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the urine is cloud full of sediment or the bladder is Irritable obliging jou to seek relief during the night when you have severe headaches nervous and dizzy spells sleeplessness acid stomach or rheumatism in bad weath i er get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast each morning and in a few days jour kidneys will act fine This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice combined with lithia and has been used XT generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys to neutralize the acids in urine so it Is no longer source of irritation thus ending rlnarj and bladder disorders Jad Sals is inexpensive and cannot Injure makes a delightful effervescent Jithia water drink and nobody can make a mistake by taking a little iccaslonallj to keep the kidnejs clean and actn News of Army aild Kffy WMWWWWWWWWWMWWWWWXIOMKX Criticism of Army Reorganization Bills Features Investfghtions of Communication Systems More Ordnance Officer to Retire Army Protection of forests Rifles Again Under Discussioh Examination of Officers for Nomination Work on Navys Dirigible Senate May Criticize Naval Medal Awards Notes of the Marine Corps The Real Cause of Most Bad Complexions ANT features of the army reorganization bUI reported last week from the House military committee are open to the same criticisms that have been made against the bill submitted several months ago by the War Department and that reported by the Senate military committee although it is an Improvement in some respects oer the earlier measures Unchecked authority given to the President in important directions will meet opposition in the House As the President may prescribe lfl a phrase that attaches to vital sections relating to organization assignment of officers to grades transfer of duties and other functions and features Theie is a section in the bill devoted to officers that reads There shall be one general until a vacancy ballet 28 inches above the point at slstency and Injustice is the case of which the aim was takeji The theory a officer now in hte permanent grade or major wno performed conspicuous service In France as a general on which the Bight was adjusted seems to have been that most of the fighting would be at a range of about 600 yards but this theory did not officer He Is 6n dutv In this city along with his younger brother who holds the temporary rank of colonel hold In the chaparral country of Wh0 is junior to him In the regular xexas ana aaexico or me ngnung army and who was not fortunate ranee enough to be sent to Franoe in view of past experience an er Members of Congress that have be iun now is Deing maae 10 aeiermme come familiar with tile state4 of af what is the best range to be given i fnjrn tmm Mnvortino ii the battle sight how the sight should be graduated for general use its general characteristics position on the rifle Whether luminous sights should be furnished and whether a sniper or telescopic sight should be Issued and to whom and in what quantities Consideration also is being plven to the question whether it is desirable to adopt for the army a self ncers or the army entertain a pronounced opinion that there hs been favoritism In the whole proceedings and nothing that Mr Baker or Gen March has sald In the committee hearings has removed that impression occurs in that office after which it loading shoulder rifle and if so Its shall cease to exist Pre characteristics as to weight and sumabl the clause is intended to ap I range for cavalry and Infantry the ply to Gen Pershing As has been capacity of its magazine whether its pointed out before Gen Pershing was sights should be graduated and commissioned a general In the regular i whether a bayonfet should be pro array an office that did not exist and vided for It which was not created by the law Questions relating to the Browning massed for his henefit That law ere automatic rifle also are under con TJNITED STATES ffAVY It is a stern fact that no truly beau tlful complexion ever came out of jaxa or bottles the longer one uses cosmetics the worse the complexion becomes Skin to be healths must breathe It also must evpel through the pores its share of the bod effete material Creams and powders clog the pores interfering both with elimination and breathing If more women understood this there would be fewer self ruined complexions If they would use ordinary mercollzed vfax instead of cosmetics they would have natural healthy complexions This remarkable substance actually absorbs a bad skin also unclogging tjie pores Result The fresher voungrer underskin is permitted to breathe and to show Itself exquisite new complexion gradually pteeps out one free from any appear Hice of artificiality Get an ounce of mercollzed wax at vour druggists and try it Apply nightly like cold cream 6r a week or so washing it off mornings Ad Easy to Make This Pine Cough Remedy 1 Thousands of families Bvreai by its prompt results Inexpensive and saves about 2 Tou know that pine is used in nearly all prescriptions and remedies for cpughs The reason is that pine contains several peculiar elements that hjave a remarkable effect in soothing alid healing the membranes of the tfcroat and chest 1 Pine cough syrups are combinations of pine and syrup The syrup part la usually plain sugar syrup To make the best pine remedy that money can buv put 2 ounces of Plnex in a pint bottle and fill up I vlth home made sugar syrup Or you cfip use clarified molasses honey or corn syrup instead of sugar syrup Hither wa you make a full pint rlore than you can buy ready made fpt three times the money It is pure ood and very pleasant children like It You can feel this take hold of a cpugh or cold in a way that means business The cough may