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The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
CHINESE ARE TEMPERATE.
simple Hygiene Program Followed
by OrientaI.

/ The spread of the educational propa-
Ganda in public health is strikIn1I,,
| Illustrated in articles in the July number
Oh the China Medical Journal the greater
! part OF which is given up to a discussion
OF this subject. DIR. Arthur S.anIev
ieSIth oiilcer OF China, discusses How
10 initiate Public Health Work in Chimes.
Cities" DR.. WI Lien Teh. medical once
to the foreign Office Of Hardin. "Awakin-
the Sanitary Conscience OF China DR.
r. ;. Tyau. "A Plea for a CampaIgn Of
fuoIlc Health Education in China" ana
Dr. W. w. Peter. of the Council on Public
Health. Public Health Education In
China" ga
Evidently the problems, difficulties and
remedies adopted differ surprisingly Iit,Ie
from those In our own country. DR. Teb
LOT instance, after-enumerating the MANY
insahitary customs of the Chinese. say,
mat they nave for centuries practiced
system OF simple hygiene peculiarly
adapted to their needs. They vesr s,,it,
able clothes for summer and winter drink
tea, avoid alcohol. eat cooked food and
are moderate In many things. The result
Is that many diseases frequently occurr-
ing IN Europe and America are distinc-
lively uncommon in China.
instruction through the public schools
and the churches is recommended. ann
also the organization Of the women or
the community for public health work.
Educational exhibits of photographs
charts and instructions I'm Chinese arr
also used. The Chinese prototype OF the
save the Babies pamphlet, printed in
large quantities and distributed by the
American Medical Association, is an ex-
hibit chart In Chinese characters en-
titled shelter the Babies" Wire screen
Ing, fly traps, patent medicine" adyer-
tisemcnts. lantern slides. illustrations ano
other educational methods are being
used. Bulletins are being sent to the
teachers and pupils in mission schools,
and every effort Is being made to develop
public health sentiment among the people
Certainly the gospel of good health 1.
being widely preached when China begins
to educate her millions
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

Fur ths District Of Columbia, ME,yland xnt
Thusday; light westerly winds
ms vesther map Tuesday night Is PRACTICAL,
deTcd Of lows Of any importance bot there d
. strong tendency TO rising pressure over the RocU
Mountain region, and from OkiahonA to Manitoba
There has been precipitation q eonseQusnoe
ave light snow along the Great LAl0es. In North
Dakota. and at widely separated points in the
Rocky Mountains.
The temperature fen somewhat In Atlantic coast
States. and in the Middle Mississippi VALLEY
and Texas
The Indications point to several days Of fair
weather cast Of the Mississippi, with relatively
low temper1tue IN Atlantic coast distric1 In
the lake region cloudy weather. with local SHOWS.
will prevail.
TIE winds along the North Atlantic and Middle
Atlantic coast viii be modsTate northwest to west
on the South Atlantic coast light northerfy; On
the East Gulf coast light southeast; the West
Gulf coast modsrxte southeast to south; On the
Upper Lakes moderate and variable; the Lower
Lakes. moderate westerly
Local tempersture-MdniEht, IS; q. m, =;
10 a. m, u; Q g. m, 30; a. m, $: 10 O. m, 5;
Il noon, .; p. m, 3; p m, 3; D. m. 3;
Is p. m, 80: 10 p N, q. Highest. .; lowest, a
Relative humiditys u N. "a; D. N. %: Q
q. H. a Rainfall % p. m 10 p M. O
Hours Of sunshine. a. Per cent Of possible
Tsmprr.tur. same date las. y-.-Hishst. 6;
lowest, IS
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
How to Get Your Hearts
Desire.
BY ORIsoN SWEET MARDiGN.

