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could not definitely figure out the
strength OF the work as whole, they
would use from three to six times as
much building materials as were really
necessary. in order to avoid any danger
Of collapse. and rightly so, too
Occasionally. of course. they took q
chance. Engineers ignored the factor of
safety in building certain monster
little too fine: and the bridge collapsed.
At this present day. the builders of the
great Assuan dam are on the ANXIOUS
seat. They. too. took chance. Moth
ing has happened yet; but!
Now. at last. the United States gov
eminent has stepped in. 1t has decreed
that no longer will it be necessary for
the cautious engineer to be extravagant
with his employers money in applying
the factor Of safety; nor for the dar-
ing engineer to waste wealth and lives
alike in taking a chance On the erection
of an edifice which later collapses For
Uncle Sam has just finished the install
lation, in his testing station at Pitts
burgh, Pa. of such testing machine as
has been needed for all these years.
This great machine, the largest scien-
tific instrument Of precision" in the
world, bids fair. according to Richard L.
Humphrey, it's designer, to revolutionize
the practice Of structural engineering by
eliminating 1.-The factor of safety" while
at the same time saving not less than
$50 600, 900 to the American builder by
showing him just where and how much
he can diminish the quantity of building
material necessary for any given piece
of work.
In operation the machine is something
like a gigantic wise. 1t can exert a
pressure of 100000 pounds Between
its jaws any type of "built-up structure"
whether it be the chord of a bridge, a
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over there he said, pointing to Carter
Glass. We'll. he Is one of the smartest
men in the House.
What has he done remarkable to
prove itr I asked.
Look at him. said my friend
81 am looking at him. I replied, but
his record is not recorded in his face, and
/ am no mind reader
You are not as smart as 1 thought
YOU, il you see it that way he replied
See how ugly he is? Do you mean to
tell me that you think that a man so
homely could have been elected to Con-
gress unless he possessed transcendent
ability? He must have been wonderfully
smart to do it,
And. 1T is said. Mr.. Glass enjoys the joke
on himself as much as Mr.. Brantley does
in telling 1t.
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the infection is received in such small
doses that 1t really amounts to perpet-
uaf vaccination, as 1t were, which makes
them, more or less immune.
ut Is probably more accurate to say
that every one thereby becomes tolerant
of the germs. Now, In healthy man. ma
ture successfully resists the encroach-
ments Of the germs which lie dormant in
the tissues or glands until depletion OF
vitality weakens. the resisting power to
such q degree THAI they assert themselves
and tuberculosis. either local or gen.
eraL results
Every ono has heard suberculous
man tell this well worn, tale: y had a
hard winter of it: had to be out in all
kinds of weather. with lack of food and
sleep. Then l caught cold and it settled
on my lungs"-that is. wrong living
weakened his resisting power and he fell
q prey to the germ. now reused into ac-
tivity. In short. he got consumption
: = Now, the active germ produces q poi
son In the system. This poison. or toxin.
as it Is called. stimulates certain cells to
produce an antitoxin. which operates to
duction Of this antitoxin produces reac-
ton whose main symptom is fever.
'All the cures. at present, depend upon
the production OF this antitoxin, backed
UP by an increase of vitality from good
food and correct livi- : SO that the pa
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Recently, during a discussion OF
project to erect one-hundred-thousand
dollar memorials in Washington. D. c..
to Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham
ilton. Representative Cooper OF Wiscon-
