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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.
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' 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. Out of doors a field of
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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
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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