The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

October 25, 1911

Publication:

The Springfield Daily Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Wednesday, October 25, 1911

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8

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THE SPRINGIELD REPUBLICAN DAILY SUNDAY WEEKLY VBSCniVTIOV KATES i THE DAILY REPUBLICAN: Three cents' copy 16 cents a week 0 cents a month2 a quarter SS a year: Including the Snn dny edition £0 cents week 85 cents a mouth S2 5o quarter $10 a year THE SUNDAY REPUBLICAN: ive cents a copy Ir cents a quarter J2 a year THE WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: Three cents a copy 25 cents for three months $1 a year AU subscriptions are payable strictly In advance cample copies sent free ADVEKTISING RATES Class'fied In Daily Sunday or Weekly 5 cents a tine i ix 'vordsl each Insertion: no book chn: go less than 25 cents Extra Dis played Notices Amusem*nts and Meetings 16 cents a line: Ito charge under 50 cents Heading Notices 15 cents a litre: Local No tices 20 cents a line Sunday Notices 10 cents a line no charge under 50 cents Births Marriages and Deaths 2: cents Reduction for advertisem*nts running one month or longer Subscribers and advertisers are requested to remit by New York or Boston check post office or express money order or registered letter and to address llt REPUBLICAN MASS HOIJOKE ot news and adver tisem*nts Marble Building WASHINGTON OICE: 206 Corcoran Building corner Pennsylvania Avenue and ifteenth street NEW YORK OICE: 5021 Metropolitan Building 1 Madison Avenue CHICAGO OICE: Boom 1054 People's Gns Building 122 South Michigan Boule vard SPRINGIELD WEDNESDAY OCT 25 1011 I I TEE PA Gov figures that lie is running this campaign for re election on his own and that there will be no necessity for step ping aside to answer certain conundrums propounded by Robert Luce the republican eandidaie for lieutenant governor It is reported from Paris where the dum iug asters of the world have been their nnnnal congress that in good so tty denning is becoming more simple Less suppleness is required it is said of the new Argentine dances now mnM in ft vor than of the popular dances which have gone I ofore This change appears to bi in th joint interest of art and age The les graceful may now take part with "tin rnsnublc less shocking to the The progressive republican which is to say the Lu ollette headquarters at Washington is said to be spending at least a wek im luding clerks' salaries and a big postage reaching in one week There are many well known velqntoer workers without pay and ap parently a substantial group of men be hind who pay the freight' but who ai'e not advertised Most of the propaganda so fit bas boon anti Tift but there has bet a beginning in pro Lal ollette ma terial Jonathan Bourne president of tlie league contributes his mite in the sugges tion that Mr La ollette is mc ntally conservative and a fit candidate sane business Is Mr Bourne trying to commit his man to the politically dangerous acrobatics of trying to ride two horses? Two deaths alleged to be from cyanide of potassium have been sensations of the recent news while suicides from the use of th same drug are frequently reported This a Hords sufficient evidence that this drug is a peril and needs to be more closely guarded It seems to be too easy to get and it is too often employed in crim business Tn murders we are told that it has serious disadvantage for the murderer and advantage for society that it can always he readily detected It leaves the lungs tn a condition which is itself a certain clow to the poison used aud being inetalic and acting instantly it can a I wavs be discovered by analysis his being true it ought not to be diffi cult to discover whether Miss Avis Lin nell died from this cause This deadly and swift poison is widely employed in the as in photography and a sat urated solution of cyanide of potassium is used as a preliminary bath in electroplat ing It is therefore freely sold for use in the industries and hence the matter is not easy of regulation Druggists are sup posed to bo careful and under some regula tion hut the industrial side needs mote watching Everywhere there should he registration of the sales of this poison which is quire too handy for suicide and other criminal purposes The latest campaign move on the part of Gov oss is to issue a pamphlet under the title "A working governor who stands 'up for Massachusetts and gets things for the This document is being mailed to every voter 5n the com monwealth and it is also passed around in places where his excellency make political speeches It constitutes a history of Mr oss's life tells of his business career of the tilings which he has fought for of the legislation recommended aud sets forth his expect a tic na for still larger achieve ment Appended is Gov speech at the opening of the campaign There is no stinting of eulogy from start to finish and the voter who takes this document at face value it list conclude that Massachusetts cannot get a long ithout Eugene oss It is the expectation that the voters will read the glowing depiction and fully ac cept its declarations tmd conclusions Nothing just like this has ever before ap peared in a Massachusetts campaign Per haps the idea ('time from Senator La ol magazine eulogy of himself The governor got his method from Oregon and calls the document a report the upon the and it is declared that citizen should this His program is a generous one aud admirably calculated to "Mir things up" nil along the lino The document will probably set venerable voters to talking about the time when Gen