6 FUTURE CITIZENS OF U. S. MUST BE GUARDED IN WAR Reports of Immorality Aboui Cantonments are Unf 'unti ed Investigation Shows SHOULD PROTECT WOMEN Large Infant Deathrate Due to Employed Mothers at Insuffieient Pay Washington, Deo. 10.—Why war's terrible strain on the children of belligerent countries, resulting in death, physical weakness, ignorance, untimely work and delinquency, must be warded off from the future citizens of the United States by "patriotic effort and sacrifice on the part of our civilian population" in carrying out a reasonable child wel fare program, is set forth in the an nual report of Julia C. Lathrop, Chief of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Sensational reports of an alarming rate of illegitimate births adjacent Sketect Uctwefl! Get the Round Pnckago * Ask For and GET f HORLICK'S ■ THE ORIGINAL iH MALTED MILK .<&&, Made from clean, rich milk with the ex- I ▲ (C33M tract of select malted grain, malted in our Infanta and children thrive on it. 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Strottse Jf MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG UfBKV TELEGRAPH • DECEMBER 10. 191?. to the great Army camps and charges of gross Immorality, were investigated by the bureau in three different cities, named in the charges, and in each case pro nounced groundless. "Absolutely no foundation could be found in any one of the three towns for the statements made about the girls there," says the report. "It was a case of rumors added to ru mors equaling fncts. The danger that instances of illegitimacy will result from the camps exist, of course. Undoubtedly the alertness of Army and Navy officials in this country to the need of providing decent opportunities for social life among the mobilized troops will be an important factor in preventing the rise of the ilegitimate birth rate here. Protection For Women "Protection must be afforded by proper policing, but far more by provision of ample social opportu nities, ample hotel and boarding space of unquestionable character for every woman who visits a can tonment town for any legitimate reason, suitable chaperonage, and competent women guides to meet in coming trains. "For the lack of any or all these safeguards young men and women cannot be held accountable. To provide them effectively is the busi ness of officials and civilians no lon ger young." During the coming year, the Bu reau expects to make a country wide study of st<ite provisions for the care and protection of despond ent children and a study of juvenile courts with respect to the increase of youthful crime which experience in other countries has taught always follows war. Studies of child welfare in the | warring countries have shown that i there has been a decrease in both the legitimate and illegitimate births, but that the decrease in the former has been greater. To a smaller ex tent than in Kurope. the report says, the problem of wartime illegitimacy exists here and "in making plans for government allowances (for de pendents of soldiers) the question of suport of illegitimate children of members of the military forces must ! be considered." The pressing essentials of the pro gram which the Bureau considers necessary to guard the United States against the aftermath of the war, are stated in the report as follows: List of Instructions "I—Public protection of matern ity and infancy. Last year (15,000 mothers and 300,000 children under live years of age died. Most of the deaths were preventable.) "2—Mothers' care for older chil dren. Essentials: Adequate incomes, family allowances for soldiers' fam ilies, mothers' pensions for civilians, special provision for extraordinary needs, so far as required to enable mothers of older children to afford the home comfort and protection which :ire the best safeguards against delinquency. "3—Enforcement of all child labor laws and full schooling for all chil dren of school age. Standards should be maintained in spite of war pressure. "I—Recreation for children and youth, abundant, decent, protected I from any form of exploitation." Permanent success in reducing In | fant mortality can be achieved only in connection with the protection of mothers, according to the report, which adds that investigations by the Bureau prove that an adequate Income earned bv the father of a family is essential. Studies made in eight cities showed that while the mortality among infants born to families having less than ss!>o an nual income was 162.5 in each thous and births, the average was reduced to 119.8 when the income ranged from $550 to $849, and was only C 1.7 when the Income was more than $1,050. Work For Low Pay Where mothers were forced to go into industry by reason of Insuffi cient other income, the Infant death rate was more than twice as great as in families where the moth ers remained at home. More than one-fourth, or 25.8 per cent, of the fathers of the families investigated, earned less than $550 a year, while only one in eight, or 13.1 percent had an income of $1,250 or more. The cities investigated were Johns town, Pa., Montclair, N. J., Manches ter, N. H., Brockton, Mass., Water bury Conn., Akron, Ohio, Saginaw, Mich., and New Bedford, Mass. The number of women in industry has increased since the United States entered the war and in the new workers an increase was found in the proportion of married women to single women. The high cost of living was given as one reason for the return of wives to positions in the Chicago