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How It Looks Now in France tnlle<l girl« mid black-smocked boys dcclnlndng the fuct that the Amazon I m n river In I’Amerique dll Hud or that Ceylon la an Island where the leu cornea from. School In a Barracka. Laboring with them patiently, hie brow furrowed by Ida aenao of the time that haa been lost, you ace a Th« Soldier Who Go«« Beck to HI« fatherly young Frenchman. Perhaps he win a corporal at Verdun when the Dugout in th* Wood« 1« Likely to urmlatlce wua signed. Find That Only the Raine A n the American in France we« all Have Reehaped It. There Is Not Much Change Ex cept in the Spaces Between the Villages. SHOWS HAVOC UNDISTURBED New York.—To any American com ing buck from Franco thsee days, the first greeting from u quondam mem ber of the A. E. F. 1« always thia: "Well, how's it look over there? Changed much?" To which, after some futile short lived notion of describing the great mutilated stretch of France, with Its million discouragement« and Its thou sand and one evidence« ut renewing life, the returning wanderer must needs answer; "No, not much." For Hie Impression that the old bat tlefield« make Is of havoc undisturbed, purubal« uncured, Alexander Wooll- cott writes In the ¿forth American lieview. The soldier who goes back to id« old dugout In the woods near Grand Pre Is likely to find that only the steady ruin« have resiutped It, that the old helmet the shell hit blew from his head still Iles where It fell two years ago and more. The villages of the Meuse, the Ourcq, Hie VeMe and the Aisne look much as they did when the American troops trudged out of them for the last time. It 1» true Hint the rubble Is gone from the streets, nnd the litter of stone Ims been re duced to neat plies of assorted pieces. Here nnd there a rough new cottage has been fashioned from Hie materials of Its demolished predeceswor. At In tervals there are unfamiliar shacks and barracks. But on the whole, Mont- faucon and Ferv-en-Tardenois nnd Ju vigny—they all look much as they did when the Yanks started home. Vaux that little Marne village which the ar tillery behind the ninth Infantry blew to bits In Hie excitement of June. 1018 —Vaux has only one new: building. It Is not much of a building nt that— Just n shack of wood and tarpaper. And It Is not a dwelling al all. It Is a buvette. Whir« Improvements Are Seen. It is In the spaces between the vil lages that the change Is so remark able. You sec It even in tiie rolling land of Hie Argonne und the blasted countryside of the Chemin-des-Dameu. For almost everywhere some tilling ha» been done. Visitors to the American graves near Juvigny In the spring of 19111 marveled to find that the old quarries along the ravine on the side of the town, which had once served as divisional headquarters, message centers and dugouts In time of battle, were then serving as homes for the llrst six of the returning families, so that children were playing with Hie useless gas masks out In front while Spartan perce-nelges bloomed at cave en trances and the week's wash Hupped in the wind. Now another winter nnd another summer have gone by. The fields near by have been largely cleared of their wire and shells and have yielded some food and a little income to Juvigny. Perhaps 200 people are buck in the town. It Is because of this scantiness of reconstruction as far us home build ing goes that, ns .you walk along a ruined street, Juvigny seem« a de serted city. But It Is hardly that ami you realize as much with something of a thrill when in a clearing amid the rubble, you come upon a burrack ami catch through the windows the unmistakable drone of childish voices. It Is a school and a glance through the window shows row on row of pig- the prepowterous havoc auu o>>n... « .o In force, he find* himself thinking of pleuxant suburbs back In America, comfortable, well fed America, of tidy lawn* ami children romping off to school, of country clubs end- poker gainea and silk «tocking« ami squrn- dered wealth. And of people who any: "Oh, forget about the war." And he begin« to feel a certain tingling re sentment at America. But then the train wheeze« Into 1‘nrl« and Ilia taxi whirl» him away to boulevarda all gay with bustling peo- pie and restaurant« with groaning ta- idea and such food ami drink an only the Old World knows. He sees luxury ami ease and extravagance on every aide and he realizes then that nil the selfishne«« and forgetfulness In the world 1« not American. Uncle Sam’s Oil Refinery at Arlington SHELLED BY ACCIDENT Sobs as He Tells of Son Taking Fortune Montreal, Que.—A tragic story of. a father's misplaced confi dence which enabled tils non to wreck the family fortune during hl« absence abroad was bared on the witness stand before Justice Mclennan in Superior court by C. H. Caban, K. C., one of Canada's most distinguished lawyers. 