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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10
BY E. A. Peters

Ever hear of Tacoma's Red
Cross Nurse?" 8
Here she is-Mrs. Ragnhild
Bagley, big hearted, kindly wo-.
man of the North End who has
dedicated her life to a. fight
against the great white plague. s
Mrs. Bagley is entitled to a
prominent place In Tacoma's gals
lery of men and women who are
getting there. She has made a.
success of a unique work, and she
is doing it solely because of her
love for humankind, and her ut
ter unselfish desire to relieve suf-
fering among the poor.
Mrs. Bagley has pretty home
at 1904 No. Fife street. Her hus-
band is pioneer engineer on the
Milwaukee railroad. She does not
work as a public health nurse be-
cause of any monetary interest. In
fact, she gives away most of her
salary to the needy each month.
=
Most of her life Mrs. Bagley has
been nurse. She spent her girl
hood in Tacoma, and became a
trained nurse, following her work
at the old Fannie Paddock hospi-
tai. She had a natural instructive
love for cheering sick persons.
She was a success as a nurse from
the first day that she learned how
to wear her cap and apron.
After she had married, Mrs.
Bagley took trip to Europe, and
1t was in the large continental
cities that she got an insight into
modern methods of treating tuber-
culosis.
A visit to the congested portions
of American cities taught her the
causes and remedies of the dread
disease. She attended eastern
medical clinics before returning
home, and obtained practical
idea of the systematic manner in
which tuberculosis is handled
there.
Mrs. Bagley had no idea of ever
returning to her work as nurse.
but was studying tuberculosis
solely because of her interest in
the disease and her desire to help,
In a charitable way, to eliminate
some of the suffering caused by
1t in Tacoma.
Three years ago DIR. and Mrs.
Christen Quevli, leaders in the an
ti-tuberculosis fight in Tacoma,
approached Mrs. Bagley and asked
her to become visiting nurse for
the Anti-Tuberculosis league. The
idea appealed, and Mrs. Bagley ac-
cepted.
| During three years Mrs. Bagley
has built up systematic visiting
system, whereby she keeps check
on every known case OF tuberculo-
sis. among the more needy classes,
In the city.
She has instituted a clinic, by
which victims of the white plague
report their condition regularly to
her. and by which she and the
physicians can study and prescribe
for the different classes.
She was one OF the early advo-
Gates OF the state law that per-
mitfed Pierce county to erect an
anti-tubercuIosis hospital at Lake
View, and she helped plan and
build the hospital.
| She has taught mothers and
housewives how to keep clean and
neat. She has shown them the
proper kinds OF food to give in.
valids. She has taught cooking
and bread making and sewing tc
those who needed instruction.
4 She has visited and made Inn
proyements in fully 800 homes.
4 ~ doutf huou any uors g..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10
10000 TROUT
COMING HERE

For distribution in lakes near
Tacoma, the United States has
sent consignment of 10000
steelhead trout from the hatcher
les at Beardsview, Wash. The
fish will be turned over to Coun-
ty Game Warden Ira Light for
distribution.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10

II HUtU ny "A. Il. JdCKSOH StUulU
like better" said Mrs. Bagiey
when asked why she had happened
to take up the white plague fight.
There is such broad field for
work. There is such joy In be-
ing able to help the poor. One
never realizes how squalid some
of the homes of Tacoma really
are, until he gets under the s1r-
face, as ] have. And rOnce, ipnIer
the surface, one is filled with 4
desire to uplift and educate. the
poor, sick people"
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. league,
OF which Mrs. Bagley Is the active
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10
q . o O q o . o o D D o q q y .
D FUNERALS D
B o o o o o o Q O O o o o o o

A. z. McAllister; this morning
from Buckley-King's; interment
In lakewood cemetery.
Jasper Morris; this afternoon
at 3 p. M; from Storlie CON-
pany's; interment in lakewood
cemetery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10

went to prostitutes and Greek
cafe proprietors showed me that
he was mighty indiscreet in his
financial dealings"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-07-10
SEIZE Wine

Because the emergency tax of
eight cents a gallon on wine had
not been paid on 16 barrels. sold
to fishing boat by the Pioneer
Liquor Co. of Old Tacoma, the
U. s. customs officials confiscated
yesterday the entire assignment.
U. s. Deputy Claude Estes made
the seizure.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
WHAT ONE LITTLE GIRL DID.

