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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
THE EFFICIENCY ENGINEER.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

brick Were eliminated by having the boy
perform the operation with a wide
smoothing board, doing three o. four
seams at once. BY these simple means the
number OF every bricklayer's motions was
cut in two. with the result that each
man could lay thousand more brick in
each days work with no increase of
podiiy energy. and the bricklayer who
formerly earned 50 now earns SOL 80 with
out working harder or performing as
many physical movements as under the
old system.
These examples show what is accom-
plished by the efficiency engineer i'm little
things. But the scope
Regular Firms of his work is usually
in Every City re aeh 'r ana sear fas
ing. There are regularly organized firms
or aggregations of experts in nearly
every great city, who. for stipulated
retainer, will take hold of a business, go
through It, tell why it lost or failed to
make money last year, put a finger on
leakage or waste, suggest the installation
or time and money saving Devices plan
short cuts for this or that process, adj
wise the "scrapping'' of old. yet appar-
emily efficient machinery, and the pur-
chase OF new. and actually guarantee
| results II the advice is followed
In town of central New York was
| located firm engaged in the manufac-
ture of a staple mechanical device and
employing about one hundred hands the
year round. There was no competition
and no partners. Mr.. Manufacturer had
| built up the business from the ground.
and was rated being worth a million
dollars. For some years he estimated
| that his factory earned him an annual
! net profit Of $4,000.
/ But suddenly he awoke to the fact that
| he was not making that profit nor any
thing like II. There was no system of
cost-aceounting and never had been,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

London. will command the Missouri. Com
mander ". W. Buchanan is relieved from
lighthouse duty at Boston. and will com
mand the Ohio. Capt. Robert F. Lopez
is detached from the board of SURVEY.
San Francisco. and will command the ar
mored cruiser Maryland In place of Capt
James {. Gilmore. Commander Charles
g Marsh, on duty i'm the Navy Depart
ment. will relieve Capt Clifford ]. Boush
OF the command OF the cruiser Mort n
Carolina. Capt. III. T. Mayo, now cap
tain of the navy yard at Mare Island
cal, will succeed Rear Admiral Hugo
Osterhaus as commandant OF that yard.
The fleet changes will take place after
the April practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
GLOVER CASE ENDS.
District Attorney Quashes Indict
ment Against Mans Widow.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, March 10.-Crimi-
nal procedure in connection with the muir;
der Of Clarence f. Glover. Waltham
laundry proprietor. the night of Novem-
Der 10, 1900, was ended today. so far as
the Massachusetts, courts are concerned.
when District Attorney John ]. Higgins
nolle pressed q secret indictment returned
against Mrs. Lillian NJ. Glover. the widow
of the murdered victim, charging her with
being an accessory before the fact.
Hattie lie Blanc. a French Canadian
girl who was a maid in the Glover house.
hold. was acquitted of Glovers murder by
n jury after q most sensational trial last
December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

Black and colors i'm Women's
Medium-weight Hose. suitable
for all seasons. The children's
hose are in ribbed and plain
styles: Onyx make. Sale
price, 15c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

Best Silk Hose, Silk Hose
that are all silk, not partly
Isle: knit from long-strand
thread silk. with 4-inch hens
at top: in a number of colors.
Sale price for regular $3.50
quality. Soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

life since the introduction of antitoxin
treatment, and few cases terminate
fatally at the present day. The ma
jority of deaths from diphtheria re-
suit either from late administration of
antitoXin or the administration of in
adequate doses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

The efficiency engineer at once insti-
tuted sweeping reforms in both factory
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HEALTH OFFICER WARNS
AGAINST DIPHTHERlA
Statement Shows Twenty-Four Cases
in District-Use Of Pre-
ventives Urged.