'Hie witness burst Into tears when he told liow be had con ferred power of attorney on bls son, C. H. Cuban, Jr., trusting him absolutely to carry on his affairs while on a European trip, and returning home only to dis cover that he had been betrayed; that his son had absconded and the family fortune bad been wiped out. The remarkable case was re vealed through a suit brought by the Corporation Agencies, Limit ed, against the Home Bank of Canada to recover $200,028, Hie alleged defalcations of the son. The legal issue rests on whether the bank can be held to make good the amount. The government operates a complete refinery at the experiment farm of the United States Department of Ag riculture. Arlington. The equipment was designed by the bureau of public roads for studying methods of treatnent and chnracterlHtlcs of crude petroleum used In building and maintaining highways. The oil« from the wells 13 California, Texas and Mexico, are analyzed with the view of determining their relative road-building values. Strange Malady Sweeping Haiti Doctors Unable to Discover the Source of Most Baffling and Fatal of Diseases. During the spectacular tire on an ammunition barge at Fort Hamilton, a 10-lnch shell crashed through the wall of a house a mile away and Ailment That Kills 20,000 Natives plunged down to the cellar. Fortu Every Year Starts in the Feet nately the family were all out watch and Spread« Upward, th« ing the Ore. Body Becoming Swollen. WHITE POPULATION IMMUNE Use of Forests Is Increasing in U. S. National Reserves Becoming Rec reation Grounds for Campers and Summer Residents. MANY HOMES BEING BUILT Income Promisee to Be Important Source of Revenue to th« United State«—Specially Trained Men Needed In Service. Washington.—That the use of the national forests for recreational pur poses Is Increasing rapidly and blds fair to rank third among the major services performed by the national forests, with only timber production nnd stream flow regulation taking pre cedence over It, la the statement mnde by Col. W. B. Greeley, head of the for- est service, in Ids annual report. Many Summer homes are being erected In the national forests by private Indi viduals, and the use of forests for other forms of out-of-door recreation was greater during the past year than ever before. The summer home business promises to become nn Important source of rev enue, Col. Greeley points out. On the Angeles forest in southern California, for example, a total of 1,320 permits for summer residences nnd commercial resorts were, he says. In effect at the close of the past fiscal year. The revenue from this one Item amounted to approximately $22,000. It Is be lieved Hint within a few years the rev enues obtained from the various rec- America Decorates French Heroes American ambassador Hugh Campbell Wallace, in the name of the United States government, presenting distinguished services nnd nnvy crosses to about one hundred officers of the French army and navy. The presenta tion was made in the gardens of the American embassy in Paris. reational settlements within the An geles forest will pay the entire cost of protection and administration. Many western communities are rec ognizing the recreational resources of nearby national forests as one of their greatest assets nnd privileges, Col. Greeley says, and are establishing com munity camps under more or less for mal organization. No Charge to Public. The picnic camps are improved hy the construction of fireplaces, rustic tables and seats, nnd nre made avail able to the public without nny charge. The vacation camps under municipal direction chnrge merely the expense of feeding and caring for the succes sive groups of city people who enjoy their privileges. The growth of the recreational re sources of the national forests is so rapid that jipecially trained men nre needed to direct and plan for the most effective development of this service, Col. Greeley says. The protection of wild life nnd the recognition of the nntlonnl forests ns nnturnl breeding grounds of fish nnd game is closely related to the develop ment of the recreational resources. To mnke more effective the work of game protection, in co-operation with the state and local authorities, nnd to se cure better development of the fish nnd game resources of the national forests, fol. Greeley believes that con gress should mnke provision for the establishment of game sanctuaries within which wild life may find se curity. These sanctuaries, he says, should be relatively limited In nren, but should be established In consider able number. Elks Suffer Hardships. Special attention is called by Col. Greeley to the necessity of additional protection for the harassed and deci mated herds of elk using the Yellow stone Nntlonnl pnrk nnd the surround ing forests. Famine nnd cold last winter took nn unusually heavy toll from their number. Driven out of the ' high country by starvation and early snows, the northern herd suffered from hunters nlong the boundary line n percentage loss equal to that of a defeated army. Many tbnt escaped the hunters per ished