Everybody longs for a home of
their own.
Every girl, especially, has that
longing.
And here is what one girl did: She
built a house for herself-a real,
honest and truly house, and she's
only II years old.
She is Miss Blanche Crawford Of
Morgantown, Ind, and is a student
at Franklin College.
Ever since a child she has had fun
making furniture. AS she grew older
she turned out real fine furniture
from the well-equipped workshop her
father fitted up for her-library ia
bles, rocking chairs, writing desks
and bookracks.
Then she built "her house" Built
it in Morgantown during her summer
vacation. 1t is five-room bungalow
and she did every bit of it herself
excepting the heavy lifting, which
was done by a man.
1t took her three months, and be-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
GREEN CoRN-How TO EAT 1T.

The world is able to classify man
by two things-his table manners
and the style of his hand baggage
For instance, II, in your travels, you
encounter an individual at hotel
who can cover his knife with mashed
potatoes TO the hilt and then get
them all off without injury to his
tonsile, you Immediately have this
mans social number. On the other
hand, if he carries canvas telescope
or knee knocker" reinforced by a
part of his wife's clothesline, then
you are also able to classify him
properly.
You may have an inkling of a
mans bringing up" by the tools he
chooses in eating his pie, or by the
manner in which he muffles his ex-
haust in eating soup. Yet when it
comes to green corn, every known
rule is violated.
Some ways for eating certain
things are planned for economic reas-
ons. Thus the country hotel keeper
serves his olives in a bottle and ex-
poets you to get them out with your
fingers. He also furnishes you with
possibly a grape fruit or orange in
the morning and expects you to keep
your ears clean with paper napkin.
There are recognized ways of taking
soup into the system and these ways
all call for limit to the noise zone.
But when folks, even the most re-
fined folks-folks that won't even |
permit a poodle to sleep with them
start in on their boiled corn part of
the menu, past precedence is thrown
to the winds. The book of rules is
consigned with all other etiquette to
a warmer place and every man is
content to get his corn off the cob
in the fastest and most convenient
way in which he is able to operate.
No, neighbor, we shall never have
to worry about any styles relative to
denuding the cob of its succulent ker-
nels. We may have worried whether
it is proper to remove jelly from the
nose with a fork or a napkin, and it
may have annoyed us few times to
whether it is better form
to sneeze under or over the table,
but we shall never have to tax our
brain on new rules for eating green
corn from the cob. 1t is catch-as
catch-can proposition and the hair
Tipped farm hand is just as refined
and just as manuerly at this delect-
able pursuit as the guy who learned
his table manners from young
woman's seminary.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

There is a very widespread cam
paign under way at present against
municipal ownership Cities all over
the country that either have their
own light plants or are discussing the
building OF such plants are being
flooded with pamphlets put out by
some electric light and power organ
ization, the purpose of which seems
to be to misrepresent the real facts
as they exist in cities where munich
pal plants have been most success
full. In this connection it is we'll to
take statements coming from what
is alleged to be the Bureau OF Mu-
nicipal Research" with more than a
grain of salt. The bureau seems to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
MEDICAL OPINION OF "BOOZE."

Every day makes it more difficult
for booze" to masquerade as a medi-
cine. The notion that it is a "stimu-
lant," tonic" or a "rejuvenator"
is contradicted by the best and prac-
tically by all medical authorities. No
one will question the high standing
of DR.. S. S. Goldwater, commissioner
of health for the city Of New York,
who has just issued an official bulle-
tin in which he says:
"a diminution in the consumption
of alcohol by the community, accord
ing to those who are in a position to
know and to judge, would mean less
tuberculosis, less poverty, less de-
pendency,> and less pressure on our
hospitals, asylums and jails.
"Intemperate drinking cuts into
the support of the family. The drink
ing of parents weakens the vitality of
children. Drinking mothers lose
twice as many babies as do sober
mothers. More alcoholism is found
in the parents of feeble-minded chill
dren than in the parents of normal
children.
"The children of drinkers develop
more slowly and do poorer school
work than do the children Of abstain
ers. Alcohol impairs the tone of the
muscles, lessons the products of la
borers, depreciates the skill and en-
durance of artisans, impairs memory,
multiplies industrial accidents, causes
chronic diseases Of the heart, liver,
stomach and kidneys, increases the
death rate from pneumonia, and less
ems natural immunity to infectious
diseases"
Society is organized and laws are
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
NO BOHEMIAN HYPHENs.
Hail to the Bohemians of Ameri-

