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HAPPY YANKS RETURN FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS
MERCHANT SHIPS
TO CARRY CADETS
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Training System of Shipping
Board to Be Extended to
Large Vessels.
STUDY FOX HIGHER PIACES
Young Men Will Learn the Road to
the Quarter Deck and Counting
Room High Class of Sea
men Wanted,
2 DAD AND 3 SONS FIGHT U
lJ UNDER GEN. PERSHING
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Ma-xa. Min t In N'iiry ,
m)iih! nt tho clu-fMiifi boys tht roturnotl to their own cumirv nft. r nv.tny iniiiitlis mi tin- other nii'o nre wn In
tins .liutiniph mi die iIpck of.tne sixtn returning troop ti-.-uisiiort. Keprosontiitlvcs from nil parts of (his country
were among tho returning fighters that limded at Hoboken, and they were not downhearted beeiuise of ttiolr
wounds. ' .'.:. ....
Porto Rico Was Great
Help in Winning War
Great Work of People of Island
Revealed for First
Time.
fiECOi-D IS AMAZING CUE
Achievements in Raising Army, Help
ing Red Cross and Boosting Lib
erty Loans Are Recounted
Faced Big Handicap in
. Earthquake.
.' , Sad Juan, Porto Rico. What the
: people of Porto Rico have done in the
'; jwar will gain for them the friendship,
' jlove and gratitude of the entire popu
! ilation of the United States. The war
activities of this patriotic island have
jbeen so effective. that one cannot help
! but become amazed at all that has
i been accomplished.
ji That thousands of people here have
done everything within their power, to
v save and give, in an effort to help win
this war is .the simple truth, and they
'I . can well feel proud of their record.
; iTo every single appeal made in behalf
, (of the war Porto Rico has responded
f gallantly. Ten million dollars has
-.', been Invested in the four Liberty
.loans. The spirit of the people was
:j iwell demonstrated "in the fourth Lib
V erty loan drive, when the island ex-
i I .ceeded her quota of $4,000,000 by al
f most $800,000 despite the disaster
caused by the earthquake, which cost
I ' Porto Rico millions of dollars. This
; calamity occurred during the ' drive.
( 'The beautiful cities of Mayagues and
: Aguadilla were virtually destroyed,
but they exceeded their quota,
i. The Ked Cross has spread its light
, to every nook and corner of 1'orto
Rico. The Porto Riean chapter of the
.1 American Red Cross has undertaken
; every branch of work conducted in the
':). . States. The great 'work which the
! v chapter is now doing in the matter of
" ; home service has been developed since
I , the call of the men of Porto Rico to
Camp Los Casus.
Home Service Work.
l! There are fully organized active
branches of the society in every rnu
;, nicipality. Through these brnnrhp
',. ,he ,nost devoted and patriotic service
u ; is being given to the work of the Red
Cross by-the people of the entire is
land. This is especially true in ron-
5 flection with the home sen-ice work,
.;,! which means the bringing of help and
i comfort and giving material menus 0f
support to the wives, children and oth
er dependents of the men who have
! joined the army. There are fiu active
and patriotic committees of home service.
...c nra vross is doing a great work
' in 'ooking after n. n(,,!(;y Ullll cof,ti.
j tute families of the soldiers at Camp
U Las (-'usas. During August the chap
ter cared for 2,058 families of soldiers
During September .1,010 families were
'. , cared for. The recVnt eartliquako.';
:; u'lded greatly to the relief work.
In. the second war fund drive, which
vas carried on throughout the island
ill flm inirif lie r.f Tr.... .-i -r...
j - yiL iuu,v aiiu iune, i;ijs,
, ' the people made donations in excess
' ' of .$100,000.
1 1 Mr. Hack Jones, a coffee planter and
also speak for the patriotism of these
people?"
Much Food Saved.
