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THE SAYRE HEADLIGHT
Lloyd George in Strange Company
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HONORED fr
RED CROSS
Six American Nurses Awarded Florence
Nightingale Medal
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Lloyd George, premier of England, photographed at Boulogne, France, during Ida recent visit, with M. Mlllerand,
the French premier. The two distinguished statesmen were received In quulnt costume by the native flsherwlvet
and were presented with huge bouquets of flower*.
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Says War Cost
Hundred Billions
English Financier Fixes Real
Losses of the European
Belligerents.
AMERICA WORLDS CREDITOR
To Only United States and Japan Did
the War Bring Prosperity, According
to English Authority—Germany
a Heavy Loser.
London.—The actual cost of the
war to European belligerents was in
excess of £20,000.000,000 ($100,000,-
000,000 normal value), represented by
pro;<erty destroyed, losses in Invest-
ments abroad, depredation of proper-
ties ' and by pensions, Edgar Cram-
mond, English financier, told the
Bankers' Institute at a recent meeting
here.
He fixed the following as the real
losses of the European belligerents:
Germany .........................£8,7(S3,OQO,OtlO
<S43,Suu.OOO,OCO normal value.)
France ............................ '6.250,000,000
The United Kingdom ......... S,2W,000,M>
Italy ...........................- dl,MO,000.000
Belgium ........................... mv.wv.imi
To only two belligerent countries—
the United States and Japan—did the
'wrfr-bring prosperity, Crammond said,
but Spain, " Holland, Switzerland,
Greece and Scandinavia also bad
grown wealthier. He believed the “liq-
uid capital of the world, now dis-
tributed In centers which are unaccus-
tomed to the exercise of their new
powers,” would eventually again find
Its chief outlet through London.
America the Gainer.
“The war has produced an extraor-
dinary change In the economic rela-
tions of the United States with Eu-
rope,” be said. "Whereas, In 1914
America owed Europe £2,000,000,OtX),
at present Europe owes America £2,-
000,000,000 ($10,000,000,000)."
Assuming that the post-war pur-
chasing power of the dollar was 70
per cent of Its pre-war value, Cram-
•mond said during the last five years
there had been an actual Increase In
the national wealth of the United
States of approximately 30 per cent,
and he estimated this wealth now In
the neighborhood of £70,000,000,000 to
£80,000,000,000.
The national wealth of Japan, he
estimated, bad been doubled by the
war.
Germany Heavy Loser.
On the basis of a post-war mark
valued at 60 per cent of Its pre-war
value he estimated Germany has lost,
apart from the Indemnity, 20 per cent
of her national wealth, the whole of
her mercantile marine, all her colonial
possessions, and practically the whole
of her Investments abroad. If the
figures suggested at the Hythe con-
ference, £8,250,000,000, were fixed as
the German war Indemnity, be de-
clared the total losses of the German
people arising out of the war, would
be equivalent to about £15,000.000,000,
or one-half her national wealth.
“So far as the world as a whole Is
concerned, the principal loss Is In the
fact that Europe Is not yet ‘a going
concern,' ” he continued, "but the un-
derlying economic forces which made
her the great center of the world'?
commercial activities are still at work
and will rapidly transform the eco-
nomic situation In Europe.”
lie said the dominant characteristic
of International trade In the next ten
years will be a tremendous world de-
mand for capital, and the Internal
financial policies of the nations should
las framed with due regard to this
condition.
hales of lint and 15,083 of llnters were
consumed.
Cotton on hand June 30 In consum-
ing establishments was 1,554,023 hales
of lint and 270,171 of (Inters, com-
pared with 1,383,049 bales of lint and
288,804 of llnters n year ago, and In
public storages and compresses 2,304,-
639 bales of lint and 374,648 of llnters
compared with 2,765,771 of lint and
207,781 of llnters a year ago.
June Imports were 19,635 bales, com-
pared with 17,209, In June, 1919, and
exports were 241,450 bales, Including
3.800 bales of llnters, compared with
690,109 of lint and 3,710 of llnters In
June last year. .
Cottou spindles active during June
numbered 34,503,754, compared with
33,950,358 In June a year ago.
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COTTON CONSUMPTION GROWS
Amount Used During June Shows Big
Increase Over Year Ago Says
Census Bureau.
Washington.—Cotton consumed dur-
ing June nmonnted to 555,521 bales of
lint and 33,960 of llnters, the census
bureau announced.
During June a year ago 474,3301
Speech Lost in War
Recovered by Bowling
Nlngara-on-the-Lake, Ont —
Dumb for three years as the re-
sult of being shell shocked In
the war, Trooper W. Hart sud-
denly recovered his speech here
In the excitement of a bowling
game. He was playing with the
Davlsville Military Hospital
team.