In a speech at a mass meeting in
New York City after the defeat of the
woman suffrage amendment on No
vember DR.. Anna Howard Shaw said:
! It is forty years this spring since
began to work for suffrage. For the
greater part of that time / have given
my life to 1t. II l should be born
again and it needed me 1 should do
1t all over again"
If every one had a fine life pur-
pose and were to put the same earn
estness. the same devotion, the same
conception and intensity into his ef-
forts to realize it as the veteran DR..
Anna Howard Shaw has put into hers
what a glorious world this would be!
Instead of few here and there, what
splendid beings all men and women
would be-
If We were all to work as hard as
we long and pray for things every one
would get his hearts desire. Some
people seem TO think that the longing
and praying is all that is necessary
And when they don't get what they
want they grumbIe and say there Is
no sense In praying because prayers
are never answered.
Now. as Irving Bachelor says,
It's the toll ye give Z git a thing
the sweat an blood an care
That makes the kind O. argument that
ought to back yer prayer"
II you think your desire will be
realized without raising a finger to
help yourself, you may pray until
doomsday without ever getting an an
swer.
The answer to your prayers is right
inside of yourself. They are answer
ed by your obeying the natural as
well as the spiritual law of all sup
ply. II you don't do your part in
the actual working world down to
the minutest detail your prayer is
bound to come back to you unan-
swered.
Everything in the universe has its
price, a perfectly legitimate one. You
can realize what you desire IL you are
willing to pay the price, and that is
honest, earnest, persistent effort to
make 1t yours. The Creator answers
your prayer by fitting you to answer
it yourself. by enabling you to put
into practice the law of demand and
supply. the fundamental principle on
which prayer is based You must put
yourself in absolute harmony with the
thing you pray for. II cannot be
forced You must attract it An
swer to prayer comes only TO a re-
ceptive mind in a positive condition
that is, in a condition to create, to |
achieve. |
There are many ways of praying |
All our prayers are not vocalized pc |
titions TO the Creator.
That which we dream of and strug-
gle to attain, our efforts to make good; |
these are genuine prayers.
When Jars Adams longed as a |
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HISTORY BUILDERS.
Westinghouse and the Six-foot Gauge.
Written Expressly for The Washington Herald.
By DIR. L. J. EDMARDS

One afternoon. Just after the return oil
the late George Westinghouse from At
lanta, Ga, where he had gone to deliver
one OF his rare addresses. / spent an hour
or two with him in his office in New
York City. Mr.. Westinghouse was graf
ihed with the manner in which the
Southern Business Congress received his
ADDRESS. He spoke, at Atlanta. chiefly.
OF the opportunity the water power OF
the South furnished for the cheap crea-
ton Of electric energy, predicting that
the time was not distant when many of
the power and lighting plants OF the
South would have their original source
OF energy in the utilization OF water
power.
Mr.. Westinghouse was. when I saw
him, in one OF the rare contemplative, al
most dreamy, moods which those who
knew him were aware signifed great
mental activity. Yet he seemed to be
wholly at leisure. He supported his chin
with both hands, the elbows resting upon
his broad desk. And that was an atti-
tude characteristic OF him when he was
working out mentally a difficult prob
lem
Yet he appeared to be engaged not in
casually rejecting upon tho development
Of American railroads.
He asked: How many different gauges
for the American railroads do you sup
pose were in use as recently as ISsOr'
or course, could not answer the
question. nor did he expect It, for he In
stantly did II himself. saying that there
were twelve different gauges-the gauge
being the width of the track between the
rails-in the United States.
Now" said Mr. Westinghouse there
are only two gauges. One the standard
gauge which makes. It possible for any
car owned by any roalroad in the United
States to be hauled upon any other road
excepting one-the narrow-gauge rail-
road.
Il learned not long ago while on a visit
to Europe that In England they adopted
a standard gauge Of four feet, eight and
inches solely because that was
the average distance between wagon
wheels. Before Stevenson built his rail-
road between Liverpool and Manchester
and operated It successfully with the
steam locomotive, there were, I was told |
when I was in Manchester a year or two
ago. good many railroads in England
which utilized horsepower. The wagons,
drawn by horses. had wheels which
were four feet, eight and one-haIfI
inches apart.
II saw. when ! was in the West some
Time ago, one of those long-drawn-outl
Engines. very powerful which railroad
men call the Mallet engine, and II &C.
:urred to me that II the railroads had
followed the example of the Erie and
maintained the six-foot gauge they
'ou'd nave made use Of very large loco
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
SENATOR NORRIS WILL
!, PUSH FALLS PROJECT
Despite Garrison's Opposition. Imme-
date Construction of Plant
Will Be Asked.

