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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09

WS THE NAVY consists of ships
 and men, it will be seen that
 the Bureau of Medicine and / Surgery bears a relation to the service quite as important as that of the Bureau of Construction and Re pair. Just as the effort is made in repairing ship to anticipate loss and disaster, so the work of the modern Naval surgeon is directed as far. as possible toward sanitation and proven tion of disease. This is what makes his work even in peace-times field of engineering scope and scientific vision, and not routine of pillshoot- ing and poulticing.
 The Surgeon General of the Navy is William c. Bratsted. He was born in Toledo, Ohio, sin 1864. And be- came Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in February, 1914, after a record of distinguished service at home and abroad. He has been twice decorated by foreign rulers. Wher ever he has come in contact with civilian members of the profession, from university to operating room, his ability has made itself felt. He grad uated in 1886 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York, as an honor man. Today he is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Medicine, of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, is Vice-President of the Board of Di- rectors of Columbia Hospital, Wash ington, and is an honorary member of 8 number of civilian medical societies and associations.
 For one year during the admins tration of President Roosevelt he served with Dr. Rixey as attending physician to the White House.
 It is in the Service, however, that he has attained his greatest prom thence. After graduation he spent four and half years in hospital and private practice at Bellevue and else where and in 1890 entered the Navy as assistant surgeon. He served aboard many vessels, including the notorious old dynamite cruiser "Vesuvius," the Topeka" the celebrated battleship "Connecticut' and others
 His progress was steady. He was twice detailed as instructor in Sur gery at the Naval Medical School. At
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09
REAR ADMIRAL DAVID w. TAYLOR

great bridge furnished with delicate dynamometer which predicts the be- havior of the full-grown vessel better than the most refined mathematical theory.
 With his little make-believe ocean Admiral Taylor has made legal as well as nautical history. When the Atlantic liner olympia" and the English Cruiser Hawke had their col lision off Cowes, England, in 1911, re- suIting in a law suit, Admiral Taylor was retained by the British Admiralty as an expert witness on the question of suction, the English Government having made this request on the Unit ed States. The idea of suction had never been accepted in an English court before, but as a result of Tay- lor's testimony based on actual experi- ments on hydraulic interaction the judge accepted the phenomenon as fact and decided in favor of the Ad- miraIty. This decision has since been sustained in the courts of last resort
 It may be asked why this unob- trusive officer should have been singled out by the Britishers in this abrupt manner? Possibly the whole story runs back to old Greenwich days from '86 to 'S8. For after complet- ing his course at Annapolis as a cadet engineer with the highest marks ever received by a student there, before or since, he was sent to England for fur ther work in naval architecture and marine engineering at the Royal Naval Academy.
 Young Taylor seems to have taken kindly to this "education," in view of the fact that up to 1906 his marks
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09

Admiral Taylor somehow manages to find time to sit in council with the Aircraft Production Board, the Com mittee on the Design of Merchant Yes sels, and other bodies. When he finds time hanging heavy on his hands, he goes to his Virginia farm for recrea- ton among his bees, chestnuts and aI- falfa, after the manner of genius.
 He is native of Louisa County, Virginia, celebrated rather for the quality of it's human than material products; was a student at Randolph Macon College prior to 1881; married Miss Imogen Maury Morris, of Louisa County in 1892; and today, at the height of his great powers, is render ing his country indefatigabIe and dis tinguished service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09
Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, Chief Constructor Of The Navy, Chief Of The Bureau Of Construction
 Ard Repairs.

