Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 237, 16 August 1917 — Page 2

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GERMANS SENT TO HOT SPRINGS, ENJOY GROUNDS

U. S. Gives Aliens Comfortable Quarters During Ten- , ure of the War. Prisoners from an enemy land may be Ill-treated ' In tome countries, but not so In the United States. The Germans interned at Hot Springs, N. C thirty-eight miles west of Asheville, In the heart Of the Blue Ridge, live in comfort and eat their fill at a hotel which the United States has leased. The building is set in a hundred acres of shaded lawn. The alien guests are 600 officers and 100 members of the crews of German merchant ships held in American ports when the European war began. Surrounding the property is a four foot wire fence, patrolled by khaki-clad men armed with pistols and badged as "watchmen." Fence and guards are chiefly to keep out curious Americans, not to keep In the Germans. If any German thinks of escaping -which probably none of them do the unwisdom of such a course is suggested by long, lean mountaineer hunters, who pause at the fence to stare with im passive faces at the foreigners.' . , Leave Ellis Island.' A month ago the Germans were taken to Hot Springs from Ellis Island and Other immigrant stations. They are officially designated as "detained immigrants." aliens who had not chosen to take up residence In this country prior to hostilities with Ger many and are not now eligible to do so. Six hundred more are coming as soon as quarters now building are com plated. "What will you do If they make trouble?" was asked of the Director of Interment, Alfred Hampton. "Why answer that until there is tr6uble?" be countered. There has been no trouble. The

Germans Obey the few rules imposed on them. They answer roll call at 9 a. m. daily, and take part In a fire drill. ' Then they are practically free, within the grounds, until taps sound at 11 p. m. Honor System Prevails, they are practically on the "honor system" and are allowed to make rules for their own guidance through a number of committees. They work when they work, and play when they play, idling but little. A massive broadshouldered coal passer, who was seen looking for a four-leafed clover, was as attentive to his task as if he were seeking a lost diamond. The chief officers have organized classes, and dally Instruction Is given to petty officers and common seamen in mathematics, navigationoand languages. "In three years all these men will have the technical education necessary to command a ship," said Mr. Hampton. V Squads run through military settingup exercises dally. Some of the men work for the Government, including fifty ship carpenters being engaged in the construction of the new barracks, and others are employed as day laborers. The pay ranges from $20 to 930 a month. A number of the men work In the seven-acre tract, where a fine crop of vegetables is growing, and others find diversion in their own little garden plots. Agriculture appeals to .most of the interned men, but not (many of them know all there is to I know about plants. Most of them are from the seaboard and have had little ; experience n the fields. One Captain has a little plot, outlined with white stones, in which h.e is cultivating beans and corn. A large, and prosperous Jimpson weed which the poor man thinks is some .American vegetable sprung up from a f6rmer planting. Proves a Rank Weed. "I did not notice that thing until it was half grown.". explained an official, "and now I haven't the heart to tell the Captain It is a rank weed." By the riverside the officers have built a village - of miniature rustic bouses using tree limbs and roots, stones, odds and ends of material

found on the hotel grounds. One house baa panels of old matting. There are seats and tables, but no steins. The Germans know that steins can serve only as ornaments in bone dry North carouna. smau cnurcn with a steeple is nearing completion. The prisoners are allowed to receive newspapers and other reading matter, ' and, subject to the station censorship, to write and receive letters. ' About thirty members of Germans . officers' families have come to the village of ' Hot Springs, and these the officers are privileged to receive for an hour . each Sunday. They can see them as often ss they wish, the families com lng to the fence, but no conversation is allowed except during the Sunday hour. Pew visitors are allowed to inspect the station, and they are not ' permitted to speak to the Germans ex ' cept by way of salutation in passing The Germans do not salute the Americans In charge, although they general- - ly speak in salutation. The watchmen are not supposed to talk with them. Cannot Understand. "But the rules dont say we musn't listen to them talk." said a guard off duty. "It wouldn't be any use to tell these folks anything, anyway," said HARD AND SOFT OR ANY KIND OF CORN Tells How to Loosen a Tender Corn So It Lifts Out Without Pain. You reckless men and women who ' are pestered with corns and who have at least once a week Invited an awful death from lockjaw or blood poison ' are now told by a Cincinnati authority 'to use a drug called freezone, which the moment a few drops are applied to any corn,' the soreness is relieved and soon the entire corn, root and all, lift out .with the finders. It is a sticky substance which dries the moment ft la applied and it is said to simply ahrlvel the corn without inflaming or oven irritating the surrounding tissue or skin. It is claimed tfcat a quarter of an ounce will colt very litUe at any of the drug stores, but is sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or aoft corn or callus: You re further warned that cutting it a corn is a suicidal habit -Adv.