Hail to the Bohemians of Ameri-
ca!
They have knocked out their hy-
phen. They are Bohemian-Ameri-
cans no more. They are simply
Americans now.
This action has juts been taken by
the Bohemian National Alliance, in
its convention at Chicago, and the an
nouncement was made by the alli-
ance in memorial of allegiance to
the United States, which the conven-
tion sent to President Wilson. There
are million or more people of Bo-
hemian birth or descent in the United
States. AS emigrants they we're re-
garded as among the very highest
class coming to our shores; as Ameri-
can citizens they have been recog-
nized as above par. We quote some
of the paragraphs from their me-
mortal to the president:
eve emphatically deny the as
sumption that the export of muni-
tions of war violates in any way the
neutrality of the United States"
"As loyal American citizens and
residents, we indorse the principle Of
free export of all our products, agri-
cultural and industrial, including the
munitions of war, a principle long
recognized by international law"
1--WE express our complete conf
dence in the government of this re-
public for its careful and correct at
titude as the one great neutral pow
err"
1--WE desire to say that We are not
this declaration as hyphen-
ated Americans. There are no Bo-
hemian-Americans. We owe no di-
vided allegiance and we stand as
unit in our desire to see America as
and as peaceful as posi-
Dle."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

sides being artistic it has many con-
veniences, including a large fireplace
in the living room, every brick of
which she put in place herself. The
house that Blanche built also in
cludes an open stairway leading to
two bedrooms upstairs.
Her father is a blacksmith and she
can also shoe horse. She makes
artistic jewelry, can play the violin
and for exercise likes to play base
ball.
This is just what one girl can do
for herself.
Think it over-you people who are
always kicking because you cant
have the things you'd like to have.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
TELEPHONE 80

No subscriptions for less than three
months. All subscriptions dropped at
expiration unless renewal is received.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
FIRE THE SHERIFF OR WARDEN
AND END LYNCHINGS!

Some statesman suggests that il
we had laws giving damages to be
paid by the localities in which lynch-
ings occur to the estates Of the per-
sons lynched, this penalty wuuld be
a deterrent to mob action.
1t is pointed out that in many
states the state or locality is liable
for damages done to property. by
mobs. Why not make the public pay
for damage to human life as we'll, it
is asked.
The answer is that such a mob, for
instance, as that which lynched Leo
Frank would never be deferred by
fear OF a judgment in damages
against the state or county. There
is no reason for believing that the
officers whose remissness or collu-
sion allowed the thing to be done
would have given a thought to legal
proceedings to collect damages on the
part of Franks wife or mother.
But il by the very act of opening
the doors of the penitentiary or al
lowing them to be opened, if the mere
fact that Frank was taken from the
prison, with or without blame on the
part of the warden, superintendent
or guards, all their jobs had been
forfeited without power of reappoint-
ment, Frank would be alive and in
prison today.
These mobs know beforehand that
all they have to do is to make a suf-
ficient show of force to give the men
overcome" a chance to say they
were obliged to yield to Irresistible
force" 1t is in nine cases out of
ten fake defense. The criminal has
no force back of him of which these
job-holding politicians need to be
afraid. The mob has votes. There
are Tom Watsons and Joe Browns
whose esteem will not be forfeited,
and there are thousands who will APP
plaud or forget. Therefore the sher-
if, or the warden, or the deputy
sheriff, or the guard yields, and the
helpless prisoner is lynched.
Let the law take from them the
jobs of such men instantly and for
ever when they give up their prison
er Let them be disqualified from
holding public office for five years
thereafter, and forever barred from
the place they forfeited or any SINH
lar place. If the prisoner suffers, let
the officers from whose custody, act
ual or legal. he was taken, suffer
with him. An officer who gives up
prisoner should be conclusively pre-
sumed to be incompetent If he |
wants to hold his office, let him fight |
off the mob. Let his friends outside |
be interested in going into the blood
thirsty crowd and saying, Here, I'm
just as strong for lynching this fell
low as you are; but you can't lynch |
him without lynching the sheriff,
too"
The officers OF the law in such
cases will take a different view as to
the amount of force which is "irre-
sistible"
Let no man be eligible to hold such
an office after he has had a prisoner
taken from him. Let no explana-
tions save him. Let his ,>fficial head
fall when he proves himself unable
to protect his prisoner. 1t is the
only way out OF the lynching evil.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13
Private School and Kindergarten.

