6 OPERATIONS WILL NOW BE DEFINED Workmen's Compensation Board Will Have Important Session Here Wednesday The difference between "major" and "minor" surgical operations under the workmen's compensation act will be taken up by the board, at its meeting In this city next Wednesday. The opin ions of eminent surgeons have been sought, and DT. Francis 0. Patterson, chief of the State Division of Hygiene, assisted by a committee of experts, has offered a comprehensive definition which the board will consider. Under the act the medical expenses granted for the first 14 days may amount to J25; or if there has been a major operation $75. It has seemed to those administering the act that every operation has tended to be a major rather than a minor one. The question has puzzled referees, and no surgeon would hazard an opinion as to what was a major and what a minor operation. To obviate further misunderstanding the Workmen's Compensation Board, through Harry A. Mackey, its chair man. appealed to Dr. Patterson for an official definition. In framing the de finition Dr. Patterson was assisted by five surgeons as follows: Dr. John M. Baldy, president of the Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure of the State; Dr. J. B. McAllister, of Har risburg, president of the State Medical Society; Dr. W. L. Estes, surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, South Bethlehem. Pa.; Dr. Robert G. Leconte, surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and Dr. Edward Martin, professor of surgery at the University Hospital. As so defined, a major surgical oper ation is "(1) a surgical procedure which ent.ls immediate serious conse quence to the patient; (2) it is a sur gical procedure which requires skill and training to perform; (3) all oper ative procedures other than finger and amputations. cleansing and draining and closing of wounds, evacu ating secretions by incision, the man ipulating and reduction of uncompli cated dislocations, the treatment of uncomplicated fractured ribs, the re moval of superficial foreign bodies from the eye and the removal of sub cutaneous foreign bodies should be re garded as major operations. "The term major operations would Include the setting o( fractures of long bones and reducing of subluxations, providing accuracy and efficiency of reduction and retention be demon strated by X-ray taken before and aft er surgical treatment." The report of this body of surgeons also embodies the suggestions that a.ll fees and charges for major operations should be limited to such charges as are reasonable for similar treatment of injured persons of like standard of Jiving in the same community where such treatment is paid for by the in jured person. Fly in Butter Puts Wife in Hospital; Hub in Jail TTaslAngton, Pa., July 21. Ris coverlng a fly in his butter, as he was eating dinner, Earl Farabee, a prosperous and widely-known farm er of Franklin township. Greene coun ty, made remarks to his wife, Mrs. Leona Farabee, that precipitated a quarrel. They came to blows, and Mrs. Farabee was so badly beaten that she was removed to the TVaynes burg Hospital for treatment, ' and Farabee was arrested. From her bed Mrs. Farabee swore out a warrant for her husband for aggravated assault and battery. "He is too stingy to buy "window screens, and then he complains if flies happen to be too numerous about the kitchen or dining table," said Mrs Farabee. Farabee. in his version, said his vife hit him over the head with a stewpan first. All Fire Engines and Hose Is Being Tested Tests of the pumping capacity of all the fire engines in the citv are now being made by Fire Chief Kindler at the suggestion of Park Commis sioner E. Z. Gross. trials were recommended bv the State fire underwriters board in a recent report to Council. In con nection with the engine tests, the hose now on hand, is being tried out. commissioner Gross hopes to obtain the support of the citzens and Council, he said, in a request for at least 8,000 feet of new hose next year. The sum necessary, he said, will be set aside in the annual budget. • TOWN* BARS FLIMSY SKIRTS Alton, 111., July 21. Diaphanous gowns have been placed under a ban by Mayor Edmond Beal!, and Alton women and girls wearing shadow draperies who happen to get between the sun and the Mayor or the Alton policemen will be arrested. Mayr> r Beall s order for the arrest of women wearing the "see more" gowns fol lowed a shock the Mayor received in the street, when he spied a gown that so alarmed him that he ordered the clothes t0 g ° h ° me and get mo^® TO TRV STRIKE LEADERS By Assaeiatei Prest Duluth July 21. _ The eleven range strike leaders charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff James C. Myron and Thomas Ladvalie, expected to have their preliminary hearing to day Attorney C. X. Hilton has been retained by the I. TV. W. to defend those whose cases go to the grand Jury. Efficiency INCREASE this profits of your buvlneae by aiding your skilled help ers to make the best uso of their time. I'ae the proper blanks, blank books, stationery and ad vertising matter. Get the right kind of designing, engraving, printing »nd binding at the right price* from The Telegraph Printing Co. Federal Square 11 ' FRIDAY EVENING, BRITISH CHIEF WORKS SILENTLY Sir Douglas Haag, Directing Offensive, Is Adverse to Publicity British Headquarters, France, July 13. (Correspondence of the Asso ciated Press). No military leader is ,: more averse to publicity or works I more silenUy than Sire Douglas Haig, the British Commander-in-chief in France. To those who are importun ate for the offensive his answer is pa tience and yet again patience while the munition factories begin to produce and he continued his building. His generals say that "he never tells them his plans; only what they are to do. Probably not one man out of ten of the million or more under his com mand would recognize him if they saw him. Not given to reviews or any kind of display, this quiet and studious . Scotsman was the choice of the pro gressive. practical, driving element of the army as the one fit by equipment, ] training and