The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 27, 1923, Image 7
WAR "MU TILES" ;
ARE CARED FOR
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France Pays Out Five BiNion
Francs Yearly to 1,500,000
Victims of Battle.
Puri*.-*-4' Where are France's mu
and what bus become of them
jciil.v the end of the wur?" This
question.' heard on all sides In Paris
uU,l irlng particularly from Arneri
t)Ms ylsltlrtg the .capital, has prompt*
t,,l |) i j investigation which repeals that
there are In France close on l,r>00,000
,.x soldiers who have h>nt limb* In tha
war. become either partially or total
ly Mind <>r aro today Offering from
shell >ii"ck. ? W;
For all these men the French gov
ernment pays out n little more than
fl,0<x).<XH),()00 franca per year In pen
njon*. A special ministry known as
the ministry of pensions has had to
ho created to handle all the$e eases,
while In every department, of France
a school for the re-education of all
these victims of the war has been
founded. ' '
Kviiet figures of this country's mil- .
tllateil soldiers. Is .uot known, for they
vary eontlnually, death claiming many
men unable Jo survive the terrible
wonmls received In battle, it Is esti
mated that on an average ,H0 die each
month. No matter what degree of
mutilation, every soldier who was
given back to civilian life In any way
permanently Injured receives a pen
sion. and pensions range from a few
hundred franc* to 0,000 francs for.
men having lost both logs or both arms
or ha\lng become totally blind.
Avoid F'ubllclty.
Mutilated pollus are not seen In any
great numbers In France for many
reasons. The first and probably the
principal reason Is that wounded men
In France do not care to show their
injuries and by every means possible
attempt to hide any mutllntton. The
art of making artificial limbs In
France having readied such a degree
nf perfection, It I*, often eas.vj for a
man to conceal from a casual olTserver
that he wears an artificial leg or arm
supplied him free of charge by the
government.
Another reason Is tlint men maimed
In the war after having passed through
school of ro-eduontlon have found
employment 'in country districts and
have preferred a country life to that in
Paris, where the. difficulty of moving
n round crowded? streets Is only -In
rivaled |jy that <-?f bnvlng to often
mount high flights of stairs. In all
there iiv about ITiO.OOO mutllat'ed ex
VMi'iiers in Paris, many of "them today
emph'.voil In ministries and govern
me?v ofHces. while some, about. 10 per
eeiu i.f the Paris total, are cared for
In homes supervised by the Office Na
ti"tM! .dcs Mutlles. Those who do
move around In Purls are rarely to
lie seen in fashionable districts vis
ited by Americans. Their limited
mentis oblige thenr to seek shelter In
"Of lying districts where foreigners are
T?raefieally never taken on sightseeing
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The Shdll Shocked.
Those in homes where they pay a
small fee for the enre and assistance
given them are mostly fellows suffer
ing from commotion, or, shell, shock and
wlio in many case^ have become men
tally deranged, several having been
struck dumb by bursting shells. ,
There are 2,.r>00 blind ex-soldiers In
France, spread all over the country.
Those who had means before they
Joined the French army have retired
with their families and relatives InVo
the country, while many of those
obliged to work In order to keep them*
selves nnd those around them have
t^tindlemployrnentlnliomes end clubs
where they are taught the art of mak
ing various articles which are sold by
the homes for the benefit of the blind
worker. Like their comrades , who
have lost limbs In the World war, the
blind do not care to have any one no
tice their terrible loss and as much aa
possible refuse to congregate In pub
lie places.
The schools for the re-education of
fhe blind In France teach the manur
facture of brushes and chairs, how to
read nnd write Braille, typewriting,
printing, piano tuning and even com
merclaf classes for the more intellec
tual.
Kvery government office reserves a
certain number of occupations for the
mutilated and a bill Is at present be
'"re parliament which tends to make
't obligatory for all commercial con
cerns to employ mutilated soldiers to
t!o? extent of T per'eent of their staff.
