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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
The Effect of His Play.

TT HE elder Dumas was celebrated for
u his never-failing repartee in ev-
ery-day converse ton. In illustration
there may be cities the following:
One evening he attended a theater in
Paris with literary colleague, wit
Messing a play written by the latter
The author of Monte Cristo" noticed
that one of the audience in the par
quet had gone to sleep during the
performance. He nudged his friend
pointed to the sleeper. and whispered:
rs that the effect your plays have
upon some people?"
Soon after the same couple went TO
the same theater on an evening when a
play by Dumas was being produced.
Again there was a man asleep in the
parquet. Look said Dumas friend,
'at the result of your dramatic works"
why, my dear fellow" was the reply.
that's the same man we saw asleep
here the other night. He is not awake
yet"
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interest in the work. and with the at
titude which it has undertaken the
the Philadelphia police department.
every one of whose 5000 members MT.
Longfellow instructed in the breaking
of death grips, the carrying of drown
the so-called "freman's drag ana
methods of resuscitation. These sup
jects have also been made part OF the
prescribed courses in the police ana
fremen's schools of that city.
There is no doubt but what WASH
ington must have an efficient patrol on
the Potomac river If the drownings
there are to be stopped. declares .ne
Red Cross field agent. There the av-
erage 'up-river' condition which exists
near all large cities is the usual order
of things. Absolutely no attention IL
paid to the Virginia side OF the upper
Potomac, so far life saving IS con-
cerned. Pittsburgh, for instance. mas
been confronted with a very similar
problem"
In order that members of the local
corps may be recognized while on dutF
on land or water, an especial UNIFORM
Washington Red Cross Life-saving
Corps. has been adopted. Ashore the
uniform consists of a dark blue serge
sack coat, trousers and yachting cap
with the official corps emblem worn on
the front of the cap and on the LETT
sleeve of the coat. Suitable designa-
tions for the different corps ofncials are
permitted and should be worn on the
sleeve. For work afioat the uniform
prescribed consists of a dark blue bath
ing suit with the bathing emblem
white life buoy with red bands and the
initials L. s. c., A. r. c.. and In the
center red cross-appearing on the
breast
The annual death roll in the waters
of the United States, including suicides
by drowning, is between SIX ana seven
thousand lives. and the best way to
learn to carry a drowning person from
the water. according to the Red Cross
life savers, is to practice handing
people who are not drowning, and TINS
is one of the chief features OF the Red
Cross work.
x *
The objects of the Red Cross corps Is
officially laid down by the Red Cross
Society are to prevent drownings by:
Teaching swimming and boat ham
ding.
Holding swimming and life-saving
exhibitions.
Promoting swimming and life-saving
competitions.
Giving instruction in the various
metbods of performing artificial res
piraton.
Others among the official objects OF
the organiza ton are to rescue those
in peril of drowning, to resuscitate per-
sons apparently drowned. to teach its
members first aid to the injured and
also instruct non-members in this
work.
The Red Cross life-saving corps. in
accordance with these objects, has
mapped out two sets of requirements.
One is designed to aid non embers of
the corps in gaining proficiency in
water rescue work, by setting forth
certain standards of efficiency. The
other embraces the official requirements
which must be met by candidates for
entrance to the different grades of the
corps.
For the benefit of non-members and
for their encoura cement the Red Cross
has defined the different grades of
aquatic proficiency. According to it's
official statement beginner should be
able to swim fifty feet by any stroke:
swimmers should be able to swim 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08
ON LAND.

