Deworraiic Waid
Bellefonte, Pa., April 19, 1918.
WHAT BOY SCOUTS ARE DOING
FOR ANIMALS.
The first boy that in generations of
Moros had ever been known to be kind
to an animal was the Moro boy who
first became a Scout. There are now
quite a few Moro Boy Scouts, and they
are carrying out the Scout teachings
by being kind to animals.
A Boy Scout all over the world is
the same. He has the same oath and
the same laws and the same teaching,
and he puts them into practice - the
same way. In this great world broth-
erhood there are over 2,000,000 Boy
Scouts—one of the greatest organiz-
ed forces for bringing kindness into
the world that this cruel old planet
has ever seen. Its effect must be felt
—it is felt!
The good turn that each one of the
231,000 Boy Scouts of America must
do and does do each day of his life re-
sults for one year alone in 10,230,000
acts of kindness.
Reports on the good turns done by
Scouts are full of such items as the
following: Protecting squirrels in the
neighborhood.—Cynwyd, Pa. Giving
thirsty chickens on a moving wagon
a drink.—East Pittsburgh, Pa. Put-
ting blankets on horses left standing
in the cold.—Freeland, Pa. The boys
held a bird-house building contest and
put the houses up in those places
where the birds would not be molest-
ed.—Roselle, N. J. Scout Kenneth
Shade protected animals from cruel
treatment; Scout Floyd Tanner assist-
ed a crippled animal; Scout Herman
Ewart is noted for his kindness to an-
imals.—Greenup, Ill. We built houses
for the protection of birds and fed
stray cats and dogs.—Kansas City,
Mo. Cared for four wounded animals
and are active in the prevention of
eruelty to animals.—Cokedale, Colo.
€ared for horses taken out of a burn-
ing building by a Scout.—West New-
ton, Mass.
The sixth Scout law says: “A Scout
is kind. He is a friend to animals.
He will not hurt any living creature
needlessly, but will strive to save and
protect all harmless life.”
This kindness is not merely the
thoughtfulness that eases a horse
from the pain of a badly fitting har-
ness or gives food and drink to an an-
imal that is in need, but also that
which keeps a boy from throwing a
stone at a cat or tying a tin can on a
dog’s tail. If a boy does not prove
his thoughtfulness and friendship for
animals, it is quite certain that he
never will be really helpful to his com-
rades or to the men, women, and chil-
dren who may need his care.
_ The Boy Scouts are continually be-
ing urged to take a bold stand for the
proper treatment of dumb animals
whenever a case comes under their at-
tention needing personal care or of-
ficial correction.
A boy may wear all the scout uni-
forms made, all the scout badges ever
manufactured, know all the wood-
craft, camperaft, scouteraft, and oth-
er activities of Boy Scouts, and yet
never be a real Boy Scout. To be a
real Boy Scout means the doing of a
good turn every day with the proper
motive, and if this be done, the boy
has a right to be classed with the
great Scouts that have been of such
service to their country. To accom-
plish this a Scout should observe the
Scout law. >
The good turn may not be a very
big thing—helping an old lady across
the street; removing a banana skin
from the pavement so that people may
not fall; removing from streets or
roads broken glass, dangerous to au-
tomobiles or bicycle tires; giving wa-
ter to a thirsty horse; or deeds simi-
Iar to these. It is something which
shows that his heart is right. It is
the Scout training and the Scout
knowledge that are given an outlet in
his sympathies.
As Dr. William T. Hornaday says:
“Every Scout is a boy of honor, and
therefore no Scout ever would accord
to a helpless animal any treatment
that would be painful, neglectful or
In any manner unjust. A boy of hon-
or cannot treat even a worm unjustly.
He will remember that the cat, the
dog, horse or ox are helpless prisoners
in his hands, dependent upon his mer-
cy and thoughtfulness. It is only the
meanest of men who treat their pris-
oners or their faithful servants with
eruelty or neglect. ‘The bravest are
the tenderest.” The real heroes of life
always are those who protect and care
for those who cannot protect thein-
selves.”
. The Permanent Wild Life Protec-
tion Fund, through Dr. William T.
Hornaday, Trustee and also Director
of the New York Zoological Park,
awards a gold medal to any member
of the Boy Scout organization who
shall during a given year demonstrate
to the National Court of Honor that
he has rendered distinguished service
in the conservation of wild life,
The Scouts all over America made
plans for feeding the birds this win-
ter. Every Scout knows that each
bird kept from starving when the cold
weather, snow and ice shut off his nat-
ural food supply will well repay the
community by destroying hundreds of
caterpillars, grubs, beetles and insects
that would prey ttre next year on flow-
ers and fruit foliage. Many of the
treops have already made shelters
where the birds can find food and be
comfortable during the sleet and snow’
storms. The Scouts know all the best
winter food for birds,
other fats, pork rinds, cut-up apples,
cracker crumbs, pumpkin or squash
seeds, rice and cracked corn.