I'VE are more willing to have diphtheria
than to pay the price of not having It,
This is q statement included in the
weekly report Of the health officer issued
today, which report carries a warning to
the city against diphtheria, disease
which has suddenly jumped from nothing
at all to twenty-four fully developed
cases. Fourteen new cases were reported
last week and one death was recorded.
Much diphtheria Is spread by so-called
carriers" DIR. Woodward states, perhaps
more than by known cases of the dis
ease
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10

merely a taken-fOr- granted liberal mar
gin of profit. SO business doctor was
called in to diagnose the trouble. He
found that almost the entire working
force in both factory and Office was COM
posed of men who had grown gray in
the service and low in efficiency. The
machinery was in only average condition.
The methods of transmission from foun-
dry to finishing room were SLOW and an
tiquated whcelbarrows and man-power
being used where mechanical overhead
carriers should have been adopted. There
was no record Of prices paid for raw
materials, and no allowance. for overhead
charges. AS Il matter of fact. the firm
for ten years past had been unconscious
". but actually. losing money on every
machine shipped.
:.
:: ::
The efficiency engineer at once inSti.
4, rpfarrlc in hot "a ct
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ton OF plant interest on capital and
overhead charges. owing to the funda-
mental blunder that the officers OF the
company had no data at hand telling
the first cost of a completed piece OF
work. Their estimating had all been of
the haphaZ variety. The business nov
is on a paying basis and has recently
enlarged its plant.
Specialization is another effective pre-
scription of the business doctor. not alone
I'm the shop. the foundry or the finishing
room, but in the business or GALES office.
AS a consequence the all-round mechanic
like the all-round bookkeeper, is rapidly
becoming an extinct species. This may
not be a good thing for the worker, but
it does make for efficiency. In great
wholesale mercantile offices or insurance
companies. for instance. the Office force
will be highly organized and specialized
In place of the old general bookkeeper'
We now find the 60 or the &c" ledger
man. the entry man. the cost clerk. the
entry clerk, the billing clerk or the in
voice man. So in the department stores
A man may work for thirty years in
blankets, in trimmings or II silks. and
not be able to spot the difference between
a huckab back towel and a bolt of sheeting
In the average machine shop will be
found instead of a machinist capable of
turning his hand to any ordinary shop
work, a drill hand, planer man, a
thread man or punch hand, who from
year end to year end sees and learns
nothing of the other muitiform processes
going on around him.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
SWITCHES AND PUFFS
NOT TAKEN FROM DEAD
American Purchasers of False Hair
Reassured by American
Consul.

American women who resort TO s.rats
switches and puffs' of hair to re-enforce
nature need not think that they are
wearing hair taken from the dead. ac-
cording to Consul General George Il. An
derson, at Hongkong. China. Mr.. An
derson also contradicts the stories that
have been circulated to the effect that
much of the hair which goes to make
up these ''reinforcements'' comes from
queues that have been cut of. To SUBJ
stantiate this, he says, that although
thousands OF queues have been cut of IN
Hongkong during the past few months,
the hair has not been sold.
Hair of Good Quality.
The hair shipped from the Chinese en-
pire is the combings from well-to-do peo-
pie. mostly women, says the consul gen.
eral. Combings that formerly were
thrown away. he adds. now are saved
and sold to BARRIERS by Chinese maids.
BARRIERS also obtain considerable hair
while plying their. trade. selling il to
hair exporters. Much of the Chinese
product, Mr.. Anderson declares. is sent
to Paris. and is exported from there 20
the United States as Frepch hair.
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Efficiency Engineer
Institutes Reforms.

abolished 0utworn machinery was con-
demned to the scrapheap. Inefficient or
ineffective employees We're retired or pen
stoned. A rigid system OF work cards
and cost-accounting was Installed. New
machines and new men were sreeded to
fullest capacity. The overhead charges
were reckoned as an integral part of pro-
duction. and waste peremptorily stopped.
Not all of this was done without oppo-
stion, but the program was gradually
carried through and the business saved.
The new efficiency system takes &C.
count of costs asa fundamental In the
old days the conservative business man
was wont to say, why bother about
costs? Sales are what COUNT The re-
suits OF this attitude were sometimes ap-
palling and disastrous, as for example:
large commercial printing corpora ion
| in the middle west went into the hands
| of a receiver who, under the orders OF
the court, was to run the business and
| fulfill certain outstanding contracts for
the benefit of the creditors The con-
Germ was well equipped. and should have
shown a goodly balance on the right side
of the ledger. The receiver called in a
business doctor, who speedily discovered
the causes of failure. In many instances
| bids had been made for work and sub
scquently carried out at less than the
itaTe cost of labor, material, deprecia-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
Means Of Controlling Disease.

