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The evening world., 1918-02-26
BY ARTHUR ("BUGS'O BAER.

Copyright n as Pres Pmutds 90 IN New Yk Er@inE wohdl
GONE peoples thoughts are like microbes. They are so small that
a million Of IN could pa . 'enselves on the head OF a pin. We don't
know why n microbe wants to pass the winter on the dome of a pin
when he might - well PASS the cold weather at Palm Beach. But every
m a scientist gossps about micrococcL buggococci or germsococci, he
Informs u Just how many billion could hold an occi convention on the
mez@nino floor of a pin. Although nobody knows what becomes OF all
the pins IT'S some consolation to figure that every time a pin is lost
there y n nation Of occis lost with IT, There isn't the slightest doubt
that these occi birds are responsible for everything that happens in
THIS germ spanEled world. The zero microbes ART responsible for the
trapped weather which recently smcared New York between the eyes
and caused more suffering than a quart buulon in a pint shoe.
The foshiVocci bugs JpOhcd into the Russian fabric and ate the
warp right loose from the wooG They chewcd and chcwed on the warp
until now there Is nothing left but the wool And everybody knows that
Il Russians woof Is worse than his bite. They are woohng and woohng
around but they are as harmless a 3 a Bryan hghban, which consists
mostly OF rainwator with a slight dash of imagination.
These chateroocl gcrmlets are also responsible for the excess chat
ter which is spilled every day over the telephones. The chatter bugs
got SC influential over In East Orange that the East Orange Aid Society
has decided 70 step on the gossip microbes Hereafter, all chns which
hutter in the breeze for more than i've minutes Will be regarded as
enemy aliens and informed in the hostile chin ward.
Needless TO state most Of the chns addicted TO Marathon telephone
seances re of a soprano complexion, although occasionally the teie-
phone traffic is cIogged by a set of whiskers getting tangled up in the
acoustics.
when a lady voter gets to knitting a conversational sweater with
another lady voter via the BclLtl route they keep on chin crochotng
until they run out OF verbal yarn, They haven't any more 49, for oral
traffic rules than a halbut has for the Lincoln Highway.
And as the country happens TO be engaged in a bauyhoo with
Bllhem OF Berlin, the East Orange Aid Society has decided that the
Nations business is more important than the fact that Mrs. Whoozuss
goldfish has a bad cold from swimming in a damp aquarium, that Gus
Wazzhlook patted his wife on the ear with a notron three times. twice
in anger and once N Il friendly way; that Minnie Clipper is heart busted
since her French Lieutenant in the Aviation Corps ured out to be u
haberdashery lieutenant in the ncckue escadruc at Gimhamakcrs big
emporium 'hat Mnn''s old man was scouting Tor the dashing dry
goods warrior, who connscutod most Of his wet goods and inundated the
town with lame checks and crippled l. o. Us. and that the smithuxs
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WILLING TO ACCOMMODATE.

A MONG little Willie's numerous
~ holiday presents were a toy
tomahawk, an airgun and a
lasso-these being sent by a sport
loving uncle who knew the youths
proclivitics.
Shortly after breakfast Willie's
mother heard a crash in the green
house at tho foot of the gardea and
went to investigate. On the way she
passed a few uprooted bushes and a
flower bed trampled out Of recognl-
ton, and in the greenhouse ltssls
many loosened flower pots. Follow
ing the trail, she found Willie hiding
behind a tree stump.
what are you doing, Willie?" she
cried in Mortified tones.
Looking for redskins" replied the
younEstcr,
with a grim look she took Willie
by the ear and led him indoors.
Looking for redsklns!" she re-
pcated om!nously, as she took up q
cane. "Well, IN give you one."-Chi-
cage Journal VI
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ONLY SHOCK ABsoRGERS WILL
DEFEAT THIS ALARM.

