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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
TEST TAR DUST EFFECT.
New York Expert In Paris to Study In.
jury to Trees.

New York Expert In Paris to Study In.
jury TO Trees.
MI. w. A. Murrill. assistant director
of the New York botanical gardens, has
gone to Europe to find out II tar dust
really Injuries shade trees. A commit
tee appointed to investigate the prob.
lem in Paris has reported that It does.
II DR.. Murrill's Investigations confirm
this 1t will be necessary to change the
park policy Of New York. Suburban
towns along the main highways also
will be affected because Of the tar
placed in the roadways to make them
smoother for automobile traf1c.
Before sailing DR.. Murrill said that
he was going to Paris with a perfectly
unbiased mind. He.had never heard or
seen anything that would make him
believe that tar dust hurt New York's
trees. but he admitted tar had q great
many poisonous properties.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
chieaae Social Recreation.

West park No. 2 In Chicago. known
as stanford park, recently celebrated
the close Of its third year Of playa
very. busy year Of genuine social recre-
alton as is shown by a perusal Of the
directors brief page Of statistics. There
wassa total attendance Of 759.118 per-
sons 400 Of whom organized into
clubs; 6s,OOO used the reading room
and 12s,OOO the swimming pool. These
numbers can be, as Director Teller ad-
vises.: interpreted only In terms Of
...justice, neighborliness. democracy.
good citizenship and brotherhood"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
MODEL HOMES Of
ESSEN WORkMEN
Germany a Leader In Solving
Problems Of Housing,
As A PIONEER.

Foresight Of Germans Provided Conn
Portable and Adequate. Housing Fa-
ciiities For Workers-Krupp First to
Put Idea Into Effect. !.
The foresight of the Germans was
responsible for the provision Of COM
Portable and adequate housing facili-
ties for the workers, says Wilhelm
Wiegand in Town Development Over
fifty years ago it was realized that an
investment for efficiency was the most
profitable investment possible. and this
realization was followed up by the con-
clusion that such efficiency can be Sc
cured. only when the w~erkingman is so
housed and cared for that his health
and happiness are assured. The truth
Of this hypothesis is now SO generally
acknowledged that its statement ap-
pears trite. But fifty years ago the
theory had never been tried and proved
true, and it must have been difficult to
squander good marks and pfennigs
for the contamination OFF, visionary
ideal.
The founder of the great Krupp gun
works at Essen. however, with more
than native German sagacity, was per-
haps the first to comprehend the con-,
crete value Of the vision. So in the
year 1860 twelve houses that were to
rent at a most modest figure were built
for the convenience Of the Krupp en-
ployees. After that the advance was
rapid. Within seven years 318 more
houses had been added to the colony,
and as the plant grew year by year the
number Of houses increased until there
are now yer 5000. Even this num-
Der of dwellings, however, provides for
but one-third Of the employees Of the
great shops. for the Krupp interests
furnish labor for about 10000.
Unlike other colonies that have been
founded to provide q home for the
at the least possible cost. the
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
SMOKE AND DUST NUISANCE.
The American Medical Association L..
sues q Warning.

