AGENTS FROM AMERICA VISIT
STRICKEN SECTIONS AND
BRING AID TO NEEDY.
NOBLE WORK IS APPRECIATED.
Wherever the Red Cross Relief Work
ers Have Distributed Their Rebel,
the Mayor and Local Committee
Have Directed the Aided to Write
Fact t«> Soldiers.
HEADQUARTERS ITALIAN AR
MY. June -’2. Arrival of rel'cf from
Amwica through the Red Cross
agent- behind the Italian front along
Hie Pi aw river, wreck section is filled
with n iagees fro?.-. ..he regio.is invad
ed by Teutonic troops, is greeted with
e vidences of fervent gratitude and ju
bilation. This is true not only because
of the actual gifts in money, food and
clothing, but because it signifies to
the Italians the fact that America is
standing behind them in their long
conflict with the Austrian invade, s.
Tne aged priest at Castelic-di-Go
dega was so overcome by the unex
pected donatie-.; from America dial
lie threw up his arms, knelt in prayer
and exclaimed, “it is a gift direct
from heavens’
Wherever the Red Cross workers
have distributed their relief, the may
or ac . ioc a committee directed me
succoied families of that commune to
write to the soldiers at the front and
fell them what America has done.
Too work of the Amc-iieans was e.\
t w.,. .,n,( the oeowe were to hi t! :•*
.he ■ hated Stales was thus co-opernt
ag in close and practical accoi•: with
I;
penmd on t!i • t<
m by tk
win. Am' : ica v
■ ■ post c- s have ap
alls v. it!> a pi Cr
ay • announcing
ioing.
Amy ''..ha piev.hls a., me
ees in tiie pi ivince : of Tic
etia and Padua is most dis
St. aydng at the little t< wn
in ii it ur of tins section,
le.- oi letu
-i. V
ramn as a vvivmo ..
:■ at Vidov, n.rw held |)V
its Pre ii:t La tation
r is the vw >.> on me
<•«>; bam: ol the i lave v. n
, a a by Gc. ■•ml von !' "m\ • and his
( oman troop.', and v. t’.c., came
these townspeople, \'. only the
Ciotho.' on their barks and few
household belonging fled aero." t!ie
. have and settled down here. Most of
the refugees have scattered all over
Jtaiv, but this is one of the few towns
That has held together in ds flight.
r* he parish priest led the way as
the Iced Cross workers went on a
round of inspection to see just how
thr.-o people were living. Th* mayor
am: the parish priest are usually con
sulted on this work, the latiei because
lie is in touch with all the troubles.
Most of the people are religious, but
even those who are not get religious
v hen they are in troubV, and every
f ne \ i in trouble here. The e all knew
h *n, and he made his way through
oowds of ragged children and the
choked alleys of what wo jM have
been a concentration cam 1 if it had
been organized, but being unorgan
ized, was only a vast hive of refugees
in their misery.
In one room about fifteen feet
square 25 people were sleeping on
straw strewn over the earthen floor.
I he place was stuffed with soiled gar
ments, the pitiful remnants of what
these occupants possessed, and reeked
with vileness. Across the court there
was a smaller room where thirteen
were sleeping, and in another eight all
huddled together on the straw, wom
en, children, babies and their rags. All
the outhouses, barns, grain lofts, were
utilized for sleeping quarters. There
were few men, for all the men have
gone to the war, except the very old
and the very young.
Many of the women were very old,
with wizened hungry faces like witch
es. A number of women carried ba
bies, and all of them were trailed by
large broods of children. All these
people had lost everything. Their
clothes were in rags. Underclothes
and stockings had long ago disappear
ed. Even the consolation of work was
denied to these people, for there was
nothing for them to do here, and they
stood about with their crowds of chil
dren and babies, lighting to keep off
hunger and typhoid, and helpless in
their misery.
As a result of the inspection, the
Red Cross has started the work of
j ameliorating this condition, providing
I suitable sleeping quarters, with sani
tation and the nucleus of a hospital
: 'or the growing sicklist.
