The Jet Visitor (Jet, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1917 Page: 6 of 12
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THE JET VISITOR
BABIES STARVE
IN THE STREETS
PRINCESSES OF THE BLOOD
Neutral Traveler Paints Harrow
ing Picture of Pitiful Con- '
ditions In Vienna
ONLY THE WEALTHY GETFOOD
Men Women and Children 8uccumb
to Hunger and Want— Gloom and
Depression Weigh Heavily
on People
London— From a neutral who baa
spent prolonged periods in Austria
Hungary several times since the war
a Berne correspondent learns that
anever has the Austrian capital been
In such a plight as now Men women
and even children lately have sue
cuiubed to hunger and want and he Is
assured that children have been lit
erally dying In the streets Nowhere
Is there enough to eat he says except
among the wealthy classes 'and the
well-to-do farmers The organization
for the distribution of provisions is
wretched despite fact that a “Peo-
ple's Food Office1 -a existed In Vien-
na since December 1 last
According to the organ of the Whole-
sale Purchasing Association of Aus-
trian Consumers’ associations prices
have risen taking Austria as a whole
by 10407 per cent since the war be-
gan but In Vienna proportionately far
more It Is not merely that all neces-
sities have become so exceedingly ex-
pensive but that they are not procur-
able The few who have money still
contrive to purchase enough but the
great majority 'who have not money
either go constantly hungry or depend
on pubUc kitchens which since their
creation have supplied the poorer
classes In Vienna alone with 38253819
meals at a total cost of about $2-
165 Ofi)'
ft- 474300 Dependents
At the end of 1016 there were also
In Vienna alone 474300 persons In
receipt of government relief — grants
of assistance— in other words about
one In louFof the entire population of
’ the Austrian capital These govern-
ment grants since the start of the war
until the end of last year had reached
the sum of 350000000 besides which
there Is a large number pf destitute
refugees In Vienna who have cost the
state since the war began 311625000
And yet the burgermeister of Vienna
has Just been warning Uie public that
they murt be prepared for jvgrse tjmes
still come Jn the next tE2 months
"" The ciottfng question especially Jhe
problem oFfuTtf to provide aTiy Kind
of boots or shoes Is almost as difficult
of solution as the food question Ac-
tresses and others who before the
war went gbou£ (p elegant fanciful
ffiSes'lJSw are glad to wear any cast-
off footgear or even clothing they can
o arg many girls and Women
Selr living In offices
jr?cutls the fuel question
ftungr JZ
om "and depression of Vien-
na In short With lt3 restricted tram
service restricted electric lighting—
even In private houses— limited gas
' consumption and worst of all restrict-
ed heating with a degree of cold eel-
dom experienced Is so distressing that
the neutral who tells this story said
lfhe had not been able to leave he
would have lost his reason
The hospitals public and private
'are all overfilled and death Is reaping
proportionately as great a harvest
among 'the dvlUqn population
among the soldiers at the front
In Vienna and Indeed In all the
” larger Austrian cities there are now
large numbers of bouses and business
premises to let Moreover as little
removing as possible Is ’done because
(50000 TO DIVORCED WIFE
Deserting Husband Becomes Wealthy
After Wife Severs Tie and
r Marries Another
Chicago — William Koendman de-
serted his wife four years ago then
wrote to ask If he might come back
Although he was told he might If he
would cease to make his regular spring
disappearances he did not return and
his wife divorced him
Three years ago she was married to
William Betters Koeneman drifted
down to Jamestown Tex and became
rich Then having redeemed himself
as he figured It he advertised in the
papers of Kenosha Wls bis former
home town for news of his wife Thus
he learned of her divorce and remar-
riage Mrs Koeneman-Betters has received
" from her former husband sdraff for