" UAItANTEED to not only
II awaken you but make you
sincerely wan to arise, is this
invention Of a mar who wa5 a de-
,crOincd "oVerslccpCT." Now he
wakes up with "A shock, How and
why is described by him in the Eloc-
trical EXperimontcr.
An ordinary alarm clock was used.
Examining the diagram, it will be
seen that a block of wood was
mounted Just below the winding key
for tho alarm. 4 strip Of ls-lnch
brass was fastened to the block in
such a way as to prevent the key
making more than a quarter turn
when the alarm went off. Wires were
connected to the insulated strip and
to the framework OF the clock, II
was then a simple matter TO SGT the
alarm and it was likewise necessary
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wishes to arise at an unusually early
hour, is the Invention of an ingenious
person. who doubtless has been
awakened from many a nap by the
clock OF some other occupant OF the
house or fiat, The illustrated World
explains its method,
The waking force" used in place
OF the usual bell is q strong ray OF
light focused upon tho face OF the
sleeper. A wooden sub-base has an
opening cut into II for an ordinary
bicycle spot light, and n battery with
switch inclosed, From the switch to
the alarm-winding key a thread spool
has been attached. This thread spool,
operating on a drum arrangement,
winds the cord, closing the switch,
ana the silent alarm is on. Tho
sleeper then awakes.
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coil Ga L-inch spark coil or a tele-
phone induction coil Will do and two
strips OF tinfoil three or four inches
wide and two feet long.
These are wired according to the
diagram in cut; the buzzer being UNI
necessary when the usual spark coil
is employed. The tinfoil strips are
laid under the sheet on the bed and
separated a distance Of about three
feet.
Now let us see what happens when
the alarm closes the switch. The
buzzer will interrupt the circuit.
causing high voltage currents in the
secondary circuit that find a path
through the innocent ~sleerer's body
by jumping through the thin sheet
that separates him from the tlnfoil
electrodes. It is borne forcibly on
him that his presence is not desired
any longer. 4 departure under such
circumstances is accepted as the
usual thing by most persons, who will
then start the day with zest and
vigor.
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THIS ALARM MAKES YOU GET
OUT OF BED.

BECAUSE he developed tho habit
u OF switching off his alarm clock
and going to sleep again, there
by often missing his morning train, a
commutor devised this electric alarm
which would stop ringing only when
he got out Of bed. He describes its
construction in Popular Science
Monthly as follows:
A simple frame was made OF two
brass spring pieces. stretched length
wise OF the bed, one on each side and
just under the springs. with a third
piece connecting them about two feet
from the head. These wires were
properly insulated from the bed
frame with pieces Of fibre attached in
the line as shown at \ and b. A
small %turnbuckle c was used to keep
the line taut.
4 cheap clock made the electric
connection at the time set. and a
couple of dry batteries completed the
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IF THE BREADMAN DOESN'T
oVERSlEEP, YOU WON'T.

IT HE inventor of this alarm sys-
TEN. illustrated in the Elec-
trlcal Experimental. believes
his device will work for you as
well as it does for him. but he pins
his faith on the breadman's rising
with his bread, or the milkman ris-
Ing with the cream. lie has worked
out a simple electric alarm bell at
tachment, in which the circuit is
closed when the bread or milk Is
put in the box. which has a spring
bottom. The weight lowers the
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Edisons Of the Alarm Clock
Plan New, Odd Devices
To Wake Sound Sleepers
One Makes Bell Ring When Baker LeaDes Bread, Another
Rings Alarm Under the Bed Until You Arise, a Third
Shocks You Audke, While the Fourth Flashes
Light in Sleeper's Face.
Light in Sleeper's Face.

copyrglt 1918. by the Press Publishing CO. CThe New York Evening World,
' VIE forces OF genius are preparing for an invasion Of the Land OF
Nod The alarms ae being sounded in workshop and laboratory,
where batteries are being prepared to go into action and silence the
heavy snoring artillery OF the enemy commanded by General Overseepng.
The attacks are to be launched soon after daybreak, tho time to be set
the night before
The leaders of this attack are inventors who have themselves suffered
hardship under the misrule of King Morpheus. They have had to 20
without breakfast morning after morning, in order to catch their early
trains to the city-and then, often, have also missed the trains. And all
because they we're held captive in the dungeon of sleep until too late
to pursue the even tenor OF their daily schedule. Being inventors, ex<
cuses were easy for them to manage, but excuses don't satisfy the hunger
of a "breakfasless" day; so, naturally, they employed their genius to pro-
duce a preventive for overseepng-one that would be infaHlble. Their
methods differed, but their results were uniform; they managed to wake
themselves up Four of them here present their devices to alarm a n over.
sleeping world.
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device. Tho connections were simple;
one wire was attached from the bat
terry, through the bell to the bed
springs, tho other from the battery,
through the clock TO the insulated
frame. The clock turned on the cur
rent at the time set. The weight OF
the sleeper causcd the springs to touch
tho frame, as shown by the dotted
line, so the bell rang and kept on
ringing until he got up.
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T stood with The aide-de-camp OF The SerbInn
Commander in Chief on a precipice in No Mans
Land before Monastir." the brown-eyed young
woman. who was born and brought up on Long
Island and who now wears the uniform OF a Serbian
Major and three military decorations, told me. This
was In the autumn Of 1916. I had been told that I
might give the signal which would discharge the
Serbian artillery against the enemy. As l raised
my clenched right hand. / said. In the name of
American womanhood-for all that tortured women
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to arise 10 turn it off in the morning.
The other parts consist OF several
dry cells, a buzzer. a small Induction
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LIGHT AWAKENING FOR
HEAVY SLEEPERS.

