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Show ' SAFETY " I iSM Trains and " f V Arnore.d h ' ' Protect v ----- ;.v-'' . Their Lives "Safety First" on the firing line pounds like a misnomer, but that is the watchword just the same. Napoleon Na-poleon never spared his men. That is how he differed from the generals gen-erals of today. The first thought of the men who are directing the fighting fight-ing In Europe is not for Immediate t su ress, lJU( for ultimate success. Napoleon was defeated because he lost too many men. Ho lost a noble army in Spain h- racrlfic pnother in Ktiesla. lie took no rare of hla wounded and when he wished to win a point he ga-e the word to charge and non. in the end he was beater. Today men are taught to spread out to protect themselves They are taught to seek rover whenever possible Their uniforms are made of a color Invisible a short distant e away. The famous Scots Grey painted their horses a drab r0nr because the white horses royM be seen too well In battle. Genera K leave off their braid whop they go into battle and keep It looking ni e for parade. In this war mnrr than in any othf-r. the soldiers have taken ad- I vantage of the defense holes in the earth can give Advantage is takrn of raiircni embankments as breastworks. breast-works. The men hoe covers for themselves for piotoction from aeroplane bombs They stand be-hind be-hind the railroad embankments end Ore through an opening somewhat some-what like the loop holes of the block bouses used to fight Indians. Hospitals are put underground In saves. Wine cellars are turned into officers' headquarters. r- mored automobiles and train hav Playej an Important part !r. this conflict. Even the submarine ts a safety f rl r, . r- , .,, . ts ajJ n(( r to proceed under wafer without being shot at by the one he Is going go-ing to attack General Braddock. who fought the French at Old Fo't fruquense. is a lype of the old i ie soldier of more than a century ago. lie did not bjblleve In fighting un-dei un-dei protection. If advanced on the French at Fort Duquense In fuV. dress parade regalia. When the French and Indians hidden hehln.1 trees openPd fire on him lie was helpless. His men shot from the hip herring it tvj? dishonorable to take careful aim t the enemy General Washington saved Brad-dock Brad-dock from annihilation because ho had no scruples of fighting to kill. It. Braddock probablv would not have uif-d a sbtsmarine to fight with ho-cavse ho-cavse it takes advantage of an un-seeing un-seeing enemy. letter felling of an attack by the German submarine U-26 upon fin unnamed Britfsli warship i published pub-lished by a newspaper at The Hague, it begins with preparation's; for the expedition "two hours before be-fore midnight." in order to make a strike at dawn. The letter, said to have been written by a member of the crew of the attacking boat, follows: fol-lows: "Around the heavy granite rocks ftf the long pier, monstrously bl: I. In the dark night, the storm sweeps up the water of the North Sea In angry waves Inside the pier the water lifts up our submarine in the fecula'- motion of the waves. Everything Every-thing Is pitch dark. The fact that So many people are hurrying about on deck Is only shown by the somber som-ber figures who now and then pass in front of the single lantern. From out . f the engine room, already un-flei un-flei water, there arises the sound of heavy pounding am; the weird f crackling ot the engines, which arc being trleo o'tt. SUBMARINE i.ni's i Ql EST OF ENEMY, When past 10 o'clock there is a shrill whistle from the little bridge which standi high above the sub marine and which is covered v. 1th heavy canvas. The office:' In command, com-mand, dressed in oilskins, gives the sign of departure, a short, sharp signal to the engine room, the sudden sud-den whirr as the motor catches, and the U-2C is under way. The sharp bow plows through the water. On both sides of .v.c ship long waves are formed, shimmering shimmer-ing with light foam In the blackness black-ness of the sea. wi move in a westerly direction. We are going towards the enemy. "The heavens are covered With clouds. Not u star Is visible. A few fett away from the boat nothing noth-ing is noticeable at a?l. The commander com-mander with his experienced eye, tries in vain to penetrate through this wail of solid blackness, The wind Is from aside and the bridge Is entirely Hooded with water. No noise is heard except the heavy droning sound of the motor and the swish of the water passing along our sides. The earliest signs of dawn appear ap-pear when suddenly in the near distance there Is the sight of B heavy bulk swinging high above as upon the surface of the water. Wo pass through the long tall of foam which a hostile torpedo destroyer has Just left behind, speeding towards to-wards the east. We have managed to find our way through the first line of the enemy's advance guard. From now on we must be very careful "A signal is heard and men appear ap-pear upon deck. The boat Is prepared pre-pared for action. The flagpole is taken down. Part of the bridge Is folded together and well fastened. The periscope is brought up to the proper height. Then the entrance through the combined bridge an . conning tower Is hermetically . A 1 I ( )P Vn armi ired tniin. ( :eiiter n ar-more ar-more I automobile. Beli v, A cave where supper is being cooked. Many of the men in this picture are wounded. closed. The tanks are opened and the Inrushing waters tell us that the boat is about to submerge. The gasoline motors stop their endless ouk. Electricity will drive us from now on until we shall reappear upon the water. "A yountr Lieutenant IS posted at the periscope and looks for the enemy. en-emy. The sailors take thc-lr position posi-tion near the torpedoet. The Interior Inte-rior of the boat is lighted with two small electric blubs. They make the darkness visible, but give no light. Here and there is a stale smell of oil. It is impossible to speak to each, other with tbe noiso of the engine and the water. The heat In the small room Is oppressive. STi RBJ M IKES ITSI ( r l i i t UNDER W M l r "From time to time the officer In command of the three