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Morning Smiles.

Gee. you look bad,'
The doctor SAYS I've got Peoria"
''Peoria? You mean pyorrhea."
by George. ] believe you're right!
Humph. l certainly was scared. "-Hous-
ton Post.
DO you see that strong. healthy look
ing man over there"
II was just admirinS his physique
The doctors gave him up years ago."
You surprise me-"
Yes They found they couldn't get
anything out of him. "-Birmingham Age
Herald.
Scene, improvised singsong in the relief
camp. to which a number of German
prisoners were admitted az special
favor. Officer running II returns after a
brief absence to find the sergeant left
in control of the program announcing the
following item: "Our friends, Fritz and
Ans, will now obliGe with the 'Ymn of
'Ate."-London Nation.
The manager of a factory recently en-
gagged a new man and gave instructions
to the foreman to instruct him in his
duties. a few days afterward the mana
ger inquired whether the new man was
progressing with his work.
The foreman. who had not agreed very
well with the man in question. exclaimed
angriIy:
Progressing. There's been n lot of
progress. / have taught him everything
I know and he is still an ignorant fool.
Chica go Herald.
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The President, accompanied by his
cousin. Mr.. John A. Wilkins. and DIT.
Cary Grayson. attended morning service
at the Central Presbyterian Church yes
terday.
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Our COUNTRY 50,
HOUR PRESIDENT
NMSl1Y MezzMezzsMZkWl9
91N00DR0N WILSON
Three Victors In the South.

Published by special auth the President through
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
tCcrgr,uht. by q s-onau,
b. The Mcclure
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The arrival of the Edward B. McLeans
at Bar Harbor to pass the remainder
Of the summer there adds new impetus
to August gayeties there. The McLeans
had been identified with the Newport
colony for the past three years and had
decided to spend the present summer
in Virginia. Changing their minds about
week ago. hurried orders were tele-
graphed ahead to open their cottage
at Bar Harbor for them
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articles fully
in
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-16

Col. and Mrs. Thomas Cruise are At
Atlantic City. Their son Lieut.. Fred
T. Cruise. of Fort Sill, Okla. with his
wife and daughter. are with Col. and
Mrs. Cruise.
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Mrs. Henry Clews will give a dinner
at the Rocks. Newport, on August 70,
and on the. same day Mrs. Henry ].
Whitehouse is to give a children's party
at Eastbourne Lodge.
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S. S. Mcclure, the new editor of the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-16

Mr.. Charles Warren, Assistant Attor-
ney General OF the United States. is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Bliss, at Devilstone. Bar Harbor.
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Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Hedry,
Of the Austrian Embassy, are among the
principal entrants for the Hotel Aspin-
wall tennis tournament at Lenox today.
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Medical Inspector John Murray
Steel. L. S. N: his daughter. Miss
Gertrude Steel. and Miss Augusta
Bruno, who have been travelling in
the West for some time. have arrivei
at Campebello. Me, where they have
Joined Mrs. Steel, who has been there
since the early part of the summer
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Surg and Mrs. Cary T. Langhorne are
pending this month in Atlantic City.
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Mrs Oliver II. P. Belmont has a large
musicale arranged for the Marble House.
Newport, on August 20. at which it is
announced Fritz Kreisler will be one Of
the artists.
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Gov and Mrs. Beeckman will give A
dinner tonight at Lands End, Newport.
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The Inspector General of the Army
and Mrs. Darlington are spending
the month at Bedford Springs
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air In the tubes Is cooler than that in
the street above. The tubes are made
up OF rings OF steel with their fanges
where Joined turned inward. This
provides a metallic radiating surface
somewhat like that seen on the CYL
inders or motors. The steel IL chilled
by the lower temperature of the out
lying earth, and it is with this re-
frigerating surface that the moving
air comes in contact. The result is "A
lower temperature and a sense of
freshness that makes travel in the
tubes particularly agreeable on a no.
day.