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CHAUTAUQUA OPENS. OXFORD, O., Aug. 16The Coit-Al-ber Chautauqua company, of Cleveland will open -its annual five-days Chautauqua here next Monday. The tent will be located on the public school grounds. EXTRA FOOD FOR NEWLY WEDS BERLIN, (via London), Aug. 16. The municipal food bureau of Strassburg announces that newly married couples will be entitled to 'draw double the amount of food indicated on their food cards. This privilege Is accorded them for a period of six weeks. QUAKERS, WORST Continued From Page One. the society. A tentative program was launched for the fitting of Friends for service, for community gardens, and for other lines of war work. Back up Government. ' Not very many people knew what to do in the first days of the war, but the Friends, followed the government, and as fast as a course of action was outlined by the government, they backed It up. . Organization of a joint committee to represent all the 125,000 Friends in America, permission from the government to organize the first civilian reconstruction unit, sewing clubs in all societies, canning clubs, committees to give aid to innocent alien enemies in trouble; these steps followed rapidly. Friends gave freely to the M. C. A. fund, to the Red Cross, many of them gave to Armenia and Syria, yet when the bill for their own war activities came in, they went down into their pockets as if they had given nothing. One Indianapolis congregation gave freely to Armenian relief, $1,500 to the Y. M. C. A.; 51,800 to the Red Cross, and $2,000 to their own budget First Unit Ready to Leave. Today, four months after the begin ning of the war, the first Friends unit of 100 men is almost ready to leave for France, with more to follow as soon as they can be enlisted and trained. : -' ' ' A call for an unlimited number of woman to help in the reconstruction and nursing work has been issued. The church is going to furnish a large number of young men to the Y. M. C. A. for their war work. Every meeting in America is ready, organized and efficient, a local reconstruction unit for the duration of the war. More than 40,000 war-work pamphlets have been sent out to members of Friends congregations. Raise $250,000 Annually. A yearly budget which will mean $2 a year to be furnished by every Friend in America has been made out which will furnish $250,000 a year to the Friends' war-work until the end of the war. Checks for. thousands of dollars go forward to the Philadelphia central committee every month. "The church is Just barely getting started," says Walter C. Woodward, secretary of the Five Years' Meeting. "Were the war to end tomorrow, our work in restoring devastated France and Belgium would ge in indefinitely." "When you get a pacifist backed up in a corner, you've got the worst fighter on earth," said Henry Ford, and he was right he. "because they wouldn't belieje you. They say the Americans have never repaired the ship engines they damaged. They say it can't be done outside of Germany." This watchman's opinion is that the Germane are helpless to- do anything unless they are told exactly how to do it. The carpenters,- he said, were slow in learning the simplest construction work if it was new to them, and the American foremen were kept busy instructing them. He derided the idea of their throwing trench bombs: "Why, when they want to get a stono out of the way, they throw it Just like a girl. What chance have - they got against our baseball players throwing bombs? Little Jimmie, here, can beat any of them fellers." Jimmie, aged corroborated. "Yes, Sir," said he. - "I kin throw furder than any them growd-up men." ' , The Germans are well fed on plain food potatoes, beans, cabbage, tur nips, and material for soups and stews.

