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Easily Recognized.

It was a zoology class at a Santa Monica primary school. They had just been studying the rhinoceros, and had been enthusing over his wonderfully armored hide. “And what is this?” asked the teacher, turning to a picture of a giraffe. “Well, Johnny, tell us,” in answer to an eagerly raised hand. “It’s a U-nicorn. You can tell by Its bloomin’ periscope!”

It takes a political orator to say things that sound well and mean nothing. Do not always judge by appearances.

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SALVAGING MAN POWER for PEACE

by William Harper Dean

Reclamation of . Mutilated Soldier One of Miracles Born of War 7 SHE fighting man who “gets it” and then, “goes west” is missed by his trenchmates, the one who gets a nice, clean wound Is envied, but the man who is struck by flying steel and leaves the lines to emerge from the hospital a legless, armless or sightless by-product of w’ar is pitied from the depths of his comrades’ hearts. Artillerymen pray that when they are hit they will not be mutilated for life; so do infantrymen. For they sicken at the thought of passing the remainder of their days a burden to themselves and others, objects of pity and charity. Death is the least toll of war. But now comes the miracle, just another which has been born of the most colossal war: The reclamation of the mutilated man, the refitting of him to return to civil life the worker of his own destiny, without aid of charity or pity or pension. The armless will return to their trades and professions, the blind will work alongside the sighted by grace of a superdeveloped seventh sense, the legless may take up their work where they left it to join the colors, or else equip themselves for a new object in life and ask no special concessions from their whole-limbed competitors nor from any man.

More Than Makeshift. Mechanical ingenuity -has devised the artificial arm and leg which is something more than a makeshift for partially concealing the loss of a limb. With sufficient training in its use a man equipped with such an arm can shave himself "with an open razor, a sept which many a man with both HFfHs iHtaet will not attempt.

He can grasp a whetstone and sharpen a scythe or hold a delicate tool at a lathe for work demanding the finest precision. From his new training the blinded man emerges capable of efficient work at,the same lathe or making furniture 7 in open competition with employees with\unimpaired sight. It all rests with fbe individual —whether he applies himself with new hope and enthusiasm to the tasfk of refitting himself for a prouseful career.. France furnishes well nigh Innumerable examples of the new surgery and“the new training of men who to all Intents and purposes have been handicapped for life. Throughout the republic re-educational schools for mutlles have been established and are graduating men and returning them to the channels of peace time occupations at a marvelous rate. A mutlle who has lost bls right arm is set to work performing simple exercises with his left, such as cutting out squares and ovals from sheets of thin copper. After five or six* weeks of this elementary training in gny American Red Cross or French re-ed-ucational school, his left hand begins to develop some of the skill looked for from a man’s right grm. Soon he is able to write with his left, and ’ eventually he forgets the loss of the other member. Time and Patience Needed. Then comes the attachment of the ' ingenious mechanical arm to the stub ; of his right. It takes time and pa- ! tience to learn to operate its springs j and levers and damps, for every operation must be managed from the shoul- I der and remaining section of. the arm. ■ To the “wrist” of this artificial mem-, ■r .< - ‘ J

First Flyer

Aviation was born ip ancient Greece, observes Camp Kelly Field Eagle. Digging dotvn into the depths of bookery they have found that Icarus was the. 'original boy avliitbr, and though he fell to his death in his first solo flight, there was no flying field named after higi simply because In the golden days of Greek mythology the nations had not gone in seriously for aviation. However, aiaoe there were no fields to

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ber the mutile learns to attach a score of hooks and clasps, each designed to perform a particular function. With these attachments he can hold a pen and write, hold a book for reading, whittle with a knife, sweep with a broom, use his knife at the table for cutting his food. - An artificial thumb, wonderfully Constructed to replace the Jost naturalmember, enables him to grasp objects between thumb and forefinger. Farm work is notoriously hard work, calling for skill as well as for a strong, active body behind It. France is returning her wounded soldiers to the soil at a rate little short of miraculous. A Poilu, leaving the hospital after amputations, enters one of the Red Cross or French re-educational schools. Let us say he has lost both legs and that he was originally a worker in vineyards in the south of France. Naturally he wants to go back to his home section when he has been discharged,' and the great hope in his heart is that he will in some way be able to re-enter the old life. “But I have lost both legs,” he tells the official who is making a preliminary study of his case. “These new ones are excellent, monsieur, but I cannot prune vines again.” “Quite so, but you can be taught to do useful work sitting down.” “But, monsieur, one cannot prune vines that way.” - "■ “Exactly. But I have something else in mind. Your grape harvest is gathered in baskets, is it not? How would you like to learn basket-weav-ing? There is need for such work in your home section.”