Now We can't remodel either the
old subwav or the new ones now so
well advanced, but We must find some
means to stimulate circulation and at
least insure a temperature no warmer
tina that OF the street air on a sum-
mer's day.
Heated and stagnant air are OBJ
Jectionable. In "A report by G.. Il. A,
Winslow on the work Of the New York
state Commission on Ventilation Is
TINS suggestive paragraph: These ex-
periments seem to indicate that over
heated rooms are not only uncoiniort-
abe but produce well marked effects
upon the heat regulating and Circu-
latory systems of the body and ma
terially reduce the inclination Of occu-
pants to do physical work. The most
important effects of bad air" are due
To lis high temperature, and the
elects OF even a slightly elevated
room temperature such as IS degrees
are sufficiently clear and important to
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Emergency hospital in a modern shop.

when hard at work in the few
weeks OF h busy season, the gar
ment worker tolls necessarily espe-
cially IL doing piece work. in order
TO earn enough money TO keep him
and his family alive in the season
when the shops are shut down. and
which he knows is coming inevitably.
He hardly takes time to "A or to
obtain sufficient sleep. and Of course
neglects to take sufficient exercise In
the open air. He knows that some
how he must earn every cent that he
can gather together.
80 when the busy season is over
hts vitality Is reduced. INC he faces
idleness. As days and weeks of abso-
lutte idleness succeed each other. these
90. 900 or 10000 garment workers be-
come more and more anxious as to
whether their little savings will hold
out. II is no wonder hat they be-
come prey to disorders brought on by
nervous anxiety; that they become
mentally depressed. not infrequently
TO a point of positive apprehension,
and that this unhappy condition re-
acts seriously on their physical con-
dition.
Then. by the very nature of their
calling they assume. while at work, a
posture that Is not natural for the
human being: that is. they sit with
shoulders cramped and bowed over.
hour after houW. day after day. until
this crampsd posture becomes habit
ual. Being unaccustomed to taking
full breaths they are peculiarly sus-
ceptible to pulmonary disorders. Yet
most OF them have nc idea that they
are really i'll. or in need, as detectives,
Of medical treatment.
MANY an example might he men
toned. for of the 60, 900 or 10000 gar
ment workers in New York about 25.-
900 are members of the three unions
under whose special fund we are
carrying on the examinations. Why,
one of the highest officers of a certain
union came here. in the general rou-
tine OF examining all members. He
did not feel i'll in any way, although
he admitted that he became tired more
easily than in former years. Well, we
found hat he had tuberculosis, and
had no suspected the fact.
He was taken out of the shop where
he was employed and sent to the coun-
try where he could have skilled medical
care, and in six months he returned TO
the city fully recovered as far as
any one can tell, and he is hard at
work to-day earning support for him
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shop where sanitary conditions are notable by their absence

pressers. the skirtmakers and the fin.
ishers. 1t is really a sick insurance
benefit fund. and when a member de-
vclops tuberculosis he is taken away
from work and sent out To the country.
possibly up to Liberty. where the gar
ment workers unions maintain a small.
sanitarium for their own members.
The sick member is kept there at an
average expense Of possibly $3.50 until
he oCovcrs and can come back to
work.
! Now this self-supporting sick insur-
ance fund went along for some time do
ing it's part in the lives of the gar
ment wOrkers-and a very important
part ;oo-until Dr Price suggested
that a great deal of money could he
saved IL the unions would pay a rea-
sonah,e sum To have their members
examined before they became so III as
To need special treatment In santa
rum or hospital. In his Dr. Price
Vas voicing the measures urgently
recommended by DIR. Biggs Of the New
York Health Department. by DR.. Blue
Of the United States Public Health
Service. by the Life Extension lnsti-
tute, by many leading insurance men
and by practically al, modern physi-
clans.