Despite the refusal of Secretary of
War Garrison to support the project
for the immediate future, Senator
Norris. of Nebraska, is determined to
push for action upon his bill providing
for the construction at Great Falls of
a water-power plant and water sys-
tenn for the District. Secretary Garri-
son took the position that while he
approves the measure in principle. he
does not believe II wise to push for
the immediate construction Of the
plant.
Senator Norris, bill, introduced in
the last Congress. and to be reintro-
duced when Congress meets, is based
on the report of Col W. c. Langfitt
U. s. Corps OF Engineers. recommend
ing the expenditure of SIS. oo0,e zoo on
the project, which proposes to furnish
the Federal and District governments
with light, heat, and power. and ulti-
mately to work into a municipality
owned and operated lighting system
for the entire city.
In a letter to Senator Norris, made
public yesterday. Secretary Garrison
says:
This project proposes the combina-
ton of q power development and an
increase of the water supply of the
city OF Washington at an estimated
cost of s15,o21. 500.
TT was the view at the time and
until recently that work for increas-
Ing the water supply should be COM
menced in the near future. However,
In his annual report this year the then
District Engineer Commissioner re-
ported that on account of the installa-
ton of meters and other measures
taken to reduce the consumption per
capita, 1t would appear that the work, I.
SO far as the increase of the water |
supply was concerned. need not COM |
mence before 1920, and that expert |
ence may then show it safe to post |
pone commencement for several years |
more. The advtsability of undertake
ing the project in the near future |
must therefore depend upon the ad-
vantages expected from the power de-
velopment"
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
MAN AND MONKEY ALONE
HAVE VERY KEEN SIGHT
Only Highest Developed Animals Have
Binocular Single Vision-Cats
See Backward

The balancing apparatus which We
| nave III connection with our ears Is
found in practically all animals and also
IN the vegetable kingdom but the organ.
/ or vision, as far as We know, are found
only among the more highly developed
ahLhnas' says the Journal Of the Ameri-
can Medical Association.
Independence of movement reouires
vision IN order to secure food. escape in
jury and enemies. The nature, direction
ana location Of objects that are TO be
desired or feared is chiefly determined
by eyesight; especially is this so when
the higher animals are considered. Civil
lized man has greatly lost the sense Of
smell so far as the detecting of danger
Is concerned, and 1t is impossible for him
TO determine within wide limits the To-
cation Of an object by the sense of
hearing"
But outside OF monkeys man is the
only animal who has what We call binoc-
ular single vision. that Is. he can tell NOT
only the direction OF an object. but fairly
accurately its distance by the use Of both
eyes pointing at the same object ut the
''Lle time like two range finders. Other
animals do not direct both eyes at the
same object at the same time Their ewes
are set more nearly at the sides of the
head. so that they not only see forward
but backward.
The outside limits OF vision Of man e
greater than half OF the space in which
he Is placed. and his eyes can move more
accurately. noiselessly. with the greatest
precision to any object in any part of
his Held OF vision and such movements
may be supplemented by movements Of
the head and body. He sees well only
that at which he directly looks. His
more peripheral vision chiefly assists him
In discovering moving or other objects
10 which. If he wishes. he can direct his
gaze. Even very poor vision in an eve
may save a man from accident caused
by some moving object, as a car or an
tomobile coming up from the side. There
lore' the person who has two eyes, even
u the vision OF one eye is very poor, is
less hkeiy to be injured than the person
with only one eye who cannot see 10
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01

, q mi FIN SERVICE.

motives of the standard type without
having them topheavy. am satisfied
that when American railroads are cleo
trihed-as they will be sooner or later
1t VIII be discovered that the six-foot
gauge Is more economical and practics BILE
in every way than the standard gauge.
II Is curious how things turn about. The
Erie was originally built with a six-foot
gauge. Years later they changed IL TO
the standard gauge. But 1 am satisfied
that II the Erie had maintained the six-
foot gauge until this time the manage
ment could not be persuaded to change
to the standard gauge"
Copyright. 1915. b. L. J. Edwards, All rirh,, ~.
serued.l
tomorrow DIR. Edwards will tell of
The Railroad as a Turnpike"
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
Detective Hewlett Denoted,

Robert Hewlett, detective in police
headquarters, has been denoted from
headquarters to the Tenth police precinct
on a charge OF using Objectionable lam
guage in reference TO a new system of
indexing the activities of detectives. In
stalled recently. Exception to the remark
was taken by Inspector Clifford, chief of
the detective bureau, it is said. Hewlett
has been attached to headquarters for
seventeen years. He will be succeeded
by Sergeant Edward Kelly, who also will
receive the additional compensation Of
$50 month.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01

little girl for the power to lift up
other little girls and make them
happy; when she dreamed OF a time
when she should be grown up and
doing a great work in the service of
humanity, she was praying. She was
even then laying the foundations of
Hull House, and the Hull House OF
today is an answered prayer. Her
whole life from childhood up was a
prayer, because II was a preparation
for great and noble work. She
never ceased to work for the attain
ment of her desire.
Copyright rl5)
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
COMPULSORY HEALTH
INSURANCE IS URGED
Bill Drafted to Require Wage Farmers
to Guard Themselves Financially
Against Sickness.

