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TAGS laXET . The CZHGON STATESMAN, SalcsC Oregon, Snnday Mornlnr, October 23, i uiet ' f i CHAPTER XXX Gradually a few of as rentnre to stand up. And I am siren crut ches to bobble around on. But I do not make much of them, i can Hot bear Albert's gate as I move aBout the room. His eyes always j follow" me with such a strange look. So I sometimes escape to the j corridor; there I can get about j more freely. On the next floor below are the abdominal and spine cases, head wounds and double amputations. On the right side .Lthe wing are the jaw wounds, gas cas?3, nofe, .'ear and neck wounds. On the left the blind and the lung wounds, pelvis wounds, wounds in the joints, rounds in the intestines: Here- a men realizes for the first time in how many places a man can get bit. Two fellows die of tetanus. Their skin turns pale, their limbs stiffen, at last only their eyes live stubbornly. Many of the wound ed hare their shattered limbs hanging free in the air from a gallows; underneath the wound a basin is placed into which the pus drips. Every two or three hours the vessel Is emptied. Other men lie in stretching bandages with heavy weights hanging from the end of the bed. I see intestine wounds that are constantly full of excreta. The surgeon's clerk shows me X-ray photographs o f com pletely smashed hipbones, knees, and shoulders. A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single sta tion; there are hundreds of thou sands in Germany hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How sense less is everything that can ever be written, done or thought, when fcuch things are possible. It must all be lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds cf thousands . A hospital alone chows what war is. I am young, I am 20 years old; yet I know nothing of life but de spair, death, fear, and fatuous su perficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how people are set against one another, and in si lence, unknowingly, foolishly, obe diently, Innocently slay one an other. I see that the keenest brains in the world Invent wea pons and words to make It yet more refined and enduiing. And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world tee these things; all my genera tion is experiencing these things with me. What would our fathers do If we suddenly stood up and came before them and preferred our account? What dothey expect of us if a time ever comes when the war Is over. Through the years our business has been kill ing; it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen after- ' ward? And what shall come out of "H8? e After a few weeks I have to go each morning to the massage de partment There my Jeg is har nessed up and made to move. The arm has healed long since. New convoys arrive from the line. The bandages are no longer made of cloth, but of white crepe paper.. Rag bandages have become carce at the front. Albert's stump heals well. The wound is almost closed. In a few weeks he should go off to an In stitute for artificial limbs. He con tinues not to talk much, and is CLOGGED EAR CANAL IS EASILY CLEARED Dr. Copeland Warns Against the Practice of Inserting Things Into the Ear, for It la the Most Cqri:::ci Cause of Wax Deafness. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Eealtk, Veu York City. mO HAVE anything interfere with the hearine is disasrreeable In . deed. Usually deafness Is a times, however, like a cbtp deafness. ' OR.COPCUANO erting into the ear canal, a toothpick, hairpin, or even the end of 1 pencil. Such an instrument may readily push, the wax into the ear Kepeated day after day, there gradually grows up a ball of wax of XTanv f1m f 1 I have said, in teat. of course, that nothing should be put In the ear except the point of the elbow. It la a mistake to use any Instrument la an attempt to clean this organ. Left to Itself, the wax will carry itself out of the ear. If you suspect that there is more wax than should be, let your doctor un the syringe, washing It out with water. It may be necessary' to apply a - little olive oil to soften the mass. The next 'day It can be removed with water and without pain. - Should It happen. that the mass almost fills the canal, the oil will fin up this passageway and Increase the deafness. . This will disappear when the water causes-the plug to come ar&y. clearing the passage. .Many a person Is going about with Im paired neartna from una eaut When the deafness can be overcome so easily It is a pity to endure it. pA1n4rwcr"fo Health Qugriea 'n P: 0W1vif idnnM rtrl at It, S a taU weigh? a.