requirements for non-members is
meant to lead up to a higher standard
of efficiency required of candidates for
members in the official Red Cross Life
Saving Corps, wherein membership is
restricted to men of good character
and who must be more than eighteen
years of age.
The test which candidates for official
membership are required to pass is al
follows:
1. Give written answer to five ques-
lions on rescue and resuscitation work,
attaining an average of rs per cent.
2. Explain and demonstrate the Syl-
vester and Schaeffer methods of arti-
fetal respiration.
8. Tow person of your own weight
for a distance of fifty feet.
4. Keep a person of your own weight.
who is dressed in trousers, coat and
shoes, af1oat for one minute.
s. Dive from the surface of the wa
ter to a reasonable depth and bring
to the surface a ten-pound sandbag.
6. Break the following holds: On
land-Wrist hold, front-neck hold,
back-neck hold. both arms and body.
over and under shoulder. In the wa
ter-Front-neck hold and back-neck
hold.
Members are also expected to famil-
iarize themselves with waters of the
sections to which their corps may be
assigned.
Each corps must be organized with
the following officers: President, vice
president. secretary medical
officer, captain. mates and instructor.
The medical officer. captain. mates and
instructor are all selected according
to their especial fitness for the peculiar
work required of them. but in order to
obtain the services of a man of posi-
tion and influence, it is not obligatory
for the president to pass the water
tests
Local corps are divided into crews of
from six to ten men each, under mate.
The number of mates and crews is de-
termfned by the executive committee
of the corps, consisting of the presi-
dent. vice president, secretary-treas
urer and captain. -
The life-saving outfit should include
a regulation boat (eighteen-foot dory).
oars. rowlocks, f1rst-aid equipment ad-
ditional supplies for chests, ring buoys
and lines, graphing and dragging APP
paratus. blankets and stretchers Each
buoy should hang on a frame with
pegs, with rope so coiled that the buoy
will be ready for instant use. Frames
should be painted a uniform color and
be stenciled with the name of the
corps.
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ground. to be received by the "col-
lectors.'' who keep them in their hands
until completion of the ceremony, when
priests carry the snakes swiftly to the
country below, the mesa on which the
village stands, where they are released.
The legend of the snake dance is
of an ancestral snake youth. Tiyo, who,
pondering the fact that the water Of the
river flowed ever in the same direction
past his home without returning. set out
to find what became of it, He carried
with him a gift containing some
eagle-down and a variety of prayer
sticks to the goddess who makes all
germs of life. This goddess became his
counselor and guide. She prepared a
liquid charm to be taken in his mouth
and spurted on angry beasts and snakes
the rain cloud and learned from the
snake-antelope men what songs to sing,
what prayer sticks to fashion. and how
to paint his body. that the rain cloud
might come. The chief gave him much
important paraphernalia, and two maid
ems told him the charm to prevent
death from the bite of the rattlesnake.
Tiyo took these maidens home. giving
one to his younger brother. The two
couples took up their abode in separate
kivas. That night strange clouds rolled
over the village. and in the morning the
valley was ruiz OF reptiles, winch I1yo
and his brother brought into the village
to dance with. After this unusual cere-
mony the snakes were sprinkled with
prayer meal and carried back to the
valleys and bore the petition of Tiyo for
rain to the snake kiva of the UNDER
world.
The ceremony originated and is kept
up in accordance with the belief that
the first children of a union between an
ancestral culture-hero and a mythical
snake princess were rattiesnakes and
hence the elder brother of the latter
generation. Being sprung from a source
in some respects supernatural. snakes
are believed to be in close touch with
the god that controls rain, which insures
the crops and other blessings needed by
the Hopi tribe, whose country is arid
and desoIate. None of these people
would willingly kill a snake, poisonous
or harmless. as they are regarded as
sacred and imbued with some of the
peculiar attributes and powers of the
gods. Rattlesnakes are generally used
in this ceremony. but. due to care in
handling them. accidents rarely happen
The exhibit at the museum is founded
on this legend, and in the foreground is
seen two priests holding the rattlers
in their mouths, while another member
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wards using two or more strokes, dive
properly from a take-off, swim back fifty
feet and to retrieve objects at reason
able depths from the surface.
To qualify as an unofficial life saver
one should demonstrate his ability to
tow a person of his own weight ten
yards by each of the following methods: :
The head carry, using two hands and
swimming on back; the under-arm
carry, using two hands and swimming
on back; the across -chest carry. using
one arm and side stroke, and the use
of the breast stroke. hands of rescued
on shoulders. One should also be able
to demonstrate three methods of re-
leasing himself from people in terror
of drowning when grasped by the
wrist hold, the front-neck hold and
the back-neck hold. He should also
demonstrate two of the best known
methods Of artificial respiration.
The esta blishment of these efficiency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

The Requirements of a Member of the
Corps-The Tests He Must Take and the
instruction Civen-What the Organization
Has Done in Philadelphia, Where 5000
Policemen Were Instructed in the Breaking
of Death Grips-Annual Death Toll of the
Waters of the United States-Uniforn1s
Worn by Members of the Corps-Effioient
Patrol of the Potomac.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

saving corps which have sprung up all
over the country since he undertook
the work of organization for the Red
Cross Society scarcely eighteen months
ago. He says:
after 1 had completed my assign
ment as ship news reporter during
which time l had made up my mind to
learn to swim, I was assigned to cover
the statehouse. There I met many
of the state officials. I had never.
however, lost sight of two truths
which my waterfront experience had
impressed upon me. The first was
that dollar buoy may often
save a Thousand dollar life. and
the other was that an ordinary SWIM
mer can be made a frst-class life
saver.
$50 among my official acquaintances
/ set about stirring up interest in the
matter of making the waterfront of
Providence safe. A bill was intro
duced asking for an appropriation of
$4,000 for the purpose of purchasing
life saving equipment. l was given
$500 by the legislature, but after L
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

