Need Hospitals
for Service Men
beds for general medical und surglcu
patients.
"in round numbers 10,000 beds ar*
urgently neede«!, of which the tx'ds for
tuberculoids und neuro-p«ychiatric pa
tlents ure of the greatest urgency
“At tin- estimated cost of $3.<XXJ per
Is-d, 10.000 b< ds urgently needed would
require un appropriation of $30,(*X),-
000.”
Navy Balloonist» Come Out of the Wilderness
Hie Soldier»’ Home at Johnson City,
Tenn. Of the number now In public
health service hospitals approximately
Midnight Fire Sweeps
0.251 nre not satisfactory, and should
tie replaced at the earliest practicable
Graves in City of Dead
date, because they are In flimsy and
Inflammable structures or in leased
Banta Barbara.—Midnight In
Institutions, etc.
n silent city «*< the dead is not
“For neuro-psychlatric patients there
exactly the expected place Tor a
are 2.500 beds in Institutions operated
fire, but a blaze which originat
A»k» $30,000,000 to Provide for 10,- by the public health service and 1,-
ed in the little chapel In the
200 Additional Bed»—Many Pa
OtXl beds In the .Soldiers’ Home nt Ma
Santa Maria cemetery swept
tient» Now Housed In Flimsy
rlon. Ind. Of the 2,500 beds of the
over numerous mounds, razing
public health service 475 are hi leastM
■nd Inflammable Structure».
wooden headpiecea and other
Institutions, and owing to the ch»rac-
wise doing considerable damago
Washington. — To properly bouse ter of the leases are not to be counted
to stone and marble inonumenta
and cure for the rapidly increasing upon In the permanent hospital pro-
nearby.
number of American «x-»oidiwr» who gram.
The cemetery chapel, valued
suffer from tuberculosis, mental dis
“For general medical nnd surgical
at $2.000, was totally destroyed.
eases and other afflictions, approxi patients there are 9,948 beds in Insti-
Hoboes sleeping in the cba|*el
mately $30.1X10.000 is needed Immedi lutlons either operated by or to be
are said to have been responsi
ately, according to u httler written to acqulrcd by the public health service,
ble.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona by Sur (if this number 4,621 are not satlsfac-
geon General 11. S. Cumming of the tory and should be replaced.
bureau of the public health service.
10,000 More Beds Needed.
Fit of Coughing Saves a Fit of Coffin.
At the present lime, the surgeon gen
Huntington. W. Va.—Five years »go
. um O£ h *OOÔ
“
After
careful
consldorathm
of
(1)
eral «lutes, sick and insane men whose
Carl Jacobs, while chewing a piece of
the
number
of
w^r
risk
Insurance
pa-
afflictions cun be charged to their
/,,,,,y,/r^^&^l^í'1
locust wood, “Inhale«!” a thorn which
service to their country, are increas tlenta In hospitals, (2) the present had come from the bark. Since then
wlBg
government hospital facilities, (3) the
. driven far into the Canadian wilds by a storm, are here seen with
ing nt the rule of about !,00U Pvr ।
ills health has been bad and he has
The three "lost” navy balloonists who were driven far into
month, and owing to Inadequate Iios- necessity of replacing some of the un- suffered violent pains In the chest. It
pltal accommodation», great numbers dvslnibh* hospitals, (D Ho- Increase Io was feared be ha«l tuberculosis. He’s their dog teams as they returned to Mattice, wt----------
Ilie number of war risk Insurance pa
to right Lieutenants Kloor, Hinton and Farrell.
of them are of ne<v»»lty being cared
recovering now following a fit of
cf
for In structures that nre described tients within the past twenty months coughing in which the thorn
ex-
and (5) the geographical distribution
ns “flimsy nnd Inflammable."
pelled.
To Deliver Newspaper
In his letter to Keuator Ashurst the of the ex-soldier population, it Is
found that there Is urgept need for
an ene-
surgeon general says:
The
common
king
snake
Is
at Man’s Tomb Each Day
“I wish to Invite your attention to 4,800 additional beds for tutxTculo- my of the rattlesnake and often
■Is patients. 4,500 additional beds for
Hie fnct Hint since June 2. 1920. the
The body of Sam Radges,
kills IL
date on which the France bill, ’to au Insane patients and 900 additional
business man of Topeka, Kan.,
thorize the secretary of the treasury
who died recently, has been
to provide medical, surgical nnd bos-
placed in a concrete vault which
pltnl services nnd supplies for dis
_ _____
«-
he erected blmself several years
charged soldiers, marines, army and
the most beautiful Moslem balldlngs
ago. An electric light, with
navy nurses, and for other purposes
Valuable Research Work Is extant. Is here. The earlier develop
which the vault is provided, will
was favorably reported, the number
ment of the Jewish kingdom will be
be burned constantly.