-What do you advise for freckles? . . - sAi She should weigtt about 110 pounds. S. Use equal parts of perox Ue and lemon Juice as a bleach. J. H. 3U -I am a aaaa of fifty and am troubled with constipation. What do you advise? Western Fronr much feore solemn than formerly. He often breaks eff in his speech and stares In front of him. If he were: not here with us he would have shot himself long ago. But now he Is over the worst of it, and he often looks on while we play skat. I get convalescent leav6. ' My mother does not want to let me go away. She is so feeble. It is all much worse than it was last time. Then I am sent on from the base and return once more to the line. Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army. We count the weeks no more. It was winter when I came up, and when the shells exploded the fro zen clods of earth were just as dangerous as the fragments. Now the trees are green again. Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown ac customed to it; war is just a cause of death like cancer and tu berculosis, like influenza and dy sentery. The deaths are merely more frequent, more varied and terrible. Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days; when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead, fields of craters within and without. Everyone is so, not only our selves here the things that exist ed before are no longer valid, and one practically knows them no more. Distinctions, breeding, edu cation are changed, are almost blotted out and hardly recogniz able any longer. Sometimes they give an advantage for profiting by a situation; butthey also bring consequences along with them, in that they arouse prejudices which have, L.tp. be overcome. ... Ifc is-as though formerly we were eoino" fcf different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp. To re-discover the old distinctions, the metal itself must be tested. First we are sol diers and afterwards, in a strange and shamefaced fashion, individ ual men as well. It is a great brotherhood, which to a condition of life arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlorness of death, adds something of the good-fellowship of the folk-song, of the feel ing of solidarity of convicts, and of the desperate loyalty to one an other of men condemned to death seeking in a wholly unpathetic way a fleeting enjoyment of the hours as they come. If one wants to appraise it, it is at once heroic and banal but who wants to do that? It is this, for example, that makes Tjaden spoon down his ham and-pea soup In such tearing haste when an enemy attack is reported, simply because he ran not be sure that in an hour's tima he will be alive. We have dissuss ed at length, whether it is right or not to do so. Kat condemns it, because he says a man has to reckon with the possibility of an abdominal wound, and that is more dangerous on a full stomach than on an empty one. Such things are real problems, they are serious matters to us, they cannot be otherwise. Here; on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is mostly neces sary all else lies buried in gloomy sleep in that lies our prlmitive ness and our survival. Were we more subtly differentiated we must long since have gone mad, have deserted, or have fallen. As matter of very slow progress. Some of thunder, there comes on suddei The most common cause for this ezperieno is the movemen of a ping of wax into a nev position, lids wax has been accumulating fot months, perhaps for a year or more. " A bath may permit the admission to the ear canal of just enough water to displace the mass Or the water softens the edges of the ball oi wax and the detached material may fill ia (hi limited space. - .The deafness that comes so suddenly nut disappear just 4s quickly. Efforts at relief bj poking the ear with the little finger nfay be sue eessfuL , The wax is moved away from the ea: canal, or turned just enough to permit the sount waves to get past it. It is rare for such an accumulation of was Jo take place. It is safe to say that it nevei ill take place if you do not fuss with the ears ManT MnmiM nrartir th hai hahit of in wmua, suca u wuoe waeai mm. graham, with your meals. .Take teaspoonful of mineral oil daily, for further particulars kindly a self -ad dressed, stamped enretope and re state your question. U B. knees? Q. What will reduce larg A. -Regular, and vogorous systematic massaging exercise ot the knees. E. R. Q. What brittle nails? Is the cause'ot A. This condition is .due to some constitutional disorder, such as anemia, some nutritional or blood disorder, and very often to the jw of bard water end