' >n no account whatever does the
government allow mutilated soldiers
beg in the streets nnd so-called war
h??roes selling Shoe lac^s or flowers in
the streets are but impostors.
Seek Eccentric Thief
Who Return* Checks
Angeies.?Postal inspect
ors and detectives here arc seek
ing h mysterious rtilef who lays
M*i<ie cheeks, mortgages, deeds
??n<| non-negotiable papers he
finds while rifling the mails, and*
sericjs thein to fictitious a<ldresses
with the indorsement: "I>upM\
received by Jesse James.
Jr." So far 130.000 In checkk and j
??tber valuable |mp*ra hwre^drtffer
ed back to the hands uf postal
authorities with this mysterioui :
Indornemettt after having bees <
missing for WMka
MAY MAKE USif OF AIRPLANE
Teet to Bo Mod* to Determine lt?
Value in Campaign to Control
Insect Pests,
As h result of experiments .carried
on during tin* pu?t two years In spray
ing trees with poison distributed by an
airplane, In the campaign to; control In
sect pestfr, It tins boon considered ad
visable ity the Untiled Stales Depart
ment of Agriculture to make a number
of tests this suintnecr to determine
whether the lighter than-alr machine
?can lie used satisfactorily. Arrange
meats have been made between the
Department of Agriculture and the air
service or the War department: to use
a motorized balloon for this' purpose.
The work will l?e conducted In the
gtp,fty;UwMi Infffltt'd n.ren In ?&w j?ng-.
land, where an attempt will be made
to devise equipment that can be at
tached to the balloon so that a poison
spray can he applied In forest areas.
Numerous tests have been planned to
d9term|ne whether this method of
spraying Is effective and economical.
DeparUnent officials l**>e that the re-,
suits iaay be of practical Importance
in the treatment of forest areas infest
ed with leaf-eating Insects.
This method of s pr ay ingfs rele tTveTy
new, mnd as a poisonous dust can be
applied more rapldlf- from the ulr than
a liquid si?rny from the ground, It 1?
necessary to determine the effective
ness of the former method and whether
or not the application can be made at
nn expense that will warrant Its use
on a large scale.
TWO WATCHES SOLVE MUDDLE
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Sniffens Ha* No More Trouble Keep-,
ino Track of Dayligh): Saving
I and Standard Time.
Sniffens Is a traveling salesman who
Is on the road most of tlie time and
whose wanderings take him across the
continent a couple of times a year. It
will be a week or so before he makes
his next trip, but already he has b#<
gun to make preparations, and one of
the firs* things he did was to get out
what he calls bis "second" watch. For
with the advent of daylight saving
each year Sniffens, who travels to sub
urban points Just to keep his hand In
between times, hais great difficulty In
keeping track of the schedules, due to
the difference between railroad time
tables ajul daylight time.
Sniffens has found that his "second"
watch, which Is of silver, while his
regular timepiece Is of gold, has solved
the problem. He simply sets the silver
watch to correspond to daylight sav
lYig time while his regular watch Is
kept at thfe standard time of the par
ticular section of the country he hap
pens to be In.
The silver watch Is used to keep city
appointments and to keep tabs on sub
urban trains, while the gold watch
serves the purpose of being always
right for trains which run on standard
time.? New York SUn.
Giant of the Deep.
The American Museum of Natural
History some time ago came Into pos
session of what is believed t*o be the
largest whale ever exhibited on land.
It Is a female finback, G8J/& feet In
length. Its body, In life, was 30 feet
In circumference. It Is estimated that
at -least 50 men could be inclosed
within the Interior of this giguntlc
animal.' The full-gro.wn right whale,
which Is the species usually hunted
for Its blubber and whalebone, av
erages from 45 to 50 feet In length.
?The whale whose skeleton adorns tin
museum was washed ashore dead,
near Forked river, N. J. Scientific
theory avers that th? ancestors of th?
whales were terrestrial or land mam
mals, which gradually became aquatic
In their way of living. ? Washington
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Acetyleno Gas.