For years these authorities have
been trying to impress people with
the great Importance of having their
physical machinery inspected at regu-
lar intervals, just as elevators. loco
motives and boilers are inspected by
experts 20 detect weakness before
breakdown occurs. But very little re-
Spouse has been given by the we'll to
do to whom such appeals were usually
directed.
II II Of special interest. therefore, TO
record that the garment workers OF
New York have taken a forward step
that the well Il do have neglected to
take, excepting for a minority of indi-
vidual instances so small as To be
negligible. The secret of the success
among garment workers. of course.
is that they know through practical
experience that they can bank abso-
lutely on the good faith of the joint
committee for sanitary control. and
when the director of that committee.
DR.. Price told the work people that
a physical examination of each man
and woman was an economic necessity
n explained his reasons the response
was immediate.
The unions having n special tubercu-
losis fund soon found out that II wa
far better all around to spend a little
money in such examinat' ons, and
thereby be able TO warn members who
were i'll and did not know the fact.
Having obtained the acquiescence of
the garment workers, DIR. Price laid
the facts before the United States
Pubic Health Service, and asked that
1t make an exhaustive investigation,
now that thousands of men and women
were ready to undergo physical ex-
limitations And. according to on.
who should know al the facts. thai IS
the way the Public Health Service
was enabled to gather information
which formed the basis for the recent
despatch sent to TIN SIN by its
Washington bureau.
To conduct this investigation the
Public Health Service assigned DIR.
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Is both stagnant and relatively over
warm. The heat Is due to two caIses
the body temperature and the ex.
nailed breath Of thousands of peo.
PIE and the heat generated by yari-
Gus departments Of the mechanical
arrangement. That il lust WHY this
temperature in the subway is not like
that TO he found in the ordinary
underground place or cellar.
The subway generally is worse off
for physical reasons than the por-
ions which are constructed as tubes.
First the subway Is a bigger and
more open passage and Is generally
walled up with brick or concrete. Tt
trains moving to and fro are not
snusly surrounded by the enve!op-
Ing walls, and because of this they
travel up and down like worn out
pump %plungers and fail to induce
suction.
In the tubes, on the other hand
each train travels through its W
circular passage and Is so nearly a
II, mat 1t acts like "A piston. pushing
air out before 1t and drawing it In
forcibly from behind The approach
or a train at a tube station can be
detected 10y the rush If air In ad-
Vanc Of it a considerable time befor,
the cars come in sight, This move
ment draws the air IN through the
street connections AT the rear of the
train and drives 1t out through tho
like passages at The station ahead.
But this does not explain why the
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7 might not seem to YOU" said
the retired burglar, that an

almanac would he of any par
ticular use I'm our business. but we al
ways keep one in the house; we never
do any country work in the fun OF
the moon.
I'm the city you can keep in the
shadow of buildings, but you can't do
that in the country, Sure in many
country towns and villages YOU would
find streets lined thick with trees, with
the shade under them solid and dark,
but then o might find spaces with
out trees, and plenty OF houses with
trees in front, but nor at the side.
Again you would find country roads
with no trees at all, and you know the
light of h full moo on a night when
the air Ia clear, on such a night you
can see "A man coming along an open
country road as plainly as YOU could
by day, and. of course. 1t would be
foolish To take such chances as that
But in my business, as in any other,
you have to learn by experience.
When ! was still "A young man I
walked one day through a n
town h n l liked the looks OF very
much. There was one house in partic-
ular that looked to me very hopeful,
and "A day or two later | went bach,
at night, for that house.
