The Sunday Oregonian., July 21, 1918, SECTION FIVE, Page 2, Image 62

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 191S.
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Many Thousands of
Human Lives Have
Been Saved by the
indid Courage of
Dogs on the Battlefield.'
BT W. B. SEABROOK.
American Ambulancft Field Service,
N THE mobilization of "Noah'e Ark"
the war, many types of an-
id birds have been put to
practical uses. t
Horses, camels. urros, donkeys,
mules, and even elephants, have been
used for transportation.
The mongoose and terrier have been
employed in the trenches to make war
against the rats.
Carrier pigeons transport messagres.
Canaries are used to detect the ap
proach of g-as.
But of all the birds ana animals
which are aiding man In the great con
flict, the supreme hero is the Red Cross
dog.
He stands pre-eminent among the an
imals of the war, for the same reason
that the infantryman In the front "line
trenches Is the high outstanding type
of human courage his are the severest
hardships and the greatest dangers.
The Red Cross dog goes "over the
top" behind the infantry waves, -doing
. his work In No Man's Land amid the
shriek of the shrapnel and "zing" of
machine gun bullets. 0
He knows his danger. He has seen
his human friends and his four-footed
comrades fall side by side, and he re
alizes what it means.
He has been taught, as the soldiers
re taught, to seek cover in shell-holes
and communicating trenches when he
can protect himself without neglect of
duty; and he has likewise been taught
gallantly to go forward in the face of
death when duty demands. "
How many thousands of human lives
have been saved by the Red Cross dog.
It Is impossible to compute. Their in
telligence is as remarkable as their
courage and devotion.
See-king; the Wounded.
Many types and breeds of dog have
been trained to the work, and there
may be a profound lesson in the fact
that some of the greater Red Cross
dogs have been of mongrel or mixed
breed.
However, the general type which has
proven the most reliable and efficient
in the long run is the so-called Belgian
police dog. This is the animal de
picted in the photographs on this page,
a direct descendant of - the Flemish
sheep dogs, with a touch of wolfish
xiess in the shape of their pointed nose
and ears, and their rough, shaggy coats.
The principal duty of the Red Cross
dog is to go out into No Man's Land
after a battle and seek out the wounded
among ridges, shell-craters, abandoned
trenches and dugouts.
After they have located a wounded
man they rufi back to the stretcher
carriers and lead them to the spot.
When the Man Is Found. .
The dogs are taught to depend almost
entirely on their eyes for the search
They are not keen scented like hunting
dogs (in fact the true type of hunting
dog which depends on scent has been
a failure as a Red Cross dog.)
They are taught to go out and look
for the wounded. Even were their
scent keener it would be practically
useless on a battlefield still drenched
with fumes of powder smoke, blood and
poisonous gas.
When a dog comes upon a body lying
on the ground he has been taught,
first of all. to place bis noso to the
nostrils and mouth of the - prostrate
man to see whether or not he is still
alive and breathing. In this test the
dog is almost infallible.
After ascertaining whether he has.
found a living person or a corpse, the
dog Is taught next to decide whether
the fallen man is a German soldier
or one of his own allies.. For this he
depends partly on his eye, but also on
his sense of smell, for it is a well-
known fact that the German soldier
has an odor different from that of the
other races engaged in the war.
in the event the fallen man Is a
German, the Red Cross dog is taught to
pass on and let him lie not as a
measure of wilful cruelty, but because
our own wounded come first.
If the fallen man is an allied sol
dier, and alive, the dog stands by, and
If the man Is conscious, he gives the
dog his pocketbook or wallet, or an
old letter anything with his name and
identification on it. If the man is un
conscious the dog Is taught to pick
out for himself and bring back some
evidence of this kind. The simplest
thing is the cap. If the soldier still has
bis cap.
Falling to find the cap, the dog
gingerly noses Into the pockets of the
unconscious man, in the hope of find
ing a wallet, a handkerchief or some
other article which he can carry.
If the dog finds nothing, he is taught
to use his teeth in cutting away a part
of the soldier's uniform to carry back.
For this purpose he turns his muzzle
sldewise to the cloth and cuts It
through with a saw-like or grinding
motion of the side teeth, in order that
there may be no pulling or tugging
which might Injure the wounded man.