Benjamin Butler was elected governor and then abruptly retired by a majority of flic people after one year in the execu tive chamber He marie folks dizzy Recent discussions of the law of the air have brought out the odd theory that there THE SPRINGIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 1911 a bmp ui mi wuu pmuru juuin no man's property and along boasted gift of levitation and falls to hla AS TO MATHEMATICS unnecessarily rooms and it or the Way The Republican Covered problem for the psychologist to MEAT AT THE TABLE de anchor of cavalry the loss of no has his not the wrote several furthering 1hd organizations citizenship paraded in the cold make trouble for Gov only fair to permit the their own differences The governor is sure people power Boston Her George red way the case of Dr Cook extent is to Ca me I fanatic into testing his of the Ber ahd long paper's London it over and it to York is entitle the owner to but acre may be urged the question Awhy the is not entitled to the air directly the margin of his pro perty These they do now But there is still 1 more If true this arc not stir find natives of England who and who try in Americans men and have already become in manner I rl er lfl I 1 English then Ilin Pnffllsll I is hardly important We prised to like it better over here America to do as the Americans do There is no special reason why we should care to have the ghoe any different when it is on thp other foot too far to say that when meat mid veg death In some such mar be explained to a certain whether one takes him for an impostor a madman or a much maligned explorer Which of these hel is it is too soon to de cide There is still a respectable minority of scientific men and explorers who provision ally accept his the late AdmiralSchley an Arctic expert himself seems to have kept his faith to the end Dr Cook has brought out his book at last a year too late to help his case and re asserts his claim in full ''together with charges against Peary which' are likely to recoil His good temper wits the doc chief that and the malice of his enemies This advantage he forfeits by resorting to abusive language and' to insinuation of charges lie dares not make directly His one chance a chance suffi ciently remote is that some future ex ploration may vindicate his details of the far North the agreement of which with later story is the strongest argu ment in a ease which he has done all in his power to damage Till more evidence is forthcoming the world has decisively re jected his claims and this Copenhagen fiasco must have made even Dr Cook real ize the fact Dr Coolr at Copenhagen Perhaps the queerest part of the psycho logical puzzle which Dr case offers is the intermittence of his nerve' It col lapsed when he needed it most and his precipitate and quite unnecessary flight and hiding completely ruined his chance of winning confidence qnd afienated those who like The Republican were trying to get him fair play It was taken for granted that he had dropped out of sight perman ently he was likened to Benedict Arnold the Wandering Jew and the Man Without a Country as though the world were too small to cover his shame Yet after a tem porary eclipse ascribed to a nervous break down we find him audaciously resuming his original role ns the discoverer of the north pole and even going so far as to appear at Copenhagen which under the circ*mstances can have remarkably little use for him The dispatches say Owing to the threatening attitude of the crowd Dr Cook was escorted to his car riage by a detachment of police The mob followed jeering and hooting The explor er said he had given up his projected lec ture tour of Europe and would lecture only in this city The newspapers de nounce him some of them recommending demonstrations of disapproval at his lec ture The were duly made and the lecture was a fiasco as might have been expected What a tragic to the reception which Co had for him but two short bands playing crowds roses hung about his neck Nowhere have the recent heavy rains been more welcome than in Worcester She has been much disturbed over her in adequate wat' supply and an ariunce ment was made to take from the metro polittin supply There is now some assnr a rice that her own reservoirs are Bkelv to: take care of the city and so save the pease that the consumption of metropoli tan water would entail! William Brown president lin mills company of Berlin one of the best esteemed citizens Port land Me Who passed away suddenly Sun day morning at the age of 90 years was a strong character Until within a day or two he had seemed to be bolding his excellent health but the tragic death of his youngest boy Montague in a Canadian forest over a month ago doubt less had its effect upon his remarkable constitution Mr Brown was of the best type of those who exhibit continuing in terest iu civic and philanthropic affairs He possessed great business ability and iu accumulating 'wealth he did not forget the moral obligation' that goes with it In various ways he was identified during practically all his manhood life with the lumber business Since 18(8 he had been in control of the business that in 1888 was incorporated us tlm Berlin 'mills com pany He enlarged it from a lumber and timber land business to include the man ufacture of paper ami pulp Mr Jtrown was president of that company and also of the Burgess sulphite fiber company with mills at Berlin Not the least part of Mr Brown's business life was the training of his boys in honorable business efficiency There are four of Her bert Orton William and Down ing Brawn each with his well defined part to play in the ongoing of the busi ness which their father