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POISON GAS FOR HIGHWAYMEN 500, 000 chosen crusaders, more suffer casualties from moral disorders than from the shells of the enemy, there la to be a military.. departure-ia gal ast viee nnd in fern pern nee. n prophylaxis The wa s t age of' the war was from bad beef Instead of bullets, from mosquitoes In place of mis- slles, from flies and disease rather than from the destructive force of the Spaniards. Science and sanitation triumphed over the mosquito. Now it remains for American army moral sanitation to triumph over the ruthless booze and disease. One can rend in the draft law, In thp regulations and In t he express actions jof Secretary of Wur Baker that he means this army of 500,000 clean yoyng Americans to tie the first army that ever took the field and stayed In the field and relumed from the field untnlnted by the dual war vices. Secretary Baker Is determined that the wounds inflicted upon our array of lilterution shall be those Inflicted by the central jmwers, and not those so habitually Inflicted by the urmy upon Itself. Recreation Is to take the place of Idleness and Indulgence. Adjoining mlnamutlc swamps of hooze and vice are to be drained. Resort will be had In garrison to healthful exercise, to whole- some amusement, tb activities to to and devices the that healthy men loday Indulge In nt home. Says Surgeon Major D. C. Ilowurd In a recent Spanlsh-Amorlca- n . , ene-mlo- s, off-ho- ath-Ictfe- Famous Minister Declares That Had Always Wanted His Church 'Called The Exeter Club The sexton of Edward Everett Hides "hureh suffered from that convenient form of deafness that prevented a man from hearing what he. does not wish to hear and enables him to hear what he does wish to hear. Oeea-sionall- " Army Man Invents Device Designed to Prevent Robbers From Entering Railway Car. It would be a sad gang of robbers who tried to break Into the railway car Invented by George W. Meyers of the United States army and described hi Ihe Popular Science Monthly. They would be greeted with clouds of poisonous gas fumes. ' car works with Meyers robber-proo- f Two tanks. In extreme simplicity. which fumes of cyanide of potassium are stored, under pressure, are fitted Inside the car at each end. These are connected with a perforated pipe which extends all arouud the door of the -' car. Justim baek-o- f -- the held Should the train be work. up, the locomotive engineer would tele- phone the guards within the car, who would Immediately open the valves of the tank. The fumes would stream out through the pipe perforations and Into the robbers faces. The door bethe deadly gas could not ing penetrate Into the car. outer-frame- gas-tigh- t, Absent-Mindednes- s. A parson noted for his bad a habit of forgetting something he intended to sny In the pulpit. Then, after sitting down, he would rise up again and begin Ills supplementary, remarks with. By the way. Recently he finished his prayer, hesitated, forgot what he was about,' and sat down abruptly without closing. In a moment, howeve.t, he rose, pointed hts finger nt bis amazed congregation; and exclaimed: Oh, by the way, Amen. Harper's absent-mindedne- ss Magazine. tvnr department bulletin : Recreation will he of great value. Idleness Is said to be the mother of lechery. Wholesome amusements nnd athletics will make the garrison so( attractive that the soldier will be inclined to spend his spare tlnw In garrison. No present-daproblem in military preventive medicine Is of greater Importance in relation to the physical efficiency of the army than thut of effectual control of venereal disease. Thns boldly is the Issue stnted, because thus boldly does the secretary of wnr promise to meet mans worst enemy, which Burgeon Major Muus describes as The Great Red Blague." Here Is the common foe of embattled mankind. Aid and comfort have been given this enemy by the and prudish censorship of social y venereal diseases than any other array in the world. Tests show that 10 per cent of the recruits are Infected on enlistment. Venereal prophylaxis is the order of the day. science, "We want no dnnmged goods In the American army-o- f democracy, Cnpt E. B. Vedder of the United States Medical corps, declares.. And, to show how strictly docs General Gorgas propose to muke the American expedition ns clean as he mode Havana and Panama, the Wnssermann test, and not mere height and eyesight, is the snpreme standard of fitness for this war. This 500, (XX) army of select men, possessing youth, physique and health, the wnr department proposes to return to their homes, If they survlve-mershot and shell, os fit fathers of a future race. The distressful (ninny returned men and ofllcers say the disgraceful) soclnl, conditions that obtained on the Mexican border will not be repented nt Plnttsburg, at Niagara, at Fort Sheridan or In Europe. The El Taso vice barracks, the hideous dives this nightmare will not be lived through again. It belongs to the typhold-mnlurtage. The great American game of baseball will form a vital part In the training of the soldiers of the When young America In army of democracy. civil life is not at' work it is at the ball game or at the motion picture show or at play in some form. ' The American expeditionary soldier will play ns fast ns he will train for service. This Is the dictum of a recreation expert who knows the value of recrentlon, moral and educational, and who also knows the philosophy of Messrs. Baker and Gorgas. My authoritative Informant continues with an enthusiasm that is Inr- -; fectious? "Good athletes take such pride In their physical fitness (and good soldiers are necessarily good athletes) that they will not abuse their health by But, aside from personal