n alarm clock that will not
. alarm" the other members OF
tho household whom a person
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until a contact is made. as
the illustration shows, and the bel
rings in your bedroom.
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were never any closer to Palm Beach than a glrane's buncns are to his
dandrun.
All this and a lot more of jabber pyrotechnics must get the gate.
according to the East Orange Aid Society. until the war has evaporatcd
from the daily menu. Either the Governments important business or
East Oranges lightweight chirping must abdcate.
And you know which one will get the poisoned pellet. You remem-
Der what happened to the fly when he forgot his table etiquette and put
his elbows on the tangefoot.
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Microbes and Telephone Chatter

mn Wasn't for Those Pests the Subject Would Never Hare Come Up, but Her
II Is: The Russians Wool Is Worse Than His Bite or Euen His Warp, Who
Accounts for the East Orange Aid Society CIanping a Siencer on the BeH-T
Chatter and Announcing Verbal Traffic Rules That Still Al the Chin
Wagghng-And You Can't Keep a Nut Up a Tree.
RY ARTHUR lMRLGSN RAER
The evening world., 1918-02-26
By Marguerite Mooers Marshall.

Copyright 1918 by the Press Publishing Co Che New York Evening world
q ERGT. RUTH FARNAM proudly declares that she fired the first
shot for America in the great war. And she believes that the
- winning OF the war, the firing Of the last shots. is in the hands
of American women.
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POOR RICHARD JR.

Thee cannot keep a squirrel o the ground. Neither a thee keep
a nut in a tree.
The fool askoth himself a question and thinksth that a Mise man
answereth.
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IL
She Fired the First Shot
For America in Great War
On Monastir Battle Line

There Is No Call for a "Reginent of Death" and Yankee
Wonen May Do Their Best Work at Home in a Sane
Mdnner-Is Sure Sensible American Women wa
Fire the Last Shot That wa Win the War.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-12-21

The recent epidemic of inflenza
and pneumonia in Boston has furnish
ed some remarkable, not to say con-
elusive, evidence as TO the value of
fresh air and sunshine as curative
agents in the treatment of cases of
these diseases among the naval re-
cruits.
In a report on the "Open Air
Treatment of Influenza, made by
DR.. VIM. A. Brooks, Surgeon General
of the Massachusetts State Guards,
and printed in the October number
of the America nJournal of Public
Health, he says: 1T was
found that the worst cases of pneu-
monia came from that part of the
ships where the ventilation was the
worst. The medical staff,
therefore, determined to give the pa
tients all the air possible. Thereafter
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A HEALTH CODE.

Here is a suggested Health Code
for boys and girls. 1t is not claimed
that it is complete or covers all the
things that may or should be done
to help promote and preserve bodily
health and strength.
AIR-Inside air is never so good
as outdoor air. Get outside air where
you can and admit it freely into
sleeping rooms.
SUNSHINE-Su Sunshine directly ad-
mitted kills the germs of disease. Let
the sunshine into your homes and
play and work in it when ever you
can.
SLEEP-Boys and girls need ten
hours sleep and always in a bed
room with the windows open. BATH
ING-Take a bath at least twice a
week; one a day will be better. PLAY
Means pleasant exercise and should
be INDUCED in every day, and if pos
sible out Of doors.
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SELFISHNESS OF
THE EGOTIST

