PERSHING REVIEWS A. E. F. IN FRANCE FOR LAST TIME
t !:: ! review of American ox I unary forces in France at \ mcemie.
AVullaee watching the troops march past.
ami General Pershing and Ambassador
WORLD’S TENNIS STARS PLAYING AT BOSTON
Ilr«i«'!.s and l’atterson (Australians) in th«» foreground in 1111 exciting set of doubles against Johnson ami (jriffen at
tin* com; s of the Cricket elul>, Boston, in one of the series /if elimination matches preliminary to the great champion*
ship games- at Forest Mills, I,. 1.
WINNER OF SUB-CHASER OCEAN RACE
Western Newip«p«r I'nlon
AI»'Vi is S(’-K;i, wimiei ot tlu- taro of suh-chs'.sers from Bermuda to Now
York and below »'nj>t. ('Imrles Courtney of the destroyer lot, whicli mot th
raoois. ;s soon congratulating <’apt. Alfred K. Loomis on It's victory. The
contest;.!!!s were all retail..ng from duly in Kumpean waters.
MOST REMARKABLE SHIP LAUNCHING
The Luke Fugard, :tn emergency tt>« >rssel hutmhcd at Buffalo, tipped to
extraordinary angle of 78.8 degrees t vl in seven seconds righted herself,
ship usually capsizes tf p Ups to nn angle of 00 degrees. The Lake l ugard
^va* launched whit engines and everything else Installed and steam up.
KING SWOPE OF KENTUCKY
King Swope, twenty-eight-year-old j
discharged soldier who swept th«
Doniocratlc Eighth Kentucky district
into the Republican column for th€ j
first time It has boon done In 23 yenrs,
received a big ovation when he wns In
ducted Into the house. The main
platform In his campaign was oppo
si lion to the League of Nations. He
succeeds the late Ilarvey Helm.
Our Reserve of Ordnance.
If the war had lasted into this yenr,'
as was expected, ordnance for out
army would have been pouring Into
France on an enormous scale, says
’.lie .Scientific American. For the war ]
department had $14,0<X),(X)0.000 worth
uf orders for ordnance on Its books, of
which nbout half hnd been virtually
completed when the armistice was
signed. It was enormously costly
work, but It has left us with a mag
nificent reserve of ordnance os a safe
guard for the future.
Not Looking for Novelties.
“Did you get uny new ideas from
ihe delegation that called on you?"
“1 wasn't exactly looking for new
ideas,” admitted Senator Sorghum.
"What I’m hoping to do Just now Is
to get some of those old ideas that
gave pretty good service back Into
| working order.”
Most Austrians Suffer From Rav
ages of the Many Wartime
Maladies.
CHILDREN ARE EMACIATED
Scrawny, Limp, Listless From Malnu
trition and Seldom Smile or Play
—American Red Cross Is
Helping.
London. Dr. Ethel Williams, a New
castle doctor of ::<» years' experience,
recently Inis returned to England front
Vienna. Site attended the Woman s
International conference at Zurich,
where she heard so much nbom the
conditions of disease in Austria that
she decided to see for herself what
those conditions really were. She
spent a week lit Vienna, visiting the
hospitals and the school kitchens,
studying medbnl statistics, interview
ing representative people, and seeing
as mii' h as slie could of the city.
Speak iny; to a Manchester Guardi an
representative, she 'aid :
“What Impressed me most was the
appalling condition of every otd per
son I saw, and of ft," per cent i f the
children. The old people were like
walking death's heads. There are so
many things that persons over sixty
cannot diges'L The mortality among
the oh? has increased !>y I"'* per cent.
“What struck me most when w dk
ing abont the streets was 'lint there
wore no toddlers. Children ■ t three
and even four years wore t-arried hv
their mothers. Tin- children did not
run about, or snout, or quarrel. It
was four days before 1 saw a (mild i
playing.
Most Children Emaciated.
At least 05 per lent of the practical- ;
Iv well children were painfully emaci
ated. with discolored circles around
their sunken eyes and the tendons of
their necks showing like those of old
people. Even middle class children
have these scrawny necks, and when
they run their cheeks flap like those
of old people. Rut they seldom run.
