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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-07-30
Congress Urged to Pass
Bill tOPreUent Another
Epidemic of Influenza

WASHINGTON iuiy 60 congress
ir being told plainly clearly and
straight from homo that the pnoplc
want their government in set busy i'm
lucdlntciN in "a untinn wide campaign
10 icad on q recurrence OF the drcnd
nfluon1a epidemic.
Letters and toiegrams hy the ihou
sands arc counting 60 ine'nhcrs of both
housos urging them 90 work FOR and
vote for tho Harding Floss hiil, which
apuropratos $1,000 GOO lpf influenza in+
vcstigatlun.
This moaanro lH tho flrst stcr in q
1omprehcGsisc aud effective fight oi.
The TIA. n proposes o. do what cpn
not be- done otherwise Tor it places
The United states government in com
mnnd ana nack of tho anti ilu tighi
And " proposes Co keep the govern
meri therc untl alter ih' flu gcrn
has boon tracked TO- iiH lnir aud unti'
its ravarcs npDn human liie is ancient
history
Under Direction OF
U. s. Health Service.
Tho Harding toff h1i if 30 becomes
. liW. would place thr uited states
Public Health Service lp dirc-i cherpo
Of the anii-th tight ~ NrrNiro
would co operate VIII tho mrdieli DE-.
1HftmenfH of the rtt1 lnd uruN and
With other public end private ufaefrch
'nluintorcH thu bake aolitica Tor ni
ihtins IN the work
senator Warren - Harding and con
srcaHnan simeon - tsaa both os ohio
introduced the nlli hnt ihc father
If The mcpaurc is the American Med
ical Association. which 40 its annual
convention ufgcd tht necessity of q
governmental appropriation and iuNeN
legation oi influenza ia this country
The medical nsaoclniipn's nHli fll
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-07-30

the home folks Every letter or tclc-
gium from back homo 10 congress
man con- senator win aid In having tho
anti nu bNl hurried through both
houses nnd signed hy the president
tntt this lN done the auti-tlu light
A 49, 81 standstll Nothing much worth
while has boon done fincc the rerur-
ring epidemic ct last spring. Aud to-
dnN There are indications uf rccut
ring epidemic ON the threshold. ono
Onto Town. iDrcn, according TO word
so Cuurr, saman Tess 81 pcpporod SIT.
lihc ihi Aud lhc report goes on to
lslN that the epidemic there ia WORSE
NOW than it wts lasl winter
! That is an Indication health OK
! rcria HaS a. She condition IN which
other ucalilics may De plunged ns iall
AND winter approach II was Ia late
! AUGUST last year thnt the flu epidemic
struck this country with such force.
lstnfiiug al Boston and sweeping al
over the country. from ocean To- uccan
Imtii there was scarcely village which
pmainvd unstrlrhcn
Creator Death
Harvest Feared.
nj. counting w the epidemic found
tht uAlon uupirp 80 copv with
I IL Md so say ihcac health cNncrts
Ne arc hitle less prepared Tor "a re-
gnrsinr riadomi, rhcN fear another
.
winter viii take AN even greater toll
of ITO and causc larger economic
loss than ihc FIRST
a. ha. hoen estimated that 10000
deaths ln Amcrira last year were ce0s
ga bv tho tlu and That the economic
loss lan into the billions OF dollars.
phis springs opidomio les said to have
cost 10000 hVoa
siafistirs II over 100 100000 wage
'catneri. show that during lsiA the nor
taliN Nas higher hy more than N per
cent than prevailed in 1857 This wne
duo tn the Influenza Cpidcinir
And ,et thn death ratio for 1918 sifr
FORE Septcmhrr I WAS lower Than ipr
the rorrcspuuding period ~ iNlt hr
ginning with p't"ner 'iln rpidrinl' h"'
under ran swing in Soptcmhorl the
aeath iate began tp rise nhnNc thc tlg-
urea I'd lgl1 In prinhcr shc mortality
rate wa aOl2 pCr 900 aS compared
with 1884 m October ihit. am cSccNf
.nl 50 rar cent The NutOmbor death
rate i9ls uer LOGO was the highest
of aHy month ~ the year That was
the peak month ol tha tia pneumonia
cpidemic va November 1914 thN death
rate WaH only 1856 per lN0V.
Peak OF Epidemic
Passed ~ November.
Tho death ratio among These workers
declined m December hcing 2iN per
LOCO. isn't fldt lN large when com
pared with the death rate Tor pccein-
her. iai1 Whom Il was i2OS per LOCO
Tho highest weekly death rate waf
reached h the week cnunng NnNemhri
Ils. 1919. whom 30 ef every goo died
f November Was the DEATH MONTH
+ az iais
There is time ion congress ia d'
something toward helping health Off
Gals physicians, ana others interested
/ in the puhhc health to prevent a recur
irencc ~ Che flu cpidemic--'io halt IA,
looming OF another DEATH MONTH.
But congress mus. act quickly, lf
ualy congress does Not act quickly
Mostly congress takrs rs time and act
when ~ get, gond and ready
often congress needs a prodding from
( the home Nuterh.
Tho american Medical Association
the A.. = Public Health Service, th'
: health commissioners Of cities and
small army Of civilian flu fighteers hop
\ therein be plenty ~ prodding until con
! gross acts.
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-07-30

