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The Washington times., 1913-12-19
FOUR
Handicap.

Both the father and mother of these six lovely.
entirely normal little children Handicapped by
is totally blind the result Of an accident Because
per week and the woman 50 cents per week. trans
latin books English into siga language the blind
ones to bring up their own children in their own
church and school regularly. They unusually
bright and helpful and are being trained to be eyes
for both parents that eventually the family will
ne sef-supporting through the children II helped
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
THIRTEEN
Fulfilled.

Last year Opportunity No I3 a deserted wife with
five children support proved anything but unlucky
Three hundred and sixty-nye dollars was raised to
keep the children for under mothers
care and home. Less than 500 used for this
purpose. Why? Because In March the started in
to support his own family being backed the Dis
trict Supreme Court his employer. his church. and
raised his WAGES for Increased efncieney His wife
changed for all this year: We can make our own
Christmas, and 1; will be the best ever" Did this
81 day Christmas gift pay? With the written per-
mission Of all the contributors this Opportunity
the remainder the fund used for other Oppor.
tunities One Of these is now
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
THREE
Breadwinner Ill.

The father Of this family has been hard workins
and took good OF his family. wife and
four small children. until he became i'll with tubsrcn
losis He gratefully accepted hospital treatment say
ing, 81 won't he passing my trouble on to others
II go to the hospital and my family could then have
money that 1t now takes to feed me- also might
get well trere His wife is strong. but 10 always
little at ironing and Inending but cannot DO much on
dren. She says: sUntil my trouble Came did not
know that there were SO many good, kind people IN
result Of her fns motheEly Church friends are
that is necessary. Other friends have already con-
tributed 500. that only 81 week. or $1o4 per
Is needed to keep these children with their
mother. What better Christmas present could they
have: .o1O4
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
THIRTEEN
Extended.

Another deserted wife with four children to
support; another desertng man to bring to justice
bodied. and capable of earning 81 per day He has be-
come chronic deserter because he likes whisky and
his jovial friends more than he loves his little chill
Sren ne ne @ mon as svng nsr tel cooperation In
would have give her little children because
splendid mother and knows how to make real home
excellent home training Several people have wanted
to adopt the children they altogether beaut-
ful The Associated Charities wants to save them
for the mothers care in her own home until the
father. 1t will take 81 per week. 1855 per year to
Keep this family together. S36S
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A SOFT JOB.

Dear Editor: Our idea of soft job
Is setting up The pins when Clark Grit
fifth bowls. He never knocks any down.
Watched him bowl ten innings at the
Arcade last night and he didn't even
foul one on.
sherwood asked for waivers ON him.
and the only thing that saved Grin
from going to st Looey was that Vince
GULL refused TO waive.
Vince thinks that Griff win make
COED cheering section.
ARcADIAN.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
A BALD SHAVING BRUSH.

Dear Editor: IN reference to the spus
movement. wny not start q index ex-
sPtfG-atorious OF useless gifts?
think a silver-handled shaving brush
that sheds its feathers should head the
list. I received enc last year that shed
its wool like. collie in moulting sea-
son SPUGO.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
DEPOSITS OF EUROPE
VIRTUALLY EXHAUSTEI

The pitchblende and carnotite de-
posits OF Europe, from which Mime.
Curie made her first extractions Of
radium. are virtually exhausted.
The largest known deposits Of the
minerals are in Colorado. Mr.. du
Pont controls at Quartz Hill, Gil
pin county. Col. the richest pitch
blende mines In existence DR.. Kel-
1y and several scientific friends. II
has just been learned are In posses
sion of vast carnotite deposits IN
the West. To coordinate the phil
anthropic work, prevent speculation
in radium, preclude quackery and
place all radiur at the service of
mankind, are the basic reasons for
seeking Government protection.
Mr.. du Pont spoke freely to rep
ressntative Of The Times-
Talk about Governmental owner
ship Of the railroads and telegraph
lines." said Mr.. du Pont, this IL
nothing compared to the necessity
Of taking over the radium-producing
deposits In this country. It IL al
most impossible to believe that DR..
Kelly has effected such cures. They
seem too marvellous to believe. New.
ertheless they are true.
This mater Il too big for one
man. II DR.. Kelly appeared before q
committee in Congress and showed
what has been accomplished in wip-
ing out this disease do not think
there would be any hesitancy in the
Government taking over all the de-
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
lWO
A Model Housekeeper.

