MINE-RESCUE
CONTESTS SOON
TO BE STAGED
WASHINGTON, July 10—That
America can bind her wounds as skill
fully as she can fight will be shown in
the great national first-aid and mine
rescue contest to be held under the
auspices of the bureau of mines, de
partment of the interior, at Pitts
burgh, September 30 and October 1.
W7ith the event still more than three
months away, it reaches the bureau
of mines that coal and metal miners
all over the country are engaging in
first-aid and mine-rescue contests to
fit themselves for the national dem
onstration. In sixteen different min
ing states local or state meets already
have been held or will be held in the
near future.
It is estimated that out of the mil
, lion miners in the United States more
than a hundred thousand are well
trained in emergency first-aid work
and have been instrumental in saving
many lives in and around mines. It
is said to be a frequent occurrence
for hospital surgeons, upon receiving
an injured miner, to declare that the
first-aid treatment received in the mine
from the miners undoubtedly had
saved many lives.
These first-aid teams are scattered
throughout the United States where
mines are found, and are the results
of the pioneer work of the bureau of
mines in maintaining a mine-rescue
car or station in each of the mining
fields for the purpose of training these
men.
In addition to this work, the bu
reau's experts teach the miners how
to save life in mines, and especially
the use of the oxygen mine-rescue ap
paratus that permits the wearer, after
a mine explosion or disaster, to enter
the deadly atmosphere there with com
parative safety, and succor possible
living miners. These mine-rescue
teams, located at the various mines,
are also to participate in the national
demonstration.
JAPANESE STEAMSHIP
OWNERS LOSE HEAVILY
TOKIO, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—A number of Japanese “nari
kin,” or men who have won great
wealth in building or selling steamers
during the war, have lost their for
tunes owing to the advent of peace.
Some, even, have incurred debts and
are in serious difficulties.
Another group of “narikin,” how
ever, is anticipated. It depends en
tirely upon Germany’s resources. If
Germany can meet the allies’ claims
for shipping indemnity some of the
Japanese shipping magnates will re
ceive reparation for vessels they lost
in the war.
^ Thirty-one Japanese vessels, total
ling 128.417 tons, were sunk by Ger-.
man submarines during the war, and
for this loss an indemnity of $125,000,
000 is demanded from Germany.
BRITISH ARE LOYAL
TO THEIR HEROINES
LONDON, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Honors paid to Edith Cavell
have brought to light the fact that
England delights to honor women who
give their best to the profession of
nursing. The first statue in the coun
try raised to woman, other than roy
alty, was that of Dorothy Pattison, in
Wallsall, as a memorial for her work
during the smallpox epidemic in Staf
fordshire in 1867, while a figure of
Florence Nightingale stands in Water
loo piace. This statue was on the day
of Edith Cavell’s home-coming pro
fusely decorated with handsome
wreaths from some unknown donor
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Miss Dee Van Balkom: “A Girl Without a Country” •
CHICAGO.—Her name is Dee Van Balkom. She was born on her father’s
tobacco plantation in Sumatra. She was sent to Paris to be educated at
an early ace. and craduated from the London Conservatory of Music. When
she was sixteen years old her father,
who was a Hollander, died of fever
and Dee came to America with her
mother, a French woman. She had
been in this country one a short time
when the war broke out.
Dee Van Balkom wanted to do
something to help. She had traveled
all' oyer the world, spoke five lan
guages, and was an accomplished
pianist. She could drive a car. She
joined the ambulance service of the
Canadian army, and sailed for the
front. In 1916 the girl veteran returned to America; but not to stay. After
a brief rest she sailed for France once more, this time as a wireless operator
in the signal corps of the United States army. After the signing of the
armistice, Miss Van Balkom was transported back to this country and hon
orably discharged.
It was not until she had been offei'ed a position in South America and
had attempted to get her passports that Miss Van Balkom discovered that
she was a “girl without a country.”
Then some ingenious person suggested that she go to one of the large
base hospitals and be married to a dying soldier. Thus she would auto
matically assume her husband’s nationality.
The idea rather appealed to the “girl without a country” until she hap
pened to wander into the court of domestic relations and remained for an
hour.
“But after what I’ve heard here—no {” she said. “If I married a stranger
and lie lived to prove like some of these men! No—I’d rather be a ‘girl with
out a country.’ ”
RUMANIANS TOO PROUD
TO BECOME BEGGARS
BUCHAREST, July 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—Red Cross field workers
here have noticed that one of the most
striking traits in the Rumanian people
is their sense of pride. With all the
misery and poverty of the poor, they
never beg. They are always content
with what the Americans give them.
At the distribution centers there is
never complaint, protest or clamor.
The Rumanians always are grateful
for what they get, however little it
may be. Probably no people on earth
endure hunger and suffering with
more resignation and patience.
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