THE moon was fun at that time,
and even comparatively young as |
was then | think | should have had
sense enough to keep away if the
night had been clear, hut ii wasn't;
II was dark and stormy, It had been
clouding up all day, and by night II
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"
,he WORKERS III INC iH''',''' ''
uurInS nIeH' ana To- ''N''''' h'' " :
at monthly l,'"iN'IS'
i"lS hc Urn" .tN''' N -N'N -
''e 'Npc' sum N"lV' ID '''N'. 1900 "''
''luu't IT, 'n' 'NU"'''' POP "W'
90 ~ 30 "N -
a,o.aa g. 90
80. man,,
an"
a., ' wy
5.u, - ''' 1901 ''
-
''P ~ w." ~''''' ''
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we "Vi''S nun" Wv 'N.'@ "'' -
omnio,.ad h,,, n.t '
,ho ov,,. -
io"T az" NV JOINT '''.'
u"p'e d Ne" S'"h'iIu N0''. .''
quires u" Keep "I cN'H
no'i Vi 'heir shops " proper h'-' d.!
MT l'r service IN accidental injuries .
'he'r employees rms requirement 3
no" op'lSa'"rF upon every m''i'''
'urer "ho mas ten or more '''a
"orhihS win power drlN'. 'A'
ch'herE' \ special hrst dd Dc va
devised especially appIicah'' t.r 90
needle q ana these KITS ar" rr
oelhs distributed among tho Z
OF SHOPS IN the industries concerned
II is also intended to extend q. n
shops a special nursing ~cI1.., 20.
qucsted by Miss Wald, at v..u-. ..
gestion the joint board d,rf.. . -r
for the services of one or nu,, ,u ..,.
nurses who are to make m.,t... t..
its in the shops iu order t,. ..,t M
such service as may hc l,..... ..
the workers. as well a- ' .
them in first aid method,
In answer IN , dir,.. .
Price said there is ycr, .,. ..
danger 10 tho oro,,I ,.t...
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self and his family. Now If that man
had not had an exceedingly careful
examination. he would have contin-
ued at work. possibly spreading the
seeds of tuberculosis among fellow
garment workers. and in the END he
would have broken down and might
have succumbed.
1T is true that the Public Health
Service officials concluded their in
vestigation last summer" Dr. Price
vent On, replying to a question. hut
we have been keeping right along with
! our W examinations. Between Jan
uary | and the first day of September.
Just passed, we have examined here
3.ls9 workers. \ detailed record is
kept of each person. and when any
thing Of serious nature is discovered
We keep track of that mar or that
woman and have them make visits
To- US at frequent intervals. In this
way the value of preventive measures
may I've seen ~ a glance.
After n good many years in this
special field Of preventive medicine |
am convinced that Industrial efficiency
is not an engineering problem alone.
II is also a medical problem. and one
OF these days all OF the large EN-
ployers Of labor will so regard II. Al
ready many Of the more farseeing e
ognize the fact that the human factor
In industry Is more important than the
mechanical m technical devices and
that II needs medical supervision
surely no less than the mechanical,
parts need engineering supervision.
Medical supervision is necessary
in all trades and in all Industrial es-
adjustments, yet only four OF the
States In the Union require medical
factory inspection; these are New
York. Illinois, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania. A beginning has been
made. hut the work Is still very crude.
d%esultory, inefficient and inadequate,
"a proper medical supervision Of
factories means much more than the
simple appointment OF one or more
inspectors. IL means a thorough, COM
prehensive supervision Of every in
dustrial process or establishment
which may be included under the des-
ignation of dangerous trades. Yet such
a supervision is evidently impossible
with the very small force usually
found in the inspection departments
Of the States.
II can see no reason whatever why
those owning and controlling various
industrial establishments should wait
for the state to organize a compulsory
medical supervision of factories: they
should do it themselves, n it Is
worth while noting that a large num-
Der of great corporations already have
entered this field of usefulness"
II Is possible that no organization
in the country has done more IN this
direction than the Joint Board of SAM
tary Control, which serves employ
ers and workers of the carmen trade
and has among its directing voices
representatives of the public as vel.
The valuable service it has rendered
is known not alone in this country. but
in foreign lands, Yet the general pub
lie does not understand how varied
and widespread are its activities.
For example, the board has a perma-
nent sanitary division, which makes
a regular inspection every six months
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warrant careful precautions against
Overheating.'
There is a sense OF physical stale
ness, and We all know just what this
means after a run in the subway.