from cold and starvation before spring. The southern herd also lost heavily. As n result, the total number of animnls In these two herds Is now estimateli by the best qualified officers In the forest service to eqnnl half of their number five years ngo. The nddition to the Absaroka nnd Gallatin forests of the lands still in government ownership nnd under with drawal nlong the Yellowstone river nortli of Gardiner Is urged by the chief forester. This land, he states. Is urgently needed hs winter range for the elk, nnd Its nddition to the nation- nl forests will materially relieve the situation without working nn Injus tice to the local inhnbltnnts whose live stock use the range. If this no tion is not taken the outlook for the northern elk herd Is gloomy. The prospects for the southern herd nre more bright, but ndditionnl purchase of land for summer feeding grounds appear^ absolutely essential. | | Man Keeps Green Prospective Grave t New Carlisle, Pa.—There’s a • newly-made grave In New Car- • lisle cemetery. ----------- «-------------------------- | No mourners with bowed I heads stood by when it was then, without warning, fall in a faint | made. No minister said “earth and gradually expire. Though the grouping of Haitian ne ♦ to, earth and dust to dust.” No groes In prisons called Doctor Mann's I flowers bedecked the casket. But the man who will rest in attention to the disease, he is reason ’ ably certain that it is not due to con I the grave some day carefully finement, as in some prisons the mal | heaped up the little mound and ady Is entirely absent. Before the ad I as carefully placed the little vent of Americans In Haiti the pris ? squares of sod in place. The ons were quagmires where prisoners * grave is empty—waiting until were thrown to subsist on food smug | death lays its hand on the man gled in by relatives or starve. Today, ♦ who prepared it. t J. Herwert Day, 50 years old, under American supervision, the pris f well known citizen and music ons are models of cleanliness, but sani tation has not served to eradicate the । teacher, being the last member mysterious disease. Infection almost I of his family, ordered the care- has been eliminated by research as 1 taker to prepare the grave, con struct the stone vault for recelv- the cause. Imprisonment possibly aids the malady, but It Is not entirely ♦ ing the casket, place the broad responsible, as numerous natives who i stone over it and refill the grave, never saw a prison succumb. Re f This was done, after which Day search brought the possible cause to I himself heaped up “the little the question of faulty diet, especially ? mound of clay,” and placed Hie fn prisons. On this question Doctor 4 sod upon it Mann was noncommittal. As he ex pressed it: “The evidence accumulated up to the present date regarding diet as a factor Is conflicting and uncon ordinary Haitian diet. Experiments vincing. Diet may or may not be at to date have given no conclusive an fault, and I am not prepared to ex swer. The Institutional incidence of the press a definite opinion on this sub Haitian disease or its tendency to ap ject" pear In epidemic form and to affect Many Leads Developed. certain institutions, suggested the na Dr. Mann's researches have devel ture of an infective agent. At one oped many leads, but when one theory time the bedbug was under suspicion. seems to have given the greatest en Numerous blood cultures and cultures couragement it is destroyed. from autopsical finds, animal inocula Symptoms of the disease would seem tion and the like, have produced only to bring it nearer to beri-beri than any either negative or inconsistent results, other, and for the want of a better says the medical chief of the gendar name Doctor Mann has called it merie. psuedo beri-beri. Malady Decrease*. On the theory that prison diet brings On one occasion five hospital corps about a greater manifestation during incarceration of Haitians than else men from the gendarmerie (natives) where, the gendarmerie doctors, under volunteered to be bitten by bedbugs the direction of Doctor Mann, have which had been fed on patients with conducted extensive dietary experi the disease. One of these volunteers ments, The reports show that diet developed dropsy six weeks later, but variation lias produced no marked ben this dropsy was attributed to other eficial results either as a curative causes, and the experiment was re or preventive. This has destroyed a garded as negative. The prevalence of the malady has theory that war edema, prevalent fn prison camps, due to faulty nourish shown a progressive decrease during ment, has a relation to psuedo beri the last three months, but whether this is due to measures taken by Doc beri. As rice, the cause of true beri-beri, tor Munn and his staff can be deter is not used to any degree in the prison mined only after further study and food here, the American doctors have careful Investigation. The American endeavored to find a similar lack of naval surgeon