caustie soaps. Improve the general health by exer cise, prorer diet and correct living. N. O. P. Q. Should one reduce while nursing a baby? , A. This would thing to do. be a very vnwiat HEADER. Q. How can ene re duce a double chin? - liL Eat sparingly ot starches, sag are and fata. - Get regular, ayatem atie exercise. - In a polar expedition, every expres sion ct life must serve only the preservation' of existence, and Is absolutely focused on that. AU else is banished because' it would consume energies unnecessarily. That is the only way to save our selves. In the quiet hours when the puzzling reflection of former days, like a blurred mirror, pro jects beyond me the figure of my present existence, I often sit over against myself, as before a stran ger, and' wonder how the un nameable active principle that calls Itself- life had adapted Itself even to this form. All other ex pressions lie In a winter sleep, life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death It has transformed us into unthink ing animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct it has re inforced us with dullness, so. that we do not go to pieces before the horror, which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thought it has awakened in us the sense of comradeship, so that we escape the abyss of solitude it has lent us the indifference of wild creatures, so that in spite ot all we perceive and the positive in ev ery moment, and store it up as a reserve against the onslaught of nothingness. Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the ut most superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark. But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up. Those are the dangerous mo ments. They Bhow us that the ad justment is only artificial, that it Is not simple rest but sharpest struggle for rest. In the outward form of our life we are hardly distinguishable from Bushmen; but whereas the latter can be so always, because they are so truly, and at best .may develop further by exertion of their spiritual for ces, with jise.lt. the reverse; our inner forces are not exerted to ward regeneration, but toward de generation. . The Bushmen are primitive and naturally so, but we are primitive in an artificial sense and by virtue of the utmost effort. And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitch POLLY AND HER PALS CDM6I?4TUMTOrJS bU HE: ASH! ILL BET L1R LIL KID COCOA IK Kin BuTCH&R THE BtST PUS THAT BRE4THES' TILLIE, THE TOILER 3 That pTH?J 1 1 S BRKB' r i : 1 1 r HASAJT TILLIE. 1 , . . 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V TEAOPOONd - e!V ICOUMTOY LAST A L01 KePtSv tSeTT -HA VI ' I CASPERj J I CQLONELI ( I BUTTE NIVE3 tt 1 : ed by the crowding; facet a maa perceives with alarm hew slight is the support, how this the boun dary that divides him from the darkness. - .We are little flames poorly sheltered .by frail walls against the storm of .dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out. Then the muffled roar of the bat tle becomes a ring that encircles us, we creep in upon ourselves, and with big eyes stare into the night. Our only comfort is the steady breathing of our com rades asleep, and thus we wait for morning. Every day and every hour, ev ery shell and every death cuts in to this tiSfSfcpport, and the years waste' it rapidly. I see how it is already gradually.breaklng down around me. There is the mad story of De tering. He was one of those who kept himself to himself. His misfor tune was that he saw a cherry treeIn a garden. We were just coming back from the front-line, and at a turning of the road near our new billets, marvelous in the morning twilight, stood this cher ry tree before us. It had no leaves but was one white mass of bloom. In the evening Detering was not to be seen. Then at last be came back and had a couple of branches of cherry blossoms in his hand. We made fun of him and asked him whether he was going to a wedding. He made no answer, but laid them on his bed. During the night I heard him making a noise he seemed to be packing. I sensed something amiss and went over to him. He made out it was nothing, and I said to him: "Don't do any thing silly, Detering." "Ach, why it's merely that I can't sleep " "What did you pick the cherry branches for?" "I might have been going to get some more cherry branches," he replied, evasively and after a while; "I have a big orchard with cherry trees at home. When they are in blossom, from the hay loft they look like one single sheet, so white. It Is just the time." 