The people have invested their
money freely In Liberty bonds ami
War Savings stamps. The saving of
food has been so efficiently preached
and has been so well organized by the
food commission that vast quantities
of food have been saved.
Another example of the wonderful
patriotism of the people was demon
strated in the work of Mr. Antonio
Arbona, a coffee planter living near
Ciales. The coffee planters of Porto
Rico have suffered greatly on account
of there being no market for their
coffee In the states. On account of
the war their foreign market was cut
off. There are 150,000 people in Porto
Rico dependent upon the coffee in
dustry for a livelihood and the coffee
condition has caused the people much
suffering. Mr. Arbona, a man more
than sixty years old, covered two bar
rios on horseback and succeeded in
selling to the small coffee planters
more than ?16,00O of Liberty bonds
in the fourth campaign, mosf of these
being J50 and $100 bonds.
In all things pertaining to war work
the Spanish merchants throughout the
island have co-operated to the fullest
extent. Liberty bonds they have
bought liberally and they have given
freely to the Red Cross. I have never
come In contact with a class of busi
ness men who give more freely than
these, or more cheerfully, either.'
When the Red Cross was seeking a
new nome 4o business men Span
iards, Porto Ricans and Americans
donated $11,000, this money- being
raised In a few hours, thus enabling
the Red Cross to have quarters in
one building.
The Four-Minute Men.
The "Four-Minute Men" of Porto
Rico did a great work in speeding the
winning or the war. All of the prin
cipal centers of population were thor
oughly covered and thousands of peo
ple were reached through the speak
ers of this organization. Among them
were some of the most representative
men of the country.
During food conservation week a
campaign was conducted by public
school teachers in every .town and
barrio. The number of public meet
ings held during that week exceeded
2,000. Both urban and rural teach
ers made a house-to-house canvass to
explain the meaning of the pledge
cams anu to secure signatures. The
great parade organized during this
week whs one of the most important
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I EXPERIENCES IN WAR
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St North Adams. Mass. SulTer
J ing from shell shock, his hair
uirueu Miinv wjiue lllifl so great
j ly altered hi appearance that his
S( friends failed to recognize him.
g Peter MacPhail returned hoiinj j5
after two years and one month's j
5(, service as gunner In the Itoviil ?5
I Field artillery of the British
j army, inning Ms service Mae
g Phail took part in many battles.
f( particularly notable ones being
Vpres, ('umbra! and Combles.
5; He is thirty-seven years old.
ITALY'S STRONG MAN
ff -ins this to say of the peepUi. In his
3 f l''"Ue vidllity: "We were asked for
V ', 98,400 In the third Liberty loan. Small
r j ; merchants and day laborers made a
' canvass of the little town and the
?, "..iv, Mae laoei-ers In this region get
I . Jibont 60 cents a day, yet these good 1
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fj i I t0 per cent more than their quota If
! J vou could but see the cliffs they
'limbed and the dangerous trails thev
-ii ..-u, nlieie u misstep means a
:- i;irop of 1,000 feet or more, in their
f vork of solicitation on behalf of Uncle
am it wotHd make you wish that
4, VashlngtoiJ could know the full meas-
ire of theii, devotion. Does not ihi
mayor of the little town of Villalbn
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which had ever taken place. Thou
sands participated. Every public
school teacher marched, as well as
the pupils.
The gospel of food economy. In
creased food production, improved
methods of cultivation and the neces
sity of planting a greater variety of
home-products, has been preached to
every corner of the island. The
schools have been instrumental In the
establishment of 20,003 home gardens,
thereby assisting I'orto Rico to solve
the food problem. .'
The children here are deserving of
mucbpraise for what they lmve done,
and the example they set led others
on to greater efforts. . They are all
members of the Red Cross. A few
of them were able to secure from
their parents the money needed for
their contribution, but the majority
made up their minds that they would'
earn this money themselves. All over
the Island children organized festivals
to get funds needed for membership
fees. In .Fajado and Itio I'ledras, n
total of 1,850 school children enrolled
as Junior Red Cross members and
earned every cent that they contrib
uted. Thousands of dollars have
been raised by these children. They
have participated in all civic parades
organized for this purpose.