$50000 for the benefit of their-two
sons 1
“Get another divorce and' remarry
him?” she salil In reply to a question
- "No I love Betters too much even
though he is only a yardinaster and
this has become so costly owing to the
shortage of labor of vans and of
horses In many cases young married
women have returned to live with their
parents or several women friends have
clubbed together to take a flat or house
It Is not dwellings alone however
which are everywhere to let but rows
of business premises shops etc also
are standing empty
The fifth Austrian war loan which
was to have closed on January 10 last
and which before that date was an-
nounced as so brilliant a financial suc-
cess has not yet been closed and the
banks In Switzerland ore being Inun-
dated with circulars some of them
marked "confidential” and issued by
the Vienna Banking association offer-
ing all manners of Inducements to the
Swiss fly to walk Into the Austrian
spider’s parlor There is not a single
Swiss managed bank In Switzerland
which has been tempted by these re-
iterated offers of Austrian war loan
stock Austria as a matter of fact
Is already bankrupt Her government
does not allow any money to leave the
country even to pay for goods pur-
chased In Switzerland since the war
1 ’
GIRL NOW BOARDING
OFFICER ON COAST
8an Francisco— Women have
long served Uncle Sam In the
many branches of his affairs in
this city but now a new field has
been Invaded Miss Elizabeth
Clark young and pretty has es-‘
tabllsbed herself as the pioneer
woman boarding officer of the
Immigration service ‘ Here are
some of the things she has to
do: " v
Board Incoming foreign ves-
sels In every kind of weather
from sunrise to sunset arising
at 3 a a during the summer
months
Scale the Jacob's ladder to get
aboard ships during rough
weather
Leap from the wharf to a roll-
ing customs tug and from the
tug bobbing In the choppy seas
of the Bay of San Francisco to
the side ladders of steamers
PROUD OF 19-CENT TUBERS
Pennsylvania Farmer Who Minimized
Pot4 Cost Prjjjy jjs Some
Real Whoppers
- -Doylestdwn
Pa— Farmer Edward
Chit tick of Plumstead township who
raised 266 bushels of potatoes on an
acre of ground at 19 cents a bushel
brought some real “taters” to the coun-
ty seat of Bucks exhibiting “Mur-
phys” that averaged a pound each to
sH3w wtial nd he raised— and they
w?R yfcoSpers '
Ejftf-one potatoes tilled a half-
bushel basket heaping full One after
nother a djizen werg measured and
they were fairly uniform In IengtK
Most of them measured six lncheq
across They weighed about a pound
apiece and Mr Chlttlck says he bad
some that tipped the scales at one and
three-quarters pounds
Mr Chlttlck admits that he may
have been a little low In some of his
expense Items but It was very little
He did nearl) all the work himself
and consequently the cost was less
than if he had to hire the kind of la-
bor most farmers must The United
States survey figures he says show
that he was not much too low on his
labor cost As for cutting potatoes
he says he can cut ten bushels with
a knife In half a day but he keeps
right down to business -
not as wealthy as Koeneman But
am glad to have the money for the
boys”
EVEN PICKLES ARE HIGHER
United States Government Buys Thou-
sand Barrels for Army
and Navy
New York— A government order for
several thousand barrels of dill pic-
kles for the army and navy has served
to Increase the price of next season’s
crop at Rlverhead and Calverton L L
where a large part of the pickles are
grown Yesterday J Fred Smith buy-
ing agent for a large Brooklyn pick-
ling house was Interviewing farmers
at Rlverhead and Calverton regasd-
Ing next season's ferop He made as
many contracts as he could slgh-up
for the entire crop the price being $3
per thousand The ruling price had
been from $2 to $25 -
The United States marketed 8781
short tons of asbestos of domestic pro-
duction last year a gain of 89 per cent
from the year before
Not so long ago the ancestors of
these two real American women were
lords of great sections of New Eng-
land that the white man wrested from