founded and veloped is between every two contiguous pieces of has described it admirably in his real estate a wedge shaped strip of air who is goaded which is i which the airman may sail regardless of the principle that the land owner's rights rake in the air overhead It would not be a verv generous thoroughfare and if the holdings uere small tin insect would have to go verv high not to infringe on the domain to one side or the other But it is to be feared that this novel conten tion would hardly pass muster in court or against the pleat that a ri acre of land should contrast penhagen summers cheering princes and savants uniting to honor the great man the man of the hour the con queror of the frozen North 1 The change must have struck chill even upon a hard ened Arctic explorer This is the ulti mate disaster What hopes he may have cherished in regard to this too long de ferred Copenhagen visit can only be guessed but whatever they were he doubt now sees their futility throughout been something peculiar in attitude to something wholly intelligible Why did he go to trouble of shipping' his worthless records for the university to examine? Why did he immediately afterward take flight? Why when it is too' late does he reappear and invite the approval of the Danish capital? It is perhaps the psychiatrist As good a guess ns another is that the warm hospitality of the Danes and the overwhelming honors heaped upon him turned the head of the explorer jut com ing back to civilization from a long exile in the Arctic wastes He was feted show ered with degrees and medals his story was taken at face value Thon he came to New York to face An almost unparal leled storm of denunciation Throughout his appeal was always to Copenhagen It might be regarded as merely the bluff of an impostor playing for time But his forwarding of his notes and his present tardy return point the other way It is more likely that the impression made by his reception in Denmark had unbalanced his judgment Whether he believed in him self or not he believed that Copenhagen believed in him that his good friends there would see him righted In whatever he said or wrote Copenhagen has recurred dike afixed idea It was his one hope his sheet But to complete the he feared to put it to the test! It" is a state of mind not uncommon with monomaniacs or with victims of Browning owner above free air lanes are a delusion the invention of a perverted ingenuity But on the other hand the old theory of ownership was equally the ownership of the land beneath will ent a small figure in the adjustment of the rights and duties of the aerinl navigator Presumably he will have to settle for damages regardless I of whether he is trespassing on private property or not Accidental trespass can hardly be deemed an offenfee: otherwise it would be in order to punish a sailor for being shipwrecked on beach Wilful trespass on the other hand is of the same nature one goes by mo tor boat aeroplane or rope ladder The legal problems which aviation has raised are by no means simple birt they will be settled as fast as the need for settlement arises Special legislationis as yet pre mature Philadelphia is happy The Athletics have beaten the Giants in three straight games since the opening contest which was won by the National league cham pions tine more victory far Philadelphia means the world's baseball championship" Philadelphia won that title last year and everything now favors it for a second term on the baseball throne It must be admitted that while intense interest pre vails in the world's series just now much of the edge of the enthusiasm has been taken off by the recent rains Excitement yesterday over the outcome of the game was not so strong as a week ago That before the many postponements and A correspondent? of the London Specta tor sojourning Rome has been shocked fo discover "that (the English or rather Scottish word raid is being misused by foreigners ThVy confuse it he thinks but in this he is prooaoty wrong with which in English has much 'tire sound of on the Thus we have n't motor by Prince Borghese across Asia a bicycle from Milan to Romo an aeroplane from London to Edinburgh! The effect upon the mind of the rritish reader is so utterly ludi crous that the vnnlty of foreign so called would bo deeply hurt did they but realize what njerrlmeut their persistence in this blunder evokes is very British indeed who but an Englishman would have the nerve to call Italians foreigners in Rome? But is this use a It seems more likely that it is to be called a borrowing English would be a poor and meager language hut for its the sense pronunciation and spelling of which are often changed in fitting them to our needs It seems certain that for cross races is not a con fusion with but a metaphorical use drawn from the dashes with the pillage and somd of life omitted 1 rom the Boston Globe Meat has not been banished: entirely from the training table of the football I squad 'at Dartmouth hut it is announced that the amount of meat diet to' be alloled each num this year will be reduced or years pork and pie have been excluded from most training tables but not until recently has meat as a food for players been reduced in quantity It looks as if I meat which supposedly gives strength and i endurance will be discarded or used only sptutngly It would he going iv nro nnrnn rUiinfr nn Will be renounced by the nation ofiililos become the basis of our certainly the athletes of the country have given the ordinary householder a tip that is worth consideration Note that De Mat who recently won the Brockton marathon trained' for the event' orr tin cxehti elyvegetable diet The points