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Use Caller classilleds fos results.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

make concessions on the Red Sea and
Somaliland. But Italy is asking for
French Jibuti, the port at the entrance
to the Red Sea. the starting place Of
the railroad which goes back into
Abyssinia, and this the French decline
to cede. ...-
The real Italian disappointment.
however, must be ascribed to the fact
that Italy came to Africa too late.
Her natural line Of expansion would
have followed the whole north coast
OF Africa. was the scene of success.
full Roman colonization. But France
acquired Algiers, Tunis and finally
Morocco, while Britain took Egypt
Pushed by her natural instinct to
claim some part Of the African world
Italy went to Abyssinia and harvested
only defeat and disaster. She then
went to Tripoli and there again found
not the prosperity France easily re
stored in Tunis, and Britain in Egypt
but only costly campaigns and mill
tary operation to regain the territories
| conquered f1ve years ago and evacuat
ed during the present war, when Ger
man and Turkish intrigues raised the
Arabs Of the interior.
That Tripoli can ever be prosperous
| in the sense that French and British
North African colonies are prosperous
is impossible, that it can ever be {
source Of profit to Italy Is exceeding
ly unlikely. Nor Is there much more
hope along the Red Sea or in Somali
land. In both regions Italy will make
material increases, but for the mos
part, what she gains will be desert dis
tricts, unsuited to European COLOMBIA
ton, incapable of any great industrial
or agricultural development.
Extinsulsh Spanish Rule
AS for Spain, the Versailles docu
ment Enthusiastically foreshadows tn
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

In modern history there is no page
more soiled In German southwest AT.
RIGA almost the entire native popula-
ton was exterminated, after a war
provoked by German brutality, con-
Quoted In the manner later used in
Europe. To the very last in all of her
colonies Germany continued to employ
methods which make the history of
the campaigns which ended in the oc-
cupation Of her colonies by French,
British, Belgian and Portuguese
troops a record Of almost unexampled
horrors.
In Africa Germany had a great
chance. She possessed a million
square miles OF territory. Her treaties
with Britain, affecting Portugal, held
out the promise Of great increases. 1t
might easily have been possible to
reach a basis of bargaining with
France, provided she had been willing
to consider the most moderate of con
cessions in Alsace-Lorraine, to extin
guish that everlasting danger spot
Even In the case OF the Belgian Congo
she might eventually have had the
approval Of the European powers tc
I, substantial increase in territory In
this direction, provided Belgium were
willing to part with what many Bel
gians regarded as a dangerous posses
sion.
But in Africa, as in Europe, Ger
many knew only one method. She
| knew only one way. She bullieC
France. Belgium, Portugal. she men
eced the security of the British EN-
pire by fomenting rebellion in the
Boer states, she threatened the peace
of Europe by three dramatic venture.
In Morocco. And. finally, in that por
ton OF Africa which was hers, she dis
played brutality and a disregard fo
the most elemental considerations o
humanity and decency unparalleled IL
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