stockyards which they held before marriage. The report adds: "The employers feel that within the next few months it will be prac- j tically inevitable that this increase j in the number of women employed and in the proportionate gain of married over single women .will go still further." While close studies of maternal and infant mortality have shown the superior healthfulness of the country over cities, as a whole, it was found that isolation and low incomes to gether overbalance fresh air and wholesome surroundings. Particu larly in western grazing states, where the population is sparse and scattered, it was found that lack of care and medical attention greatly increased the death rate among mothers and babies. Welfare work by industrial corporations in cities has reduced materially the mortality among mothers. "The importance of the care a mother receives before and at her child's birth is being constantly more fully recognized," the report adds. Whether or not children released from labor are obtaining the full benefits intended for them by the Child Labor Law will be the sub ject of future studies by the Bureau, which will endeavor to find out if they have gone into occupations not forbidden by law or are in school, or are both out of work out of school. Chairman of the State Coun cils of Defense have been asked to report on the number of children not in school. BAD BREATH Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets Get at the Cause and Remove It ■I . 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Take one or two every night for a week and note the effect. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Hard Colds CASCARAE? QUININE The old family remedy —in tablet form—safe, sure, eniy to take. No opiates—no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours—Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine box with • fcjrfllllun Hill's picture on it fVIUfIUIB 24 Tabl#u for 25c - lYij flUfilg At Any Drue Stora \SMMUF CATARRH For head or throat Catarrh try the UNIiUHTAKKII IT4S Chas. M. Mauk' PIIIV4TH AMUULANttI t'UUALa Mechanicsburg Lad Transferred to 112 th George N. Martin, formerly of Me chanicsburg, enlisted in the Machine Gun Company, Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, was transferred and is now in the Machine Gun Company, One Hundred Twelfth United States In fantry, Camp Hancock, Ga. Knowledge of French to Aid Employes After War Knowledge of French will be more than ever a profitable accomplish ment after the war. Nearly every large business will have closer re lations with European connections and communication among citizens will lie closer and more frequent. All young people in business who are able to speak French will therefore have a. decided advantage when promotions and advancements are considered. A number of large corporations especially large New York banks, have been for some time conducting regular classes in foreign languages. Conversational French in all such in stances takes the lead. Newspapers now conducting a distribution of the Soldiers-Sailors Diary and Dictionary, have been pleased by the enthusiasm with which civilians as well as those in the military service seized upon the book. The new and clear Sound- Spelling Method of this hook, a hand somely bound textile, leather volume of pocket size, makes it especially popular. Distribution in this city of the Soldiers-Sailors Diary and English- French Dictionary is being conducted exclusively by this newspaper. A coupon plan makes it easy for every reader to obtain the book 'as explain ed elsewhere in this paper. Russian Press Abuses Wilson For War Talk Petrograd, Dec. 10.—Commenting on President Wilson's message to Congress, the Army and Fleet Jour nal pictures America and Great Britain as determined to carry on the war in order that they may tri umph commercially over all others, including their allies. It says: "Peace by means of war! This is the mask under which the American imperialists with their inflamed ap petites are posing. America declares herself the implacable enemy of Aus tria-Hungary, without any evident reason, without any justifying mo tives save covetojisness and greed. At the moment in which Russia is putting forth efforts to end the war, American capitalists, talking with hypocrisy of the horrors of war, are striving to lengthen the bloody ter ror. "America and Great Britain de sire to have all countries so weak ened that they two will remain the sole victors, and, over the bodies of the millions that have been sacri ficed, divide thg world. Their bourgeois are dancing cajinabalis tic dances over the bodies of 10,- 000.000 victims." The Isvestia. the, semiofficial or gan of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Deputies, says: "This is the old refrain in war to a victorious end. We are sure the Krupps and all the other German and Austrian cannon king's are rub bing their hands with glee at hear ing: such talk. The Hohenzollerns and the Hapatrarg* are rejoicing at the possibility now of throwing over to the shoulders of America the re sponsibility of carrying on the war. But the mighty call of the Russian proletariat will soon be heard throughout the world, and the awak ened nations will force their govern ments first to an armistice and then to peace." Most of the newspapers, aside from the I'olsheviki organs, are still not permitted to print. National Prohibition Likely to Pass House Washington, Dec. 10.