Delicacies Sent Abroad.
Last year 40 tons of guava jelly and
2,000,000 cigarettes were sent to the
boys in France.
Thousands of women In I'orto Hico,
from San Juan, the capital, through
out the entire island, Including' the
towns of the hills, have devoted their
time and given their money and serv
ices to all things needed for the war.
All social activities were carried on
solely for the benefit of war work.
In many sections of I'orto Rico wom
en took the place of the men in the
fields.
I'orto Rico contributed freely and
generously of her man power and tin
very best of her youth entered the
training camps. Just after tho pas
sage of the selective draft law I'orto
Rico registered her young men to the
number of 108,000. The Porto Rico
regiment was the lirst In the nation
to be at its lull war strength. Six
Hundred and fifty volunteers were ac
cepted for duty to guard the Panama
canal. When General Townsliend took
up the work of recruiting, many ol
the men who lived far back in the
hills walked as much as 25 miles to
enlist.
Washington. Apprentices and cadet
oillccrs will be placed on nil large ves
sels (if the American merchant marine,
to be (rained for higher places, much
the siime us sailor boys were trained
to become officers and shipping mer
chants In the early days of American
seagoing, according to plan to be
put Into execution at once by the
rnlted States shipping board.
Tho basis of this plan Is a system
of Individual training on shipboard
for American yoiiih capable of rising
through Instruction to a shipping ca
reer, the ultimate goal of which Is, the
position of shipmaster, steamship
ftgent or manager, or trade representa
tive at home or abroad In the great
program of commercial expansion by
sea by which the country Is to keep
busy its vast merchant licet.
The plan has been devised ns pn ex
tension of the wartime' system of
training conducted by the hoard,
through which large numbers of Amer
ican bids were given brief Intensive
schooling on training ships, before be
ing sent to sea.
For Commercial Service.
This finished product Is expected to
mature In the form of able scam!! of
a high type, petty oflicers, dock and
engine-room officers all Americans
as well ns a needed supply or young
men experienced In sen-going ami cargo-handling,
who can he further
trained In steamship otlices and export
ing and Importing business .houses,
with u view to Inter commercial serv
ice connected with shipping.
It was this system of training that
enabled early merchants of Salem and
Boston to outstrip all rivals la foreign
trade, and make themselves and their
communities rich. i
In thus extending its present train
ing service which continues as here
tofore under the direction of Henry
Howard of Boston the shipping hoiiril
has the benefit of experience In train
ing cadets at sea gained by its new
director of eMminns, John H. Ron
seter of San' FruficiW
Mr. Rosseter has deckled Ideas on
the training of young American for
seafaring and for steamship opera
tion. ,IIe has tried out many of these
Ideas in 'a practical way through his
management of the Pacific Mall Steam
ship 'company, one of the largest ship
ping Interests operating from the
American West coast to the Orient,
South Seas and South America.
At the conclusion of a recent Con
ference at Washington of shipping
board officials Interested In develop
ing the training plans of the board un
der peace conditions, Mr. Uosseter
expressed his views on the subject at
length. Later he embodied them In
the following Interview:
High Class of Seaman Wanted.
"Shipping men are agreed that if at
tainment of our new and enlarging in
terest in foreign commerce is to be se
cured, we must certainly have a very
high class of American merchant non
men ; the same kind we have so ad
mirably developed for our navy.