The secretary of the Loris munici
; polity said all the barns there were
I fairh packed with people, SO or more
I to every barn, filling the stalls and
lofts. The mayor of Gastello di Gocl
ega said the spirit of the farm people
was showing remarkable fortitude in
spite of the troubles they were en
countering. “They are going to car
ry on their spring planting as usual,”
he said, “gathering in the spring clo
ver and then putting in corn.”
THESE ARE ENTIRELY DISTINCT
FROM HOSPITAL SHIPS EM
PLOYED BY THE ARMY.
LONDON, June 22.—There are I
eleven hospital ships in the Britisn J
navy, these being entirely distinct
from hospital ships employ'd by the j
armv. In addition there are a nura- ]
:
her of private yachts, lilted out by (
iheir owners, which have been taken
\vr by the admiralty for the trans
port of wounded over short distances. |
A groat deal of medical and sur-1
gh 1 w k has been done in hospital,
shi s, both while acting as mobile j
base hospitals to the various fleets
carrying . >ui led. The em
ployment of hospital ships as mobile,
bam hospitals enables a fleet to use
sudabh bases, without regard to the
question of the sick and wounded, the i
long transport of acute cases being 1
1 to a minimum. Hut the hos-!
pita! ship.- do not go to sea with its
h"s*. because it is not practicable at
sea to transfer sick or wounded men
fr.-m a li id ding ship, owing to dan- •
gers of mine, submarine or rough
weather.
in ail ships of the navy the sick I
berth is situated in too exp -sod a
place to be used, during action. Con
.-equently in wartime tin main dre.-s
ings, rumen!.'
atus, . X. ept lure
from < 1 ■ i\' to <lav
other appar
sarics required
distribute 1 be
tween two da sing: stations below the
rline < > Coi ard, the oth . aft.
These stations have special ventila
tion, lighting and equipment, and are
supplied with hot and cold water.
Here the medical officers are station
ed during action, the wounded being
brought to them by stretcher parties
during pauses in the lighting.
In the battle of Jutland a dressing
station was completely wrecked and
the entire berth staff and the chaplain
were killed. The medical officer in
charge was knocked down and injur
ed, but he pulled himself together,
“cleared” the station to the other side
of the ship, and worked without sleep
ing for forty-eight hours.
After treatment, the wounded are
passed on to disposal stations fitted
with special accommodation slings for
cots and stretchers. Large modern
fighting craft all possess a fully
equipped operating room, which can
be used, if still available, after an ac
tion. During this war gas respirat
ors and masks have been provided,
and after the battle of Jutland, when
the need arose for the prevention and
treatment of burns, face-masks and
gloves were issued for the use of the
crews. There was also introduced an
improved method of treating burns
with paraffin wax.
The total accommodation provided
by the country’s naval hospitals is
about 10,000 beds. The total force of
naval medical officers is 1378. Eighty
three have been killed or drowned
since the war began.
During the war the health of the
navy has been remarkably good, in
fact, probably better than in pre-war
years,
CLAIM FEDERAL TRADE COM
M1SS ION’S ACC US ATIO N S
ARE UNFOUNDED.
EXPLAIN CAMP TRAVLS CASE.
Assert That Deteriorated Supply at
San Antonio Was Never Offered to
the Government—Packers Make a
Long Statement \\ itli Reference to
the Matter.
CHICAGO, June 21.—Emphatic de
I
niaLs were made today by Morris tv
Co. and Wilson & Co. of the charges
made by the federal trade commission
that they had sold meat “unfit for
human consumption” to the United
States army, particularly at Camp
Trdvis in Texas, where 10,000 pounds
of meat had been condemned by the
food administration and destroyed.
The bad condition of the meat was
laid to freight congestion and short
age of refrigerator cars.
Thomas E. Wilson, of Wilson & Co.,
said the report did his company a
gross injustice, and threatened to ap
peal to President Wilson for justice.