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DB.SAUL-IrES "MAKE ME FEEL" Continued From Page One. valleys were bathed 5n sunshine and again they were hidden in the gray mist of rain. French are Amazed. At one time during the review, a rainstorm broke over the' marching troops but it was only of brief duration and there was not a falter in any part of the line. ' . There is an officers bombing school near the point where the review was held and throughout the time the troops were assembling and marching by, loud explosions of hand grenades in the near distance, gave a touch of war reality to the picture. As the Americans passed through the French villages enroute to the reviewing field, the French peasant folk gazed at them open-eyed .in amazement and admiration. They have seen much of the American soldiers individually and in companies since their arrival but this was the first gathering in force of the new ally and the impression it made on the villagers, farmers and French soldiers on leave could easily be seen and apprecitea. Band Cheers Boys. Each of the four platoons in a company seem fully sized companies under the old order of things in the American army. At the head of each regiment was a band playing regimental marches, one of which is called "Happy Heinie," in Teutonic tones much to the amusement of the French military officers. An amusing incident of the review was the frst appearance in line of new machine guns which -are carried on small carts instead of pack mules as formerly. Each cart is drawn by a mule and is driven by a soldier. The latter had a short but extremely interesting" time training American mules. These little French vehicle mules being used to working in double rather protested against single harness. The result has been that during the past week any stray mules have been encountered here and there about the camp with bits of carts and harness hanging very negligently about their necks. Mules Are Sportive. Even today some of the mules are inclined to be a bit playful, one dashing out of line just as he was passing the general. After a brief tour of the column in a wrong direction he decided to be good and the laughing driver s6on had him in his proper place again. Some sent the carts by the reviewing party in a gallop whiCh rather recalled clown races at a circus. The carts are so small and the drivers so large and all wielded long, cracking whips. As the troops reached a point some distance beyond the reviewing party they reformed into columns of fours and thus stretched out they found: their way along the roads. The brown mass seemed to pass as far as the eye could see. Make Moving Pictures. While the review was held at a point so remote that only persons at tached to the army organization were permuted to see, moving pictures were made both by French and American official operators in order that the people throughout France and America can get an idea themselves Of the im pressive appearance of the troops made when first assembled together. It was difficult to realize that they are the same men who landed in France a few weeks ago. In telling of his pride la his command, Major General Sibert added : "I am particularly proud of the showing the men made today for they were not parading before admiring crowds either of home folks or foreign friends. It was merely a military meneuver for them and they did it splendidly. Surprised at His Men. "I was surprised at their facility at field maneuvers considering the fact that since they have been here, their training consisted almost wholly of the technical side of trench warfare with all the new paraphernalia Of offensive and i defensive, tactics. During their spare time, away from trench practice, they have been drilled in close order tactics but today had the opportunity flilfiZIUAil LULU b Utz for COUGHS, GRIP, CROUP, tsthcia. Catarrh, Qiiicf. 3cntuntl:n9- Bronchitis, VUS ths Qtmi, ioc5c.50c$

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Twenty-six young human fish, who have been learning the art of swimming at the Y. M. C. A. began this week to study advanced swimming. A prize will be awarded to the member of the class showing most skill in the life-saving tests which will conclude the swimming course. Tests- for life-saving include two methods of starting respiration, breaking holds in the water, towing a per son of the contestant's own weight 100 yards, swimming forty yards on the back without using hands, doing 100 yards in one minute and thirty sec onds, and three kinds of dives. The leader's tests, preliminary to life-saving work, include . swimming length of the pool with a sandbag weighing twenty-one pounds, bringing up an object from the bottom, towing a person of contestant's own weight sixty feet, breaking two different holds, swimming the length of the pool in thirty-seconds, swimming 100 yards, making three different dives. GERMAN BREAD RECIPE ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 16. Five members of the minority Socialist party of the German Reichstag are reported to have given notice that they will ask the Chancellor is be aware the bread now being supplied to the German people is composed as fol lows: 24 percent flour, 21 percent lupine, 17 percent chestnuts, 14 percent bark of trees, 6 percent wood shavings, 4 percent potato peel, 2 per cent of a miscellaneous indefinable mixture. ITALIANS LOSE 6 8TEAMERS ROME, Aug. 16 The Italian mer chant marine losses for the week ending August 12, comprise six steamers and five sailing vessels, one of. the latter being above one hundred tons. Five hundred and fifty vessels, all n& tionalities of a tonnage of 339,245, en tered port and 509 of a tonnage of 414,775 left. such cheerful reading. King ceased conjecturing and gave attention to his guide. She showed where eleven hundred Mauser rifles stood in racks in another cave, with boxes of ammunition piled beside them each rifle and cartridge worth its weight in silver coin a very rajah's ranso! To be continued

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