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partment carefully selects its men
and after selection they are detailed
to school. Before the days Of
scientific fire.fighting, a man ap.
pointed to the department was
Immediately assigned to a company
and learned the art of fire-fighting
as best he could from the older
members Of the company.
Now things have changed. On
being appointed to the department,
the recruit Is sent to a training
school, where for the first thirty
days he is drilled in everything thai
pertains to fire fighting. He is put
through all sorts Of severe tests to
ascertain II he can stand the pace.
and IL he survives, he is a pretty
good fireman at the end of thirty
days.
But with all these innovations and
improvements, Chief Watson believes
that many more viii still come. He
says the day is not far distant when
every store, apartment house ana
large building will be compelled to
build a steel fire-proof box in it's eel.
lar. where all trash and waste will be
stored. and this box will be equipped
with an automatic sprinkler, so that
fire from this source will practically
cease altogether.
Chief Watson called attention to
one European fire regulation which
he thinks is worth telling readers OF
The Times. II is the system over
there whereby a person whose house
catches on fire through some neg,i.
gence on his part is fined and II the
fire spreads to his neighbors and
damages that house, he Is forced to
pay the damages. He was not pre-.
pared to say that this system ought
TO be put in force here. but said that
the dsy might conc when y would.
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HARD SHELL HAT ALL r
. ROMANCE LEFT i'm FIRE FIGHTERS LIFE

three truck companies are the only
ones in the Washington department
that use horses, while eight horse
drawn pieces are held in reserve for
the motor driven apparatus to take
care Of break downs. In q very
short time, these too. will be rele.
gated to the scrap heap and Wash.
ington will have motor driven ap.
paratus exclusively.
But the coming generation might
become used to motor apparatus ami
the department might still be the am.
bition Of young boys, II It were not
for the fact that even the fires are
to be stopped.
George s. Watson, chief engineer
Of the fire department, is the cause
Of II all.
Fire Prevention
Modern System.
Before he became chief, he made
an enviable reputation as fire mar
shall. AS fire marshal It was his duty
to see that the fire regulations were
enforced. He saw that much Of the
damage caused by fire could be
avoided II proper precautions were
taken against fire. He studied the
fire regulations and fire risks in
other cities and decided that Wash
ington should be the foremost city
In the country In regard to fire
prevention. As soon as he was made
chief he Immediately put into effect
his ideas on fire prevention that has
resulted in fire losses in Washington
dropping considerably. a..
Under the direction OF Chief Wat.
son and Fire Marshal Leonard v.
Seib 7s,so6 inspections were made
during the last fiscal year by fire
men outside Of the fire marshaIs Of.
flee, while the office of the fire mnr.
shall made B4,2s4 additional inspec.
tons These inspections included
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NO PLACE FOR HERO
4 i'm MODERN SYSTEM
OF FIRE PREVENTION
Business of Learning How to Put Inflammable
Material i'm Such a Condition that it is Never
Reached BY Devouring FLAMES Consumes
Modern Public Servants Working Day.
VTTHEN the next generation OF
" boys come around 1t will be
about as unusual for one OF

