Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 230, 8 August 1918 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SDN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1915.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TE1-EGHAM

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What Italy Thinks of the United States The letter of Basil Walters, a former news writer for the Palladium, now with an ambulance unit in Italy, which was printed Tuesday, indicates the unbounded faith which the Italians have in the sincerity of our aims and purposes in thi3 war. They revere and applaud our soldiers because they see in them crusaders who have crossed the Atlantic to avenge wrongs and help establish justice and righteousness. One factor that has helped to bring about this viewpoint is the profound exposition of the aims of the Allies made in the notable addresses of (President Wilson since America entered the war. Walters writes that excerpts from these speeches are printed on placards and posted all over the kountry to enlighten and inform Italians about four aims in the war. The tone of these addresses is so clear and the principles are enunciated so plainly that the Italians unite with the other Allies in saying that they are the best expressions of the purposes of the allies that have been written. Walters finds a new morale and spirit in the Italian people since the Allies began giving them Wid and support. Perhaps the disastrous retreat of the Italian army last year never would have rtaken place had the Allies understood Italy's I needs better and given her the artillery which !she needed so badly. The Allies are to blame as jjnuch as is Italy for the debacle that resulted in the retreat to the Piave river. Now a new spirit of co-operation has supplanted the old feeling of distrust and Italy is coming into her own.

Present Sugar Situation (By E. F. Warfel, Chief Publicity Bureau, Indiana Defense Council.) The Food Administration is confident that the American public will heartily agree to reduce the household use of sugar here to a level more nearly equal to the present restrictions among the peoples of the Allies, provided our people clearly comprehend that sugar, which with us is often used in great measure as a luxury has become an essential element for the success of the war among the nations of Europe. Upon our action here depends the possibility of maintaining the ration to our own fighting men and those of the Allies as well as of avoiding a still further reduction of the allotments to the civil populations of the nations fighting Germany, which are already down to a point far under their normal use. England, which before the war used more sugar than the United States, has already reduced its household consumption to two pounds per person per month. France allows its people a maximum of a pound and a half, and the Italian ration has been reduced to one pound. Furthermore, unless there is strict and consistent economy in the United States the supplies for Belgium and those required by the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army and similar organizations working for the welfare and comfort of our soldiers in Europe : cannot be maintained. The situation which the United States faces in its efforts to maintain a fair distribution of sugar to the Allied world is as follows : the sugar supplies throughout the country in homes, stores, factories, and bakeries are at low ebb ; the production from the American beet and Louisiana cane crops have been disappointing ; the yield in Porto Rico has likewise been smaller than anticipated, and the inability of the United States and the Allies to secure sugar from Java and other distant sources on account of the imperative call for fhips for the movement of men and their supplies has materially reduced the supply from such quarters. Added to this already difficult situation, the quantity needed by the Army and Navy greatly exceeds earlier estimates, we must send a large amount to France and Italy to take the place of the great volume lost through the German and Austrian invasions, during which much beet land was overrun and many factories des

troyed; we have to supply certain quantities to neutral nations under agreements; and finally more than fifty million pounds were lost recently through submarine sinkings off our Atlantic coast. The industries using 'sugar have been reduced in their consumption of sugar, most of them having their supplies cut in half, and some receiving none at all. The situation is so serious that every possible means of conservation should be observed. Household canning without sugar should be done wherever possible ; and where sugar is used it should be only to the extent necessary to secure the maximum of preserving with the minimum use of sugar at this time. With prospects of increased supplies after November 1, and still more after January 1, sugar may then be added with more freedom. In order to make sure that the distribution of sugar in the United States shall be equitable, the Food Administration has worked out a scheme of allocation to the states, based on population and taking into account the needs of sugarusing industries in the states. Within each state 1he details of distribution are left to the Federal Food Administrator. "As the Cuban crop becomes exhausted, more and more vessels will be leaving Cuba without sugar. The Food Administration has arranged for the transportation of every pound of sugar from Cuba at regular intervals. It is not now a question of transportation, but of total available West India sugar supply."