sin wanted to know what had become OF
a fund raised by the sale OF Thomas
Jefferson's works. and which had been
advertised as a fund with which to erect
statue to the great founder OF the
democracy. The. House fell into general
clatter OF talk over these books and IL
developed that nearly all the democrats
had bought them, while from such good
old republicans rs Uncle Joe came sug-
gestions that .'the gentlemen on the other
side are easy marks.
Whereupon Representative Mccoy. as
serious as he was the day he undertook
to probe the expenditures In the Post Of
fee Department, arose and addressed
Champ Clark:
''Mr. Speaker" he said, "as there seem
to be so many suckers in the House. I
move that the bill be referred to the COM
mittee on merchant marine and fisheries"
And Speaker Clark. without smile.
yNA the question. and the House voted
faye" with . roar.
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certain senator is a leader. and the pro-
gresslves with which wing OF the party
ar1 affiliated.
Not long ago a candidate for the post
nastership at the town of x sent me the
following telegram:
II have always supported your wing
sof the party. j have always trained with
The regulars / want your support for
The post Office at Y. Please do what you
rsn for me-.
2 II was very much mystifed at the meg
sage. could not understand why he
shou.d use "a ar argument Tor my sup.
port that Ia. VAS regular.
= was enlightened, though. very short
IL. FOR : received 4 second message. 1t
read: 'ScieEral5e; made a mistake. Mes
fase .stenH"a - yea sent TO Senator
r. lie ias sorrs.
!" a1n sxcfanS.l- teiec-ams with the
'tenator. J foGnd tIena Very similar His
:. al
" I hpNr always sUitnr:ed YOUR wing
!, of tie pasts ! tiaEs always .rai..el With
the ptoSressises. l want your support
for the post office at X Please do what
SOU can for ME.
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structural engineering on par with the
greater present-day demands made upon
the art by practical conditions. Before
an engineer starts building at an, ne
make the various columns and glrders
going into the building to be put up;
and he need make them no stronger.
BY thus eliminating the factor Of
safety" experiments conducted with this
machine will save the American people
at least Is per cent on their building
costs. or $3.50, 600, 600 a year. But they
will do more than this. They will allow
the renting OF much of the floor space
in skyscrapers which is now taken up
by diversified pillars and supports. They
will promote fireproof construction by
making it more inexpensive, thus de-
creasing our fire loss. which at present
amounts every year to nearly so per cent
of the new building done in the same
twelvemonth And. finally. by removing
the necessity to put up skyscrapers with
a view to strength alone. they will have
an effect upon the architecture Of an i'm
portant class OF urban buildings.
To call this gigantic testing apparatus
merely great wise: whose jaws can be
stretched sixty-five feet apart and which
can bring to bear pressure Of 10000, 900
pounds, possibly does not give full idea
Of the apparatus. Here are a few other
facts which bring out its size and eff
ficiency:
1t weighs 200 tons. The castings for
the base and top heads, or jaws, between
which steel Orders and concrete columns
can be crushed like rotten wood. weigh
$4,000 pounds each. Each main screw.
by means of which the pressure is ap-
piled. weighs 10000 pounds. The entire
machine has an extreme height Of eighty
feet and is housed in a ten-story build
ing, 100 feet high, to which the apparatus
is secured by great rods, in order to
brace it against any sudden pressure
while the columns are undergoing the
strain placed upon them. Elevators will
run to the top OF the machine so that
the experts may examine the columns
being tested from any point of view In
order to detect the first signs. OF weak
ening.
In principle the testing machine is q
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TYPE OF TENT USED