the not over nice history of the white
race in Africa. Her African subjects
welcomed the allied invaders with pa
thetic enthusiasm; to turn them back
to German rule again, with the GER
tainty Of reprisals, was always i'm
possible. Nor was it less impossible
to undertake to erect Independent
countries out of the African jungle
and bestow upon the natives that gift
Of independence for which they were
totally UNITED.
ItaIy's Colonial Gains
1t remains to mention Italian gains
in Africa. At the moment when she
entered the war, Italy held Tripoli,
acquired as a result Of her still re.
cent conflict with Turkey, Erithrea
that thin strip of coast land between
Abyssinia and the Red Sea and q more
considerable area in Somaliland. But
IN the case Of TripoH, France held
much Of the hinterland, including the
caravan route between Chat and Cha
danes, while both France and Britain
held territories adjoining Italy's east
ern colonies.
BY the terms Of a secret agreement
between Italy, France and Britain II
was provided that Italy should receive
compensation if her partners in
creased their African holdings. This
promise has led to many debates IL
the Paris conference and certain modi
cations of frontiers have been fore
shadowed, although these fall fa1
short of satisfying Italian expecta
tons.
Tripoli Unprosperous
From France Italy is to receive thu
territory necessary to make her com
plete master Of the Ghadames-Cha
caravan route; from Britain she is tt
, receive certain lands on the border be
tween Egypt and Tripoli, and boil
! France and Britain are prepared tt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

ultimate extinction of Spanish rule in
the Insignificant strip of Moroccan
soil, which is all that survives OF four
centuries of Spanish effort on the
south shore of the Mediterranean. And
N this strip, Spanish armies are now,
as always, closely besieged behind the
walls Of their fortified towns, while
the cost of the venture in men and
money annually increases.
To extinguish Spanish rule, France
would pay literally, but Spanish pride
prevents such transaction. The fact
that Tangier, which was a naturalized
town and zone and Spanish Morocco.
were used by the Germans as bases
for raising the natives in the French
region, the fact that disorder in Span
ish Morocco leads to disturbances in
the French districts, make 1t almost
imperative that France should com
plete her north African empire by the
acquisition Of the Spanish zone and OF
| Tangier.
Beyond question, we shall see many
changes in the map of Africa in the
next few years, exchanges Of territory
between France and Britain, perhaps
the cession by the French OF the tiny
fraction Of their old Indian empire in
return lot bTlIish CSSSiohS III H0iuoAo
and elsewhere along the west coast
Spanish Africa and Portuguese Africa
will disappear, not by war, but by pur
chase, since in both instances the
present owners are incapable Of de
veloping their colonies and in theil
hands they interfere with the neces
sary development Of French and Brit
ish colonies.
In the larger sense the treaty o.
Versailles divides Africa between thu
French and the British, although i
assigns a relatively insignificant par
to Italy and confirms Belgium in th'
occupation of a vast central area. Onl!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

Abyssinia remains independent and in
the nature Of things 1t will become
more and more a dependency OF the
British, since British and Abyssinian
frontiers march for SO many miles.
Mittelafrika, like Mitteleuropa disap-
pears from the calculations of states
men and Africa, like the Americas, be-
comes closed territory to colonial ad-
venturers, and International rivalries.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-19

Seven-pound electromagnet which
will lift fifteen times its own weight
has been invented for many uses
about machine shops.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
Haines Now Is
Partner i'm
Saxon Agency
Rod Is Rounding Out
His Nineteenth Year in
the Automobile Business
Sketch Of His Career

George S. Morrow president Of the
Saxon Motor Company of New York,
announces that Rodney X. Haines has
been taken into the firm as vicc-presi-
dent and general manager. Haines is
trade. Prior to entering the automo-
bile business in 1901 Mr. Haines was
electrical engineer in construction work
for the General Electric Company.
In 1901 he was half owner in the
Auto Exchange Storage Company. in
Thirty eighth Street, then the centre
for the motor car trade In 1904 and
1905 he was sales manager for the Dar-
racq. In 1906 he acted as sales man
ager for Joseph Heller, then prominent
in the Importation of cars.
From 1907 to 1912 he was manager
for Louis Jandorf. then king of the
used car trade. From 1912 to 1916 Mr..
Haines conducted new and used car
business on the Row for himself In
1916 he was the sales manager for c..
7. Silver. Following that, Haines was
sales manager for the Overland branch
in Chicago. Upon returning from the
West Mr.. Haines became connected
with the Saxon Motor Company of New
York as sales manager, and his efforts
have led to this promotion.
Haines has been we'll and favorably
known on the Row for a long time
The Row would not seem natural with
out the familiar figure of Rod and
his friends hope his duties of vice
president will not keep him off the
street with that old straw hat"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
keystone Has
Come u p Fast
I'm Tire World
From $1,000 Investment in
1912, Company Did So
100000 Worth of Ba,si-
ness in Year just Ended

