AMERICANS DO
Y.M.C.A.WORK
FOR RUSSIANS
BERLIN, Aug. 24 (by Associated
Press).—A party of young Americans,
all Rhodes scholars, has arrived here
from Oxford university to assist in
the Y. M. C. A. relief work in con
nection with the repatriation of Rus
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’ s:an prisoners of war.
They will be assigned to various
prison camps throughout Germany
where 175,000 Russians are awaiting
ships to take them home. About
25,000 already have been sent from
Stettin to Narva but there are so
few ships available it may be
months before the last of them can
be embarked. Meantime the Rus
sians are suffering severe privations.
Almost without exception the
American students served during the
war with the American expeditionary
forces or were associated with relief
work in Europe. Their leader is
Francis P. Miller, of Lexington, Va.,
a graduate of Washington and Lee
universities. Othem members- of the
party are David M. Amacker, Lake
Providence, La., Joseph David Doty,
Graham, Tex., William L. Finger, Rip
ley, Miss., Rex B. Hersey, Hunting
ton, W. Va., G. A. Feather, Univer
sity of New Mexico; F. Treadwell
Smith and S. M. Keeney of Harvard
university; D. P. Miller, University of
Denver and E. Naugle, University of
Texas.
f Five years’ confinement in prison
camps has reduced the Russians to
a pitiable condition. Many are ill,
some insane, and all undernourished,
improperly clothed and dispirited.
From the German government each
receives a small monthly allowance
which is insufficient to provide even
the necessaries of life.
Officers at the Wuelzburg camp re
ceive 135 marks, which is about $3.10.
For the meagre daily meal they get
at the camp 53 marks is deducted.
Out of what is left they must try to
buy clothes and other essentials.
- Such a thing, for example, as dental
attention is wholly beyond their
- means. Some have sold their last
shirts to pay for shoe repairs. Shoes
are their crying need and the pris
oners hardly take a step without cal
culating the wear on their soles.
Efforts made by relief workers to
induce them to take ujd some form
of athletes brought the reply, “We
should but it would be too hard on
our clothes and shoes.”
Camp officials permit the prisoners
to seek outside work, which, however,
is most difficult to find. One Rus
sian who was employed for two weeks
by a peasant ruined his only pair of
shoes and then was charged the full
amount of his wages for his board
Most of the prisoners have heard
nothing from their families or
their friends for more than two years,
and the Rhodes scholars will try to
help them get in touch with their
^ homes. In almost every camp there
is a rude theatre, the principal
amusement and comfort of the men,
who themselves perform the plays.
In spite of their apathy, the men are
interested in books and instruction,
and school classes have been formed
at a number of the camps.
KING OF BELGIANS QUOTES
SHERMAN FAMOUS WORDS
GENEVA, Aug. 24 (by Associated
Press).—King Albert of Belgium, ac
companied by Joseph Ravenel, a guide,
who served throughout the war as a
“Blue-Devil” of France, incidentally
being at Verdun, ascended Dru peak
the other day. The king and the sol
dier remained on the summit for half
an hour, the guide discreetly, he
/ thought, trying to question the king
on his war record. The king was re
luctant to speak of his war experi
ence. When the guide came down he
asked a newspaper man:
“What was it that the American
General Sherman said about war?
King Albert told me: ‘Sherman said
all that is to be said about war in three
words.’ ”
Emil Holmgren, a well known resi
dent of the Tolovana district, where
he has spent the past several years
hunting and trapping, committed
suicide last week by shooting him
self through the temple with a rifle.
His body was found beside his bunk
with the rifle beside him. Deceased
was an old timer in the north, hav
ing worked on Esther creek for a
number of years as mine foreman.
He went to Tolovana in 1916.
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CHEAP BEER IN
GERMANY NOW
ONLY MEMORY
BERLIN, Aug. 24 (by Associated
Press).—A venerable Teutonic insti
tution, the Stammtisch, is disappear-,
ing. The Stammtisch was the middle
class man’s club, but since the price
of beer has gone up from 30 pfen
nigs a pint to 2 marks for less than
a pint, the inducement to gather
round the oaken board in some vault
ed “keller” to discuss politics, art or
philosophy has faded away and the
great decorative steins with the em
bossed lids have become mere shelf
ornaments.
Berlin Stammtische were many and
various. Each had its own customs
and convival ritual. Some, where
painters, cartoonists, actors and lit
erary men foregathered, were famous
throughout the German speaking em
pire and had been in continuous ex
istence for over a century.
The latest one to go is the artists’
Stammtisch at Siechens, in the
Behrenstrasse, with which many fam
ous names are associated.
To the traditional German, the end
of the Stammtisch means the end of
Gemuthlichkeit, th?^ (particularly
Gemuthlichkeit, that particularly
good cheer and high thinking.
ODD ISLANDERS SING
HYMNS FOR VISITORS
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 24 (by As
sociated Press).—“Pitcairn island is
an odd place,” said a recent visitor
from England who had come by way
of the quaint, isolated community in
the South Pacific composed of de
scendents of the mutineers of the Brit
ish ship Bounty.
“We landed three harmoniums
there,” continued the traveler, “and
even when we reached there we heard
hymns borne to us upon the winds.
“The islands sang hymns during our
entire stay on the island, and the last
we heard of them was ‘We’ll Meet in
a Better Land,’ growing fainter and
fainter as we steamed out to sea.”
A raft of logs recently received at
the Petersburg sawmill contained
250,000 feet. In the raft there were
only 91 logs, all even size, averaging
five feet in diameter .
LATEST BRITISH
AIRSHIP GIVEN
FIRST TRY-OUT
BARROW, Eng., Aug. 24 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Britain’s latest air
ship R-80 has just been given a trial
for the purpose of trimming and
maneuvering rather than speeding.
Faster than R-34 by about five miles
an hour, the R-80 is about 100 feet
shorter with a gas capacity of 1,250,
000 cubic feet against the R-34’s
2,000,000 feet.
The airship has four motors giv
ing a total horsepower of 960; can
average about 50 miles an hour and
cruise under full power at 65 miles.
She has been built on improved de
signs which make for speed, strength
and durability, has a stream-lined
hull and can lift about 38 tons gross.
The trial was carried out without
a hitch and the vessel was housed
just as easily as she was brought out
of the huge shed.
GOES TO CHINA
AS INSTRUCTOR
AGRICULTURE
WEST RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 24 (by
Associated Press).—Gordon K. Middle
ton, instructor in agriculture in the
North Carolina State College of Agri
culture and Engineering, has been
named an agricultural missionary to
China by the foreign mission board of
the Southern Baptist convention and
will leave soon to take up his work in
Kaifeng college, Honan province.
To form the basis of the agricultural
and livestock department of the col
lege a number of American breeders
have contributed a number of head of
dairy cattle and Mr. Middleton will
take these to China with him. The
dairy herd will be cared for by Chinese
boys in exchange for their board and
and tuition. In addition, a demonstra
tion farm similar to those operated in
connection with American agricultural
colleges will be established with a
practical Chinese farmer as a co-oper
ative guide.
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