had never been equalled by any other student at Greenwich. (Later mark ings have not been given ou). This ctrcumstance probably left its impress sion even in British naval circles: at any rate, it is recited for what it is worth in connection with the "OIym- pia'' law suit of 1911.
 He received his promotion to Naval Constructor in 1892, when he was or dered to Mare Island. California, to take charge of construction and re- pair at that station. Two years later, at the age of thirty, he was recalled to Washingtoy as principal assistant to the Chief Constructor, and pub lished the first of his famous books the same year. He has been at all times a productive and weighty con tributor 10 scientific journals.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09

are over five hundred huts-neaBer a thousand-buildings, dugouts, cellars, buffets, hospitals, schools, bath houses, radio stations, zarages-dif- ferent places for helpfulness and all for our troops. Virtually in every place in France where our American troops and sailors are found there is some form Cf Red Triangle activity Workers and money, workers and money has been the cry from France and it is being answered by men and women who thirst to do something if they cannot fight.
 The Y. M. "A. is overseas to ren- der service. It is no pink tea affair and there is no sissy-boy work. II marches with the army, it works for the men, thinks out necessary expedf- ents, has no use for slackcrs. It is not trying to pave hell with good in tentions, but with practical relief work. There is no professional glad hand. Instead, the Secretary is "one of the boys" with "a great human Hk- ing for all sorts of men. He is big enough 10 know the necessity of the Y. M. C. A. hut as a center of camp activities and he realizes more and more as he works, that it ought to be running full blast all the time. The center of the work is to give the men at least one place in each camp here and iH the war zone where they can feel free to write letters, play pool, sing songs-have a good time gen erally and relax. Wherever the boys are, the huts are, and as the army advances the huts and .dugouts go with them. Do you know what 1t means for the dugout5 to go with them? It means that just behind the firing lines and under shell fire the -secretaries establish Their little s11nnLr
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09
EA EAR ADMIRAL DAVID WAT ~ SON TAYLOR is a worlds au-
 thority on several subjects, U N which Is som nthfno of q dis

M thorlty on several SubJeCtS, V which is something of a dis tinction in these expert days, and he is also Constructor in Chief of the United States Navy. He knows more about hull design than any other man; theoretically and practically, he is the acknowledged master of the science of ship propulsion; and his type of torpedo-boat destroyer with the high forecastIe, introduced by him into the United States Navy twenty years ago, is now the accepted standard of all nations. If it be remembered that he was then @ youth of thirty-three, and that two years earlier he had be- gun advocating the centre-line distri- button of turrets, now the uniform practice of all the navies of the world, some impression of the mans quail ties may be formed. Added to this, he has vision combined with disci- plined intellect.
 Rear Admiral Taylor was appointed Constructor in Chief and Chief of Bureau with the rank of Rears Ad- miral by Secretary Daniels in Decem. Der of 1914. He is assisted by nine Naval Constructors ranking from Commander to Lieutenant and a Con- struction Corps of ninety-nine officers This entire staff is made up of care fully selected graduates of the Naval Academy, mostly honor men. Before admission to the construction corps a postgraduate course in warship con. struction at the Massachusetts Insti
 ute of Technology is required of all
 Upon Admiral Taylor's bureau de
 wolves the responsibility for the de
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09

EA |. M. c. A. Rush. These are W words that expressmen, freight M clerks, trainmen, telegraphers, all transportation men know, and when they see them they work like beavers trying to get the boxes on which they are printed overseas as soon as possible. It is a call that must be obeyed, for it comes not alone from the secretary of the Y. M. C. A, in France, who handles these matters, but from General Pershing's troops, from officers, privates and all army workers.
 What are these things that must be rushed? The question is "to laugh" as the French say. What are NOT these things would be better. These boxes contain everything from an automobile 10 a toothpick. Tents, stoves motion picture machines, candy, sugar. writing paper, ink, but tons-there is no end to the list of necessities that the Y. M C. A. is providing for our boys over there and in army camps here. and for their sskes the work must be .peeded mp to the utmost. And not alone in our camps and naval stations in Italy and France must their work be ex- pedited but in Egypt, Palestine, Sa- lonica and other places.
 It is a long, long story, this of the army work of this organization and one can only touch it and it's various activities. It is a vast job, this look ing after the social, non-military side of the men in khaki. The first Y. M. c. A. home on the road to the front and in these days front spells Vic tory--was on a pier in a French port where the first American collier docl.9d in June, 1917. Today, there
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-09