tact with many others who are following
out the distastefL1 regimen ne cheerfully
falls into It. in this way our patients.
through the psychology of collective eff
fort. not only followed the mode Of life
marked out for them. but inauRurated
good-natured rivalry with one another a
walking the straight line
Another essential. we found was -
keep the patients comfortable both In
mind and body. Therefore we. provided
them with clothing we'll ADAPTED to the
climate. at the same time teaching them
how to take care OF their health In the
way Of dress. As to mental comfort. we
sought In every wav to entertain the.i.
and. better. to teach them to entertain
themselves. Thus. patients in the text
matter of contriving original decorations
or In cultivating flowers. trees or vegeta-
bles.--..
And always we taught them In the
ordinary hospital the patient is given
medicine or treatment of the significance
Of which he knows nothing. At 4ort
Stanton. on the contrary. we thoroughly
educate the patients as to the signiff-
canoe of every detail Of the treatment
More. we instructed them thoroughly in
the method of life they were to live afte-
they went back into the world. so that
there would be no relapse: also how they
must protect others against themselves.
"And this brings me to the key Of Inc
whole tuberculosis problem-educatiol.
Education for the whole OF mankind in
the manner Of so living that the tubercu-
Iosis germs so prevalent In the hum.
body will forever lie dormant. unable %
overcome the resisting power OF healthy
vitality.
"For tuberculosis Is less a medical
problem than a problem in social econ
omy, and the practical solution lies in this
that men must be taught that thew IRE
their brothers keepers It is not sufficient
that the patient suffering from active tu-
berculosis should so live as not to give
the disease to the other fellow. The
world is full OF men in the bloom OF
health who are daily laving this curse
upon their fellow-men-thefr fellow-men
by Thousands. who are thew you ask
The landlords who. like the sharner
whose razors were not made to shave but
to SELL rents unhealthy tenements. built
not FOR human dwellings. but for rent
There Is no more fruitful source OF con.
sumption than this Of the ill-ventflated. ill.,
lighted. overcrowded tenement. where
sick and we'll are huddIed 'ndiscrimtnate-
Nv together. These landlords must be
educated to the fact that they are their
brothers keepers.
9Th, manufacturer who keeDs en-
ploves. driven Mt long hours OF work In
rooms filled with dust and fving particles
of lint, shoddv or. perhaps. the deadly
dust that comes from emory and metallic
workines-he. too, is guilty. They must
be educated.
x ::
"The councils and aldermen OF munich
palities who fail to provide clean streets
for it's citizens and parks and breathing
spaceu where the less fortunate may en-
JOY air and sunlight; more, they should be
educated to know that. as cheerful
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men who do not have to work
- this class of undesirable niceties
1'S puts golf. He is the most ardent
o ase ball rooters. but the Scotch game
J. dds in utter contempt.
\ friend Of his. who is an ardent golfe-,
: as recently trying to convert him over
he links.
Come out with me to the club some
.3s he urged, and I'll show you where
n're wrong. I'll show you tina. golf Ia
. Sc greatest game there is"
Huh" snorted Koenig. NO you won't.
know about that solf-or. rather, that
Jude shinny-already. 1t amt a game at
IL It's nothing but q poor excuse for q
ng walk.'
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did not intend to.
"A long time afterward." said Mr..
Butler, "a book agent called on me. He
sang his usual song about my being 50
prominent that the publishers had print
ed a sketch OF me and had printed my
picture. ] was Immediately interested. I
wanted to know about the picture. So
he showed It to me.
There I was with regui.r horse-tail
whiskers down to my waist. Now 7 am
no beauty. but ] has. I.s,sr 49,. a.y
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him if he ever Suffered from lnsoNIIIId'
".yes hut I have a fine remedy for It,
he replied.
:. For goodness sake tell 1t to me:
exclaimed.
"'All right he replied. In dead earn n.
est, here is my remedy. Nnen ra an.
aleen. I get up and take drink. IL tina.
does not have the desired effect in halt
an hour. 1 get up and take another.
walt fifteen minutes and then take one $
more X needed. By this time, II sun =
does not work, do not care wne.neF
sieep or not-so it does not matter!
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The Two Keys.