Acetylene gas, which was discov
ered in 1886, is obtained from a sub
stance named calcium carbide. For
merly this substance could be pro
cured only in small quantities, bu(
about thirty years ago a method ol
manufacturing it on a comparatively
iarge scale was discovered in England
n consequence of this discovery us?
has ever since been made of acetylene
for illuminating, purposes.
When acetylene is mixed with all
it is dangerously explosive,, but it la
asserted that It can be burned with
out danger whatever when produced
in the pure state. It Is averred that,
burned at the rate of five cubic feet
per hour, an acetylene gas flame caa
be mnde to protiuce a light of 240
candle power.-r-New York Herald.
Needed Space.
'At a ctytaln county court the ap
plicant for a marriage license Is hand
ed a blan* to till out. This blank re
quires the applicant to state name,
age and number of previous marriages,
with the name 'of the former husband
or wife, as ttye case may be.
A movie act res* came in and pro
cured a blank, which she proceeded
to study carefully. . The feist Item
cat?m*d h?*r to register f?erpiexlty.
Then she went up to the clerk and
asked prettily: "Have you a longer
blank, or shall 1 paste three df thesa
together'/":
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Whaling BuaJne?1a Fall* Off. *
Whalhvg was conducted on a very
small scale during the last year. The
w he ling Ueet^only operating for a pe
.187 great mAmmal* .were captured,
Thin la far below the catch during' tha
yeara when whale oil was fetching a
SLAYS GiAttt finlZZlY,
NOTORIOUS CATFLE \W
Oklahoma Hunter Kills Bear That
Ruled Range for Years. ,
Oklahoma City, OUto. ? "Old One
Toe," Kitty uf the grlzjdllirc, klllril
yearlings on the cattle range* of
northwest Wyoming i'or twenty y curs.
From n?w on, howev or, h}s stuttVd pelt
will Biund lifelike In tin* natural his
tory museum at the I 'nlYoisity Okla
homa, ut Norman, and silently assert
his Claim to tho tltlo, "biggest of all
bears."
The greatest of thctU a f i. rt01d One
Toe," measures 8'# foot front nose-tip
.to UflMlp. nnrt welched between 1^*00
and 1,300 pounds. The bear, which lost
the other four . tooo o.?l his right hind
foot In a trap In UH>2, foil before the
automatic rifle of Arch A. Campbell,
contractor, of this city, who spends
his annual vacation hunting big game
and catching rainbow trout In the
Ylcinlty of Dubois, Wyo.
His conquest A>f "Old One Toe" was
Unplanned up to the momeut that
Campbell stumbled on the tyrant of the
cattle range, raveiu>tisly|Tr^ourltrglhe
carcass of a calf. From the first en
counter to the kill was twenty-four
hours.
"Old One Toe," made" wary by h(s
?etto with a steel trap and grown gray
Ih the two decafies ho hod o\it maneu
vered cattle men, was a foe worthy of
any hunter. Campbell trnllod him all
day, after fhe first shot, before ho was
abl$ to come up with hint for the final
battle, which was of short duration.
Campbell's progress out of the woods
was a triumphal march, as aft the ent
itle men wanted to nee the carcass of
the bear which had caused them heavy
losses.
When Is a Citizen Not
a Citizen, His Puzzle
* Two years ago Hidemitmi Toyota,
Japun&se commissary steward of the
coast 'guard cutter Acushnet, as a
chief i?efty ofllcer, became an Ameri
can citizen. He obtained his papers
under an act of confess which granted
citizenship to any alien who had served
with the United States forces In the
World war and had received an honor
able discharge. A year ago he was
notified that the naturalization court
had probably ruade a mistake In grant
ing citizenship to an Oriental, and that
a petition was afoot for its revocation.
