
his cunning leaves uncovered some trivial clue that
betrays him to justice. The solriest of fools are
they who match their wits against the Everlasting
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE,
w Aug. 24.-'Whoo-ee," said Sergeant Will
W liam Butler, of somewhere in New York
City 'Whoo-ee you Bush Germans. You wanna
look out fob me-foh Ah'm comm"
His colonel quoted Sergeant Butler in this
statement. His colonel commented, smilelessly,
that what Sergeant Butler said perfectly true
The other of Buffers platoon said according
to the colonel, that:
Dat Mistah Butler, he suttenly did come a-fog-
gin and a-rarin' thoo that theah darkness"
1t on the night of August II that Captain
Joe Outwater's company had cage barrage drop
ped it. Outwater is from New York, by the
way. Inside the cage the Boche dropped a little
gas. Not much, but enough to be unpleasant. The
whole situation was as badly scrambled dropped
eggs. There were no pleasant, clearly outlined
definite trench lines bounding the position-a
of formal garden of in which the might
wander. The position held by strong points,
and old trench lines squirmed around No Mans
Land like dusty and aged snakes. Patrol parties
used to get lost in these old boyaus. Sometimes
they got clear inside the other fellows line.
In one of these strong points on Outwater's
front sat Lieutenant G. R. Jones. Jones is from
Alabama.
Jones began to be worried at his strong point
The night dark, and there was gas in the air,
and the Smelling indicated concerted action
by the Boche. He tried to peer into the darkness
over the parapet. Then he gave that up as hope
less and stopped to pick up flare cartridge
from the box at his feet. AS he stopped large
Boche leaped his back and Jones and the Boche
went to the dirt together. The Boche's thick hands
were about Jones throat:
"Silenz!" Kissed the Boche. "Silenz.''
II was a perfect surprise raid, of the sort the
Yanks themselves like to pull off. Seventeen Ger
mans were in the surprise group, although it later
developed that three other groups were wandering
about in No Mans Land A sufficient number of
these Germans had jumped Jones and the four
men in his strong point to flatten them out. Not
a man on either side spoke. There was wordless
wrestle in the darkness. Then the Yanks quit
fighting when they felt the hard ends of pistols
TANNED against their short-ribs.
Come" said their captors. ION your way
univ lcAt for hat NH
The five Yanks and the Germans noiselessly
climbed out of the strong point and started off
down communication trench for the exit into
No Mans Land. Somewhere down the line an
inspired soul set off flare Its nasty green light
showed to Sergeant William Butler line of Ger
man figures. At the head of the line were set
Lieutenant Jones and his four men, to stop any
bullets that might be sent that way. Mr. Jones
and the Germans saw Sergeant Butler by the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
THE INTERRUPTED CAREER-By DR.. Frank Crane

remove any roots of bitterness that may remain in
your mind. And my thoughts succinctly are these:
Cd The years you may be called on TO spend in
the army will not be lost to you. You will come
back to your profession with fresher and wider
mind.
CD When this is over you will be gladder
that you went into it than you would be if you had
stayed out. f-t
CD 1t will be lot easier to explain to others
and yourself why you went in than it would be to
explain why you did not.
(4) believe every mans life is a plan of God,
as Bushnell says No control destiny. The
wise man adjusts himself to it When all is over
you are going to arrive at the mature conclusion
that going into the army was the best thing that
could have happened to you.
go You are up against one of the stubborn
verities. Everybody finds time in his life
great bouder-like facts that will not bulge. These
things make US or break They are set for
salvation undoing.
am sure that you will face this enforced dis
cipne in that spirit that shall make it become for
you one of the strongest pillars of your life and
character.
Yours is not an interrupted career. God is
simply taking a hand in it.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
Spanish Influenza.

Spanish influenza appears like cold and feels
like cold and its danger lies in the fact that peo
pie treat it lightly they treat cold.
feeling of weakness and exhaustion, an ach-
ing in the head and aching in the bones, sore
ness in the throat, high temperature, usually
ranging from 1O2 to 1O4-these the symptoms
of Spanish influenza.
person stricken should go to bed at once and
stay in bed until the disease its course, which
fortunately is short Five days usually disposes
of the fever But then it is best to continue in
bed for two more days such a matter, to guard
against the complication that makes it danger
ous-pneumonia.
This is the thing that kills many people.
Spanish influenza simply creates in the respiratory
system an ideal condition for pneumonia to strike
suddenly and kill quickly.
The best way to guard against pneumonia is
to go to bed at once when influenza comes on, and
to stay in bed until the influenza is gone COM
pletey.
AS to prevention, the doctors advise an album
dance of ventilation in the bedroom. A sleeping
porch is better. This insures clean air. 1t is
pecially advisable for persons who spend most of
their time in close quarters. Also, keep the nose,
mouth and throat clean.
Few cases of Spanish influenza have developed
here though the health authorities expect it later
They hope and expect that it will not appear in
such vrulent form it has appeared in certain
northern cities.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
DOCTORS AND NERVES
BY H. Arlington Bruce.

