The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 58, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 12, 1917 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS DAILY LEADER
CONQUEROR OF TWO PLAGUES
Next to General Gorgas, Surgeon
General Rupert Blue, the head of the
United States public health service,
has done the greatest work for sanita-
tion on a large scale that has been
accomplished by an American. If he
had done nothing else than to have
completely banished the bubonic
plague from these shores, after it had
gained an alarming headway In San
Francisco, he would have been worthy
of all the praise that has been award-
ed him, but he has done considerably
more in other large fields where he
has been engaged.
General Blue is one of the young-
est men to hold the office of surgeon
general in the United States service,
being not yet fifty years of age. He is
a native of North Carolina and re-
ceived his medical degree from the
University of Maryland. He has been
connected with the public health
service since 1S92, being appointed sur-
geon general in 1912. He was sent to
San Francisco twice to banish the bubonic plague—:first in 1903, V"
made its appearance in the United States, and again in , w tn
signs of a return. This work required wonderful organization to combat the
evil.
No sooner had this been done than it was demanded that the plague of
fleas, from which the city had suffered for years, be attacked, and this re-
quired new treatment. It had been discovered that squirrels were the car-
riers of this pest, and that meant that a squirrelless zone had to be drawn
around the city. This, too, was successfully treated by destroying squirrels.
GREAT ITALIAN STATESMAN
“SETTING-UP EXERCISES” IN NAVY
Naval militia being trained on board a United States warship.
The man of greatest moment in
Italy today next to the king and prime
minister is Baron Sonnino, minister
of foreign affairs, who is perhaps the
most Important of the three. Sidney
Sonnino is a statesman of British sym-
pathies. This is not unnatural, for
his mother was English and he was
educated at Oxford.
At the time of formation of the
Salandra cabinet the selection of such
a man was regarded as significant of
the probable attitude of the new min-
istry. And so it proved. No one in
Italy or elsewhere, probably, has seen
more clearly the real forces at work
under the present convulsion in Europe
than has Baron Sonnino.
In order to fit his country properly
to play her great part in the drama
he needed “the cold head” of an
Englishman, as well as the warm heart
of an Italian. He needed to hold his
emotional countrymen back until Italy
was entirely -eady by land and by sea to do what everyone expected of her.
In all the diplomatic negotiations which have led to the fateful result Baron
Sonnino has been opposed by such masters of diplomacy as Prince von Buelow
and Baron Macchio, respectively the German and Austrian ambassadors.
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HAS FINE FIGHTING RECORD
Ik
It may be needful to send an ex-
peditionary force to France before the
war is over and in that case it would
not be strange if General Bellas com-
mander in the Eastern department,
whence the expedition would natural;
ly be sent, would command it. Certain
it is he would be one of a small group
of men considered for the place.
General Bell, when the Spanish
war began, was a lieutenant. His
rapid rise since then has been due to
merit. He once told a friend that he
had never sought to use influence for
any of the advancements given him.
He went to the Philippines In the
Spanish Avar, and after the fall of
Manila, when the Filipinos started
fighting the American forces, he was
made chief of the division of informa-
tion for the troops operating north of
Manila. Here he saAv any amount oi
hard and dangerous service, being un-
der fire daily for month after month,
and having many narrow escapes. H«
was made colonel of a regiment of United States volunteers, made up ol
veteran troops from the volunteer regiments. With these seasoned men he
did much brilliant campaigning and aided materially in crushing the insurrec-
tion. Ir was this campaigning in the. Philippiifcs that resulted in his quick
promotion and gave him his brigadiership.
HONORED BY MEDICAL WORLD
Doctor Gorgas, the head of the
army surgeons, is the man who cleaned
up Cuba and Panama. In the Canal
zone, under his direction, sanitation
was carried so far that the death rate
dropped from 65.41 per 1,000 in 1905,
before the United States stepped in, to
24.83 per 1,000 in 1908. This death
rate avIII be found to be even lower
than that for many large cities of the
United States. ^ He has attracted the
attention of the whole medical Avorld
by his wonderful work in the tropics.
Two years ago he was offered the
salary of a railroad president by the
Rockefeller Foundation to go to Serbia
and clean it up of the dreadful typhus
and also was offered a permanent po-
sition as adviser to the foundation, but
he declined that he might give his
: country the benefit of his experience.
When he first Avent to Cuba and
again when he went to Panama lie
was jocularly alluded to as a hunter
of mosquitoes, for he found that these little pests are the great carriers of
| disease, especially the dreaded fevers of the tropics, and he found menus t*
‘ destroy then and te guard against their destructive work.