Blind father and four motherless girls (colored)
Last it said of the oldest girl then eighteen
rectiop of the Friendiy Visitor model housekeeper
AS a model Eousekeeper this year she has arrived:
growing to be pure useful women They attend school
breadwinners. uuder the old from hand -to. mouth
struggle for existence the whole family becom-
ing beEgars. All the girls now living happy
useful lives The blind father is happy too in the
knowledge that his motherless girls are safe In
another they will be able to care entirely for
The rent and the xrs have become such efficient
managers only s1o4 10 needed keep this home to.
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Federal Cancer
Cure Hos pi ia !
Project Give
Promise of Hell

posits. In fact, the Prestdebt
include It In . message to COT
SPEcULAT0RS SEND vP
PRICE BEYOND nxl
Il know Of no oettsr osryicd
to bring this matter TO tha att}
Of the public. We must h4si
operation. II the Govesnmsnfi
take over the properties. then q
rAngsment can be made 10 uasbe
equitable distribution taroushouflt
country. a national ingtitutd
should be established."
Dr.. Kelly. m Baltimore. su6eten
tiated the printed statements that hi
assistants At Johns Hopkins Uni5
verSfty, under his supervision, bad
effected marvellous resultB In the
treatment Of the disease. Ia fact
DIR. Kelly aAad tEat the work Of Dr.
Robert Abba Of New York city, and
recent epithelionla cancer and tuynor
cures In Baltimore are almost mir
acteA
The surgeon 10 enthusiastic for
governmental acquisition Of the
pltchblende and carnotite deposits
speculation In radium 1T this time.
declaring that u has recentiy SCARED
to Qe4000 . gram. the record pFice.
he wants 70 sea . sufficient amount
Of radium extracted to place sub
sfautta1 quantities In all the large
cities In the country. He suKgestsd
that 10 grams alone should Be IN
New York city. All the branches
ehould be under the supsrvision Of
the cenfral llstitution which sup
plies the radiu.n and IN which the
exrerts would constantly be work
ing on advanced lines
PRICES PROHIBITIvH:
QUANTITY MADEQUAI8
DR.. Kelly gave much iIIumination
regarding the work beina done In
this country. He owns the Iaree.t
amount Of radium In this country
more than gram. He expects to
acquire three greme next yean from
the csrnotite beds which have been
Steel Company. OF PIttsburrh, A
small organization has been formed,
known al the Radium institute Of
America, Of which he . the head.
A reduction plant for experiments
and reduction Of radium u under
construction at Paradox. Long PArk,
Colo. He said:
manity than placing radium Il the
service Of the suffering. The pres
ent prices are probibifive and the
amount Of radium In existence 10 20
small that only q compars tive few
can be benefited. / certainly think
the Government should take over all
the deposits In the West. After thai
AL detatis regarding . central tnsti-
tuition. the reduction Of ra6tum and
the final disposition of the substance
can readily be arranged. Every sec
ton OF the country should have
radfum for clinical work. I shall
heartily do anything In my power to
assist In any undertaking to make
these plAns q reality.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
FOURTEEN OPPORTUNITIES

Here YOUR chance Santa Claus and bring happiness the lives
your less fortunate brothers The Times and the Associated Charities
help Every contribution will directly family
which interested Times will money
will Christmas Editor The Muny building
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
aEATING MRS. PANKHUasT TO IT.

An English lord has sold fifty mil
lion dollars worth Of real estate in the
heart of London. Probably preferred
TO get it off his hands before Emmeline
bent IL all up.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
FOURTEEN
Orphan Grandchildren

grandmother with two orphan grandchildren 10
support. She Is a yeritatle Ms Wigs managing to
live next to nothing and always bright and cheer
fd Her home Is neat as pin. Five dollars a week
or $3.50 year will enable this grandmother to give
these orphan children the love and much
need
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
AND THIS FROM cEoRGErowN,

Editor the SILVER LINING.
Dear Sir---Are You sure .that the
Silver Lining Is not composed OF PEW
TER?
GEORGETOWN.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
SIX
Breadwinner Disabled.

young woman Of refinement and education
who has recently undereons a serious operation
to full quota OF work. rhe husband. who is
cripple and will never be able to do anything
his family Is being cared for by a relative The
three children. the eldest thirteen bright and
attractive, showing the unmlstakabe marks Of good
home training. II So week. s15s q year, can
be this mother who has struggled against such
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
ONE
First Real Home.

