BUNDED SOLDIERS OF ALLIES
FOUGHT TO EARN OWN LIVING.
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LONDON. July 11— (Correspondence of the Associ*
ated Press ) Blinded soldiers of France and Great Britian
are being taught to earn their livings doing electrical con-.
struction following the system originated by an American
Dr. Schuvler S- Wheeler, who recently returned to New1
York after spending three months here and in France in*
troducing the work.
In its present stage the blind are taught to insulate
coils for motors and dynamos and do a certain amount of
assembling. Dr. Wheeler founded a blind workroom for.
this work about a year ago in Ampere, N.J., where he is
president of a large concern manufacturing electrical ma
chinery.
When it became known that the blind were able to do
the work and to earn good livings in competion with “sight s
-ed workers", the French government invited Dr. Wheeler
to come to France and teach the blinded soldiers* Subse*j
quently, through Sir Arthur Pearson, the British author-1
ities invited Dr. Wheeler to come to England.
In France two large electrical workrooms have been1
started for the blinded soldiers. The French branch of a
large American electrical manufacturing company has I
founded one at their works in Neuilly-sur Marne, where
more than 500 will be installed. Rene Vailery-Radot, Pres
ident of the Council of the Pasteur Institute, Vice Presi-'
ednt of the Society of the Friends of Blind Soldiers and
son-in law of the great Pasteur, has founded the other at
Versailles, w here se veral hundred soldiers are receiving
instructions. «?•- $
In England, the British Electrical and Allied Manu-'
facturers’ association through Mu go Hirst, President of
the General Electric Gomp; ny. Ltd., working with Sir
Arthur Pearson. hea» of d . Uu istan's and leader in the
movement to aid the 1 linden soldiers, has agreed to foster
the movement and give empioymni to all the blinded who!
are fitted for the work.
Sir Arthur is most enthuiastic over the introduction!
of this new industry for the >]hd. “The sincere gratitude
of the blind community« ft! • country." he said yesterday, i
“is due to Dr. Wheeler for his public spirited and generous
action in making the dange oils journey from the United i
States in order to give the benefit of his practical experi- i
ence and advice. 1 have every hope that his action will <
mean congenial and piofital !e employment to hundreds,
or perhaps thousands of blind."
• In addition to the sold? >r Min !, it is intended to teach «
the work to a large number of the blind women of the king1
-dom, for whom there is now practically no employment.
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UNCLE SAM IS PRACTICING
ECONOMICS OF MOST RIGID KIND.
LOUISVILLE, KY., July 11- Some of the economies prac
ticed by Uncle Sam in these spendthrift days would make
a thrifty housewife envious. The good old days in the army
when the soldier was allowed to overdraw his clothing al-j
lowance without an explanation are past.
A “busted” pair of trousers, and half worn-out shoes
are rejuvenated at the army camps and cantonments and
made to serve again. Even the manes of army horses are
scrupulously saved and sold to upholsterers
Torn trousers and worn shoes must be produced be-:
fore a like article in good order is issued. No limit is plac
ed on the amount of clothing a man can get so long as he;
wears out that which is issued to him.
At camp Zachary Taylor, near Louisville and at every
other training center in the country no condemned article
is allowed to go to the scrap heap if some part of it can be
salvaged and used to repair some other piece of equipment.
No waste of materials about the camp is allowed to go un
noticed or unchecked.
1 oo many broken pieces of bread in a garbage can will i
briny to the commander of the unit a notice from the com
manding general of the camp to have his cooks issue bread *
in smaller slices so that none will be wasted. The general.
has learned of the waste through daily reports laid on his'
desk. _i!
Every pair of shoes condemned as unfit for further use •
passes under eyes of skilled shoemakers in olive drab,;
drawn from the ranks. A surprisingly large percentage,
find their way back into the Quatermaster’s stock to be j
reissued. Some of them are practically reconstructed
A soldier wears the.seat out of a pair of khaki t rotes -
ers, and gets a new pair. The soldier-tailor in the shops of
the condemnation and reclamation division finds another
pair which have faded to about the same shade and re
places the missing seat. The garment itself goes back imte
-tore and is reissued for garrison wear.
As with trousers and shoes so with every piece of‘per
sonal equipment issued to a soldier. Nothing is wasted,
lothing is scrapped that possibly can be of use, and the
scrap material itself is carefully conserved for sale.
