Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-25
ART Of BEING HAPPY
Dr.. Charles E. Barker Gives
His Auditors Three Rules.
GUARDING CITY'S HEALTH
Speakers Describe Need of Improv-
ing Alley Conditions.
SOME LOCAL PULPIT TOPICS
Compulsory Vaccination Discussed
by the Secular League-Pastor
Russell Called Here.


Many of the sermons and addresses de-
livered in Washington pulpits and in
other religious circles yesterday were on
health subjects. both as to individuals
and as to the community. DR.. Charles
E Barker, physical adviser to President
Taft, spoke before the afternoon meeting
of the Y NJ. c. A, on 1.-THE Finest of All
Arts-the Art Of Always Being Happy"
in which he said the three rules for al
ways obtaining happiness were. first. al
ways to be we'll physically; second. al
ways to be absolutely content without
losing ambition, and third, to get into re-
lationship with God.
Dr. Barker said, in part: Good health
lis a matter of good blood Good blood
may be obtained by exercise. taken every
day without fail, moderation in diet and
a cheerful mind. The exercise should be
designed to stimulate the organs of elm
nation. In eating. it isn't necessary to
Fletcherize, in fact, if there is anything
that will make a man disguised with his
food it is the habit of F1etcherizing.
Don't get angry before meal time. If
you do it will stop the process of diges-
ton for an hour after. The effect of the
mind upon the body is enormous Many
men have chronic indigestion simply as a
result of worry, anger, fretting ana lrrl-
tation.
| Dr. Barker laid stress upon the spirit
ual factor of friendship with God as be-
ing important to the production of happi-
ness.
Alley Conditions in Washington.
At the vesper services Of the Y. We
A. Thomas Jefferson Jones of the national
bureau of education and chairman Of the
housing committee of the Monday Even
ing Club made an urgent appeal for the
improvement of alley conditions In Wash
inston Mr. Jones stated that the largest
number of alleys were to be found in the
| best residential sections of the city, thus
| exposing the residents of these sections
more than those of other sections to the
danger of disease. He declared that the
| infant mortality rate In alley houses was
315 out of LOCO.
| Mr.. Jones announced that a number of
ministers of the city next Sunday will
deliver sermons on the alley problem and
| appeal to their congregations to have
them take an interest in remedial legisla-
| ton.
Arousing Public Conscience.
| IA similar sermon on the necessity Of
~ vusing the public conscience was de-
..cered yesterday by Rev. DR.. James
Shera Montgomery, at Metropolitan Me-
mortal Methodist Church. The subject of
DR.. Montgomery's address was the burden
of the city. He said, in part:
1.-The burden of the alley is tn voice
of great burden, where walls leak dis
ease and the ceilings ooZe filth and the
| floors exhale poisons. 1t is the duty or
the public conscience to arouse itself. CO.
operating with all agencies seeking to
cleanse these cancerOus places and driVe
this scrofula out of our municipality.
Rev DIR. ]. w. FriZzell, in an illustrated
sermon at Ingram Memorial Church. told
of the conflict which is being Waged
against tuberculosis and the social dis
cases. He said that the greatest conflict
in the nation today is the battle for
health, and he declared that $4,000 people
in New York city are the victims OF oc-
cupational diseases. Next Sunday evening
he will lecture on ideal health conditions
in 1.-The Coming City"
DR.. Thomas E. Will, executive secretary
of the District Of Columbia Suffrage
| League, spoke last night at the People S
| Church on home rule in the District from
said. in part:
when we are given control Of our po-
/ litical affairs we shall start campaign
| to work out the economic problems. a
campaign to abolish the slums. control
| the monopolies and put the city upon a
basis of benefit to the ordinary man."
Compulsory Vaccination.
Arguments for and against vaccination
under compulsion were delivered at yes
terday afternoons meeting of the Wash
ington Secular League at Pythian Tenn
pie. H. B. Bradford took the negative In
| a debate in which he severely criticised
members of the medical profession VINO
| uphold the practice of vaccination, and
| Prof Hyland c. Kirk and DR.. James ..
Stevenson defended the practice Dr.
| William Tindall also spoke on the sub
ject, declaring that the main difficulty In
| impartially discussing the subject was the
| doubtful integrity OF statistics as those on
| either side of the controversy are too
often bent on proving their case to be
| just
f1uence of smallpox DR.. Tindall cited two
instances under his own observation
where a man died with the fourth at
tack of it, and another who, with the
fresh peck marks on his face was en-
ployed to repair the roof of the small
pox hospital and retook the disease and
died of 1t. On the other hand he cited
the case of his mother who had had the
disease and nursed him when he had IL,
and did not take it. to show that some
might become immune and others not
He also related that after the postules
appeared on him his brother was vaccln-
| ated, and had only a very slight attack Of
the disease which seemed to indicate that
the vaccination had a modifying influence
The Meeting at Armageddon.
The end of time was predicted to be
about to appear by Elder j. L. NOEL
benny. speaking last night at Memor1a
Adventist Church. He declared that Tur
key is the one obstacle which stands il
the way of the fulfillment of a prophecy
of the Bible that all nations shall gather
at Armageddon just before the end
! Quoting from the eighth verse Of thu
third chapter of Zephaniah. he declared
that God said therein that he would
gather together the nations or the eartf
| i'm the valley of Jehoshaphat, which. ht
} said. lies between Jerusalem and Arma
geddon.
He sad that when Christian nations
shall drive Turkey from the Holy Land