Mother and four children This mother says "this
the first real hcme have over had" Yet she is
born nomemaEer The fathar WAS homebreaker.
Evil habits finally broke his heSlth. He has In
durable disease being cared for away from his
thought Of parting with her children Then came the
opportunity to help, which seixed. A weekly
pension Of S. throughout last year kept this mother
radianty happy working for her four little ones in
home Of their own This home has become neigh
borhood center Of good cheer The mother Is a =
s26o per year. continue this good be-
ginning in home making ...................."& &2oo
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
FIVE
Breadwinner Insane.

thrifty, clean, capable. colored woman who
left practically widow by her husband becom-.
ing violently and incurably insane There are six
children the Oldest sixteen OF two Of whom
wage-sarners: These boys have good positions:
period it is believed that they will soon be in =
to what the boys and their mother earn, and what
their relatives and church give $50 q month S2l0
year, will be required $40
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
THE COLLAR BUTTON.
The collar button is q flint,

And plays at hockey from your
shirt.
Although it is both cold and
clamois,
1t is as agile as the chdmois.
In all big stores its found in
flocks.
Not loose, but in glass-top-box.
Only when ONE is bought to love
And cherish, does it seek to rove.
Though small, it whips great men
to feury,
By roping underneath the
beaury,
But it is happiest, when it dances
AdoWn our backs into our
pances!
PETE.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
HALF-AND-HALF.

Ecny nseeny n,irny mo,
Catch the Districs
BY the toe.
~ IL hollers,
Let 1t 90.
Eeny p.eeny misny mo,
RABID RUDOLPH.
We close with q general review of
the District appropriation. the Joseph
Tinker deal. and a few hints on
Christmas gifts.
S9SSSSS$S
And a word or two on the Chataaaaa
circuit.
&SSssssss
And the bankroli after Spugg.ns.
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The Washington times., 1913-12-19
ANN NoYED IS ANNOYED AGAIN.

INN NV E0 ~ zx<S*S0 I
Dear Editor: Have you heard Of any
talk strikes among the suffragette
contingent? They have had eat. drink
and sleep strikes so far. but no talk
st, ikes." ANN NOYED.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19


The mother and children all formerly threatened
with tuberculosis but with proper food and tho
disease has been arrested The children unusually
attractive and lovable and simply adore their mother
are already helping. but IS week, $3.50 year,
needed to supplement what they DO II this home
10 10 De Kept together 500
NINE
Deserted
This young woman deserted Just after the
birth of her youngest baby two years ago.
Separation from the children stared in the face.
until friends called In the Associated Charities and
immediately relief organized, and the church
and relatives helping to keep the family together
nave been taken to apprehenj him. Five dollars
week. or $3.50 year, Is needed in addition to what
friends and relatives do ................o20 o20o
The father Of this colored family until stricken
with blindness took good care Of his family.
There children. the eldest just sixteen.
Two of the girls being trained housemads and
make $2.50 zach week. The fourteen-year-1ld boy
works In coal yard. earning $1.5o week. The WIFE,
takes In laundry work. making 80 week. and the
husband helps her by running the washing machine.
SO that everybody works, the blind father, to
make home and support the dependent children.
Their church and relatives only able to assist
little Five dollars week. or $3.50 year, will help
this afflicted Eian to keep his home intact..s9so
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
THE SILVER LINING
EDITED BY ARTHUR BAER

, crispiy speaking. it is an awfuny
rough rider"
But even rough rider cannot ride
over US rough shod
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
SEVEN
Widow.