The American Medical Association Is.
sue q Warning.
In a bulletin urging the public to in.
sist on municipal regulation eliminat-
ing smoke and dust as far as possible
from the city streets the American
Medical association. commenting on
cinders and their danger to the eyes.
says:
"I've got a cinder in my eye! How
frequently we hear this expression in
the street, especially when the air is
filed with dust and smoke or any
where beneath the network Of elevated
tracks. While this may seem a trivial
mishap and often is IL the foreign
substance is Immediately removed
from the eye. yet it is often a most
serious thing, and the public at large
little realizes that a seemingly unim-
portant accident Of this sort may re-
suit in serious and permanent impair
ment Of vision.
1.-The membrane covering the eyeball
is a very delicate structure, and when
even a tiny speck of any foreign mat
ter lodges on it 1t quickly becomes i'm
bedded. The irritation thus set up
causes the person to wink the eye fire.
quently, and each time the lid closes.
rubbing against the particle. it tends
to embed it still further into the men,
brane. The efforts of sympathizing
friends to remove the offending speck
with a handkerchief n a wooden
%toothpick. instead Of helping the situa-
ton. usually results in making q bad
matter worse from the damage thus
done to the tissue. Infection is then
easily carried deeper into the tissue.
and an ulcer results.
IF the process reaches this stage.
even IL the cause should be completely
removed. it would perhaps be too late
to prevent a sea after the ulcer heals.
it might be so faint as to be hardly
distinguishable. yet II it is situated
just in front Of the pupil, as very fire.
quently happens, the vision Of that
eye would be seriously and perhaps
permanently impaired.
"The public should understand the
seriousness Of such occurrences, and
public spirit should be aroused to the
point Of insisting on municipal regula-
ton. eliminating smoke and dust as
far as possible from city streets. Hav-
ing the streets washed every night, AZ
is done in many Of the European cities,
instead Of having them swept during
the day. and prohibiting the burning
Of soft coal within the city limits
would go a long way toward remedy
ing this evil"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
o ON THE POLICE FORCE
They Fill a Long Felt Want, Says Los
f. Angeles "Lady Cop"

They Fill a Long Felt Want, Says Los
Angeles "Lady Cop"
The arrival of the woman police
officer is a striking commentary upon
the changed conditions Of our day, says
Mrs. Alice s. Wells, q member of the
Los Angeles police force.
Out Of the many which might be
named two generally inclusive reasons
for the woman police officer center u
attention.:
First.-The police department is the
great peace army. Its province IL to
keep the peace and to prevent crime
through maintaining law and order.
During the last twenty-five years an
active spirit of prevention has mani
tested itself in every line Of human
activity, a spirit based. no doubt, upon
the deepest promptings-the quicken
ing sense of brotherhood. Of mutual re-
sponsibility, and the very self preser-
walton Of the race under our increasing
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24

colony Of Essen has not been forced
to sacrifice beauty and comfort to mere
utility. Built primarily to serve the
purpose Of utility, compactly arranged
for the s~trictest economy Of space as
the houses are, they maintain an at
mosphere Of charm and individuality
that goes far toward making them real
homes for their tenants. Indeed, q
glance at the Ivy covered walls, shaded
windows, patches Of shrubbery and
flowers, gives one the impression Of q
small agricultural village rather than
Of a laundering industrial center. The
buildings have been arranged so that
every family may have it's bount1ful
share Of light and open air. Each
dwelling has a small lawn and q gar
den space for vegetables and flower
gardens. The interior Of the cottage
is as attractive as the exterior. Every
house contains at least two rooms.
aud the great majority have from four
to six rooms and often. q basement.
In accordance with the prevailing Gus
tom the main room serves the double
function OF kitchen and living room.
This ROOM. always Immediately clean,
is always comfortably warm from the
heat Of the stove. The whitewashed.
walls are. covered with the shining
kitchen utensils that are used through
out the country as wall decorations.
For comfortable habItations in Essen
the wOrkmen pay from 100 to 800
marks a year, the higher figure provid-
ing a dye room cottage In the most ia
vosable environment. Imagine any
house in America renting for from
$3.50 to $7l.4O a year! At this price,
Of course, the proprietors can make no
money. and. although they calculate
their gain at ] per cent per annum,
the expense of deterioration must be
estimated at 3 per cent, 30 that the
Krupp company stands q yearly loss
Of 2 per cent on every house. To on
set this loss. however, the company
has discovered through the experience
Of the fifty years that the efficiency Of
their workingmen has been tripled and
that the loss from strikes and labor
difficulties in general has been reduced:
to- a negligible frnctions That the COM
pany has never questioned the wisdom
OF sacrificing a small amount OF money
to a great gain In service is most con-
clusively demonstrated by the continu-
n Of the policy OF home building.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
A. HOPEFUL