All horses used by the army have their manes roac hed
Ahite and grey hair is kept together while all sorrel, bay
ind black hair goes into another lot. Each kind of haiir is
where you will always receive a FAIR AND LIBERAL ASSORTMENT
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espionage charge of the JHarquis de'
Arquevilly, a Spanish su bject, has re-)
suited in the developmei it in the Par
isian press of many det ails of his re
markable career. *
1 lit' newspapers print the story of
the manner in which the /Marquis after
having worked as an e ngineer for the I
Krupps tor 11 years, made ^ fortune I
of $800,000 in commissions on, the sales j
°i submarines built oil. plants furnish- j
ed by him. , *
The Marquis, accordin to- these ac-;
counts, returned to France r.t the out-1
><‘t oi thq war, got himself nj ituraliz- *■
ed within 24 hours and. was in© orporat- |
ed into the army, where he obtained
two promotions.
The newspapers now <|f jelare the
submarine plans which he U ok to the
Krupps were stolen from tj he French
ministry of marine. ML. ILa abeuf, the
engineer who drew t’xe pita ns which
have been brought into quin >tion, says
they w'ere stolen, but he nu .kes no di
l'ect charges against the Ml* rquis.
The first submarine proift jeed by the
Knapps, it is dkimedj.wei'xt recognized
as copies of the French. submarine
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The Marquis, in his or* fn. defense, |
says he accepted offeit: no ade to him
by the Krupps only after Of *e bad offer
ed his sendee to both F'hui ce sund Eng
land, and that he built fftuir submarines
for Russia before woddi* g for the
Krupp firm. He deni^/tfb at he stole
the plans of the. Aigiettei. He was
exempted from army j-ervif e 1.1st year
because of heart troufi&. ^
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also divided into two lots, that from southern horse and
that from northern horses. Dark horses have course heavy
hair in the mane which is not so valuable as that from the
| finer haired northern tyype. .
Besides the condemnation and reclamation division i>
ceaselessly at work in every training center pushing a cam
-paign of publicity, and many of Uncle Sam’s soldieis
when they go back to civil life will go back better business
men because they have been trained to watch litle “leaks’.
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WAR HAS TAUGHT THE WOMEN MANY THINGS
' MANY CAN NOW EVEN SEW AND DO COOKING.
LONDON, July 11— (Correspondence of The Associ
ated Press)The war has taught women not only how
drive cal's, make shells, plough fields and become offec;i <•
soldiers, hut it also has taught many of them, who didn't
know how before, to cook and to sew.
A writer in a London paper, says he knew of sev ered
girls in a British government office who spend Ihei r rw
ings in leaning cookery. “Most of them," lie says, ‘'come
from homes where the things of the house have alway?
been done for them by well-trained servants. I ask< d o:
of these girls why she was spending her spare time i. lent»
ing how toboil cabbages and make potatoes look attractive
“I want to feel independent,’’ she said. I expect to be
married shortly, and I should feel such a fool if my hus
band came home suddenly on leave and I couldn’t cook
him a decent dinner. We can’t count on servants these da vs
War work, the writer concludes, whether it is work
in an office or in a hospital or in a factory, is teaching
womentobebuisness like and orderly, It is teaching them
that if a thing has to be done at all, it is more pleasant and
infinitly easier to do it well than to do it badly. And, above
all, it is teaching women to be self-dependent, giving them
the desire to make a success of what-ever they undertake.
One of the hardest worked of the new order of women
employees is the “conductorette” of the motor bus. Her job
is particularly nerve wearing and physically hard. She is
exposed to all kinds of weather and she must be constant
ly climbing the narrow winding stairs to collect fares
from the passengers on top. She must make change in the
.dark and punch a ticket for every fare, and the fare, unlikv
that collected in the usual American city street car. varies
according to distance the passengers desire to ride.
In the rush hours she must handle surging crowds.
All these onerous duties she preforms wonderfully well,
and the marvel of it is that the strain of the work doesn’t
spoil her temper. But it is a rare sight to see a conductor
ette show irritation. As a rule she is a cherry, friendly
little women who gains the goodwill and admiration of all
who ride with her, especially the Americans. Londoners
seem to have recovered long since from their astonishment
over her achievements.
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