them They are the Indian princesses
Woontoonekanuske and Teeweelema
otherwise known as Charlotte and Me-
linda Mitchell and are direct de-
scendants of the great Indian chief
Massasolt Just now the two ladles
are more or less In the public eye for
belhted approbation of the goodness
of the ancient chieftain to the Ply-
mouth settlers Is being considered In
the legislature through a bill to pen-
sion these the last of bis descendants
The princesses are now living near
Mlddleboro Mass- They Are (respec-
tively seventy-one and elghty-one years
old
BLOW RESTORES MAN'S VOICE
Silent for Years He Recovers His
8pelch While Boxing With
His Cousin
New Castle Pa — Mike Llskas has
every reason to be grateful to his
cousin John Llskas and all on ac-
count of a terrific blow administered
on his chin by the latter while box-
ing Mike had been unable to speak
for a year and had spent several hun-
dred dollars attempting to regain bis
voice
The blow on the -chin brought blood
to the mouth of Mike and John the
cousin fearing that he had seriously
Injured Mile was fn the act of going
for a doctor when for the first time
In a year Mike spoke saying:
“Ton have not hurt me” You have
helped me regain my voice”
RUSSIA BUYS AMERICAN BOAT
Lake 8teamer Nevada Will Wend Its
Way Eastward yfhen Navlga-
' gallon Opens
Manitowoc Wls — The Goodrich
steamer Nevada soon after the open-
ing of navigation will wend its way
eastward down through the St Law-
rence to the Atlantic seaboard there
to take on cargo for a Busslan port
M Seekleshoff of Petrograd repre-
senting the Busslan government pur-
chased the Nevada from the Goodrich
company the price Is said to have been
approximately $750000
The Nevada was built here In 1915
Is entirely of steel 212 feet long and
can attain a speed of 18 knots an hour
The craft cost the Goodrich company
$275000 although It could not be du-
plicated today for that figure
DICEBOX USED AS JUDGE’S AID
Rattles the Bones In “Dealing” Cases
: to Other Departments of
A the Court
Los Angel — Presiding Judge Hou-
ser has devised a new system foi
“dealing” cases to- other departments
of the superior court A box of dice
has been added to the court accoutre-
ments and when there Is any question
as to the disposition of a case the bai-
liff “shakes the bones” There la
superior court department for every
number on the dice
Urged to Study Chinese
gnu Frands&i — Every California
schoolchild should be taught to read
-write and speak the Chinese laipiags
fluently -
This was the statement of Julrtm H
Arnold- American commercial attache
Ae China and Japan In a speech at a
Commercial dub luncheon st whlcf
the China Commerce Club of Califor-
nia was organised
Protecting Uncle ‘ Sam’s Mail While in Transit
IT TAKES over a million lock to protect Uncle Sam’s letters while In trans-
it and the post office department makes and keeps In repair aot alone all
of these locks 'but also all fastening devices used In - the moll service
Previous to 18S9 everything of this na-
ture waa furnished and repaired af a
great expense by contract and not at
ways to the complete satisfaction of
the department In that year It was
decided to repair the locks and a small
shop was Installed In Washington
It was found that the department
could do the work not only cheaper but
better and the following year It waa
decided to enter Into the manufacture
of locks keys and mall-bag attach-
ments as It was believed that It would
be an advantage to the department to have Its own shop where orders could
be filled more promptly and with less danger of keys getting Into the handa
of those not entitled to them - i
From a small' room equipped with one drill press and one stamping press
and employing a half dozen workmen the shop has grown to a complete fac-
tory where cord fosteners are assembled and other equipment made also
where hundreds of postal scales nre repaired and made as good or better
than new each year a tinning plant where all mall-bag attachments aro
tinned to prevent rusting - - -
Many Seek' Information About Divining Rod!
