The Oklahoma News (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 277, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA NEWS—PAGE 3-
BLESH WRITES
OF SURGEON’S
LIFE IN ARMY
The transformation which the
civilian doctor undergoes to be-
come an army surgeon, and
military hospital conditions, are
pictured vividly in a letter from
Dr. A. L. Blesh, chief operating
surgeon at the Ft. Sam Houston
base hospital, San Anionio, Tex.,
until July 1, one of the best
mown of his profession in Ok-
lahoma City and state. The
News asked Dr. Blesh for a
letter about his new work.
Aiiother prominent central
Oklahoma physician. Dr. W. W.
Rucks, Guthrie. Is chief diag-
nostician at the Ft. Sam Hous-
ton hospital. '
"After two and a half months’
service I'm Just beginning to
feel at home in khaki," writes
Blesh. “When one dons the
khaki, the whole routine of
one a life is changed. Different |
Ideals are at once visualized.
The lure of the dollar sign
ceases to draw.
"For some" time after coming
into the service I felt lonely
and even yet am not always
free from homesickness. For-
tunately, I was put hard at the
work for which a life time's
training had beat fitted me.
Does All the Surgery.
"My Job is to do all the sur-
gery of this post which now
comprises 20.000 men and will
later have 70,000. To the base
hospital are sent all the sick
from Camp Kelly, v.-here our
aviators are being trained; from
Camp Funston at Leon Springs .
where our future officers are!
trained, and from Camp Wilson
where the ‘rookies’ are being
drilled.
"You may judge of the vol-
ume of my work when I tell
you that in the month of July
I operated on 191 people and in
the month of June, 175. In
addition. I’m the surgical con-
sultant for a 750-bed hospital
which is being enlarged to an
1800-bed hospital.
“The work here is well or- ;
ganized and is now almost en- j
tlrely in the hands of the re-
serves, regular army doctors be- j
ing imperatively needed for or- i
ganlzation of new units One I
physician has charge of from
two to four wards of 25 to 50
beds each, with from one to
three nurses and a wardmaster
for each ward.
Specialized Wards.
"As far as possible the wards
are specialized into medical,
eontagious, surgical and the like
and an expert physician in each
particular field of medicine is
placed in charge. My work has
solely to do with the operating
and operating room, while under
me arc the surgical wards over
which I have control, but the
work of dressings, etc., is done
directly by ward surgeons.
“Mv observation goes to show
me that the soldiers of our
Uncle Sam are receiving far
better medical and surgical care
than the wealthiest, of civilians.
This is for these reasons:
”1. Uncle Sam goes on the
perfectly sound theory that a
aick man is a greater burden
than a dead one, hence disease
is diagnosed in its earliest stages
when it is easily and quickly
and safely cured.
”2. The surgeon has a free
hand to do what Is beat for the
patient without having to con-
vince not only all the relatives
but often an entire neighbor-
hood of, we’ll say, the neces-
sity of an early operation. In
civil life I've often had to wage
a bitter fight for the chance to
save a valuable life.
Money No Object.
”3. The financial nightmare
does not deter the patient on
the one hand nor influence the
surgeon on the other. As a
result I’ve done over 100 opera-
tions for appendicitis alone with-
out finding pus in the abdomen
in any but two cases. The
deaths from this disease in the
army are negligible. I’ve had
none. In private life according
to the lamented Murphy, the
death rate is 10 per cent.
"4. In private life, the pa-
tient selects his own surgeon
and only too often does so on
other grounds than fitness. Any
doctor can be a ‘surgeon’ in
civil life and legally operate
upon any one who will submit.
The mothers of om- soldiers
need not fear the medical and
surgical treatment their sons
will get In the army.
"But too few of our medical
men are volunteering. As yet
we haven't enough to supply
our own needs when our new
great army is called Into exist-
ence, to sa_v nothing of the
thousands needed for the French
and English lines.”
RUSSELL AND
ROOT ATTACK
“TRAITORS”
SUFFS WILL SUPPLY
SAMMY WITH PAPERS
By United Prut.