tentative draft Of an act to pro-
vide for compulsory health insurance of
wage earners appears In a pamphlet Just
| issued by the American Association for
Labor Legislation. This pamphlet, con-
tanning the thirty-page outline of a bill
and an explanation of its provisions,
embodies the results OF three years
study by the social insurance commit
tee of that association, which has been
fortunate in having the aid OF the coun-
try's leading experts, including. among
others, Miles NJ. Dawson, actuary. and
joint author Of ''Workingman's Insurance
in Europe" DR.. s. s. Goldwater, late
city of New York; DR.. Alexander Lam
bert, chairman of the judicial Council
of the American Medical Association.
and I. NJ. Rubinow. actuary, and author
Of Social Insurance"
This tentative draft provides that the
cost OF insurance Is to be distributed
among employers, employees and the
State. This will entail no new expense
for the working man, since the contri-
buttons OF the employer and the State will
enable the working man to purchase the
full benefits Of the act for the same out
lay he now makes for burial insurance
alone. The benefits included within the
draft are medical care, nursing attend
ance, medical and surgical supplies for
limited period, cash payments during
sickness for a maximum Of twenty-six
weeks in a year, special obstetric aid for
the family and a funeral benefit on the
death OF the insured.
To administer the benefits, employers
and employees are to be grouped in
mutual associations, supervised by the
State and organized according to trade
and locality. 1t is anticipated. says the
Journal of the American Medical As
ISOLATION, that this method of organiza-
ton. with the possibility of reducing IN
surance rates with an Improvement in
health and a cooperating with the pub
lie health authorities, will lead to an eff
fective campaign for the conservation of
health.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS. D. G.
Dessmor l. I9l5--stalsd proposals win Be re-
eeiEed at this offer Room 81 District BuiIdinr
until O'Clock ,. m. on DECEMBER O. 1915 for
the eonS Of Sewers in the District Of Co
nbia. involving the construction Of approximately
SuV hnear feet OF pipe sever. inches to 10 inches
uAnled Forms q prOposals specifcztious and
necessary information may be obtained rom the
tGlei Iiers, Engineer Department. Room e. Di.
tiet Bullding. Washington. ID. G. OLIVER T.
SSEMMAN. LOUIS BRowNLow. CHARLES W
hUTZ. Commissioners. u. C.
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the side beyond his nose. One-eyed in
dividuals are always more likely to meet
with accidents than those who have two
good eyes"
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01

Get out Of the crowd OF Ne'er-du-wcIls
Dan SayIes.
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DIED.

LESTER-On Tuesday, November %. 1918,
at S p. m. o. B. LESTER, at his
residence. % Indiana avenue.
Notice of funeral hereafter
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FOR SALE-FURNITURE.
Fer SALE-HORSES.

HEAVY BLACK MARE: SOUND: SUITABLE
for hauling single OF double. Price reasonable
Can he seen in the mar II - Twentieth street
rOrthvfSt
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE
In snail and largo sum- All transac-
tions conducted with economical csnsid-
Grafton for borrowers WIN H SAUN-
rFRS q co. southern Bid<.. so7 18th ST
MONEY To LOAN on approved city real
estate At lowest current rates: special
privileges with respect to prior paymentA
fylsr q Rutherford. Inc ~ l5th 81
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India has A.JO5,OOo acres in cotton.
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CLAIRVOYANTS.

ZANCIG'S PSYCHIC CLASS NOW FORMISC
If INTERESTED. CALL FUR TERMS
TESTS SEANCE EVERY TUESDAY, s sHART
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Copyright T15D
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BICYCLES.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
DON'T THROW YOUR OLD FELT NAT.
TRESSES AWAY. WE WILL BUY THEM
FROM YOC AND PAY YOU A GOOD PRICE,
We ALSO WANT FEATHER BEDS WRITE
OR PHONE To THE SQUARE DEAL FURNE-
TURE CO. SCI EYE ST NV. MAIN ss6.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-01
DOGS. BIRDS. POULTRY.
PERSONALS
DR.. FISK ELGIN, SPECIALIST.