pride. In indulgences. fitness, play is In Itself the great prophylaxis against Immoral abuses. Work Is a prophylactic agent against disease, hut play Is Its counterpart, If not Iti peer. Play means-healt- h. The playsplrltralone normal. Play Is the preventive against physical and mental and moral breakdown The rediscovery of playas a social agent Is one of the most vital discoveries of modern times. It has Recreation is. its organized application. been upplled educationally. It has been deliberately applied to redeem the city youth from crime and degeneracy. But it lent Itself naturally, unconsciously, to the adults, needs tn the . nrarvoiousdevelopment-e- f recreations other than booze and vice. Secretary of War Baker Is sensitive to modern sociological developments. It went, without saying that, whatever might be his merits or demerits in practical military organization, he of all men would bring to the American army of democracy an appreciation of the sociological factors. A system of recreation for .the enlisted man that will supplant booze nnd vice will undoubtedly take shape from the earliest mobilization, nnd will con- , tlnuo to be a safety device for this uniquely protected army nn the battle front. One observes with keen Interest that the war " department .has. engaged a number of the at recreation for the supervision experts large training camps. There Is here no mere theoretic attention to play, no paper application of recroariot jddlesnhjv no more jhjUmjUropiC..Sv-Interesrithe "soldier's Idle hour similar to the e -- r Oil, I OStOTJ1 "1 U CooiFoddion a Hot Day I 83 SAYS TRY Post Toasties for lunch! THE KEW CORN FLAKES . Statistics are available to those who will not give them specific publicity showing that these social diseases unfitted hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the front from duty on the firing line. More terrible than the bullets of the combatants alike to the Invnders and to the Invaded were the ravages of these diseases at Badujoz, In the Penlnsulnr campaign, as to Rome and Naples In tffb Spanish Invasion. More terrible than an army with banners are the camp followers in Jts wake. These disquieting truths should be kept hidden, lest the patriotic spirit be discouraged, provided rthfr United States proposed to take part In the War on this basis, provided the propagation of disease were one of our objects In the war, nnd provided there were no way of protecting our 500,000 chosen soldiers and thereafter the nation from the ravages of a plague. But the war department knows this enemy, to be vulnerable, and It proposes to fight It In he open field with social prophylaxis, and to crush It, both In the training camp and In Its present lair, the trench zones of Europe. But before these preventive recreation plnns can be made effective there must'he positive exclusion of the unfit. Weed out the Infected Is the new watchword of the recruiting authorities. Infected recruits, If not detected, wtll prove an Impediment to the army, filling first the hospitals rand finally the pension lists. contains no provision more vital The draft-dato the security of the nation than section 13, whleh nuthorir.es Secretary of War Baker todraw" a dead line about our military camps for Infection. The Canadian military camps became excursion points for thousands of wives, mothers, sisters and, under this cloak, of others who had no particular qualification except enthusiasm for the aoldter and a pronounced reaction toward the y' unl-for- . ni. Driven from the mile or more limit, these latter x Mae-Lnchln- n, x booze-inflicte- d, w it , ye ctly -- Worth makes the man, hilt not his bank account. y, when sweeping the sidewalk In front of the church, some stranger would ask him for information, and his usual answer vvas a wave of the land. "Im totally deaf, totally deaf. You will have to ask someone in the church. It often happened that Doctor Hale, In the midst of a busy day, would find the luncheon hour at hand and an important appointment still umpe It was his custom to Invite hlsrijller Into his study, and ask thojanitress to make an oyster stewyThe sexton resented Doctor Hales Informality. The time came fur a new sign to be placed on the front of the church, nnd Doctor Hale and the assistant pastor were standing In the vestry ai.de discussing just what the wording of it should be. To their surprise the conversation was suddenly Interrupted by the deaf sexton who stood far enough away to make doubtful the ability of normal persons overhearing what Ill tell you what to had been said. on he exclaimed. that sign! put welcome! Come In! Everybody the day of hours Meals served at all . and night ! All right, said Doctor Hale quickly. Thats what we will do. Ive alset up at whatever distance and expressed their ways wanted to call the church The patriotism In Indulgences for which the war made Exeter Club ! " Youths Companion. a tolerant conspifence. And Canadians are among the strlctestpuritans in the world. By devious New Method of Waterproofing. wompretexts," hundreds of these soldier-smitte- n A French scientist has recently recen followed the units to Europe. ommended a comparatively simple forWemay quite as well ignore the experiences of mula for waterproofing shoes and the allies In Europe, for our own experiences are fiothlng. It Is a' solution of paraffin Hch enough. The government has issued no bul- nnd gasoline, the proportion being apletin showing the number of soldiers Incapacitated one avoirdupois ounce of by disease during the Mexican expedition, but the proximately one to paraffin quart of gasoline. For only available authorities, the Individual militiacan It shoes be applied warm, with a men and ofllcers, recite a distressing narrative