the generous consump meals is so esseu very dangerous to way ine ice greatest It is a most powerful 'influence for temperance much more effective than purely negative and restrictive measures It has resulted in a jlessef of and' a larger proportion of thanin any coimtry outside Tf lslam This puts the cart before the horse he American ice water tank is quite as rndrh the result' as the cause of the national habit of water drinking and this again has various causes among them the des sicating climate and the practice (also partly due to climate) of overheating houses offices hotels railway trains etc Those who are thirsty will find a way to plenty of pure water is the vital thing As for the regulation of drinking cups it is not so important in itself as in its suggestion' of larger re forms If such trivialities are accepted in lieu of vital legislation they are detri mental if each small reform is made a precedent for something more important we shall see substantial progress To for bid the common drinking effp and to try to suppress the Chicago vice report strain at the gnat and swallow the with the consequences of the law The agi To the b'ditof of The Jfcpubllcan I desire to express to you my personal apprecisltion of the tine work you did in re porting our general convention I have been a member of the convention since 1883 and have never ktlowu better reperick A Bisbee Editor of the Universalist Ix'adef fioston October 23 IQll Compulsory llyssienc The law in New York state prohibiting public cups has caused much inconvenience and is now being denounced as hasty and ill considered Some have eveu gone so for as to hint at a dark conspiracy of brewers and saloon keepers to give the measure their secret support in order to keep the public thirsty A little consider ation should show that no such nialigu forces are needed for petty legislation of this sort when it does not seriously inter fere with vested interests To require in dividual cups would naturally arouse more or less protest but merely to forbid the supply of general cups for the use of the public costs nobody anything pleases au energetic minority of reformers and of fends only those who httppen Suddenly to want a drink of water To a certain extent the law is not unrea sonable The risk of infection in drinking though trivial js real enough Compared with the perils that lurk in drafts nnventi lated rooms and contaminated water to be sure it is one of the negligible per ils of life and Jt is doubtful whether any statistician will be able to show any statistical curve that has been deflected by 'a broa'dtli by the abolition of the common drinking cup On the pther hand it is not needful to Independent is quite It seems to us that a tion of 'water between tinl tn health that it is interfere with it iu any water tank is one of Atneric contributions to civilization A middle aged philosopher has told a London paper the paper has put it in its editorial page a Chicago correspondent has cabled has been forwarded East that the rule of young men and are again to have the right of way The new lord mayor of Loudon says the rphilosopher is 81 Lord Halsbury at 86 it is hoped will save the unionist party Thomas Hardy at 71 is having a new play rehearsed and increasing age of the taxicab drivers is one of the most marked phenomena in the streets of London" The manufacturers in itchburg who control the Nashua reservoir company have 'bought the stock of the Ashburnham res ervoir company and the Ashburnham mills in Ashburnham This means that the water iu the Ashburnham reservoir will be used by itchburg mill owners when water is low in the branch of the Nashua river flowing through Rockville in West itch burg The mills of the Ashburnham com pany have not been operated for several years so that the reservoir has remained full and by this purchase its drawing can be controled for the benefit of all mill owner's down the stream Much publicity has been given to the charge that rederick Burnham of New York who was steering the crack motorboat Dixie IV when she ran ashore and killed a spectator was guilty of cowardice Let it be emphasized that he has been exonerated by the court photo graphs having fortunately been taken which show him sticking bravely to his post It was the shock of striking that threw him into the water The accident was of a bizarre sort not likely to recur and not easy to outdo unless a submarine should elect to hop Out of the water and collide with an airship American journalism rather Than Ger man science is probably responsible for the word from Los Angeles thit Dr ranz Bergmann of Berlin is about to return to his native land with the message that in a thousand years American women will' have only four toes "In Germany they have heard of Weismahn and have doubts as' to the of acquired traits If four toed beauties were evolved by selec tion the case would be different but there is no evidence that the deformity caused by wearing tight shoes is hereditary If it were boys asiwell as girls would be come four toed Touis EhricJijwho died suddenly in London Monday' was best known' ini re cent years as an'jarj: collector 1 and dealer or several' yearp 'he had with his two sons Ehrich galleries in Newy York gathered many masterpieces of many schools: during 'his annual tjipo EropeiMfEhrich was conspicuous in 1896 while a resident of Colorado as a democrat" Later he was president of the free trade league and also active in the reform club and the anti imperialisf league He effective bookstand papers propaganda of all of and had a passion for good A Sprlnsfleld Reply to the Praise of Mathematical Studies by President Pendleton of Wellesley