u REPRESENTATIVE BCLkLEY of
N Ohio. said the other day OF a cor
rupt millionaire:
I'VE have. thank goodness, a few mil.
1ionaires like him. And he is such q
cynic. too. A senator once said to him:
III. sure you'll agree with me, sir.
that the two keys to financial success
are luck and pluck
Yes he answered with a cynical
laugh-'yes, luck in finding some one to
pluck"
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Snakes in Advance.

"A c a n d | d a t e
for Congress has
to stand for a
good many things,
but I draw the
line on drinking
snake liquor" said
r e pre- s g n tative
James T. McT cr-
mott of Illinois.
You see, it was
this way. / had
been in q mighty
hard campaign and
was about ex-
hausted. / drop
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A Futile Method.

"True while the curing of that number
would remove that many sources of con-
tamination and contagion, the remaining
sources are so numberless that the future
benefit accruing to mankind in general
from such removals would be practically
negligible For. tuberculosis IS like the
crop of men sprung from the teeth sown
by old Jason. or the heads OF the Ler-
mean Hydra. in mythology-where you de-
seek to wipe out the tuberculosis plague
merely by curing those suffering from it
is about as futile as to attempt to abol-
fish war from among men simply by cur
ing the wounded on a battlefield.
There is no disease germ affecting hui
manitv that is more universal or trans
mitted to human kind through more diff
ferent channels than that of tuberculosis
A small. rodAl'ke bacillus of microscopic
size. it can obtain entrance to the human
body through food and drink. through
skin contact. especially if the surface be
abraded through the mucous membrane.
the blood or the lungs"
"How. then. should the problem be at
tackled % DR.. Blue was asked.
Broadly speaking. by eliminating the
conditions which cause human beings to
general. "a course which the public
health service has been following up to
a few wears ago. There We're numberless
anti-tuberculosis movements. national.
state and mun1clpal, not TO speak of In
Vulnerable private philanthropies, which
have spent immense sums of money. with
small results in this matter. because they
sought only to cure the symptoms. which
were the individual cases of tuberculosis
and not to eradicate the basic disease
that Is the cause which led to the individ-
nal being affected. Only of late years
have the efforts against this scourge been
intelligently directed-a work in which
the public health service has taken
leading part"
y; *
But DOCTOR" put in the listener. lust
what specific work has the public health
service done in fighting tuberculosiS?"
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At His Word.

r e pr e sentative
Tom Butler Of
Pennsylvania has
never had his pic
ture taken. 1t is a
hobby OF his. When
he first came to
Congress the SER
geant : at arms
asked for his photo
to put In the off,
cial gallery. Mr..
Butler told him in
q jocular way to
get any old picture
and put 1t In for
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Marks Of Genius.
r e Pr e sentative

r e pr e sentative
Brantley of Georgia
likes a good story.
and tells the fol-
lowing one on
Carter Glass OF
Virginia:
Soon after /
was elected to Con-
gress / was seated
beside an old men,
Der, and he was
pointing out the
celebrities in the
House to me.
3" See that man
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EE,1UNDERd HE5l] B&i WHIT IT p0EEH1
Kill or Cure.

Col. Bell, men,
Der of Congress
from Georgia. tells
the following story
on a certain south
ern editor:
This e d ! t o r
friend Of mine
likes q drink" he
said. HE some
times takes one or
more as the occa-
sion requires. l
had been suffering
from insomnia. so
one day I asked
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His Viewpoint.

II epre sentative
Johnnie koenig
Of Baltimore, Md.
was a brlcklayer
before he decided
to enter politics
and come to Con-
gress. He has
fought his way up
literally with his
two hands, and he
has little patience
with the exagger-
ated niceties that
are the pleasures
of those fortunate
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ped into a cafe run by an old German.
He inquired about my health, and told
him that / was ''all in"
my side hurts, my head aches. my
lungs are sore and am just about
played OUT complained.
Il bin mighty glad you tolt me about
It, he replied. all sympathy at once. I
got der stuff dat will yust fix dat all
right
with that he reached beneath the bar
and pulled out big bottle III which there
were floating half dozen small snakes.
and he insisted that should take drink
Of the mixture.
TT viii make dat all right in no time
he explained.
''Now wanted this mans friendship.
but / simply could not 60 the snakes.
have heard that snakes could be found in
things handed over the bar, but this was
a little too realistic for me.
Il afterward learned that he turned
against me for refusing to take his REM
edy and that he voted for my opponent:
but think that It was asking too much
OF q man to expect him to drink liquor
in which he can see the snakes In adj
vance,"
Whenever Samuel w. Smith. represent
alive from Michigan, goes into the res
tives. on the ground floor OF the Capitol.
he starts his meal with glass OF water
into which he has dropped . lump Of
sugar.
Representative David J. Lewis OF Mary
land used to work In q coal mine, and u
9 fluent talker in the Welsh language.
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Appropriate.