uTHEN the next generation OF
" boys come around 1t will be
about as unusual for one OF
them to say he intends to be fire.
man when he grows up as 1t was
for the boys Of the present genera
ton to say they were going to be
bee keepers or scientists. The rea.
son Is that all the giamor is fast
going from the fire department. and
the only thing that will soon be
left will be the uniform.
Fire fighting In the large cities Is
no longer the romantic, haphazard
profession II was. 1t is gradually
being reduced to an exact science.
Foremost among the reasons Is that
the fire department il no longer a
fire-fighting organization but fire
prevention body, and In the trans.
formation most Of the glamor that
attracted boys has been swept away.
When most Of us were young our
one ambition was to be either q 20.
liceman, n pirate, or a fireman. and
after seeing the horses run to a
fire and watching the firemen jump
from the apparatus before IL had
stopped. and grab an M or a line
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Teschen was finally awarded to the
Czechs. However, the situation Of .
divided city which 1t was for d
year, owing to the decision Of the
Council of Ambassadors, was one
which could not endure,
Teschen was cut IN two. the
larger eastern portion being Polish
and the western. with the railway
station, going to the Czechs. The
Polish side had three hospitals and
all the public schools except one
that was on the Czech side. The
latter had also all the churches,
cemeteries and practically all p ib-
lie buildings. The gas works and
water works and shopping district
belonged to Poland.
A child going to school in Polish
Teschen from the Czech side had to
pass through four passport controls
on his way to and from his lessons.
while his father. on the way to work
and returning home, had to pass the
same amount of official scrutiny. 1t
was an untenable situation.
The Upper Silesian question is a
bitter thorn in Poland's side. 1t
seems no nearer a settlement today
than six months ago. The Plebiscite
in March. as Plebiscites have q way
of doing, raised national animosities
to a fever pitch, and, as far as
Poland will concede. proved moth.
ing.
When, with Poland's independ-
ence, came universal suffrage the
Socialists, or Left Wing, became at
once very active with propaganda.
They sent agents all over the coun-
try agitating for their cause.
NATIONALIST WOMEN
FORM POLITICAL UNION.
To offset this the Nationalist wo-
men formed a Woman's National
Political Union which began with
5000 members. 1t districted War.
saw much as Tammany does New
York, and before election every house
in every street, whether inhabited
by the very rich or the very poor
was visited by a member Of the
Union, who instructed the women
how to use their vote. So conscien.
tious is the new electorate about
getting out their vote that women
who have been bed-ridden for years
are taken to the polls in wheeled
chairs, and no one Is considered Ill
enough without a doctors certificate
to be allowed to be u Stacker.
Between elections this organiza-
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All LhSiL Va oilo auo oDiAiIy
That the Polish women have had
the heart and energy to organize
and accomplish anything is most
surprising in the face Of all the
facts. For $50 years three great
countries did everything In their
power to ruin these people for the
task of self-government. Her pres
ent condition is the direct result OF
the decision by those three antag.
onistic influences. with a single OBJ
jective; to use Poland for their own
ends. She has been set aside from
the normal course Of progress. Her
national development has been re-
tarded, her resources left undevel-
oped. her ambitions thwarted.
Since 1914 numerous armies have
! swept across her territory. The
Russians, the Prussians. the Aus
trians., the Bolsheviks, and finally
the Polish army itself. For the
armistice left the Poles with five
different wars on their hands-a
war on every frontier.
Polish Spirit Never
Wholly Subdued.
More than that-if the Poles have
not been thoroughly disillusioned
by what they believe were the
broken promises of the representa-.
tiyes of the great powers, 1t Is be-
cause they have a spirit that mey
he dimmed, but never wholly sub
dued.
No matter what a persons opin.
ion may be as to the relative rights
of Poland and Germany, one must
harbor a certain sympathy for the
Poles in the throes Of their national
rebirth and their disappointing am
billions. Following the raising Of
their hopes by the Fourteen Points.
came the prospects held out to them
by the Peace Conference and never
redeemed. Dancing having been al
most within their grasp. Is now,
they win tell you. camouflaged as
"free"-but, in reality, in the con-
troll of Germany.
The Duchy of Teschen in Austrian
Silesia, which in spite Of its small
size "a extremely valuable because
of its coal and manufacturing in
dustries, was long a bone of con-
tention between Poland and Czecho-
slovaiia. The Poles say that when
Teschen was in their possession the
Czechs attacked them and the Poles
were requested by the allies not to
fight back. They didn't. and then
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LEONARD v. SEIB,
District Fire Marshal.

