THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1913. *0. it COLOGNE PEOPLE NOW KNOW WHAT IT IS I IKE Ikwthrrt H*w taaay Tom, Order* of PIhmmt Awakaa Thrm— Martial Law is Rijrd 'ogna, Germany Tiurada Dac. maitial law for tlia flmt time *ince British troop* arrived hare and the people have begun to realise what formal occupation ia goin* to mean. Hmce tha advance troop* of the Brttuh itrmjr entered the nty Lhara Wi b jan llttla or no interference with th«- affairs of the population ami tha Germans war* beginning to flatter theaaaalvae that they were going to fca>-e a rather e.i*y time when they ■ware nwakened by the orilera of C.en wral Plumer, which became effective today. Contained in the Hat of mtaa are two which tha resident* r.ppear to dia lika particularly. One provide* that all mala* muat great British officer* and tha playing of tha British national anthem, ctviliana by removing their hats and man in uniform by the uxual military aalute. The other order for bid* reHuienta to leave their home* be tween tha boum of 7 at night and 4 in tha morning with soma exception*, ■uch aa clergymen and physician*. On tha inside of the door leading into every house, must be posted a list of tha occupants containing informa tion regarding theii. ages, occupation and other matters. No person may change hia or her rsaidence without permission and every inhabitant 12 year* of age or over muat have an Identification card. All day today crowd* were gathered outside the ahope of photographers waiting to get b| plfctd OR The resident* having these cards may circulate freely about the city, but may not let-ve it withou. permis sion. It is forbidden to travel on horseback or on a bicycle except for -certain occupational reasons. No newspapers or pamphlets may be published or circulated without per mission. Today the Cologne Gazette and other papers were not published although they expect to resume to rne transportation and sal* of liquor, except beer and wines, ia for bidden. No street automobiles will be permitted and street assemblies most be authorized. Amusement places cannot be run without author ization. Residents must surrender all weapons and must aid the military in the pursuit of law-breakers. There ■car. be no telephone communication save in extreme cases and then only with permission. The employment of, wireless and pigeon* is forbidden. Only limited personal or business cor respondence with unoccupied Germany and foreign countries, and correspon dence with German prisoner!) is per mitted. Civilians are forbidden to bar* cameras. The military will have the right to search .nen suspected of •Staving concealed weapons or of hav ing broken ordinances. Field Marshal Haig has issued an order to the entire occupied territory in which he declares that the inhabi tants will be protected as long as they are obedient and peaceable. The death penalty or some other punishment as may be decreed, it is provided, if vio lence la done soldiers or the supplies ar works necessary to the military operations are damaged. Few Escape There are few indeed who escape having •t least one cold during the winter months, and they are fortu aata who have but ono and get through with it quickly and without •ny serious coneeque.ices. Take Chamberlsin'r Cough Remedy aad ob ssrri the directi.mii with eath bottle, aad you are likely to be one of the fortunate ones. The worth and mer ft of this remedy has been fully ttrov - ea. Tfcerr are Many families who have sHNM need It for year* when tronbl atfjnth a ■—qh or cald, aad with the vary DOCTORS DISAGREE ON -TUT TREATMENT. PaMk HmM Q»ci.l. at Cm. •da mmd tfca United Stated ia CUcai*, Fail te RmmJi Ptfiwih CovkIumom mm Malady. Chicago, 111. Dm. lft— Lack at agreefnent on method* of meeting the »o-called influenxa epidemic and lack of knowledge of the maladv iteelf con tinued to be prominently noticeable right up to the vary conclusion of the four-day convention of public health official* of the United fttatae and Canada which ended here on Thurs day. The_ influenza hae been the great overshadowing problem of thia gathering of the American Public Health Association. Arriving at a derieion by a vote wan generally avoided by the health offi cial*. but in a round-table conference they did raat an informal ballot on the question of cloaing the ochool*. The question a* put wai thia: ~m