X e p r e sentative
Mccoy Of New
Jersey, one of the
most serious-faced
men in Congress,
has the most sur
prising way OF en-
livening the de-
bates of the House
with h u m o r o US
suggestions. N o
one Is safe In
speech or a motion
when Mccoy is on
the floor looking
solemn.
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SOCIETY TESTING
and in the

like them cannot be answered with alb
solute accuracy by any structural. en-
gineer i'm the world. And they cannot
be answered for the reason that no In
strument has hitherto existed by which
the stresses might be measured. Hence,
in order to be on the safe side. engineers
have applied the so-called factor OF
safety That is 10 say when putting up
4 structure whic.. .,..- 81 Dig that they
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Playing It Both Ways,

1T does not pay
10 try to train
with both sides In
the political game.
You are liable to
get caught" said
r C pres G n tative
Morse OF Wiscon-
sin.
In order 10 un-
derstand the point
you must know the
extremely b { t e r
fight in my state
between the stand
patters, of which a
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steel girder, a concrete column. brick
commodated to a maximum size of sixty
f1ve feet in length by six feet square
The results of tests conducted on this
basis will be conclusive: they will give
the engineer precisely the sort Of in
formation which he must have to meet
present conditions in his profession.
They win put the experimental side oe
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large hydraulic press. with one adjust
able head, and a weighing system for
recording the pounds of pressure devel-
oped. 1t has an accuracy of less than
one-third of Per cent for any load over
100000 pounds, thus making ii, consider
ing its size, one of the most delicately
adjusted instruments of science yet de-
vised
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WEWOF THE TENTS
AT TT. STANTON

Any agent whatever it may De. that will
cure or even relieve a tIberculous patient
is. a blessing. To- bring back from
shadow of the grave the thousands now
suffering would be a work greater than
that of Napoleon or Alexander. But it in
no wise brings us any nearer the solution
OF the problem Of how to get rid of the
scourge.
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Representative David J. Lewis OF Mary
land used to work in a coal mine, and Ia
9 nuent talker In the Welsh language.
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''The councils and aldermen OF munich
palities who fail to provide clean streets
for it's citizens and parks and breathing
spacec where the less fortunate may en-
JOY air and sunlight; more. they should be
educated to know that. as a cheerful
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VEN though DIR. Friedmann's
- new treatment for the cure
- of tuberculosis should &C
IL complish all that is claimed
TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1913-07-18
6eier in Ila[I street.

lie ausiagen GaDio 2mars Dor Dem SenutsSomitee 5eaen BON
nepen 6euIit, m pelacm gabe Die @ehohIeute oes ganoes BON Der
Regierung ab6ingig in0. Gamar bat apsgeiagt er babe &organ angc.
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Den gogn nht i~beripaunt unO Die aamen BON I'M 0iientHaen 2eben
%iRbeunen 2eteu b~neiugcOgn bate. bic iber ieoen gerOadt erbnben
paren.
Gns QubIfum bat iet aud bic Grtidumg ooflr, bon mem Die Sc
rldte in llnlui eeest perben, Die Die llnantanbarfet ofnntider Beam
ten 10 oft in 6rnae fenen. 2anar rdlrnte imDerfroren elm oaB er f6
Der aamen Der ctnfluBreiffen Titoieoer Der oemotratiden aomiuirn
ton fir icne 3ucde beohnt babe, nen INNER ibm bs ange6raft er.
Ihieu. Die 0rort aneeerihHeu BADEN ibt ndt mebr n0ttg, IN a6rcoc
81 felen, 6oB fc IN 9erbtnomg nit gamar fanoen. Soften iuOeHeu Die
annulle Der Union gacfc gabn nmt oaralf betanoen, Die gauge Der
ibpoumg ans 2idt Der CeHcatidfet 81 brugcn, 70 bate es aeuG
Q~eittgdu6ige ggeben, Die Bis ans Gn0e iber 1age GberBeugt oepeim
pareu, bb acngreb Superintendent PaImer, Sppher GIart imo anOere
ibe aouiHtuutg i'm SntcreHe Don aorporahonen perratcn Baten.
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mars 6o9n gu iaiden, no fe H%u8e6orel ndudb biner idpeoii6e Gar.
Dincn.