Private school, morning hours, 8
to 70. Kindergarten, afternoon hours,
2 to 4. Good ventilation. Big yard
and best equipment. Begins Septem-
Der 6. Call at 108 First avenue.
Terms reasonable. 28-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

passed for the promotion Of the gen.
eral welfare. Would it not promote
the general welfare to remove the
cause of as many evils as DR.. Gold
water mentions?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

A chambermainds union is the
latest We hope they won't overlook
the mermaids who make up the oys-
ter beds.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

With the public continuing a de-
mand for more improvements and
less taxes, the city official still has
his troubles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

The man with a pull isn't always a
success. There's many poor strug-
Cling dentist.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

Pretty soft for the Russians
they've taken Mush!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

Last years geography class may
have to begin all over again before
this term is three weeks old.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

Sunday and church time used to
come but once a week-but that was
before Billy was born.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-13

be maintained to spread fiction rath-
er than facts.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22
BEALL AGAIN To HEAD
CONFEDERATE VETS"
For Third Consecutive Time Chosen
Commander of Camp l7l-Other
Officers Elected.

Capt. Fred Beall was reelected COM
mander OF the Confederate Veterans
Association OF the District Camp Ill.
for the third consecutive time. at a meet
ing last night at Confederate Memorial
Home, 1322 Vermont avenue northwest.
Other officers chosen were Capt. d. c.
Grayson, first lieutenant commander:
W. w. Chamberlain. second lieutenant
commander; James Z. Payne. adjutant;
Richard S. Denny, financial secretary:
Robert NJ. Harroer. treasurer: William /.
Parr. master-at-arms: Rev. DR.. Ran
dolph II. McKim, chaplain: DR.. G.
Wythe Cook and Dr. J. l. Suddarth.
surgeons: Robert Thompson. chairman OF
the executive committee; John T. Callag-
han. chairman of the membership COM
mittee: James T. Petty. chairman of the
relief committee; and Gabril Edmonston.
chairman Of the employment committee.
Resolutions of coincidence were adopted
upon the death of George H. Ingraham
and Gen. Francis NJ. Cockrell. honorary
members Of the camp.
Announcement was made OF the ap-
pointment of Mai. Thomas w. Hunger
ford as assistant inspector of District
Eight, which comprises camps Of the or
der in Virginia and the District.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22
WAYS To prevent
CHRISTMAS fires
Chief Wagner Issues "Dont's" for Par
ticular Attention in Handling Thees
and Presents.

Christmas-tree fires have been de-
creasiug gradually in the District in
recent years. Chief Wagner stated
yesterday. He attributed this to the
efforts Of the department in educat-
ing the people In fire prevention. For
the holiday period. the chief issued
the following "doE'ts:"
Don't decorate your Christmas tree
with paper. cotton or any other in
fiammablc material. Use metallic tin
sci and other noninfiammable decora-
tions only. and set the tree securely
SO that the children in reaching for
things cannot tip IL over.
Don't use cotton to represent snow.
II you must have snow. use asbestos
fibre.
Don't permit children to light or
relight the candles while parents are
not present. They frequently set FIRE
to their clothing instead.
Don't leave matches within the
reach of children at holiday time.
Candles are meant to be lighted. and
II the children can get matches they
will experiment with them. They imi-
tate their elders.
Don't allow trees to remain inside
buildings after the holidays. The tree
itself ignites readily when needles
have become dry. A large number OF
fires usually occur in January from
this cause"
The chief suggests that persons re-
member the slogan, "A house of merri-
ment Is better than a house OF mourn
ing" before taking risks OF hre in
decorating their homes for the holi-
days.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22
GARRISON CALLS TEDDY !
new Defense CONVERT
Says Roosevelt Like Selfish Boy. Cried
Prepare" Only After He Saw
1t Was Popular.