He issued this statement:
“A gross injustice has been done to
our company by the statement given
out yesterday by the federal trade
commission. Even the manner of its
issuance adds to its utter malicious
ness. It was given to the press on
Sunday afternoon, a day and time
when our offices were closed, and it
naturally would be hard for the news
papers to locate our own officials.
“I want to say to the public that
our company is clean in this matter,
that the charges in that statement are
without foundation, and that we shall
insist upon being set right before the
public. We have been immeasurably
hurt, and we shall insist that the trade
commission make reparation. We
will not only take it up with the fed
eral trade commission, but with the
food administration, and if necessary,
we will appeal to the president of the
United States to see that an immedi
ate investigation is held and our com
pany justly treated.
“The reference to an indictment in
Texas is brought in a way which
gives the impression that we were in
dieted for selling spoiled beef. The
absurdity of this, and the deliberate
malice involved, is shown when the
facts are given.
“We had a barrel of beef hearts and
a box of kidneys in the public cold
storage warehouse at San Antonio.
These hearts and kidneys were not of
fered for sale to the government, nor
to any one else, but were overlooked
by our own people and by the mu
nicipal cold storage officials in San
Antonio. A purely technical indict
ment was returned, alleging hoarding
of food. Upon proper investigation
this indictment was promptly quash
ed. The whole thing was trivial,
“As to the beef and chicken parts of
the statement; we have no fresh beef
contracts at Camp Travis and have
sold no fresh beef there. Nor have we
sold any dressed poultry there. There
simply is no truth in the statement,
so far as Wilson & Co. is concerned.
“We have sold, and are selling,
large quantities of meats and food
products to the government for our
forces and those of our allies. I per
sonally instructed every plant and
branch of Wilson & Co. to redouble
their care and watchfulness during
this war period, for I wanted every
man in our institution to realize our
heavy responsibilities. It is my busi
ness to know that my instructions are
carried out, and I know they have
been.
“There is nothing our company has
day.”
Edward Morris, jr., president of
Morris & Co., gave out a statement
today concerning the federal trade
commission’s charges, in which he
said:
“Morris & Co. have not sold a sin
gle pound of food for the American
soldiers at Camp Travis or any other
place that was unfit for human con
sumption. In fact, at the time in
question, we did not have any contract
whatever for any camp in the San An
tonio district.
“As I understand it, these charges
arise from the fact that we had a
small quantity of food products in
public cold storage at San Antonio.
These goods were shipped to San An
tonio in perfect condition, and were
shipped in carload lots, in order to
save the consumers the higher prices
they would have to pay if they had
been shipped in small lots by express.
The warehouse did not have proper
facilities and the goods deteriorated.
“The first knowledge which Morris
& Co. had that these goods were not
in first-class condition was when
they were condemned by local and
federal inspectors about December 22,
1917, but not a pound of these goods
was offered or sold to the United
States soldiers or any one else.
“It is needless to say that a large
business such as Morris & Co., hand
ling perishable products, will neces
sarily have occasional experiences of
this sort, which in tin's case was caus
ed entirely by matters beyond our
controy.”
AMERICAN SEAPLANE TRAIN
ING CAMP, Italy, June 22.—“The
watchwords of this camp are efficien
cy, friendship, victory,” remarked the
American commander as he stood on
the beach of the lake directing the
afternoon’s flying. “The efficiency is
for our boys, tl e friendship for oui
friends the Italians, and the victory
is the d struction of the enemy,” he
explained.
If anything, the work in a training
camp here is apt to be harder than
in a similar camp at home. In addi
tion to the usual routine of flying and
studying, the students must learn
French and Italian or both, to know
the names of machine parts, technical
terms, and to know how to find then
way about.
The aviators have found that they
must know a good many phrases and
sentneces if they would understand
the Italian machanics, motor drivers,
and aviators. So the Americans al
ready have begun studying Italian as
a sideline to their many other studies.
Most of them know the meaning of a
long list of words employed for tak
ing off, banking, turning, gliding, div
ing, snaking and landing.