—A careful canvass of the House of Representa tives with respect to the proposed constitutional amendments providing for national prohibition and women suffrage shows that the prohibition amendment has a good chance of passing. The woman suffrage amend ment will almost certainly be defeat ed by the almost solid opposition ot the southern Democrats. A two-thirds vote is required to pass a constitutional amendment. There is a very large majority in both houses in favor of prohibition. It can pass the House if all the friends of the proposal are present and vote. The Judiciary committee of the House expects to report favorably both the prohibition and woman suf frage resolutions on Tuesday. Pro hibition is to be voted upon before the holidays. The suffrage amend ment will be disposed of on Janu ary 8. Young 'Sid' Drew Prefers Flying to Trench Life Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 10.—Sidney Drew, who is at the Traymore, has just received a letter from his son, Sidney Rankin Drew, who is an avi ator on the French front. Young Drew was 12.000 feet in the air when his engine stopped. He coasted down and landed near a farmhouse. "I had dinner with the family in a big room," he says. "At another ta ble were the farmhands, German pris oners. After looking them over I decided X would rather be above them, dropping bombs, than meet them in the trenclres." GERMAN WAR PRACTICES GONE OVER IN REVIEW Kaiser Indicted With Most Horrible Inhumanities Civ ilization Has Ever Seen Some of the blackest pages in all history, comprising a documentary record of "deeds that make one de spair of the future of the human race," are found in a book named "German War Practices," which has just been issued at the Government Printing: Office by the Committee on l'ublic Information for free distribu tion. It is edited by Prof. D. C. Mun ro, of Princeton, and other scholars. The dumfounding evidence which this book presents to tho jury of mankind is drawn mainly from Ger man and American sources, and in cludes official proclamations and ut terances of the responsible heads of the Imperial German government, let ters and diaries of German soldiers, quotations from German newspapers, and material drawn fiom the archives of the State Department which lay bare the story of inconceivable Ger man atrocities. The purpose of the book is to show that the system of frightfulness, it self the greatest atrocity, is the def inite policy of the German govern ment, so sinister that German sol diers have themselves at times re volted. Individual acts of wanton cruelty and barbaric destruction are cited only to illustrate the operation of the remorseless system. The book supplements the Bryce report, which was the official survey of the path of horror, ruin and death left by the German army on the lands of innocent and defenseless people. The book is supplemental also to the official reports by the Belgian Com mission and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it reveals more of the damning German war philoso phy as expressed in the German White Book and various official ut terances, extenuating revolting crimes on the grounds of expediency and the advancement of the "Kultur" which now mocks its name through out the entire civilized world. The humanity of German soldiers was so torn by the system of brutality that they cried out in letters to Ambassa dor Gerard, one expressing his pro test aganst the slaughter of the Rus sians in tiie Masurian lakes and swamps by saying, "There is no God, there is no morality, and no ethics any more; there are no human beings any more, but only beasts." Overwhelmed With Uarrori The illuminating reports of Brand [ Whitlock. minister of Belgium, tell of I miseries inflicted upon the Belgian people. Mr. Whitlock saying: "One is j so overwhelmed with the horror ot the thing itself, that it has been, and 1 even now is difficult to write calmly I and Justly about it." j Herbert Hoover, writing for this l book of his experiences in Belgium, : says: "The sight of the destroyed | homes and cities, tho widowed and | fatherless, the destitute, the physical j misery of the people but partially ' nourished at best, the deportation of men by tens of thousands to slavery in German mines and factories, the execution of men and women for pal try effusions of their loyalty to their country, the sacking of every re source through financial robbery, the fattening of armies on the slender produce of the country, the denuda tion of the country of cattle, horses and textiles; all these things we had to witness, dumb to help other than by protest and sympathy, during this long and terrible time, and still these are not the events of battle heat, but the effects of a grinding heel of a race demanding the mastership of the world. All these things are known' to the world—but what can never be known is the dumb agony of the people, the expressionless faces ot whose souls have passed the whole gamut of emotions. Atid why? Because these, a free and democratic people, dared plunge their bodies be fore the march of autocracy." Frederick C. AValcott's description of devastated l'oland comprehends the monstrous woes inflicted by the Prussian system upon those defense less people. In a statement prepared for the book, Vernon Kellog said: "I went into Belgium and occupied France a neutral, and I maintained while there a steadfastly neutral behavior, but 1 came out no neutral. ... I went in also a hater of war, but I came out a more ardent hater of war: but, also I came out with ineradicable convic tion, again, that the only way in which Germany under its present rule and its present state of mind can be kept from doing what it has done is by force of arms. The books gives excerpts from the diaries of German soldiers of which these are specimens: "In the night of August 18-19 the village ot Maint-Maurlce was punished for hav ing fired on German soldiers by being burnt to the ground by the German AN OPERATION AVERTED Philadelphia, Pa.