Collegc To the Editor of The Republican In your Sunday issue you quote approv ingly President Pendleton opinions of mathematics as a form of culture disci pline President Pendleton asserts that mathematics better than any other subject training in close reasoning both deductive and inductive" that it the student in clear and logical that it power of and it produces that intellectual fiber essential to effective citi With the utmost deference for President opinions and for your own I think it may be said that these large claims for mathematics are simply opinions and not definitely estab lished facts The claim that the mathematically trained mi nd reasons most closely thinks most clearlv and logically imagines most effectively has the most intellectual fiber has long been made and chiefly it must be granted by interested champions But it is a matter of individual or class Opinion and as such has frequently been challenged by those who held different opinions It may indeed he claimed on grounds of objective evidence that the mathematically trained mind is superior in reasoning logical acumen imaginative power and intellectual fiber within the limits of mathematical experience There is not one iota of fiositive evidence in the history of human knowledge or in cur rent every day experience however that these things hold true in forms of experi ence outside of mathematics And now comes science with what is rap idly approximating definite proof that these bold claims of mathematics have no foundation in fact All these special processes of mind that mathematics is supposed to promote in a pec uliur nay depend in the last analysis upon mental images The character of the mental images employed by mathematics and the neurological and psychological con ditions underlying such mental images will therefore determine the solution of this whole vexed problem of mathematical dis cipline Mathematics then employs the mental images derived from certain forms of exi'erience These are in general images of number form the various mathemati cal svmbols and the conceptual relations growing out of number and form But neurology is proving that all these mental images that mathematics employs are con troled by localized areas of the brain That is to say the objective material of mathematics is imaged through definitely specialized nervous organs and so likewise the symbolic material Ample clinical evi dence has shown that the power of mathe matical perception and reasoning may be destroyed by a blood clot or the toxins of a fever without impairing the percep tual Or reasoning power? in other direc tions A man may lose the power of visualizing numbers for instance and re tain the power of visualizing words A person as a teacher of mathematics of my acquaintance may lose for an indefi nite period the tower of remembering mathematical symbols or of thinking upon mathematical subjects as a result of typhoid fever while being as capable along other lines as ever The mass of neurological evidence in sup port of the brain localization of mathe matical processes is becoming more and more conclusive Not less conclusive is the evidence of experimental psychology that the image forming powers of mind are spe ciAfizeti and tha'f no one subject cad there foteGEive generALdiscipline Experiments conducted by the writer dur ing the last three years show that a student may get and retain with derived from mathematical symbols and yet be very deficient in mental images of other forms of experience Or he may fail in the use of mathematical symbols derived sight or hearing while being able to discern accurately numerical and spatial relations through the tactile and kinesthetic senses A' student specializing in mathemat ics may have excellent judgment of form and member but very poor judgment of the weight and texture of objects Some stu dents think prevailingly in mental Images Of objects others think prevailingly in mental images of words or other symbols The character of their thought is therefore fun damentally different In short neurology experimental psychology are in a fair way to prove con clusively if they have not already done so that 'mathematics train the mind for math ematical functions alone except in so far as Other mental functions may have funda mentally similar elements That is to say a man may learn to reason closely think logically imagine powerfully and have in tellectual fiber as a citizen wherever math ematics are involved without necessarily being conspicuous in these virtues where other kinds of experience are in question It seems to be time therefore for mathe maticians and those who sympathize With them to be somewhat more modest in their assertions and cease making non mathematical minds feel humiliation through being classed as inferior in reas oning power imagination and even in the intellectual fiber requisite for citizenship Georoe Dawson Springfield October 23 1911 EZOnr correspondent is the author of an interesting article in the Popular Science Monthly which has attracted much atten tion in which he makes an even sharper attack on Latin and Greek suggesting that the hypertrophy of the intellect which their study involves may lead to a wasting away of tissue such as threatens abnor mally developed gymnasts who do not keep uji their has been consider ate to the advocates of mathematical train ing in not urging the insidious peril studying algebra and geometry trigonom etry and conics As st mental jmrnsite they must bo quite as dangerous as the classics NOTE AND COMMENT It must be a disappointment to with enlarged ideas of the remedial of laws to discover that it still costs a lot of money to capture