A thrifty German widow. splendid mother. with
ve children under fourteen Of age. Her
spotess and her children we'll trained. though the
mother must try to be breadwinner as well as home
maker Handicapped she ia. she is able to make
81 per week, but this is not enough for all their
penses, and - per week, or 1908 a year. must be
If this ttle family is be together
The Washington times., 1913-12-19

The announcement Of the formula
ton Of plans for the establishment
Of q central institution for the treat
ment Of cancer, to be conducted ~
the Federal Government, and for the
taking over by the Government Of the
: Colorado deposits OF carnotite and
pitchbIende, from which radium 10
produced. has created intense In
terest among members Of congress.
Government officials, and scientific
men.
The plan is advocated by Alfred
/. du Pont, Of Wilmington. Del.
who owns the most exteneive known
rAdium deposits in the world. and by
DR.. Howard A. Kelly, Of Johns Hop
kine University, who has demon
Strated. by the use Of radium. that
certain forms Of cancer are ctirable.
These gentlemen have discussed
the project Of Government ownership
of q cancer cure Institution. with
branches located at the most avail
able places, and Of Government con-
trc. Of the radium-pfoducing mineral
deposits, with Government officials,
end report that they have received
announcement. They have been as
sured, they say. by officials Of the
Government that they agree with
them In the belief that the preven-
ticp Of the 7k0c3 deaths from cancer
which occur annually In the United
States would be q humane func-
tion properly within governmental
jurisdiction.
The Washington times., 1913-12-19
EIGHT
Arrested tuberculosis.

widow with three small children, the eldest 4
boy thirteen who hopes in another year able
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09
THE MARION COUNTY WAY

st. Augustine Record: Judging
by the way the OcaIa Star reports
from the Marion county capital that
county's people are on the job with
their full share of public spirit.
There's a road leading to Bitch
ton or by Blitchton-anyhow it's
real road that's in bad condition and
over which traffic is heavy. 1t needs
repairing badly.
They are going to have a big pic
mic at which the ladies will provide
the good things to eatwhen the noon
hour comes. And the business men
and citizens of Ocala and that section
of the county are pledging to go out
and shovel dirt and otherwise work
roads for the whole day. The Ocaia
Star prints an honor roll each day of
the men who have pledged to work
themselves, to hire others or to fur
nish teams. This list appears each
day, additional names continually
making it longer. And it is pretty
creditable list, a real honor roll.
There is every indication that they
mean business and that they intend
to have several miles of better high
ways to show for their efforts when
the sun sets on that day.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09
ST. AUGUSTTNE'S
PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZEN

Orlando Sentinel: John T. Dis
mukes has set the pace for other hu-
manitarians in Florida. He offers a
thousand dollars year to keep the
teeth of the children in the public
schools of his city in condition. The
care of the teeth is generally neglect
ed, and the loss of the teeth results
in bad health and personal disfigure-
ment. Such work as Mr. Dismukes
has laid out in this wise is better
by far than building churches or
monuments or endowing libraries. 1t
is doing something practical for the
betterment of humanity
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

had begun, there would nave been no
telling when it would end or how far
lit would spread.
Il shows how the peoples OF this
world are dependent on each other
when battles among semi-savages. IN
1.-THE fields Of Thrace causes reduction
lin the force Of an industrial plant
1900 miles away, and should remind
ius forcibly how necessary is the per
sonal justice on which international
Justice is founded.
The Balkan nations have bleI
! themselves white, the German and
French war eagles have smoothed
their ruffied plumes, the American
Senate has talked itself TO a stand
istill on the tariff, and the mountain
lstores of phosphate rock have dimin-
iished to hills. Everything looks like
There was going to be big revival
! in all business and industry, and the
Isteadily working Ocala Iron Works
will be among the first institutions to
IfeeI the new impetus.
The works generally employ IS to
! a hundred men, there nearly always
being a score or more out of town,
making repairs on machines that
leither can't be moved, or are only
damaged enough to need repairs on
1.-THE spot. Sometimes the works have
as many as 80 men employed, and
as iron workers are among the most
Intelligent and best paid mechanics
its easy to figure what a large item
this institution is in the business, So
cial and industrial life of our city.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

