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25101 CHANCE
FOR U.S.TR00PS
SURVIVAL
Five to One Against Being Wounded
tyedical Service . Most Danger
ous! . Engineers Second, Infantry
Third, Artillery Fourth and Avia
tion Safest Service of All.
YOUR CHANCES
IN FRANCE ARE:
Twenty-five to one iifjuinst
Ijuiiij; killed in one yeur's time.
Five to one nuiiiiist . beinn
wounded.
It' wounded
Four elmnces to one nninst
beinu; hurt badly enough to be
unl I, ,,,,.,
Four chances out of ten of
recovering -'eomplelely und re-
I iii'iiimi' In tli I'iriiifr ini
WASHINGTON, Kept. iiS.Tbc
American soldier in France litis 25
fliniH'es to be ulive nt the end of Ms
first years service at the front, tn
one of being dead. Four men out of
every hundred who reach the firing
line will be killed in one year's time.
This figure gives the lie to the de
liberate misstatements circulated in
print and word of mouth by German
agents or pacifist fanatics.
Order of Danger.
The order of danger in the various
ImAches of the army is:
1 Medical and sanitary service.
2 Kngineers, miners and sappers.
3 Infantry.
4 Artillery.
5 Aviation.
: The doctors have the most danger-
our job, tlie ainuen the safest. Cav
alry iVfe no longer used, unless as in
fantry. , ,
These yarns about the average life
v of an officer at the front being le.s
Vthan ''two weeks, .or a surgeon les
than u month are of a piece with the
laniasue stones or men iiciug drug
ged to' make them fight, or of tin
French army refusing to fight, cir
culated at the outbreak of the war in
crank anarchist circles.
Tho war college figures and esti
mates indicate the total los in om
year of nil the belligerents is about
4 iwr cent killed in action, died of
wounds and died of disease.
Loss Only 4 Ter (Vnt,
These figures, compiled from cas
ualty lists ohtained both from the nl
lies and the central powers, are prnb
ahly too high for the fighting on l!u
wem front, where the arts of pro
teetion, cover, trenching and burragt
fire cut down the number of slain.
tThe average is fattened by tin
heavy losses on the Russian front
where the officers of the czar fre
quently drove unarmed men to storm
German trenches, enfilading their
own troops in the rear with machine
gun fire to force them forward.
The estimates also include the ter
rible heavy losses of the first month)
of the war .on the western front
when the lighting was in the open
and large masses of men were ire
(piently caught by machine guns or
subjected to direct shrapnel bom
bardment.
There is reason to believe the wes
tern front losses were twice as heavy
easier in the war as they nre today
I'rovMl by Iteeorris.
This conclusion is supported by
figures ot insurance companies
which insured Canadian regiments
nnd the records of (iennan trad
unions and professional societies
1'igures trom the records o a i ter
mini Typographical union, n Teach
ers' society and a Berlin Bur associa
tion reveal early losres as high as S
per cent, later reduced by half.
Pen tli by disease at the front
Jess likely than at hniue in time of
peace, thanks to fre-b air, hard work
nnd good food.
J)eath li'om woiiihN is heroin im:
veryrnie owing" to the skill of the
surgeons.
About IS per cent of the American
nrmifs will be wounded. ; This i li ?
tlian one chiwice in five, or five
chances of coming out with a whole
skin against one chance of a punc
ture. ,
40 Per Cent Wounded IWover.
Of the wounded, 40 per cent re
cover completely and rctnVn t the
fight. About 40 (H-rcent are patehitl
up so that tliev can do work behind
the lines uHi policing, construc
tion work and garrisoning depot.
About -0 'T cent arc permanently
incapacitated tor military service, but
over half of these are able to do light
Work i" civilian life.
A I he Mur huw gone on and ull the
MONEY THROWN
I
A Dollar Invested in Aerial War
Fleet Is Dollar Invested in Air
Transportation After the War
Country on Eve of Transportation
Revolution.
WASHINGTON', Set. 28. "Kvery
dollnr invested in war aircraft is a
lollnr invested in air transportution
after tbe war.
The I'nited Stales is. on the eve
of a trnnsiortution revolution which
will follow the war. and the aircraft
hoard will probably pinv as impor
tant n part as the shipping board.
The air plans, as fur as possible, are
being made to facilitated transforma
tion into industrial equipment when
ace comes."
This is the statement of Senator
Morris Shepard, author of the ad
ministration aircraft board hill
which has passed the senate and is
pending in the-house.
Long before the war Sheppard had
proposed a department ot aeronaut
ics, the substitution of the plan for
an aircraft hoard was the result of
the pooling of ideas between the
army, navy and the aero societies.
Commercial Air Fleet.
The young officers who have de
veloped the army's air program have
from the very first modeled, their
plans with the view to an immense in-
lustiial air fleet after the wiir.