be dry hoarse and tight or may be persist ehtly loose from the formation of pjilegm The cause is the same inflamed membranes and this Pincf jxd rup combination will stop it usually in 24 hours or less Splendid too for bronchial asthma hoarseness ofr any ordinary throat ailment Pinex is a highly concentrated com Piound of genuine Norway pine extract and Ib famous the world over fftr its prompt effect upon coughs Beware of substitutes Ask your druggist for 2 ounces of Pinex with directions and don accept anything else Guaranteed to give abso Ite satisfaction or money refunded 3Jhe Plnex Co Pt Wayne Ind Adv i PDont Spoil Your Hair By Washing It 4 When you wash your hair be nreftiJ what you use Most soaps I ufad prepared shampoos contain too 4 much alkali which Is very injuri cms as it dries the scalp and makes tjie hair brittle i The best thing to use is Mulsifled epeoanut oil shampoo for this is pure and entirely greaseless Its vfery cheap and beats anything else all to pieces You can get this at any drug store and a few ounces frlll last the whole family for oionths Simply moisten the hair With wa tfer and rub it in about a teaspoon fjll is all that is required It makes an abundance of rich creamy lather cleanses thoroughly and rinses out I easily The hair dries quickly and cntenly and is soft fresh looking tsight fluffy wavy and easy to tandle Besides it loosens and ttikes out every particle of dust Brt and dandruff Adv jOLD TIME COLD CURE DRINK TEA tGet a small package of Hamburg Jlreast Tea at any pharmacy Take i tablespoonful of this hamburg tea lut a cup of boiling water upon it Spur through a sieve and drink a tRacupful at any time It is the most effective way to break a cold fW cure crrip as It opens the pores relieving congestion Also loosens 1 the bowels thus breaking a cold at once It is inexpensive and entirely veg table therefore harmless Adv i Cured His Rupture I was badly ruptnred while lifting a trunk trral years ago Doctors said my only hope tt core was an operation Trasses did 1 jajp rood Finally got bold of fomettdng that 1 nuiexly and completely cured me Tears have passed and the rnptnra has never returned I although I am dolus hard work as a carpea tr There was no operation no lost time 4 trouble I have nothing to sell but will fell Information about how you may find complete cure without operation If you ktrta to me Eugene If Pollen Carpenter 58F JjareeUus avenue Jfanasnuan Better I cit out this ntlce and show It to any others ijWho aw ruptured you may save a tlfa or at least atop the misery cf rupture and the liSrorcr and dancer of an operation A4t ated the office of general of the armies of the United States but his present commission does not so read Another part of the bill provides for a return to a permanent personnel in those staff branches of the army that do not have it except in the case of the adjutant general inspector general insular bureau and militia division in which vacancies ill continue to be filled by detail from the line Thus the technical branches of the army such as the ordnance department and signal corps will have permanent commissioned personnel in place of tlje detail system that has been criticized so se erely by them It is proided that qualified emergency officers that have served in them may receive permanent appointments Military Communication Systems During operations of our troops in France officers became more Impressed than ever before with the Importance and necessity of adequate and efficiently operated telegraph and telephone lines radio devices and other means for transmission of Intelligence in the exercise of command control of fire Recently conferences on the subject have been held in the war plans division of the general staff with a view to establishing a fixed policy in relation to the installation maintenance and operation of all military means of Intelligence transmission and others are to be held before the matter Is brought to a conclusion Representatives of the engineers signal corps cavalry field artillery coast artillery infantrj tank corps and air services which branches of the army are concerned with the use of such systems have ettended the conferences Present consideration of the sub ject is concerned with the question whether the signal corps personnel alone shall lnstal maintain and operate all telegraph telephone radio sideration with a view to determining whether it is a satisfactory weapon for the purposes Intended what capacity magazines should be issued whether tripod is desirable whether luminous sights should be is sued whether a blank cartridge firing device should be Issued and how the sights should be graduated Officers Promotion Examinations Fairness to army officers that have had special or unusual service In connection with the emergency has led to an important decision in regard to their examination for promotion in the regular army Tn view of the fact that many permanent and provisional officers of the regular army have spent much of their service during the war in arms this other than those in which they hold permanent commissions boards for examination of officers for permanent promotion and boards for examination of provisional officers for permanent commissions have been directed to take that circumstance into consideration and to modify examinations so as to be fair to Individuals and at the same time to protect the Interests of the army Any permanent officer below the grade qf captain and an provisional officer that has served with an arm or staff corps or department other than the one in which he holds his permanent or provisional commission is authorized to apply to the adjutant general of the army for orders to report for examination before a board of officers of any arm of staff branch