CAN underground water be located by the use of a forked twig! Such Is that
Inquiry made by hundreds of persons every year from every part of this
country of the geological survey This Idea that a forked twig or so-called
divining rod Is useful In locating min-
erals finding hidden treasure or de-
tecting criminals la a curious super”
stltlon that haa been a subject of dis-
cussion since the middle of the six-
teenth century and apparently still has
strong hold on the popular mind
even In the United States
Geologists of the survey say In
connection -with this subject that It la
doubtful whether so much Investiga-
tion and discussion have been do-
stowed on any other subject with such
absolute lack of positive results It Is difficult to see they say how fori
practical purposes the entire matter could be more thoroughly discredited
It Is by no means trne that all persons using a forked twig or some othei
device for locating water or other minerals are Intentional deceivers How-
ever the experts say as qnythlng that can be deeply veiled In mystery affords
good opportunity for swindlers there can be no reasonable doubt than
many of the large gronp of professional finders of water oil or other mineral
who take pay for their “services” or for the sale of their “Instruments’’ are
deliberately defrauding the people and that the total amount of money they
obtain is large The survey therefore when It receives these Inquiries-
advises against the purchase of any of these services or Instruments
Overalls Temporarily Replaced Dress Uniform
ANYONE who thinks the job of aid to the secretary of the navy Is a'contlnu
ous gold-lace dress parade sort of Job will be disillusioned by paying m
visit to the navy department and watching Lieutenant Commander Byron Me-i
Candless In action Instead of goldi
lace and dress uniform which h
wears on public occasions as Secretary
Daniels’ aid Lieutenant Commando
McCandlesa will be found- In a well-i
worn pair of overalls Thereby hangs al '
tale
Recently It was found necessary
to Increase the office space of th4
navy department by some 13 rooms
The only available quarters were usedl
by the yarlepartment to store Clvtlf
war records As a result of negotia-
tions' between Secretary Daniels and Secretary Baker the ' navy got tha
record rooms The floor were In need of planing and polishing before' tha
new offices could be occupied
Secretary Daniels waa about to employ a yarpenter when be discovered
that there was no money available for the work required It Is a penal offensa
for an officer of the government to spend money for purposes for which
there has been no specific appropriation Mr Daniels was about ' to dig
down Into his own pocket to defray the expense of making the offices habitabla
when his aid true to his title came to his assistance McCandless 1 who la
a young stalwart handsome chap volunteered bla services
For a week McCandless and his crew have been humping over electrlo
floorplanera at odd moments His soiled overalls attest the fact that he has
not been merely bossing the job but has been doing his full share of the work
The general navy board waa ao pleased with McCandless’ action that It
recommended him for Immediate promotion Secretary Daniels acquiesced
and one of the Inst acta of the senate before the adjournment of the regular
session was to approve the nomination which boosted Lleutenan McCandlesa
to lieutenant commander v
Generous Response to Appeal for Red Cross
i
President WILSON’S appeal to the people of the United States t
strengthen the American Red Cross Is' meeting with enthusiastic response
In Pittsburgh notably In hla plea for rapid mobilisation of the nation’s
resources the president asked for
1000000 new members of the Bed
Cross
For the first time in the history of
the United 8tetes the children of the
nation trs belqg called upon to aid In -measures
taken In preparation foy war
The distinction has fallen to the seboot-
children of Pittsburgh to be the first
In the country to receive this caU Ar-
rangements were made between Su-
perintendent of Schools Davidson and
the executive committee' of the Pitts-
burgh Chapter American Red Cross to enlist the services of every child in
the public schools Superintendent Davidson Informed all school principals
that membership blanks for enrollment In the Bed Cross wonld be delivered at -the
various public schools at once Each pupil was given two application
blanks with Instructions to take them home and enltfct at leSst two members
of the family -
- Many churches throughout the country regardless of ipnnmfrn bare
their own Red Crosr organization Betides working for membership the
churches nre doing active work In the matter of preparing hNoagM bedding
inilerwear and other Red Cross necessities Employers In stores min '
' jrles etc nre directing the membership work In their wkiukw
on picture theaters bare arranged te shew Bed Ctom sUdm
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Finch, Ursel. The Jet Visitor (Jet, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1917, newspaper, May 3, 1917; Jet, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1712857/m1/6/: accessed May 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.