The air Of the street, no matter how
hot the day, seems a veritable boon
as soon az it reaches our lunngs.
"NGy what would | suggest?
have pondered over this matter for a
long while, and ! am satisfied that
ave a practicable and an effective
solution. For the proper working OF
my system | should want every side
walk grating removed and those vents
entirely sealed. The only openings
needful would be those already pro-
vided for entrances and exits; other
wise h subway between n two sta
tons should be a closed unit. Thus
one Of the greatest menaces to the
public health would be removed.
"Of course, | can't refrigerate the
air by any mechanical process other
tina that made possible by the exist
ing enveloping walls. but | do believe
these cooling surfaces would help IL
Wv az "V'' h'pN III 'lltulullpH MY
prime concern liz to create this move
ment, and the facilities | should m
ploy would not involve a heavy out
lay, in fact, the entire equipment
would he cheaper than any OF those
yet proposed.
Midway between every two sta
tons | would place an electrically
driven blower, and each of these tur-
bines would draw air from outside and
forcibly exhaust it into Its own sec
ton OF the subway, This draught
would impel the air In the subway
toward the Ranking stations, and, by
reason of its warmth and lightncss, 1t
would rise and pass out through the
openings Of the entrances and the
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exits. This would effectually prevent
the formation of pockets of stagnant
air, and I have no reaso to believe
that any trouble would be experienced
in keeping the temperature Of the
subway on a par with that of the
street, and probably somewhat lower,
According TO my estimates, I feel
sure that each blower equipment
would not cos more than 81. 500. and
the outlay for current should not ex-
coed a monthly charge of $50. You
see there would be no short circuiting
of the moving air: the outlets at the
neighboring stations would be the
natural paths for the exhaust. Further,
the speeding trains working both
ways against this head OF air, would
automatically serve to stimulate the
circulation. Under the circumstances
my studies convince me that an ar
langement of this sort would supply
the needful remedy and would he the
easiest to install the most economical,
"Stuffy, overheated air. as expert
ments have proved, cuts down the APP
petite. Therefore the tired worker
'''"' mus io'i'e ny NV Sup""H u Hot
as keen as he should he for the nour-
ishment for which his body calls.
Again, the man or woman going To
business in the morning il not men,
tally as alert as would be the case II
fresher air were breathed during the
Journey officeward.
"To just this measure, the clty's
efficiency is cut down so far as sub
way travellers are concerned, Blowers
between stations, such as I recon-
mend, should radically alter these oh
iectionable conditions, Simple, isn't
it? And ! SHOULD not urge this ar
rangement if my plan were not sup
ported By many Yeas of practical en-
perience In the field or ventilat ton.'
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THE RETIRED BURGLAR ON
INFLUENCE OF THE MOON

mad come on TO rain. with what looked
like a long, settled storm, and 1t was
dark enough for anybody.
But along about l o'clock, Just be-
fore | truck this town, the wind
changed. II still rained, but not quite
so steadily il would let up a little once
in IA while, and the wind was rising
and the trees beginning to thrash.
or course II ! had been older I would
have turned around right then and
there and gone back; but a man has TO
have sense to know when to give up.
1t was still dark as a pocket and still
raining and | thought / could get
through.
There were big trees all along In
front or this house. and under them
IL was as dark as II would he in a
tunnel, hut around at the side there
were no trees at all. There It was all
open, and way off, far of. / could see,
not an opening. but a little thinner
small spot in the clouds. but overhead
and all around near II was still thick
and black, and 40 I went on In, hear
ing the wind blow and hearing those
big trees thrashing around out In
front.
Just AZ ] got into the room I was
after inside the house there came a
gust that thought was going to tear
those trees up by the roots, and then
there came another gust thai did
break something, that split those deep
black clouds overhead wide open and
let out what seemed To me the biggest
and the whitest and the brightest
moon | Yer saw.
1T seemed fairly to jump out, and