'Perhaps you will get leave soon. You may even be sent back as a farmer." He nodded, but he was far away. When these peasants are excited SAID IX UKJK PACKS A 5UU6HTER-H0USE EACH HWP! THERE'S OJCLL. PADD!. I'A4 To Bchs po'T Seem To BE OETT7AJ6 VBQX THIS OaSE I GIUE THE STORM TO THfc A1&UJ5PAPEC5 PUBLICITY IS TbDU UP A CLUE O-ZI they hare a curious expression, a mixture of cow and yearning go4 half stupid and half rapt. In or der to turn : him away from his thoughts I asked him for a piece of bread. He gave It to me without a murmur. That was-suspicious, for he Is usually tightfisted. So I stayed awake. Nothing happened; in the morning he was usual. Apparently he had noticed that I had been watching him; but the second morning after he was gone. I noticed it but said noth ing, in order to give him time; he might perhaps get through. Var ious fellows have already got into Holland But at roll call he was missed. A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gen darmes, those despicable military police. He had headed toward Germany, that was hopeless, of course and, of course, he did ev erything else just as Idiotically. Anyone might have known that his flight was only home-sickness and a momentary aberration. But what does a court-martial hun dreds of miles behind the front line know about it? We have heard nothing more of Detering. Salem High to Have All-School Party Next Week The all-school party to be given at the senior high school Friday, November 15, will have an inter national theme, with the various entertainments to be planned along national lines, Ruth Fick, director, told the dean of women and nine class advisors Friday noon in making preliminary an nouncement of the plans. Miss Fick is student body vice presi dent and chairman of the social committee. The event will also be in the nature of a get-acquainted reception for the sophomore class members. First all-school entertainment was held at the high school last spring, and was such a genuine success that the student body of ficials are carrying the plan for ward again this year, even if It does entail handling more than 1,000 young people. "The Worm That "A Weakf r MAC?l HE'S IM "THE 8A.f26EC SHOP A t J V I ill I 1 M6DSH.UMK. IM fesSE sM Inl th' hecks ) J I .d h?iiiwT tmp i.-o BlHtfVEl?c3ffl i m vf&PPED Ok A WORM i J T CZ.l C "L.lg gS- "For The Press" THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, SAV, The U60TEAJAAJT, BUT LET ME. ask voo owe CAB. UlrTH TMklk. I'LL, rAVOQ ... THE. SURE, To "One Black Eye What Shall the Floor-Covering Be? Here's the Answer ' 'fTtURNISH I couBselle tram the walls in."' counselled one decorator. "Furnish from the Doors up," said another. Toe often we must take our walls and floor as we find them, and whatever adjusting has to be done about chairs and tables and otber decorative plecea de pends wholly on these backgrounds. But this doesn't impose narrow limitations, by any means. A living room floor is not merely a well-carpeted surface. There are all sorts of ways to treat it, and manufac turers seem to be sitting up nights creating new textures ptat tempt one to change. Rugs, ot course, are the staple. And bow to choose a rug compe tently is a study in itself. Volumes have been written on Oriental rugs, and certainly it Is worth reading carefully any one of the standard textbooks on the subject before in vesting a few hundred dollars in these artistic textures. Roughly speaking, there are only six classi fications of Oriental rues Turkish, Persian. Indian. Turkoman. Chinese, Caucasian. 'But within each group there are dozens of varieties and grades. And it shouldn't be assumed that Just because a rug is an Ori ental" it is rood and will last a life 'KING' RETURNS TO HIS GUI DOMAIN HAVANA, Oct. 19. (AP) "Faustin II" called King of La Gonave island. Haiti, who is known in the United States mar. ine corps records simply as Ser geant Faustin Wlrkus, arrived here today from Miami en route to his "kingdom." He had been visiting in Newport, R. I., where, reports say, there is a young lady who would be queen. Sergeant Wirkus' ascent to the throne of La Gonave is one of the most romantic in recent years and one that caused great interest throughout the world five years ago. At that time Sergeant Wirkus volunteered to spend a year at Gonave, then a wilderness of dan gers. He was taken to the island by plane and soon after the na- 7 Turned Kid Cocoa" Beginning AJlFTV, f ell mc whipple spent the wjeek ewd m the: COOOTfSV AMD vJf?r4'T BE BCK WHtOPLE. 