N EEDICAL of today far better trained
MI for their calling than was the case gen
Grafton ago. But there still are some i'm
portant respects in which the average medical man
is not nearly we'll trained he might be and
ought to be-
One of these is in the treatment of functional
nervous and mental Observation-Disclosures widespread
maladies to which has been given the forbidding
medical name of the psycho-neuroses.
The average medical man is sadly at loss
when consulted by nervous patient. He would
much rather have almost any other kind of patient,
as is frankly conceded by leaders in the medical
profession.
VERY few DOCTORS" says DR.. Richard Cabot,
have ever been trained to treat psycho-neurot1c;
very few have any interest in it.
The attitude of many doctor is expressed IN
his desire to run out the side door when one of
these patients at the front He hates them,
but cannot afford to show it.
''Yet nobody will help this type of patient who
doesn't feel a very keen interest in him, and lind
the disease fascinating to study"
What makes this unfortunate state Of affairs
doubly unfortunate is the fact that, Cabot spe-
officially points out:
Half of any general practitioners ordinary
work is concerned with some type of psycho-neu-
rosis; not half that the neurologsts do, but half
that all the doctors in the country doing today
is to treat psycho-neurotics."
This may seem unbelievable. But it is not an
overtsatement
The dyspepsias, headaches, backaches, abdomi-
nal palms, seeplessness, etc. that give the doctors
most of their business are in the great majority,
merely symptomatic of some functional nervous or
mental trouble.
That is to say, they are usually due not to any
specific malady of the stomatch, head, back,
other affected organ, but to fear, worry, anxiety,
or kindred mental state that has reacted badly
the functoning of the organs in question.
What the patient chiefly needs, therefore, is
treatment that will put him and keep him in
healthy attitude of mind. He does not need pills,
but he very much needs education of his WILL train
ing in the control of his emotions.
He may need to be given entirely phi
losophy of life He is to need to be assisted
and guided away from morbid tendency to think
too much about himself
Alas! this is a kind Of treatment in which the
average doctor is not skilled. Nor will he become
skilled in it until the study of psychology-with
particular reference to the relations of mind and
body and the psychology of character buildings
made a compulsory study in every medical school
in the land.
Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08
Potash From Castor Beans.

When Nature made the castor bean she might
we'll have paused content after she had poured
in it's puissant oil. But the bountifuI and I'M
wearying goddess would not have it so. Did she
foresee the time when we would be casting
eagerly. about for source of potash to
make us forever independent of the German sup
ply? Whatever her divination or purpose, she
added to the oil of the castor plant a generous
deal of potash, packing it carefully into the hull
of the bean.
We read accordingly in the Manufacturers
Record that a milling plant at Jacksonville Flor
ida is handling the product of thirty thousand
acres of castor beans which planted in re-
Spouse to the War Departments request that
farmers raise this crop to supply oil for airpanes
aud that in addition to the million more gal
Ions % oil thus afforded, every bushel of the
bulls is capable of yielding five per cent potash
and two per cent ammonia. "If the experiments
of Lieutenant Dwight of the War Department are
successful" the significant comment, "a
means of reducing the castor bean bulls for fer
tiIizer will be found and the potash problem will
he solved"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-08

My dear boy thus wrote Uncle Fred to his
nephew Charles, who had been drafted into the
army and was learning to be soldier in military
camp, 1 have been thinking about the conversation
we had the night before you left home.
Since your father died 1 have felt as if you were
my own son, and l my interest in you could
not be ivelier were your real father
l recall that, while you were loyal in your atti-
tude and perfectly willing to give your life for your
country, at the time there was tinge of sad
upon your spirit at the thought of your inter-
rupted career.
You had made a splendid beginning in your pro-
fession. No young lawyer of my acquaintance had
prospects more brilliant than yours. You had put
in years of training at school and college. At the
age of twenty-nine you found yourself with prac-
tice that many an older man envied.
1t seems hard to have to give this all up, to throw
all this preparation to the winds, put uniform,
and devote your energies to the work of a common
laborer. You are cooking, scrubbing, hiking.
learning how to handle gun and dig trench.
1t does seem inconsequential to prepare man
for ten years to his brain and then put him to
using his hands.
You took your medicine like a man, however,
and went away smiling, but have been thinking it
over and perhaps my thoughts may assist you to