SimonoVEstimate of Allied Strength From the American Review of Reviews. THE question of numbers is always a puzzling one, and on no subject has there been so much confusion In recent months. To the people of this country the sudden appeal of our Allies for men in March, accompanied by the frank confession that not only were the Uritish and French outnumbered upon the Western Front, but decisively outnumbered, came as a distinct shock. Suddenly the real meaning of Russia's collapse was appreciated, but there remained the puzzle as to how the thing had come about, in the face of comparative populations and the reported numbers which France and Britain had enrolled. The real trouble, I think, has lain in the failure of the military writers to make clear the distinction between pross numbers and organized numbers. Thus, If the British have had on the average close to 2,000,000 men in France for at least two years, this fact has been accepted cs meaning that the fighting strength, the organized fighting strength, of the British Army has been steadily 2,000,000, and the same assumption has been made in the case of the French. Now the fact Is this: The British have had in France an organized strength which has never been in excess of 1,000,000; that is, the nember of men, organized in divisions provided with all the officers and machinery of the divisional unit. The other million has been made up of certain percentage of men engaged in the necessary non-combatant tasks, of men held in depots to replace wasige (and the British loss last year was around 1,000,000) and of new levies undergoing final training before being incorporated in existing units. Sixty British divisions with an average strength of between 900,000 and 1,000,000 represent approximately the full field strength of the British Army in France. To keep it at this strength through a year of fighting requires another million. But the British could not and cannot inside of many months transform any part of their unorganized force into new divisions, because this requires bpecial training of officers, the creation and co-ordination of intricate machinery and staffs. On the whole, save for such divisions as were stationed in Britain, in the colonies or employed in "sideshows" but available for recall or transport to France, the fighting strength of the British Army for 1918 was not, and could not be, much above sixty divisions. As for the French, their great losses compelled them early in the war to restrict the manufacture of new divisions. They had a fixed number of men available. They had a certain number of divisions and a fairly regular rate of wastage through casualties. They could thus calculate how long at the existing rate of wastage they could- maintain, say, eighty divisions of 15,000 each. If they created more divisions, their reserves to supply wastage would be used up more rapidely and they would presently have to reduce the number of divisions. Accordingly, the French early decided to maintain their field or fighting army at a strength of some 1,230,000 men. Taken with the 900,000 British and some 100,000

Belgians and Portugese, this gave the western Allies a fighting strength of 2,250,000. They had the reserves to keep this force going through the present campaign and 10 maintain it at full strength, but they had not the re

sources to increase it by creating new divisions within

time which would enable them to make effective use of

these new units.

These 2,250,000 represented an organized strength of ISO German divisions. The strength of the German divi

i-ion is about 12,500, while that of both the French and the British is materially larger; but, for purposes of establishing a comparison, I shall use the German divisional strength as the unit. On the Western Front, then, the Allies had some 180 divisions available in March of the present year. They had the reserves to maintain these divisions, but they could not increase them n number and their effective fighting force at any time might be less, but would not be more than 2,250,000 men, organized in units equivalent to 180 German divisions.

DinnerStomes

In one corner of a railway carriage eat a very little girl In charge of a nurso. The mother sat opposite, behind an. illustrated paper. Suddenly there were wriggles and peevish cries, and a voice from behind the paper said: "Give it to her, nurse." Still the crying went on, and again from behind tho paper came the injunction: "Oh, do let her have it, nurse; it's no use letting the child cry." Suddenly the cries roso to a howl, and the mother, appearing from behind the paper, bald indignantly: "Why don't ycu do as I tell you, nurse? Let her have it at once!" "She's got it, madam. It's a wasp!" It was the sweet scent of the lilies In the conservatory, the beauty of the young . girl's hair, or the excellent chfupagne he had taken at supper

that led to his proposing to the obscurity beneath a palm. "It cannot be," she said. "I am unworthy of you." "Oh, rubbish!" said he. "It is true; it is true." And she Bighed. "You are an angel," she said ardently. "No, no; you are wrong," said the girl. "I am vain, silly, utterly unfit to be your helpmate through life." He laughed lightly, then said, in a soothing voice: "Why, this is sheer madness. What sort of a wife do you think I ought to have?" "A very wise, deliberate, practical woman," she replied, "one able to live on your salary."

