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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Captain +. G.. Mills, Of the
Lite-Soring Section OF the
atlantic Dirision OF the
american X g d eros s,
IA o Mi ing an d @ r-arm
method Of supporting
dr0scning person

//W OTIS of perfectly good
barrels have been ruined
s--% by rolling drowned peo-
pie on them," says Will
bert f. Longfellow, expert authority
on athletics and water sports, who
is field agent for the Life-Saving
Section of the American Red Cross.
"And it didn't do the poor victims
any good, either" is the concluding
dictum of the swimming expert.
That every swimmer may be
life-saver is the principle on which
the Red Cross Life-Saving Corps
Is being established. Every season
beaches and shore resorts take their
toll in needless death. Men and
women are drowned before the eyes
of hundreds Of onlookers because no
one knows the simple methods of
saving them, or they are brought
to shore and allowed to suffocate
because of the lack of knowledge
among average people of the means
Of resuscitation, which, modern dis
covery shows, can prove effective af-
ter person has been under water
as long as thirty-live minutes.
1t is the present effort of the Red
Cross to spread broadcast a knowl-
edge of practical life-saving among
men, women and children, so that
no community will be without it's
percentage of people with knowledge
and skill sufficient to render this
particular sort of FIRST aid" when
ever need arises.
Captain Frederick c. Mills, in
charge of life-saving activity in the
Red Cross Atlantic Division, gave
q demonstration Of Red Cross meth
DDS before officers and men at the
United States Naval Air Station,
Fort Tilden, Rockaway, recently,
afterward instructing the naval
aviators in the manner of rescue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

subject dealt with by "The
journal of Heredity," which
goes on to say:
"There is one aspect of immigration
restriction in the various countries
which does not often receive much at
tention, namely, the possibility of its
use as method of world eugcnics.
Most persons think of migration in
terms of space as the moving CT u
certain number OF people from one
part of the earths surface to another.
Whereas the much more important
aspect of it is that of functioning
of time.
"This comes from two facts The
first is that the vacuum left III any
country by emigration is rapidly filled
up through rise in birth rate. There
are more people in England to-day
than in the time of Elizabeth, in spite
of the enormous emigration from that
country to all parts of the world; and
there are just as many sparrows in
England to-day in spite of the. un-
fortunate spread of those birds in the
United States.
"The vacuum is chiefly filled by the
breeding of the lower classes. Thus,
according to Professor Pearson, more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Years of
Detachable
Collar

wUST where the idea of wearing
III collar originated no one
y seems to be able to establish
1 definitely. All of the official
l,tures of Adam show him without
L. Information from the time he
IL the styles until the aboriginal
3soples were found to be wearing
lxads is lacking
| Vague as the origin of the scheme
II wearing some sort of an adorn-
lent on the isthmus which connects
he head and the shoulders may be,
here is at least one development of
Inc idea on which definite data are
kbtainable-namely, that 1919 is the
centenary of the detachable collar.
Jumping from the bead necklace
kge into a more decorative age. one
Ian find that in 1860 the New York
kaberdasheries were pushing a very
fancy article of gold or silver vellum
krnge which cost considerable and
didn't have to be Numbered.
Ploughing along still further in
HE evolution of neck incasemcnt, we
Ieome to the year 1919, when men
were wearing collars which were
iculte like those of to-day, but at
lssched firmly to the shirt with which
they were to he worn.
Those were the days when house
wives looked forward with concern
10 wash day, because to the fastid-
Iious man a shirt ws~ good for only
|0ne day, because of the fact that his
collar became soiled in that length os
|ume. Housewives had no laun-
dresses, hc it known, and seven shirts
with collars attached meant consid-
erable effort at the family tub.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

Ten thousand persons are suffo-
Gated, chiefly from drowning, each
year in the United States and a
large percentage could be saved
were intelligent, scientific treatment
promptly applied, the Red Cross
experts claim.
The Shafer prone pressure method
of resuscitation, which is used by
the Red Gross, is declared by ex-
perts to be the most effective means
of artificial respiration known and
Dr. Yandell Henderson, before the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

than one-half the births in England
are now from the lowest one sixth
of the population. In Italy similar
condition fills the vacuum left by the
very large emigration from there to
North and South America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Weather Retreat