torpedoes looks at his watch or with his compass, com-pass, both of which he carries around his wrist. Intently the men nil watch the signboard on the wall In front of them. The Storm Which Is raging upon the surface makes itself it-self felt In the depths. Every motion mo-tion of the water' causes tho boat to rock Up and down and up and down. "Wo think of the advantage of tho man on board a warship. If hla tirm eomes he can go down with a last look at the happy sun and Tho blue sky. We eo nothing, heir nothing If I he boat is to go down, we -ball all suffocate in the darkness dark-ness under Mater. Suddenly we all jump and forgot heat and bad air and discomfort. In i - small lighted letters the signboard says, 'Attention.' The officer in command com-mand holds the lever which will release re-lease the first torpedo. The sailors make ready to launch tho second one as soon as the first has gone. A few second; passing we must be very near the enemy. Suddenly the first sign disappears, half a second later the red, glowing letters say, 'Fire.' With a slnglu Jerk the lever M ! ases the torpedo. A short metallic me-tallic click, the noise of water rushing rush-ing into tho empty tube and all is over. The second torpedo Is at once pushed Into the tube. A few seconds later and tho Interior of the submarine looks as before the attack began. "But what of the nrst torpedo' lid she reach her goal? Instinctively Instinc-tively we have all kept count 100 meters, 200 meters. 300 400. Under Un-der water no sound penetrates. We hear only the noise of our engines. We wait. Nothing happens. Then, suddenly we are all thrown together to-gether by the jerky movement of the boat. Twice or three times more we feel that we have changed our course very abruptly. "Then tho boat rolls as before. The regular purring of the engines Is heard. Our submarine Is rapidly rapid-ly moving eastward. "We are on our way home. Tho attack has been successful." Advance In Medicine. Fortunately for us all. whan In - m. 7 ' V tiiese days anyone In the family Is stricken with a sore throat and diphtheria is suspected, says Dr. John Nelson Ooitru, in Preventive Medicine, there Is a simple plan which will guarantee few, if any deaths will occur from this onco dreadful malady. The unexplained wonder Is that so many arc slow to avail themselves of the safeguards safe-guards offered. They seem to have a greater dread of the presence of the diphtheria sign on the houso than they have a much more wholesome whole-some and reasonable "ead of tho disease. The death rate from dlphtheila u too high everywhere, this authority author-ity asserts. It is only necessary to um) the antitoxin soon enough. Tho globulins which it contains are entirely harmless. Safety lies in giving the antitoxin early in the disease, beforo the germs have time to overwhelm the system with their poison. i The death rate from diphtheria among those who receive the antitoxin anti-toxin within the first three days is practically nil. Some die who get the antitoxin on the fourth day. .More get it on the fifth day, and :ul!l greater numbers are so unfortunately unfor-tunately neglected that they do not get it until after the sixth day. Three usual sources of the disease are school contacts, household contacts con-tacts and milk. Diphtheria Is not a disease which spreads very far nor very freely, probably not through the air at all. It is essentially es-sentially a contact infection. Persons Per-sons In other parts of the house are not liable to become infected, pro-vided pro-vided precautions as to absolute H cleanliness in regard to this spe- H clfic Infection are observed. Do not H any members of the family H touch anything from the sickroom. neither clothing nor utensils, nor mingle with those In attendance. The trying question in many cases is the question of diagnosis. When the onset Is severe: when the lever a high and the heart is beat-ing beat-ing rapidly with a full and bound-lug bound-lug pulse; when the sick one is very much prostrated and is vom-::lngl vom-::lngl when the face Is flushed and the throat is sore, and there are severe pains in the Jaws and neck, there will be little doubt, for the train of symptoms point closely to-ward to-ward the dreaded disease. -In the greater number of at-tacks, at-tacks, however, tho onset will be less marked and there is likely to be some question as to just what is the matter with the child. While a sore throat does not always mean diphtheria, yet it is equally true that tho throat symptoms In an at-tack at-tack of diphtheria are not always plain. It does not answer merely to look at the tonsils, and If you find no white spots to say at once that the case Is not diphtheria. On the other hand, not by any means all tonsils which have white or yel-lowlsh yel-lowlsh spots on them are diph- Until very recent times physl-elans physl-elans have been compelled to de-pend de-pend for settlement of this vexing question upon whether or not the spots on the tonsils would rub off, Nowadays, however. he depends wholly for diagnosis upon labora-tory labora-tory examinations, when he Is for-tunnte for-tunnte enough to havo access to this valuable aid. If not, he makes up his mind on the symptoms and uses antitoxin in all cases In which he Is in doubt. In using the laboratory test, a sterilized cotton swab is applied to the tonsils and throat, and is then placed In a sterile test tube and sent to the laboratory. Here it Is slipped into another test tube partly tilled With a .sterile culturo medium which Is especially favorable to tho grow th Of the Klehbs-Loeffler bacillus, the germ of which, causes diphtheria. Tills tube Is called the culture tube. If the germ was present on the throat or tonsils, the culture tule will. In the course of six to twelve hours, contain a few pearl like dots .ilong the line where the cotton touched the culture medium. In that case the result of the test li said to bo "positive," which mean; that the poison of diphtheria Is But If no such little pearly colo-nlea colo-nlea of the germs are found, it Is the rule to make another test Only when two or more negative results ne Obtained la the subject held to be si f ft. H I |