1 WAf4T To SEE HIM ATOJCE V "TILL r fi-EASB DOAJT CAW ABOUT THAT UTTLE OQPHAU ClKL TUPOVUJAf THAT" AOTfcOUT 1 A4B IF SADIE SXJATCH&CS SUJSTfe. FRIEAIDS EVER FOJO OUT WAS THAT CiRL TW JAV& ER AHMV THEVt-L TAKE HER FOR A,R1DE" SURE AS GUUS For Another" time. Cheap rage are' made m the-froom beautifully colored Ulcs are Orient la great abundance. And similarly, there are being made in this country today reproductions of Oriental rugs which are exquisite la color, texture and design, easily com- ' parable to authentic Orientals. ( As far as lasting forever is con- cerned that's a pleasant fable. Any rug, no matter bow well made. If ; given the rough wear and tear of , daily use. will look worn after a : number of years. It may still pre- j serve some of its early beauty, but obviously will not be new. Tne only way to insure an Oriental rug last ing a lifetime is not to step on it too often. Oriental rugs show to advantage only on fine waxed floors. For plain floors an all-over rug of plain color with a darker border is always safe, especially if the wall paper is fig ured. In that case, small rugs placed before s favorite armchair, the piano or fireplace, will add a bit of color to relieve the plain ex panse. The exposed floor surface should always be slightly darker than the rug. Two new developments to floor ing make it possible to introduce striking decorative ideas. One is the increased use of tiles for floor ing in many rooms other than kitch en jtnA hath In foyer, hall dlninz tives went into a huddle for this was fulfillment of a prophecy made by their king, Faustin II, that he would return to his people from the skies. When Kirkus made his im promptu and unannounced de scent upon Gonave he jumped in to a trone. Since then he has been undisputed "king" in the eyes of the natives. Employing his knowledge of farming, picked np during his youth on a farm in Pennsylvania, Kirkus has put his people to work and has helped them introduce more modern methods. The "white king of Gonave" goes to his people today by plane after an absence from the throne of two months and a leave from the marine corps. POCATELLO, Ida., Oct. 19. (AP) James A. Frederickson, sheriff of Fremont county, Idaho, was sentenced in United States district court here today to serve three months in jail and pay a fine of $500 for contempt of court. SrEAT SCOTT' HE12E ITS MOKlDAV MOQKJlMS.TOMOCQOvi'LL BE TUESDAY AUDTHE AJEXTDAY vJEDWESDAV, THE WHOLE WEEK T HALF GONE AMP AOOOM AJOTMIrOS DOME VET t) Ittt, tmg rMn gyWwiM. tar, Gmt Srium rqtfcu trnfnt AAJYTHMJ A LL RKTHT, PA WE tttfUUT TAKE AAJW CHAJUCE OM THAT I'LL JUST SAW THAT' IT TU&2E. UiS A UU ITU HER A lEuJ-MIU07b.S Vol) - AklD TJ4AT SHE wMeUi voo car a O O BomeiiaJdng Help j eleanob ross gradually becoming popular. They may he waxed or glased, but other- require no great care, and they have excellent lasting qualities Occasionally a living room done in Spanish or Italian style has a tiled floor, covered in one or two places with small rugs. Of course, tiles are relatively costly, although once laid they last a long time. But now the maiiufac- turers of linoleums are developing floor coverings that Imitate these beautiful tiles very well and nat urally they cost less. Linoleum, too. has graduated from kitchen and bathroom, and by virtue of its new design it becomes suitable and dignified for the liviiig rooms of the house. Like tile, linoleum serves as a basis, and a more decotative note is "introduced by the addition of a few small rugs at proper points. Another advantage of linoleum as a floor covering is suggested by the old floors dilemma. Many bouses have old floors net fine eld floors that have Improved with age. but rather hopeless ones. Linoleum is much less costly than laying new floors. Also it is both covering and finish, is easily cleaned, and if a good Quality is purchased in the first place It has long wearing ca .11. TO SILVERTON, Oct. 19 Mem bers of the parent-teachers' asso ciation will take the school cen sus again this year a? they did last. All arrangements have been made and about forty members ot the circle are ready to begin the work in the various districts. Th? committee hopes to have the 'work completed by October 25th. Last year the scliool census wa taken by the Parent-Teachers as sociation and the method proved very successful. Notice to Subscribers: The Special Bargain offr to Mail Subscribers of the Oreeon States man for $3.00 per year by mail is not good within Salem City limits. By CLIFF STERRETT By RUSS WESTOVER By BEN BATSFORD WW - -rUAT'LU Be PlJUE SURE'AJ WE HAVE WE tttiOU) EAJOOCH OAJ hec rcou vicr HEC WITHOUT USIKT THAT 7iCL THERE ARRlVCD UJAS GtflE. twece By JIMMY MURPHY IMP TK t- 11-- ' I r - m i Tirj'rw Sk f t r i X . Av-Correet th diet. Cat OejrdOb tf I,