Moment

THE SAD FATE OF ANNETTE When the wife went summering she

left In our care Annette Keljermann, our goldfish. Shortly afterward Annette grew despondent and committed suicide because we forgot to feed her. Did you ever try to find a place in New York to bury a goldfish? We went bravely forth with a fire shovel in our hand and Annette in our pocket and walked until 1 o'clock in the morning looking for a place to bury her with military honors. Whenever we found a likely site there would be a twenty-five story building standing on It. Everywhere was asphalt and cement, and one can't do much to that stuff with a fire shovel. We had. had the same trouble before when Roszika and Yancsi, our beautiful goldfish twins, passed away. That time we stood by a subway entrance and slipped Rosika and Yansci into the coat pocket of a man who looked as though he wouldn't care. That was in the winter when there were

overcoat pockets. I No such chance this time. We got

home at 3 o'clock after a tiresome ,

ITALIANS AS PIONEERS IN THE AIR WIN PLAUDITS OF THE ALLIED FLYERS

(Special Correspondence of the Italian American News Bureau, Chicago) LONPON, Aug. 8. The activity of Italian Capronl aircraft has won the sincere admiration of the allied flyers, la the immense theatre of war the progress of Italian aivation perhaps has not received all the recognition It deserves. At a future time, when the history of the war is calmly told in facts and figures which cannot be revealed today, the work of Italian aircraft inventors, builders and flyers will furnish one of the most striking chapters about the contributors to victory. The flight of Captain Laureati from Turin to London In five hours drew the attention of the British public to this branch of Italy's pianifold war activities. Today the deeds of Italian aviators in France demonstrate that the marvelous flight of Captain Laureati was not an isolated case, and confirms the great progress of Italian industry in the field of military aeronautics. Balloon Flight Over London in 1783 The British public has a traditional admiration for Italian prowess in the air, because hero it is still vividly recalled after more than a cenutry--what an impression Count Zambeccri, the first aeronaut in England, made when he ascended over London in 1783 with another Italian, Vincenzo Lunardi. The event was one. of the most sensational happenings of the close of the eighteenth century. In November, 1783, Count Zambeccari built a balloon of kid, three meters in diameter and weighing only five kilos and a half (twelve pounds.) The balloon was shown in publio for several days. On the 25th it was threequarters filed with hydrogen gas, which had been discovered eighteen years before by Cavendish, an English chemist. The balloon went up more than 3,000 feet and floated in the air for three hours. That was the first balloon ascension in England. Lunardi Flies Before Prince of Wales The fame of Count Zambeccari was

search, with Annette still in our pocket. Then we read about the famine in Russia and we put Annette in a fine little box all comfy and cozy and mailed her to Leon Trotzky, Moscow.

Fhiladelphians should not repine. It is still easy for them to commute to New York for a few hours of wakefulness each day.

When a Philadlphian doesn't sleep more than fifteen hours a day they claim he has insomnia.