Then, having secured some evidence
rf his find, he races back through No
Man's Land to the stretcher carriers.
The dog proudly exhibits the evi
dence that he has found a wounded
man, and then trots before the stretcher-bearers
leading them to the spot.
Often the wounded man is found In
a deserted crater, an old dugout, or
some other abandoned spot which hu
man searchers would not have pen
etrated. While the above-described service of
searching out the wounded Is the prin
cipal duty of the Red Cross dog, their
Intelligence enables them to perform
many other - Important war functions,
acting as sentinels, patrols and as mes
sengers from advanced posts.
WHAT CUPID WILL DO WITH WIDOWS
' OF LITERARY GENIUSES IS QUESTION
Elizabeth Van Benthuysen Speculates on Matrimonial Fate That Awaits Brilliant Companions of Late Jack Lon
don, Paul Armstrong and Richard Harding Davis, Each of Whom' Found Happiness After First Ventures.
BY ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUTSEN.
THREE of the most attractive wo
men in the country they must
have been for they won three of
the foremost genuiusea of the literary
time after each one of them had been
shipwrecked on the matrimonial sea
are now widows, and there is the most
interesting sort of speculation concern
ing what pranks Cupid will play with
the three.
It was. companionship In each case
that won for these women the hStrts
and hands of the three men who prob
ably had seen the world from as many
and as varied angles as any three men
who lived in the last 20 years. The
strange feature of the whole combina
tion was that it was over the bridge
of divorce that each came to happiness.
or by the life-raft of divorce if one be
particular about the mixing of metaphor.
Jack London, Paul Armstrong and
Richard Harding Davis, alt stars of the
literary world and all globe trotters,
were the three men who made awful
messes of their first marriages, wan
dered from the altar to tthe divorce
court and then having found pleasing
and happy marriages again, died at a
time when most writers are at their
best to leave free the women who filled
the trying condition of trying to adjust
matrimonial bankruptcy cases.
A matrimonial bankrupt, like a finan
cial one, may purge his estate of his
liabilities by the processes of law and
a receiver in bankruptcy in either case
has the difficult feat of taking the (
shattered assets and working them into 1
a successful venture.
Hearts Still in Peril.
That la just what these three women
did with marked success and when the
readjustment was complete what was
formerly a state of bankruptcy became
a condition of opulence, with love, the
greatest of riohes. as the reserve fund
in the several homes.
So it is quite the natural thing to
Inquire what Dan Cupid Intends to do
with the three most successful mend
ers of broken hearts that have come
to public notice in many a day. Does
he Intend to allow them to be idle for
the rest of their days or is he going to
see to It that they do their bits in other
and new fields where men of genius,
finding themselves more or less .ama
tory Incompetents, plod along watting
for the guiding hand of such destiny
as the Cupid person sees fit to bring
them?
It Is largely a study In temperament,
these three remarkable casea No age
ever produced three men of more er
ratic psychic notions or stranger mix
the fuU demand of comradeship under tures of the gentle and the rough and
ready. The call of the mild was as
familiar to Jack London as the Call
of the Wild. He knew and heeded both
calls and his widow, who was his sec
ond wife, went hand-ln-hand with him
to take the atmosphere of both conditions.
She was the Little Lady of the Big
House In his fanciful picture of a home
and she was the Charmian to whom
"The Cruise of the Shark" was dedi
cated after she had shared the perils
and excitement of a world cruise in
a 40-foot boat. A slender, golden-
haired sprite, she dominated every
Dhase of the last vears of the darinK
writer's life. She was his editor. his'Slobe
amanuensis, his critic and his copy
reader. And yet. with the work out of
hand, she was the most devoted of little
wives and the constant joy of the plain
thinking man who let his mental proc
esses barshlyvrevel in the crudest Ideas
that no woman might care to fondle.
Ckirmiis Klttredge Is Example.
Mra, London was Charmian Klttredge,
of Chicago. As a gtrl she worked her
way through college by doing the work
of a stenographer. Folks laughed when
they heard that the hard-headed, hard
living author had picked her for his
second matrimonial venture. But she
tamed her man thoroughly and there is
no happier picture than that of their
life together at their California home.
