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HE FORECASTS THE WEATHER MMNNillli|N< ■S - m y «*• Whole Campaign Against ttie Teutons Hinges’on Ac tion of America. • BRITAIN IN STRAITS : , FOR MORE SURGEONS J ' Manchester, Rhg.T^Tie drain • • which the war has made Upon • Ji*the British medleiil ptyfessloft is j •-4 shown by the fact -that more '# ^ *■ •—tjinn ~ 25fi- physicians and ’tmr- • geons from the Manchester dis- • • , triet are serving in the army. 2 J The 1 insistent demands for • • more army surgeons will pet .J • slight response from this district • • A because it -has already tyepn « J ‘combed out, says the Munches- • • ter. Guardian. -7 :. ' ~ S Look to This Country for Men, Money and 8upplies—Renewed Activity Ih East Hope of General# in • West. [Swfwwi JSSCSLf By ARTHUR S. DRAPER. * - the'New ...York TribixicJ’- London.—Amertm jiow Impls the pi votnl posilion in tlie war.- 'This 1 ac 1 will become more^lrlklugiy appitreii 1 if) tlO' mjk t- Jje u ffUtiULha. , : .11... America today is like a foot bull play ■er-called info the game late in the sec CROW MEAT IS i'iiV Two German Pood Speculators in=-J*H4- for Trying to Corner-the^ Crow - Martyr Two German food specula- « extended their activities even to crows, which htr(»ln preiit do- d on account of th< goal For America to moot me. nan over the crossbar. '* America does not yet appreciate how much dependence the allies are plac ing on her. nor the dilliculties ahead. Hencelurth the whole campaign-of the grand allies will revolve a round Amer ica—and Russia. * Rut the Russian lenders today are frank to admit that for the present at least Russia will fol- low the.sympathetic lend of republican America, * • What Allies. Expect. . France is looking to America,to give her assistance4n tin* line of battle and to support her financially. Italy looks for money. Serbia hopes to get Slavs from America to re-enforce her buttered army. Belgium asks little, hut will he devoutly grateful for anything. Eng- land, strong and confident, is.overjoyed with what her new partner already.has 1 __ 'I***'I''W •' I >1 •»-*- *i* done. * _ America can and will poon .become ,tfie dominating factor of the war. She Is fresh ; her resources are unlimited'; she has a definite policy. Whether or not America Wants*the limelight, it will be thrust upon her. She can become the lender of the world or the scapegoat of the grand alliance. It Is for her to choose, hut upon what she does In the next few months will depend her position In the world for generations. Some weeks ago Premier Lloyd. George appealed to America for "ships, ships, ships.” Now his appeal, if he dared speak frankly, would be for speed. It Is nTl very well to talk of beating Germany lb 101K or. IMP, but It leaves people cold. The European statesmen know that the. .people will no longer be satisfied with anything hut hard facts.—Within the. central powers unrest has been bottled up for so long- that it- is becoming more dar ing,- and even the Prussian government fears revolution. The -vLloyd George government has no smooth path ahead of It, In every belligerent the same feeling exists7~T That Is why It is essential for Amer ica to make speed. Still Determined to Win. I must make It-perfectly clear that" blockade-runner. 4—Japanese cruiser Atoisa arriving at s Use Schools as Canneries;' Fond du Lac, Wis.—Every ^'school im 11 ding In the qlty this wiiiiifner wlJJ he converted into ff canning factory. Pressure cookers for canning fruits and vegetables will he installed and may be used gratuitously by house wives and schoolgirls c for the preser vation of foodstuffs during the canning season. Competent instructors jfrani the State university will be on hand to give aid. ambassador to “Japan. GENERAL WOOD IS WELCOMED BY ATLANTA Phntirojf California’s weather prophet taken in front’of his laundry Jn Simla 4 11 .. 9 . * •- ■ V 1r : . -v - Clara. Sing Kee hits been very suc cess fill this season in' naming the weathefr’Ve are to have, but, like ail Chines**/ doCs/imt .approve uf his ptc- lore being printed. Lie says “him sure no lain if you print bint-picture,-and if UeHookee sky then himJsuredaih." — His the Job to Clear Mysteries of Graveyards of • further, lie told me of one of. the most cent of his diving exploits. Seven Seas t he blade **f a ship’s propelk r trying to., release- a cable which imart foaled ns~she went down. ' As I finally got the cable free the propeller -began to move- and pitched me oflf. It revolved several times; I thought my number was up, as I belle v«l the blades Would cut 111/ Must Survey Ships Sunk by Subma rines, Mines and 'Shells in the Last Three Years —150 Feet Is the Limit. air cbmmnntcatlons only trouble was in regainthg ray feet again. It is extremely^dlffictflt to get a footing once you have lost it. Some times you corpti tiplegs first. It w-u-s a narrow ™sqycak/y One of tlnynnvy diyers'.recently lost two flngeps when nipped by^a mib which. ho said, measured fully two'feet across lts^ back. There . are many stories about divers which they them selves cast suspioionmn, but this was not one of thenIA!,, The fingers were gone when the man came to the sur face in an exhyusted condition. •With the Grand Fleet.—Submarines. 