What Germany really wants is the freedom of the seize.

soon overshadowed by that of Lunardi, who happened to be in London at the time as secretary to Prince Caramanico, ambassador of the king of the Two Sicilies. Lunardi made his first ascension in a balloon which did not exceed ten meters in circumference, In the presence of the prince of Wales and an immense throng. An Englishman named Biggin was to accompany the rash Italian. The inflation of the gas bag was protracted for more than an hour and the crowd, thinking itself hodwinked, be

came so threatening that Lunardi, fearing the balloon would be torn to shreds, decided to risk his life with the bag half filled with gas. This made it impossible for Biggin, who weighed 220 pounds to go along. Lunardi, however, did not lack company. He took along a dog, a cat and a pigeon, "to judge by its effects on the animals the degree of rarification of the upper strata of the air," as he said. It is Interesting, in view of the strides taken since that time, to know that Lunardi provided himself with two oars in the delusion that they would help propel the balloon horizontally, up or down. The balloon had not risen more. than 300 feet when the pijreon flew away and one of the oars was broken. Puts Village Folks to Flight. After an hour and a half Lunardi descended in a field in the suburbs of

Cocoamit Oil Makes A Splendid Shampoo

If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. .Most st s and prepared shampoos contains too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, apd is very harmful. Just plain mulsified cocoanut oil (which is pure and entirely greaseless), is much be'.ter than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use for shampooing, as this can't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with water and rub it in. One or two teaspoonfuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly. The lather rinses out easily and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and recessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at most any drug store. It is very cheap, and a Tew ounces is enough to last everyone in the family for months. Adv

London, but only to release the cat,

which was benumbed by cold. He immediately rose again, being tossed

about by the currents of air for three, quarters of an hour. At the end of that time he descended in a village about ten miles from London. The inhabitants were terror stricken at the sight of the mysterious aerial monster. They fled in panic, except a young peasant girl. She courageously approached and when one of the drag ropes touched the ground she tied it securely and thus permitted Lunardi to get down without breaking his neck. Lunardi became the hero of the hour. He was received in special audience by the king, was courted and entertained by the nobility and sought by the loveliest women of the aristocracy. Sonnets and ballads from the pens of the greatest living poets were sung in ha honor. It became known a few days after the ascension that a duchess enamored with Lunardi thought when the oar broke and fell from the baUoon, it was the aeronaut's own body. Overcome with grielf, she swooned and died three days later without regaining consciousness. Tn a court of justice the jury, locked up, was discussing the fate of a notorious swindler, when one of their number discovered Lunardi's balloon in flight from a window. To gain time, the jurors quickly found the man at the bar not guilty, after which jurors, judges, witnesses, lawyers and accused hurried out of doors to enjoy the prodigious sight Even the king

I at the moment of Lunardi's ascension

I broke ud a Bession of the privy coun- ... .. . i t

cil, saying mat the councu eouio oe rpaacamhleri while T.nnardi TYlieht nev

er go through the sky again. I

Rheumatic Torture

Take "Neutrons Prescription 99" and the Pain and Aching Will Vanish.

Rheumatic misery is now a thing of the past It matters not how sore your Joint3 are, or how swollen and painful, one bottle of "Neutrone Prescription 99" will make you feel fine and comfortable. "Neutrone Prescription 99" Is a different remedy. It is a liquid that eliminates uric acid by absorption through the blood and quickly soothes and heals the inflammation. It quickly takes the agony out of joints and muscles and makes them like new. "Neutrone Prescription 99" is a good thing to have on hand at all times. It is especially efficacious when an attack is coming on as in almost every instance it will, after a few doses, rid the system of rheumatic poisons. 50c and 11.00 the bottle. Conkey Drug Co., and leading druggists everywhere. Adv.

Emphatically Asserts Worn Out, Lagging Men Can Quickly Become Vigorous x and Full of Ambition

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Don't blame the man who fs perpetually tired; his blood needs more red corpuscles and his brain and nerves are craving for food. Given the right kind of medicine, any tired-out, inactive, lagging- fellow can quickly be made into a real live, energetic and even ambitious man. So says a student of the nervous system who advises all men and women who feel worn out and who find it hard to get up ambition enough to take a regular job to get a package of Bio-feren at any druggist. This 1 the new discovery that pharmacists are recommending because it is not expensive and speedily puts vigor and ambition into people who despaired of ever amounting to anything in life. People whose nerves have been wrecked by too rapid living, too much tobacco or alcohol, have regained their

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