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HPS p* ? COL HOUSE HAS EXALTED MISSION Hj ' _______ I Directed by President to Collect Material to Be Used at Peace Conference. WAR'S END NOT IN SIGHT United 8tates to Be Equipped With Full Information on All Matters That Are Vital to Its Interests. New York.?President Wilson, being fully advised of the fact that the European governments have for nearly three years been gutherlng und collecting data, which would he ludlspenslble at the now unknowuhle but yet inevitable date, when the warring nutions meet to settle peuce terms, has asked Col. E. M. House, his Intlmnte friend and unofficial counselor, to assume thlR complex and gigantic task. Colonel House has nccepted the undertaking. Iliwt Willi promptitude and thoroughness has already made groundwork plans for assembling nil pertinent Information, historical, geographical, and ethnological. His Initial move was the selection as his chief lieutenant of Dr. John II. Finley, New York state commissioner of education, who hns Just returned from Europe, where he made an exhaustive study of conditions. The selection of Doctor Flnley Is Indicative of the sort of exoerta with whom Colonel House will confer. No man or woman with a preconceived opinion which might tempt one to color ?lrcumstance8 so vs to prove the correctness of n personal point of view will be permitted to participate In a work where open-mlndedness la a prerequisite to the arrival at conclusions that will enable the government to determine upon a correct policy. Prejudice to Be Barred. Emphasis Is put upon the unalterable determination that neither professional pacifists nor confirmed militarists can he In thn doi?"w> i useful Id preparing statistics for governmental guidance, which must be without taint of bias. In an interview Colonel House made It plain that his appointment does not Indicate any thought of immediate peace is now helng entertained by the United States government. He agrees with Lord Northcllffe In his message delivered before the American Hankers' association In Atlnntlc City that peace seems far off and America hould beware the trickery and trenchery of such propaganda. The truth Is that this effort on the part of the United States to nnalyze war conditions and evolve n plan of proeeedure when hostilities end Is a belnted one, Just as our military preparations lagged for u period. But now It Is "full steam ahead and dam the torpedoes" with our army and navy with not a thought of let-up In mind, so from now on there will be urgent prosecution of search for material, historical and Informative, concerning the world war. This quest of data will keep pace with an energetic prosecutton of the contest, but will not halt It In any way. To pause now In any phase of belligerent endeavor might make the prospect of peace even more remote than it seems at present. No Sign of Early Peace. The government sees nothing whatever to Indicate the early approach of peace, nor will Colonel House have anything to do with ascertaining the point of view of either the Kntcnte oeuigereius or ine central powers, or possible terms upon the basis of which they might he willing to enter Into negotiations. lie will remain In the United States. It is possible that the state department will be nble to afford him ild In the work he has undertaken, but he will not work with the department nor In a diplomatic enpnelty, formal or Informal. lie will have no title and will receive no salary. The appointment of Colonel House affords another illustration of the expanding position of the United States In world nlTnlrs. Heretofore the stHte department has been equipped with virtually all the Information that was necessary to the solution of international problems in which the United States has taken a direct Interest. The war has brought new problems and projected this country Into a field of 1ntern..Uonal activity which it has seldom entered before. Information Must Be Ready. The questions which will come before the pence conference nt the end of the war will be multitudinous. The freedom of the sens, the neutralization of seaways, the political homeogenelty of peoples who claim the right of selfgovernment and the disposition of territorial possessldhs Involving economic, historical and political questions, will be some of the many subjects to be considered, and the Information upon which conclusions may be bnsed and policies decided must he nt hand. It will he Colonel House's function to gather a corps M experts to get this materia! In form for use. Others, however. will prepare the brief. With exclusive European problems. It Is not expected that the representaHfm r\t Mm l!iil?nit <!?? <" ? ?-? ? % *vo *? v *vv4 miuw j <n me piruri* council will be concerned. But In the disposition o' general questions, relating to economic intercourse and political development which will affect virtually all the nations of the world, the United States will have a potent ^ A- ' - . -?.'