me nig cute*. providing Were is good medical inspection. would you rloee the schools in an influenza epi demic?" On the showing o>f hand* only a few went up for cloeing, while a great many went up against the proposition. The health officer* pres ent were plainly against closing in such canes. Then the chairman put the question of closing the schools in Mg cities where the medical inspec tion was not considered good. He de clared the vote "seemed to be about even." Finally the question of dosing the rural schools was voted on. Here again the chairman announced it was. "an offset also." The chairman of tiua of Minneapolis, presides* of t)M Ml nesota State Public Health Depart ment. expressed his own views of the situation in the following language: "The consensus of opinion I have met with here and elsewhere is that the advisability of closing the schools for the influenza does not exist." The question box brought out many comments and remarks on methods of handling the influenza. The gather ing dismissed the question of the use of alcoholic liquors on the ground that it related to treatment instead of prevention, and so was beyond the scope of the association. The chair, however, observed, prior to the rais ing of this point, that the general im pression was that alcohol was bad at any time in influenza treatment. Relative to the use of the face mask a doctor from the Cook County (Chi cago) Hospital declared that it seemed to him that the medical faculty had lost all control of its reason. "If this I influenza organism is so small," he , said, "as some claim it is, that you cannot see it with a microscope. I can not see why it cannot go through any mask. It would be like expecting the bars in the jail window* to keep out the flies." ^ The physician went on to say that every one in the county hospital was masked at the beginning, not because j they particularly regarded masking as , good, but to "avoid the possible I charge of gross ignorance." "They were all masked so heavily they look ed like mummies," he said, adding' that 16 nurses and attendants bad the, influenza and then they discarded | their masks and had none of it. "I j think this matter of the face mask I has been very much overdone," said the doctor. I In the morning session a vigorous I protest against the use of tho face masks was made by Dr. James W. Inches, health commissioner fo De troit, Michigan. He said they were "pure fakes" as a means of halting j influenza and declared that the closing i of motion picture theatres, churches.: etc., had not proved to be of benefit. I Certainly you have a right to your i opinion, hut don't forget the other! fellow also has the same right. out THE STUUT or FRANCE. II kw —tha raaeo'K n tka k -aj of U>- Prcack nr.Uea. It wa* a ipnnlMUMM iiutpogrinf of patriotic aantimai.t tka Ilk* of wrkich tkara to aa prjviona r»t«rf European and South American na tion* with bid* for plana* of the train ing typa. Although no rontrarta hav* Keen rloead. naw boianeaa of thia *ort promiaa* to raach nuhetantial propor tion* during tha naxt faw month*. Mation* now in tha inarbat for flying machine* have haan anxious to pur rhiaa for tha laat two yearn, hut tha urgant damand or combat plana* by tha AUiaa aa wail aa tha llnitad Htat a* mada nacaaaary tha holding up of tha order* until tha ca**ation of hoa UliUaa. AtrpUm manufactoerers of th« United States ui rapidly getting on • peace huu. The Curtiss company will Mil its trar ansa new plant in Klmwood Artnot, Buffalo, New York, completed only last year. Prepara-1 tion. to this end sr, alraady under way. Curtis* took over the ground far! this plant, embracing 72 arras, in the nummer of 1917. Theguildings have I 1,400,000 square faet of working floor | ■pace. If brought op to capacity1 this new plant was capable of taming ££"^±5^21 nevar run over U pier cent of this 80,000,000 of contracts were given this company for the army and navy. Since than all these have been canceled, aad prob ably 15,000,000 additional. Total buisness of a government character now on the books probably does not aaoun*. to more than $15, 000,000. Although the Curtiaa company bore the expense of the building of the new plant, it has an arrangement with tha government which prevents possibt ity of any loss on the venture. The Churchill Street plant, also in Buffalo, together with the motor plant