If a woman, casting about the scene
for their secret, could find one card
that probably had a stronger appeal
than another, it was her cheery will
ingness at all times to share his lot,
no matter what it was.
If the woods or the sea called, did she
pout and Insist upon a cosy corner In
a hotel-while he rambled? Not much
of it. She was with her man where
and when the occasion demanded, ready
to smile with him. romp with nim or
to take a fifty-fifty chance on the crest
of a dangerous sea.
The Romance of Bessie McCoy.
And no less an able agent for Cupid
was Bessie McCoy. " She "was dancing
her way to Broadway fame, and
already become known as the
TTad
Tama
Tama Girl when the Fates decreed. that
the accomplished Chicago woman 'whe
had married Richard Harding Davis
should ask the law to step in and can
cel their union. Davis had trotted the
for strange Incidents. Mexico
nd South America had afforded him
their fields, he had seen the Balkan
wars, the Russ and the Jap at grips
and had wandered into many other
lesser campaigns before he found the
sprightly young woman with the never
ending fund of nervous energy under
the lights of a Broadway that had not
been able to hold him long at a time.
She worshiped her writer with a
fervor that was notable In an atmos
phere where loves are born over the
champagne and vanish with the bubbles
or at most with the morning headache.
One night when the New Tork theater
where she was appearing caught fire,
she came running from the stage door,
forgetting everything that she had In
her dressing room in the one desire
to save the picture of her writer. The
skeptical laughed then, but they lived
to see the couple married and living
like a couple of doves, and when the
end came the woman who might have
taught the world much sadly said that
she had gone to school every day that
she lived with Davis, and that to have
been married to such a man was a
liberal education In Itself.
Andher influence on him was Jufct as
marked. She seemed to fill the place
in his life that but one individual can
ever All in the life of any man or
woman. He might picture In fancy a
character that held the drawing room
In a spell, but when fact took the place
of fancy, -it was the Tama Tama Girl
who really came to show him that Ac
tion can only hope to scratch the sur
face of life and can know little, very
lltta Indeed, of what love means.
The third of these gifted women who
dared to make marital success out of
dismal failure was Katherine Cassldy
Armstrong, known to the stage as
Katherine Calvert. In many respects
hers was the most difficult task. Paul
Armstrong began his writing as a
sporting chronicler, taking prise fights
as a specialty. He had none of the
taste for exploring the wilds that Lon
don and Davis possessed, but he knew
the White Ways of the chief cities of
the World as few men have known
them. The underworld was his meat
when he wanted something especially
daring for a stage production, and the
road agents of Broadway, to say noth
ing of the wine agents, were a famil
iar types to him as they are to the
police officer who commands the Ten
derloin. Marryias: the) Playwright's Herew
It was this keen Insight Into the
ways of the crooked that made "Alias
Jimmy Valentine" a stage success, and
brought The Deep Purple" Into lta
own. Armstrong had written many
notable plays before his first matri
monial ship went on the rocks. And it
happened that when "The Deep Purple"
was cast, he selected for a jTart tho
Baltimore actress who finally came to
rule him. She was a very young
woman when she went up to New Ha
ven. Conn., and married the noted play"
wright.
And, as much out of keeping with the
ideas of the cynical as it may seem,
they lived happily ever after.
When he died she took his unfinished
work and began looking after the re
hearsals of his last developments.
So, there they are, the Little Lady
of the Big House, the Tama Tama Olrl
and the girl who charmed in "The
Deep Purple." It is to be doubted if
any three other woman in one decade
of the world's history ever harnessed
such an erratic collection of genius to
the leading strings of Cupid.
What work will he find for them to
do In the future?
Mining Students Must Drill.
GOLDEN. Colo., July 2. Beginning
next September, compulsory military
training will be enforced at the Colo
rado School of Mines here. An officer
of the regular Army will be stationed
at the school as Instructor and every
boy who Is physically fit must enroll.
No other cause for exemption will be
considered. In discussing the new pol
icy recently at a meeting of the board
of regents. Dr. Victor C Alderson.
president of the school, said that such
training was not only necessary from
a patriotic point of view, but also be
cause It afforded physical development
tor the men.
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