They are all limp and listless.
“The scene in the out-patients’ de
partment at the biggest state chil
dren's hospital was pitiful no sound
or attempt to play. The children sat
quietly on their mothers' knees or
against a wall.
"I saw several eases of osteo-tnaln
ehia, a disease so rare before the war
that the only two cases I had ever
seen had been shown to me as a curi
osity. It seems to come from lack of
fresh food, and there have been- 250
cases in Vienna, and 1 heard of an
other epidemic in a German town.
“The holies soften and become dis
torted, the pelvis hones fold inward.
In early stages it is curable, hut a bad
case never will walk again, and n
rather had case always will have ditii
culty in walking.
“The cases were those of older chil
dren and adults. They told me that
the hospitals were receiving about 15
| ruses n day. and those they had flt
; turn away inevitably must heroin*
worse. 1 used t<> te*t the condition <>.
the children I saw by feeling their
fi.-shless arnH. When- I touehed one
,/iild the father said: 'i'eu’t touch
him. lie has this had new disease, and
! it hin ts him so much.’ I realized . at
I h id hurt him hut the child was t 1o
listless to shrink from the pain.
•■The d .’tors could do practically
not in .au' for the out-patients who could
not lie taken to the hospitals-. The
mothers were in despair. 1 he doctors
said the greatest want of all was for
cod .:\rr oil. Funds raised in England
had sent a supply, 'nit it only lasted
two day. Practically every child u
dor two is rickety.
Suffer From Starvation.
‘T; is . ttraordinary how little Vien
na lias suffered from war epidemics
sin'll ns typhus. The enormous increase
in sickness i< due to starvation disease.
Almost all of rf« ihild population is
Stunted, siarved, left without vitality,
vigor or energy An enormous num
ber are tuhereutnr and a coustderahie
proportion • f these will die. Anotiier
considerable proportion will for all
their In s probably tie stunted in mind
and body, and all will he handicapped.”
The children of school age provided
with one meal'of si-*ip and bread In the
day by American lie*! Cross workers at
a sp. eiai kitchen site visited were
watched lost they should take the bread
home. "You must oar the bread," the
workers told them. "All that wc can do
NEW COMMERCE CHIEF
Philip IS. Kennedy, newly apiiomu’tl
cliief of I lie bureau <«f foreign und ifce
mestie commeree. says that truth* re*,
toratien lit Kwmpe, Including that n
enemy countries, i» dependent upo*
the return to work of the d iff omit
peoples.
is t help jwto twp well uml strong.*
The American ISe<l Cross is opening
more of tle-e kitchens, and hope* to
ft * il t.rt.ooo t>r more children, hut that
only nouns food for one section of fh»
people, the children of'si hool use—nut
even then only:one tnetrl in the day:
FIRES
Shortage Makes Forest Fire
Situation in the North
west Desperate.
FEARLESS MALES SOUGHT
Husky Man Who Is Willing to Work
Looks iOod as Million Dollars to
Officials of United States
Forestry Service.
Spokane, Wash.—fine of the biggest
"industries" of the northwest this .sum
mer is the fighting of forest fires.
A good, husky man, with two strong
arms and a- wilUn'feiurss to work, looks
as good as a million dollars to the of
ficials of the Cnitiei States forestry
service, and tile bin lumber concerns,
who are losing vast values in timber.
There is a famine in men. That Is
the great reason fires, started by care
less campers or lightning storms, have
been aide to spread over many miles
of America's richest lumber lands and
cause damage that will not be replaced
fur a generation.
One large fire in the Ibirk river dis
trict, northern Idaho, burst entirely
beyond control and spiN^d over forty*
five square miles of territory wltlmitt
showing th*' I (‘list signs of dying down.
Men to fight it were few ami fa: it#*
! tween.
War Against Flame*.
In St>oknne ns well ns the const
cities the forest service in waging r#*
cntitin;; campaigns similar to thos#
carried on during (lie war. It is a
war against tlntm-s almost us destrue*
five to America as the flames that
broke out in Europe.