Desires Are Consulted. It goes that way, No mutlle is set to work at a new task without having his natural desires consulted. If he wants work In agriculture, there is something which he can be taught to do. If it is a factory he longs for, his artificial hand will be trained for the factory. I have seen French mutiles from the farming sections of France, who before 1 the'; war~phyweci behind a-pair of oxen, being taught the intricacies of the mechanical tractor. And 1 have seen these same men going out to plow once more —not as peasants behind oxen, but as skilled tractor operators, whose false arms or legs equipped them to compete successfully with highly trained men who haVe lost neither. And I have seen a inutile who had lost both arms in battle climb nimbly to his seat on a farm cart and drive .off. illustrations might be multiplied, . but would be superfluous. The re-edu-cational system in operation abroad and in America holds a deeper signtt<cance and interest than its application' of advanced surgery and mechanics in re-equipping men for the tasks of peace. The significant feature of It in France, for Instance, Is that these wen emerge from the welter of’itell, minus arms and legs, sometimes blind, to return to civil life better equipped then in prewar days. The education of the French peasant in the pa.st has been largely a matter of utilizing ancient methods. Men have plowed with oxen because their grandfathers did; neither had the advantage of trashing in advanced agriculture. But the peasant ’who leaves a re-educational school and returns to the ’soil is no longer content to farm in the old way. . ♦ ° The Great Awakening. He has learned the economy of tractor plowing and of seed drills and- of manure spreaders. He hßj»*4t<fned the principles and practical side of

be named, they christened the sea into which he fell the Icarian sea. A board of Investigation appointed 'to investigate the cause of the accidentmade findings that Ike’s wings had come off probably “due to the Intenses heat of tj»e sun melting the wax which held them firmly to his body.”

insects Have Short Life.

As Hgarn truly-said, the incidents of the insect world are mostly of a nightmare character—-witness the nuptial flight of the bee and the devour-

modern dairying and orcharding. He will not be satisfied to use his new arm or leg as he used the old. It has been the great awakening for him and his kind, and unconsciously or purposely he will spread the contagion of the new’ order of things in the midst of the old. Industry throughout the world must not close its eyes to the inevitable fact that following the war re-equipped men who have sacrificed sight and limbs for their country will come back to take their {daces alongside the w’hole. They will come back efficient men, asking no sympathy, asking no special concessions from employers or those with whom they work shoulder" to shoulder. The world is not going to be flooded with idle, saddened objects of pity and "charity. That, too, belongs to the old order of things. In the readjustment of every nation's economic and industrial life following the demobilization of the armies the men reclaimed from piutilation will demand and receive their full share of the task. This is one“of the war’s most sublime achievements, second only to the everlasting defeat of military autocracy.

Idealism

We cannot get away'from idealism any more than we can from character, nor from an idealism based on knowledge. The problem will be as it always has been, one of making it helpful and fruitful, and enlisting it in the service of man. It cannot serve applied by them. The greatest ideal ever revealed to the world was the ideal of service. There could have been none greater. Christian people certainly will not deny this, for it is one of the basic truths of their religion. Idealism, service and obedience, therefore, all go together, and are all necessary elements of. a symmetrical character. They will not lose their importance or value. We cannot think of men living together in a civilized society without them. For, lacking them, men tyould not be men, and society would not be civilized. —Boston Globe.

Belgium’s Independence.

More than 75 years agp Belgium declared her independence of Holland,' to which she had been united by the settlement of 1815. Long-standing dissatisfaction first broke into open rebellion on the night of August 25, when the performance of the opera “La ,Muette de Portici,” with Its passionate appeal for emancipation, inflamed the audiehce to such n degree that the people left the opera house and flew to arms. Europe regarded the outbreak as merely a local riot until a month later, when the Dutch jarmy sent to* reestablish order in Brussels was led into a trap from which it extricated itself only after four days* heavy fighting and the loss of 1,500 men. Immediately on the withdrawal of the defeated troops a provisional government was assembled and on October 4 Belgium was proclaimed an independent state. . • ¥

ing by the female spider of her briijpgroom.' Whether they- have wings or stings or both' or none* theirs, is the life of the prayer or the preyed upon and they can-defend themselves feebly only by protective .coloring, or perhaps an unpleasant taste whictiTnakes them Inedible to birds that would otherwise eat them. Whether they creep on the ground or appear to flutter Joyously among the flowers, their struggle for existence is fierce and incessant Thus does stark science brusir awgy the funay fancies of a sentimental older era.

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Not Quite Sure.

Ruth told something that sounded incredible to her grandmother. “Now, dear, is that the truth?’ grandmother questioned. “Sure,” was the response, “it is, or else I dreamed it, but I don’t remember which.”

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Of Course.

Her Friend—“ What is your favorite part of the Bible?" Telephone Giri—“The book of Numbers.” ”'

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