Whenever any great upheaval
takes place, individuals, chiefly peo-
pie in authority, are prone to think
only of their greatness, their sup
posed greatness, or their opportunity
to make themselves powerful, while
yet pretending that they have the in
terests of the people at heart. Such
great instances which have been TAX
ing place in the world since the days
of Scipia, Hannibal and Alexander
seem to breed tyranny and tyrants.
Fortunate it seems is the man that
holds the reins of government at such
times of tumult and human unrest,
and it seems at such times that men
forget that they are merely the in
struments of human we'll being, but
grow bumptious, selfish, with narrow,
bigoted minds restricted to their self
ish deductions, vainly striving to con-
form fact with their every new
Matched theory. We have observed
this over Jealous concentration of
self interest in every high place of
the church and the state. There are
on the contrary ministers and states
men whose pride expresses itself in
a marked simplicity and absence of
pretense.
Men who never bend to f1atter pop
ular prejudice, who command pop
ularity, but never seek it, and stoop
not to arts by which cliques or po-
litical migs are formed, nor cater to
large personal followers, but from
ciple ever, in spite of dissenters and
malicious antagonists set in the high
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body than would a so-called Negro
Senator or Representative who should
apply to Congress for admission on
the ground that he had been "se-
lected" by Negroes at their meetings
to represent them in Congress.
The Negroes of the country should
pay no attention to agitators who
seek to capitalize the peace confer
ence to their own profit and fill their
pockets with money from the earnings
of the working masses and spend it
either for a good time on this side
of the water or dancing attendance
on the outside of the conference
building at Versailles.
1t will be a good thing for Negro
men of standing and character to
be on the ground to publish reports
of the proceeds, to observe and to
do in a quiet way missionary" or
lobby work among the delegates
whom they may be able to reach and
it will be eminently fit and proper
for them to go for that purpose. But
they should not seek to go at the
expense of the people and the ex-
pense money secured under false
premises.
And only men of high character
and known and tested probity and
scholarly attainments should go to
France. In no circumstances should
the hat be handed around to collect
money to send any man.
The door of graft for Negro
"peace delegates" should be shut
tight and kept shut-From The
Daily Herald, Baltimore, Md, Dec.
IT, 1918.
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clerk of the Circuit that Cook County has had and
of the Republican

and against perfidy, and sickening n.y.
whose lips the espousal of all good,
est places. Like William Pitt, it is
pocricy contend for the right prin-
always said of the good and true
His ambition had no petty aim"
Often the great victories of En-
pires become likely lost in the SQUAD
bles of priests, statesmen and Kings
Let US reveal the memory of Lincoln
and Jesus Christ, who suffered mar.
tyrdom for mankind, rather than be.
come greedy for power, and self-cen,
tered.
DR.. MAJORS.
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HON. THOMAS CAREY THE PEOPLES CANDIDATE
FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO

Hon. Thomas Carey, who seems to
be in the lead of all the other demo-
cratic candidates for Mayor of Chi
cago has always been friendly dis
posed toward worthy and respectable
Colored people, forever unto this
day he is not ashamed to let it be
known that when he first started
out in this life to paddle his own
canoe that he found employment
at the hands of a Colored man. That
he gladly worked and lived at the
home of the Colored man for some
time and that he was a good boss,
and from that time to this Mr.. Carey
has been absolutely free of race
prejudice in relation to the Colored
people. And he never feels ashamed
to be found in their company or to
associate with them in business or po-
litical affairs, for Mr.. Carey feels
deep down in his heart of hearts that
all men are brothers regardless of
their race or nationality.
EACH Sunday afternoon at the
meeting of the followers of Mr.. Carey
at his headquarters at the Briggs
House and at the Executive meetings
of his close and main Supporters Mr..
Carey is not a bit backward in let
ting each and everyone know that
he wants his Colored friends to be
permitted to freely attend all meet
Ings of the various committees to
take an active part in their delibe-
rations; that if any of his white
friends and supporters cannot stand
the presence of decent and respect
able appearing Colored men and wo-
men at his meetings, that they would
favor him by withdrawing from them
and Mr.. Carey with the greatest pride
and delight states that not one of his
white friends from the richest to the
poorest, from the highest to the low
est has so far raised his voice in pro-
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test against his broad views and at
titude in that respect.
Owing to his liberal minded policy
in connection with his manly fight
for the nomination and election as
Mayor of Chicago, many Colored men
attend all af his meetings at the
Briggs House, and some of them are
members of his Executive Committee.
And with much pleasure Mr.. Carey
states that he has received many let
tiers lately from Colored men and
women residing in the various parts
of this city who contend that with
out any money that they will work
and vote for him at the February
Primaries.
Every day Colored men are calling
for pledge cards which they are cheer
fully signing up for him and so far
more than a hundred thousand men
and women have freely signed cards
for him for mayor of Chicago.
Mr.. Carey's Slogan for Mayor is as
follows:
81 have no ones stamp on my
back"
when elected Mayor l will be
Mayor in fact. No one will have any
strings on me. Those who vote for
me will be voting for Tom Carey,
not for some one in the background.
Being my own master, will be able
to fulfill any promises / make.
81 have no nationality headquarters
here. We all meet as Americans.
There are no race or nationality lines
here-nor will there be when l am
Mayor"
One each week from October 1,
1899, down to the present time The
Broad AK has wendell its way into the
palatial home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Carey, at 4427 Grand Boulevard, and
we are exceeding proud to number
Mr.. and Mrs. Carey among our best
and warmest friends in Chicago.
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of the Board of Education of Chicago;
Wholesale middle m,v
rendso the editor of paper.

