SURGEONS WILL
HELPWORKERS
Discussion For Next Tues
day's Conference to Deal
With Accidents in Mills
Physicians and surgeons connected
*!th the iron and steel and other
•Jig industries of Pennsylvania will
meet here Tuesday for a conference
on ways and means to care for sol
diers who may be disabled and the
V/prkers who may be hurt in the
mills and factories, among the
speakers listed being Major Edward
Smith, noted Philadelphia surgeon;
Dr. Alfred Stengel and others.
The State Department of Labor
an<£ (industry i s arranging the meet
in?!? which will have topics pertinent
to the war and the speeding up of
industry. „
Dr. Loyal A. Shoudy, chief sur
geon of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, will speak on "The Nation's
Neglect—The Failure to Reconstruct
and Rehabilitate the Wounded in In
dustry." _ , •
Dr. Edward Martin, of Philadel
phia, now a major in the Medical
Officers' Reserve Corps, will discuss
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ASK ANY GARAGE MAN—those who {
do not also sell automobiles —about the E
various makes of motor cars and motor |
I ASK HIM WHICH ones come to him
most —which least often.
HE'LL TELL YOU TRUE for it is a
strange fact that though you'd expect
him to be partial to those that come
oftenest and run up the biggest repair
bills, as a matter of fact his attitude is
just the opposite.
HE LIKES THE KIND that, being well
made and accessible, are soon out of the
shop with a reasonable bill for adjust
ment or repairs—and a satisfied cus
tomer.
THE OTHER KIND cause frequent
wrangles and endless enmities —in other
words, they come once, stay over long,
leave in an unsatisfactory condition and
seldom return.
SO HE DOESN'T like those cars.
HE LIKES REOS —never heard of a
garage owner or foreman that wasn't
a warm friend of Reo's.
EVEN WHEN HE DOES sell some rival
make of automobile or motor truck, he
will admit, if you ask him, that Reo is
"next best" to the one he sells.
ASK SEVERAL such agents and you 11
find that, almost without exception,
HReo is "next best" —and putting the
replies all together you have the
answer.
ANY MECHANIC in any garage will tell
you that the Reo is the most accessible
car he has ever worked on.
HE'LL TELL YOU—for this is a point
that your garage man considers of the
utmost importance—that Reo cars have
the best bearings at every point ever
put into a car or truck.
WE COULD go into details and'explain
I why this is so but space forbids. Be
sides, we are suggesting that you ask an
impartial judge—one who knows. He
will tell you in more convincing—and
more forcible garage language why Reos
stand up—why the mechanic likes them
. and why the upkeep is so low
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Reo Motor Car Company, Lansing, Mich.
Price ia f. o. b. Lamiing and the epmcial Federal
tax maet lye added. ■ (120-30)
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SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG QftjNfo TELEXSRXPH APRIL 6, 1918.
"How the Industrial Surgeon Can
Best Co-operate with the Govern
ment to Win the War." Major
Joseph C. Bloodgood, of the Medical
Officers' Reserve Corps, will also dis
cuss that topic.
Whether hernia should be classed
as a compensable injury or a disease
will be considered in addresses by
Pf. A. W, Colcord, Surgeon of the
Carnegie Steel Company and Dr.
Charles A. Lauffer, medical director
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company.
"Women in Industry and Indus
trial Hazards to Their' Health;" will
be the topic of Mrs. Eampel Sempie,
woman member of the industrial
board of the Department of Labor
and Industry.
"Reconstruction and Rehabilita
tion of the Diseased," will be dis
cussed by Dr. Alfred Stengel, pro
fessor of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania and by Dr. J. B. Mc-
Alister, past president of the Medi
cal Society of Pennsylvania.
Two years' experience with the
Workmen's Compensation Law of
Pennsylvania, will be the subject of
a symposium in which the viewpoint
of the physician will be given by Dr.
Frederick L. Van Sickle, president
elect, Medical Society pf the State
of Pennsylvania; the viewpoint of
the insurance company will be dis
cussed by William H. Hotchkiss,
counsel. United State Casualty Com
pany; viewpoint of Industry by C.
B. Auel, director, Standards, Pro
cesses and Materials, Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Com
pany; viewpoint of labor, Roger J.
Dever, attorney, Anthracite Mine
Workers; viewpoint of the board,
Harry A. Mackey, chairman. Work
en's Compensation Board.
FIRK DRIVES SOLDIERS
Portland, Me., April 6.—Soldiers
sleeping in the barracks at Fort
Williams, on Cape Elizabeth, were
driven out early to-day by a fire
which destroyed three buildings. All
the men escaped without injury and
saved most of the movable property
in the barracks. With the aid of mo
tor apparatus sent from this city,
soldiers and firemen prevented the
spread of the flames.