to the Commissioners by the fire de-
partment.
AS a result the fire damage in
Washington last year was $919,9s2.
This was $4,000 more than the pre-
vious year, the increase being due
to fires in the federal buildings,
principally the big fires in the De-
partment of Commerce. Walter Reed
Hospital and the $4,000 fire at Boil.
ing Field.
Not only has the method Of fire.
fighting changed, but the mode OF
selecting men has also changed. In
years past, all one needed to enter,
the fire department was an molina.
ton and good health Nov the DE-
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place. and where the constantly In
creasing stream Of civilian refugees
Is becoming q great problem.
Returning from their temporary
home In Russia the Polish refugees
bring appalling accounts of the
famine. For two years back, they
say, the crops have failed. and this
year there is nothing to harvest.
Fifty thousand Of these destitute
people went through Baranowice
camp during July. They are fed.
disinfected, and provided with free
tickets to a point on the railroad
nearest their old homes. In the
woods and fields near the camp are
wooden huts which accommodate
about 1000. but recently, as the
numbers Of refugees increased. there
have been sometimes as many az
10000 homeless people seeking shell
ter in and about the camp.
$4,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
STILL ARE IN POLAND.
Under such circumstances the
feeding. delousing and disinfecting
facilities have been strained to the
breaking point. Not more than .
month ago. under an unforeseen
pressure Of numbers, about 5000
refugees moved over the Polish Dor.
der without being disinfected. This
influx Of misery on her frontiers IL
a serious menace to Poland. Her
own crops have been below normal
this year on account Of the drought
and can she allow her land to bs
overrun by the famished hordes
from Russia? Famine and pestilence
walk hand in hand. and one Of her
most serious problems IL to prevent
the spread of typhus and other dis
eases Of refugees.
Among the swamps and pine
woods Of the Brest-Litovsk region
is an advance station of the Quaker
Relief work. Here are two women
workers who cooperate with the
American Relief Administration.
and who have under their care al
most twenty villages. They provide
food for the undernourished chill.
dren and supply the returning
homeseekers with tools and seeds
at a low price. The Polish govern
ment gives a grant Of standing tim.
Der to each family with which to
build home, and gradually.
throughout this zone Of Quaker re-
lief work. little houses are going up
and land being brought under cult.
walton. and conditions generally i'm
proving.
On the other hand, one Of the
sights of Warsaw is the feeding
station of the Russian Relief. where
the many destitute Russian refu,'
gees are given their one meal
day. ..f. .--..#
In this fascinating setting of
color and dirt and the drama of an
ancient people stands the Ameri-
can legation.
BLUE PALACE" IS HOME
OF THE LEGATION.
'The Blue Palace" as the home
Of the legation Is called. Is rich in
an atmosphere Of past history an
culture. Since 1919 history Of
greater import has been making be
meath its roof. Here. as doyen OF
the diplomatic corps. Hugh Glib.
son works early and late. Repre-.
sentatives Of all countries and
classes gather around the legation
table, and many a misunderstood.
ing is averted by the opportunity
given to each and all to discuss
complicated matters in an informal
way. The United States is happy
in having at this time such a man
as minister to Poland. He is
brilliant, tactful, and democratic.
The Poles realize their good fortune
and show their appreciation In
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GEORGE 8. WATSON,
Chief Engineer, D. O. r. D.

in the city. Even the Chief was q
bit particular about his horse and
II he thought some Of the engine
companies had better looking horse
than he, the horse was Immediately
taken over by the Chief.
But things have changed. Even
the older men Of the department
hate to see horses come around when
the motor apparatus breaks down
and they are forced to use the horses
while II is repaired. The horses
breed flies they say and are a great
deal Of trouble to take care OF. These
same men would drop their hose at
a fire and fight ten years ago II a
member OF another company said
his horses were better.
Now two engine companies ana
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Of hose and start for the burning
building, our minds were about
made up that the life Of q fireman
was about the best thing that we
could wish for.
Firemen's Sole Thrill
Mingling With Chorus.
Now the only thing left is the uni.
form, and when tiny do away with
the old type fire hat with the long
brim in the back, even then a dis
tinctive uniform will have about left
us. Now the only thrill that Ia left
in the fire department is when the
firemen are assigned to theater
duty and can walk back or the
stage and mingle wItn the actors
and actresses, just like they were
members Of the theatrical profes.
sion.
The chances OF rescuing women
and children from burning buildings
with the aid OF scaling ladders under
the present fire regulations 10 lust
about the same as being President!
In the good old days when the
horses were the pride Of the depart
mont and each engine house We'd
with other In having the bsst horses
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WOMEN i'm DIET HAVE
PROMINENT PART I'm
MAKING NEW LAWS