Has removed his Offices to ~ Pa ava m. p
srgagements cali Main s5l6
fESeo sd ID Sundays Herald
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-27
lamp EXP[0DES
CAUSING the Deathof the Wife.
and Three Children of An
Army Officer.
tpy Asp. GLAZED pRrss,

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 27.-Mrs.
Frances warren Pershing. wife Of
BriKadier General John J. Pershing.
United States army. and three of her
four children were .suffocated In a FIRE
In the quarters at the Preside OF
San Francisco today. Their bodies
were badly burned. Mrs. Walter O..
boswell. a relative and her two chill
dren. escaped, as did Warren Per-
shing, years old. and three servants.
The dead children are Helen, Annie
and Margaret. all under eight years
Of age. Mrs. Pershing was daugh-
ter of Senator Warren OF Wyoming.
Her husband, commanding the Eighth
brigade, United States infantry, is at
Ell Paso. Tex. in charge oSthe border
troops. The ere Is though to have
been Caused by night lamp. A burst
OF naIse from the house was the first
intimatton Of the FIRE. The Preside
army fire department. rushed to the
house and believing the occupants all
had escaped conferred Their energies on
subdufng the flames. When the fire.
men entered to look over the flames
thcy found the bodies OF the mother
ana three little girls The boy. Warren,
Mrs. Boswell and her children and
three servants slept in other parts Of
tho house.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-27
OFFERS. AWARDS FOR
ESTIMATING CATTLE
r. B. DAWSON to Give Special
Premiums at Farmers
Day ofFair.

Flavius B. Dawson. well known
cattle buyer and raiser OF Bridgeport.
who Is superintendent of the cattle
department of the Central West Vir-
ginia Fair. announces that he will
give two special premiums for pro-
idciency in estimating the weight of
cattle at the Farmers Day observance
at the fair next Wednesday.
The first premium is $40 In cash for
the nearest estimate of the weight OF
q single steer. The competition is
open to farmers, their wives and their
children over 10 years OF age.
Mr.. DAWSON will furnish the cattle
himself. They are to be led out into
the quarter stretch and the estimating
is to be done at 8 O'clock the after
noon of Farmers Day-Wednesday,
September i. Blank cards will be
furnished all those who desire TO
make estimates. The estimating and
the awarding of premiums will be
under the charge of'FI. IL Williams.
state commissioner OF agriculture, and
w. d. Zinn. Harrison county agricul-
tural agent.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-27
GERMANY IS
TO GIVE FUL
SATISFACTION
In Reference to the Sinking Of
the White Star Liner
Arabic.
CRISIS IS NOW PASSED
Germany is Ready to Make Re
paration for Lives Lost on
the Lusitania, Too.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 Count
Bernstorff. the German anbaRsadQE
acting ON instructions from BeIttu.
notified Secretary Lansing today that
full satisfaction" would be given
to the United States for the sinking
of the White Star liner Arabic. The:
ambassador explained that Germany
would make more than mere dis
avowal IL It is found the arabic WAS
sunk without warning. "a
Count Won Bernstorn called at the;
state department early an dconferTed
with Secretary Lansing yearly half an
hour. It had been suggested that per-
haps Germ any was ready also 10 make
PREPARATION for the Americans lost on
the Lusitania, but that subject old
not come up at today's conferences
The disposition of the German ernz
bassy Is to take up one step at . time
So far the German admiralty has re-
ceived no report from Its submar mes
which were operating In the Arabtcss
vicinity.
Further communications now are
expected from Berlin to the German
Ambassador and to the state depart
ment from Ambassador Gerard, which
will advance the negotiattons to q
point where attacks on PASSENGER car
rying ships will b edef1nftely dtscop+
tinued, at least whieI the subtect IL
under further discussiDn. ThA
sis between the two country is now
regarded as having passed into the
realm Of diplomacy.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-27
BISHOP Shot !.
And Severely Wounded by a
Priest Whom He Refused
to Get Appointment.
csr AssoerArro rRrss,

wINoNA. Aug. 27.-The Rev. Pat
rick r. Hebron, bishop of the Winona
Roman Catholic diocese, was shot and
seriously wounded today by the Rev.
rather Al Lesches, priest, for whom
the bishop had refused to procure an
appointment. The bishop was shot
once through the right lung and once
in the hip Physicians said he would
recover unless complications set in.
Bishop Hebron was seated reading
in his library at Terrace Heights
when Father Lesches entered and
fired twice at him. The priest then
returned to his room at st. Mary's
College and locked himself In. He
was arrested soon after by Sheriff
Tarr, who forced an entrance at the
point of a revolver. Father Lesches
is said to have proved reliable in
charges recently held by him.
He had been spending the last week
at st. Mary's College keeping an APP
pontment which Bishop Heffron has
refused to give him. Father .Lesches
is rs years of age. of French birth,
and came to this country in 1888