of can be dipped into clothes while brush, In more than one debauchery on the border. Instance dives were set up In full view of the It cold. The solution tends to preserve officers camp, though, of course, outside of the the softness and color of the material. Uniforms can he treated with It withauthority of the' war department. And to such out removing the buttons or insignia. wretched dens the soldiers resorted because of the utter vacuity of border soldiering and the lack Years Old. Gander Sixty-Siof adequate recreation facilities. An lives at Islay, Scotaged gander It Is these experiences which now determine the war department to achieve a, new triumph for land. It Is the property of a Mr. years and Is now sixty-sisanitation by Inaugurating a system of thorough prophylaxis, substituting recreation for stupidity, old. For 45 years It belonged to the Idleness a ndjrlce indulgeneeThoAmericnnarmy a hotel rat Bridgend,-Scotlanproprietor-- of Twenty-on- e of democracy Is not to be a disease-infesteyears ago tha d of the present owner army. It is to triumph over mankinds father-in-laworst enemies before It leaves our soil, and It Is bought Mr. MacLachlan says that to carry its triumphs to Europe, there to advertise the gander looks as well and ns young to the whole world the new American idea and seems as active as It ever did. social prophylaxis. There is no doubt about Ita age- To such an arm very American mother will be proud to lend her son. William J. Black, in After a man has made his pile bs New York Tribune Magazine. believes In himself. . s, q 7 He .Interests hick a., charitable take-in" gentleman-wou- ld supplying" fractsto a hospital, or books to an old ladles home, or a bat and ball to a nephew. The problem before us Is scarcely of a part with society work. However, to avoid any of sensationalism. It Is well to follow the gesture words of the war department bulleserious plain, tins to Illustrate the viee side of the problem. Capt E. B. Vedder of the United States Medical corps, In War Department Bulletin No. 8, writes rbstantlally ns follows: a reproach in that we Our sick report on men sick more the have had report because of has-bee- . n f Use of Wireless In the Great War Wireless has proved a great boon In war. A the horizon, far out of sight By this time the scout airplane today if up to the minute has a had grown .so fierce that the. operator was firing " wireless set aboard. This" provides It with" the forced to manipulate his key lying on his back in bis cabin. At last the welcome news, Can only means of communication with Its base, or with the battery of "heavy guns, when engaged see your smoke. Ilang on. For Gods sake upon the direction of artillery fire. The wireless hurry up; theyre shelling us like b , replied is the voice of the oceans. It links up ship with the Californian operator. This the German operator intercepted, and had his guns trained full ship, however distant from the land or from the recogulzed routes of. trade. Without It modern on their aerial, their last hope of salvation. Luckinaval warfare would be Impossible. The ly the German shooting was wild, and eventually the British warship hove in sight. Immediately signal is the most urgent and sacred call in the wireless world, a call few operators will ignore. the submarine dived, and they were ordered And yet the enemy has made false use of this report her trail. Yet earlier in the 'war occurred the signal. There was one case of an 'American skipunhappy Breslau and Goeben affair. Whensurrou&ded per somewhere, off Bantry bay, who, picking up an S O S some 50 miles distant, made thither at by British craft, these two powerful men-of-succeeded in effecting an escape,' sighted only top speed, to find on arrival, not a vessel In distress, hut a German submarine, the commander ,,ne oJLour light cruisers.-- Immediately rahe wln7 of which not unlymade" urf "aiHfiogyT tuf was so lessed for help. In the year 1915, 26 vessels were annoyed to find that it was an American instead reported of a British boat that he had snared that he. the radio Inspectors of the United States to have b threatened to sink it there, and then ; and sent out the call for assistance. The calls in- yvpul4. havo .pu4 .his threat dnto f orce had, -c- htded- wMrott-p- r aff.WdST Jucludinr'coliisioW not a British destroyer showed up on the horizon. broke ashore.. running, ' storni, was' that " of The cargo" sttSuaer cargo shifting and torpedoes. In one case, that homeward bound from Amerof a Greek vessel which caught fire In mid-- , ica. She kiuhted a German submarine in ocean, she was abandoned by the passengers and and made off as fast as her engine would crew, aggregating 470. Within two and a half hours two other vessels had taken on board, in permit, .the enemy In hot pursuit; her wireless one cae 341 survivors and in the other the r?- operator sending out the SOS signal as fast as he knew how. Meanwhile the shell fire grew nmlnlng 129. The origmul vessel was entirely fiercer, the ship was raked from end to end. They destroyed. had not a single weapon of their own with which Oh another occasion a vessel with 1,700 Italians to retaliate, but they stuck to it as only British" aboard caught fire nt sea. The SOS signal Imsailors can. Then there came an answer to their mediacy brought up another vessel, which took off GtX) survivors, then It Coming to your help. Ilang on. signals, conveyed the disabled was from a British somewhere across boat Into port without the loss of a single Ue. t 4 and -- , -- SOS w -- " prob-,,ablj- Anglo-Callfornia- n. mid-ocea- - man-of-wa- r, n, skillfully blended and processed make Jilic i a most delicio Tfo o d in "Havor as well as a great body, brain and nerve builder. |