"OVERNMENT SERVICE. Army A '. M. c. A. Rush" These are W words that expressmen, freight
 M clerks, trainmen, telegraphers,
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20

ference in the capacity of elucidaor Any opaque
obscurty sifted through his pink whskers
would be presented with undoubted, immaculate
clarity.
There are other reasons why the president should
go abroad and there is why he should be
bound the White House. He has earned through
many strenuous months the relaxation he would de-
rive from the journey. He has already been sgnay
honOred in Europe greater extent than any other
man living dead. His name has become word in
France much more familiar and revered than the
of any other foreigner and the people of the enemy
country feel confidence in him they hold for other
To them he is the incarnation of America
The notion that the president may not leave the
country is a companion piece of the belief that
may be elected president third If
are any duties which be performed by the presi-
dent and be performed by other person. he
should remain at his post. But in the absence of the
president with congress in state of SUSPENSION there
be duties call mperativey for the presence
of the president at home.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
A BeIated Call to Economy

The federal government has urged the State Coun-
Gil of Defense to it's good offices bringing
citizens to economic stationery and postage by
departments. The government is less concerned prob
ably with the of stationery and postage than
with the congestion and annoyance occasoned by this
correspondence.
At the time the government should
taken thought of the congestion it itself has caused
necessary loads has heaped upon anitors who have
been obliged carry heavy burdens of departmental
envelopes unopened and departmental literature with
wrappers removed to basement furnaces in the
winter time and to garbage heaps in the summer time
whence mountains of waste paper have been carted
away at great expense.
How many janitors and garbage collectors might
have been released for military service limited or un-
limited but for this prcfusion of letters literature
from the national capital is matter of conjecture
And then there the postoffce clerks the
postal clerks who would have been able to main
tain service which of late has become frightfuly
inadequate.
What the government has done in wasting time and
money in press agenting and propaganda work is not
the worst of it. 1t has set example to hordes Of
persons in semi public wholly private endeavor
persons who imagined that they were helping to win
the country has been literally buried under mass of
literature which nobody has had time to read and
would not have been edited by the reading of it.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
TIME FOR REJOICING

This is a time for rejoicing;
Not at the fate of a fallen foe,
But at the most wonderful victory
This dear old world will ever know
All the war gods have been defeated,
Forever we've Silenced the lannon's
roar.
The dove of peace has returned and is
cooling.
That such ruthless murder shall
come no more.
War is HE'LL" quoth one of our states
men.
That is true, no one denies
When we see the awful devastation
And the loss of so many lives.
But our efforts must not slacken.
There is plenty for US to- do.
Let us clothe and feed the hungry,
We must help the distressed ones
start anew.
Many the home that has met destruc-
ton,
Many heart is torn with grief:
Many a one is still fighting a battle;
| Many prayer is prayed for relief
| Though we've won the victory, do not
falter.
| 1t was at the surrender of many a
soul;
/ Fathers, mothers, sweethearts, sisters,
| Have given their all to win the goal
j A. Miller
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
The President as a Traveller

According to the dispatches President Wilson's
presence at the peace conference desired
the application of the principles laid down by him in
the business of formulating the peace treaty these
principles contained the fourteen points and the
presidents subsequent messages having been ac-
cepted by Germany a basis for peace The inference
is that the entente statesmen wish an elucidaon of
these principles concerning which there has been
good deal of speculation at home as well as abroad
Until know precisely what the president meant we
make little these principles in the final ad-
Indication
The statements of the president were broad nee
essariy So at the time they were made On January
s of last year with Russia crushed Rumania out of
the war with assurance that Italy would not soon
be out with the allies quite holding their own in
the west and with own greatly delayed opera
TONS very definite statement of peace terms could
not be made We could know what to offer and
had little knowledge of what Great Britain and
France might or might not accept
There was for example the principle of sef-de-
termination. 1t contemplated then that scores
Of peoples would rise up the of the central
empires and Russia and demand independent govern
ments The application of this principle alone will be
difficult task.
If it were Interpretation of an obscure
utterance the presidents presence would not be nee
Senator James Hamilton Lewis whom practice
has perfected could attend to that The sef-elected
Interpreter Of the president would at no loss in
explaining to the leaders of allies just what the
president had in mind January 8 last
AS events have fallen Mr.. Lewis has been
relieved of the of state to very great extent
and after March next he will be wholly free to place
his time and talents at the disposal of the peace
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
Another Arizona Croix de Guerre