Money and adequate power to en-
force regulations and carry out pre-
ventiye methods would in course Of
time fully control the situation, and
diphtheria would become as infrequent
and free from danger as smallpox now
IS Diphtheria is far less dangerous to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-10
Ascertained by Taking Cultures.

Not infrequently apparently simple
sore threats are diphtheretic in character.
yet do not show positive indications of
being so, but the characteristic bacillus is
present and can only be ascertained in
cultures.
These diphtheretic sore Threats are
capable of spreading the disease, and
it is therefore as a precautionary meas
ure desirable to have culture made In
all cases of simple sore throat, and
establish beyond all doubt the presence
or absence of a specific germ. To go
further in the direction of preventive
measures. 1t has been said that we have
many diseases with us, diphtheria
among them. because we prefer to have
them. In other words. we are more will
ing to have diphtheria than to pay the
x,rica Of mt ha wing II
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Trades union officials deprecate this
specialization, speeding" and the bonus
system o r
Destroys Individuality, driving men.
Argue Trade Unions. Without war; np.
rant that all such methods tend to de-
grade the worker to a mere cog in a
complex machine and destroy his indi-
viduality. Yet. owing to these modern
methods of system and efficiency. and
the Introduction of automatic devices. the
number of purely routine men is annu-
ally increasing. Foremen and department
heads are now able to oversee two or
three hundred men, where In former days
twenty -hve would have constituted a
large force.
The question of railroad efficiency is
one that comes vitality home to every
American citizen. In the recent railroad
rate hearing before the Interstate COM
merce commission it was Individually
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
FIRE DESTROYS FARM HOME

The home of III. II. Herman
out near Denver was destroyed
by fire on Thursday of last week,
together with all it's contents.
The fire started from a kettle of
linseed oil which was being boil
ed on the stove to prepare it for
use on the floor. The oil boiled
over and caught fire and soon the
interior of the house was mass
| of flames. Mrs. Herman sue
ceeded in saving sewing ma
chine and washing machine but
had her shoes burned from her
feet by the hot oil and had to
desist. The loss was severe
one to Mr.. Herman as he had
but recently purchased the farm
and had repaired the house and
filled it with several numbered
dollars worth of new furniture.
His supply of binding Irvine for
harvest was also stored in shed
attached to the house and was
burned. Mr.. Herman was on
the mountain after load OF
wood when the fire occurred. =
! Cottonwood Chronicle.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
WHITEBIRD NEWS.

Wallace Hill has secured the
contract to build the wagon road
from Doumecq Plains to White
Bird.
Mrs. Jillson visited with Mrs
Wilson on Salmon river last
week.
Mrs. Rose Freeman, and daugh
tiers Ruth and Rosemary, have
gone to Council to visit with Mrs
Freeman s parents.
Mrs. Charles Cone is confined
to her bed as the result of run
away. The accident occurred
near the Remington ferry. Mrs
Cone was thrown out of the We
hicle, the others who were with
her, Mrs. Brinegar and Tom Cone
being uninjured.
Mr.. DAILY of Weiser, is here Wis
iting his son, M. DAILY.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
NEW ROADS AND PROSPER
ITY FOR JOSEPH PLAINS.

The farmers on Joseph Plains
are preparing to harvest the
greatest crop of hay and grain
ever grown on this plateau. Not
only will the average yield per
acre be greater but more acre
age has been under cultivation
than on any previous year. Not
a pound of this grain and hay
will be hauled off the plains but
will all be fed to livestock the
coming winter.
The cattle, sheep hogs and
horses that are annually driven
from here and shipped to the
coast and eastern markets from
Grangeville, Cottonwood and
Fem, bring many thousands of
dollars to the farmers of Joseph
Plains.
The only outlet for both the
Joseph and Doumecq plains with
the exception of very steep trails
is the one lone wagon road to
Whitebird. This wagon road is
a veritable "Jacob's Ladder 'for
distance of two miles, the grade
running from thirty-five to forty
five percent, and rougher than
the famous Rocky Road to Dub
lin.
However, the difficulty of trans
portation will soon be thing OF
the past. The state has appropri
ated $4,000 toward building q
wagon road to the plains, the
Idaho county commissioners ap
propriated 5000 at the SEES
sion just closed and Whitebird
Grangeville and the settlers here
have raised an additional 5000
These sums guarantee the build
ing of a wagon road on an easy
grade. The new road has beer
surveyed north of the presen
road avoiding the canyon anC
joining the road on top at poin
near the old Root sawmill at tn
head of Doumecq plains. TIL
state has also appropriated $500
for a wagon road to tap lowe
Doumecq plains via Grave creek
This road will give an outlet t
Cottonwood.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
SIS, 1000 AND $4,000 BONDS.