\s voice. In accordance with the policy ! that has been consistently followed since the outbreak of the war of hold- i ing aloof from European combinations except In the prosecution of the war, this government probably will not at tempt to aid In the settlement of traditional Euorpean quarrels, except possibly as a matter of friendly Interest If opportunity arises. House Likely to Be Delegate. It was said unofficially that when the time comes to organize a peace conference, Colonel House, by virtue of his present assignment, would In all probability be selected as one of the delegates from the United States. It will be a part of Colonel House's task to gather intelligence relating to commercial, economic and political situations abroad. He will keep abreast of developments lu all non-military affairs. Colonel House will have associated with hltn, as has been stated, several experts, proDaoiy conege proressors, economint8 nnd specialists in commerclnl nnd financial nfTuirs. The work he is to perform will not be connected with similar undertakings in any of the countries with which the United States is associated in the war. Stnte department ofllclnls, when reminded of the statement that the United States would be Interested In purely Europenn territorial questions, answered that the Amerlcnn nrmy was in France, und that the United States would, of course, have delegates at the peace conference. Colonel House will be expected to gather specific Information by which American pence delegates can follow the conference Intelligently. These dnta will be compiled primarily to assist American representatives at the peace conference after the war, but may also be used In the meantime to help guide the government In formulating policies. It has no bearing on peace negotiations or negotiations of any kind with foreign governments, which, of course, come within the provluce of the president and the state department. The United States government Isn't getting ready to enter Into peace negotiations with Germany, Isn't going to meddle in strictly European questions relating to the war, and Isn't negotiating Just yet on the problems of peuce with the Entente, as has fre quentiy necn surmised. Must Have Data in Advance. It Is important for the United States government now and will be evet\ more important later on to have a socalled "who's who and what's what" in the war in order thut ail phases involved may be properly understood by reference to data compiled In advance. In time of war the government thut falls to prepare for peace will ultimately be at a disadvantage, suys the 1'hiludelphla Public Ledger In an edltorlal. The representatives of Greut Britain, Austrlu, Russia and Prussia, found this out ufter the fall of Napoleon when they met Prince Tulleyrund at Vienna. Talleyrand, sent by Prance, hnd leurned enough of the situation as It concerned all of the smaller European p<Avers and us It concerned much of the opinion of Europe to turn the tables upon the four great powers and to stnnd as the chumpldn of the public rights of Europe. Prince Talleyrand maneuvered, and successfully, uccordlng to the rules nf a unprnt HI ulnmo ,1 ? ? ? u*|/i%/iiiuvj? uc 1 can/ worked In behalf of selfish nnd nationalistic Interests. The partitioning of Europe by the congress of WTtnu was the outcome of arbitrary compromise ; It was prolific of future wars. The knowledge which the great diplomatic expouent of France displayed was more comprehensive than that of his foes, that Is all. Excepting that he recognizes the need of precise information, President Wilson acts upon a principle different from that which guided Talleyrand. He will urge this nation Into no alliance, even with the nations with whom It Is associated In the common war against the Teutonic powers. He proposes simply to equip himself with knowledge pertinent to the rights of all nations In common with America as they may be concerned by the proceedings of the peace conference. Tn VA/ , - A I w wiivw ?? ? nuno. In this spirit the president has asked Colonel House to survey tho field of mllltury, naval and political conditions In the countries of our enemies and our friends; to get at the economic, political nnd emotional state of things In every country, and to tell frankly to Great llritain, Russia, France, Italy nnd the neutral powers the things that we are doing and that we Intend to do in the war. Moreover, an attempt will be made to lift the heavy curtain of censorship In Germany nnd Austria-Hungary, In order to spread uinong their peoples a comprehension of American war alms and potentialities. Officials are anxious that no Impression should be created, as n result of Colonel House's appointment, of any Intention to start peace negotiations In the near future. So far as the attitude of the United States Is concerned, the president's reply to the pope still remains the unaltered view of the government here. The appointment of Colonel House is recognition bv the mvprnmont r?# tlie fact tluit the adjustment of peace terms will be a very complicated proceeding. Many points of dispute must be settled. Questions of nil sorts, economic, political, and hlstcrlcnl, will come up for discussion, und the American delegates must be forearmed with a mass of Information and statistical data to meet every situation. No data concerning present conditions In Germany or Austria will com* within the scope of Oolonel House's work, as this would corns outer "military Information." THE rOBT MILL TQg CAMOUFLAGE COW CCE! This "cow," though it is only a fat cloth, is doing its hit to help win the ? work well and what appears to he an grazing is really a painted lure to con Is standing on the roof. HARVARD MENIN HAIL OF BOMBS Show Rare Pluck When Hospital Is Attacked by German Airmen. 