Last month the Department of Justice
ruled that it was not the intent of con
gress to admit Orientals aad that a
revocation order might be issued. Now
through his counsel, Lawrence M. Lom
bard fit Boston, Toyota hopes t& fight
issuance of the revocation order. Un
usual Interest centers in his predlca
ment, for his is a test cajie which will
4ecide the fate of other Japanese and
Chinese.
Hug* Barometer In Munich.
Munich' ? A new barometer, larger
thAn the ordinary city hall flock, has
been Installed In the tower of the Ger
man Museum at Munich. Where the
13 ts on a clock face the barometer
has a large figure 71. When the at
mospheric pressure is normal the
hand of the barometer Is at 71. Fair
weather is Indicated by moving the
band to the right of 71 and had weath
er by moving It to the left.
Burglars Using Anesthetics.
New York, ? Burglars anesthetized
three families In a row of Bronx apart
ment houses, ransacked tho suites and
escaped. They obtained less thnn
$500 worth of loot.
This method of operation is said by
returned travelers to , be in vogue
among Kuropdhn criminals.
Spurned Love Causes
Boys to Turn Pirates
Ten. boys, led by n youth fif
teen year* old, captured by the
police of Chicago In a "pirate"
cave along the lake front, ndmlt
ted they had committed four re
cant fobberte* netting theni
nearly $10,000 tn money and
merchandise, part of whlrh wn*
recpTf ed. ?
_ The leader cX the band tarred
"pirate," he said, after bis "best
girl threw him <Vg|ra."
Othsrs In tha gang also admit
ted unfortunate love affalra,'*^
STUDY CONDITIONS OF OCEAN
Expertu Constantly at Work tp Dla
cover Causes That Produce Vari
ations Long Observed.
Weather predictions for the ?ca are
?till tn ciiiiio, but knowledge of the
physical conditions In our waters Is
r?|ri?ll\ augmenting. On unit off our
coast a never-ending brrtths is tn prog
ress !?>. 'tween the Lttbrador. current
with Its icy freight front t he Arctic
regions, and the (iulf stream with Its
atoied' heat from the , tropica. The
chief battleground fles on and near
the grand lyink of Newfoundland. not
f^r from whore the Titanic found a
watery grave, . The cop test between
the rival force# Is not confined to the
open ocean, but Is waged close to the
?roast and in the larger bays. It con
'lifttiffr th^usthflutw ywrcrTw ?t cpr- *
tain depths Ice-cold Arctic conditions
are to be found In lute summer, almost
to the southernmost ? tip of Nova ?
Scotia. The variable conditions so
produced are responsible for the Im
mensity of our fishery \ resources,
mb well as for the great tluet nations
from year to year In the amount of
fish eaughf, So knowledge of the
causes underlying these weather and,
AVffN^r- riintrtrrs -wbteb-~wtfl- t hob -
prediction possible beforehand will be
of great value. The biological experts
are studying the question and layiui?
its basis for u rational series of pro
duction. They have already discovered
what condition* are good fur llsb and
lobster culture and what aw not,
so they know when It pays best to
Spread the young fry from the fish
hatcheries. Montreal Family Herald.
EARLY CHRISTIANS IN JAPAN
Treasures Carefully Put Away by
Learned Statesman Found After
.1 Three Hundred Years.
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A large number of documents. books
and personal effects ivlatlng to early
Christian activities in Japan lias been
found by Marquis Tokujun Toku.^aWa. '
the Detroit News reports. Christian
"things were burned and believers pros
ecuted during the time of Prince Mlt
sukuni Tokugawtt, who died In Idol,
nnd the shogun secured this collection
fro pi the things seized in all parts of
thy country. After using It as refer
ence material for his "History of
Croat Japan," t fie prince carefully
stored It away tn sealed cabinets in a
warehouse In Mlto. and there, after
3(X> years' obscurity,' It was recently
found by Milfquls Tokujun.