A good deal oi Italian nas Deep.
pick<“! up by the aviators right in the
village where the people are very
friendly and do not laugh at the weird
expressions used by the Americans,
whom they have adopted as their very
own. The young aviators, whose
cars are keener, have the advantage
in learning the language and they
finw it comes in handy at the mess
tables. The mess of the entire camp,
is located in a fine old Middle-Age
palace. The entire kitchen and first
floor has been turned over to them,
and they eat surrounded by frescoed
walls and ceilings typical of an Italy
of other days. The mess is overseen
by a chef formerly with the Duke
d’Abruzzi and the Americans are said
to be among the best fed soldiers in
Italy—all for 83 cents a day.
The aviators repay the chef, Con
sotino, by teaching him American
slang.
CORNELL AGAIN WINS
ANNUAL TRACK MEET
BY A FAIR MARGIN
FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia
—For the fourth consecutive time,
Cornell university today won the
championship of the Intercollegiate
Association of Amateur Athletes of
America on Franklin field.
The Ithacans scored an easy victory,
making a total of 47 points.
The University of Pittsburgh was
second with 30 points; Darthmouth
third with 36; Princeton four with
19, and Pennsylvania fifth with 18.
Other point winners were: Massa
chusetts Institue of Technology, 13;
Columbia, 12; Johns Hopkins, Lafay
ette and Penn State, 5 each; Amherst
3%; Brown and Yale, 3 each; Rutgers,
2Vs; Harvard, 2; Swarthmore, 1.
Job printing at the Times office.
RESTAURANTS AND LUNCH
ROOMS WILL SERVE ONLY
TWO SLICES AT ANY MEAL.
BAKERS SELL SQUARE LOAVES.
Business Men of Anchorage Meet
With Food Administration and
Evince Eager Willingness to Com
ply With All Regulations Imposed
by It.
Individual portions of bread, each
limited in weight to not exceeding
two ounces of victory bread and four
ounces of quick bread, are served now
in all public eating places in Anchor
i age, as a result of a meeting in the
' Empress ciub rooms of the Empress
! theatre building last night of bakery
! and restaurant proprietors, Frank W.
j Redwood, food administrator for the
| city of Anchorage, and E. T. Lindner,
| food administrator for the Anchorage
I district.
Besides the regulation limiting the
! amount of bread served in restaurants
; and lunch rooms, a rule requiring the
1 proprietors of these business enter
1 prises to buy and bakeries to sell to
public eating places only square, m
! stead of oval, loaves of bread also
| went into effect today.
Text of Law.
The provision of the food law gov
! eming the amount of bread for scrv
| ice in restaurants says that “not more
! than two ounces of victory bread or
: rolls, or four ounces of quick bread
can be served to any person at any
| one meal.
Victory bread or rolls must contain
; at least 25 per cent of wheat flour sub
stitutes. Quick bread, which includes
| corn bread, batter cakes, waffles and
Boston brown bread, must contain at
; least 66 2-3 per cent of wheat flour
| substitutes. In victory bread or rolls
the proportion is 25 pounds of wheat
flour substitutes to 75 pounds of
wheat flour. In quick bread, the pro
portion is two pounds of wheat flour
substitutes to one pound of wheat
flour.
According to the regulations of the
food administration, as explained by
A!,. 1 Jn.lnai. .,f +]-,« wtAa+lnn- locf
“the total consumption of wheat flour
inclusive of the wheat content of
bread and rolls and all other bakeiy
products, breakfast foods and aliment
ary pastes shall not average move
than six pounds for every ninety
meals served,” which is an average of
j not quite 1.07 ounces at any one meal.
Willing to Obey Rules.
“Proprietors of fifteen bakeries and
restaurants were present at the meet
ing last night, and every one evinced
a ready willingness to adhere strictly
to the rules of the food administration
and to co-operate with it,” said Mr.
