The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-23

back to the first session of the 15tl
! Congress, and include many valuabl
| papers. The library will prove usefu
as a source of reference to members o
! Congress and Government officials.
/ The time is coming when men ant
women in self-defense will take car
of themselves. The Commissioners o
the District have decided that mai
who has lost a number of teeth or WHIT
I wears false teeth will not make a goo'
| policeman or fireman The examinin:
surgeon says:
IF the loss of natural teeth is sup
piled by artificial ones, the substitute
cannot be considered as equivalent il
value to the natural teeth, or as remov
| ing the disability on this account fol
military service. To the foregoing mus
| be added many minor conditions tina
| follow the wearing of a plate.
"As digestive disturbances, due Il
errors in diet irregular hours for meal:
and rapid eating are the causes of {
| considerable amount of lost time il
the Police and Fire Departments, the
Board of Surgeons in rejecting candi'
dates with poor teeth eliminates an adj
ditional cause-improper mastication OF
food, recognized by all as one of the
chief causes of digestive troubles
Miss Ethel Roosevelt was sweet Il
July 49, She will make her debut in
Washington some time during the COM
ing Winter. While she has not finished
school, it is the desire of her mother
to have her enter society from the
White House. tho she may go back to
school again after her fathers term
expires.
Charles Taft. son of the Republican
nominee for President, is great friend
of Quentin Roosevelt. He is much
concerned about having to move into
the White House, and thus displace his
friend. He has philosophically worked
the matter out, however. He says that
if he does not move into the White
House somebody else will, and he feels
quite sure that Quentin would rather
his friend went in than some other
fellow. Charles is quite sure, also, that
his father will be elected.
President Roosevelt got home in time
to take in the harvesting of his hay
crop and helped in the field. The hay
crop having been harvested, the Presf-
dent has turned his attention to the
clearing of a stretch of woods COM
prising about 40 acres, recently pur-
chased by him to enlarge his estate.
With his ak on his shoulder, accompa-
MED by an attendant, also with an AK,
the President last week did a few
hours work at tree-chopping. Before
noon he had felled a number of trees,
leaving only such as he desired to
stand to make the property correspond
with that adjoining.
Foreigners are refusing to come to
the United States, despite the greatly
reduced rates on steamship lines. They
are preferring to take the chances of
making a living for their families in
their native lands, rather than cross
the ocean.
Legislation to restrict immigration, as
clamored for by Americans turnout
the country, will be unnecessary, if
the present rate of decrease of immi-
grafton to the States continues.
The greatest decrease in immigra-
ton to the United States in five years
is shown for the fiscal year 1908, by
the report of the Immigration Bureau
for the month of May, 1908. A de-
crease of rs per cent, compared with
1906, and a decrease of 80 per cent,
compared with 1907.
A funny crusade has been commenced
in the War Department, and the only
wonder is why this funny crusade did
not begin long ago. 1t has been the
custom in Washington to put the very
tbickest and richest. even the costliest
of carpets upon all the, floors in the
various Department Offices. Go where
you will. you will fnd/these thick dis
and breeding carpets and
rugs. Instead of bare hardwood floor,
as there should be, the floors are most
of them old soft pine, splintery and
ugly as only soft pine can get. Maj.
Paul F. Straub, of the Medical Corps,
U. S. Army. Medical Inspector and San
itary Officer of the War Department
Building, is up in arms. prepared to
lead bitter crusade against tubercu
iosis. All sorts of precautionary meas
ures will be put into effect, the venti-
lating system of the building will be
rearranged as far as possible. vacuum
cleaning system will be installed, and
the yentilators will be guarded with
the tenderness and care bestowed on
an infant Carpets and rugs and all
the lace curtains and that sort of thing
are to be flung into outer darkness. or
fresh air, which is perhaps better.
There is always a merry war about
ventilation One lady cannot endure
the electric fans and another cannot
have the window open. Another will
swear that the ventilators give off So
much air that ii makes her i'll. DIR.
Straub says:
THE clerks will be safcguarded as
far as possible. Some OF them seem
to object to fresh air. In fact, quite a
number of them do. have found that
in many instances all vcntilators.
whether to let In fresh air or to rid the
room of the foul air, have been sur
reptitiously stuffed up by some of the
clerks or employees of the office. who
dislike or fear fresh air. 1t is surpris-
ing how many instances of this kind
have developed. OF course, there is
but very little trouble In this way now,
but in the Winter many yentilators,
newly cleaned and opened up, have a
few days later been stuffed or cut off"
1t has been shown, said Maj. Straub,
that successive cases of tuberculosis
have come from the same room, thus
clearly indicating that there was a
cause in this room. Usually it was not
difficult to find. The room was usually
insanitary. with stuffed yentilators, car
pets and plenty of dust.
1t Is a well-known fact that President
Roosevelt does not believe in the en-
pIoyment of women in Government Of
flee, the only exception that he would
possibly make, IL he had the ordering
of it. being to let work the wives and
daughters of men who are needy. and
who. in the death OF the head pf the
a living for themselves and others. TIE
President has made known his avcrsi on
to women I'm public life on several 6cs.:t
sions. and OF late has rather sanctil
the movement on the part of SOM a'
the heads of Departments.
1t has just come TO the notice of