explained that he is vitamins in cornmeal, a base of the careful not to accept false encourage ments because of the tendency of the disease to subside altogether in cer CHIMES FOR WASHINGTON tain institutions and then suddenly crop out anew with more serious re sults than ever. Col. Frederick M. Wise, United States marine corps, commanding the Gendarmerie d'Haiti, and Col. Johe Russell, commanding the First Marine brigade in Haiti, have shown great In terest in Doctor Mann’s fight to locate the cause and combat Haiti’s disease. They have given all possible assist ance and placed the entire line of re search unhampered under his direc tion. The beneficent and altruistic labor of Doctor Mann and his medical staff Is one of many compensating fac tors in what appears to be a muddled situation in Haiti today. Theirs is a work for humanity in the strictest sense. Undoubtedly the United States pub lic health service and the Rocke feller Institute would take a certain interest in the strange disease. Doc tor Mann hopes, however, with the co operation of such Institutions and with the utilization of such additional facil ities, that the results of sustained ef forts will serve to eradicate a scourge that kills such an appalling number of Haitians every year. So far as known, Haiti’s mysterious disease never, has affected a white man, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.—The Ameri can occupation of Haiti has served to direct medical research into one of the most battling and perhaps fatal mala dies known to modern medicine. Haiti Is a land of 2,000,000 people. The most conservative estimate, based on 12 months of historical research into Haiti’s mysterious disease, is that a million Haitians have suc cumbed to the malady in the last 50 years. Here where native productiv ity is truly synonymous with extrava gant tropical verdure, a death rate of 20,000 a year, or nearly 1,700 a month, has not served to worry the nationals. For the last five years American medical officers have noticed that lower caste Haitians, sent to prison, develop an alarming condition there and die at a rate of from 50 to 90 per cent of those affected. Only during the last 12 months have the causes and effects of these alarm ing deatiis been studied and recog nized as a separate disease. The dis covery was made a year ago by Dr. W. L. Mann, surgeon of the United States navy, a native of Austin, Tex., whose naval rank is that of lieutenant com mander, supervising the entire medi cal department of the American-con trolled Gendarmerie d’Haiti. Dr. Mann is a graduate of Harvard medical school, holder of several col lege degrees and has spent the major part of his time in tropical and sub tropical countries. His writings on preventive medicine and tropical dis ease and long experience equipped him to point out this mysterious disease soon after his arrival in Haiti. Cause Undetermined. Aided by the medical officers of the gendarmerie in an intensive re search, Dr. Mann told the New York’ Tribune correspondent here that nothing has developed which may defi nitely determine the cause of the dis ease, which if ascertained and meas ures taken to combat would result in the saving of possibly more than 20,- 000 lives annually. The disease has three manifesta tions. One of the most noi«.ole symp toms is swelling of certain parts of the body. The tlesh becomes water logged or “dropsical.” It usually be gins in the feet nnd spreads upward. Another form is the dry or emaci ated type. The patient shows marked emaciation and dwindles almost to skin nnd bones. Often dropsical chnnges to dry nnd vice versa. It Is 1 not unusual to see a patient almost n living skeleton, then develop n wet condition, nnd with the retention of fluid In the body gain 20 or 30 pounds In n few days and become so swollen , up that recognition of his features is difficult. One of the mysteries of the disease is that women seldom, if ever, con tract It. One medical officer In Hnlti 1ms observed more than 1,000 cases without finding a single case ninong females. At one time during Doctor Mann's investigations women were supposed to be entirely Immune. Finally three cases among women de veloped at the same dwelling place. This combination of circumstances suggested a disease of an Infectious nature. Disease Appear« Suddenly. installing bells In the tower of St. A third manifestation of the malady Mary's church. Washington, as a me is that which suggests plague. From morial to Rev. George Glatt The 5 to 25 per cent of the fatalities bells are connected with a large West take place in persons who do not minster clock so as to sound the hour complain of any symptoms. A per In chimes. They vary from two to son will appear in perfect health; five feet in size. Making World Safe for Democracy. Cincinnati.—Determined that the word “Mr.” shall have no place in or among gatherings of Rotarian*, Bob Chapman, president, 1* fining mem bers for using It, the line« going to charity.