Washington. Aug. 18—News-
hungry Sammies in France can
count on the auffragete for cur-
rent magazines and newspapers.
This was assured by President
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. presi-j
dent of the National Woman a |
Suffrage association, in an en-
thusiastic statement today.
"We will pass the word along
to the 2,000,000 enrolled in our
organization, and It is safe to
predict that newspapers and
magazines will be shipped from
every suffragist home to "Amer-
ican Soldiers. Somewhere in
France.” she said.
SHOWS
IN TOWN
Eyes of Youth,
By United Prrtt.
New York, Aug. 16.—A blow
at the pro-German press and
the pro-German agitator was
struck today as the speech of
Elihu Root returned commission-
er to Russia, became public.
Addressing a throng at the
Union League club. Root said:
"There are men walking the
streets of this city tonight who
ought to be taken out at sun-
rise and shot for treason. They
are doing their work under
false pretense, they are pretend-
ing to be for their country and
they are lying every day and
in every word. They are cover-
ing themselves with the cloas
of pretended Americanism: and
if we are to be competent and R dreaulind—"The Libertine.”
fit for our liberty, we will find , AIRDOME—New five-reel fea-
them out and get at them.
FOLLY—The ----
musical comedy company. On the
screen. Kranklyn Karnum In "The
* 'EMPRESS—Marguerite Clark In
"The Crucible.”
MAJESTIC—Mlgnon Anderson In
"A Wife on Trial" and universal
current events
LIBERTY—High Jinks comedy
company in *His Night Out" and
feaeture picture.
LYRIC—Four acts new vaude-
ville. Films. Frederick Wards
in feature and Hearst-Pathe
CORN ON THE COBB
Atlas, Me.—The divorce case
of Beulah Bixley against John
Bixley brought out the fact that
she would neither allow him to
eat corn on the cob, nor cut
off the corn for him. Bixley
charged she told mm to eat
with the pigs, if he wanted
corn. The court refused her
petition, and granted the hus-
band a divorce on a cross-peti-
tion alleging cruelty.
"There are some newspapers
l ublished in this city every day
the editors of which deserve
conviction and execution for
treason.”
Russell llaps Senators.
Following Root, Charles Ed-
ward Russell attacked members
ot congress who have attempted
to get statements of war aims
in the senate.
"Disloyal American that dis-
guises the congress of the U. S.”
he cried, "traitor in disguise
that has taken the oath of al-
legiance and goes to the senate
of the U. S. to do the dirty
work of the kaiser. Oh! if I
could have taken you by the j
throat and dragged you to ,
Petrograd and put you up there j
in the field of mars on a Sun-
day afternoon and let you see
the result of your work. For
you would have seen those mis-
erable, fawning, slimy creatures
that take the dirty money of
Germany.
"You have seen them, disloyal
senators, going from crowd to
crowd and repeating your words
of treason, quoting what you
say in the senate of the U. S.
when you introduce a resolu-
tion demanding that the allies
state their peace terms."
ture
BELLE I?LE—Boating, bathing,
picnicking. Jancirg. bowling, ca-
rousel.
MOVE BARRACKS AWAY
FROM WACO SALOONS
By United Perm.
Waco. Tex., Aug. IS.—Bar-
racks of all national guard com-
panies at Waco are to be moved
outside the half mile limit be-
cause of the federal restriction
on saloons.
BRITISH BOYS
SET EXAMPLE
FOR SCOUTS
BY K. W. PAYNE.
London, Aug. 16.—Boys, here
Is a special dispatch from the
world's war renter meant just
for you — for every Oklahoma
City youngster who wants to
help Uncle Sam win the war!
Lieut. Gen. Sir Robert Bnilen-
Powell, founder anil chief of
nearly 200,000 boy scouts in
the British empire, has given
me this message for you.
To begin with, this war is
really YOUR war. Your fathers
anil uncles und big brothers are
coming here to fight and die
for your sakes. They don't want
you or your children ever again
to have to go into the trenches
and be killed.