Cannibals Once
Peopled Texas
Discovery Made That Prehistoric pl,,,f,nn* PIten<1|n*from Au’tln wpst
/ ... . ward to New Mexico.
People
Were Different
From Indians.
RAD REGULAR CAMP SITES
Life History Read From Recordi They
Left In Their Burned-Rock Mounds
—Advanced to Stage of Pale-
olithic Culture.
Austin, Tex.—Evidence that Texas
was Inhabited by a. prehistoric people
different from the Indian who roamed
the plains when the first white man
came has been unearthed by James
E. Pearce, professor of anthropology
of the University of Texas. The early
inhabitants, he said, lived a nomad-
like existence, roaming from one part
of the wilderness to another and kill-
ing, with rude stoDe weapons, animals
and even humans for food.
In co-operation with the Smith-
sonian Institution bureau of ethonology.
Prof. Pearce has been Investigating
the mounds for more than a year, he
reported.
“The life history of these people
has been read from the records they
left In their burned-rock mounds or
kitchen middens," the professor said.
"These mounds are piles of broken
and charred bits of limestone three or
four feet high and sometimes as long
as 100 feet.
Had Regular Camp 8ltea.
"They are made up of the kitchen
refuse of these prehistoric peoples,
who had regular camp sites at fre-
quent Intervals along the Edwards
“These people evidently were ad-
vanced to the stage of paleolithic cul-
ture, an earlier age than (he period
of heollthlc culture, to which most of
the American Indians belonged. These
early Texas Inhabitants had arrows
and spears tipped with flint points,
chipped but not polished, They did
not polish their stone weapons, nor
did they engnge In any form of agri-
culture. They were, however, skill-
ful skin dressers, for we have found
scraping tools made of flint.
The kitchen middens which ute dis-
covered are the only thing of their
kind In America, so far as I know,
although they had been found In other
parts of the world. At these sites,
camps were loented with a great fire-
place In the center, over which huge
slabs of limestone were placed as a
sort of primitive stove, upon which
to cook the meat the Inhabitant!
killed.
Cannlballem Practiced.
"We know these people were canni-
bals, for among the refuse heaps have
been found human bones split apart
In order to get at the marrow.
'The soft limestone slabs, being ex-
posed to the weather, broke from time
to time, and were cast aside near-by,
to be replaced by new ones.
“In the course of our Investigation*
we have completely examined some
fifteen of these mounds and In them
have found thousands of splendid spe-
cimens of chipped arrow and spear
heads, as ^well as Bcraplng tools and
other Implements. Bones of the deer,
which were prevalent In tills region,
are found In profusion, Indicating that
this was the principal article of diet.”
BEEF IMPORTS GROW
(Figures Are Given Out by Bureau
of Animal Industry,
Canned and Cured Meata Show
Falling Off for the Period
Covered.
Big
There was very little difference In
the quantity of fresh and refrigerated
beef Imported Into the United Sfatee
In 1919 and 1020. The figure* are
taken from the meat Inspectors’ re-
ports, bureau of animal Industry, Uni-
ted States department of agriculture.
In 10 months ended In April, 1919,
27,673,105 pounds of fresh and refrige-
rated beef were Imported. In the
period ending at the corresponding
time In 1920 the quantity of fresh
and refrigerated beef arriving In the
United States from foreign countries
was 27,968,880 pounds, an Increase of
^bout a quarter of a million pounds.
Fresh and refrigerated meats of
other kinds Jumped to twice the quan-
tity In th# 10 months ending April,
1920, as for the same period In 1919.
The figures show 7,933/(77 pounds for
1019 and 14,979,663 pounds for 1020.
But the canned and cured meats Im-
ported during the same periods show
a remarkable drop from 126,624.348
pounds In 1919 to leas than 2,000,000
pounds In 1920. This Item accounts
for the marked decrease In the total
meat products Imported. The total
weight Imported In the 1919 period
was 108,602,911 pounds, but 1920
brought only 50/140,655 pounds.
Find* Ring Loat Year* Ago.
Chester, Pa.—John Hunter the other
day excavated from the soil In the
rear of his Holland street home near
Ecdystone a diamond ring, which he
had lost there more than 12 year* ago.
It was while spading that Hunter lost
the ring from a bole In his pocket. He
had no Idea where he had dropped It,
and In time forgot all about It.
He was turning over the sol! again
with a spade, and to his surprise the
long-lost ring came up on a spadeful
of dirt. A little wushing and polish-
ing restored It to Its original beauty.
The ring Is valued at $200.
Chum It Now Her 8tepmother.
New Albany, Ind.—Estella Kelsali
and May Deltzman were rhume and
Eetella Introduced May to her father,
a widower. Now she'll never have
to part from her chum, as “dad” hat
married her. Dr. Oliver Kelaall sur-
prised his daughter when he tele-
graphed that he and May were on
their honeymoon.
