Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-16
Chicago Postoffice Authorities
Exclude National Art Society
journal from the Mails.
WAR UPON ANTl-vIvlSECTlON
Chicago Doctors Appoint Committee TO
Urge the Necessity and Benefits of
Animal Experimentation.
speeIal c,orrespondence.

! ''PtClui correspondence.
Chicago. July lS.-Arralgnment of
Chicagos postofiice authorities by the
Natioanl Art society because Of the
exclusion of its Journal from the mails,
with the tart comment that the Off
Gals didn't know the difference be-
tween a Venus de Milo and mud
pie" has excited an equally tart re-
! ply: "A Halsetad street barkeeper's
| recitation of Hamlet is not art" The
| Judging of what is art and mailable
brings frequent clashes an over the
| country, the rules of the department
being complied with rigldly and ac-
| cording TO precedent there is an in
| teresting difference recognized between
| the original paintings and statuary and
| the reproductions which an official who
| mas TO discriminate put this way: The
| original Venus de Milo was art but d,
| picture of 1t printed on cheap paper
| Is not art One does not need a pair
OF spectacles to see the sun and some
| pictures are the first aid to immoral
ity." The exclusion which raised the
wrath of the art society was due 10 !,
picture of la Source" by Ingres. when
represents woman-in the nude
holding an overlooking jar upon her
shoulders. In consequence, the ar.
raignnent Of the postal censors al,
"prudcs.' The magazine was released
by wire from Washington, but now
the department Is debating whether
In the future the lady of LA. Source"
must wear clothes even in midsummer
or be kept from the mails.
FOR vIvIsEcTIoN.
The war upon anti vivisection sentI
ment, which was declared by the Amer
lean Medical association at its recent
meeting in Chicago, VIII be vigorous.
according to present Indications. By
unanimous vote a committee to urge
the necessity and benefits of animal ex-
Fermentation in the study OF disease.
was created, step which shows how
much modern scientific medicine differs
from the teachings one hundred years
ago. Scientific men today can speak
positively regarding the causes and
methods of prevention of diseases be-
cause their statements are based not
on mere theory but ON actual demon
stration and proof To animal expert
ments are due much of the present
knowledge of diphtheria, typhoid fe-
yer, yellow fever cholera. bubonic
plague and many other contagious
and loathsorne diseases. the facts
learned having enabled our boards OF
health and sanitary authorities practlc-
ally TO Wipe out many diseases and to
control others. The association will
combat the entire miseonception of tn.
value and purposes of animal expert
ments and the manner in which they
are conducted which have inspired per
sistent attempts I'm some states Il,
enact laws forbidding this method of
investigation. The American Medical
association plans to make public the
information as TO the value of such ex-
periments In stamping OUT disease and
In saving human life.
GET RICH QUICK SHARKS.
The convincing Rhodus brothers,
who Induced many prominent Chi |
cagoans to invest in the Mercantile
Finance company, now under heavy
FIRE. did not make a practise OF re- |
turning any money once they got 1t, |
according to testimony in a court here |
several months ago. The mother of |
five children called to get back 5000 |
she had invested and later testified:
II told him 1 was In hard luck and |
he said II 1 needed money so badly |
| should sell my furniture told |
him | could not sleep on the grass and |
could not feed my children on grass,
and he Indicating Thomas Rhodus) |
put his face right close to me as II |
he was going to hit me, and shouted; |
Sec here, we have told you enough. |
IL you have any money, you put 1t |
down on that desk. and II you haven't |
any, we are through with you Get |
out of here. If you don't get out, we |
will throw you out | was so fright |
ened / was going to scream. Then he |
put both his hands on the back of |
my shoulders, pushed me out OF his |
office and slammed the door" The |
last two years have seen great clean |
up of get-rlch-quick and wildcat con- |
Germs IN Chicago. Many mahogany |
fitted offices have suddenly been va
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shops and Investment swindlers
having gone TO jail or to other past
ures.
DIsoRDERLY HOUSES.
War on dlsorderly houses in Chi
cage, following successful warfare on
the white slave traffic" has been be-
gun for the Chicago Law and Order
league by Arthur Burrage Farwell He
has made public the results of an in
vestigation as 10 the number OF places
holding government licenses 10 sell
liquor. the total being 1885, he says,
for the names I'LL 26G pages OF the
internal revenue collectors records,
with 81 names TO the page. or these
] 400 are outside OF Chicago or recti-
flyers, brewers or duplicates 1900 are
saloons. LOO are druggists, and the
balance, 2,b27 are charged TO disorder
~ houses. The probabilities are"
Mr., Farwell says, that there are
many disorderly houses where intoxi-
eating liquor is sold, that do not pay
a government tax. but this record
shows $500 places where the govern
nent has issued an internal revenue
license, and probably IN every case
Intoxicating liquor Is sold contrary to
The state law and the ordinances of
he city OF Chicago, The time has
come IN this city when concerted
'nort should be made against the dis
orderly house, against the Illegal sale
II intoxicating liquor in such houses
md against the replenishing of ma
eral for this awful business for these
many places"
EXPERIMENT WITH RATS.
The University OF Chicago has lost lis
lead trainer of white rats. This does
rot imply that the education of rodents
3 Il regular feature of that unlyefsity's
curriculum but nevertheless Professor
John r. Watson, of the department OF
psychology, owed his Phi. ID. degree and
PRESENT position TO his success In train
ug these animals and he hag lust