Just as a mercantile marine is nec
essary to maintain a fighting navy by
mirtui'ing the constructors, so will
that nation excel in air warfare
which has the most highly developed
air fleets in commerce.
Much of the work being done to
day is permanent. The aviation
training camps will be tniining cen
ters niter the war. The first air mail
routes will probably be between
these camps.
I he factories now turning out air-
aft parts and the assembling plants
will produce coiiimericiiil aircraft
Since the government has almost
absorbed the industry, it will prob
ably remain in government hnnd.-
just as the new mercantile marine.
Posiofftce Service First.
Undoubtedly the first commercial
service will be in connection with the
postot't'ice. A new fast mail service
carrying bank checks and speeding
up the clearing operations of the
federal reserve system is already be
ing planned.
A treasury department const pu
trid in connection with the revenue
-ivstcm and the life-saving service is
already being mapped out.
At the end of the war thousands r
air chauffeurs will return from the
buttle fronts ready to enter the new
business.
Many engineers predict the com
mercial development of the airplane
will sid-pass that of the automobile.
Thanks to the war nnd the necessity
of investing hundreds of millions of
government money in aircraft, the
industry has passed thru experimen
tal stages which would have occupied
years if left to private capital.
America to IxmhI.
The entry of the' United States
into the war in time to profit by the
mistakes and successes of the other
nations, with unimpaired resources
and credit, insures we will be in the
lead at the nening of the era of air
plane transportation.
Xo one today can set any limits to
the possibilities of the air routes.
Passengers, mail and light freight are
already in sight, also a tremendous
use of the airplane as a pleasure
craft. .
The new aircraft board is to con
sist of the chief signal officer of the
army, the chief constructor of the
navy and seven civilians to be nam
ed bv the president. The salaries of
the civilian members will be $7.'ll(l
per year. They are put in entire
charge of all aircraft activities until
six months after the war.
new weapons like yas nnd finim ir
jt'clnrs hiive been nutteheil liy new
defensive measures, the j ten-en t, -me
of lnses has ptne down steadily.
It hns now reached ahout Ihe atne
proportion n the l-s.. of the eivil
war, and the tendency N Mill down
iv a rd.
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NEW YARK, Sept. 2S Japan is
in tho war "to make herself as un
pleasant to the enemy as her phy
sical make-up will permit or her in
genuity conceive.'' declared Viscount
Ishii, head of the imperial Japanese
commission, at the New York-chamber
of commerce today. Iiis coun
try, he said, is an ally and partner
in the war which can bo brought to
an end only by the utter physical
defeat and humiliation of Germany,"
and Japan will do her share "In
Biich manner as to justify her in
claiming a place In the company of
honest men." His nation and this,
he said, have been friends for 50
years, and "we propose to strengthen
that friendship."
"This Is the day,'' he concluded,
"of the gathering of the clans of the
East nnd of the West. The day has
dawned In which the yesterday is for
gotten; when old prejudices, old
misunderstandings, fade and you
greet us as we greet you old friends
and new-made brothers in the strug
gle for human liberty, human free
dom and national existence."
LONDON, Sept. L'8. Viscount Mil-
ner, minister without portfolio in the
llritish war council, speaking today
at the American Luncheon club, de
clared against any peace with the un
repentant German rulers. Touching
on the cntrv of the United States
into-the war and the moral signil'i
cance of it, Lord Milner evoked i
tremendous outburst from those at
the luncheon when he said:
"I feel that your country nnd mine
are now united by something far
stronger than any written pact or al
liance, namely, by an absolute unity
of motives and aim."
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 28,-The con
stitutional coninilttco of the reich
stag, according to a dispatch from
Berlin, by a vote of 15 to 12 yester
day adopted a proposal to cancel the
concluding sentence of article 9 of
the Imperial constitution which de
bars members of the federal council
from simultaneous membership In
tho reichstag. Tho committee ad
journed after passing an order of
the day which declared:
"The reichstag will co-operate In
the event of the conclusion of peace. "
WASIIIXdTOX, Sept. '28 The
slight wounding of First Lieutenant
llowurd I-'. Keating of I'hiladelphia,
medical corps, during an air raid on
the night of September 24. was re
Mirtcd to the war department today
by General Pershing.
The death of Private .lames Tracy
of Philadelphia as a result id' "an
accident in Ihe line of dutv," also
was reported.
ST. IM IS, Sept. 2K Announce
ment was made today thai, ef fective
next Monday, station agents, npent
telegraph operators, telegraphers and
other station employe-, of the St.