—"Ono year ago 1 was very sick and I suffered with paina in my side | . and back until^ worse the more medicine I took. Every month since I was a young girl I had suffered with cramps in my sides at period* and was never regular. I saw yout advertisement In the newspaper and tho picture of a woman who had been saved from an operation and this pic ture was impressea on my mind. The doctor had given me only two more days to make up my mind so I sent my husband to the drug store at once for a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham'6 Vegetable Compound, and believe me, I soon noticed a change and when I had finished the third bottle I was cured and never felt better. 1 grant you the privilege to publish my letter and am only too glad to let other women know of my cure." Mrs. Thos. McGonlgal, 3432 Hartville atTMt, Phila, Pa.—Adv. troops. . . . The village was sur rounded, men posted about a yard from one another, so that no one could get out. Then the Uhlans set fire to it house by house; neither man, woman, or child could escape: only the greater part of the live stock we carried off, as that could be used. Any one who ventured to come out was shot down. All tho inhabit ants left in the village were burned wth the houses." Bath •( llloutl "A horrible bath of blood. The whole village burned, the French thrown into the blazing houses, ci vilians with the rest." That the reign of frightfulness was the definite policy of the German gov ernment is testified to by an amaz ing collection of documents and ut terances of German officialdom. Here with are excerpts from documentary proof furnished by German records establishing the truth beyond ques tion: "As soon as you come to blows with the enemy he will be beaten. No mercy will be shown! No prisoners will be taken! As the Huns, under King Attila, made a name for them selves which is still mighty in tra ditions and legends to-day, may the name of German be so fixed in China by your deeds that no Chinese shall ever again dare to look at a German askance. . . . Open the way for Kultur once for all."—From the Kaiser's speech to the soldiers on the eve of their departure for China in 1900. "Whenever a national war breaks out, terrorism becomes a necessary military principle." General Von Hartmann. "The City of Brussels, exclusive of Its suburbs, has been punished by an additional fine of 6.000.000 francs on account of the attack made upon a German soldier by Ryskere, one of its polce officials."— Baron Von Luett witz. Governor of Brussels. "I am thirsty; bring me some beer, gin, rum." "If you lie to me I will have you shot immediately."—These sentences are taken from a phrase book supplied to German soldiers, ac cording to Minister Brand Whitlock. "One cannot make war in a senti mental fashion. The more pitiless the conduct of the war, the more humane it is in reality, for it will run its course all the sooner."—General Von Bernhardt "The innocent must suffer with the guilty. . . . 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But there they are, 1,360,000 of them, already one of the biggest factors Hindenburg is reck oning with for the campaign of 1916. To lead them thero are more than SO,OOO officers. When the graduates of the second training camp get their first orders the number will be more than 100,000—as many officers as there were privates nine months ago. Of the new American force more than 300,000 men are Regulars. In all the world only two regular armies renTain—the American and the Japa nese. The others have all been swept away in the Hood of war. When the first American onslaught takes place German Landwehr and Landstrum troops will find themselves opposed to an army of professional soldiers. Behind the Regulars are the 400,000 soldiers of the National Guard, Regu lars in experience, many of them, thanks to our neighbor to the south. After the Guard come the 600,000 men of the new National Army. The whole military establishment, with the Marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in, numbers 1,500,000. The expansion that has taken place is as if Grand Rapids has grown in eight months to be virtually as big as Philadelphia. tur, and in that the population of the enemy countries can learn a lesson from our armies."—General Von Bis sing. How to get the book: Address: COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMA TION, 10 Jackson Place, Washington, D. C. Request one copy of German War Practices. BREAKS A COLD IN A FEW HOURS First dose of "Pape's Cold I Compound" relieves all grippe misery. Dont stay stufted-up! Quit blowing and snuffling! A dow* of "Pape'a Cold Compound" taken, every two hours until three doses are taken will end gTippe misery and break up a severe cold either in tho head, chest, body or limbs. It promptly opens clogged-up nos trils and air passages; stops nastjr discharge or nose running; relieves sick headache, dullness, feverishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. 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