with which he has served Designations and Demotions Between November 11 1918 and Two and perhaps three reports will come ijrom the subcommittee of the Senate naval committee that in estigated awards of medals and crosses in the navy following charges submitted by Rear Admiral William Sims and other officers Senator Hale chairman ofthe subcommittee is preparing the majority report in which Secretary Daniels will be criticized severely it Is possible that Senator Polndexter will not agree with all the conclusions of that report and will submit one of his own and of course Senators Plttman and Trammel will submit a minority report Notwithstanding the fact that there has been some talk at the Capitol of calling off the contemplated Investigation of the naval conduct of the war with Admiral Sims charges aB a basis that officer and Secretary Daniels are preparing thoroughly to present their sides of the issue If supplemental investigation Is conducted it will be lntenselv in teresting Admiral Sims has prepared his caBe with great care He will be accompanied to Washington from the Naval War College at Newport unless Mr Daniels succeeds in frustrating him by four or five officers that have been accumulating data from copious records and who will assist in the submission of evidence All records of the Navy Department that relate in any way to the communications and recommendations of Admiral Sfms while In London have been overhauled at the Instance of Mr Daniels The reply to that officers accusations will go much further than was at first contemplated and it is likely that It will assume all the aspects of an attack on him Some officers of the Navy Department have urged Mr Daniels to make as big a fight against Admiral Sims as possible and to spare him In no respect believing that It is essential to present as convincing February 18 1920 some 2302 officers Te eseciX in 6V te IhfishflpWie and Congressional sentiment This is more than the total number of resignations between 1850 and November 11 1918 notwithstanding the fact that 27 6 per cent of the then commissioned strength of the army and other such means from the rear resigned in 1861 to join the Confed up to the smaller units at the front or shall only have to do with delivery and receipt of messages at division brigade regimental or battalion headquarters in the event it is decided to give units of a division charge of the system and permit them to hae their own personnel to perform the signal work Heretofore there has been a lack of uniformity in the matter For example the artillerj brigade of a division has performed its intelligence transmission work with its own personnel and facilities and Bimllar work In the Infantry brigades has been performed by signal corps personnel In behalf of the signal corps reasons have been advanced why that branch should have entire charge of the installation maintenance and operation of means for communicating intelligence Representatives of the other branches have advanced reasons in support of the theory that the work in their respectHe organizations should be performed by their own personnel Ordnance Officers Retire Col Kenneth Morton of the ordnance department lately on duty at Honolulu as ordnance officer of the Hawaiian department was placed on the retired list on February 21 upon his own application after more than 31 years service Lieut Col John Rice will ibe promoted to nil the vacancy in the higher grade thus created Col William Gibson of the same department on duty in the ordnance office in this city will be placed on the retired list tomorrow upon his own application after more than 44 years service That retirement will result In promotion to colonel of Lieut Col David King and Lieut Col Tracy Dickson additional number Five vacancies in the grade of lieutenant colonel of ordnance have existed and these retirements will make two more As no officers of other branches of the service now detailed in the grade of major of ordnance are eligible for advancement to the rank of lieutenant colonel the vacancies are destined to remain unfilled for some time Protection of the Forests As a result of negotiations that have been under way for some time between the War Department and the forestry service arrangements have about been completed for cooperation of the army In the detection of forest fires Probably the system proposed will be put into use on July 1 next It is planned to have the army signal corps establish radio stations at various places In the vicinity of the forests and for the air service to provide airplanes pilots and observers to fly oer the forests and signal to the ground stations the location of fires that may be detected The signal corps aleo will furnish carrier pigeons for use in connection with the system erate army The total number of resignations since the signing of the armistice on November 11 1918 is Si 1 per cent of the resignations in the last seventy years The statistics show the present demoralized state of the commissioned personnel of the service Impairment of morale Is not lessened demotion of regular army officers from their emergency war rank pertaining to their permai ent commissions The demotion process has been going on continuously since the signing of the armistice and it is destined to proceed with increased numbers affected until all have returned to their permanent grades unless remedial legislation Is enacted before expiration of the law authorizing emergency commlBsiona There are persistent rumors in the service that there Js In course of preparation an unusually long list of officers most of whom are on duty in Washington In responsible positions rthat are slated for demotion bn March 15 and officers that may be affected are awaiting wrth apprehension