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ANOTHER KIND OF PROPAGANDA.
An especially subtle type of German propaganda is
in circulation in Seward. It is the complaint of many
that meatless davs, meatless meals, wheatless days, etc.,
are useless. Especially is this true in Seward of the com
1 laint against meatless days and meatless meals, which
only recently were abolished. Because a few pro-Ger
man congressmen or senators spout against the Adminis
tration. true Americans should not take their words ser
iously. Even if the spouters are not pro-Germans, but
Republicans or even Democrats, take the sensations with
grain of salt. It is an election year. The Republicans
want to deride the Administration. Democrats are peev
ed at something perhaps and they want their little say.
But when Hoover, ably sustained by the President, declar
ed for meatless days. etc., the Food Administrator knew
what he was doing. Because there was a dirth of shins
and railroad congestion, preventing transportation, don’t
olame Hoover for the meatless days and the meatless
meals, he urged the people n> adopt. It is this talk
against the Administration and it’s objects that is prop
aganda. The Germans like it. it starts a flame of unpat
riotism. So stop it. I’p here we do not know what is
needed. In the the states they do and we should be gov
erned accordingly.
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Weil, w iseacres, there was a long distant gun after all
and shells bombarded Paris. When the Associated Press
says so. it is so. there is no Hearstism.
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IN LIVERPOOL
LIVERPOOL, March 27. —The first
hospital for American soldiers in
Croat Britain has just been opened in
Liverpool. All other hospitals thus
far opened in the British Isles have
been for American officers. The Liver
pool hospital is known as American
lied Cross military hospital No. 4 and
is situated in the Mossley Hill dis
trict, the most fashionable residential
section about three miles from the
downtown business pail of the city.
Already many American soldiers oc
cupy its cheerful wards and many
others in the convalescent stage, clad
in hospital pale blue are walking
about the spacious grounds.
The hospital proper occupies Moss
loy House, tin former home of I)r.
Kdmund Knowles Muspratt, a noted
uithority on chemistry and one of
Liverpool's leading citizens, who when
he heard that the Americans wanted
it, gladly turned it over to them. It
occupies the highest elevation in the
city. A typical old gothic style Eng
lish town house, it stands in the cen
ter of 7 acres of beautiful grounds
the flower gardens of which are ra
pidly being converted into plots for
raising vegetables. An American flag,
flying from the tall staff in front of
the grounds can bo seen a great dis
tance, and assists visitors to find the
place.
The head of the hospital is Major
i do J. Wile, Medical Officers Rescve
Corps, United States Army, who is a
member of the faculty of the Unive;
>ity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. Major
Wile came here last November and
has worked untiringly to outfit the in
stitution. In this he has been assisted
by Joseph R. Morris of Chicago, re
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The major’s staff consists of five offi
cers—three captains and two lieuten
ants. The personnel of the place in
cludes ten American Red Cross nurses,
twelve sergeants and twenty privates.
Miss Marion Weller, a graduate of the
New York hospital, is chief nurse.
Major Wile is proud that thirty-four
days after Mossley House was taken
over it was a fully equipped American
hospital ready for its first patients.
Today it has 150 beds with room for
expansion to 82G beds. The institu
tion is equipped throughout on the
American plan. This especially is
true of the hot water heating plant
and of the plumbing and electrical in
stallations, all of which work was fa
cilitated largely through the efforts
of the British Royal Engineers who
helped (Jraw up the plans and put
them into execution in these days of
labor shortage.
The hospital now has ten wards for
soldiers, two small officers wards and
an operating room, besides the admin
istrative offices. It boasts two ambu
lances of the latest type, one given by
Richard Pearce, an American resident
in Liverpool and the second by an
anonymous donor.
About 200 yards from tiie hospital
arc building two isolation wards, each
designed to accommodate 100 conta
gious disease patients. These are one
story structures of brick and concrete.
Kach will have four ten-bed wards
with two small wards in the center for
officers. A feature will be discharge
rooms where outgoing patients can
don their new garments.
GREAT WOMAN
PASSES AWAY
IN ABYSSINA
LONDON, March 27. — Tai-Tou,
Dowager Empress of Abyssinia, died
on February 11, at Addis Abeba, ac
cording to advices just received here.
The Empress, who was a w idow for
the fourth time when in 1883, at the
age of 30, she married Menelik, then
simply King of Shoa, w’as a woman of
great force of character. A princess
of Tigre, she was of very fair com
plexion and had remarkably sn all
hands and feet. In her youth she was
celebrated for her beauty. From the
lirst, as became a daughter of the
King of Gondar, she took an active
part in the troublous politics of Aby
'sinia, and wes concerned in all the civ
: il wars and intrigues which ended in
j the raisin ? of Menelik—to w hom she
bore no children—to the position of
Ncgus-Negusti (Emperor) in 1889.
At Adowa, where the Italians suffer
ed a crushing reverse, she accompan
ied Menelik to the battle headquarter',
and put hei own heriditary troops ir
the field.
During Meneiik’s long illness she
j practically governed the country and
kept it from internal disorders,
i On Menelik’s death at Christmas,
1913, his grandson, Lidj Jeassu, a
1 youth of 18, became Emperor, but the
j young ruler failed to maintain order,
i and largely on Tai-Tou's initiative he
' was deposed in September, 1916, and
his aunt Zeodita, Mcnelik's older
j daughter, was proclaimed Empress.
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