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RETURNiHS YAHKS |-' i A HOMESICK LG1 fee ' Never Want to Look Statue c [ Liberty in the Face Again. HE WILD TO GET ASHORI "When 1 Get the United States Unde My Feet I'm Going to Stay There," k. Said One Homesick So!* ^ dier. r ? , New York.?To understand the feel E ings of the Americans boys release ft from the war and pouring back int R the United States as fast as steamer can b.ving thsm from Europe, one rnus r 1 : l . ,..p ? + ? K^rv^, nave &UUWU uic pauga ui av.uic uuuii sickness. They are downright homesick. You read it in the nungry eyes tha . peer from the troopships when the ernment revenue cutter with its littl I handful of Americans in civilia clothes runs alongside. From ever ! inch Ox space along the gunwale, froi jyardarm3 aud rigging, from the top jmost pile of life rafts to the bottom 4 i most porthole, are yearning facei | They know the coming of the cutt ! is a sien of deliverance after the trans | port fit the threshold of home has bee | detained at overnight quarantine o: | Fort Hamilton. Now they will be abl | to go on up the bay. ! Faint "Ee-yow" Grows to Wild Ye! ; At first a faint "ee-yow!" come ! from one or two throats, hnd then ri] pies along the deck, increasing in vo ume and shrillness till it becomes wild whoop, reverberating across th . > 1 bay. A month ago it would have serve for a battle cry. Today it is a shou of boyish delight, of greeting for th little cutter load of civilians?the firs group of Americans the soldiers hav i? , setrii iu luuuius. k ' Somewhere in that shout there is r'-. plaintive, note, and you get its meai ing if you are one of those first civi ians who board the transports as th group on the United States cutter In migrant do, scrambling up a ladde while the boats are under way, fc the troopships lose no tim# in startin their wheels at the signal from th customs officers. "Does it feel good to get back?" yo ask the first boy who grabs your han on deck. "Good?" he repeats ferventl: ?. T XTnfhincr over ?nod f MWA1 vwv* -w the world. Yon can tell 'em all whe I get the United States under my fee it's going to stay there. Some bir said when he got back from tiic- war h never wanted to look the statue a liberty in the face again. That's m< In a little bit she's going to see m coming home for the last time." It was T^m O'Donnell of Chicag who made that long speech. He wa one of the third constructional con pany aerial service, who came hom on the British boat Orca, and he an L more than * 10,000 other "Yanks" r< r turned from Europe this week and ar now at Camp Mills, L. L, waiting t * be mustered out. As these troopships come throng the Narrows into the upper bay th pF sun is rising like a huge red ball abov the roofs of Brooklyn, silhouetting it spires and towering buildings and glim ing across the rippling bay. Throug |k an avenue of bristling masts the trans A port bears its soldier cargo on towar R the North river till Fort Hamilton ha been blurred into the morning mis V and the masonry giants of lowe Jk Broadway stand out against the nortfc ; era sky. "Glad I'm an American." And the homecoming soldiers, off cers and men alike, lean against th rail and drink in the beauty of it al as if they never could get enough. A old-time bark swings at anchor clos by, her four masts and square riggin kin picturesque contrast to the crazj quilt camouflage of half a dozen ocea: ^ barges raoored near her. Ferries loa( ed with New Yorkers going to wor scurry by, while their passengers wav handkerchiefs and cheer the hom< ward-bound soldiers. An officer of the aviation corpsthese first troops to come back ar ^ nearly all of the air service?takes m long, deep breath. "The most wonderful roadstead i the world. It's glorious. I'm glad Fi [ an American," he said. "You i said something, brother," sai a private who was leaning over th >- -It 4 M J 4.U ^ ran ai ms eiuuvv. ^iuu me umcei wa too intent in his siirvey to note tha a subordinate had addressed him witi out saluting. WHOLE WHEAT TO ENGLANI Decision of United States Food Ac * ministration Is Pleasing to British Millers. ' Liverpool.?British miilerv, are deej ly grateful for the decision of the Uni ted States food administration to sen "whole wheat to England instead c flour. uur nour mms were aoout 10 snu down, throwing thousands of skille workmen out of employment at a tim when demobilization threstens to dif rupt many industries," a prominec miller told the International News Sei ^ vice. "America's action in sending u JP wheat represents the highest type c worid service. And it shows that th American miller is not selfish." ; HI SHIFT COST [ BELGIANS JOBS il Not a Factory in Country Can B( Operated. 