Organization of Red Cross Life-Saving
Corps Planned to Save Many Who Meet
With Mishaps While Boating and SWIM
ming-Beginning and Success of the Red
Cross Movement-Field Agent Longfel-
low, Who Has Charge of Work in Washing
ton, Tells What Has Been Accomplished.
Enlisting the Police and Fire Departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

mi fsports r"s ." 'ie's aS9 SGo
Nj l., newspaper was assigned to
q " cover the ship news run. Day
after summer day along the waterfront
of the New England city he saw the
tiny forms of drowned children fished
from the murky waters, dead, because
no one of all those who had heard
their cries for help was able to save
life in water.
Sometimes a man or a woman would
fall from one of the piers; and they
also. in nine cases out. of ten, would
succumb because no one versed in the
art of water rescues was near and no
life-lines were handy.
All of this made a deep impression
upon the mind of the young reporter.
He fell to selecting spots, as he went
about. his daily routine, where life
buoys might be hung or life-rafts
moored until one day he himself fell
overheard. He could not swim. He was
dragged out just in time. Later, on one
occasion while in swimming, he sank
twice. He was pulled ashore by
large, fat woman, who took it quite A
a matter of course, and it hurt the
young reporters pride to think that
Saving HIS lie meant apparently SO
little to the. woman who did it. There
fore, when the water was all out of his
lungs, he drew deep breath and re-
solved to learn to swim.
That young reporter was Wilbert E,
Longfellow, field agent of the Ameri-
can Red Cross Life Saving Corps, which
largely through his efforts now has
sixty-four local corps in nearly as
many cities, and to which at least four
more corps will be added in Washing
ton next week as the result of his ac-
tivities here during the past few
weeks
Before he leaves Washington he not
only hopes to have a well organized
life-saving patrol on the Potomac river
10 insure the safety of canoeists, so
many of whom have recently been
drowned. but he also hopes by that
time to have laid the foundation for
large corps of Hfesavers among the
policemen, fremen and Boy Scouts of
the District.
Field Agent Longfellow has re-
markable personality Meeting him
casually. there is nothing about him
which would suggest his prowess in
the water. save, perhaps, his heavily
muscled shoulders. On land he moves
slowly as many large men do. But in
the water he is suddenly possessed of
1.-the QuickneSs and as a matter of fact
is literally more at home than he is on
frm ground, although he admits that
swimming came hard to him
This is how Field Agent Longfellow
describes the rise of the amateur life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

- COATED on the second floor O
the new building of the Smith
. sonian Institution is an exhibit
q Of Hopi snake dancers to which
special significance is attached in it's
connection with the last week in Au-
gust. The exhibit seemingly is tab
leau in which dozen swarthy mem
bers of the Hopi tribe, located in north
east Arizona, are seen, the chiefs hold
ing snakes in their mouths. This Hopi
snake dance always occurs during the
last week in August and is the cul-
mination of a nine day celebration in
which there is much feasting and cere-
mony.
The Indians of the principal Hopi
pueblos of northeast Arizona celebrate
a remarkable ceremony of nine days
duration. whose purpose is to beseech
the gods for their crops. The compile
ton of the ceremony is an open-air
rite. and the most striking episode of
this dance is presented in the Smith
sonian group, which shows trio of
snake priests. respectively, "sustainer"
carrier" and collector" IA line of
priests of the Antelope Society who act
as chorus. and maid and matron
whose Office is. along with the others.
to scatter sacred meal on the partici-
pants as a sacrifice to the gods.
The dance takes place in the plaza at
the village. on one side of which is
built q bower of cottonwood branches
in which the keeper of the snakes sits
with jars containing venomous species
The latter he hands out from time to
time to the carriers" The dancers
march in file around the plaza. each
stamping on a small board set in the
ground in front of the bower he
passes as notification to the gods of
the underworld that a ceremony is in
progress. They then assume their
places in two files. facing each other,
the antelope chorus thanking the brush
house. where they sway and chant for
a few mjnutes, shaking their rattles.
The file of snake priests then breaks
up, and they dance around in circle.
receiving the snakes as they pass the
brushhouse, the Carrier holding one
or more in his mouth. the "sustainer"
diverting the attention OF the snakes
with a feather wand. while the col
lector" attends to gathering the stray
snakes. After dancing around for a
while. they drop the snakes on the
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Institution Possesses Showing Unusual Ebhion-Dn IS the
Closing Feature Nney Celebration Feasng and Cenony-An Openar
Beech Cp-A Not Likely
His Mouth
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y EARLY twenty years ago a cub
MI reporter, on a Providence, r.
Nj l., newspaper was assigned to
" cover the shin news run. Day
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ting Down Potomac Rivers Summer Death Toll

had interested the people of the city
In my plan they made that 5000 go so
far and bring such results that at the
next session the appropriation was in
creased to $500. Within a year this
first volunteer life-saving corps had
membership of 500.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-03