Help Heat Kaiser.
And they know the world will
never be safe for you until the
kaiser's army is beaten. Because
they are fighting for you, you
will want to help them heat that
army.
Since the war broke out the
boys of Great Britain have been
helping. Sir Robert Bailen-
Powell showed them how.
"The day war broke out we
had more than a thousand
scouts mobilized for maneuvers,
said Sir Robert. "And from
mere play, they went Into the
coast patrol in real earnest. The
government was glad to get them
SENDS MESSAGE TO BOYS
,■ ; ;
sea scouts are on daily coast |
guard duty.
"After an atr raid the boy
j acouts help clear the bombed
areas, work with the wounded
and handle the crowds. The
lvondon police have 7000 boy
scout orderlies.
"In a recent air raid I was
riding In a train which was hit.
I escaped injury and when 1
turned to help another man who
had been badly wounded. I
found a boy scout already there
ahead of me, giving first aid.
Averted Destruction.
"When the war broke out. j
Germans in this country sought i
to destroy culverts, bridges, elec- j
trie light wires or cables.
The scouts were on the Joh '
so quickly practically no de-
struction was accomplished.”
world, but It la all intended for
the 11.000 Jackies in training
here. In addition, they eat 240
gallons of ice cream. In cones,
daily.
FRANTZ NEUTRAL ON
BOOZE 10 YEARS AGO
518. ROBERT BADEN: POX-ELL
and their services were so valu-
able today about 1600 of our
GREAT TASK TO FILL
JACKY’S SWEET TOOTH
By I nitrit /'rr*».
Great Lakes Training Station.
111., Aug 16.—Caramels, 100,-
000 packages; milk chocolate,
100,000 packages; sweet choco-
late, 12.000 packages: Salted
peanuts, 50,000 packages.
That reads like an order for
all the girls' seminaries In the
Governor Frank Frantz re-
fused to take a stand on the
prohibition question 10 years
ago.
The governor declared he had
an opinion, but since the Re-
publican convention had decided
prohibition was not a party
issue, he was unable to endorse
either the pros or the antis.
HAS RECOVERED HER
HEALTH
So many women suffer from
similar afflictions that this tes-
timonial from Mrs. Laura Beall.
PlattBburg. Miss., will be read
with interest; "I got ir. bad
health My left side hurt all the
time. I took doctor’s medicine,
but it did me no good. I took
two bottles of Foley Kidney Pills
and I feel all right now. West-
fall Drug Co.—Advertisement.
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON LIVER
I GUARANTEE "DODSON'S LIVER TONE” WILL GIVE YOU
THE BEST LIVER AND BOWEL CLEANSING YOU
EVER HAD.
Stop using calomel!
you sick. Don't lose a day’s
work. If you feel lazy, sluggish,
or constipated, listen to
bilious
me!
Calomel is mercury or quick-
silver which causes necrosis of
the bones. Calomel, when it
comes in contact with sour bile
crashes into it, breaking it up.
This is when you feel that aw-
ful nausea and cramping. If
you are. "all knocked out," if
your liver is torpid and bowels
constipated or you have head-
ache, dizziness, coated tongue, if
breath is had or stomach sour
just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson’s Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee—Go to
any drug store and get a 50 cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver tone.
Take a spoonful tonight and if
It makes It doesn't straighten you right up |
and make you feel fine and vig-j
orous by morning 1 want you to J
go back to the store and get j
your money. Dodson's Liver
Tone is destroying the sale of I
calomel because it is real liver I
medicine; entirely vegetable,!
therefore it can not salivate or j
make you sick. i
I guarantee that one spoonful |
of Dodson's Liver Tone will put i
your sluggish liver to work and
clean your bowels of that sour
bile and constipated waste which
is clogging your system and
rocking you feel miserable. I
guarantee that a bottle of Dod-
son's Liver Tone will keep your
entire family feeling fine for
months. Give it to your chil-
dren. It is harmless; doesn’t
gripe and they like its pleasant
taste.—Advertisement.
