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"Casey" Solves Problems Silver Lining Bureau Is Refuge for Hoodooed

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Vets' Troubles Righted By JOHN B. KENNEDY.

There is no office in the United states quite like the one just estab-ished by the Knights of Columbus. It night be called "the refuge for the ! l o o - d o e d , " " t h e l a s t r e s o r t o f ' o u t - o f - j ucks' " or I'the agency for» the "up- ; igainst-it.' " ' |

To this bureau come all classes, col- i >rs, conditions and creeds with knotty | tig and little problems for 'Casey' to | antie. Sometimes 'Casey' can, some- : : i m e s h e c a n ' t ; b u t h e i s t h e r e a l w a y s j

to. try. They don't come to the silver- i lining bureau until all the ordinary re- j »ources of settlement has been referred to in vain. Whether it's a soldier j searching for" a coy and backward dis-»bility allowance, or a widowed hero's | m o t h e r t r y i n g t o g e t h e r d e a d s o n ' s j i n s u r a n c e f i x e d u p — n o m a t t e r w h a t , i t j may be. in the hundreds and thousands ; sf cases coming to the government for | settlement there are always some that ] don't seem destined for settlement un- I til somebody with a little more per- j eistence, with a little more knowledge j nf the interior workings of government I departments gets on the job and se- | cures results. That somebody is in- i variably Mr. Caspy.

Mother Returns to Italy. Young Antonio Nikola went away to i

the wars. He didn't come bark. And ! h i s m o t h e r , l o n e l y a n d a f r a i d i n t h e j big new country for which her son had i fought and died, returned to her na­tive Beleta on the banks of the river | Po, north Italy. Se had $10.000 good 1

American dollars coming to her, as j Antonio had not neglected to lake out | Uncle Sam's insurance before lining ;

u p t o f i g h t U n c l e S a m ' s b a t t l e s . I n - j d e S a m w a n t e d t o m a k e g o o d t o N i k o - j la's mother when he had proved to his ' satisfaction that Antonio had fought | the good fight and died like a real ; American. But Tony's mother could not be found. The little tenement she had occupied in New York had another tenant.

The K. of C. man who obtains nil sorts of war-risk bureau information for the benefit of applicants to the 'forlorn-hope' office, passed this mor­sel on to the European commissioner of the K. of C. in Paris, who relayed it to the K.-C. club in Venice. The secretary of this club had the job of . e n t e n t a i n i n g m e n o f t h e 1 ' . S . A d r i a - j t i c s q u a d r o n a n d a l s o o f c o n d u c t i n g a j s c h o o l t o t r a i n t h e b o y s i n t h e l a n - i g u a g e s o f t h e c o u n t r i e s t h e y v i s i t e d , j H e p r o p o s e d t o a g r o u p o f t h e g o b s j that they do the heroic Tony a service by locating his mother. For two dçys j the boys scouted all over north Italy, i interviewing carbineri, mayors, and so | forth. They found Signora Nikola | w o r k i n g a s h i r e d w o m a n o n a t a t t e r e d j fruit farm not worth 10,WO lire, let j a l o n e $ 1 0 . 0 0 0 . N o w A n t o n i o ' s m o t h e r j

is worth no less than 200,000 lire and settled for life in the comfort that her son wrould have provided for her had he not fallen on the battlefield.

Recalcitrant Mule. Private Edward Cobb's mother ap­

peared, distaught, at the bureau. Ed­ward. at Camp Travis, part of our peace-time army had been assigned to manage.a recalcitrant mule. The mule and Edward didn't agree. The mule kicked Edward, and Private Edward, enraged, applied a farm pitch-fork to the mule, which contracted blood-poi­soning and perished, the victim of its own and Edward's temper. The gov­ernment, which requires an account­ing of all mules, required Edward to render an account, and detained Ed­ward in restricted quarters until he did so. Edward, the government felt, should have been better disciplined than to retort to the mule in kind. But neither Edward nor his mother could see the thing as the government saw it. They asked Casey to intercede. To find out who was the person in Washington who interpreted the rules regarding the welfare of mules and men. The result is that Edward gained his liberty when it was pointed out to the right person that Edward's mother was suffering materially through his detention.