COmpactly Organized Feminine Portion of the
Voting Population Are Decisive Factors i'm
S0lidifying National Sentiment and Are Slow
ly Bringing Order Out of Most Chaotic C0ndi-
tionS i'm Europe Just Now.
BY Mrs. j. Borden Hartman.
this medieval and almost oriental country there
many women who organized and doing excellent
work.
To Americans who think about Poland at all she is a
small nation with most romantic history to whom in
her distress America has sent relief of kinds
But how many have realized that her eminent
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
ARKANSAS TROOPS
TO QUELL FEUD

Pine Bluff. Ark, Jan. "a detach-
mcnt of the Pine Bluff Machine gun
company has been despatched to the
scene of n reported outbreak resulting
from a fcud among white residents at
kingsland, Ark, q small hill town 32
miles southwest of here. In street
fight two men are said to have been
seriously injured.
According to telephone reports. lead
ers of the opposing factions met on n
street today and engaged in n fight in
which George Brandon, So years old,
was shot in the leg and d. X. Led
betters throat was cut
Tho trouble Is reported to have start
cd when Brandon came to town de-
mandins to know why his two sons
had been detained by authorities. Act
ing Mayor T. L.. Moseley, according TO
the information. said the youths were
held after being accused of setting fire
to u residence.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
SAYS BIG NAVY PLAN
IS UNS0UND POLICY

London Eng. Jan. 9.-Niscount
Rothermere, former secretary of state
for the air forces in an article To-Day
in the Sunday Pictorial headed tho
foI,v OF the big battleship" submits a
startling contention challenging the
traditional basis of the British naval
policy. The doctrine, he propounds is
that it is no longer possible for ma
ton to possess command of the seas.
He condemns British participation in
big battlcship rivalry with the United
States and Japan, because they OBJ
viously are building against each
other and not against us Ho urges
Great Britain cannot afford to spend
any money on naval construction at
present Furthermore he declared.
'if the United States and Japan presist
in pursuing antiquatcd forms of war
fare that is no proof the capital snip
will survive" and concludes that
no nation henceforth, will enjoy naval
supremacy.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL
.BE GIVEN OUT AT DENVER TODAY

w. y. Gordon. Powers county, or DR..
Paul &. Godsmau of Burlington
elections. Louis J. Carter. Gilpin coun-
ty; enrolment. William D. McGinnis,
wray: printing. Morris A.. Penter.
Pueblo. roads and bridges. C. IL.
Bond, Larimer county. education,
Mabel Ruth Baker. Denver: temper
ancc. John C. Nrooman, Manzanola; I;
medical affairs and public health, Dr.
Minnie C. T. Love, Denver; military.
Bert NJ. Lake. Denver.
Craftsmanship appointments are
yet to be on three committees in the
senate. These and possible appoint
ccs are: Finance committee, l.. A.
Puffer, El Paso county; judiciary,
Golding Fairfield. Denver. or w. C..
Peterson. of Pueblo; education. w. w.
Booth of Denver.
Many members of both houses who
live within easy railroad distances OF
Denver went home for the week end.
Others were busy formulating bills
which they nls.n ia introduce,
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10

Denver. Jan. a.-Final announce
ment of the alignment of permanent
committees oY the stwenty-third gen
cral assembly will be made at Mon
days session. Speaker Roy \. Davis
of Colorado Springs announced today.
The speaker was besieged in his office
at the state house today by numbers
of aspiran. /. for positions on "A num-
ber of committees and chairmanships.
Mr. Davis is the first speaker to
have the duty of parceling out tho
limited number of chairmanships
among such "A majority group of party
members. He declared he had re-
|ceived thirty applications for one
|chairmanship alone. 1t appeared GER
tain today Representative a. Nj.
Wilson of FL Paso county will be tho
chairman of the appi opriations COM
imittee Representative Wilson held
this berth in the twenty-second gem
.crai assembly. Other appointments
considered probable at the state house
today include: Judiciary committee.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
CHAIRMAN HILL DECLARES THAT
STATE DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS
LACK COHESION TO THE PARTY
Says Democratic Party Cannot Garry an Election Until
1tRevises the Present List
Of Officials