Louis & San Francisco railway and
yard clerks and clerks in the t-eneral
oftiees who have not received an in
crease since January 1 will hi
anted a wau'e increa-e of S to 111
per cent.
a voided. "Muther's Fr'T.u" been
used by thour.'.l j of won-.r-n i- r thrco
KnTtiKon and fn'wcman tlrmld fn II to
..ty It rlfjht nnd nirnlnir. (;-t a battle
tr,!ay from your drufu'l.-t nd write for II
Jimtratfd (ruide- book, "ilotherho'id nnd
th Pnby". It M fr. Ad.irees The
PiradflcM PC'itfltrr Co., T'ei't. it, 100
Uiwar liuilJlLtf, Atlanta, Co,
REVOLT LAUNCHED
I
P1JTROGRAD, Sept. 28. The
last army order Issued by General
Kornlloff as commander-in-chief, re
printed iu the Novala Zhlzn from a
Mohllev newspaper, tends to show-
that Kornlloff was compelled to
launch his revolt largely in an effort
to thwart Gorman Ipans.
The order says that It had been
learned that German agents hud
brought about the great fire In Ka
zan, had expended millions of rubles
In disorganizing the coal mines In tho
Itlver Don region and that the Ger
mans were proposing a general of
fensive along the whole front for
the purpose of forcing a disorganized
Russian retreat. The Germans also
had planned to blow up the bridges
across the rivers Dnlther and Volga
and wero organizing a movement of
Maximalists In Petrograd.
General Kornlloff, the article adds,
had reason to suspect treason among
Irresponsible Russian organizations
In German pay. The general, not
doubting that irresponsible Influences
had the upper hand In Petrograd, and
that Russia was on the brink of an
abyss, took an extreme decision for
the purpose of saving tho fatherland.
WILSON'S
Closing: Out
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It Means Dollars to You
Shovels, JIocs, Rakes
and Grub Hoes and all
kinds of Tools, while
they last, tfoing at 25
6 Commodes going at,
oaeh 25
3 Second Hand Trunks,
each $1.00
Men's Dress Shoes, luit
ton and lace, worth $4
and $4 .50. Hint wfi have
been selling for $J),
going at $2.65
One lot of Hoys' Shoes,
sizes 1 1 to 13, going at
$1.49
Another lot, sizes 1 to
fit $1.98
25 below cost.
Dressers, Tables,
Couches, Chairs
Baby buggies
Time and Space will not permit a complete Tabulation of Special Lots and Prices
Special Snaps Will be on Sale Every Day During Sale
No Article in This Stock will be Allowed to Remain if Bargain Prices will move it
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OF'
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. The
return of 0-0,(100 striking iron work
ers engaged on the government's
merchant marine program, who were
scheduled to resume work here today
on a temporary wage increase, was
blocked by the refusal of the Iioiler
mnkers' union to accept terms stip
ulated in the agreement after a ma
jority of the unions had voted favor
ably. The Itoilennnkers' union, which is
affiliated with the Iron Trades
council, refused to assent to the
agreement, ultho the cminuil indorsed
it.
Approximately 100 of the shops,
which had not received the notice to
remain closed, resumed work early
today, bat wero notified by the em
ployers' associations to shut down
until the differences with the boiler
makers were settled.
A force of liOOO ealliered nt the
gates f tK, iTjon Iron Works, where
government shipping contracts to the
extent of $100,000,000 are being fill
oil. The plant was not opened, how
ever, and the men turned uwuv.
One Gas Range
almost new
$4.50
electric heat near
ly new, worth $20
going at $5.50
25 pairs 10 inch
high tops going
at $2.75
Men's Sweaters ....98
Flannel Shirts 85
Mackinaw Coats $7.50
Overcoats 98
Men's liliie Serge Suits
and all-wool mixtures,
going at. $9.98
COl'KXII.UiF.X, Sept. 28.-Under
orders of the military party, the
l'nn-Germiui Dcutsch Zcitung of
Herlin has been supptehsed nnd the
socialist Volkswacht of Uant.ig bus
been placed under preventive censor
ship. In connection with this and
other recent suppressions of news
papers in (ierinnny, it is interesting
to recall the ultimatum issued by the
main committee of the reichstag nt
its session in August. The commit
tee gave the government four weeks
to reform the censorship, restoring it
to its proper place in the control of
publication of military news. Cen
sorship of political newspapers by
the military has never been more ac
tive than at present.
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Any Ladies Hat
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Men's caps 25c
Boy's Caps 25c
Men's hats 98c
Men's work and
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$15 suits, late style
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Sale
2 Wood Heaters
each $1.50
All kinds of Dishes,
Cooking Utensils and
Tools on 5 and 10
Tables.
One lot of good
warm 2nd hand
suits at $3.50
Men's Khaki Pants,
well made, side buckles,
belt loops and cuff bot
toms, very special 98
All Trunks cut to tho
quick. Good New
Trunks going as low
as $3.50