Two young gunners of Camp Kelly had made a date with two young ladies in San Antonio. But they were com­manded by a stern captain who had no respect for dates or date-makers, and he kept them engaged until the very minute of their date with the dam­sels. AVhat to doV If Uncle Sam didn't have a resourceful army, he wouldn't have a victorious army. The gunners, rushing eagerly from the camp saw a hangar invitingly open, and an airplane tantalizingly prepared for flight, with nobody on guard. Within two minutes approximately the ma­chine was soaring over the. field on the way to San Antone.

Plane Lands in Trees.

And that would have been well and romantic, if San Antonio had been free of picturesque shade trees— which, to the credit of the municipal authorities, it wasn't. The plane at­tempting to hang itself on a tree, fail­ed. and fell to soft earth. The boys escaped with severe shock, the plane with severe disorganization. The boys' mothers called on "Casey" to appeal to (he proper person in the war de­partment to get their sons out of a serious fix with as little financial loss to their families as possible. "Casey" knew that Uncle Sam was attempting to sell millions of dollars worth of aeroplane material at cost price, and perhaps a little less. By diplomatic intercession "Casey" succeeded in se­curing minimum punishment for the

boys, after the mothers had failed to move the hearts of any of the neces­sarily rule-abiding gentlemen who gov­ern our camps.

So on anaso forth. The story of the mother of three children whose father promptly deserted his family after receiving his discharge from the forces, and who was located by "Casey" and persuaded to resume his self-ap­pointed responsibilities without any fuss of publicity or police proceedings; the story of the lad who borrowed his captain's uniform to cut a figure with the girls of his home-town when on furlough, and who faced durance pos­sibly vile for his assumption of a com­mission never issued. These and many similar, can be gleaned from the files of the silver-lining bureau, located at 105 West Fortieth street, New York.

Financial Cases Numerous.

The common-run of the cases to the K. of C. are financial cases—former service men or their relatives seeking to straighten out their accounts witl Uncle Sam without having to resort to the law. It reads like a record of minor miracles, this file—for many" men testify that after trying every possible way of getting tbeir affairs straightened, nothing is done, they proceed from one irritating delay to another, without result. Yet the K. of C. applies the silver-lining where the cloud is darkest, and the sun grad­ually wotks his way through.

The secret is simply this. That the Knights of Columbus men are trained to treat every problem handed to them as though it were a personal problem to them: they are required to "worry'1

over it until a solution is reached— and they know that upon their efforts rests the reputation of |'Casey" for doing what he sets out to do. That is why it is invariably done. Supreme Secretary William J. McGinley says the bureau will be maintained just so long as there is need of it and its liason with war-risk bureaus, hospitals and camps will be dedicated to the ser­vice of those who need it most.

Positions Opened for First Time to

Fair Sex in China

100 Grain Fields This Year in Place

of Four Last Year Superintendent Campbell Hits Upon Novel Plan

to Arouse Interest Among Redmen to Get More Out of the Soil; Complete Record of Activities Is Forwarded to Washington.

Indians of the Blackfeet reservation in northern Montana are gradually be­ing placed upon a self-supporting basis through a system which has been in­augurated by F. C. Campbell, super­intendent of the reservation, and it is expected that they will this season harvest the largest grain and vegetable crop ever produced by them and which in most instances should furnish them with sufficient provisions in those lines to carry them through the win­ter.

Heretofore, the Indians, although situated upon some of the most fertile lands in the state, have taken very little to agriculture and have, as a gen­eral thing, produced but little. Under the new system of visitation and en­couragement which Mr. Campbell in­stalled last spring, nearly every farm­er of the reservation now has in some crop and it is expected that several

thousand acres of wheat will be har­vested as a result.