Lumberjacks, those blg-sbonblfcr*d
veterans of tin* forest life, make th#
finest fire fighter*. This summer they
have hud little chance to engftge it»
1 their regular work of cutting tiiulteii
and have bent all their efforts to *«#
Ing the forests that house the tuition.
The forest service maintain* a cease
less lookout. As soon ns smoke is dl**
' cerneil the news j> hashed to Iteaifc*
quarters; a'crew is hastily recruited
and equifqted. ami soot into the horns
4 ing men with full supplies of f»«4k
i tools and bedding.
* But they have little* oh unco to us#
the bedding, l-’ire fighting i&- an nil*
- night nil-day job.
How Fire is Beaten.
The only sure* ssful method of stop
ping h lire is to get in front, of it*
clear a wide trail, and widen* it by
backfiring.
A slight change of wind will moke
the hack lire orns,. tho- trail amt en
danger lint workers’ lives.
Blazing trees frequently fall with
the wind, across »hn trail, atui undo
the work of n day.
One result < f tin- epidemic of fires
ill the present summer will be- » v'-‘
[ orous effort, on the part of lotttber
companies and forestry tn«a alike, to
secure from congress a greater ap
propriation for the forest service thntV
ever Indore. America's forests nre n >
longer so numerous and well-grown
tlmt th ■ trees can be sacrificed wlih
I out mtl'ional sutTering.
Bells for City Dogs.
Asheville, N. <As unreasonable n»
I It sounds the city authorities have an
tiouneed that every •-.mine resident
of litis city must wear a bell durins
the next year, aud t*> prove their ear
nestness they have purchased a ltt
supply nf the necessary ornaments for
distribution mumi^ the owners of doR*
| hett*.
PERSHING QUALIFIES AS A MARKSMAN
■ — •- *
General I’ershing, on a visit to the great rifle range at Ge Mans, France,
demonstrated to the onlookers how he handled u ritlu In his frontier days.
USE TACTICS OF QUAIL
How Villa and His Men Foil j
Pursuit.
Bandits Scatter and Hide as Federats
Appear—Brown Uniforms
Aid.
j Jnarez, Mex. — Francisco Villa’s
method of evading pursuit by M<
cun government troops Is almost idon
j ileal with that used by n covey or
quail to escape the hunter. Even the
detail of protective coloring has been
applied by Villa, for bis men always
wear brown cotton clothing which
blends with the desert landscape and
dust clouds through which they travel
In campaign.
Hunters know that the quail’s In
stlnct directs It to scatter when dan
ger approaches and seek cover In the
nonr-by landscape. Villa and h!» reb
el hands do the same thing when a
superior federal column approaches.
Often Villa’s hand will number H.uot)
men under his chiefs, Angeles, Lope*,
l>lnz and Garcia. They make a col
umn which coils across the plains like
a giant snake and leaves a great dust
cloud In its wake.
l’ut let General Castro's government
troops approach with artillery, ma
chine guns and cavalry mounted on
former Anterior army horses and the
column will break up Into little bands
of 100 under petty chiefs, will disap
pear In some mountain canyons and
go Into hiding until the federals pass.
Once the danger of attack Is over tlie
column reassembles, occupies some
town In Its path and again dlsapuears
with 'ts loot.
Villa’s men have been known to
hitch their horses to plows In the
| tic Ids of the Irrigated districts uud he
1 irdustrtouttf plowing when the fed
<f#al scouts appeared. They have
learned various tricks of deception
during the years of evading the fed
erals, and even drive a herd of burros
with them so they may transform
themselves into wood venders on oc*
cnslon.
ANTHRACITE PRODUCTION UP
Shipments Show Hundreds of Thou*
_ands of Tons Over Latost Nor
mal Production.
Philadelphia.— Shipments of anthra*
elte for July as reported to the anthra
: elte bureau of Information aggregated
0,082,334 tons, an Increase over June
of 432,743 tons.
Compared with July. 101b, the latest
normal year In anthracite production,
the shipments last month showed an In
crease of 010,450 Ions.
The shipments for the first our
months of the coal year, beginning
April 1, amounted to 22,008,555 tons, as
compared with 21,140,536 tons for the
' cor 'pspondlng period In 1010, an in*
I crease of nearly l.bOO.OQQ towt