political nominations Mighty good autumnal weather yesterday and nowhere clearer and crisper than in Berkshire where are more choice phases of beauty than any other locality in the state can show It is one of the tragedies of profession al work that Dr George Jelly the well known specialist in mental and nervous diseases should pass out of life while suf fering a mental breakdown He did val unble work for the state of Massachu setts Bishop Mackay Smith of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania who is to resign his office and go to Washington to live has announced that he will present his residence to the diocese The princes of the church' in will continue if the gift is accepted to occupy a palace The house has 2" is assessed for $125000 It is to be feared that the aid's anxiety to know why Williams and Charles Hamlin failed 1o appear at the Saturday night democratic rajly in Boston is blooded purpose to oss It would lie democrats to settle if they have any everything is serene was at time when the Giants looked stronger than great interest in the final outcome of the series Everybody is interested Un usually large crowds have attended the games already played and as a result the contesting players will receive more for their performances than any world's series contenders ever have The games have attracted attention all over the land and the stars of a particular game have achieved as much' prominence as an ex cited public can give New York says it is not discouraged and hopes to yet win the cherished title But few look for such a startling occurrence The great Mathew son was reduced yesterday Marquard is left but the Athletics have beaten him and are confident of repeating There is little Impe for New York Bender the famous Indian pitcher won a victory over the Giants yesterday which was extremely popular in these parts Springfield picked chib to win the series Spring field feels jnore certain nowtbf is choice Nine young midshipmen just graduated nt Annapolis have resigned to accept 2dieiiiwinmiesin the ariny not reflecting on the navy but preferring to have pro at their osts for the end of consolation of appears to be If this thing York Times tells with gloe of two Ameri other tn welcome and honor Mr Taft on (an women who are married to English this trip were hypocrites a nd deceivers TlmK'iu icnriAlTS IrtfllL is just possible thiit and are prejudiced a wee mite MAr BE NOME PREJUOICE rMn the Kansas City Journal 1 Bournrf Bristow and Cummins agree thiit Mr( Taft baa not gained any popit liij ntii Gia Aro to asswto (lien that all the hundreds of I way for the rest of us within the hounds thousands of peojile who vied with each I of reason and the cost of living would sportive wives with them rather than waiting ashore a three cruise The a sweetheart in every pert losing its ancient appeal keeps on the warship may have to become a sort of modern floating apartment house I boat I A Loudon correspondent of the New i not be increased by cutting down the meat rations of most (families decorations for the home With Some Reina rkut About Patriotism and the People Who Would Dictate possible tn judge at this distance' But there is only oiiei thing fol' the government to do and that is: to maintain order and I to keep tee railways in operation It has been demo need on the one side by the op position for its' timid policy and by the socialists on the other for making war on the (McOiiree this was to have H'roin the New Bedford Standard Michigan Daughters of the Revolution' have decided that the practices of print ing American flags and other national em blems on napkins' and epiistriieting them on cakes are unpatriotic and propose if possible we suppose by 'legislation to put an end to them Like tnanv other persons the Michigan Daughters of the Revolution confound had taste with a lack of patriot ism imagine that most of the persons who buy paper napkins imprinted with American flags for ourth of July picnics and who construct cakes ornamented with American flags for ourth of July ban quets that thus they are expressing their patriotism in a most decided manner Some persons suppose they 'exhibit their love for the beautiful in Nature bv cover ing sofa cushions with blue print reproduc tions of their choicest vacation negative) an in their ay perhaps they do But people Of discernment fail to 'see the appropriateness of the Grand canyon of Arizona the breaking aves on the coast of Maine the peaceful shores of Lake Champlain and the majestic freighters of the great lakes combined as the decorative motive for the pillow whereon to rest the head Yet the use of such decoration and the combination do not prove alwence of appreciation of the grand or beautiful On the contrary they prove a struggle for the development of such appreciation wrongly directed many of us believe! but none the less genuine Such the napkin' ornamented with the American flag the pictorial sofa cushion and the like' are modern exam ples of the spirit hick found expression a generation or two ago in album hod a contrivance by means of which enthusiastic and sympathetic young wom en fashioned a bed covering upon which In little white squares encircled with curi ous shapes of brilliant fabrics were in scribed the autographs of their many dear friends If our memory serves rightly that same era or one a little earlier also produced the bed whereon a gay and gossipping quilting party de lineated with deft stitching the outlines of the stars and stripes According to some standards of this present time the simple women who con structed these bed quilts must have been lacking in both true friendship and true patriotism