Big Increase in Crops. Last year in one of the three dis­

tricts into which the reservation is divided there were but four fields of wheat on Indian lands. This year, in the same district, more than 100 fields are in crop.

Last winter when Mr. Campbell ac­cepted the office of superintendent, after many years in the Indian service in this and other states, he did so with the firm determination to improve the conditions of the Indians of that re­serve and to place them upon a self-supporting foundation.

lie decided that to accomplish this end he must put himself in personal touch with the head of every house­hold of the reservation, which is com­posed of about 3.000 Indians, and to do this he worked out a plan of per-

Canton—(Correspondence of The As­sociated Press).—Perhaps as an out­come of a movement started early this year by Chinese women's organizations in Canton to open avenues of employ­ment hitherto closed to women, the national assembly of the southern gov­ernment has given a job to a girl. This is a clerkship and the first in Canton, if not in all China, to h«» given to a woman. Miss So Kan, the appointee has been assigued to a post in connec­tion with publication of parliamentary records.

In response to action taken by Chi­nese women's clubs the Canton-Sam-shue railway has sanctioned a plan to

j employ girls, while the Canton Tele-1 phone* company also is planning to in-! elude women in its working staff.

"DRY" LAW LANDED i Chicago, June 9.—The Augustana . ! synod of the Swedish Lutheran church. ! at its convention Thnrsday. adopted ! resolutions declaring that the federal

prohibition amendment has proved al­ready a blessing to the nation and urging every member to support the government in its enforcement.

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This battleship will be one of the largest in the world and will be equipped with a battery of 12 16-inch gflns. the heaviest ordnance ever built. The U. S. S. Montana will be propelled by four 15,000 H. P. motors, one for each propeller.

Montanans will have every reason to be proud of the superdreadnaught that will bear the name of this state. When completed she will be one of the finest and most powerful vessels afloat and will form an important unit in America's first line of defense.

She will be all that the word "bat­tleship" implies, for she will be able to deliver the hardest possible blows and. at the same time, endure the worst possible punishment from bat­tleship, submarine or airplane. • She will be 6S4 feet long, displace 43*200 tons, and will have a speed of 23 knots Her main battery will consist of 12 16-inch guns, the heaviest ordnance ever built, and she will be proterted by a belt-'of 16-inch armor, with special protection against underwater and aerial attack. She is being built at Mare Island navy yard.

Like all modern U. S. capital ships.

Blackfeet Indians. The Indians much prefer to set up their tepees near the mountains in

Glacier National park and thereby furnish "local color" to vacationists than to till the soil on their farms in the reservation. Superintendent Camphell, how­ever, is arousing in t.hem the spirit of thriftiness and it is expected that soon thev will be self sustaining.

Monster Electric Cable Laid in Shanghai Electricity Used

in 30,000 Homes in Chinese Citv

The electric spark, leaping clear around the world, is making a new land out of age-old China. In that coun­try of curious, ancient culture, a pow­erful high tension electric cable is about to be installed, one of the few of its size anywhere in existence. It measures four inches in diameter^ mak­ing it larger than most men's arms, and it will have a distribution capacity of 22,000 volts, or not far from 150 times the tension capacity of the At­lantic cables which flash transoceanic messages between North America and Europe. *

It is greater in point of size and v o l t a g e , t h a n e v e n t h e b i g n e w t e l e phone cable just being installed in Sweden by the Western Elctric com­pany, which will be 320 miles long, sec­ond only in length to the 450-mile line between Boston and Washington.

The Chinese metropolis of Shang­hai will benefit from this biggest of cables. In and around Shanghai has occurred the greatest development of electricity in all China. The total ca­pacity of electrical machinery installed in the province of Kiangsu. in which the city is located, is more than 100,-000. or over 130.000 horsepower. A total of 15 industries require apparatus with a capacity of over 40.(XM) kilo­watts.