300,000 KtKMEN ARE IDLI All Machinery and Tools in Belgiun Were Carried Off by German In vaders ? Work of Destructior Stopped on President Wilson's Pro test?Spirit of People Is Untouche< by Years of Oppression. Nine hundred thousand workmen ii liberated Belgium are idle because th< hormone /iff oil maphin?>rv sinr ^ VV&UiUilO VU11AVU V*A UA* * tools iri the country. Not a factory ii the country can be operated. ' The Germans wrecked two mines be fore they were stopped in their worl j of destruction by President Wilson'i v protest. . The other mines may be opene( q soon, but the factories must wait fo] j machinery. When it will come nobodj n knows. "Rnt snirit nf thp nponte is? tin j. touched by the years of oppression L Nightly parades and the clatter o: 3 wooden shoes as they dance in th< j, streets prove this. c Government appraisers are now on 5 in all parts o? Belgium reviewing th< ^ damage done by the Huns for the res toration bill which is now being drawi I up. This bill will be presented to tin * peace conference. y There is about seven weeks' foo< (. supply in Belgium. During the day t of German occupation the rich ha< ( everything, but the middle class sutf 6 fered terribly. The workmen existe< t by means of soup kitchens. Ample Food on Hand. * The hotels now have ample foo< '* stores which the Germans left. Thir ty thousand eggs were found in th< s Deutsch bank. b Other food was stolen by the Ger V mans from their own stores and sol< e to the Belgians during the retreat, in *- eluding herds of cattle at $10 a head * In the hotels and shops of Bruges ?t Brussels and Ghent almost anything g may be hand, but the prices are higl e because the supplies are limited. The masses of the population an o still dependent on the committee! 4 which have undertaken to handle tin food problem. ^ Pork and beef are about $3 a pound q butter is $2.50 and eggs are 50 cent: jy each. ;t -Belgium is prostrate, hungry, bm 0 joyous. Slie Is putting her best fooi forward, hiding her rain and "carry (f ing on" till things get going again. ^ Dozens of Belgians have told m< with touching confidence that Ameria was going to send Hoover to direct tin n work of reconstruction. This is gen ~ erally believed by the Belgians. ? I entered Belgium from Calais an* passed the first thin string of thriving d little gardens running right to the edgi u of No Man's Land, where everything e suddenly became a barren and pock marked desert. There the only iif< was the German prisoners working 01 the railways and their guards and thi little fnmilips nf rpfiifr#*p<? standin! amid the runs of what once had beei Q | home. , On the east of the old German linei h it is still beautiful Belgium. Dixmudi , is but a rockpile, but Brussels an< ^ Ghent appear undamaged until yoi t enter the factories stripped of thei J machinery and the homes stripped o r their copper and brass and wool. L. Flags Still Flying. At Bruges, where the orgies of th< U-boat crews were held, the German in their hasty evacuation left a sei e geant to bring- on the string or nag u from the public square?flag fo n each ship the U-boats had ?nnk. Th flags are still there. The sergeant i said to have accepted a final drinl Jm and left them. Brand Whitlock, American ministei ^ who arrived in Brussels the day befor k King Albert, was given" a great ova tion. It took nim hours to make hi ^ way through the cheering crowds t< his home. He was made an honorar; burgher of the city. Antwerp had al e ready conferred a similar honor. a Four days after the Germans lef Brussels the Belgians had erected ; n beautiful plaster model for a statue t n America and. another to Edith Cavell They will remain until they are re 3 placed by stone. The Belgians pouring back into thei s country from the west, from Hollan< t and from Germany are all smiles. Th lm place they are making for may be onl; a pile or runs, or a nouse srnppeci o all furnishings, but it's HOME. : SOLDIERS DEMAND BIBLES [. Three Great Publishing Houses Worl ' Night and Day to Supply Demand. Three groat publishing houses ii America, England and Scotland ar !" obliged to keep their presses mnnin ~ night and day to supply the demand of the soldiers for Bibles, declare 1 Rev. William Austin Hill, New Eng t land secretary of the American Baptis " foreign Missionary society. "The Bible is called for more thai any book among the soldiers," sail ** Rev. Mr. Hill. "It is printed in 8 languages and a copy lasts a soldie '"! on an average, about three months ? So four copies are given each appl: i cant. Tfc<?re never was a time in th history of the world when men Tonge wore for the Scrip mres/* ! ly "DOCTOR" VAK ' His Cure of Shell Shock Cases if ?- * _x :_i _ I-ranee asionimibs Physicians. ' NEVER STUDIES MEDICINE 1 , Sergeant Accomplishes Wonderful Results in Treatment of Patients Sufj fering From Nervous Afflictions?Says He Is Not Hypnotist. 