To me city planning is the
most hopeful Of all municipal
movements = first. because It
means a INSTALLATION Of the city
as a possible agency Of great
good to mankind Heretofore.
we have looked upon 1t as an
evil, us ii behemoth. Now we
are beginning to realize that 1t
contains great possibilities Of
good; that poverty can be mini
mixed: that the houses people
live in can be controlled; that the
city Of tomorrow need not be.
what the city of today is-a men,
ace to our civilization.
Over a hundred cities in this
country have already undertaken
ambitious town planning prof.
ects. Each week adds new cities
to the list. Experts are being
employed: the architect, the
landscape artist and the engineer
are being called in for the solu-
ton of these problems. Amer
lea awoke to this problem later
than did Germany, France or
England, but with our unbound
ed resources, with our fertile
imaginations, believe that in
another generation the American
city will outstrip' even the cities
Of Germany in its municipal
achievements. For it must be
remembered that the American
city is OH a democratic basis.
1t is acquiring freedom to act
under home rule legislation, and
whatever the failures of democ-
racy may have been in the past.
L have faith to believe in the
evidence already before us that
democracy will solve the prob
lens which now confront it more
effectively than have even the
most advanced nations of the old
world.-Dr. T.. G. Howe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT.

/ Nineteen hundred and fourteen
! ought to see u great extension Of
] the city planning movem, at for
! small rs we'll as large places. l
! have recently been seeing how
! the shrewd and economical
l Frenchmun manages through
planning to get double or quad
. ripple value out Of a bridge. a
public building. a monument or
. any other structure on public
!. property. We in the United
. States ought to stop our silly
. and extravagant habit Of placing
. buildings. bridges and the like
. with little Or no reference to sur
. roundings, approach, vista or
; other structures.
In 1914 there may we'll be ex-
. tended study Of the relation of
, parks and Fairgrounds to CON-
; munity life and efficiency and
the consequent extension Of
what Is certainly a municipal
function-that of competing with
the forces Of disorder and i'll
health by the provision Of means
for producing order and good
health.
We might to advantage in 1914
begin to consider the desirability
Of good form and pleasing ap-
pearance in various street fur
nishings. We have gone far in
good lighting standards and in
putting off the streets the forests
Of dead trees that supported en-
numbering electric wires. Now
let us have receptacles for street
sweepings as efficiently incon-
sptcuous as those Of Berlin or of
London and street letter boxes
that look like something else
than a cross between q tin gar
bage can and Il wash boiier.-J
Horace Mcfarland in Survey.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
ENTERPRIsING FRIENDLINEss.

How Decatur Citizens Won the Hearts
Of Incoming Locomotive Workers.
When an industry moves from one
community to another the change
means for many Of its employees de-
sorting homes dearly paid for, taking
children out Of school, breaking of
church and lodge affiliations.
1t was for this reason that Decatur.
ILL.,, through it's chamber of commerce,
determined to do everything in its
power to make the locomotive shop
men employed by the Wabash railroad
like their new place Of residence when
the road moved its machinery from the
old shops in Springfield to the new
plant in Decatur, mi of the largest of
its kind in the world.
When they learned that they were
to be transferred to Decatur the shop
men sent a committee to that city to
investigate. The report was %unfavor-
able. The shopmen were informed that
vacant houses were few, that rents
were high and board excessive.
1t was then that the Decatur cham
Der of commerce interested itself. : An
investigation of almost every boarding
house in the city disproved the report
that board was excessive. A meeting
Of builders was called, ana, though no
definite promises were secured as to
how many houses they would erect,
the chamber satisfied itself that enough
would be provided by the following
spring.
Through its secretary, John NJ. Byrne,
the chamber compiled a list Of board
ing houses, secured the names of the
shopmen who were coming and en-
couraged real estate men to write them
with a view to finding out their needs.
On the morning the advance guard
Of the newcomers, some bringing their
wives and children. were due to arrive
the chamber of commerce officials, ac-
companied by thirty citizens, each with
his automobile, met the train, escorted
the shopmen to the waiting machines
and took them on a ten mile ride over.
the principal streets and through the
park.
Attic end of the ride any lingering
feeling Of prejudice and hostility had
been removed and shopmen shook
hands with their hosts. The news
Travelled back to Springfield, with the
result that shopmen who had been.
planning to 60 elsewhere decided. to
remain with the Wabash and make
Decatur their home.
1t required little effort for a. city to
show itself human as well as enterpris-
ing.-Survey.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
TOWN BUILDING TIPS.