4 KILLED AND 32 WOUNDED Major Murphy, Red Cross Commissioner, Cables Full Details of Disaster to H. P. Davison?Show 8peed in Emergency. Washington.?The manner In which the Harvard unit's base hospital in France was attacked by a German airplane, with the result that several Americans were killed and wounded, was described in detaii in a long cable message received here by Henry I*. Davison, chuirman of the American Red Cross war council, from MaJ. Grayson M. Murphy, Red Cross commissioner in Europe. The message folInu'u "An American Red Cross Inspector who lins Just returned to headquarters In Paris has brought from the United States army base hospital unit of Harvard ^university, one of the many similar Institutions on the surgical supply list of the American Red Cross, a detailed narrative of the bombing of that hospital oh the night of September 4 last, and of the characteristic pluck and promptness with which the emergency was met. Five bombs were thrown, the explosions Instantly killing IJeut. William F. Fltzslmons of the Medical Officers' Reserve corps. United States army, nnd three army privates, and wounded Lieuts. Clarence A. McGulre, Thaddeus D. Smith and Rea W. Whldden, O. R. C., U. S. A.; six privates, a woman nurse and 22 patients from the Rritisii lines who were under treatment there for wounds. Attack Occurred at Night. "The airplane attack occurred at 11 o'clock at night. Just at that time fortunately no convoy of wounded was being received or the list of casualties would have been far greater, as one of the bombs fell Into the center of the large reception tent to which the wounded are first borne for examination. Ten seconds suffered for the dropping of the bomb from the first flying plane, nnd within less than a j minute nfterwnrd the surgeons of the i hospital were at the task of collecting and attending those who had been struck down. And for 24 hours they were at work In tho operating room, j one surgeon relieving another when the latter, from simple exhaustion, could work no longer. The very next lay. Just as if nothing hnd happened, these same surgeons were railed upon to receive nnd care for 200 wounded sent In from the trenches of the Brit- ! Ish expeditionary force. "The hospital, which Is on the I French coast, has 1,800 beds, nnd Is under canvas In a quadrangle 800 feet square. It is In a district In which there are many similar Institutions, nnd Is unmistakable as a hospital. At the time the German aviator flew over It most of the surgical staff was engaged In making rounds of the wards. Lieutenant Fltzslmons, however, was standing at the door of his tent. There hnd been a brief warning of the presence of n bombing airplane In the neighborhood, because a quarter of a : minute before the sound of exploding ! bombs was heard from a point perhaps j 200 yards from the hospital. Tills j \> uriiiiiK kuiiiitu iu i nusi" nil llgniH in | the tents to be extinguished immediately, and those who had been under Are before threw themselves face down upon the ground, i* "Then came five explosions ir rapid succession in the hospital Itself. The first two were directly In front of Ueu, tenant FlUslmons' tent. He probably .. ^ 3mm .. tik IS, FOBT MILL. 8. 0. > KIR BIT IN THE WAR Heated creature ??f wood and painted nr. A cnnioutlnge artist liaa done Ids i innocent scene of n cow peacefully real n roofeil-ovor battery. /Die cow never knew what happened to him. as his body was torn to shreds. The next two fell a hundred feet beyond, In a ward in which there were many patients. and I he last struck the reception tent. Overhead there was no sound. The Coramu aviator flew too high to be heard, but he left his Identity behind him, not only In the bombs he dropped, but in the derisive handful of pfennings he scattered upon the hospital as he whirled away. A number of these were found when light came. Hit by Bomb Fragments. "Lieutenant McGuire, who was In a tent adjoining that of Lieutenant Fitzslmons, was struck by three bomb fragments, but was not seriously wounded. Ills escape was narrow, as there were more thnn a hundred holes cut In his tent. Lieutenant Smith was Struck 111 Mm T ?? ? -* ... nnvv I1I1V1 XilL'U t *"I III II 1 Whldden in the chest while In their tents In the otllce section of the quadrangle. The private soldiers Injured were on duty as orderlies In the reception tent, and the bomb fell almost upon then). So severely was Private Aubrey S. MeLeod injured that It was necessary to amputate both his legs. "Although the explosion of the TRADE CHANGES Resources of United States Searched as Never Before to Meet New Demands. RIVER TRAFFIC IS INCR:ASEQ Upper Reaches of the Mi&sistippi Help Relieve the Congestion on tho D.H - ^ - n i rod as?strontium Ore in Demand. New* York.