Started
Under
British
Rule
of jmHcnt» hn» increased from 17.445
traceable by systematic excavation
A Topeka newspaper asserts
to 22.292 for the week ended January
from the Pool of Siloam upward
in Palestine.
that Mr. Radges took out a 20-
along the Ridge of Ophel as far as the
1, 1921.
year paid-up subscription Just
Quoting these figures, a bulletin of
“I.j the week rmled January 1. 1921.
site of the Temple.
before he died, and at his re
Bureau
Reports
Greater
Efficien
the Association of Railway Executives
There are many Interesting build
there were In hospital» operated by
quest
the paper will be deliv
says: “An important statistical unit
ings of Mohammedans and Crusaders,
the public health service 12.511 pa
cy at Less Cost in the
ered at the burial vault every
In
the
new
English
statistics
is
aver
not only in Jerusalem, but scattered
tients, and In hospitals under contract
day.
United States.
age revenue, or receipts per ton per
with the public health service 9,781.
through the country. One of the most
Fortress of ths Crusaders May Be
mile.
The
average
gross
receipts
per
i imposing of the Crusaders’ structures
Of this number 19.019 were patients of
come Memorial to Lord Allenby—
ton-mile In England for the month of
the war risk Insurance bureau. It Is
is the great fortress at Athllt, on the
Excavations in Garden of Geth
January, 1920. were 2.828 cents, ami
understood Hint there were approxi
coast between Haifa and Jaffa. This dent Jewish synagogue, having a mo
semane Started Last Spring.
were increase«! to 3 cent» In the month
mately 3.000 patients of Hie war risk
is the place from which Richard Coeur saic paved floor with an inscription in
of June. 1920. This increase was due
insurance bureau In hospitals operated
' de Lion finally evacuated bls forces. early Hebrew characters worked into
London.—According to a Liverpool I It is a wonderful and Imposing ruin,
by the National Home of Disabled Vol In Great Britain Average Is 1W Tons to the higher level of freight rates
correspondent
of the Times the dis I and the government of Palestine Is lay the pavement design, were found. The
made
effective
on
January
15,
1920.
unteer Soldiers, and in army and navy
of Freight—Would Take Three
The average for the six months ended covery of a very early Christian ing Its plans for the systematic pre- excavation of this is to be completed
hospitals.
Times ae Many British Cars to
June
was 2.860 cents. These average church In the Garden of“Gethsemane I serving and opening up of the monu- by the very learned Dominican arche
Patients Increase 1,000 Per Month.
Handle Our Loads.
are gross receipts, and Include charges has directed .attention to the valu I ment. It has been suggested that its ologists representing the French school
"The present rate of Increase In pa
for collection and delivery. Excluding able work which Is being carried out restoration would be a fitting memo of archeology in Palestine. A young
tients In hospitals of the public health
and vigorous Jewish archeological so
New York.—The bureau of railway such charges, the average I et receipts In Palestine under the direction of
rial to Lord Allenby, and though no
service Is approximately 1.000 per
economics has prepared a memoran per ton mile were: First four weeks the newly formed department of an action has been taken officially in this ciety is making a preliminary exam
month, and It 1» expected that before
dum comparing operating results on (to January 31) 2.107 cents; second tiques. Sir Herbert Samuel recog direction, the appropriateness of such ination of various sites of Interest in
the peak Is reached the number of beds
Jewish
history,
notably
Artuf,
British and American railroads, which four weeks (February), 2.089 cents; nized from the outset of his career a course is generally recognized.
on request will approximate 30,000 to
Caesarea
and
Tiberia.
The
latter
is
shows
that
the
average
trainload
In
as
high
commissioner
that
the
whole
month of June, 2.708 cents; average
35,000. It Is estimated that the ¡«‘nk
Promising sites, dating further back proving to be of particular interest and
Great Britain for the six months to for six months, 2.629 cents.
world
was
anxious
that
all
possible
will not be reached before 1927 to
into the earlier history of Palestine be- attention was directed to it early after
June 30, 1920, was 150 tons, while that
"The average receipts per ton-mile care should be taken of the monu
1929.
for the’ United States for the same for class 1 railroad» In the United ments, and every facility afforded for fore the Jews, are also awaiting exca the British occupation, when numerous
“The public health service now has,
vation. One of these is the ancient traces of ancient buildings of the pe
period was 710 tons. Operating nnd States, which correspond to the Brit Investigating the history of the Holy
or In the near future will have, under
fortress of Mngiddo, famous as far riod of Talmud, Just south of the town,
traffic,
as
well
as
geographical,
condi
ish averages, exclusive of collection Land. He called to his aid the di back as the time of the Pharaohs, and
operation hospitals providing approxi
were brought to light by roadmakers
mately 19,878 beds. Of this number of tions In the United States and Eng and delivery charges, were .972 cents rector of the British School of Arche an American university Is proposing • and engineers In the course of their
land,
It
Is
explained,
ore
so
different
ology In Jerusalem, who Is now home to make a complete examination of
for the six months to June 30, 1920.