BIG TASK TO GET
REGIMENT READY
Springing to Arms Is Not Done
as Quickly as Going
to a Fire.
MAKE-UP OF A REGIMENT
Under New Law It Consists of 2,015
Officers and Men—Takes Time to
Drill and Teach Men How to
Care for Themselves.
New York.—The recent mobilization
af National Guard regiments has
brought home to the public the fact
that even though troops are trained—
as these were by service on the Mexi-
can border—a mobilization order is
far different from a fire alarm. With
the best of the regiments there Avas
no springing to arms overnight, the
men ready to march fonvard and meet
the enemy.
FeAv persons, noting that a certain
number of regiments had been ordered
out, really kneAy the number of men in
a regiment of infantry of the United
States army and National Guard. In
a general way, it Avas understood that
a regiment consists of about one thou-
sand men, commanded by a colonel,
and that an infantry regiment is com-
posed of foot soldiers, armed with
rifles.
All nations have their own rules, as
to the number of men to be massed
as a regiment. In the United States
this has varied. Last summer a new
laAV went into effect which resulted
in every regiment consisting of . 51
commissioned officers and 1,964 en-
listed men Avhen at Avar strength.
That laAV, embodied in the National
Defense Act, is of interest, as sIioav-
ing that lining up groups of men and
giving rifles and ammunition to them
does not make an efficient regiinent
of infantry.
What a Regiment Is.
That part of the law giving the
composition of infantry units is Sec-
tion Seventeen of the “Act for making
further and more effectual provision
for the national defense, and for other
purposes.” It reads:
“Each regiment of Infantry shall
consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-
colonel, three majors, 15 captains, 16
first lieutenants, 15 second lieutenants,
one headquarters company, one ma-
chine gun company, one supply com-
pany, and 12 infantry companies or-
ganized into three battalions of four
companies each.
SHE FINDS ISLIP TOO SLOW
Bank Worker's Wife Prefers New
York—Dance Crazy, Her Hus-
band Says.
NeAv York.—Roscoe Clark likes Islip,
L. I.; first, because he was born and
reared there, and, second, because he
is an assistant cashier in the First Na-
tional bank there. His Avife, Mrs.
Anna Clark, doesn’t.
“Islip is too slow,” she told Magis-
trate Cornell in the domestic relations
court. “1 can’t stand it. If my hus-
band will live here in NeAv York I’ll
return to him.”
“I won’t live here,” replied Clark.
“She is dance cruzy, your honor. She
spent nearly every afternoon in New
York dancing, and would never get
home to Islip until after suppertime.
WTe quarreled over it, and she took the
baby and left six months ago.”
Four Children, Trapped, Die in Fire.
SaginaAV, Mich.—Four children were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the farm home of William
Hartsteln, near Merrill, Saginaw
county. Mr. and Mrs. Hartsteln and
“Each battalion shall consist of one
major, one first lieutenant, mounted
(battalion adjutant), and four compa-
nies. Each infantry company in bat-
talion shall consist of one captain, one
first lieutenant, one second lieutenant,
one first sergeant, one mess sergeant,
one supply sergeant, six sergeants, 11
corporals, two cooks, two buglers, one
mechanic, 19 privates (first class), and
56 privates.
“Each infantry headquarters com-
pany shall consist of one captain
mounted (regimental adjutant) ; one
regimental sergeant major mounted;
three battalion sergeants major,
mounted; one' first sergeant (drum
major) ; tAVO color sergeants; one
mess sergeant; one supply sergeant;
one stable sergeant; one sergeant;
tAvo cooks; one horseshoer; one band
leader; one assistant band leader; one
sergeant bugler; two band sergeants;
four band corporals; two musicians,
first class; four musicians, second
class; 13 musicians, third class; four
privates, first class, mounted; and 12
privates, mounted.
Machine Gun Company.
“Each infantry machine-gun com-
pany shall consist of one captain,
mounted; one first lieutenant, mount-
ed ; tAvo second lieutenants, mounted;
one first sergeant, mounted ; one mess
sergeant; one supply sergeant, mount-
ed ; one stable sergeant, mounted ; one
horseshoer, five sergeants, six corpo-
rals, tAVO cooks, tAvo buglers, one me-
chanic ; eight privates, first class, and
24 privates.
“Each infantry supply company
shall consist of one captain, mounted;
one second lieutenant, mounted; three
regimental supply sergeants, mount-
ed ; one first sergeant, mounted; one
mess sergeant, one stable sergeant;
one corporal, mounted; one cook, one
saddler, one horseshoer, and one wag-
oner for each authorized wagon of
the field and combat train;
“Provided, That the president may
in his discretion increase a company
of infantry by Iavo sergeants, six cor-
porals, one cook, one mechanic, nine
..privates, first class; and 31 privates;
an infantry machine-gun company by
two sergeants, two corporals, one me-
chanic, four privates, first class; and
12 privates.”