Woodcraft is one of the activities
of the Boy Scouts of America and
means becoming acquainted with the
things that are out of doors. It in-
cludes the tracking of animals by the
marks left by their hoofs, and by
stealing out upon these animals, not
to do them harm, but for the sake of
studying their habits and getting ac-
quainted with them.
As a Scout advances he seeks one
or more of the 53 Merit Badges. When
he has won 21 of these, he is an Ea-
gle Scout. One of the Merit Badges
is for Kindness to Animals. To ob-
tain this a Scout must:
1. Have a general knowledge of do-
mestic and farm animals.
such as suet or | h
2. Be able to treat a horse for colic.
3. Describe symptoms and give
treatment for the following: Wounds,
fractures and sprains, exhaustion,
choking and lameness.
4. Know what to do for horses in
harness when they fall on the street.
5. Know what to do when animals
are being cruelly mistreated.
The instructions to be studied by
Scouts who are trying for a Merit
Badge on First Aid to Animals were
prepared by Dr. Francis H. Rowley,
of Boston, president of the American
Humane Education society. As Dr.
Rowley says, the first requirement for
this merit badge states that a Scout
must have a general knowledge of do-
mestic and foreign animals. This
particular merit badge was designed
more especially for boys who live on
farms and in rural communities and
would naturally come in contact more
or less with domestic animals. The
knowledge which a boy gains about
farm animals as he learns how to take
care of the horses, milk the cows, and
feed the pigs is general enough and
sufficiently adequate for the purpose
of this examination.
From Dr. Rowley’s able instruc-
tions, the following’ is taken: “Re-
quirement four is as follows: When
a horse falls in harness on the street,
have some one hold his head down flat
on the ground until the harness is so
far releaSed from the wagon that the
wagon can be pulled back and the
horse given a chance to rise. If the
ground is slippery, place a blanket
under his forward feet.
“With regard to the last require-
ment stating that Scouts know what
to do when animals are being cruelly
mistreated, try kindly persuasion of
the offending person, asking him if
he will not desist from his cruelty. In
case he refuses, get his name, if pos-
sible, or the name of the owner of the
team and animal and report him
either to a police officer, or better to
the nearest Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals.”
Thousands of boys of twelve years
and more are waiting all over the
United States to become Scouts. Only
one thing prevents—the lack of inter-
ested men to guide them in the fas-
cinating program. The Boy Scouts of
America has seen over 1100 of its men
leaders enter war service. Their
places must be supplied. It is one of
the most practical! channels in which
a citizen can set his patriotism to
work—heading a troop of eight to
thirty-two loyal, vigilant, hearty,
practical young Americans whose
ideal is expressed in the Scout oath: —
“On my honor I will do my best to
do my duty to God and to my country
and to obey the Scout law; to help
other people at all times; keep myself
physically strong, mentally awake
and morally straight.”—By James E.
West, Chief Scout Executive, Boy
Scouts of America.
Clothing Likely to be Scarce.
Washington, D. C.—Stabilizing of
prices of domestic necessities, includ-
ing cotton goods, woolens, manufac-
tured clothing, shoes and hats was
discussed by President Wilson and his
War Cabinet. It is understood that
the President’s counselors believe that
drastic action will have to be taken
soon or the average citizen will find
many of the things he needs out of
reach.
While the War Cabinet met the first
move in what is declared to be a
sweeping price fixing or stabilizing
scheme being worked out by the War
Industries Board was made at a con-
ference between more than 50 leading
cotton manufacturers of the country
and the board price fixing committee.
While these men represent only the
cotton textile industry, meetings with
delegations representing the woolen
and leather industries are scheduled
to follow upon the completion of the
present conference.
The meeting was under the auspic-
es of the National Council of Ameri-
can Cotton Manufacturers, who came
here to discuss its present and pros-
pective relations with the Govern-
ment, with regard to price and pro-
duction. The cotton market has been
in a chaotic state because of heavy
government demands, and the indus-
try asked for the conference with a
view to determining measures for sta-
bilizing it. The result of the first ses-
sion was the appointment of a war
production committee headed by Gar-
rish E. Miliken, of New York, to pre-
sent the council’s view of the price
fixing committee.
In some quarters it is declared that
a system of standardization of clothes
and shoes is being considered by the
board similar to that adopted by the
English government at prices within
the reach of the average citizen.
Revised priority regulations, de-
signed to assure fuel and transporta-
tion to industries necessary to the war
end essential to the. public welfare,
were issued by the war industries
board.