3 Par'.s.?"Doctor" Van isn't a doctoi j really?that is, he has ne^er Deen m! side a medical school. He is not a commissioned officer, either. Two days .: after war was declared in America h i enlisted in one of the cities of the midj die Wes? and came over as a private. He is a sergeant now. His experiences I ?driving an ambulance first, and after r that in the front line and then in varij ous camps in France until he was sent to a base hospital as a patient?would ? fill several diaries, if he keeps such things, which I doubt f But there are a great many men in 8 that base hospital who owe their returning health to him after they had t been in bed for weeks, and even a months. Now, although they admit ~ that he is well again, they will not let 1 him go from the hospital, because a d transfer is a long and tedious business to bring about, and they need him j there to help out with the patients. He was out of bed only a day or so -, j himself when he came across two boys N , in one of the wards who had been in " j the hospital since April. They had been | shell shocked, and in^all those months, _ I from Anril to September, they had grown scarcely any better. 1 Asks Leave to Try. - "Captain," Sergeant Van said one ^ morning to the doctor in charge of the p( ward, "do you mind if I see what I u can do for those men there? I think i I may be able to help them out a bit if * | you don't mind." * j The captain looked at him interest? edly. If it had been any other man the , * captain would have been indifferent, 1. perhaps. But Sergeant Van has a way pc ! with him. . *! "Oh, go ahead, Van," the captain " 3 agreed. "Do anything you blame 3 please." ; ^ Next morning on his rounds the cap * tain stopped beside the bed of the first . 3 of the two men who had been shell shocked. v v ^ t "How's it coming this morning, . boys?" he asked. j "F-f-fine, sir," was the answer, a lit-; ^ tie unsteadily given, perhaps, but the ^ 5 captain did not notice that. He sat 1 down on the bed and looked at the boy 5 in amazement. Those were the first ' words he had spoken aloud since thej day he came to the hospital, uncon-j t' 1 scious, five months before. * . At that ipoment Sergeant Van hove w J into sight from the diet kitchen. He w ? had a plate of milk toast?a plate the " boy in bed followed with an interested ? gaze. 1 "Beg pardon, sir," Sergeant Vac QI s said, saluting, "but I must ask you to \ j ? wait until my patient has had his Ji 1 breakfast before you talk with him." The astonished captain allowed him- ar 3 self to be waved from the bed to the th s nearest chair and watched in amaze- <ji * ment the boy devour the toast. His j 1 hands shook so from shell .shock thatj J he could scarcely manage it, but he j ^ ? ~ -1 "rtrlfl, 1 ~ Was proppeu up uiiu xtru wiuscu, mui uji every appearance of keen interest in o: his fcod. The day before the boy had e* not been able to swallow anything but ia s liquid food, and he couldn't have held th >. the spoon. s The captain beckoned Sergeant Van r to the end of the ward. e "Did you do that?" he demanded. a "Yes, sir," admitted Sergeant Van. fc "How in blue blazes"?began the captain and paused for lack of words. "I'll show you if you like, sir." e "I would like," ordered the captain, i. Astonishes the Doctors, s So Van showed him, though the doco tor couldn't quite make it out at thai y j just what Van did. He stroked theii [- i heads a little and massaged theli I ^-1-* i./Nrt 4-rt o nn/1 oil 111 a fiTYlQ h C I 1111 Udia u i/i l, uuu an mv; iiuiv tj talked to them in the quietest voice in 3 | the world. Ten minutes after he be* 0 ; gan the boys were asleep, naturally. L, | without a tremor in the bodies that >. i had been nerve-wracked for weeks. j The doctor looked at Sergeant Vac r helplessly and left shaking his head, j | Two weeks later Sergeant Van held e ! a clinic before a major general of the [ y medical corps and several majors and; 1 still more captains and lieutenants? j all men of reputation in America as j doctors. Two of his subjects were the j men over whom he worked that first j morning. Thev came into the clinic, j ! clear-eyed and straight and ruddy as It athletes from the field. They passed tests that the doctors o couldn't pass themselves. e Since then the shell shock cases have 8 been in Van's hands. The doctors s shake their heads and wonder. ? 3 In the camp and the hospital thej ?*! call him the "hypnotist." g(1 "It isn't that I hypnotized them al ; all," he will tell you. "I just tell then] j0 0 that they are bigger than their nerves. d and that they can control them if thej 1 reaiiy want to. And I show them how. e(j 1 They believe it because I tell them il f0 ^ is so, and then, you see, they are well/ i* r.nt the doctors continue to wondei m, e and :;a^ that Van has discovered the js d first really successful treatment i'oi [shell shock. j - V- * i o *] 3 v?Z> J* ' KiZ ', 1 . _ IT * * 7 ' ,<> f;0 r?