Nevertheless men who these flag bed quilts over them as they lay down to sleep Went cheerfully to fight the buttles of their country while the women who made the quilts bent them selves to the burden and the work at home Perhaps the standards need we fancy that at any rate they need soften ing To judge by a crude external is not always righteous judgment Those people who want American flags on their napkins and their cakes might in time learn bettor but can be quite certain that their patriotism is weak? When the su preme test comes it is not so sure that they will be among the despised We should all remember that the flag is as much the flag of those whj are thrilled with a sight 6f the red white and blue on the frosting as of those who 'assume a special protectorate over its sanctity Among ns'ali there are those who use the national colors in ways which offend some sensitive eyes but which arc intended as tokens of genuine patriotic respect and emotion It is nei ther wise nor just to impute the intention of insult nor a deficiency of patriotism to those whose training or temperament lead them to employ the colors in ways which jar on a highly refined sense oJf propriety In the undertaking tn refine courses of con duct with to such uses by lawthere is not a little danger of refining out of the heart the real honor for the flag HoVr TO GET INTO HED LINES i iq sat eople With Short Names Have an Advantage rom the Boston' Arata The headline writer likes short Words He is more daft on the monosyllabic idea than any one of the rhetoricians He has made the word of great account Because Of the exigencies of the New? York press he created he is steadily idealizing the short snappy' word that fall readily into his closely numbered scheme for all his headline formations stand at so many spaces Every letter counts It is queer that such a tendency should have campaign relations But it does oss is a great word for the headline writers: they shy at rothingham the republican candidate's name takes up a whole line leaving no roopi for anything else This answers tho question which Outsiders are asking: Why does oss dominate the headlines in js11 the news papers? They think he ip overadvertised But this grows out of the name that he inherited and upon which he has shed a certain sort of luster been expeeteil Apparently the goMin niciir is lining its full duty E' PftLIOMYULITIS GERM rom the yprk Tinies Dr Simon lexner discovered that infan tile spinal paralysis was communicated by a germ but he' could not identify the''or ganism by any stain 'or test Dr Marcus I Neustaedter and Dr William Thro dem onstrated that the virulent germs of the disease may be cominuuieated to monkeys from sweepings gathered in the rooms of infected patients These "physicians with Dr lexner 'tnat the disease hrst in fects the nasal passages and throat and that in them it should be first combated Now Dr Samuel Dixn Pennsylvania's commissioner of "health reports that in his studies of 773 cases of poliomyelitis dur ing the epidemic of 1910 in that state he has found an organism peculiar to the of 10 different cases of acute polio myelitis iii children arid in 13 cases of the disease in experimental This organism appears as a faintly stained bine rod with a regular cell wall about 10 microns long and about 8 microns In width curved at an angle of'60 to 75 de grees at one end occasionally tit both ends At times tho curved end Is bulbous Some of the organisms appear to have a very finely granular protoplasm hen the highest am plification is employe This germ is found freein the serum taken from patients as tvojl as in the body of the rod blood cells Its motions are descried ami it may be artificially cul tivated It has been found the blood of monkeys three weeks after inoculation If the germ of this terrible disease of children has been finally identified experi ments may be 'begun systematicallv to find an agent that will dcstroyit This mav be accomplished through a serum or bv some chemical specific But enough hns already been learned of the nature of the disease 'to make it certain that' patients known or suspected of infection should be isolated for at least three weeks from its onset that everything about them should lie disinfected and fumigated and that members of the families should lie excluded froin schools during the period of isolation and possible incubation of new cases or those in contact with the sick and in communities subject to an epidemic Dr Dixon recommended in his recent address before the Pennsylvania state medical society the 'administra tion of a drug wliicli now offers hope of establishing' im THE MAN rom the IS C) Statel Suppose every one did just what he in tended to do and no one failed Thon there would be no failures to point out There would he no subjects for ser mons for those who had at tached to their names Thenuan without the title could not point to the man and say did not succeed So the "because" man may take heart and feel that 'he did not he is surely nt lat the subject of this sketch True he mot scale the rugged wall nor climb to hights by the masses who arc also' 'other cause" men' 7 Most of us are mon We yearn for the unattainable: we feel that life is a failure But 'maybe the realities and dreams of callow yohtlf did not come nearer the we think Maybe the will show thaf the men climbed "higher than they thought and maybe the Judge will show those who stood on hights that the clouds arc well worth strivinckfpr but in the depths there is some siinlicht''Bnt the mar shojfld never have a an! excuse LOOKING ATER TYPHOID romi the Boston Advertiser The work done by the state board of health in