in Hammond:-port. New York, will be able to handle all of the Curtiss' peace buisness. It is the expectation of offi cials that all government buisness w:ll he completed early in January, j In the first 10 month* of 1918 Cur ti«* did a buisnesn of more than $40, 000,000. The full year will probably j show something over $45,000,000. Sales in 1917 were under $20,000,000 and in 191fi about $8,000,000. It is too early to attempt to discuss sales possibilities of this company un der a peace program. With a seat taring of orders from other countries to help out commercial demands It is easly conceivable tha company can do a buisness of $1,500,000 monthly. The record sale in any month since this country entered the war ware about $6,000,000. With earnings from $46,000,000 of business this year Curtiss puts itaalf In a strong financial position . Its working capital as of Jan. 1 next will undoubtedly be ample to take car* of the demands for a company of this sort during a peace period. Mr*. laley'a Letter. In a recent letter Mr*. D. W. Isley! of Litchfield, III., says, "I have uaed j Chamberlain's Tablets for disorders of tha stomach and aa a kpative and ' have found them a quicr and sare relief." If you are traaMed wtth In digestion or constipation these tafc lets will 4a yea good." I i iflHftilUWHN .—... u letteb ratm clown nunc* WILLIE TO PAPA ■mj kIwi In Prwm. An tka Mm Crawa Pi Ian to WUkatai: I am writln. n dar ran dar brave and glirlm »"ldiara imdar my eoat mand have not mm d*r Rhine In aa long fiat thayha"e *tartarf Hat vay and of course I am tfoing mit dem. Ok. papa, dare ha* bean mom offal dints itartad la my big offenaive which waa tappenau here in France. Pirat I to rruah da fool Aatnoni, but day know ao littla about military tart Ira dat day will not ba rniillri Juat Hke I rant dam. I nant my man ia da fight ia big vavea and van day got to da A mar trans day all aaid"Bo»" aa loud aa day could hollar. Vail, ae rording to vat you hava alvays told ma, da Americans hava tomad and run Ilka blaaa*. hut vat r«at War has certainly prmr j «d very had m the busire * of b«af j * king. Never befor. in <© short a time have w> many throne* toppled to the arth. In the first yean of the war the German* overthrew -Serria, Montenegro, Belgium, Botimania. and Anally Russia, King Constantino, too, of Greece had to step down and oat j but Wai nut-reeded bjr one of hi* «ona. With the exception of the Czar of Russia, who is dead, the other kings who were driven tram their rountlti by the Central Powers will probably get back their temporal powers. The king of Belgium is already back. The Emperor of Germany seems to be down and oat for good, ac ia probably the case with the Austrian Emperor and the Kings of the several German states. Still, there are quite a good many kings left yet and if the of revolution now to be countries does not get them they will jjrnbehly bold *a to dteir Meiican Oil Field Activities New York, N. Y.,— Considerable progress is being made in Mexico by the Texas Company. A refinery fc under construction at Port Loboe, which will be a duplicate of its Taa pico plant to a largo extent. The Tasa pico plant began operations Sept. 1, having been in construction for b year. The first cargo of about 70,009 barrels of Tepetate crude oil from the company's producing properties ia the field of that name was loaded Nor. 4. Properties of the Texas Company in Mexico are operated by the Texas Company of Mexico, a mexican cor poration. The company's Tmm pice works on the 1000-acre tract consist of in addition to stills and equipment connected with them, many auxiliary structures, which make an indepen dent village. Port Loboe is the tor minus of the company's 10-inch pipe line to Tepetate, 21 miles. Much of the distance is through a dense jungle. Part of the way the pipe m laid on the bottom o4 a lake and part of the way through swamps. The company has established at Port Loboe, direct ly behind Loboe Island, facilities for loading oil tankers anchored in deep water more than two miles frosn shore. The task of launching two 8-inch sea-loading lmes was diflcuh, but was accomplished successfully hi surprisingly short time. The outer end of each Ime is suhmeijud in aboat 40 feet of water, and by meene of flexible boee connections vessels an chored in proper poeition can be load ed as readily as if moored to