The Arizona Republican, Phoenix, AriZ.
Dear Sir: In yesterday mornings
Republican l noticed an article telling
of Lieut.. E. T. Green's receiving the
'Crois de Guerre," stating that he was,
SO far as was known, the first Arizona
boy to receive the Cross of War, and
in this mornings paper l noticed Mrs.
Otis E. Young had claimed part of
the honor for her son, Ward. So I
wish to do the same for my uncle, En-
sign E. n. Sweitzer.
A few days after war was declared
my uncle enlisted in the navy and re-
ceived his commission of ensign. He
was put right in active service and
commenced taking troops over to
France as rapidly as they were trained.
Last April in a French harbor, an am
munition ship that had accompanied
their convoy over blew up-there was
a crew of about go men, and those who
were not killed were floating around in
the water blinded and drowning. There
was a call for volunteers to try to
save some of the unfortunate crew, so
he and three other officers went
out in a motor boat and succeeded in
rescuing II men. For this, along with
the other three officers, he was decor
ated by the Governor OF Brest, and
was, therefore, a recipient of the Croix
de Guerre. There was an account of
the affair in the November issue of
the Scientific American. He is Phoe-
nix boy, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Sweitzer, and l think it only fair that
he should at least have part of the
honor. Sincerely yours
ALICE P. WHITE.
November IS, 1918.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
BROTHER PRECEDES
MRS. HYATT TO CRAVE

Frank c. Curtis, well-known through
out Arizona because of his connection
with the Lowell Observatory at Flag
staff, died recently at Portland Oregon,
where he had been employed in one of
the big shipyards. Word to this effect
was received yesterday by Niles G. Hy-
att, brother in-law to the deceased. The
death of Mr.. Curtis occurred four days
before the death of Mrs. Hyatt, his
sister here in Phoenix
Although Mr.. Curtis had been asso-
ciated with the Lowell observatory. for
many years, shortly after the United
States entered the war he left the OBJ
servatory to take up ship building. The
body will be shipped from Oregon to be
inferred at Flagstaff. the family home.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
FLU" AGAIN VISITS DENVER

DENVER, Nov. 1S.-New cases of
influenza totaling PSI were reported
to DR.. William H. Sharpley, city health
manager, during Sunday and Monday.
DR.. Sharpley declared that unques-
tionably many of the cases were the
direct result of the victory .celebra-
ton" a week ago.
During Sunday and Monday 16
deaths from the disease were reported.
The totals for the city since the cpl
demic began on October 6 stand at
1851 cases and 4S9 deaths.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
A PATRIOTIC SCRIBE

Here is peculiar in your local weekly"
remarked hypercrtca guest. 1T says that ~ mil
lion Germans have been captured by the allies within
the last thirty days. That is than the entire
population of Germany The editor must be very care
less, it is possible he does not know"
Jaw. he knows all right enough" interrupted the
landlord of the Petunia And wasn't ignor-
ance either. He is patriotic, and believes in giving
them internal Huns all that is coming to them"
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
Where The People
May Have a Hearing
Use Palm Berries

