The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-02

The President is greatly interested
In the tuberculosis Congress which will
meet in Washington from Sept p to
Oct. H.
I'VE should make it, he said, 'the
greatest and the most fruitful congress
which has yet been held, and 1 assure
you of my interest and services to that
end
The congress comes to this country on
the invitation of the National Associa-
ton for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis, and preparations are I'M
der way all over the world to make it
the greatest gathering in the interest
of public health ever held in this coun-
try. Every State in the Union is repre-
scented in the list of committees and %
foreign countries. Fifteen hundred per-
sons are named on the State committee
lists and over 1850 in the register for
foreign countries.
80 1t is believed that discussion on the
early recognition of tuberculosis and
the subsequent treatment of persons af-
fected with it, especially those in whom
the disease has been checked, will open
up the field to a wide fund of informa-
ton touching open-air schools, suitable
home employments, farm colonies, etc.
There will be sessions devoted to the
work done By The visiting nurses to
agencies, to the consideration of meas
ures for promoting immunity from the
disease, and for increasing the powers
of resistance-such as parks, play
grounds, outdoor sports, physical edu-
cation.
One of tiIe problems facing the
Treasury Department is how to provide
storage room for the $500, 600, 900 worth
of new bills. 1t will make tremendous
stack of money when it is all printed,
and there is no room for it in the Treas
ury Department, and the only Subtreas-
ury where there are any facilities for
storage is that in New York The law
requires that the Treasury Department
print and have on hand bills ready for
issuance in the name of all the Ma
tional banks of the country.
As there are 1000 of these doing
business, the mere printing of the bills
will keep the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing busy all Summer But the
law also provides that these new bills
shall be kept on hand, not only in
Washington, but at the various Sub
treasures to the territory in which are
situated the banks proposing to issue
the notes. Consequently the Depart
ment expects it will be compelled to
built vaults in which TO store the notes
at st. Louis. San Francisco, Chicago. |
Cincinnati. Boston, New Orleans and
Washington.
The new money issue will be ready !!
for circulation by July 1. This is to
be done by the use of the old plates |
with the addition of the word cor other
Security" According to this plan the |
same notes will be used whether the |
security for National bank notes con-
sists of Government bonds or of State
and municipal bonds or commercial
paper.
Orders have been issued by Cen. AL
len, Chief Signal Officer of the Army
for the immediate destruction of all of
the old type Signal Corps mortars,
which were made of ordinary iron pipe. |.
These mortars are considered unsafe /
and a menace to the men firing them.
All these old mortars Will be replaced
by ones made of cold drawn steel, hav-
ing a tensile strength of 5000 pounds
a square inch.
The old iron pipe mortars Were de-
signed to Withstand pressure of but
1000 pounds square inch.
Wise men change their minds; fools
never. Senator Stephenson. of Wiscon-
sin, proyeS the rule. He has changed
his mind. and everybody knows that he
is credited with being very wise gen.
tleman- When he was appointed by the
Governor of Wisconsin to fill out the
years ago ii was with the intention of
mot being a candidate before the Legis-
lature for election that he accepted. He
now says that after long and mature
deIfberation he has decided that he
would like to remain in the National /
Capital indefinitely, and. wishing to
have some interest in life as well, is
perfectly willing to be a United States
Senator for life, if the people of Wis
eonsin will have him. He says ii must
be understood that he is a Republican,
Endorses all that Roosevelt has done and
all that Taft will do. And thereby Sen
ator Stephenson certainly does mix up
Senator La Follette's plans a whole lot,
to say nothing of lot of other Repub-
licans in Wisconsin who were resting
on Senator Stephensons implied prom
lse that he will not again be candidate.
Much concern is felt because of the
encroachment of the ocean upon the
military reservation at Sandy Hook, n.
j., which is used as a proving ground
for Army ordance. In fact, the grad
ual advance of the ocean is noticeable
all along the New Jersey shore. One
Of the bombproofs at the proving
grounds has already been destroyed by
high water, and 1t will probably be
necessary to build costly revetments to
prevent further erosion of the shore. 1t |
IS desired by the ordnance officers to
build two bombproofs to replace the one
destroyed.
Wouldn't it be funny If a United |
States Senator were to become the
big" Chief of tribe of Indians d? |
Senator Charles Curtis, who is one
eighth Indian, his mother having been
one of the treaty Indians of the Kaw
tribe can be chief Of the Kaws any old |
time he will accept it, The Senator
and all his children have valuable hold |
ings in Oklahoma because of their In |
dian blood.
]. A. Rice. pioneer of the great
West, and who loves the yastness of the |
mountain ranges as mother loves child, /
is very sure that nothing that Switzer-
land can offer can compare with the |
beauties of the Rocky Mountain coun- !
try. Neither the Alps nor the Jungfrau |
both of which he has seen, can compare |
with dozen or more romantic sites |
in Colorado, to his thinking He has !
been visiting in Washington, and was
glad to turn his face toward Boulder. |
Colo. again.
within four hours ride of Denver is
the highest point in the world reached
by regular railway" he says This
is Mount Mcclellan, the buttress tol
Gray's Peak. There are no other peaks
on this continent as high as Gray's that
can be scaled by any but mountain
climbers equipped with ropes and alpen-
Il