" Outwitting
PREFACE
i There is a common
idea that the age of
miracles is past. Per
.. . haps it is, but if so,
the change must have
' come about within the
/ past few weeks—after
- wlHtojKfc' 1 escaped into 110 -
land. For if anything
. is certain in this life
It is this; this book
never would have
keen written but for
the succession of
miracles set forth In these pages.
Miracles, luck, coincidences, Provi
dence—it doesn't matter much what
you call it—certainly played an Im
portant part in the series of hair
breadth escapes in which I figured
during my short, but eventful ap
pearance in the great drama now be
ing enacted across the seaa. With
out it all my efforts and sufferings
would have been quite unavailing.
No one realizes this better than I
do and I want to repeat it right
here because elsewhere in these
pages I may appear occasionally to
overlook or minimize it; without the
help of Providence I would not be
here to-day.
But this same Providence which
brought me homo safely, despite all
the dangers which beset me, may
work similar miracles for others, and
it is in the hope of encouraging other
poor devils who may find themselves
in situations as hopeless apparently
as mine oftentimes were that this
book is written.
When this cruel war is over—
Which I trust may be sooner than I
expect it to be—l hope I shall have
an opportunity to revisit the scenes
of my adventures and to thank in
person in an adequate manner every
one who extended a helping hand to
me when I was a wretched fugitive.
All of them took great risks in be
friending an escaped prisoner, and
they did it without the slightest hope
of reward. At the same time I hope
I shall have a chance to pay my
compliments to those who endeavor
ed to take advantage of my distress.
In the meanwhile, however, I can
only express my thanks in this in
effective manner, trusting that in
some mysterious way a copy of this
book may fall into the hands of every
one who befriended me. t I hope
particularly that every good Hol
lander who played the part of the
Good Samaritan to me so bounti
fully after my escape from Belgium
will seo the pages and feel that I
am absolutely sincere when I say
that words cannot begin to express
my sense of gratitude to the Dutch
people.
It is needless for mo to say how
deeply I feel for my -ellow-prisoners
in Germany who were less fortunate
than I. Poor, poor fellows!—they
are the real victims of the war. I
hope that every one of them may
soon be restored to that freedom
whose value I never fully realized
until after I had had to fight so hard
to regain it.
PAT O'BRIEN.
Momence, Til., January 14, 1918.
CHAPTER I.
The Folly of Despair.
Less than nine months ago eigh
teen officers of the Royal Flying
Corps, which had been training in
Canada, left for England on the
"Meganic."
If any of them was over twenty
five years of age, he had successful
ly concealed the fact, because they
don't accept older men for the R.
F. C.
Nine of the squadron were British
subjects; the other nine were Ameri
cans, who 'ired of waiting for their
own country to take her place with
thh Allies, had joined the British
colors in Canada. I was one of the
latter.
We wore going to England to earn
our "wings"—a qualification which
must be won before a member of the
R. F. C. is allowed to hunt the Huns
on the western front.
That was in May, 1917.
By August Ist, most of us were
full-fledged pilots, actively engaged
at various parts of the line in daily
conflict with the enemy.
By December 15th. every man jack
of us who had met the enemy in
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(Copyright, 1918, by % Pat Alva O'Brien.)
France, with one exception, had ap
peared on the casualty list. The ex
ception was H. K. Boysen, an Ameri
can, who at last report was fighting
on the Italian front still unscathed.
Whether his good fortune has stood
up to this timo I don't know, but If
It has I would be very much sur
prised.
Of the others, five were killed In
action—three Americans, one Cana
dian, and one Englishman. Three
more were In all probability killed
In action although officially they are
listed merely as "missing." One of
these was an American, one a Cana
dian, and the third a Scotchman.
Three more, two of the Americans,
were seriously wounded. Another, a
Canadian, is a prisoner in Germany.
I know nothing of the others.
What happened to me is narrated
In these pages. I wish, instead, 1
could tell the story ot each of my
brave comrades, for not one of them
was drowned, X am sure, without up
holding the besi traditions of the
R..F. C. Unfortunately, however, of
the eighteen who sailed of the "Meg
anic" last May, I happened to be the
first to fall into the hands of the
Huns, and what befell my comrades
after that, with one exception 1 lcnow
only second hand.
The exception was the case of
poor brave Paul Raney —my closest
chum—whose last battle X witnessed
from my German prison—but that is
a story I shall tell in its proper
place.
Ift one way, however, I think the
story of my own "big adventure"
and my miraculous escape may, per
haps, serve a purpose as useful as
that of the heroic fate of my less
fortune comrades. Their story,
lit is true, might inspire others to
deeds of heroism, but mine, 1 nope,
will convey the equally valuable
lesson of the folly of despair.