Manufactured in America. The big cable, w£ich is 120.000 feet,

or 22,7 uiles in length, and weighs 1,084 tons, was manufactured in the Schenectady. N. Y.. works of the Gen­eral Electric Co. Many months were required for its construction, but the last of it has now been shipped and will soon be laid by Chinese workmen of the big Shanghai power plant. Some of it is already underground, as it wa* shipped and laid in sections.

Its function will be to distribute a great flow of electric current from the main power station to various sub­stations in different districts of the city. From the substations other smaller cables will carry the current on to factory building or. by the usual network of wires, into private dwellings for house lighting.

Shanghai's rapid development, elec­trically, is the reason for this big cable installation. The total consumption of electric current reported for 1010 by the Shanghai municipal council, the largest of the city's power plant oper­ators. was more than 100,000.000 kilo­watt hours. The city has nearly'30.-000 homes lighted by electricity. Elec­trical home appliances are coming to be well known in Shanghai. The city's industrial power needs, however, are growing with almost every year, pro­viding a big expansion as a factor by themselves.

Cotton Weaving Industry. The spinning and weaving of cotton

is the most important industry in Chi­na's largest city. The electrical in­stallation for Shanghai textile mills have a capacity of 18,000 kilowatts. Next in importance is, flour milling, where the capacity of electrical instal-lalions is 3,500 kilowatts. fJJtber lead-

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Oil milling. 1.570 kilowatts; _ lumber milling, 1.500 kilowatts, engineering work shops, 1,438 kilowatts; rice hull­ing, 1,235 kilowatts, and printing, l,tî30 kilowatts.

To supply all these electrical needs is the service now performed by the big power plant of the Shanghai mu­nicipal council. To distribute the cur­rent generated in the power plant is the function of tbfe big cable.

Because of its size, the cable in­volved several manufacturing prob­lems. which were successfully solved by the General Electric company. In its final form it is as large as it is possible to make such a cable for prac­tical use. It is known as a three-phase. split conductor type. This with its high tension capacity and steel ar­mor covering all had a bearing on its exceptional size.

Three Phase Line.

A cross section view of the cable wonld show what a three-phase, split conductor transmission line is like. It would reveal three separate conduct­ors. or current-transmitting wires, each separately insulated and embedded in a filling of jute, and surrounded by insulation, with an armor covering on the outside of all.

This cable, big as it ia. was simply a single strand of fine wire when its manufacti^re was begun. To that single strand many others were added by one operation after another. Some of them measured only .054 of an inch in diam­eter. Some were a bit larger, meas­uring 0.72 of an inch. Nearly three score of these wires were stranded to­gether and wrapped around with layers of thin paper tape. All this consti­tutes a single conductor, and there are three of these conductors in the great cable.

Cable Vacuum Dried.

The three insulated conductors were stranded together into the semblance of the finished cable, a jute filling taking up the space between the conductors

More insulation was added, then the cable was vacuum dried and soaked in compound, especially prepared; the j entire cable was enclosed in a lead pipe, applied under a hydraulic pres­sure of 5,000 pounds per square inch; cotton tape was wound around it; then a layer of tarred jute; compound, more jute; more compound; finally two lay­ers of steel armor—fortified still fur­ther with a layer of jute soaked in as phalt to guard against rust, and last of all of a special treatment to prevent sticking on the reel.

It was then ready to ship in sections, on reels seven feet high and 50 inches wide from rim to rim. If it had been possible to ship it all at once, nearly a hundred big reels would have been needed and almost 30 railrq&d cars.

iodical visitations. Last spring he started out on his first round of the reservation and has since visited most of the homes of the reservation.

Stopping at a home he made a thorough eejjsus, ascertaining the per­sonnel of the family, the number and condition of the ranch buildings, the number of head of stock, the financial condition of the fanner, the amount of acres he had in grain or garden, and then advised with him as to what kind of crops and how much he should plant and where he should put it.

Took Photos of Indians. He took a photograph of the Indian

and his wife or family and in some in­stances of the farm buildings and then obtained from the Indian his promise as to what crops he would put in and what provisions he would make for the care of these crops.