connection with the typhoid epi demic at Attleboro reflects credit the state officials ami it also goes far toward showing their ability to" deal with any 15 'epidemic promptly and effectually when ever and wherever it appears unless in some large city where the investigation must necessarily covrr more ground And take longer time although' the certainty of results would be the in the end The system which the board has adopted for covering all possible chances of infec tion insures as correct results as the methods of a solution of a problem in geometry Of course the' state cannot pre vent those isolated cases of infection re suiting front the wanderings of (typhoid Carriers but tho methods now employed insure profnpt and effectual result's THE PRESIDENT'S HAT rom the Chicago Post Mr Taft's silk bat is wearing out and in the exigencies of travel there is none to take its place It is not that the size of 7 is not generally manufactured but' that the styles obtainable in San ran cisco either lack something or offer too much' Mr Taft's face is large and full aud its lines need a sympathetic blend with the contour of the hat Hence the old one disabled by excessive waving is being (irnde to last ew except a president wear a silk hat often enough to feel a deep concern Over the episode In the case of the tile that was squashed at the party it was hat me father wore" and while not many of our headpieces are heritages they might well be The situa tion wherein onc'has to be polished three times a day is abnormal The president might try sombrero This style was made to wave and is siz Able enough to meet iho physical require ments involved Moreover it is the kind of worn in campaigns and Mr nit certainly has taken the field unchanging vv oni an or attending sociable cause 'of equal right Tied 'iifc If nyone simply point to the A ons assistant rom the Brooklyn (N Y) StniiInr1 Unlon Let it be no longer charged that the nresent dav woman is so absorbed busi ness or in adding to her wardrobe or iiiniienus inc that she does notsnonsibilities of mar makes the asScrtimi experience Hans keeper of the ire Island lighthouse Some month ago he let it be known hroii''lr newspaper that ho was i lonely bireheffir arid wanted to banish the nio notouy of his existence by taking a wife AV is there if dearth of responses bis occupation keeps him almost secluded from society? Just ask Hans He de clares that be received letters from fit I' I wommi Ami the one he made his ife was a widow ENGLAND'S LAhOR TIAGUBLES rom the UaverhlU Gazette Conditions in England are very bad for the workt rs Wages are from one third to one half less than in tliis country ami the ost of living is abe ut as high ami would be much higher if the American' pae was kept Moreover it is in Initiated that there are aboqt 5O(IHMI workmep too many in England and Walw The lal or exchanges organized by the govern nient recently have' helped Somewhat' in I preventing the unskilled workingmen from I losing labor (bailees but there is little vq port unity fT the unskilled man nt best in a city win re the labor market is two er three' times overstocked In a situation like this it is not difficult to have strikes and the troubles which alt end them As to the merits of the controversy it is im JOHN I ONG IS ROUSED ront a Speech In Worcester Saturday 1 You all know that Gov oss is some what of a plunger in the stock market I suspect that he has done Mme plunging in his administration of state affairs Ion nil know of his great prom ices never ful filed He plunged when 'h' fold ('of graft and crooked adminietrntion of the state departments and oven with his $0 a day experts he has failed to bring any of these things fo light He has utterly failed Rut wo ow him something I am sure for proving re the world' that the state departments are conducted honestly and efficiently We owe him something for showing Us that everything Is all right I think that this state will Oil N'qvetnber 7 put an end to this plunging' administra tion of Gov oss AN OVER WORKED COURT I rom the New York World Renewed congestion of business explains the order of the United States supreme court reducing from four to three honro the time in which to submit tucase Tire relief afforded by the organization of the circuit courts of appoals is material but not sufficient Sime then the number of docketed cases carried over in the su preme court has doubled More cases are now submitted without oral argument than ever before The new order will further expedite business It sets a good example to the courts of many stub's cumbered with business by their patient sufferance of dilatory proceedings DR TNSGRIPTIONS 'pm the Boston Globe it Sound as if President Eliot wore book tit the liohn and dealing out lionoGirv degrees to read the typical epi gpnms written by him for the cast and west I'lremlcs of the new post office build ing in Washin 'ton? 'On the oast pavilion the inscription will rend: of news ami knowledge instrument of trade nml eomirerce promoter of miitual acquaint ance among men aud nations and hence of i' and good Avin" tin the west pavilion will of love and sym paibv niessi nger of friendship consoler of (ho lonely enlarger tlm common AN OI TSI1YE VIEW re rom the Cltvclaml Lender Boston siiffragets are "heckling" the re publican eumlidate governor ofMassa i bus Its at his campaign jnf'dtings Which is of course it rfectly good a to xyin tlie apmpVhl ti6 Massiiehiisetts rieiinb i llll 1 GORING for iii SIN'SS rom the Milwaukee 'Sentinel Jloctors undertakers and coroners are making preparations for the opening of the deer hunting season ib.

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