A lengthy preferential list made
public classifies dozens of transporta-
tion and fuel users as essential. Oth-
ers, it was announced, will be added
from time to time. The preferred in-
dustries under a plan now in prepara-
tion are also to be given preference
in obtaining raw materials and other
supplies.
The priority list is as follows:
Plants engaged exclusively in manu-
facturing aircraft or supplies and
equipments, ammunition for the Unit-
ed States and Allies, army and navy
cantonments and camps, small arms,
chemicals, coke, domestic consumers,
electrical equipment, electrodes, ex-
plosives, farm impléments, ferro-al-
loys, fertilizers, fire brick, food for
uman censumption, food containers,
Za gas producing machinery, guns,
emp, jute and cotton bags, insecti-
cides, fungicides, iron and steel (blast
furnaces and foundries), laundries,
machine tools, mines, mining tools
and equipment, newspapers and peri-
odicals, oil, refineries (mineral and
vegetable), oil wells equipment, pub-
lic utilities, rail vays, railway equip-
ment and supplies, refrigeration, seeds
(except flower seeds), bunker coal,
(not including pleasure craft), ships,
ship supplies and equipment, soap,
steel plants and rolling mills, tanning
plants, except for patent leather, tan-
ning extracts, tinplate, twine (bind-
er) and rope, wire rope and rope wire.
——The wartime demand for dye-
stuffs has revivified the ancient indi-
go industry of Central America.
Sunken Wealth.
Some of the biggest hidden treas-
ure hunts ever known will begin when
peace is declared. Then attempts will
be made to retrieve the precious car-
goes of some of the hundreds of ships
that have been sent to the bottom
through sea warfare.
Probably no accurate estimate wiil
| ever be made of the fabulous wealth
that has been destroyed during the
last two years and a half. It may be
as much as the English war loan—
$5,000,000,000—but it can be safely
said that the losses will enormously
exceed the sum total of all the ship-
wrecks that have taken place during
the 100 years previous to the great
war. There is indeed no comparison
that can be made with the past.
The treasures that have been lost
at sea in storm and warfare through-
out the centuries, if a value could be
set upon them, would look very small
beside those with which the ~ocean-
beds have been strewn since the U-
boats began their famous attacks.
Even the Spanish galleon of old
could not compare with the great lin-
er of today laden with food and mer-
chandise of incredible value, and also
carrying sometimes specie to the val-
ue of $5,000,000. A great liner today,
without a ton of cargo inside her, is
worth more than $5,000,000.
Yet a few torpedoes have sent sev-
eral of these modern treasure-ships
down many fathoms in a few minutes.
Millions of dollars’ worth of treas-
ure went down when most terrible of
all the German outrages at sea—the
torpedoing of the Lusitania—was
committed. What remains of her car-
go now that would be of any value if
it could be recovered would probably
realize only a few hundred thousand
including the costly jewelry that went
down in the great wreck. At the
great depth at which she lies, the fa-
mous liner has probably been reduc-
ed to a pulp, and even if she could be
raised the huge operation would cost
more to carry out than the mighty
wreck would be worth.
According to Lord Beresford, since
the war began more than 2,300 Brit-
ish, allied and neutral ships have been
sunk. This represents a tonnage of
considerable more than 4,000,000.
Of course, a great deal of the car-
go of some of these ships was perish-
able and of comparatively trifling val-
ue; but many were almost priceless
argosies, laden with some of the rich-
est products of our possessions.
There were gorgeous tapestries and
carpets from the East that were eith-
er sunk or captured in the early days
of the war, before the intervention of
Turkey—wonderful cargoes that had
been consigned to Germany and Aus-
trian ports, many of them to be cap-
tured by British man-o’-war, who put
prize crews aboard.
One of the biggest captures was the
seizure by one of the warships of the
merchant ship Cap Ortegal which had
more than $5,000,000 worth of specie
in her hold.
Gold and precious stones, and rare
pottery and fabrics from India; more
gold and precious stones from South
Africa; still more gold, silver and di-
amonds, copper and lead from South
America; silks and velvet from Chi-
na; and, nearer home, quicksilver,
copper, silks and oils from Spain.
Much of this treasure which was con-
tinuously pouring on to the shores of
Britain in the early days of the war
is now lying in hundreds of shattered
bulks in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the
Mediterranean and the Indian ocean.
Our own submarines must have
sunken an enormous amount of wealth
in the Sea of Marmora.
And just consider what treasure the
Emden accounted for? This will-o’-
the-wisp, whose exploits, according to
the rules of naval warfare are about
the only creditable record in the an-
nals of the German Navy, captured or
sank in the Bay of Bengal, the Indian
Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the China
Sea, more than a score of steamers
of a total tonnage of more than 80,-
000 the majority of them having car-
goes of rich merchandise.