Among the books is a copy of tin*
Bible written in Roniajl, which repre
sents the original sound of the Japa
. nose language. This Bible Is one of
only two such copies of the Scriptures.
Among the personal effects are pe
culiar religious garments which were
Worn by the Japanese l.hristlans nt
the time of the Amaknsa rebellion.
Lovely Garden but Ugly Home.
The most beautiful garden in Ameri
ca, aCcOrdintr to one of the most fa
mous living sftrt critics, i>; the master
piece of John I). Rockefeller In fche
I'ocontleo hills near Tarryfown. N. Y.
He calls It "Kljhuit," the old Dutch
name. It contains some beautiful statu
ary, inelpding the famous chocolate
colored Venus, believed to be the work
of Praxiteles. It used to be the custom
to paint statuary In Greece. In boiling
the marble to remove the paint, the
wrong chemicals were used and the
statue assumed a dark brown hue. The
oft kin# bus published a beautiful book
let describing this garden. Ten years
ago he published his "Random Remi
niscences of Men and Events." The
same fritlc who praises his garden
calls Mr. Rockefeller's house one of
i the most atrocious examples of modern
architecture.
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Too Cool for Fever.
^'Spring fev?r7" thir doctor repeated
the query.' ?' "Well. this yenr hasn't
been good for It. The mornings have
been too cool, and the evenings too
chilly. Oood spring fever weather ts
like good corn weather. It has to be
warm for close to 24 hours. When that
r happens in May, and early June look
out for people who Imagine they lost
all the 'pep* they ever had. and If they
are forty nnd over, they Indulge In de
pressing contemplation of a speedy
death from old age. One of the most
curious things about a rattllnir gryvl at
tack of spring fever Is that the symp
toms come Just when a chap has a desk
heaped with work that has fo be- done
Immediately. As a matter of fact, that
Th the only time a fellow really wants
to loaf." ? Detroit News.
, Animal Plagues Let Loose.
The true reason fnr famine prices of
| some articles of farm produce In
j" Europe Is jjlven hv T>r. E. A. Watson of
^ the Health of* Animals P.ranch of the
j Canadian Axrrlcultural department.
Ottawa. TTe-says that It Vomos from
' disorganization and paralysis of the
veterinary service In many parts of
1 Europe. ? Tills has allowed Infectious
disease ^ spread from country to coun
try. such as foot and mouth disease.
Sn in several European countries milk,
butter, meat and other animal foods
| nrf' nlmost beyond the reach of the
common consumer. Much Buffering and
111 health results especially am one the
' children. ?
Gratitude.
, "Th?? recent splurge of p?'ntlment
i anil verfflmentallty over the author of
?Home. Home,' " remarked ft
Detroit newspaper man, "did not Im
l pre* 8 me peatlj. I happen to know
r yiflt the lowers placed on the grave
? -- ? ? the one hundredth nnnl
were
The jury in the oaao against Gov or- j
nor Small of Illinois, on a charge of ,
corrupting the jury in the I ca<e
against the governor in a former trial
rciulemi a vertliet Tuesday ot* Hot
guilty at Waukogan. ?
A dispatch from Suit Lake City,
I till, savs that th?' Fanner-Labor
party will put a presidential ticket In
the tie Id for the next election and will
nanu> state tickets in every state
\vhoiV organizations can bo perfected.
Summer
Vacationist !
The seasofr for Summer vacations is here.
Where are you going to spend yours?
Do you prefer the mountains with their scenic
grandeur, babbling brooks and shady nooks, and
affording all out-door amusements such as Hiking,
Horseback Riding, Golf, Tennis, Etc., with cool nights
for rest and refreshment, or would you rather go to
the seashore with its Cool Breezes- Bathing, Boating,
Sailing and Fishing?
Consult nearest Southern Railway System Passenger
Representative or Ticket Agent for full particulars and
assistance in making your plans.
Reduced, summer tourist fares to all resort sections
in the United States and Canada!
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