Many were the times in the course
of my struggles wTien it seemed ab
solutely useless to continue. In a
hostile country, where discovery
meant death, wounded, sick, famish
ed, friendless, hundreds of miles
from the nearest neutral territory
the frontier of which was so closely
guarded that even if I got there it
seemed too much to hope that I
could ever get through, what was the
use of enduring further agony?
And yet here I am, in the Land of
Liberty—although in a somewhat
obscure corner of it —the little town
of Momence, 111., where I was born —
not very much the worse for wear
after all I've been through, and, as
I write these words not eight months
have passed since my seventeen com
rades and 1 sailed from Canada on
the "Meganic."
Can it be possible that I was
spared to convey a message of hope
to others who are destined for simi
lar trials? I am afraid there v.ill
be many of them.
Years ago I heard of the epitaph
which is said to have been found on
a child's grave:
"If I was so soon to be done for
What, . O Lord, was I ever begun
for?"
The way it has come to me since I
returned from Europe is:
"If, O Lord, I was not to be done
for,
What were my sufferings e'er be
gun for?"
Perhaps the answer lies in the
suggestion I have made.
At any rate, if this record of my
adventures should prove instrumen
tal in sustaining others who need
encouragement, I shall not feel that
my sufferings were in vain.
It is hardly likely that any one
will quite duplicate my experiences,
but I haven't the slightest doubt
that many will have to go through
trials equally nerve-racking and suf
fer disappointments just as disheart
ening.
It would be very far from the
mark to imagine that the optimism
which I am preaching now so glibly
sustained me through all my troub
les. On the contrary, I am free to
confess that I frequently gave way
to despair and often, for hours at a
time, felt so dejected and discourag
ed that I really didn't care what
happened to me. Indeed, I rather
hoped that something would happen
to put an end to my misery.
But despite all my despondency
and hopelessness, the worst never
happened, and I can't help thinking
that my salvation must have been
designed to show the way to others.
CHAPTER 11.
I Became a lighting Scout
I started flying in Chicago in 1912.
I was then eighteen years old, but
I had had a hankering for the air
ever'since I can remember.
As a youngster I followed the ex
ploits of the Wrights with the great
est interest, although I must confess
I sometimes hoped that they would
not really conquer the air until I had
had a whack at it myself. I got
more whacks than I was looking lor
later on.
Needless to say, my parents were
very much opposed to my risking my
life at w'hat was undoubtedly at that
time one of the most hazardous
"pastimes" a young fellow could se
lect, and every time I had a smash
up or some other mishap I was or
dered never to go near an aviation
field again.
So I went out to California. There
another fellow and I built our own
machine, which we flew in various
parts of the state.
In the early part of 1916, when
trouble was brewing in Mexico, I
joitied the American Flying Corps.
I was sent to San Diego, where the
army flying school is located, andi
syent about eight months there, but
as I anxious to get Into active
Hervice and there didn't seem much
chance of America ever getting Into
the war, I resigned and, crossing
over to Canada, joined the Itoyal
Flying Corps at Victoria, B. C.
I was sent to Camp Borden, To
ronto, first to receive instruction and
later to instruct. While a cadet 1
made the first loop ever made by a
cadet in Canada, and after I had
performed the stunt I half expected
to be kicked out of the service for
it. Apparently, however, they con
sidered the source and let It go at
that. Later on I had the satisfaction
of introducing the loop as part of
the regular course of instruction for
cadets in the R. F. C., and I want
to say right here that Camp Borden
has turned out some of the best
fliers that have ever gone to France.
In May, 1917, I and seventeen
other Canadian fliers left for Eng.,
land on the "Meganic," where we
were to qualify for service in France.
Our squadron consisted of nine
Americans, C. C, Robinson, H. A.
Miller, F. S. McClurg, A. A. Allen.
E. B. Garnet, H. K. Boysen, H. A.
Smeeton and A. A. Taylor, and my
self, and nlno Britishers, Paul H.
Raney, J. R. Park. C. Nelmes, C. R.
Moore, T. I. Atkinson, F. C. Conry,
A. Muir, E. A. L. F. Smith and A.
C. Jones.
Within a few weeks after our ar
rival in England all of us had won
our "wings"—the insignia worn on
the left breast by every pilot on the
western front.
We were all sent to a place In
France known as the Pool Pilots
Mesa. Here men gather from all the
training squadrons in Canada and
England and await assignments to
the particular squadron of which
they are to become members.
The Pool Pilots Mess is situated at
few miles back of the lines. When
ever a pilot is shot down or killed,
the Pool Pilots Mess is notified to
send another to take his place.