We often see in the novels and the
movies" denunciations of the cold
and cruel world, which will not give
an ex-convict a chance to earn an
honest living. The world has been
burnt so many times that it breads
the fire. The Jacksonville police
have just found out that a preacher
named Cannimeyer, in Jail in that
city, is the man who robbed Cohen S
store of $1100 ten years ago. Since
then, he has been an inmate of the
Alabama penitentiary, to which he
was sent for robbery He claimed
to have experienced religion, preach
ed to his fellow convicts, was pardon
ed out by the governor. and for a
year or so was pastor of an Alabama
Baptist church.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

anna canal, carried out by L. S. army
engineers after several big railroad
men had fallen down on the job,
showing that when government work
is well carried out nothing can COM
pete With it. Also, it is an indisputa-
bic fact that in France and Germany,
where most of the railroads are gov
eminent owned, they don't massacre
the people like our railroads do.
They have accidents, of course; but
they are much fewer than in this
country. French, German and Eng
lish railways are not as convenient
and luxurious to travel over as Am
erican, but they are safer.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

In story recently started in the
Saturday Evening Post, one of the
characters, railroad owner, speaks
of the waste of money in public af-
fairs, and says if he managed a rail-
road with the lack of business prin-
ciples shown in the management of
the government, he would soon be
bankrupt. Maybe so. The Star has
never favored government ownership
of railroads. But it is conceded that
no business enterprise has been bet
ter conducted than digging the PAN
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

Otis F. Landers has taken charge
OF the Quincy Enterprise as editor
and lessee. From the way he takes
hold he is going to prove valuable
man for Quincy and Gadsden county.
Success to him.-Pensacola Journal.
Mr.. Landers is an ex-Ocala boy
and his friends here will be gratified
at his success. His paper is neat and
newsy and deserves the support of
his community.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09
AN OCALA INDUSTRY

The Ocala Iron Works is. one Of
our city's principal industries, though
it makes little display in print, and
with the exception of those who need
its services comparatively few re-
member its existence. Occupying an
humble group of buildings in a yard
remote from the business center and
the more SNOWY residence section, Il
majority of our people do not see it
from years end to years end, and
think of it not much more often.
Yet the Ocala Iron Works is d
well conducted institution and a most
necessary one, doing work for firms
and plants all over half a dozen
counties that would otherwise have
to send for parts and repairs at least
a hundred miles further away.
A Star reporter dropped in the
office of the iron works Monday, not
for a formal visit, but just to see
how matters were moving along.
| The manager, Mr.. Simmons, was
busy, but took half an hour off to
show the newspaper man thru the
plant. 1t is an interesting trip for
anyone, and MOST people, who see
finished metal work every day with
out thinking how it is shaped, would
open their eyes in wonder to observe
the operation of the powerful ma
chimes that cut and bend the stub
born iron into useful form as easily
as a housewife molds her bread.
1t seemed to the reporter that
there was large and busy force IN
the different departments, and he
was surprised to be told there was
not much more than half as many as
usual. Shutting down the phosphate
mines has greatly reduced for the
time being the demand for repairs
made necessary by wear and tear on
machinery, and so for a few months
there has been quite a lull in opera
tions.
! A considerable force was busy,
however, and it is apparent that rock
bottom has been reached, as phos-
plate continues to be shipped from
Florida ports every day, and the
rock pits of this territory furnish the
! greater part of the supply of the
world. For some years, some of the
big mines had been working full
time and stacking up the rock b.
millions of tons. 1t went across the
ocean in steady procession of car
goes, to help fertilize the fields of
Europe, impoverished by the work
| of thousand years.
Then the Balkan war broke out,
and other and bigger wars threaten
ed, and business, ever cautious, reef
ed its sails down to just enough 10
give it steerage way until the finan-
cial seas were calmer. A greater
cause for caution in financial circles
than the Balkan war, tho heard of
comparatively little, was the friction
between France and Germany which
three months ago looked like another
great war would be raging ere sum-
inner was over. And If such a war
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

Some of our contemporaries say
that the girl of today who smokes a
cigaret is no worse than the grand
mother of olden days who smoked a
pipe or dipped snuff. We suppose
not, but the smoking and dipping
grannies did not shine in society fifty
years ago any more than the cigaret
girls do today
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-09

The Manatee River Journal is
twenty-five years old and was found
ed by it's present editor, Hon. Joe H.
HUMPHREYS. There is record hard
to match. Joe HUMPHREYS is an able
editor, and his journal has been and
but state affairs. Congratula TONS
ST. Petersburg Times.
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