All of this he recorded and then compiled a loose leaf record in which he inserted a photograph of the Indian, the conditions as he found them and the Indian's promise for work during the year. The original of this record he forwarded to the Indian department at Washington. I). C.. which is under­stood to be the first of the character ever received there. A copy he keeps for his own records.

I>ater in the year he expects to make a second and third visit to each of these fartns to ascertain if the farmer is proceedings with his work and to ad­vise with him. and when the crop sea­son shall have been ended the results will be added to the records kept in his office and in the department at Washington.

To Furnish Grain Separator. Seed for the grain fields, and vege­

table patches is being furnished, where-ever necessary, by Superintendent Campbell. When the harvest is ready to thresh a separator, owned by the Indian department, will» be sent around and a slight toll will be taken for the work of threshing the harvest. I^ater it is expected to install a small flour mill where the Indians may bring their wheat to be ground into flour and here another light toll will be taken. All of this toll collection will be made, not for the purpose of profiting from the Indian, but with the idea of impressing upon liim the notion that he should be self-supporting and to do this he enn-not expect to obtain service for noth-ing.

When Superintendent Campbell starts out. on his trip over the reserva­tion he is accompanied by the district physician who examines the members of the families, especially the children, for the discovery and remedying of physical ailments and defeats. With liim also travels the mittron of the dis­trict who talks with the women and advises with them in relation to house­hold duties and care of the children. By all of this the visitations have a three-fold value and all cannot but result in an improvement in the moral and financial condition of the Indian and the better education of his chil­dren.

Some Indians Indolent. Many of the Indians are already

self-supporting but others are indolent and get along with as little work as possible, depending upon government rations or help from more prosperous neighbors to tide them over the win­ters.

It is expected to review all of these conditions at the council in the fall or early winter. Each head of a fam­ily which has been visited by Super­intendent Campbell will be asked to inform the council what he has accom­plished during the year and hoV near-

the Montana will be electrically pro­pelled. Her main engines will consist of two 30.000 horsepower Westing-house turbo-electric generators, which will generate electricity to operate four 15,000 horsepower Westinghouse motors, one for each propeller.

This drive is superior to other meth­ods of driving a warship in several particulars. A most important advan­tage is due to the fact that the main turbines are not connected mechanic­ally with the propellers and no long shafts run through the ship. In con­sequence, the main turbines can be lo~ cated in the most convenient position with reference to the ship's military requirements, such as protection from underwater attack, ammunition storage and handling, turi^t construction and so on. An electrically-driven battle­ship can therefore be made more effi­cient as a fighting machine than can one driven by any of the older methods.

Electric drive also provides gTeat maneuvering power, because the pro­pellers can be almost instantly reversed with füll power. In addition the tur­bines o|>erate under the best possible conditions for high economy, which means that the ship possesses a greater radifas of action than one with a less economical form of drive.

In the recent trials of the U. S. S Tennessee, which is also equipped with Westinghouse electric propulsion, it was found that this great vessel could be brought to rest from full speed within three minutes, turned on a cir­cle like -a destroyer, and driven back­ward at 15 knots, all of which are be­lieved to be records and prove the ex­cellence of her propelling machinery.

The LTnited States is far in advance of other nations in the matter of elec­tric driven war vessels, and her mod­ern naval vessels are really in a class by themselves on this account.

I.v he has complied with his promises of the spring. Being compelled to admit fsiiure before the other members of the council, it is believed, will have a salutary effect upon him regardless of whether or not any penalty shall impose for failure to keep his word.

Washington Plans to Establish Guides

for Straying Pilots Olympia. Wash.—Correspondence of

The Associated Press)—Huge •'name-plates," with letters large enough to be r d 2,000 feet in the air. will be erect d in all parts of Washington if the cities of the state follow the rec­ommendations of Thomas B. Hill, di­rector of the state development bu­reau here.