Secretary of War Lindley NJ. Garrison
issued last night a statement charging
CoLs Roosevelt with attempting to steal
thunder on the question of prepared
ness. Declaring that the taste for pre-
paredness which the Col. now has Is
an acquired" one. the Secretary submits
in proof an order issued in 1902 by the
then Secretary Of War Root. acting on
instructions from President Roosevelt.
ordering q reduction in the enlisted
strength Of the army OF 1850 men.
The statement of Mr.. Garrison. inspired
by a recent article Of the Coils in a mag
azine. is as follows:
Il observe that Mr.. Roosevelt celebrates
the Christmas season by presenting him.
self with all the good things in sight
He says in effect, All policies (Which
are now populaS are mine He resembles
the eager boy who comes in from playing
to find a table full Of goodies prepared
by his elders and. touching all the most
toothsome. says That's mine, and that's
mine. and SOS that
Preparedness was with him an &C.
quired taste. Others brought it forward
and urged it upon the attention of the
people. and 1t was only after he found
that it suited their taste that he became
vocal in its behalf.
Mr.. Roosevelt is welcomed as a con-
vert upon the issue of preparedness. but
the front pew was already filled before
his conversion. and he must now rely
on the strength of this voice for recog-
milton.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22

little problem in Christmas arithmetic that involves the whole
q
Which will happier dinner little
table hand the
huddle
dinner of hv from the hundred set will cost
to
RETAIL 80
first
These
for
hundreds
phil
and
merr
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22
MERCHANTS PROCURE
WORKERS HOLIDAY
Printing and Engraving Plants Will
Close at Noon on Day Before
Christmas.

A partial victory for the Retail Mer-
chants Association in their efforts to
secure for the government employees of
Washington a Christmas shopping holi-
day Is seen in the announcement that
the 5000 or more employees of the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing and the Gov
ernment Printing Office will not be re-
CURED to work on Christmas eve
Practically all the other departments will
close at noon on Friday.
The employees in the big print shop and
the engraving bureau will forfeit their
usual half-holiday on New Years eve
however. Public Printer Cornelius Ford
expressed the. opinion last night that the
workers will be better satisfied with the
new arrangement, which will give them
from Thursday afternoon until Monday
morning. Last year. the engraving en-
ployes were greatly handicapped in doing
their Christmas shopping by being re-
auired TO work all of Christmas eve with
full holiday New Years eve.
Employees Of the departments of State
War. Navy. Agriculture. Interior, Com
merce and Labor. will be dismissed at
noon on Christmas eve and at the same
time on New Years eve
The Washington herald., 1915-12-22
Arrested AS Thieves,
ACCUSE EACH Other
Moran and Meyerson Assert They
Were Given Articles Stolen from
Apartments of Newspapermen.

Thomas Moran. 20. and Benjamin Mey'
erson. Is. were arrested in Pennsylvania
avenue last night by Detective Cornwel
and Berman and charged with breaking
into and robbing the apartments OF
Ralph Graves and John Smailwooo
newspapermen. at 1885 r street north
west, on Saturday. Moran said he was 8
railroad brakeman and had lived at the
Trenton hotel about three weeks. Meyer
son declared he was from New York,
a tailor and lived at the Hartford lods'
ing house.
The police say articles stolen from the
ansrtments were recovered from the
prisoners. The accused men each de-
clare the other gave him the articles, II
is said. Jewelry and old coins were
among the stolen articles.
Marshall Craig. d. Sixteenth and Q
streets northwest, and James Greeley,
80, 3oes o street northwest. were ar
rested yesterday and charged with
breaking into the saloon of George Har-
per, Thirty-second and NJ streets north
west. whiskey and SO were stolen from
the bar room Monday night.