A city building organization
without an adequate member
ship 10 az useless a. an automo-
bile without an engine.
9 Help your neighbor whom you
can. A ITO Let" sign next door
is q bad advertisement for your
business.
Opportunity % seldom graspsd
by the individual-man or city
without intelligence and vigor.
Il 10 all right to suppress the
smoke nuisance, but donr do.
stroy the factory merely because
its boiler room 10 at fault
Town Development.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
First Efficiency Exposition.

The first National Efficiency exposi-
ton and conference will be held In.
the new Grand Central palace, New
York city. from April 4 to II under
the auspices Of the efficiency society.
Incorporated. The exhibits will show
the increasing application Of scientific
methods to modern conditions, and
there will be assembled displays Of
appliances. methods and products In
the fields Of industrial, mechanical,
governmental, educational and house
hold efficiency. Special invitations to
participate IN the conferences to be
held during the exposition win be Is
sued to scientific organizations, state
and municipal oficials and authorities
on efficiency.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24
For Civic Center Plan.

A special election a held in San
francisco on the question Of the issue
Of $8,SOO.0OO Of bonds to erect a city
hall and to create II civic center. By
the extraordinary majority of 45.129 in
favor. Of the proposition to 43b against
it-more than 100 to 1.-the issue was
approved. The vote was the largest
ever nolled at a special election.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24

contempt. AZ Tor the women speCCa-
tors, they we're very much amused at
his actions.
Runlet's club had not found q pitcher
to take his place. 1t lost steadily,
and by the end of the nfth inning all
hope Of winning the game left them.
It Is a disputed point what caused a
sudden throwing of Of Runlet's ef-
feminacy. The doctors who transfus-
ed the blood into him contend that q
quantum Of woman's blood, which had
been thrown through the heart, sud
denly gave place to that Of q man:
Be this as It may. Jack Runlet, be-
dizened as he was. vaulted the rail
that separated him from the neld,
jumped down into the diamond and
demanded the ball. A shout arose,
with cries Of .ATry him again." "Give
It to himy' and the like. Some one
tossed the. ball to him, and by q sue
cession Of remarkable curves he put
out every one who attempted to ham
die the bat from then to the end Of
the ninth inning. winning the game
Handsomely.
The doctors are now consulting how
to get him back to the unbroken mas
culine condition he was in before II
became necessary to put new blood in
him. DR.. Hammersly has suggested.
letting out blood whenever he Is ef-s
Terminate, supplying. the deficiency with
that Of a sturdy man. This will doubt
less be done.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-04-24

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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17
zr5 EeAS EzzAklll2-41l2A,&
E51SsSAMLssIoN FIELpsA

patience was required to transform the
unframed Coreans into performers of
high order, but the feat was accom-
plished with such success that the
fame of the organization has spread
over large part of Southern Corea.
A band of Catholic musicians in a
country like Corea is means of evan
gelization. 1t draws the attention of
pagans to the missionaries. The re-
ligion they teach becomes a subject
for investigation. Religious ceremonies
in which the band participates are
largely attended, and though the peo-
pie come primarily to hear the music,
they often return for the purpose of
investigating Catholic doctrine.
Concerts are given every evening,
and the young Catholics attracted by
the entertainment are thus held to-
gether and protected from the danger
Gus influences which newcomers from
Japan are exerting in the community.
Truly, music hath charms in this
instance to work wonders of grace in
the hearts of the lively Coreans, and
the missionaries are correspondingly
happy.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17
SEpITIoUS UTTERANCES.