announcement of the lists Embarrassment and complications are destined to occur as a result of the process Officers will find themselves junior in rank to thoso in the same office that hae been serving under them with less rank particularly in the case of emergency officers not belonging in lower grades to the regular army who may be retained on duty Members of Congress that have heard explanations of the Secretary of War and chief of staff in regard to the system of demotion of officers of the army that have adanced emergency rank are far from satisfied with the situation They continue to learnr of examples that are flagrant In the retention of officers In the higher grades occupied by them during the war while their former seniors have been relegated to their permanent places to become junior to those still possessing higher temporary commissions It is argued that the whole affair could have been managed better by beginning at the bottom in the demotions and working upwardly and so avoid the awkward situation that now prevails with certain officers suddenly finding themselves subordinate in rank to those to Whom they had been seniors There are thirty eight demoted generals now of the rank of colonel land lieutenant colonel in tue ciass at the General Staff College In this city all of whom served with distinction abroad and some of them as division commanders while others of the eame permanent rank who never went to France continue on duty in Washington with the temporary rank of major general and brigadier general Another familiar example of incon 1tlrJit3rg ix Rifles Subject of Discussion Considerable attention is being given in the army by the infantry cavalry equipment boards and by others to mooted questions concerning the shoulderirifle used by troops One of them that has agitated the service for manyyears is the proper range for whiclT the battle sight should be set Before the world war troops on the Mexican border found much fault with the battle sight which with the leaf flat was adjust ed to a range of 630 yards When firing at an object at 280 yards for example the trajectory carried the 5A favorable to Sims Moreover some of the Secretarys advisers have recommended that he take disciplinary measures against Admiral Sims but Mr Daniels is Inclined to accept the view of others that the time for such action long has passed and that anything of that kind undertaken at this belated day only would serve to create further sympathy for the officer IS YOUR DOG SICK Worm him with Sergeant a 8 are shot and arive him Senreautsi Condi tion Pill They will make him well Sergeant vosr aieaicuiea forevery ailment Forty years a standard At dealers or by mall from us osfagecefor8 FREEDogBook with accurate ailment chart Polk Miller Drug Co Inc Richmond Ya Bringing Over the Dirigible For duty in connection with the completion and fitting out of the big dirigible balloon 38 building at Bedford England for our navy Commander Louis Maxfleld of the navy who has been on duty In the aiaton jsectlon of the offlee of the chief of naval operations has gone to Englaftd A picked operating crew now is being assembled and will join Commander Maxneld within the next few months Probably the dirigible will not be ready to take to the air for another year and the crew In the meantime will be trained In the operation and maintenance of such eraft After completion and trial flights the dirigible will be flown across the Atlantic to the Immense hangar that Is being prepared for It at Lakehurat Opportunity was taken to place the contract for the dirigible at an attractive price and naval officials have been approached with other offers tor purchases of that nature abroad at prices at which similar work could not be performed lrf thi3 country However one requisite for the upbuilding of a fjeet of dirigibles is hangar space The single hangar at Lakehurst will not suffice even for one dirigible for It would preclude its remaining on the ground for any length of time anywhere else Abroad the countries participating In the war for four years or more accumulated a large quantity of manufacturing and storage equipment that now Is available for the commercial development of aviation a tremendous advantage that sometimes is overlooked by our own critics in drawing comparisons between expen ditures here and among our allies am Proposed Aviation Legislation Sessions are being held at the Navy Department of the national advisory committee on aeronautics of which Dr Charles Walcott secretary of theSmithsonian Institution is chairman for consideration of important avlationraatters Its principal work is the preparation of legislation it is proposed to recommend for the purpose of obtaining better coordination and advancement of governmental and commercial aviation activities It is understood that the committee will nof recommend a combined air service that would take over entirely army and navy aviation as contemplated by certain measures now pending in Congress The Oommlttee is more inclined to the view that the army and navy should be left to function In the air without the limits alrekdy prescribed for them but that there should be legislation that would insure that coordination and cooperation that Yrould be more conducive to efficiency economy and development In both the service and commercial phases of the art at flight Recently a poller relating to air crafUwas formulated by tb aeronautical board otarmyand navy officers and was approved by the Secretary of War and the Secretary at the Navjr Among other things itJs prescribed thatdevelopment procurement main tenance Operations of rigid e3i USEfn muiiin vUJMHIl Htmw1 Tailored Suits for Spring Days Prim Attire for Prim Moods A pleasant transition in i lUW irom DU1Ky winxer garo to