^ i {iiues yce? heait! J ccsisideratsjiii. j tc'J how they fo 1 ITeilam, Pa.?,f J took 1 j> c table Compound for fe: pkcsmsnt. I felt all runi J i:ad been treated by a pi Iso decided to give Lydial a trial, and felt better r since last April and doinj I was unable to do any -n table Compound is certaii take when in this conditio! this letter."?Mrs. E. R. \ Lowell, Mich.?"I sufl down pains, was irregula displacement. I began t< table Compound which g? I my health. I should like t remedies to all suffering i lar way."?Mrs. Elise H Wh LYD1 VEGE1 wl3gPTOnHHnHH WHICH IS PANGING avarian Capital Changed Little by Long War. sople Paler Than Their Went, but Appear to Be Warmly Dressed. Munich.?Munich looks much less tanged after four years of war than ose who knew it would have thought >ssible. The city appears far livelier id gayer than three years ago. Part ' this impression is unquestionably le to the profu ":on of Bavarian-Ger' an flags everywhere, emphasized by e red banners of the socialists. Although fairly dark in the evening, 'cause coal must be saved, the streets e crowded during the early hours, estaurants are open and a fairly palable imitation of beer is served, any of the larger restaurants and ominent hotels have paper napkins id paper tablecloths. Every postage stamp one licks has strange disagreeable taste because the use of some substitute. Bicycle res have been replaced by coils of eel. The streets are as clean as ever and ith stores as beautiful, although filled ith articles the prices of which would ive been unbelievable four years The suffering seems to fall heavily 1 the poor people. Food now is more entiful because the signing of the mistice brought out stocks which ive bson held in reserve. The people e perhaps paler than their wont, but te street crowds appear to be warmly caacu* The city has resumed dancing, whicfc is occasioned a' terrific editorial outlrst from a portion of the press. Forer Imperial Chancellor von Hertling's gan, the Bavarian Courier, says: "Our enemies will be robbed of the st vestige of pity if they hear of as. Are they not right?" WOUNDED IN ACTION J Brig. Gen. Evan M. Johnson or tne venty-seventh division who was serely wounded in action. General hnson led a battalion of the Seven-seventh in search of the famous .ost battalion" which was surroundduring the fighting in the Argonne rest. General Johnson is a regular army in, having enlisted as a private. He a veteran of the Spanish-American it and the Philippine campaigns* rhpli idtiif**""" ' ' * < Ji ivmrft'tj?i n? Anvmcr ??IGSC kTvmT h should be your first y/"\ These two women yf und health. . Lydia E. Finkham's Vo?- j male troubles and a di.;- I ^ town and was very weak. ^y hysician without results, ). Pinkharn's Vegetable Compound s irrht away. I am keeping house j all my housework, where before .<j? rork. Lvdia E. Pinkharn's Vege- SJHS aly the best medicine a woman can a. I d ve vou permission to nublish 1Q&M Crumling, R. Ko. 1, Hellam, Pa. \JH fered from cramps and dragging ,r and had female weakness and Sf ? take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeive me relief at once and restored J o recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's / aromen who are troubled in a simi- / edi,R.No. 6, Box 83,Lowell,Mich. / y Not Try f A IT DIMIT it u. riiiiv [ABU COM LYDIA E.PINKH/ i??dc cno niCADi cn IffillL IU1I LflUftULLU government to Look Out for War Heroes. ? Arrangements Made to Provide Yoc** j tional Training for All ~ i Soldiers. I Washington.?Uncle Sam is going to 3o more for his disabled soldiers and 4-knn ann notlnn ovfln flirt flnd 3C&UICU lliau ailj uauvu VI v? U1U| the arrangements to care for the nearly two hundred thousand men disabled In battle or through disease or yccfc ; Jent in camp are near completion. 1 When this army returns there will be ! do need for public charity which might ; mar self-respect. The federal board of vocational edu- } cation, operating under the vocational rehabilitation act, will restore health, and in the case of permanent injury , teach trades that may be followed. ! Hnrino nrnr?ASA thp nn nil's livine will be paid, he will receive a wagt and in addition his dependents will bo paid an allowance. ; Bnt it is for the decision of the soldier or seaman and his relatives whether he elects to take the course. When the course is completed the board will obtain suitable employment and keep an eye on the man so that his interests may be guarded. The status of the man during the period of training is described as follows: "The amount of monthly coinpensa tion paid will be equal to the sum to which he is entitled under the war insurance act, or a sum equal to the pay of his last month in the service, which ever is the greater; but in no case will a single man or man living apart from his dependents receive less than $65 per month, inclusive of the sum paid dependents, and a man liv- j ing with his dependents receive less than $75 per month inclusive of the sum paid to the dependents. 