The law relating to the recovery of
property from the sea—“treasure
trove”—is very obscure and difficult
to interpret. With regard to vessels
wrecked near the coast, whose cargoes
may be washed ashore, there is, as a
rule, no difficulty about establishing
the ownership of the vessel, and they
are entitled to recover their property
after all salvage rights have been sat-
isfied.
But with regard to wrecks on the
high seas a very difficult problem will
confront the Nations when peace
comes, especially when it is remem-
bered that thousands of vessels have
gone to the bottom, and in many cases
there are no records of where they
were lost.
Property absolutely lost upon the
high seas would seem to belong to the
finder. It has beun claimed for the
Crown, and the American courts have |
held that, apart from a decree, the
finder is only entitled to salvage
rights, the courts retaining the rest,
and then practically taking it for the !
State on the original owner not being |
found. :
But what is to prevent many adven-
turous spirits with money equipping
treasure-hunting expeditions after the
war? Jules Verne and Robert Louis
Stevenson never wrote of such riches
as now lie buried in the bosom of the
ocean.
And what princely days they will
be for divers! Of late years exper-
ienced divers have been able to earn
from $25 to $500 a week while engag-
ed on a big and risky commission, and
in addition make $5,000 or $10,000 out
of a very big undertaking.
But after the war divers ought to
be able to make large fortunes, and
easily eclipse any previous records.
Probably the vast majority of the
wrecks will be beyond their reach—in
fathomless depths. But others that
lie near the coasts, not a great many
fathoms down, will offer a strong
temptation. :
The record depth reached by divers
in modern times was achieved by two
British Naval officers, who got down
to 210 feet, where the pressure was
90 pounds to the square inch—a ter-
rific weight to bear. A Spaniard
once descended many times to 182
feet off Cape Fiuisterre, and brought
up altogether $45,000 in silver bars.
—London Answers.
95 Per Cent. Wounded Cured.
Surgery in the French army hos-
pitals has now reached such a degree
of almost miraculous methods that
within 15 days after a great battle on
the western front between 98 and 99
per cent. of the wounded are able to
leave the hospitals cured, says a
French correspondent of the Wash-
ington Post. es
A period of recuperation is neces-
sary for them afterward, but as far |
as the wound itself is concerned it is
a thing of the past. 2
Much of this rapidity in the curing |
of the wounds is due to the new disin-
fecting process of Dr. Carrell of the
Rockerfeller Institute. This, however,
is only one phase of the seeming mir-
acles that are being wrought by the
French army surgeons, and the results
attained are the combination of the
genius and methods of the entire sur-
gical: and medical department of the
French army. .
Following the rapidity with which
the wounded now leave the hospital
cured, the percentage saved from
death has reached an almost equally
astonishing figure. Of the wounded
picked up on the battlefield and who
are still alive when they reach the
field hospitals, from 95 to 96 per cent.
recover.
Statistics have just been completed
on the handling of the wounded of
the big French offensive on the Aisne
last April and May, which shows she
remarkable chance which a man now
wounded in battle has of escaping
death and of being able eventually to
return to the front.
Of the entire number wounded in
the Aisne offensive only 20 per cent.
were so badly injured that they could
not be evacuated. Of the other 80
per cent. that it was possible to carry
off to the hospitals, the eventual mor-
tality amounted to only 5.18 per cent.
Of the wounded, 16 per cent. had
wounds in the head, 33 per cent. in
the lower limbs, 34 per cent. in the
upper limbs, 10 per cent. in the chest,
4 per cent. in the abdominal cavity
and 2.6 per cent. in the spinal column.
Twenty per cent. of those wound-
ed were wounded in several places.
Owing largely to the first aid to the
wounded packages which each soldier
carries to the field of battle, gangrene
was kept down to a very low per cent.
Of the first 1,000 wounded brought in,
3 per cent. developed gangrene, while
5 per cent. was the figure for the first
10,000.
As is always the case the wounds in
the abdomen were the most serious.
The mortality among these was 61 per
cent. Among those wounded in the
chest the mortality was only 20 per
cent.
Of the entire number wounded, how-
ever, at the end of 15 days only 1.43
per cent. remained in the hospitals of
the army formations.
An international school for the
education of army officers blinded in
the war is to be established with the
co-operation of all the Entente armies.
Provision has already been made for
teaching trades to blind privates, but
this is the first effort to provide simi-
lar training for officers. The school
is to be located in Italy, and Thomas
Nelson Page, the American Ambassa-
dor, and the American Consul Gen-
eral in Italy are taking a leading part.
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The continued cold weather compels us to make special
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