There are so many casualties
every day in the R. F. C. at one point
of the fj-ont or another that the de
mand for new pilots is quite active,
but when a fellow is itching to get
into the light as badly as i and my
flrenus were 1 must confess that we
got a little impatient, although we
realized that every time a new man
was called it meant that some one
else had, in all probability, been
killed, wounded or captured.
One morning an order came In for
a scout pilot and one of my friends
was assigned. I can tell you the
rest of us were as envious of him as
if it were the last chance any of us
were ever going to have to get to
the front. As however, hard
ly more than three hours had elaps
ed before another wire was received
at the Mess and 1 was ordered to
follow my friend. 1 afterward learn
ed that as soon as he arrived at the
squadron he prevailed upon the I
Commanding Officer of the squadron I
to wire for me.
At the Pool Pilots Mess, it was
the custom of the officers to wear
-"shorts" —breeches that are about
eight inches long, like the boy scouts
wear, leaving a space of about eight
inches of open country between the
top of the puttees and the end of the
shorts. The Australians wore them
in Salonica and at the Dardanelles.
When the order came in for me,
I had these "shorts" on, and I did
not have time to change into other
clothes. Indeed, I was in such a
sweat to get to the front, that if I
had been in my pajamas I think I
would have gone that way. As it
was, it was raining and I threw an
overcoat over me, jumped into the
machine, and we made record time
to the aerodome to which I had
been ordered to renort.
As I alighted from the automo
bile, my overcoat blew open and dis
played my manly form attired in
'shorts" Instead of in the regulation
flying breeches, and the sight arous
ed considerable commotion in camp.
To lie Continued
Four Contracts Let
for State Roads
The State Highway Department
has announced the award of con
tracts for the construction of impor
tant sections of highway in Oxford
and Kennett Square Boroughs, Ches
ter county; Greene Township, Erie
county and Wilson Township, North
ampton county.
The contract for the work in Ox
ford borough was awarded to the low
DVI. J' , t * le Juniata Company, of
I nlladelpliia, at their price of $16,-
4 4 4.0o; the Kennett Square project
to B. F. Wickersham, of Kennett
OQ 6 ' a * * l ' S '° W pr ' ce °' s 22 >"
awar Jlng the contract for a
section of road in Greene township,
Erie county, another link .is added
to the important artery connecting
Pennsylvania and New York. The
Summit Construction Company, of
Akron, Ohio, was awarded this con
tract, at their low bid of $90,368.70.
With, the award of a contract to
Mclnerney and McNeal Company,
of Laston, for that section of high
way in Wilson township, Northamp
lo'i nty ' at th eir low bid price of
J22.8i0.12, the last link of the main
highway between Easton and Allen
town is taken care of.
Advertising Manager
Finds Rest in Work
Susy as a bee" is a universal
expression used to denote great ac
tivity. But out in Akron, Ohio, the
phrase is changed to "Busy as the
• the > " B " in this instance being
Edward S. Babcox.
In addition to being advertising
manager of the Firestone Tire &
Rubber Company, one of the
largest national advertisers in the
country, with a staff in the adver
using department alone numbering
more than 100, Mr. Babcox is vice
president of the association of Nati
onal Advertisers, an active commit
tee member in the Akron Chamber
of Commerce, director of several
local undertakings chairman of the
war committeo of the A. N. A. which
is soliciting definite offers of adver
tising space from its 280 members,
and a prolific writer on advertising
and patriotic subjects.
Mr. Babcox also takes a deep in
terest in church work and is now
conducting an important application
of business methods in religious
work in his home church, while a
recent article by him on the "Busi
ness Man and the Church" has at
tracted widespread comment.
And just to keep from getting
rusty, Mr. Babcox makes at least
one address a week before big busi
ness organizations in various parts
of the country.
Free Mail Delivery in
Effect at Mifflintown
Mifllintown, Pa., April 6.—Mifflin
town has free delivery of mail,
which went into effect April 1. E.
Southard Parker, 3rd. of Mifflin, has
been appointed mailcarrier at a
salary of $55 per month.—Ensign
Bobert F. Kulp, United States Navy
who is stationed at Hoboken, N. J.j
spent several days with his parents
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Kulp. Miss
Hose Lutz, of Germantown, spent
the week-end with Miss Gladys Mc-
Cauley. Clarence Keiser, Cor
poral Elmer Stoner ai*l John Shots
berger who are at Cafflp Meade, Md.
were home on furloughs.
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This remarkable feat of overland
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the possibility of the project but the
Goodyear Company insisted and
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In April of last year. The trip took
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with snow all along the route and
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Last week It was necessary for a
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the new Hupmoblle series "R" could
make more than sixty miles an hour.
A test was arranged and it Is re
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