The Cheyenne Daily Leader, one OF
Wyoming's leading newspapers, re-
Gently contained an editorial attacking
anti-Catholic bigotry. The editor of
the paper is Alex. HASTE, Scotch
man and staunch Presbyterian. He
said in part: Some time ago the
Leader took occasion to condemn the
seditious utterances of paper called
the Menace. It is a sensational anti
Catholic publication seeking
to set neighbor against neighbor,
brother against brother, and citizen
against citizen. Catholics have fought.
bled and died for old glory in the re-
bellion, in the Spanish-American War
and Catholics today are marshalled
in the United States Army at the gates
of old Mexico, ready to die in the de-
fence of this government at the COM
mand of our Presbyterian President.
The Leader appeals to all level-head-
ed, sensible citizens not to allow them
selves to be carried away by this fool
ish and anti-Catholic propaganda"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17
HELP THE HOLY SOULS.

Father Faber, in "All for Jesus,
urges his readers to make use of the
great power, which God has placed in
their hands, in behalf of the suffering
souls in Purgatory. He says, See
how men work at the pumps on board
ship when they are fighting for their
lives with an ugly leak o, that we
had the charity so to work, with the
sweet fundamentally of indulgences,
for the holy souls in Purgatory"
We can not remind our readers too
often, says the Sacred Heart Review,
of the great help they can render the
souls of their departed relatives and
friends by enrolling them in the So
ciety for the Propagation of the Faith.
Do we not owe it to these dear de
parted ones, especially to our parents,
if they be among the number, to do
what lies in our power to hasten their
entrance into Heaven? Then why de
lay any longer in taking out Per
petual Membership (forty dollars pay
able in one year,, which entities the
holder to share in all the Masses and
all the good works of every missionary
in the field as long as the Church shall
exist? We have not doubt but there
is no more eficacious means of free
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17

rance with the cause which they so
bravely and manfully upheld. No one
at that time even whispered that Cath
olics entertained religious principles
incompatible with the safety and free
dom of the country. Both in war and
peace American Catholics have been
devoted and loyal subjects of the Re-
public"
Gen. Washington, in an order issued
by him on November 5, ITS, prohibit
ing the non-Catholics of Boston from
burning the Pope in efigy, says: "As
the commander-in-chief has been
appraised of a design formed for the
observance of that ridiculous and
childish custom of burning the eff1gy of
the Pope, he cannot help expressing
his surprise that there should be
officers and men in this army so de-
void of common sense as not to see
the improperly of such step. 1t is
so monstrous as not to be suffered or
excused; indeed, instead of offering
the most remote insult, it is our duty
to address public thanks to our Catho-
lie brethren, as to them we are in
debted for very late success over the
common enemy in Canada"
Father Lotbiniere, in one of his
writings, says: ut was Catholic
priest to whose eXertions we owe the
raising of the American flag over the
cities of the great West, thus gaining
the great Northwest, now teeming
with powerful states, to the cause of
independence-this was Father Peter
Gibault, the patriot-priest of Vim
cennes, who blessed the Catholic COM
pany of Kaskaskia as they filed into
the continental army of the North
! west. The Catholic officer, Francis
Vigo, and the Catholic priest, Peter
Gibault, by the aid they rendered to
the American general, Clark, saved an
empire of states to the union. In 1890
Washington's own state of Virginia
acknowledged Father Gibault's serv-
ices by public resolution Of its
legislature. The first chaplain's COM
mission issued by the continental con-
gress was given to Catholic priest" "