"We all know of the higher social
standard that naturally prevails In
this country; and, personally, I would
say that I would not only accept the
present standards, but I am disposed
to go a step further, because that Is
the tendency; and If we are to get
good men and train them to be good
seamen and then , good officers, we
must see that they are placed under
such environment as will naturally
evolve into a condition of their being
cj Nil lieu, Mums, Sinn HI .-Neary ,
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J ii i'ii members of tb neral ' Per
$ shing's foi t In France, wax j'
(V himself In Pordiliig'.) command
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,j Oil III!,! I'UIIO- Ul ,'lll.l'!lll tl.ll Mil. j,y
ev the Indian rniiiin!s,-iis. IVrshlm; 1
$ was then second lieutenant of a '
ty cavalry troop and NVnry was u ,4'
tjj sergeant. J, ,
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good foreign representatives In com
mercial and Industrial linen, and
agents on the spiffs of the slenliixhtp
lines at Inline and In foreign purls.
"1 regard the recruiting service of
the shipping board ns something that
Is to produce for the laeivniitile inn
rine of he Fulled Suites a substantial
I.vpe of men of the foiimen'H class that
will be officers later on, meli who call
go abroad and learn the husliie.ss ami
enrry the Aiaiilcnn Interests with
them.
"I want to make seagoing Iti-d an
attractive as I possibly can. I want
tu attract to it the beys who coiiii
from colleges, and who know bow to
swim mid play baseball. 1 want to
iniilic condlllons aboard dilp stK hjIljat
they will feel It Is the best destiny
they can find. '"' '
"The men we want to attract' to1 Ida
sen, 1 reel, tire llie men such 'rM we
remember ourselves In our school Zfayi
nice, .clean boys, who bad good
homes, and who were leaving home
amid the old family discussion us to
whether they would be hankcri, Insur
ance men. retail merchant, or what
'not. I want to add to that list the
very Important and very alluring oc
cupation of the pursuit of the sea.
"When we ask American boys to
come aboard ship, we certainly must
all recognize that we have got to ns-
Mire mom oi quit,- a iiltteriiit condi
tion than has existed In foreign com
merce during the past thirty years;
I might say, unhappily exlsteij."
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tnntes of thbt wll.ter's (iie tul si
Washington.
cerdttig to the ivldeiice ubnillte.r!
l-oiiil liegolllitcil with Mrs, t'iilh-4
for the (llsmnntlemciit of the Iimik, ita
ter It hud been condeiiiiied by a t,i,
lug Inspector. Airs, (illleiuttd d.t
that null .mi urraiigement had !''
made itnd charged that Mi-Leini
(ho house.' The court coiiiliui,..
i use to give the principals fin tg
i unit y to adjust th imitler biil
thcuiselveli.
BRITISH GIRLS ARE TRAIN
Food Mlnlttry Prepare Young Wof
Employees for Commercial
Career.
THEFT OF HOUSE CHARGED
Contractor I Brought Into Court Ac
cused of the Larceny of a Dwell
ing House.
Medford, Mass. Churged with the
larceny of a dwelling bouse, Clarence
McLean, a building wrecker, has been
brought Into court by Mrs. Mary J.
Glllulatid, owner of the property. Ac-
London.- Hundreds of girls
ployed at the ministry of food n-;
trillion clearing house ttrc recehin,
structlons during working hur
commercial career. The .!.
county council has taken charge
their education nud each girl Is tlv
one mid a quarter hours every d.i
cept Saturday for Instruction a
study. :
Classes lire held three times u d
The girl are from sixteen to eight '
years old, Jv
There are classes In booCkecpi J,
French and shorthand, and tiie gi1'
lire also given the choice of recrcntl
clusse In elocution und winging. i
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SHELL SHOCK HITS
YANKEES LIGHTLY
Few Hundreds Only Are Suffering
From War's Strange
Malady.
MANY RESTORED BY PEACE
All Victims Will Be Completely Re
covered in a Year, Says Surgeon
General's Office Less Than
1,000 Cases to Be Treated.