Needl* h Halted
Greensburg, Ind.—While lying oa *
davenport at her home Mrs. Noel
Anderson felt a needle enter her shoul-
der. A physician was called and it
was discovered that the needle waa
fast traveling toward the lungs. She
was rushed to a hospital, where an
operation waa performed.
IX American women
have been awarded the
Florence. Nightingale
medal. Tills medal Is
the highest decoration
of tlie nursing world.
It Is awarded by the
International Commit-
tee of the Red Cross,
Geneva. It may be
awarded to only one nurse of a na-
tion each year. Thus these six women
represent America’s high roll of nurs-
ing since the outbrenk of the Great
"ar In 1914. The Florence Nightin-
gale medal was established In 1912.
It can be awarded “only to trained
nurses who may have especially dis-
tinguished themselves by great and
exceptional devotion to the sick and
wounded In peace or war."
3 lie Florence Nightingale medal Is
w>-’I named. Florence Nightingale
(1 ‘'-0-1910) was the pioneer of trained
a::uy nursing. She was an English-
W"man, horn In Florence. She became
Interested in nursing enrly and went
through courses of training In France
-and Grtvnany, She then made a study
I of hospital methods In Europe. She
became the friend of the ragged
schools and other slmilnr Institutions
of London.
Opportunity knocked at her door In
the Crimean war. In 1854 reports of
the nwful conditions surrounding the
wounded and sick reached London
and Rhe sailed for Scutari with a stnff
of 38 volunteer nurses. There she
tolled until the British troops left the
town In 1856. Her nightly round of
the wards won for her from the sol-
diers the title of "Lady With the
J-amp." She not only nursed The sick
and wounded but started educational
classes and organized reading.
Fame rewarded her. Her country
made her a gift of $250,000. With
this she founded a training home for
nurses. Soon she became a general
adviser of the civilized world In mat-
ters of nursing and sanitary reform.
Her example and Influence brought
about the organization of the Red
Cross society. She wrote “Notes on
Hospitals" (1859) and "Notes on
Nursing" (1860).
So the name of Florence Nightin-
gale calls up a brave picture of wo-
manly devotion, made more valuable
by trained skill. The records of the
six American women honored with the
Florence Nightingale medal show that
they are worthy recipients of this
highly-prized decoration. The six
nurses are:
Helen Scott Hay, Washington, D. C.
Florence Merrlain Johnson, New
York City.
* Martha M. Russell, Boulder, Colo.
Alma E. Foerster, Chicago, III.
Linda K. Melrs, Boston, Mass.
Mary E. Gladwin, New York City.
All six of (hese nurses saw service
abroad. Following Is a condensed
record of their training and services:
Miss Hay, present chief nurse ot
the American Red Cross commission
for Europe, Is a graduate of North-
western university and the Illinois
Training School for Nurses, Chicago.
Her career Includes service as head
nurse al Iowa State Hospital for the
Insane; superintendent of nurses In
county Institutions, Dunning, 111.;
superintendent of Pasadena hospital
and of the Illinois Training School for
Nurses. She went overseas In charge
of American Rcfl Cross nurses on the
Red Cross ship In 1914 and became
chief nurse of Unit "C," Kief, Russia;
was appointed director, bureau of In-
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struction, department of nursing,
American Red Cross, Washington, In
1917; organized army school for nurs-
ing for war department, 1918; was
detailed as chief nurse of American
Red Cross commission to Balkan
states.
Miss Johnson Is a member of the
faculty of the deportment of nursing
and health, Teachers’ college, Co-
lumbia university. She was gradu-
ated from Smith college and from the
New York Hospital Training School
for Nurses nnd has been connected
with the Cornell university medical
dispensary, Ithaca, N. Y„ the pediat-
ric department of the New York M.
Y. U. and B. H. dispensary; has done
social service work for the association
for the Improvement of the condition
of the poor and for Harlem hospital.
As director of the department of nurs-
ing of the Atlantic division, American
Red Cross, she had charge of the
equipment, embarkation and debarka-
tion of over 10,000 nurses going over-
seas for duty, one of the conspicuous
nursing achievements of the war.
Miss Russell was appointed first
representative of the American Red
Cross nursing service In France In
July, 1917, to organize Red Cross
nursing activities there. She served
with the Atlantic division department
of nursing, summer of 1918, becoming
superintendent of nurses, University
hospital, Boulder, Colo., In September.
Miss Russell Is a graduate of the New
York Hospital Training School for
Nurses; has been head nurse, Medical
hospital, New York, and Norton In-
firmary, Louisville, Ky.; visiting nurse,
Henry Street settlement, New York
City; connected with Lylng-ln hospital,
Providence, R. I., Jones 'hospital,
Pittsburgh, Pa., and superintendent of
Sloane Maternity hospital, New York
City.