Lindner. “Under the new regulations,
| plates containing numerous slices of
i bread to which patrons have been ac
; customed to help themselves are dis
placed on the counters and tables of
restaurants and lunch rooms by indi
vidual plates containing limited por
i tions.
j “Two ounces of victory bread or
j rolls mean about two slices of bread
I or two rolls. Four ounces of quick
j bread mean two, sometimes three,
I pieces.
“The regulation providing for a
I square, instead of an oval, loaf of
| bread in the trade between bakeries
j and restaurants is preventive of
] waste. Square bread not only can be
eaten out of hand—bread and butter
' —but it also is used in making toast
| and garnishing cookery. Besides, it
1 can be easily kept moist and edible
for quite a long time.
Limited to Only One Use.
“Oval bread, or French bread, is
limited to almost the one use of being
eaten out of hand. It is not desirable
for either toasting or garnishing. Al
so, it dries and hardens very quickly.
Bakers may continue to sell oval
bread to householders.
“The new rules limiting the amount
of bread to be served at meals and the
form of the loaves do not abate in any
particular the requirements for the
observance of wheatless days and
meals by public eating place -. Wneat
less means that in public eating pla
ces no wheat-products shall be served
unless ordered. If ordered, then no
wheat flour in any fcod can be served
except that amount allowed in victory
bread.” y,
HENRI BERGSON THINKS OUT
COME OF WAR PLAIN TO ALL
BUT GERMAN LEADERS.
NO LIMIT TO SACRIFICES.
Declares the People of His Native
France Are Ready for Anything—
Says French Are Fighting Their
Own War At Their Own Volition.
PARIS, June 22.—Henri Bergson,
(the French philosopher, spoke today
of the wartime psychology of Parts
under the resumption of the big bat
i tie and with the long-distance bom
bardment shells exploding. I met him
| by chance in the street. He recalled
; the fact that I gave him the first news
; of the Russian revolution in March,
; 1917, in New York. He talked free
ly, walking along the bank of the
Seine.
“Paris is not the same today as in
August, 1914,” he said. “You see no
excitement now, but you feel and are
| sure of much more determination to
win than in the first wild demonstra
. tioa of patriotism when the war be
j g in. It is better this way, more de
! pendable. That first mental state was
too intense to endure.
“Today you see Paris itself under
I
; bombardment and the great battle re
suming. without a trace of public fear
or excitement. Men are still going off
to the war every day, but now it is a
matter of course to the men them
: selves and their families. They are
heroes still, but no longer cheered by
frantic crowds in the streets.
“There is great assurance for the
national safety for the future in this
dogged calmness. It is not indiffer
pnrp hnf flip pupi'-ormvinof str-pno+h
docs not depend on shouting to keep
on increasing.
“Now that the lull of the big battle
is over, we are more ready for new
fighting than the enemy. The inter
val of quiet was of more use to us
than to the Germans. We could have
gone on without the lull. The Germans
I were forced to rest and recuperate af
ter their losses in men and material,
which were vastly greater than ours.
“But 1 do not expect the failure of
the present offensive to end the war.
| The allies should not assume that
now. It would be a logical thing if
the German people controlled their
; government. But they do not. The
i German militarists will not cease with
the failure that seems conclusive to
all rational beings. However, France
and her allies will go on to a victory
that will convince even the German
government.
“There is no limit to the sacrifice
which the French people will make of
themselves and no limit to the sacri
fices which the Germans will make of
| other people. The difference is all in
j favor of France, whei'e absolutely ev
ery act of the government reflects
the wishes and determination of the
people. The French are fighting their
own war of their own volition for a
government all their own, entirely
subject to their opinion. But fighting,
suffering, sacrificing, has ceased to be
a novelty; it has become the indispen
sable routine duty. The French never
neglect a necessary routine. There is
no question of the outcome.”
WHALE MEAT USED.
CHRISTIANIA, June 22.—A num
ber of whales caught on the west
coast of Norway have supplied the
first whale meat ever offered in the
open market in Christiania for human
food. The meat, to a total of several
tons, was sold quickly at prices rang
ing from 9 to 12 cents a pound.