1uities and gunfire In the last three years have added more Victims to the graveyards-ttf. t,he 'seven seas-than in any other period of tlie world’s his tory. It wfH*-«M*Mrin for The* diver to clear*. ui*r4be'Triyseries that surround 1 lanyiof them. Even now the duties of these men, so little brought to pub lic attention, ls—tme of the most ex- woooq? 1 r.Qf SQADIER Gen. Leonard Wood, arriving in Atlanta to take command of the departriient of the Southeast, was accorded » rousing welcome. The lllustrntiQn _shows the parade of the students of the GCorgtn School of /Technology; which I have hud un opportunity of tulk lug with a diver who has had wide ex Lint .working, in the rnhl sans where fiontml Wtuid. nnntte:m.t ino.rttwi 353S55 iEam before comoleiefi naces survey of a wreck. It was a .difficult piece of, work, and one illustrative of the hardships of the profession. lie GUARDING THE STORM-WREAKED TOWNS WOOD'S SON A CAPTAIN is the octopus of tropical -waters. While many craft now lying'in "com- | shnHow water ’ may be dependenec on Amcrica to assist in ob taining a pence which, In the words of General Smuts, woGhl establish "se curity in the future” for all peoples, large' or small. But that pence cannot be secured without the full and speedy co-opera tion of America, 1 state this, not fill my own authority, but on that of-then who know every detail of the situa tion ns It exists today. ''Labor, Ireland, liquor and fond are only a few of the paratlvely pntchedvUp and raised when the war is over. It Is certain that divers will prln- ‘ elnally be-engUged In -ascertaining the ymereaboutB of tyrecks, the causeti— vn^iiel| lerLtmheir destruction, anti th« repairs:necessary to attempt any re covery of tl,ie vessels. The profession lias been largely'augmented during'the \Vyr. T-here are great (TIfITculties 'ln surveying ships,, particularly, if v ttfe>' tie in northern seas, where the water had found the wreck, but fully a mile ami a half from where' the vessel had foumtered. —A ^strong Current had swept it that distance. "Will it be possible to go down to the Lusifanin?", I asked liim, recall ing the discussion in American marine quarters us. to the posxjbilltyybf ‘sav- questions’whieh Ibis government must settle wliile at the same time It con tinues its pressure on the enemy. Around the British premier is a where sho-went dtiwh.-for any diver {o reach iier,” wa^/Iils answer. . "Of course filiero have -been many notable diving feats pfi^fecenr years - and new^ iriTProor nepxn'.Tire pfyssure is so great apnlie.aiH’es are always being experi- that bofttre divers Tire- brought to the lueiited with, though thojv.sccuis noth- : surface rhey-musL-linger. in a soft-of ing ti^/present which woijkT warrant "twilight zonV^at a deT*th .of 120 feet, the belief that-A-divei’-cotild go down !.or slightly 4f>ss, so their Rings can get tfi the great liner. ,H Is possible tfi : in proppf' shape before they can be group ot men compromising - —but'they hi juncture, and government by next-few week: NAVAL RESERVES ON BOSTON PIER tCkaMivXiXv., ith Lead Pencil'. • Capt.—Ossborho Wood, sop of MnJ* Gen. Leotinrd -Wood, commander the Southeastern department. Inspecting -flrms-ot ^.fiotnpany ,of Haryiard’a *?&• I»B(lott,r-TbeTkim?e of which ov»‘rthrew cx^zhLN Russia and the most Aiitm To i»revenf looting and other crimes In the Illinois towns struck by the tornadoes, membtus of the National Guard were put on duty. - One of them Is " ‘ " " “came hac^” goyr'i shqwu Jiere qiicatloning a, strainter. Above is a .family cat that 1.11 it t * 11T ilit It »» , f ^ Adme-tt knptv. tb'tlurfuins *of ment, with the stub of a bird iwuiclL’ The act of abdication itself was typewritten—the-.one tnAih-rn note in the. whole story<—but v^lien Yt came ’ Eagle Attacks Deer. .1 t ~ Home Economic*. • ' ' Fishing for Sharks.- AlherT Bilker, forest ran-ger.jit the- Prof. Harry F, Itausoh -In a lecture ^jfo. section of the Atlantic ifenboard Bingham Springs station in Oregon, at the OnLyersity b#-vW-g*hingtoj|!gave wiil offer n better field for exploitation repormT’an‘atTnck --n bald eagle some hlDts/ahouthome>cpQomics, one than the deep sea fishing .gx-otinds dL upon a iMiihd of seven deer near bm of which was thbt Loodk^hivshallow* reetjy off the .Delaware eSpcs, If At. Rtjitlon'. The ea^le would swoop dowm/^ans oopkt.mafe rapidly 'than ln -d^ep ; lantlc fisheg^ep decide To take advan. to signing no pep was,b* be-4i;»d. Finally, ,M.* Shulgih. who accooi- panted War' Minister Gucbkoff tc ; Hskto’. fi-lc-d a bit 4 l"iii| pencil from jikns, tKui Tavmg/tFWfe- Another wiftt that not a scrap of > HT of anjr sort nee3 be thrown awa.t, but all should go into • doable broiler and be tried out to use in frying «r as shortening fur paafry. v on the deer and strike one of thCitnE. mala with such force as to prostrate lt Tbe/anfer war tmable'To sseTBe finish, as the deer escaped over the jgdge. It la believed the animal* escaped hlis poeket, • The czar took, it and scribbled his nnmg with a shaky hand r *7The*e details of thereat Russian federal bureau of dsheries to the ic -coast fishing fleets that they More than J.OOO members orthC Naval Reserve, hailinCv frOHtall portions of the United States, ^tre now quartered on the Commonwealth phriC.South on a wholesale f revolution have just bben received whlfh has been taken over by the United States government h m Tm 1 ninw ntatlnn " -V 1 ^ fartud Into 1 training station. • * vmm * . x i i ^ '< y ;| v. jjA, ■yy jg' a jM It :gC. Wj as M- O- •“ .^4 x v, / tF * T ■* ICaGlwS sLi J Si i i B Mb g.n jfi v