Mr. Hill has started a campaign to have cities erect the signs so that avi­ators who have lost their bearings may readily locate themselves. A number of commercial clubs have already taken up the suggestion, so that "he who flies may read."

The huge letters, spelling the names of the cities, would be located near landing fields.

Smokers Are Tabooed As Result of Campaign of No-Tobacco League, Long Beach. Cal.—(Correspondence

of The Associated Press I.—Teachers employed in the Long Beach public schools who use tobacco, either on or off duty, must sign the pledge to stop using the weed, the hoard of education has ruled. Dismissal may follow re fusal to comply.

The action followed a campaign waged against tobacco by the \*o-Tabotro league, which some time ago suggested that the board dismiss teach­ers who are smokers.

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State Three Weeks Olympia. Wash.—(Correspondence of

The Associated Press).—Washington's state government was headed, it is be­lieved, by the youngest man who ever sat in the governor'vjrhair here re­cently when Lieutenant-Governor Wil liam J. Coyle relieved'»Povernor Louis F. Hart for three weejkÉ

Coyle is 33 years old and during the time he occupied the governor 's chair, it is thought, he was the youngest man

j wielding executive powers in any of i the states. He "sat in"' as governor while Hart was in the east.

Not many years ago. the lieutenant governor, who is known by his friend« as "Wee" Coyle. was a star and cap­tain on the University of Washington football team at Seattle. During the war he was a captain in France.

Sea Gulls Depart When Air Planes

Appear on Coast Venice—(Correspondence of The As­

sociated Press»—Airplanes have fright­ened away the many sea gulls which formerly were seen about the southern California beaches, according to K. H. Knoud of Venice, a beach town, who has spent years studying the birds.

"The gciis cannot get used to th • great mechanical birds and have left for other parts." Knoud declared re­cently.

Tourists report that there are not as many gulls as formerly. In other years tourists often bought bread by the loaf and threw pieces of it into the air to be caught by the birds.

To Contest Will

William D. Dwyer, of Minneapolis, supreme director of the Knights of Columbus and pioneer orgauizer of the K. of C., in the middle and northwest, has been made a Knight of St. Greg­ory by Pope Benedict and awarded the gold palms of the French republic in recognition of his K. of C. war work.

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Mile. Annie Gerzer is shown in her snake dance, which is the sensation of tfie theatrical season in Berlin. Her makeup expresses the very spirit of serpentine charm and repellent at­traction, and the strange, snaky fas­cination of her dance is admirably shown in the accompanying photo­graph. Mile. Gerzer is admittedly the snakiest snake-woman ever seen.

Ancient Institution Reincarnated at Peru,

Was Abolished in 1825 Lima, Peru—(Correspondence of The

Associated Press).—The historic Order of the Sun. created as "an eternal in­stitution" by General Jose de San Mar­tin during the aristocratic regime of early Peruvian independence, has beeu revived under a supreme decree. Gen­eral Simon "Bolivar, one of the liberat­ors of Peru, abolished the order in 18.5 oh the ground that it "did not conform with the hasi^ of the political constitu­tion of the republic."

Membership in the order, says the decree just issued, "rendered themselves worthy of distinction and to foreigners who have made patent their interest in Peru." The president of the republic will be the grand master.

Several articles of the Order of the Sun are said to be identical to those of the Order of the Cincinnati in the United States.

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THEIR DEBTS. Some people feel they owe so much

to themselves, they never pay anybody else.—Cartoons Magazine.

ABSENCE. "Have you seen Jack lately?" "About a month ago." "When you see him again remind hiin

that we are engaged, will you dear!"— Cartoons Magazine.

Mrs. Cecil Ready Oyster. 2t>. whoa 72-year-old millionaire husband. Oeorg M. Oyster, added a deathbed codicil t his will revoking the generous provt sion he had made for her. Mr. Oysts was a resident of Washington. O. ( The wedding of the couple last Janu ary was the culmination of a Ne? York state fair romance last Septem her. It is expected the widow wi made a hard fight for the fortun snatched away from her by the death bed codicil.

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