To The Republican.
Pick the berries over, put in sauce
pan and cover well with water and boi
about As minutes, then strain and put
the juice back on fire and boil down
to a syrup. This syrup is very sweet
and is excellent in making gingerbread
or dark cake and requires no Other
sweetening. Is also. fairly good on ho
cakes.
l have used it for some time. F. B.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20

The Republican is pleased to have become the
vehicle of which has resulted in bringing out
the fact that many boys from Arizona have been
awarded the Crox de Guerre. We had stated that one
Arizona boy had been the first to receive the great
military honor. That brought the story earlier
recipient and We have doubt that there will be
many others to whom war crosses have been awarded
otherwise, if they had the opportunity win them
and did not they would not be true Arizona boys
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20

The Swiss republic has stood for 600 years We
rather thought the bolshevi there would run against
something hard and firm. SO far as we have heard
there is only thing in Switzerland that needs re-
forming and that is the tipping system
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20
Mrs. Leola N. King.

When her husband left his place
as traffic officer in Washington to
JOIN Americas fighting forces, Mrs.
Leola N. King took his place at the
crossing, becoming the first woman
traffic policeman in the United
States.
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20

How would the Germans like it if the entente
peace conference should take the Litovs treaty
as working model?
Arizona republican., 1918-11-20

Velvet, We understand, will conserve wool. Which
reminds of the suggestion of Marie Antoinette
when told that the people without bread, Then
let them eat cake"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-08
SAYS MACEDONIA
IS BADLY IN NEED
OF OUTSIDE HELP

Rome, Nov. S.-Colonel Bicknel,
director general OF the civilian re-
lief of the Red Cross, has returned
from a visit to Greece, Macedonia
and Serbia, where lie went to deter
mine what is TO be done by the Red
Cross to alleviate conditions among
the people in the Balkans. Speak
ing on latest events and the situa-
ton in those countries he says:
The region which suffered most
is Macedonia, where there is need
of prompt and efficient relief work
Since the Bulgarians entered that
country conditions have become Sc
riOus. The Serbian advance to re-
conquer their country was a most
prodigious feat. Officers could not
hold in check the Serbian soldiers,
who dashed ahead, climbing noun
tains like wild goats.
For eight days the Serbian
troops were entirely cut of from
their base Of supplies. 1t is a mys-
terry how they fed themselves. AS
far as / can make out they lived all
that time on grass roots, turnips
and similar food.
AT Babuna pass, the only road
north from MOEasrir, were gathered
ScrbiaEs, French. Italians and
Greeks. with their Bulgarian pris-
oners. but no one showed any sign
OF animosity. The $4,000 prisoners
were merely deprived Of their arms
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-08

and then allowed their liberty be-
hind the allied lines. They started
of toward the south without any
body paying attention to them. It
often happened that a lOrry was
turned over to the soldiers and
then men Of all these different ma
tionalities, including the Bulgarian
prisoners, worked together in a
friendly manner in the activity of
re5cuing the wounded and sick.
Bulgarian forces in their retreat
destroyed bridges and carried off
cattle. but respected buildings and
private property generally. The
only great destruction carried out
was the burning of the aerial rail-
way 40 miles long from Prflep 10
Veles over Babuna pass This road
was built by Bulgarians.
In Serbia the masses of people
did not seem starved There was a
shortage of food, but all had bread
Serbian refugees in Greece are re-
turning home rapidly.
Greece has two sets of refugees,
those driven from Macedonia and
those, more numerous, amounting
to 300, 900, from Asia Minor. These
cannot return home because Asiatic
ports are not yet open.
The American Red Cross has
moved its headquarters from Sa-
loniki to Uskub. Later they will be
transferred to Nish or Belgrade.
In Greece, Albania and Montenegro
we must see how the situation de-
velops and what is needed there.
The greatest difficulty is the ship
ping of supplies. The railroad ia
cilities in the Balkans are limited.
the roads having been damaged
during the fighting and congeSted
by military operation. Fortunate
", the American Red Cross has
supplies at SalOniki and has
large quantity of clothes and food
on the way there.