-?One of the most interesting and important developments In the United States ut the present time Is the manner In which commerce and Industry nre gradually adjusting and tensing themselves under the full load of the war strain; curtailing activities here, speeding up there, anil reaching out at some points, under the pressure of new needs, to create entire new Industries. In Industry the resources of the United States are being searched as never before to meet the new demands, und mineral wealth which has always been there against the time of need, but never before called upon, Is being developed, while in commerce new processes, new economies and new efficiency, involving no new discoveries, but Intent possibilities in time of peace, are being permanently added to the wealth of the nation under the pressure of unprecedented demand. The whole process Is too vast and varied to be aeon clearly at one time, but there are several means by which occasional glimpses can be gained. One of these is by the reports of (he department of the interior on tlie mineral resources of the United States, which continually describe the development of new mining activities in metals and chemicals, whose deposits have been known for years, but whose possibilities bad not been fully recognized. Another Is in the pages of the various technical Journals, In which, every week, there Is at least one story of a new commercial or Industrial idea which has been added to the national machinery. On the Mississippi. In new trartlc channels It Is Iron Age which reports that for the ttr?o ??.?? i ?only n short while ago, moreover? the upper Mississippi bus been opened ; to ore und coal trnlllc on u big scale. The Mississippi has been big enough, for years, to carry far more heavy, slow traffic than Its upper reaches, as fur as St. Paul, the head of navigation, than ever, apparently, anyone bombs -caused horror In the hospital? 1 there was not the smallest sign of ' panic. ?n?l the work of discovering the wounded and collecting them was Immediately begun. This was made i doubly difficult by the darkness, but i everyone sprang to It with a will. Many of the Injured had been blow? ; from their cots, some even outside | their tents, where they were found tangled up In the tent poles. The American nurse, although struck In the face by a fragment of steel from the bomb, refused to he relieved, and remained tit her task courageously to the end. A hospital orderly who | worked untiringly was found later to have been struck in tii? .1 ?? .. ... fiv ilVIIXI I'J ?* fragment and painfully Injured. 11 I line] Just tied up his head and pone on. "In the operating room Capt. Horace Hlnnoy and Llllott with their assistants worked all night. Several delicate operations were performed and their task was made all the harder by the fact that In innutnerab'e cases the patients were In serious danger of Infection from the pieces of wood and 1 nails and dirt which had been blown Into their bodies. "Lieut. Col. K. I'. I'attlson, IT. S. A.. 1 commanding ollieer of the unit, and ' MaJ. llarvey Cashing, head of the sur- ( gleal force, the latter being at the { front at the time of the disaster, have expressed the highest admiration for ! the maimer in ??-i?i..i. - - i in* emergency was mat. Latest reports are that the * i condition of the wounded Is progress j ing satisfactorily." 1 ( j INDIANS REFUSE CODDLING ' Those Upon the Klamath Reservation Insist They Have Passed 1 Tribal Stage. Klamath Falls, Ore..?Indians on < the Klamath Reservation have deeld- , f ed they have passed beyond the tribal ' stage and say they want to be allowed 1 to conduct their business and be gov- * erned as Individuals and not eollec- 1 lively. < At n recent meeting of the Klamath 1 Indian Progressive club, the members t passed resolutions asking that the < government treat them the same n? ? white residents, "(live us u chance," I the resolutions rend. < The Indians hope to have the tribal 2 timber sold ami the proceeds divided among the inMnbers. The Klamath 1 Reservation In southern Oregon occu- I pies a territory of about f>0 by 00 miles t and contains timber and water re- 1 sources. i Silver Plate Periscopes. New York.?Silver plating the perlscopes of their U-boats is the latest Invisibility promoting device of the Germans, it was stated by oflicers of an American liner Just arrived at an Atlantic port. Covering the periscopes j wmi n coining <>i silver renders iheni ' practically invisible. thought <>f putting upon it. Ore trains ami coal trains have moved along Its hanks for years, moving the freight at a cost per ton mile far beyond the | demands of the river, but it took the | war to make people realize the full , value of 111*' stream. Kut now that war lias come, and the , railroads of the entire country are under suell a strain as they never before had to hear, people In St. I'aul and all the river towns as far down as St. Ijouis have suddenly perceived that the old Mississippi must do her share. And quite recently six new steel barges. | carrying H.OOO tons of coal?the largest cargo ever hauled to the head of i navigation on the river?arrived at St. Paul, the vanguard of u new fleet. The development of an entirely new mining industry within the United States, under pressure of the war, is told In a recent bulletin of the fJeologfptll siii'vwv tin "Slli'iiiitlnni l? lOin** For many years large deposits of strontium ore, In the form of celestite crystals (strontium sulphate) and strontiaiilte (strontium cnrhonute) have been known to exist, often heside beds of limestone which were being actively quarried. In Michigan and Ohio along the shores of I*ake Erie, Schoharie county. New York, In West Virginia and Texas, and In California and Arizona. Strontium salts were used in beet-sugar refining, but far more in the manufacture of fireworks, because of the brilliant crimson flame they gave. Market for Strontium. Before the war, however, the market for strontium was so limited, and being routined, moreover, to the Atlantic seaboard, Imports of strontium ore from Kurope were cheaper than the freight rates from California and Arizona, the only deposits which had ever been worked commercially. The war, however, changed all this in two waiys. In the first place, it created a new and tremendous demand lor strontium, magnesium, ami bariiiiii, for vast quantities of signal rockets, llnrcH. etc., both at the front and on the sea. Moreover, hero at home 1 the Increase In freight truffle on our j railroads, due to war deinands, neces sltated a ronsiderable Increase In the 1 use of signal flares here also. The new Industry was jetting on feet In 1!?10. In 1014 about 2,iX)0 short i tons of strontium ore had been con* Hiuned by American fireworks raanu* , : fncturers, the commonest form of the ' refined product being strontium nitrate ! at around 10 cents a pound or less. Of this 2,000 pounds, the proportion ; of domestic ore was so small as not to be worth reporting. In 1910 the j consumption of strontium ores had i risen nearly a 100 per cent; the prlco j had caused the huge strontium deposits in California and Arizona to be opened and worked for the first time in earnest, and upward of 250 tons of strontium ore had already been shipped. WAS IN HUNDRED SERIOUS MISHAPS Yew York Daredevil Is Now Retired Member of the Police Force. RECORD DEATH DODGER during Last Sixteen Months of Service He Was in Five Hospitals? Won Fame as Bicycle Rider. Now York.?Charles M. Murphy, reIred member of the New York poire force, figured in five accidents durng the last Id months he was on duty, my one of which would have been iutlk'lent to kill an ordinary man. He oundcd out Ids active career as a mtrolman while on his way to the )fllce to turn in his badge by falling ind fracturing his knee can. Now te Is a bit curious to know Just why ill those misfortunes have befallen llm and why ho Is alive to recount his xperlenees. Murphy is little known ns n pollcenon. In the days of his youth, 20 >r more years ago, he was the speediest bicycle rider In the world. First Mishap at Three Years. When Murphy was three years of tge a tire broke out In the Murphy ionic in Brooklyn. In a panicky rttsli o call for assistance, his mother lropped Charles In the llnmes. He was scorched, no more. At ten he was renlered unconscious while coasting. tVhen Murphy was eleven the family lorse was killed In a runaway and the 'nmlly scattered about the street. Charles suffered only scratches. At fourteen he crashed Into an Iron post vhlle running from the "cops" and was endered unconscious. When he was dghteen Murphy was driving a spirted horse that ran away at the sound it a fire alarm. Tie was dragged BO rnrds and was shaken up. During that same year an engineer itur stunned by a stone thrown by a joy. Murphy raced the engine, mountm! the cabin utul shut off the throttle. When twenty he came near drowning while leaving his ship In the Iiratllinn harbor of Itnhln. Ills twenty The Family Horse Ran Away. fifth year opened with n mishap on January 1 when he and n motorman were pleked from a street car wreck and Murphy wns believed crippled for life. Racer and New York Policeman. When twenty-seven. Murphy wns rendered unconscious while racing at Manhattan Bench. Next morning the doctor found him working out on the track. In 180ft, when he was twentynine years of nge, he won the cognomen "MIle-n-Mlnute" Murphy. In lltfil he was appointed a member of the New York police force. The next yearMur phy and l>ls brother built a tandem bicycle driven by n steam engine nnd hoped to speed three miles a minute. The engine broke loose, fell on Charles, am) ''nine near killing him. in 1003 lie started a tight with 11) gangsters and would liave been killed but for the arrival of reserves. In 1 fMwhile chasing a thief, lie jumped down a 2'>foet embankment, suffering a sprained ankle. Tn 1000 he formed the bottom link In a 20-foot human chain which rescued a man who had fallen in a well and was neck deep In quicksand. In lftl3 he arrested 12 foreigners at a clip and stopped a runaway by choking a brldleless horse Into submission. Things were dull for Murphy until September 10, 1015, when lie was appointed motorcycle policeman, lie was run over by an automobile that year. Later a towing line became entangled with his wheel and he was dnnrced 50 feet. The follow im: snrinc <1 fork on his wheel hroko and ho suffered Internal Injuries. In September, 1016. he was thrown .10 feet on Manhattan bridge, and Anally on January 27, 1917. when he was slated for retirement. he fell and fractured his knee cup. Murphy, however, still retains the characteristics of his youth, and avers he Is pood for many more stunt