After an association Of more than
twenty years in other businesses. L.
Walter Lissbergor and Joel Jacobs de-
cided in 1912 TO enter the field of pur-
chasing the surplus stocks of tires and
tubes from we'll known manufacturers
and automobile factories, and with an
original capital Of $4,000 the Keystone
Tire and Rubber Company was incor-
poratcd. The original capital invested
in 1912 was turned over many times,
and when the sum grew into several
hundred thousands Of dollars the
thought of q chain Of stores was CON
sidered and put into action. The re-
suit is to-day reflected in the seventy
four stores which arc controlled by
the keystone throughout the country.
BY the Keystone plan young mon
arc educated in the tire business. As
each Xpung man proves that he knows
the werk is allowed q make a small
Investment and TO open a store, inn
nediately becoming an important link
IN the chain. Seventy-four stores are
now doing business, and it is planned
to increase the number 20 500 as fast
as men can be got and properly
trained in business
When Messrs. Lissberger and Jacobs
originally entered into the tire buSl-
ness it amounted TO nothing more than
Il purchase here and there OF surplus
stocks, but after studying the possi-
bilitics Of the business they arranged
plan whereby they entered into con
tracts with the factories to. accept at
their convenience any tires and tubes
which they wished to dispose Of. About
two years ago, early in 1917, Keystone
found that they were outgrowing the
handling Of blamished tires alone
Since then plan has been worked out
whereby Keystone is now distributing
the entire output of three large tire
making factories.
Some of the Keystone subsidiary
companies have been trained to such
ar extent that they arc now following
the parent company's methods As for
example: A branch in Chicago now
operates seven subsidiary branches Of
its own. In Providence the Keystone
started a business three years ago that
is now developing eight branches of its
own. In Rochester five brothers, who
less than three years ago were earn
ing jointly less than $4,000 year have
become interested in the chain Of
stores, and now each Of these five
young men IL at the head Of g branch --
one IN EuHaio, one IN Rochester, one
in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco
and one in Oakland, Cal. Their busi-
nesg totalled 100000 in 1915. but with
the cooperation Of the Keystone man
agerncnt these five brothers did bust
ness Of $1,4o0,000 in 1918, and the cat-
mate for this year is $2,000O00
Compared with the early days of tho
Keystone when all the business was
concentrated in little basement ut
Broadway and Fify-hfth Street. it ia
little short Of miraculous that this
business has developed so that In 1918
the volume reached $1,000 600, ard the
plans laid for this year arc for a
12o.00D, 900 businesg
Panama. from which point the South
American countries are 10 be honey
eonbed with branches. and on agree
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
Special Bodies by
Poertner on Scripps

In Madison Square Garden, in the
exhibition hall Oh the main floor ed
joining the foyer, the 1919 Scripps-
Booth models are offered By the Poert-
ner Motor Car Company. Four models
are shown and all are equipped with
special Poertner bodies and painted in
most attractive hues. These light, low
priced cars are the new product Of the
General Motors Company.
Featured prominently is the Scripps
coupe Canary" This six-cylndcr
model is fitted with body Of pleasing
lines and painted in two-tone color
scheme-canary yellow and orange.
The upper half of the body and hood
IS yellow; the lower half orange and
the tenders combination Of both
tints. The interior is upholstered in
gray whipcord OF beautiful quality, and
al of the fittings, such as door handles,
steering apparatus and other accou-
trements, are OF silver, with highly
ornamental designs. The Canary" is
one Of the pets of the show.
The ye-passenger Scrpps- Booth Sc
dan is somewhat Of Il contrast to the
daring coupe. 1t is finished in new
shade Of blue, dark ultra-marine tone
which has been named "Pcrshing" blue
4 i3c tiiLfftOI II WOEhtQ OUT III gray nov
city cloth. The tenders are black
Doubtless, If General Pershing could see
this new color, originated in the Po~et-
ner shops, he would be pleased
The giz-cylindcr touring model is
"cafe au lait" creation, being finished
"a a combination Of pleasing coffee
shade and cream. The principal body
panelling il coffee color, the wheels are
% cream tint and the upholstery is
clothed in light gray slip covers
Two shades Of olive, dark and light,
are the combination for the roadster's
color gchcme, enhanced by gold strip
ing and white wheels. The latter is
enc Of the snappiest looking creations
1T the show For those who prefer the
open sir, the sport type and yet light
eFsassigs this car is ideal.
All the new Scripps- Booth models
Saye giz-cyiiDder yalye-in-the- head
rootors. These power plants are capable
of developing . speed Of sixty miles an
hour and better IN the open car types,
and yet for the majority Of the models
obtain twenty miles on a gallon Of
gazpIsne. Any Of the enclosed types Is
able ~ climb Abbey Hi, Manhattan,
~ u speed Of thirty miles an hour.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
Designed With Woman
Driver ALWAYS i'm Mind