worked for the nomination OF Repub-
lican candidates, with the result that
the interest of our candidates, VINO
had been regularly nominated at the
county assembly, were neglected and
those placeu on the ticket by petition
by the farmer and labor organizations
were nominated"
Chairman Hill also says that one of
the Democratic faults is the fact that
nearly every official of the party in
Denver wants pay for his services TO
the party. On this he says:
Another matter which has become
a custom in certain parts of the state,
principally in Denver, is the theory
that anyone rendering services to the
party should be paid for them and that
every precinct committeeman and wo-
man, should receive certain amount
of compensation for services rendered,
otherwise they should not he expected
to do anything. A political party is
composed of the electors who believe in
certain principles enunciated in Its
platform, which they are supposed to
advocate, and desire to see carried in
to effect, thru the officials elected by
that party. a party Is no better than
the electors who constitute 1t. They
should all have a certain interest In
1t. and consider it an honor to serve
in these various positions and to rem
der a certain amount of services gra-
tuitously as we'll as contribute in aid
OF its cause. My opinion is that the
person. be he district or precinct COM
mitteeman. woman or otherwise. who
feels that he must be paid for all SER
vices performed for his party. has but
little influence with the electors. that
in many instances considerable money
thus spent is thrown away. and the
sooner that democracy gets away from
the ideas that everyone must receive
compensation. for all services per
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10

Washington. ID. C.. Jan. o.-Thc
system of rehabilitatinE disabled war
Veterans is denounced by the Amcri-
can Legion as failure which should
pc remedicd by consolidating under
single head the three government
agencies engaged in that work. This
charge and the remedial suggestion
would be presented by the legion to-
morrow to President Wilson, Prcsi-
dent-clcct Harding and to every mem-
Der OF congress in "A memorial direct
ing attention to the suffering, shame
full neglect and injustice" which the
legion asserts marks administration OF
the affairs of the war veterans.
Colonel w. f. Galbraith Jr., ma
tional commander, will personally de-
liver n copy to Senator Harding at
Marion. Ohio. The legion asserts
that the function OF three agencies
which deal with soldiers, the bureau
of war risk insurance. the federal
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
BROKER, NAMED BY PARTNER M
CLAIMED DEFAULT, FOUND DEAD

house. HouEh surrendered to the Of
fcers late today and Is held in Jail,
not having furnished bond OF $4,000.
A warrant was isSied for Milholland.
the other partner. by the prosecuting
attorney tonight after hearing Hough's
story. 1t was announced.
Hough. the police said. told them he
and Milholland had agreed to kill
themselves last night. but after he
had consulted an attorney and been
informed his best course was to con-
fess the matter their plan was
abandoned.
According to the alleged statement
tho firm obtained $3l5.oOO from Gala
han by giving him forged bonds in
stead of genuine. And the remainder
by using "A cash fund with which he
entrusted them. The alleged forgery
was concealed by payment of interest
on the bonds by himself and Milhol-
land. Hough Is quoted as saying.
Hough is said to have declared the
proceeds of the affair were used ia
spcculation
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
0CALLACHAN, LORD MAYOR OF
CORK, ARRIVES IN new YORK

New York. Jan. 9.-Danic1 O'Calla-
CHAN. lord mayor of Cork. Ireland. on
his arrival today was greeted by
crowds of Irish Republic" SYM
pathizers. Accompanying him was
Peter MacSwiney, brother of Cork's
late lord mayor. Harry Boland. sec
rctary to Eamonn Dc Valera and act
ing Mayor Cannon and Deputy Mayor
Malone of Jersey City.
During the trip to his hotel O'Cal-
laghan's automobile was found by n
procession that waved Sim Fcin and
American flags.
Crowds gathered before the hotel
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-10
LEGION DEN0UNCES PRESENT PLAN
OF CARING FOR EX-SERVlCE men.

board for vocational education and the
United States public health service
must be co-ordina;cd. their mach(n-
cry decentralized and all three placed
under common control.
ITO do this" the memorial says,
there must be a new law. which
shall place the unified organization
under q single administrative head
For this new organization the legion
asks an appropriation sufficient to
buy. build equip and enlarge hospitals.
Bills providing for this have been in
troduced in congress.
The memorial asserts that the
United States has been more liberal
than any other nation to disabled
soldiers. but it has failed in large
measure to make its provisions avail
able. This is attributed to an ''as-
tonishing state of divided rcspon-
sibility and wasted effort among the
government agencies"