experience to succeed Sir I John French. At Fifty-five he is nine years younger than Sir John and ten I years younger than Joffre or von Hin [ denburg. j There is a story that he entered the army as the result of a boyish wager. He went through Oxford with distinc tion before he went to the military school at Sandhurst. His choice of 1 arm was the cavalry which has had so little to do so far in this war. But no sooner had he received his comrnis , sion, later in life, than most officers because of the time that he had spent! at Oxford, than he set out with tjv«j thoroughness of the student to master every branch of his profession. Studied in Germany "It was in Berlin in the nineties that I met a Captain Haig who was ing German and the German army, said an Englishman. "I was struck by his industry—not a brilliant man, perhaps, but a sound and well bal anced one. A little hesitant of speech; what he did say went to the heart of things." .He studied the French army, too, and the history of all campaigns with : the systematic thoroughness thv be applied to everything. It was the same with his pastimes as his profession, whether he had talent for It or not he made himself a first-class golf player though the form which he developed did not excite the envy of profession als. At the British Army Staff College. wher9 officers learn organization, he was a marked man before he acted as chief of staff to General French in South Africa in the operations that made French's reputation. He was a soldier's soldier who had won solid professional esteem though the public had hardly heard of this reserved, un demonstrable worker. Of the men of command rank in the British Army in August. 1914, he and Sir William Robertson—another stud ious man who had risen from the ranks, is now chief of staff in Lon don—were the two who were apprais ed by the generation of officers who 1 had developed since South Africa as having prepared themselves for the di rection of large bodies of troops on the 1 scale of continental warfare. They were not the magnetic, dashing leader ; type, but organizers. Going out in command of the First Army of the British Expeditionary j Force Sir Douglas had seventeen j months, Mons, Ypres and Loos, of the warfare of the western front—-which all agree is the toughest school any soldier has ever known. Tribute to Brains There was no doubt who command ed the First Army. It was Haig, He was no figure head for the work of an able chief of staff. London gossip did not baftdy his name about; he was not a personality to the public though he was to the army. When anyone asked at the front who was the best man to take Sir John's place the answer was almost in variably: "Haig." He had not cap tured the army's imagination, but its reason. The tribute was one to brains. Tho new army was arriving in great numbers from its English drill grounds when he took over command. His country expects him to make it an instrument which will execute a suc cessful offensive on the Western front where the four month's effort of the Germans s.t Verdun, the French effort in Champagne and the British effort at Neuye Chapelle and Loos convince many military circles that the feat is impossible. His first operation, carried out with out a hitch and unknown to the Ger mans, was the talking over of the trenches occupied in the Arras sector by General Petain's army which was released .for Verdun. This gave the British an intact front of about one hundred miles; and was decided upon by the allied commanders as wiser than a premature British offensive in the mire and bog of the flat country of Flanders and Northern France. A wisp of a flag and two sentries de signate the entrance to the chateau smaller than that occupied by many division generals which is the head quarters of the commander-in-chief. Anyone who expects to be ushered into officers with aids running in and out of doors and telephone bells ringing will be disappointed. No place could be farther removed from the strug gle of the trenches and yet in the army zone. Aids Are Crocks The only occupants of the chateau beside Sir Douglas are his private sec retary and his aids who are "crocks" which is the army word for officers who have been wounded and are not fit for the physical exposure of the trenches. In other words if a young ster wishes to become an aid hi must have fought and then have the deci sion of a doctor that he cannot stand living in cellar-like "dugouts." The hour of any appointment is ex act to the minute; and whoever has one at his chateau is expected to be there on the minute. General Head quarters' time. There is little cere mony. Life at that small chateau has a real soldierly simplicity. At lunch eon the soldier servant places the food on the sideboard and everyone takes his plate and helps himself. Few guests come. Sir Douglas keeps his time to himself for his work and his own choice of recreation. One of the aids receives the caller; and a minute later the man with iron gray hair and mustache, sturdy, ath letic of build, slightly above medium height, who comes into the hall could not be mistaken, whether in or out of uniform, for anything but a soldier though something about the well-chis eled regular features also suggests the scholar. "Oxford and Sandhurst and India." said one of his admirers, "and hard work at a desk when he was not tak ing exercise in the open air best de scribe him." In one of the rooms of the ground floor the walls are hung with maps in cluding a series which have been crowded on a roller. Any portion of the front In all its details may be re ferred to in a moment. In the center of the room a desk; and against the wall a table with more maps and drawings and s6me of those strange photographs from aeroplanes of gray ish lines of trench systems in a dusky field of shell and mine craters which make one think of the dead world of the moon. 