Washington. Fear that the nation
will have a big problem on Its hands
in the care of holdiers suffering from
shell shock Is utterly without foun
dation, declared Col. Peace Bailey of
the surgeon general's olllce. Amidifv-
ing the statement before the senate
military committee that hundreds of
victims of the strange disease actually
recovered at. the signing of the armis
tice, Colonel Bailey expressed the
opinion that so far as present knowl
edge of the malady Indicates, prnetl-
SHOES FOR THE DESTITUTE BELGIANS
Premier Orlando, who Diluted t.
Italian ship of state during the great
trap
war.
SHE GETS MARRIAGE LICENSE
South Dakota Bride-td-Be Buys Docu
ment, Pays $1 for It, Then
Hunts Up the Judge.
Mitchell, S. D.-Cupld and woman
suffrage have apparently . flormed a
corporation here, Miss Marie Cipper,
twenty-two years old. strode Into the
offices of the clerk of courts of Davi
son county one morning recently and
planked a dollar on the desk to pay
for the first man-luce license ih i.u
ever been bought in this county by
a woman. After stie
the license she went out and found the
municipal judge.
While obtaining (he license Miss
Gippei- explained that her husband-to-be
was "too busy to get the license."
The apparent object of the purchase
was Inscribed on the clerk's record as
y royer, also of Mitchell
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The girl In tin i-ii,,!,,-..,,,,, ,,s s,.i n 1(
of shoes donated by p, iP , n ,,. j . A' L,,"elt ' an enormous pile
of Belgium. The shoe-, " .S"." M fVr e destitute people
distributing center of thousands of tons of el, ,,;,.' whlch ' the
ully all vicilms of shell shock slmu ,
be completely recovered within n je
the great majority In u much sle'irti
time. L
Less Than Thousand Case. !
, Jtejiorts received here are (hat liter
are now less than u thousand ru
of shell shock to be treated, thanks t'
the Improved methods by which t It
United Slates army combated the ii'
Diction. Preparation hud been mini
to take cure of 2,500 enses, sent to tin
Hide by March 1, but.tdnce hoMllltm
ceased word from Franco shows then
are only ,'joo cases there requlria v
treatment In this country. There nr.
probably about the sumo number ei
route home. )
it is accepted, here that the drop Ii
the expected number of sufferers
due directly to the news of (iermimyV
surrender. The otilv exnhinnilim f.r
this is the removal from the sufferer
of apprehension that they woult'
again be subjected to an ordeal that'
acting on the minds, actually twisted,
their bodies out of shape.
Serious as have been the ravages a '.
Hhell shock among the troops, said.'
Colonel Ralley, described by Surgeoi.,
ieiieral Ireland ns one of the counft
Iry's leading psychlatrisis,' the Uutei!
Mates forces have not suffered to tin
extent those of the oilier allies bae
I his is due largely to the fact that !
1'er cent of (he cases developing ha if '
been cured in the Held hospitals by I he
prompt treatment provided. -t
Given Special Treatment. T
Tho more seriously airiicted arc
brought to this country and sent to
I I'lattshurg, N. Y., where there Is a
special hospital of 1,,'iOO beds. Within.''
slu ti'ue alter admittance most
patients avow they are' regaining their:
IWIfltml j Ill ( ...
I '-"million, iiiki niter olisci'Mi- .
lion Indicates that this U so, they are',
n-moved to u casual deliH-hmeut lit Ihe ,
hospital for brief additional observa-',,.
lam. When it is evident they hae '
recovered they are sent to camps near,,
ilmir homos to be mustered out.
The rapidity with which cases are j
l'lng cleared through I'lattshurg con-''
vmces Colonel Ihiiley that there will"
I"-' few permanently disabled by the!
license. This is in marked contriist
to tho situation in England where
Here are 20,000 shell shock victims on
the pension rolls. '
Colonel Bailey revealed that, con-
liary to the generiil belief, shell shock
does not necessarily come from heavy
tannonnding. Proof of tills Is found )
In the fact that from 10 to 12 per cent f
of tho casualties in the Chateau ThI- I
wry fighting were shell sliock, most of t
these men having been exposed only