Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-07-13
From The Magazine Press.
Excerpts Of Opinion from the Leading Writers OF Today
Rev. John A. Peake.

pumped down through one tube to
feed the subteranean fires and the
resulting gas would be brought up
through another tube to be burned
at the surface for the production of
power.
1t will be observed that all the
operations involved would be conduct.
ed at the surface with no mine at
all in the preset sense of the word.
The coal would simply be burned In
the natural strata and Sir William Raj
say thinks that it would be possible
to utilize many shallow strata of coal
that at present have no value. He
points out that seam of coal must
now be 2la or three feet wide before
it can be worked. His new plan he
thinks, may make available seams
less than foot thick, and SO mix
ed with shale that under existing con
ditions, the coal would be worthless
even if mined.
Professor Ramsay thinks that the
gas produced will furnish power at
one tenth of the present cost. Should
, this prediction prove even approx
. mately correct the economic import
ance of the new plan would be enorm-
Gus. Of course the plan as yet Is
purely theoretical. But a practical ex.
I pertinent is to be made the present
, summer.
3 The current issue of the Worlds
t Work contains among other things In
: teresting the following:
Fatigue and Poison"-It is too bad
: what some people will do tor money!
| was the frivolous reminder CT an un-
. regenerate wit when told that AL &C
g quaintance had gone to work. That
+. it really is too bad what some peo
: pie will do for money may be Il ser
: ious thought in the minds OF one Wet
: reads Miss Josephine Goldmarl s
= book on the effects of overwork.
l. A tired person Miss Goldmark SAYS
e With perfect scientific truth, as all b.
l ologists and physicians would agree
"a tired person is a poisoned per
t. son.
l. Life consists in changes in the Gel
l. of the living person, these are con
}. stantly Selling up the nutritive ele
o ments in its food and the air and cast
t ing off the outworn, dead matter
# When person is at work the pro
s cess of breaking down goes on In thu
j. cells more rapidly than when he II
vel at rest. and goes faster than the up
g building process. But there LIS
,yl point beyond which the one kind
c. chemical change cannot go in exces
of the other kind without harm. Their
is delicate point at which actlvit.
It must be balanced by rest So loni
It as this point Is not passed, all i
'e well, the body mechanically purifie
e. itself like running stream. III
fe noxious products of labor are elimln
ated, and renewing tissue Is built
j. But that point passed, the elimina'
r, ing process is clogged and quicKl
le deranged and injured. The tire
is man is poisoned by his own vast
'e products.
,n-
vn The essential thing in rest Is Tn
lg time at which it comes. Rest pos
IN poned is rest more proportionatel
as deprived of virtue Fatigue let ru
N is debt to be paid at compound II
In terest. Maggiori showed that, afte
n. double task, muscle requires nc
in double. but four times as long REF
IN for recuperation, and similar nee
for more than proportionately increa
Re ed rest after excessive work Is tru
ed also of our other tissues, and OF gu
organism in it's totality.
to Miss Goldmark has spent five veal
e. studying the physiological effects
ty fatigue. and the resulting economl
d. effects of overwork. The point
Of her book is to put the case agains
in over-long hours on scientific basl
She gives new force and new la'
70 guage to the argument especially Il
re the protection of women and chlidre
e. from the greed of employers. An
ne she makes 1t scientifically clear no
as It comes about, and necessarily mu
come about, that long hours and ov'
speeding must result In deterlorate
ia of the human machine and inferi'
he and more costly output.