Mall Orders
Killed
Same Day
Received
STORE OPENS AT 8 A. M.—CLOSES AT O P. M.
Four Entrances: 2 on Main; a ■ t'zrvey; 1 lending to Terminal
Whirling
Fans to
Make Shop-
ping A
Pleasure
Fall Taffeta and S erge Dresses
New Serge Dress, long waist effect, with touches of embroidery, large
white collars and cuffs—
—$6.75—
k. *1
Ladies' and Misses' new Taffeta Dresses In blue and black, very
full large pockets, patent leather belts. Georgette sleeves, white col-
lars, all beautifully trimmed In tailored buttons. Special Friday and
Saturday—
$8.75—
Misses' Plnld Taffeta Dresses, vpry full long pockets, double tie,
belts; a very nifty model—
Special $10.75
New Suits in Blue Serge, with the new large collars to button
high belts with nifty buckles, full skirt with belts—Large sizes—
$12.75—$19.75
New Military Dresses in Blue French Serge. Russian Blouse ef-
fect trimmed in silk tailored braid, brass buttons, cape collar, lined
with red. A real nifty patriotic dross—
$14.75
A new nifty line of fall Millinery. You will find Street ffgts and
dressy Hats—all the late colors and models—in our Basement Mil-
linery Dept. „ „
—Hoot t-Hal 11 burton Co. Basement.
CARRYPARCELS
WHEN
POSSIBLE
AVOID RETURNING
PURCHASES
WeWelcomethe Movement
to Conserve Food and
—Money—
We Will Save You Money on
Things to Eat
■Li»t That Will Appeal to You ......
Hulk Cocoa, pound ..... . . . JlOe . La r*e cans Pineapple. can . .20r
18-ounce Loaf of Mothers I Large can Pink Salmon . 2©e
Bread, loaf l©c. Compare.
Pure Apple Cider Vinegar,
quart . .................££c
Conquester Coffee, lb.......
Large size Beechnut Peanut
Butter, jar ...............2»e
Royal Purple Grapejulce. qt. 4©c
Fancy Lye Hominy, can . . lOe
Watermelon* on Ire.
Fruit Jars in all kinds and
sizes.
SPECIAL!— Independence
brand Eastern Pears in
Syrup—can 13c, 2 cans for
25c.
lo line with the Hoover Idea
we have his line of flnh. in-
cluding nil of the popnlar kind*
nnd nt the lowest prices, tome
or phone PB\-21b— Four De-
liveries Every Day.
Brown’s C. O. D. Grocery
202 and 204 West Grand Ave.
GRAY AND PHILLIPS
NATION DEfcft
HELP the MERCHANTS HELP the GOVERNMENT
Uncle Sam Through the Council of National fJclcnsc Makes I lii->
Request of Retail Merchants and the Public at Large-—“Avoid
waste in labor, capital, material and equipment and thereby release,
when needed, men and capital for the defense of this nation."
To conform to the Government's request, Oklahoma City Retail
Merchants kindly ask the buying public to carry small parcels and
avoid returning goods when possible.
Fifty of the larger Eastern cities have adopted the plan ->t one
delivery a dav and no needless returns with entire success—Okla- 3
homa City merchants will not have to adopt this plan if they can =5
cret the co-operation of their customers. =E
Whun shopping, do not leave the store rmptv-handed. Carry parcels with you to 53
the extent of your ability. Help to make this the fashion. zsz
When you have goods to return, do not leave home empty-handed. If all cUS~ 35
tomers would carry small parcels for exchange, fb« saving of time in delivers would gg
amount to thousands of hours annually. —
Opportunity to -er\** in this war has to hut lew, hut is spreading to all. 1 hi* rsr
is your opportunity. * S55
Help the merchant* help the tioveriuncut. ^ S3
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I Oklahoma City Re tailer’s Association j
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Parker, G. B. The Oklahoma News (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 277, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1917, newspaper, August 16, 1917; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc859283/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.