This calls for men who are trained,
not only as soldiers, but in trades.
As a general rule, a Avagon train con-
sisting of 22 wagons is required for
an infantry regiment. This gives one
for each company, one for the ma-
chine-gun company, three for the com-
bat wagons (ammunition carriers),
two for the headquarters company
and four for the supply company, for
tentage for men composing it and for
feed for horses and extra commissa-
ries and equipment.
25,000 in a Division.
The adding together of 51 commis-
sioned officers and 1,343 enlisted men
(peace strength) or a total of 2,015
officers and men (Avar strength) is a
two children escaped. The victims
were trapped in a bedroom on the sec-
ond floor.
NEW ENGLAND RAISES
. ITS BIGGEST FLAG
Boston.—At the moment the
Avires flashed the word that con-
gress had assembled in moment-
ous session, the biggest “Old
Glory” to which New England-
ers ever raised their hats, was
floAvn to the breeze above Boston
common. A Avoman’s voice be-
gan “The Star-Spangled Ban-
ner,” a half-dozen bands struck
up the national anthem and a
chorus from 100,000 or more
men, women and children rolled
across the old training ground
*■ out into the public garden and
j;. was echoed from crowds that
surged in the streets in front
of the statehouse, down Tremont
and Boylston streets and way
around into the Back Bay.
problem. Men cannot be drilled and]
taught the use of rifles, of keeping;
Avell and caring for their clothing, and:
above all, of obeying orders and the)
necessity therefor, without time. Thatj
is why all military men advocate uni-
versal service and the adoption of a
plan Whereby regiments can be mobi-,
lized quickly and supplied with equip*
ment and ordnance.
When ready for duty, a regiment
must be able to carry Avith it suffi-
cient tentage, clothing, food and muni-
tions to last for a specified time. In
the United States army it is the or-
ganization most generally kept intact.
Only seldom are portions ordered long
distances, the march order being fop
the whole regiment to join either some
brigade or division. It is complete
within itself, and any subdivision of
an infantry regiment is lacking in
something, be it only the band that
cheers the soldier evenings, if detailed
away from regimental headquarters.
In combat, the infantry regiment
is not effective unless supporting
troops co-operate. The division is
considered the proper fighting force,
if the enemy is organized. It con-
sists of nine infantry regiments, two
regiments of light field artillery, one
of heavy field artillery, one of cavalry,
an engineer corps, signal corps, avia-
tion corps and a supply train, with
reserve ammunition and equipment.
At war strength a division here would
consist of 25,000 officers and meiv
commanded by a major general.
Pinched Fuse and Saved Officers.
NeAv York. — Policeman Denni«
Mitchell pinched the fuse from a boml »
throAvn into a restaurant and probably
saved the lives of Inspector Dwyei
and several detectives. The bomb
contained three sticks of dynamite an^
four pounds of loose iron nuts.
Tack in Lungs for Years.
Marion, O.—Mrs. Floyd Orahood.
twenty-eight years old of Agosta, th*
other day spat up a tack which shq
had swallowed when nine years old,
according to her mother. The tack
had lodged in her lungs and had made
her an invalid foy years.
RAISING A NEW FLAG
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It is a naval custom that an old flag
can never be lowered until the new one
is run up. This photograph which has
been released for publication by the
censor shows the raising of a new flag
and the lowering of the old flag at the
CharlestOAvn (Mass.) navy yard.
Eight Generations Reared on Farm.
Marietta, Pa.—Eight generations of
Rissers have been reared on the farm
that Jacob O. Risser of Mount Joy
tOAvnship has just transferred to his
son, Amos. The present OAvner’s grand-
father’s great grandfather bought it
from the Penns more than 200 year*
ago.
Seismograph Finds Guns.
London.—The seismograph, original*
ly designed to detect earthquakes, is
being used in Europe to find the ene-
my’s big guns. A trained observer can
distinguish accurately betAveen the dis-.
turbance caused by a falling projectile
and by gunfiring and can tell the nura*
her, position and caliber of the guns.
Be Ready.
If there are nice things you Avant tc
buy, and they are necessary, buy them;
but do not squander your money—save
it. Hoav can one be ready for the
glorious opportunities ahead of him
unless he has cultivated the habit of
economy and prudence? He must save
all he can In season and out of season
—John D. Rockefeller i
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The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 58, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 12, 1917, newspaper, May 12, 1917; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906554/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.