Miss Melrs went to France with the
American Red Cross, but was trans-
ferred to the army nnrse corps. Most
of her work was done very near the
front, sometimes tinder fire. Once her
hospital was bombed. She was head
of the nurses In hospitals at Jnuy-
sur-Norln, Chateau Thierry, Toul,
Fleury-sur-Alre. In March, 1918, Rhe
was released fqorn the army and as-
signed as chief nurse of the Marine
hospital, U. 8. public health sendee,
Boston, Mass. Miss Melrs Is a gradu-
ate of the Philadelphia Hospital Train-
ing School for Nurses, and has served
at the Prince's Eye, Ear and Nose
hospital, Springfield, ni„ Mlnnequa
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hospital, Pueblo, Colo.; Mayo Broth-
ers' hospital. Rochester, Minn.;
American hospital, Mexico City. She
went overseas on the Red Cross ship,
serving with unit "G," Germany, In
1914; was assigned to army nurse
corps, Fort Bliss, El Puso, Texas,
1910, going with the American Red
Cross commission to Itoumanla In
1917. She was decorated by the
Roumanian government.
Miss Foerster sailed on the Red
Cross ship for service In Russia In
1914 with unit "H;" served under the
Red Cross Roumanian commission In
1917, and returned to Russia In 1918,
serving at Archangel. She Is a gradu-
ate of the Presbyterian Hospital
Training School for Nurses, Chicago,
III.; has been public health nurse with
the Infant Welfare association and the
Jewish Aid society, Chicago; rendered
disaster service with the American
Ited Cross nursing sendee In the Ohio-
flood, 1913; In charge of out-patient
obstetrical depftrtment of Rush Medi-
cal college, Chicago.
Miss Gladwin sailed on the Red
Cross whip, September, 1914, ns super-
visor of unit "I," assigned to Nish,
Serbia, remaining In thnt country al-
most continuously until January, 1919.
She Is a graduate of Boston City hos-
pital, Boston, Mass.; has been super-
intendent of nurses, Woman’s hospital.
New York City, and rendered emerg-
ency service under the Red Cross 1ft
the Ohio flood, 1913.
King Solomon
in Feathers
The literary history of the raven be-
gins with Noah and Elijah. Natural-
ists call hlrn “the most wary, the most
amusing, the cleverest of birds.” He
has also been described a* grave, dig-
nified nnd sedate nnd many Instances
have been given of the peculiarities ot
this historical bird.
The bill of the raven Is a formidable
weapon—strong, stout, sharp at the
edges, curved toward the tip. It Is hi#
one weapon of offense, but it answers
the purpose of two or three. Like the
dirk of the oldtime plainsman, It Is
equally available as a dagger or os s
carving knife. It can also he used as
a pair of pincers. It can kill a rat at
one blow. The raven can drive iis beak
right through the spines of a hedgehog.
It Is said that the raven will never at-
tack a man. If this he true, It Is, It
Is thought, not so much from any de-
fect of courage ns from the bird’s
keen Intellectual perception of what
will pay and what will not.
Like most of his tribe, the raven Is,
In the strictest sense of the word, om-
nivorous. His dietary ranges from "a
worm to a whale."
When Ills nest Is built as It general-
ly Is, beneath some overhanging rock
which quite conceals It from view from
above, Its position may sometimes tie
discovered by the remains of rabbit
neatly laid In the short grass at the top
of the cliff In what might be called
his "Inrder.” But n larder Implies an
amount of economy and self-restraint
that It Is not In the raven to practice.
In districts where food Is scarce the
ravens will attack without scruple n
newly born lamb or even a sheep that
has been cost.
Shouldn’t Be Old at 70
At 70-odd yon can be healthy, vig-
orous and full of fight. This Is the
belief of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who
Is conducting In Good Housekeeping
"The league for Longer Life.” We
read:
"Life In the Unfted States, and In
every other country. Is unquestion-
ably shorter than It need he, and Its
period of healthy efficiency Is too
short even for that average length of
life. It has been computed that the
average, of fully efficient manhood and
womanhood under the present condi-
tions Is only about ten years. Health
Is unquestionably the most Important
possession that we have; onr happi-
ness, our success In business, and In
family life, depend upon It.
“Average life, ns revealed by the
mortality statistics, undergoes In this
country two critical danger point* as
regards dentil—the first under one
year of age. the second about the nge
of seventy-five. The prolonging of th©
average duration of life, which Is now
about forty-five years, to the second
danger point, Is theoretically possible
by the elimination of preventable and
premature decay."
Expert Mice Catchers.
The barn owl, when ahe has youni
brings a mouse to her neat about e'
cry 12 minutes. Aa she Is actlvel
employed at both evening nnd dnwi
nnd aa both male and female hunt, 4
mice a day Is a low computation fc
the total capture—Brooklyn Bugle.
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