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STROUSE daisies, birds singing, a typical sunny day in Northern France. Absolute Ruler From this retreat a vast army is be ing trained and its organization com pleted and directed In the day by day tug-of-war for "The Chief" commands an army still in the making. The staff 1 always refer to him as "The Chief." There is something impersonal about it and yet personal; for he is abso- 1 lutely the chief. There is no sugges tion of any commission system in the 1 command of the British army these days. The man and his method are as quiet as the room. With a battle front which remains in the same place! month after month the routine of his 1 work has become almost as set as his habitation and not unlike that of the , autocrat of some great business organ ization. The regular staff officers are in a town not far away. Subordinate chiefs of the differents army branches, be it Operations, Intelligence, Ord- j nance or Supply, come to him In sue- j cession at hours set during the morn-: ing to make their reports and receive I their instructions. They do most of: the talking; and they have learned; how not to do more than necessary. He j listens and decides. If a longer conference than usual Is: desired it may come at luncheon or I later In the afternoon when he returns from his ride which he takes regularly; •very day. Then mort work until dln HJLRRESBURG TELEGRAPH ner and then some after dinner. If he does down to the lines or perhaps to confer with General JolTre in the one car which alone of all the cars car rying staff officers and generals along the roads flies the British flag the routine for that day ts broken. Sleeps Long Hours | Like General Joffre he sleeps long hours. A rested mind is a clean mind for great responsibilities. Like von Hindenburg he never reads fiction. When reading has not to do with his profession it is of serious books and ! monthlies and quarterlies. Even dur ing the battle of Ypres when it was touch and go with disaster he slept as .soundly as Joffre during the battle of the M*rne. At a crisis of the retreat from Mons he remarked as quietly as If he were giving a direction to an aid: "We shall have to hold on here for a while if we all die for It." There is never any fustion about these mod j em scientific soldier organizers. Again during the retreat when a certain gen leral became somewhat demoralized Sir. ! Douglas took hirn. by the arm and i walked up down with him In silence I till he was over his flt of nerves on ' that terrible August day. Those who j work with him know that his sign of anger 1s a prolonged silence of a tell jing kind. He has temper but does not l let It get past his Hps. they say. He has. too. a keen sense of humor, with i a Scotch flavor. The Impression he leaves on a caller Is that of a leader without illusions; a soldier who sees with a soldier's logic; who is not afraid to be patient. Goes to Church on Sunday "In your Civil War," he said, "it was a case of raising armies of untrained men to fight armies of untrained men while with us the small nucleus of reg ular officers who survived the retreat had to train even larger forces to meet a military machine which had had forty years of preparation. Not only man to man, but in organization must we make ourselves superior to our powerful enemy. The training of bat talions and the manufacture of guns in England and their transfer to France represented only the first stage of real preparation for our task. Here they must be organized into divisions, corps and armies under the actual con ditions of warfare before they could become worthily effective as a whole In any decisive effort against a foe whose staff training, reinforced by ex perience In the field must remain ex cellent, however, exhausted he be comes. Every day he grows weaker and we grow stronger. Owing to the indomitable spirit of our officers and men in learning we are accomplishing what seemed the impossible to many soldiers at the outset of the war. Our cause gives us strength; for we are fighting for civilization. Those who have looked to us for victory will have their patience rewarded." A lieutenant In the trenchee know* JULY 21, 1916. as much of when the blow will struck as a corps commander of a staff de partment head. A quiet order from that quiet room and then the struggle, which by the token of the command er's strong chin and imperturbability, he will carry through with unbending resolution and Scotch "cannlness." Being a good Scot he goes every Sunday morning to a little wooden Presbyterian chapel which has been erected on the outskirts of headqarters town where he sits in the company of Scottish officers and soldiers during a good Scotch sermon and a long one, too. Leave For Summer Home at Seaside Park, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Buchanan, Miss Mildred Buchanan and A. E. Buchan an, Jr., of 2109 North Third street, left to-day for their summer home at Seaside Park, N. J., to spend the re mainder of the season Mr. and Mrs. George S. Relnoehl, Miss Marian Relnoehl and Masters George and John Relnoehl, of 2114 North Third street, started to-day by automobile for Seaside Park, N. J., to visit Mr. and Mrs, Buchanan at their cottage. Blacklist Halts Goods For South Americans New York, July 21. Orders from : South American countries for large quantities of foodstuffs, farming im plements, household articles and other materials used in domestic pursuits were held up yesterday by the action of the British Government in extend ing to this country the blacklist of the Foreign Trade Department under the British Trading with the Enemy [ Act. The danger of lawsuits and other complications arising out of the in ability of shippers to fulfil con tracts because of the blacklisting led to numerous inquiries at the office of the British Consulate by individuals and firms who are engaged in the ex port and import business. Some of the largest foreign trade houses in structed their clerks not to accept any shipments until the British agents had been asked about the status of the customers. YSER IS SUNK London, July 21. Lloyd's reports that the British steamship Tser has been sunk. The Yser sailed June IB from Portland, Maine, for Catte, France. Her gross tonnage was about 3»o<fc
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