One of the standard Jordan models
popular with women is the brougham.
1t is a comparatively new car, having
been brought out toward the end of the
1918 summer season, and will be con-
tinued in 1919. The interior workman
ship is in keeping with the purpose of
the car upholstery of fine worsteds
and panelling and mouldngs in Circas-
sian walnut. There is dome light and
individual reading lamps, too.
The driving position has been, studied
with the women especially kept In mind
The steering is made so flexible that
the car will turn in almost any road
Doors are broad and easy to enter
Five persons can sit comfortably in tho
fuil-width rear scat and two individual
front seats.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
Predicts Show Heads
Era of Big Prosperity
D., A q Co,+L4
Manoger NetU York Branch Buick
Motor ComDunu

motor C0WpdnY
We welcome the New York Automo-
bile Show as the beginning of a great
new era of prosperity among automo-
bile dealers. Hard work and conf
dence do more to bring happiness and
prosperity than any other human eff
forts.
There has never been a moments
doubt in our minds that peace would
bring a greater demand for good auto
mobiles than ever Our business for
January has justified our views. for we
took more orders and delivered more
Buick cars than ever before in January.
We are exhibiting five brand new
1919 models in Madison Square Gar
den. and it is foregonc conclusion
that the show sales will be greater this
year than ever before, for two very good
reasons. The show is being held lust
at the beginning of the season and the
public has been suffering automobile
starvation for almost year Another
good feature of the show win be the
restoration Of public confidence in the
present prices of automobiles.
Prospective purchasers who visit the
show this year viii become convinced
beyond doubt that present prices will
prevail during the 1919 riding season.
NO further reductions can BE- made.
Inc great automobile industry. two
months ago almost entirely engaged in
war work, has slowed down, stopped
and turned around and started in the
opposite direction with such rapdity
that every ounce Of raw material suit
able for automobiles has been con
tractcd for at definite prices many
months IN advance. Present prices are
based on material, labor and overhead
costs that will not change to any great
degree for many months.
We are proud of the great automo
bile industry's part in the world war.
This, The third largest industry. was
ready and it made no difference
whether a plant made cotter pins or
Liberty motors or tanks, every one
pulled together until the war was over.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
How L. S. Tires
PLAYED a art
I'm African War
Rushing Supplies to British
Counted Greatly in Strug-
gle Against Germans in
Strife Far From Europe

1t was not only on the battlefelds of
Europe that United States tires proved
their value during the great war Dur
ing those tense months when the eyes
of all the world were centred on the
gigantic struggle against Germany in
Europe few persons gave much atten-
ton to the determined campaign waged
by the isolated British forces to break
the kaiser's influence in Africa
In this campaign the Huns were
elected by the British from their last
remaining colony in Africa Driven by
the British from the German East Afr-
can territory. the Huns fed into
Portuguese Nyasaland and Mozam-
bique.
Northern Mozambique. the area in
which operations proceeded for more
than seven months, is a vast country
stretching from the Zanlbesi Delta in
the south to the Rovuma River in the
north, bounded on the west by the Brit
ish Nyasaland and on the east by the
Indian Ocean. The total area is about
$4,000 square miles.
Alexander the Great, in his most am
bilious projects of conquest, had no
such problem to face, and it is doubt
full if Moses, who was the finest sup
ply officer of all time. could have main
tanned his reputation if he had had to
ration column 500 miles away from
his granary at some of the inaccessible
points in this African wilderness.
1t was in this work of rushing sup
plies to the British fighters that United
States tires made a record which has
endeared them to the transport officers
upon whose shoulders fell the response
lsh lighters. The demand for United
States tires from these sources was so
insistent that the stocks Of all the deal
ers in that section of the world were
quickly wiped out