Pete Malick, who brutally beat
up his wife recently at their
ranch north of Grangeville, was
given a preliminary hearing on
Thursday of last week at Cotton
wood and was bound over in the
sum of $4,000. Jesse Swan, who
was with Malick at the time he
assaulted his wife, was also held
in the sum of $4,000. G. 7. Nc
Donald appeared for Swan, while
Malick had no attorney, Attorney
w. N. Scales and Prosecutor E.
M. Griffith were associated in
the prosecution of the Malick
case. The hearing was held be-
fore Judge Duffy.
The prisoner, who had been
placed in the Lewiston Jail, ow'
ing to the condition of the jail
here, was brought up to Cotton
wood by Sheriff Overman and
deputies in autos, and Malick wa
returned the same way after the
trial.
There seems to have been 9
great deal more talk at Lewiston
and other points about the dan
ger that Malick would be mobbet
than circumstance justified. Nal
lex deserves all that the law car
give him, and the people her
full recognize that fact; but ther'
are too many cool headed, con
sentative citizens here who be
lieve in the law taking its course
where there is any chance for j
to do so, as there appears to b
in this case, TO allow of summar.
justice being dealt out even to
brute like Malick. Application
has been made for a change o
venue to Nez Perez county b.
Malick s attorney.
Mrs. Malick is still making I'm
provement, but the progress
slow, the wonder is that sh
should recover at all after tn
frightful condition resulting frol
the fiendish assault.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20

the train from Standpoint to Spok
ane was three hours late and con-
sequently missed connection with
the High Line train. Deputy
Warden r. L.. Pennell, who was
in charge of the shipment, tried
to have the Lewiston train held
at Spokane, but failed on account
of the long delay, and wired to
have arrangements made at Lew
iston for distribution of the trout
by means of automobiles. The
shipment of trout to this and
Lewis counties will now be post
poned until September.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

This is to notify the general
public that the co-partnership
heretofore existing between DIR.
w. III. Craig and George w. Al
len, at Denver Idaho, under the
firm name of Craig & Allen,
was by mutual consent dissolved
on the 7th day of July, 1911. I'm
der the terms of agreement DIR.
Craig will continue the business,
and will also collect all accounts
due the firm and likewise will pay
all indebtedness of the firm made
by the purchase of property, We
hicles, and horses and other bills
which the firm may have con-
tracted during its existence and
which are still due and unpaid.
Denver, Idaho, July II, 1911.
DIR. w. III. CRAIG,
j13-3t GEORGE w. ALLEN.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
SENATE RABID
ON PUBLICITY
Goes the House One Better
For Drastic Campaign
Publicity Law.