beds 10,347 are In hospitals of flimsy
Overlooking the northern
“For the six months ended June 30. onco more after strenuous work which this site. Another Is Beisan, which • duties.
and Inflammable construction or In that comparisons of train or car load
shore
of
the
Sea of Galilee are the very
ing
may
l>e
considered
misleading,
but
1920, the class 1 railroads in the Unit be has had the gratification of seeing lies at the junction of the Vale of
hospitals lensed by the service under
remarkable and interesting remains of
It
Is
pointed
out
that
a
direct
com
ed
States
carried
189,997,457,000
ton
bear fruit.
lenses which will expire nt certain pe
l Esdraelon, with the Valley of the Jor-
Excavations In the Garden of Geth- I dan in a commanding position, aptly an early Jewish synagogue.
riods after the declaration of peace, parison, designed to set out the differ miles of revenue freight, earning $1.-
To Restore Ancient Building.
or nre otherw ise not to be counted up ences in detail, must have some value, 847,217.911, with an average receipt semano were begun by the Franciscans described by George Adam Smith as
on In the program for permanent care. especially when all the factors In the per ton-mile of .972 cents. According in the spring of last year, and they dis the key to Palestine. This site is now
It is to be hoped that on the com
to the new British statistics, the aver covered a church of the thirteenth cen marked by imposing mounds, which pletion of the excavation steps will
“An analysis of the 19.019 war risk comparison are taken into account.
The
average
freight
train
load
In
age receipts per ton-mile for the six tury. In digging the foundations for have long been a source of surreptl- I be taken •and the means forthcoming
Insurance patients In hospitals of the
public health service for the week the United States In 1888 wns 170 months ended June 20. 1920, were 2.629 a new building on the spot they dis tlous digging by curio hunters and | to restore this ancient building, of
covered traces of a much earlier dealers,' It is very satisfactory to be which a great portion of the masonry
ended January 1, 1921, shows that tons; In 1898. 220 tons; In 1908. 352 cents.
“If the average receipts per ton church on a slightly different axis. able to say that a second university in is lying about, apparently as the re
they were distributed according to tons; tn 1918, 028 tons, and In 1920.
disease as follows: Tuberculosis, 7,- for six months, 710 tons. Every dec mile which have been collected by the They duly received permission to ex- j America, with very considerable re sult of some earthquake. Should it
586; ncuro-psychlntrlc, 3,680; general ade from the first has shown marked British railways during this six envate this earlier building, which sources, Is arranging to excavate here. be possible scientifically to reconstruct
medical nnd surgical, 5,743; total, 19.- advances, with the curious coincidence months' period had been charged proved to be a church of about tne
the building it will prove a unique ad
Streets of Ascalon Opened.
that In 1888 the average tralnlond In ngnlnst the freight traffic carried by fourth century, and one of the oldest
019.
dition
to the wonders of Palestine.
A very interesting discovery was
“The most pressing need is for tu- this country wns greater than the Brit the class 1 railways In the United monuments to Christianity in Pales
The chief feature of the last year In
ish
average
for
1920.
while
the
Amer
States, for the six months ended June tine. The whole of the outside wall made at the close of the war near
berculosls and neuro-phychiatrlc pa-
ican average for 1888 wns almost the 30. 1920, the latter would have earned can be traced, together with the two Jericho, where the remains of an an- the work of excavation has been the
tienta.
opening of the work at Ascalon, which
“For tuberculosis patients there are same as that for one or two of the In ' $5,406,327,118 Instead of $1.847,217,911. rows of columns which supported the
has been undertaken by the Palestine
“In other words, British rates ap aisles, and three apses, the central one
7,431 beds In hospitals operated by the dividual companies that top the list
Exploration fund. The results are not
OPERATED BY WIRELESS yet published, but are of remarkable
Here and there
plied to American traffic would have being the largest.
public health service and l.(MM) beds In in England today.
cost the shippers of the United are well preserved, though small, re
promise. A very fine building of Ro
States $3.000.0(M).000 In six months, or mains of the original mosaic floor.
man date—namely, a massive temple
The Franciscans have undertaken to
$7,200,000.000 per year.
or forum built entirely of Greek mar
preserve these remains In such a way
British Cars Smaller.
ble, possibly the Temple of the For
“The 207,281,000,000 ton-miles, In that they will be permanently visible;
tune or City Goddess, was one of the
hiding non-revenue freight, hauled by even though a new church be built. It
wonders discovered. The columns of
eins» 1 railways In the United will be designed to inclose the old
this building weighed nine tons each,
months
ended
June,
church, and steps will be taken to dis
States for the six
and the capitals three tons. The whole
920, were carried by an average train tinguish the outline of the ancient
structure, both floors, walls and col
cars
averaging
20
structure
and
to
preserve
the
pavement
«mslstlng of 30
umns, is entirely of marble. It is to
nnd the bases of columns in a way that
ons each.
be presumed that the building was pre
in
the
United
States
is
quite
satisfactory.