Ill i ODAAO OAN>NA
THE WORKERS WEAKNESS
The workers weaknesses would be
humorous and laughable were they
not so tragic and Pitiable, tragic be-
cause of the disastrous results that
are apparent everywhere, because of
religious bigotry and racial prejudices
that creep into every movement and
tie the chariot wheels of progress and
eventual emancipation of the men
who toll.
No matter what movement is in
vestigated, whether it is political,
fraternal or labor, we see, to a great
er or lesser extent, this hydra-headed
monster rear its hideous head.
History teens with CHASTITY records
of how this blight and scourge have
afflicted the race in it's upward climb
out of the lowlands of savagery to
the measure of civilization we at
present enjoy.
There may be some excuse for this
state of things hundreds of years ago
when the opportunities to gain
knowledge and information were de-
MED and the workers kept in abject
ignorance, but now, when schools
and libraries abound everywhere and
we are living in close touch with all
the nations of the world by the cleo
trio wire, mingling every day with
men and women from every cline,
and the door always open to realize
that real manhood and womanhood
are not the exclusive products of any
part of this mundane sphere, the an
swer is hard to find
Why should some men despise
other men because chance or fate or
some unknowable power arranged
their birth at some particular spot in
this big world and they had no choice
in the matter? Why should some let
prejudice instead of reason rule be-
cause of dissimilar views on religion,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-03

all of us know those of every nation
atty and almost every creed that's
splendid types of moral force and
power, and yet this vicious virus of
hate and prejudice permeates our so
cial life and binders and retards
every movement for the betterment
of the worker.
To one whose sympathies are
wholly with the under dog of society
and having a faint conception of the
great possibilities that are before the
workers when we can shake off this
incubus of unreasoning prejudice and
work unitedly together for the bet
terment of all, this condition is heart
breaking.
What could we not accomplish
along the line of closer utilization in
the trade union movement if our dis
trust, prejudice and selfishness could
be removed?
What field for united effort is be-
fore us along cooperative lines, by
collective buying, could. we relegate
to the. rear our prejudices and have
sufficient faith and trust in each
other?
And what a mighty weapon have
we got in the ballot could we learn
to forget the hatreds of the past and
pull together with common purpose
for common goal?
The writer believes that one of the
causes that keeps alive the racial and
religious animosities that exist in our
midst are the societies land they are
not a few which prohibit by their
laws membership outside their ma
tionality or creed to utilization.
Societies of this type are un-Amer-
lean, contrary to the spirit of the con-
stitutfon and undemocratic, and so
long as these breeding grounds of
prejudice exist can we wonder why
this virus has permeated our social
strata and poisoned the body polite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

the regulations and read one Of the sec tions. which stated that the chief of police must confer with the chairman of the police committee in all matters of importance.
 Finds the Joker
 MT. Ross was here interrupted by
 Solicitor Perry, "Yes. there's the joker" he said with an air of finality and
 the crowd cheered.
 Chief Wallace testified that about 50 days ago the police committee met in
 Dr. Martins office and turned over to him the entire management of the po- lice force with power to suspend a member of that body for cause. The witness was permitted to resume his place in the audience and Dr. Lacey announced that the committee would adjourn subject to his call, as one of visit his mother, The attorney re- ferred to was MT. Murray.
 Alderman M. F. Crotwell called The Age Herald reporters attention to the fact that he voted in favor of the po- lice committee permitting the people to conduct the probe and not against 1t, as was reported in yesterday morn ing's Age e-Herald.
 The crowd in attendance tonight was even larger than that of Thursday night there being room for hardly half who desired to get in. The crowd oheered anything that appeared to be against the police committee or against I individual members of the police force and cheered Chief Wallace repeatedly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02

complex conditions which exist in the Chinese cities where there is extra territoriality. The confusion arising from the regulations is comparable to that caused by the income tax law in America. English citizens have found great difficulty in applying the terms of the regulations to the com plex business conditions of the far east. The regulations are extremely broad in that they prohibit the pay ment of any sum of money to an enemy or flor the benefit of the enemy" They also forbid an English subject to act in any way "on behalf of an enemy' in any sort of financial operations. They prevent Englishmen from direct ly or Indirectly" supplying goods to an enemy or for the benefit of the enemy" Such a great leeway is per missible in the interpretation of these regulations that Englishmen connect ed with firms which have had any sort of business affiliations with German, Austrian or Turkish concerns have called frantically upon their consuls and legations for decision on trans actions in which they have had a part.
 In the enforcement of the new regu- lations upon small business concerns many absurd situations have arisen. At Tientsin, for example, German ba- ker and confectioner was forced to close up his soda fountain. However he Is permitted to continue the sale of bread and pastry. The explanation of this action was that it was undesir- able to have drinking place where Germans might congregate.
 In some Chinese cities the new reg ulations are being enforced without any special hardship to small mer- chants. This is largely due to the good Judgment of English officials whc have no desire to upset small business and disarrange local conditions.