On Monday the dignified and
conservative senate of the United
States of America, broke all form
er records by passing without a
dissenting vote, the most drastic
campaign publicity measure ever
introduced in either branch of
congress. Using the prediction
publicity bill passed by the house
of representatives as a basis, the
senate constructed a proposed law
with the following important fea-
| lures:
No candidate for the senate or
house shall spend in the election
more than sum equal to ten
cents for each voter in his dis
trict or state.
No senatorial candidate shall
spend total of more than $10,-
600 in the primary and general
election no candidate for the
house shall spend more than So
600.
Publicity must be given to all
primary campaign contributions
and expenditures.
All general election expenses
must be made public before the
election, beginning Is days be-
fore election and making publ
cation mandatory each day until
election.
All promises of political jobs
must be made public.
The bill further makes it illeg-
al to promise political places in
order to secure election support
or to influence the election of any
member of state legislature.
The bill will probably be the
subject of a prolonged conference
between the two houses. 1t orig
mated in the house as a part of
the democratic Legislative pro-
gram and was designed to require
publication of expenditures before
election which is not required by
the existing publicity law. The
republicans in the house unsuc-
cessfully attempted to extend the
bill to cover primary election ex-
penses.
In the senate the primary cleo
ton amendment, coupled with
. more radical amendments was
adopted with little opposition.
The senate amendments authoriz-
ed by the committee on privileg-
es and elections required public
ity of all primary election expen-
r SEES and all pledges of political
5 jobs or favors.
Some objection was made on the
ground that the primary elections
e were not within the control of
D congress. The amendment was
e finally adopted by a vote of sc
! to 7, Senators Bacon, Bailey, Bry
: an, Bankhead, Johnston, Overman
and Taylor voting against it.
Senator Reed offered an amend
;. ment putting the expenditure by
any candidate at sum not to eX
4 coed 10 cents a head for the vot-
ers in the candidate s state. Sen
ator Borah said this would per
NIT senatorial candidate in New
; York to spend nearly 100000 il
= his election, while the candidate
!, in Nevada could spend only abou
= 81, 900.
. The bin as it passed the house
requires publicity of campaign ex
a penses not only after election, az
: at present, but also during the Il
days before election.
d The senate committees amend
/ ments extend the publicity to pri
n mary elections and force candi
e dates to publish their promise
e to the campaign supporters. Ser
l. ators Sutherland and Burton Sc
e. cured adoption of an amendmen
e broadening this paragraph so tn
il candidate must report all promis
,e es made by any one with author
" ity to act for him..
q -
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
LOST OUR TROUT SEED.

A shipment of 100000 eastern
brook trout for Idaho and Lewis
counties from the state hatchery
at Standpoint had to be sidetrack-
and distributed at Lewiston last
Saturday owing to the fact that
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
M. e. CHURCH.

Sunday school at 10 a. m, fol-
lowed by preaching service at IL
a. M, and in the evening at 8
o clock. Morning subject, "Our
Commission" Evening subject,
1.-THE Overcoming Life" Pray
err meeting each Wednesday eve
ming at s o'clock. Geo. E. James
pastor.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
DANCE AND BAND CONCERT.

The band boys are preparing
to give dance on Thursday
night, July 81, at the Schmadeka
hall. They promise the public
the best of music and an excel
lent time. They also announce
that they will give a band con-
cert on the street next Sunday
evening Immediately after church
service.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20

We serve nothing but the best
at the Cascade Ice Cream par
lors.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20

New dressers very cheap at j.
M. Olson's.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20

If it needs washing just call up
the Electric Laundry, they will
do the balance. jus If
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-07-20
THERE Is A GOOD POSITION OPEN TO YOU.

If you take PERSONAL---VERY. training and become
thoroughly prfcient Shorthand Typewrting Bookkeep
ing etc. School opens September th Students NAV enter
at any time.
LEWISTON BUSINESS COLLEGE, Lewiston. Idaho
Smyrna times., 1911-04-05

not superstitious, neither do l be-
lieve in ghosts, wraiths or appari-
tions; but this thing l do know
that although my wife was in Eng
land in body on the morning of the
18th of October. her spirit surely
stood before me in New York in the
moment of the deadly peril that
menaced me. 1t may be that to the
subtle instinct and strength of a
wife's holy love all thing are pos
sible; but Alice surely saved my
life.
Smyrna times., 1911-04-05
The Sound Sleep of Good Health

Can not be over estimated and
any ailment that prevents it is
menace to health. j. L. Southers,
Eau Claire, Wis, says: 81 have
been unable to sleep soundly at
nights, because of pains across my
back and soreness of my kidneys.
My appetite was very poor and my
general condition was much run
down. 1 have been taking Foley
Kidney Pills but short time and
now sleep as sound as rock, my
general condition is greatly improv-
ed and l know that Foley Kidney
Pills have cured me- Sold BY
Benton N. Weldon, Smyrna; W. R.
Keys & Co., Clayton.