'The man whose disability does not prevent him from returning to employ- j ment without training will be given the course of vocational training which he chooses. j "The taking of the course of train Ing or the actual earning power of the man \>rtll not in any way affect his compensation. Upon completion of his course he will continue to receive the compensation prescribed by the war risk insurance and as long as his disability' continues." Men in service or their relatives should make inquiries at once. They may address communications to the federal board of vocational education, Washington, D. C., or to any of the 14 district offices located throughout the country. RENT ROOMS BY CARD INDEX Service Intended as Clearing House Between Supply and Demand for Rooms. Cleveland, O.?A card index system similar in operation to a slot machine has been adopted by the United States home registration service in City Hali here, to bring together persons v. ho wish to rent room or rooms and board,' with households which have them available. Holes are punched in cards, in gen-! eral appearance like a piece from ai piano roll, and small rods automatical- ] ly select cards on which vacant rooms: meeting with the requirements of each applicant are recorded. - The systetm, | in a few seconds, gives complete infor-, mation of any of the 3,000 vacant rooms registered with the bureau. The service, which is free, is Intend ed as a clearing house between the supply and demand for rooms, rooms) and board and small furnished and unfurnished housekeeping suites. j : i 11 unrij (// | [POUND E k.M MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. K CHORUS GIRLS JUMP SHOWS Ignore Iron-Clad Agreements Witlh Musical Comedies to Marry Scidiers at Camp Funston. Wrt? "PiAOrvt f/\ lunn. <J UlltUUlI VIIJ, u<tu( JL/COpilC liViT* clad agreements \*ifch their chorusgirls, managers of musical comediesplaying at Army City, Junction City,. Manhattan and on the zone in Campi Funston have hard times keeping their girls from marrying soldiers, leaving: the show and settling down here.. Hardly a show has been here but what one or two, and often more of themembers of the chorus became "war- . brides." Some stayed with the show- y and others settled down to wait their husband's being sent abroad. Probate Judge Daniel Hurley hasdone a land-office business, performing marriage ceremonies. Many of them are at midnight and after. He* keeps a full supply of marriage blcnks; and licenses at his home all the time,, so as to meet any emergency. | Would Obtain Medal 3" R for Young Gir! Hero 5. c *k) otp Atlanta, Ga.?A Carnegte hen- m. JJ medal is being asked fo. Jjteen-year-old Gertrude NuiCier. oif ? who. when her home was i#arn- ? % ing, rescued the baby daughter 2 of Mrs. Marcella Cruz, wiio oc- 2" cupied the upper floor of the 3; g house. Little Gertrude, seeing Jj ( the roof ablaze, and knowing of S Mre. Cruz's absence, rushed up- ?ij g stairs through blinding smoke, of-5 returning with the infant just as ST g the stairs crashed down behind Jj* nm llCf. vj; / Concerning Running. Said the facetious feller: "Ain't lr funn.y? a. man doesn't run after he'i caugrit a street car, but his nose doe*. Hfter he's caught a cold." handsTarms. LIMBS ASLEEP And Was Ron-Down, Weak and' Nervous, Says Florida Lady, Fi?e Bottles of Cardui Made Her Well. Kathleen, Fla.?Mrs. Dallas Prine* of this place, says: "After the birth o? my last child.,.I got very much run-down and weakened, so much I C0uia iiu. u*} cj uii} at all. I was so awfully nervous that I could scarc.ely endure the least noise. My condition, was getting worse all the time... I knew I must have some relief or T tttmi'iA cnr>r> >*0 in iho horl ?nH i-n 1 serious condition for I felt so tadly az>d was so nervous and weak I could hardly live. My husband asked Dr. about my taking Cardui. lie said, 'It's a good medicine, and good for that trouble', so he got me 5 bottles... After about the second bottle I felt greatly improved.. .before taking it my limbs and hands and armi would go to sleep. After taking it? however, this poor circulation disappeared. My strength came back ta me and I was soon on the road to health. After the use of about 5 bot* ties, I could do all my house-work j _ ii j .. ji t_ _ ana iiiieuu lu iuv cimuren ue^ sides." Ycu can feel safe in giving Carduf a thorough trial for your troubles. It contains no harmful 01* habit-forming drugs, but is composed 0/ mild, vegetable, medicinal ingredients with no bad after-effects. Thousands of women have voluntarily written, ceiling of the good.Cardui has done them. It should help you, too. Try it *3 7* 1 . X -v.M -