DETAILS GIVEN
OF BOYS WHO
DIED OVERSEAS
SEATTLE, May 13 (by Associated
Press).—Sad details of the deaths of
the men of the Ninety-first division
who did not return from France are
being mailed their nearest relatives
by Lieutenant Colin Dyment, North
west newspaper man, who went over
seas with the division as a Red Cross
searcher, and who remained with the
Western men, in battle and out, un
til they started for home.
Scores of letters from relatives of
the men killed in France are received
by Lieutenant Dyment at his office in
the Red Cross headquarters here.
Nearly all the letters come from the
Western states, the homes of the
men of the “Wild West” division.
“Did he leave any word for us?
How badly was he wounded? Were
his comrades with him when he died?
Did he say anything after he was shot?
Can we get any of his personal be
longings?” These and many other
questions are put up to Lieutenant Dy
ment.
Answers for the questions are taken
by Lieutenant Dyment from a num
ber of note books he filled while on
the Western front. These books con
tain something regarding nearly
every death in the division. Most of
the facts were gained by the lieuten
ant from the officers and men who
came out of the battles and told how
their comrades died.
“It will take a million words of dic
tation to answer all the letters and
write to the relatives who do not
write for information,” Lieutenant Dy
ment said recently. Letters are wel
comed by the lieutenant, and are an
swered as fully and as quickly as
possible.
some or me letters received come
from relatives of men. in other divi
sions. Lieutenant Dyment has no rec
ord of other than the Ninety-first di
vision deaths; therefore he can not
answer the others fully.
Lieutenant Dyment started his work
in Paris before he returned to Amer
ica. About two hundred letters were
sent by him from the French capital
advising relatives of the details of
the deaths.
Occasional “last straw” hopes are
blasted by the answers. Some rela
tives may have some bit of informa
tion that will lead them to doubt the
truth of the telegrams sent them by
the war department telling that their
boys were killed. Often the relatives
will have a letter from the soldier
postmarked after the soldier died.
Others will know of some other sol
dier who claims he saw their relative
after the government reported he was
killed. In nearly every case, how
ever, the war department has been
correct, Lieutenant Dyment thinks.
Most of the letters received ask if
the writers can get some personal be
longings of the dead soldiers. To one
mother Lieutenant Dyment wrote that
her son was smoking a pipe when he
was killed. The mother replied ask
ing if she could get the pipe.
Nearly all the letters contain at
least two questions. Samples follow:
"I am writing asking for informa
tion regarding the death of my only
son. Will you please tell me if he
left any word for us?”
“Please let me know what you can
about the death of my brother. The
last letter we received from him he
said he was in a hospital suffering
from typhoid. Next came the war de
partment telegram telling that he was
killed in action.”
The answers read as follows:
“Your son was shot in the stomach
by German snipers half way between
the villages of Very and Eclisfon
taine.”
i our oroiner was killed on the
night of November 1, about the cen
ter of the town of Waereghan, Bel
gium. German airplanes had appeared
over the town and had forced the peo
ple to hide for safety. As your brother,
with several other soldiers, was de
scending into a cellar, a bomb struck
near by and threw him against the
wall, killing him instantly.”
In cases where one shell killed sev
men, Lieutenant Dymen bunches the
deaths and describes all in one letter.
Copies of the letter go to the relatives
of each of the men.
No facts, no matter how bad, are
withheld. Recently the lieutenant had
to write the Washington father of a
boy who was so badly wounded that
his comrades did not dare move him,
aad had to leave him behind to die
whan they changed their position.
Lf«utenant Dyment estimates that
the Rinety-flrst suffered about five
thousand casualties. Of this number
between 1,400 and 1,500 were fatali
ties.
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With eipy letter Lieutenant Dy
ment sends a short sketch of the his
tory of the f^hting of the Ninety-first,
so that those who have lost relatives
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may, with the aid of a good map, tract
the principal movements of the divl
sion.
Lieutenant Dyment this summei
will resume his duties as head of the
journalism department of the Univer
sity of Washington. Before coming
to Washington he was the head of the
journalism department of the Univer
sity of Oregon.
SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR RESEARCH
STUDY SWEDEN
NEW YORK, May 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The American-Scandi
navian Foundation announced here to
day the establishment of ten new
scholarships, beginning with the
academic year 1919-1920, for young
American scientific students to com
plete their general study and research
in Sweden, in the universities and
technological schools there and under
the direction of scientific specialists
in industry.
This plan, carrying out the avowed
purpose of the foundation “to draw
the American and Scandinavian peo
pies closer in bonds of intellectual
kinship,” was initiated by Axel
Robert Nordvall, Swedish commis
sioner to the United States, and Dr.
Henry Goddard Leach, secretary of
the foundation. Funds ncssary to
maintain the scolarships have been
pledged by Americans who desire to
promote the interchange of scientific
knowledge between the two countries
and wish Sweden better to under
stand American ideals. Similarly,
funds are being raised in Sweden to
send ten Swedish students to the
United States. Each scholarship will
provide $1,000 for one year’s study.
The definition of subjects is not
strictly limited but the scholarships
will be proportioned among those
studies in which Swedish science of
fers unusual advantages—physics,
chemistry, hydro-electrical engineer
ing, metallurgy, forestry and lum
bering.
Among the prominent institutions
to which these students may go are
the Universities of Lund and Upsala,
which trace their traditions back to
mediaeval ages, and the more re
cently established Royal Institutes of
Forestry and Technology. By special
arrangement there will be opportun
ity for study also under such scien
tists and industrial directors as
Svante Arrhenius, founder of the
modern theory of electrolytic dissocia
tion, and Dr. Hjalmer Lundbohm, in
charge of operations of the great iron
mountains at Kiruna.
In view of the exceptional oppor
tunity offered by these scholarships
the foundation considers it desirable
that applicants be graduates of tech
nological schools or colleges or men
of equivalent practical experience.
Applications are to be acted upon
by a committee made up in part by
Captain William Hovgaard, chairman,
professor of naval architecture at
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy; Professor H. P. Talbot, head of
the department of chemistry at Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology;
and Professor A. E. Kennelly, head of
the department of electrical engineer
ing f Harvard university. There will
also be jurors except in metallurgy
and forestry representing Yale and
Columbia Universities. Application
papers must be filed with the commit
tee before June I and announcement
of the names of the successful can
didates will be made about June 15.
Applicants should request papers
from the American-Scandinavian
Foundation, 35 West 45th street, New
York city.
Four Essentials of Boy’s Success Are
Health, Honesty, Education, Work
By E. W. BEATTY, K. C., Prtadent Canadian Pacific Railway
— — M
A man from his shoulders down is worth $2.50
I® day; but from his shoulders up there is no limit to
his earning capacity. I never saw a boy or man who
got anywhere if he did not work. As a boy grows
older he will find the competition between men very
keen, and he who is fairly well educated has a distinct
advantage over the man who is not.
Every boy has some kind of a vague idea that he
k would like to be something or other when he grows up,
r but he does not know just what. He will find, how
ever, that there are three or four simnlp thincrs that
tend to a man's success. The first is good health. It is impossible for a
boy or man to work against the handicap of poor health. The next thing
is honesty. No man in this or any other country who was not honest
attained success. He may appear to do this for a time, but when his dis
honesty is discovered—which it will be sooner or later—his success is at
an end and his failure begins. The third essential is education; without
education it is impossible to climb to any important position. The fourth
essential is work. Nothing was ever accomplished without work, and if
any man tells you differently it is not the truth. During the coming
years many capable men will be required to fill important positions, and
he who has the essentials to which I have referred is the one who will get
the preference.
The things we admire most in other men are the qualities we should
develop in ourselves. The first is honesty, the second courage, and the
third modesty. Without courage one cannot go very far in this world.
If a man is conient to step aside for others he is bound to lose. Without
modesty no man can secure the respect of his fellow beings. Every man’s
hand is against the man who shows he believes himself better than others.
When I was a youngster my father, who was a very wise man, used to
say, “Never think you are better than anybody else; but always think you
are just as good.” Modesty has become very unpopular and is now almost
obsolete; nevertheless, it is one pf the finest qualities a boy or man could
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