on pleasant days every patient was
taken out of the tents and put inn
the open"
Now note the doctors words.
From the first day the results vr
startling. Almost every patient VII.
out exception had a lower temper.
ture at night than in the morning
and felt decidedly more comfortable
The charts of those patients are very
instructive and clearly demonstrate
the great value of plenty of air and
sunshine for patient suffering from
influenza and pneumonia"
From being discouraged, the me-
dical staff became enthusiastic and
the patient were treated with the
confidence that at last something had
been found which would give good
results. At the end of three weeks
the epidemic on the ships was prac-
t;cally under control, and in few
days over four weeks the tent hos
pital was closed"
The report also adds that very few
of the attendants and nurses, con-
tracted influenza while working in the
tent hospital. Also that very little
medicine was given after the value
of an abundant supply of ar and
sunshine had been demonstrated.
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NEGRO DELEGATES" AT THE
PEACE CONFERENCE

There is a great deal of talk in
many quarters about sending Negro
delegates to the peace conference,
which assemblies at Versailles next
month. This talk if merely INDUCED
in as intellectual and verbal recrea-
ton would be productive of no harm
to anyone and would furnish tempo
rary pleasure to those who yield to
the indulgence.
But when translated into action
and credulous thousands of the race
are led by self chosen delegates to
believe that the race is entitled to
representation at tn peace council Ia
BILE and the hard working masses are
called upon to dig down into their
pockets to furnish money to pay the
expense of junketing party over to
France whose members would accept
such expense upon a make believe
that they could make certain demands
for the race and obtain a hearing
and secure beneficial results by rea-
son of their presence, incalculable
injury will be done.
And we feel that we would be
criminally negligent of our duty if
we failed to warn our people to give
no heed to the agitators who desire
to be self constituted delegates" to
the Versailles conference at the ex-
pense of the people.
The peace conference is to be
composed of representatives from
regularly constituted governments
who will be chosen by some method
determined by each government en-
titled to representation. The United
States, the 100000 Negroes in
cluded, and whether they approve it
or not, will be represented by dele
gates designated by the President of
the United States and all or a ma
jority of them, four in number, have
already been selected and are now
well on their way to France.
No racial, religious class or sex
unit will have representation as such,
however much such representation
may be desired or however justly
such units may be entitled to be heard
and their claims considered at the
greatest tribunal ever convoked on
earth where for the first time in the
worlds history simple justice be-
tween man and man will be discussed
and considered.
To that conference the Negroes Of
American can no more send a dele
gate with the hope of his securing
a seat or receiving any recognition
whatsoever as a delegate from the
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Mrs. Corinne Geneveive Wilson Of
3l1S Rhodes Ave. will no doubt, lay
aside her books to enjoy the coming
festivities of Christmas. In the last
four years Mrs. Wilson has completed
courses at both North Western uni
versity at Evanston, and Chicago IN
iversity. Besides being an able music
scholar she is quite a linguist, speak
ing f1uently several languages.