The
central
apse
"If the railways
pared in one of the Greek islands and
(«nd used British cars, which have an of this building reaches out just be
transhipped, ready for construction, to
iverage load of six tons, In moving । yond the modern limits of the garden
Ascalon during the first or second
the tonnage quoted above they would toward th« rocks which are usually as
century of our era. Traces have been
have moved trains consisting of 120 sociated with the Ago„y of Christ. It
found of a secret well mentioned by
rars, or more than three times the has been arranged that the work shall
one of the early writers, possibly a
be completed by the Board of Antiqui
number of cars per train.
remnant of the early sacred lake of
“In hauling the 207.2.81.000.000 ton ties on behalf of the government.
the famous goddess Derceto,
miles of freight during the six months' Some architectural fragments, includ
Ascalon was the home of Herod the
period, class 1 railways In the United ing columns, with capitals in Corin
Great, and we are told In early litera
States operated 252,540.000 freight thian style, came to light In the course
ture that he greatly embellished the
train-miles, 1. e., In tfninloads of of the excavation. •
_____
I city with »plendld colonnades. It will
710 tons. Applying th«' British train-
Plan Memorial to Allenby.
in time be possible to recognlge these.
load of 150 tons to the ton-mileage
One of the first acts of the new gov
One of the objects discovered Is a gi
hnuled In the United States, the rail ernment under Sir Herbert Samuel
gantic foot, measuring over a yard
ways In the United States would have was to organize a department of antiq
from heel to toe, wearing n Bandai, the
been forced to operate 1,195,350,000 uities, the principal function of which
whole In alabaster, possibly part of a
train-miles, or nearly five times as । Is the protection of all the historical
huge statue of ids time. The chief In
ninny train-miles ns the number ac sites and monuments in Palestine and
Dr. Patrick 8. Burns of Providence, terest to the scientlfl“ world is the ef
THS
« »ao®
tually needed under American operat at the same time to encourage learned R. I., chief surgeon on the Leyland fort which the Palestine Exploration
aWMlMK
TP/N/TÌ
ing conditions.
societies to make scientific excava liner Wlni'redlan, who directed by
omitoo I
is making to recover some tan-
OF GOO
"The estimated length of haul In tions. The historical monuments of wireless the setting of seamen’s brok fund remnlns of the Philistines and
CUUDCU
glble
Wl >'WM**«
tha United States for the six months, Palestine are not merely Interesting en bones and care of their internal In- |
civilization, and It Is believed
was 310 miles. The average length of from an antiquarian point of view, but Juries wiien the Belgian steamship their the layers representing this pe-
that
haul for the British railways for the have n human and a religious interest Menapler had been battered by a hur
od have been located, as well as
same pcrlo«! wns 57 miles. If the aver- | for the great bulk of humanity. Ac ricane. An 8. O. 8. message from the ri
some objects illustrating their civiliza
nge haul of the British railways had cordingly. an International board has Belgian ship requested aid. Doctor tion. Unfortunately, the Philistine lay
been In effect In the United States. been established to advise the director Burns, when his vessel got close to the
er is at a great depth, five to seven me
American freight would have been In of antiquities on matters of common Menapler, tried to put out In a life
ters (18 to 28 feet) below the surface,
terchanged 5.54 times as often as It Interest to the different local societies boat, but the storm prevented. He
and
all those Interested In the develop
was.
and schools of foreign powers engaged then thought of the wireless. Descrip ment of our knowledge of Palestine In
tions of the men’s Injuries were wire
"In other words, if railways In the in archeological research.
Bible times must realize that the work
United States had carried their freight
One of the most holy places of Mo- lessed to him, and he carefully dic of the fund can only be adequately
More th.. .wo
W
tated
the
method
of
treatment
for
at
the
rate
per
ton-mile
chargotl
by
«ration at Trinity church, New York city. The
I »
of gt Mark*
hammednnism, familiarly known as the
done If adequately supported.
the British railways, they would have Mosque of Omar, which Is also one of each.
learned $3,000,000,000 more."
rled paraphrased Scriptural quotations.
Surgeon General Reports Ex
Soldiers Breaking Down at
Rate of 1,000 a Month.
SICK AND INSANE INCREASE
British and U. S.
Roads Compared
Unearth Church
of 4th Century
SHRINES WILL BE RESTORED
710 TONS IN TRAINS HERE
“Shorn Lambs of Labor” in a Parade