the filmy things of summer is a tailored sport suit of jersey knitted worsted in any of many colors Clever style adaptations from the newest things in mens clothing ipake them pleasant to look at Soft clinging folds just the right warmth This makes it pleasant to wear them And priced here at only 35 to 45 This makes it pleasant to buy them Second Moor Sport Shoes and Hats to Wear With Them The Avenue at Ninth have been added working members as technical experts Commanaer Albert Cohen of the navy has been sent by the Secretary of the Navy a letter commending his wOrk iii demobilizing the naval air stations in France and Ills excellent report of that work Naval Projects Questioned Some members of Congress view with suspicion two bills relating to acquirement and disposition of lands by the Navy Department One of them would continue certain appropriations for securing lands for aviation purposes and the other relates to disposition of certain land commandeered for the navy during the war and not now needed for naval purposes By the first bill the Secretary of the Navy would have authority to pay out money for options on land that the navy never may need and this without check of any kind He may give owners of land anywhere in the United States and its Territories 1 percent of any price they niay choose to ask It is pointed out that the bill as pow drafted would not prevent a dishonest official from Indefinitely renewing these options for lands Congress never would agree to acquire The other bill would empower the Secretary to make a present of a valuable option to former owners of lands He could return them to the former owners where compensation had not been made but they could have the option to refuse them which it Is surmised would be exercised where the Secretary was not parting with a bargain In case of such refusal the Secretary could sell the land by private as well as by publio sale at a price he appoints Abolition of Naval Districts Consideration is being given In the House naval affairs committee to a proposal to abolish the naval districts the cost of maintaining which members of the committee regard as excessive The Navy Department does not believe that action of that kind would be to the Interests of the service District commandants have come to perform useful service Experience of the war has brought out forcibly thej necessity for coordination in all nval activities and for continuing cooperation and cordial relations with other branches of the government municipalities and citizens In general In relieving the Navy Department of administrative details in their respectiverespective districts district commandants are performing Important duties and the system of administration is i decentralized Mobilization of hundreds of thousands of men and thousands otjrarious sorts of water craft for war purposes cquld not have been accomplished without the agency of the naval districts If the task had wn Imnosed on the Navy Depart ment Alone the mere mass of detaif vsrould have been too great ror ff single organization to bear Another Important part of the mls dlriglbles shall be In the hilnds qt theslon oXthe district commandants is navy to administer the naval reserve forces Da ties and functions of the former within heirailatrjcts In time of peace armyaua navy technical board on and to mobilize that force in time of Jrcraft havebeenabsorbea by theJ war and to assist in demobilisation aeronautical JbOArdVCtaVwhich lattarXaf ter vrux3Vi MARINE CORPS NOTES i 1 Enlisted men of the marine corps hereafter are to Wxear the emblem of the corps on their collar Heretofore they haveworn It only on their caps or hats whereas officers have displayed the emblem both on the collar apd head gear It was found in France that it was difficult to distinguish marines from soldiers Later the commander of the marine brigade authorized the men of his organization to wear the emblem on the collar but this expedient was not formally authorized by the commandant of the corps Following that Incident the matter of authorizing all enlisted men of the corps to wear the emblem on the collar was agitated and a recommendation to that effect now has been approved The emblem for enlisted men will be smaller than that for officers and it will be bronze for the khaki and winter field uniforms and brass for blue uniforms Somo 250 probationary officers of the mrne corps who were appointed on August 10 and 15 and September 15 1917 and who became permanent in the corps two years after those dates were examined last Octbber for the purpose of determining their rela tive rank among those of the same dates of appointment The marking of the papers of that examination has been a long and laborious task considering the number of questions Involved and It has not been completed Readjustment of relative rank on the baels of the standing In the examination cannot be made course until after rendition and approval oJ the boards report Maj Paul Chamberlln and Lea Purcell have been directed to report before a board in this city for examination for transfer tOthe retired list and First Lleuts Harold 8 Wright and Joseph Bennet before a board for the same purpose at marine barracks Quantlco Va BAYER CROSS ON GENUINE ASPIRIN Always insist upon true Bayer Tablets of Aspirin In Bayer package vMi ft The Bayer Cross on Aspirin tablets has the same meaning as 14 Karat on gold Both mean of Colds Pain Headachejlthachljiache Genuine I Bayer Tablets of Aspirin should be taken according to th af and proper directions in ach Bayer package Be sure the Bayer Cross if on package and on tablets Then yoq ar gctung we genuine Aspirin prescnoea py physicians for over eighteen yjarrforthereliW 5l Kheumatism 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