Il began to think that it might be
possible to apply the bucket principle
to at least one room in my Washington
home, and thus secure q place Of re-
treat in the summer time 1t seemed
to be advisable to close up all OPENINGS
near the bottom of the room 10 pre-
vent the escape of cold air and open
the windows at the top to let out the
heated air of the room.
"Now, it so happens that | have in
the basement of my house swimming
tank, and it occurred to me that since
this tank holds water, it should GER
tainly hold cold air; so 1 turned the
water out to study the situation. The
tank seemed to be damp and the sides
felt wet and Shiny
81 reflected, however, that the con-
densation of moisture resulted from
I tHe IdcL mat the SIDES OF the tank
were cooler than the air admitted.
Water vapor will not condense on any
thing that is warmer than itself, and
1t occurred to me that if | introduced
air that was very much colder than |
wanted to use, then it would be warm
I ng up in the tank and becoming DRYER
all the time. 1t would not deposit
moisture on the sides and would act
ually absorb the moisture there.
Il therefore provided a refrigerator.
IN which were placed large blocks Of
ice, covered with salt This was placed
IN another room at higher elevation
than the tank, and a pipe, covered with
asbestos paper, was employed to lead
the cold air into the tank.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
''IceFurnace''
Goods Bells
Home

TX you heat your house IN
winter; why not cool 1t
Il in summer"
This idea occurred TO
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell when the
Washington weather became extremely
sizzling.
Former President Taft, when he was
in the White House. had a refrigerat-
ing device put % the offices, which
since has fallen into disuse, but DR..
Bell believes he procured better re-
suits by his "home made" cooling ar
rangement in his Connecticut Avenue
residence
In a communication to the National
Geographic Society Dr. Bell describes
how he tricked the thermometer out Of
some 35 degrees-and you can try this
out in your own home if you are
Handy about the house.
eve go up to the Arctic regions and
heat our houses and live" ne ex-
plains. "We go down to the tropics
and die.
II have found one radical defect in
the construction of our houses that alb
solutely precludes the possibility of
cooling them to any great degree You
will readily understand the difficulty,
when you remember that cold air is
heavier than warm air. You can take
bucket of cold air, for example. and
carry it about in the summer time and
not spill drop; but if you make a
hole in the bottom of your bucket, then,
of course, the cold air would ran out.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

taking an extensive campaign Of in
structiOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

TIME relation of immigration
to eugenics is an unusual
subject dealt with by "The
journal of Heredity," which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

struction.
The sun., 1919-08-02
BECOMES A WARD SO
THAT SHE MAY WE'D
French Girl, IL, to Be Bride
of Bondnoster.

Frank p. Cato of Salisbury, n. H,
formerly bandmaster OF the 336th Field
Artillery. A. f. F., Is all that bandmaster
should be. He is more than six feet In
height and as he strobe in front OF his
band through the streets OF the French
towns he was the cynosure OF all eyes
especially French girls eyes.
Thus. in Florirao. France. Cato met
Anna Techiores, a pretty miss Of L.
They were engaged to be wed, but an IN
expected order FASTENED the departure OF
the S3sth Field Artillery and its hand
some bandsman.
|. The bride-to-be arrived n week ago and
all-was In readiness for the marriage
when an unexpected legal snag was en-
countered. Cato was unable to get a
license because of the girls age and be-
cause her parents were not here to grant
their consent. Miss Techiores was shell
tered by the Travellers AID Society. In
465 Lexington avenue, until this difiiculV
could be Strengthened out
She went before Justice Luce yester
day with an application for the appoint
ment of Mrs. Josephine Garino, one Of
the Travellers Aid Society workers, rs
her guardian. Miss Techiores. IN tho
English that her Frank" had laugh.
her. explained that her parents would
have consented readily to the marriage
as they thought great deal Of me
bandsman. Justice Luce signed the order
Mrs. Garino then gave her legal consent
TO her wards marriage.
The sun., 1919-08-02
,HYLAN HURLS ONE
STINGER AT 1. r. T.
VIII II Foilow Up Quimby
Case, He Queries.

why not turn these lines back and
let the city administration worry about
the credit and the finances available?"
Thus did Mayor Hylan yesterday come
back at the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company which, In reply to a previous
suggestion from the Mayor that II they
could not operate on a five cent fare at
profit they turn the lines over, to the
city. had had the temerity to tell him
that even II they offered the lines to
the city 1t had neither the money nor
the available credit to operate them.
Then came the stinger that the Mayor
usually tries to tuck away in each and
every letter.
Il would like to know" he said, eff
the PETERBOROUGH or any of its officials
had anything to do with the application
to the Court Of Appeals for a rehearing
In the Quimby case set down for. Sep
TENDER 20. and II the Interborough will
be directly or indirectly represented at
this motion for a rearsument, the pur-
pose of which application Is to request
the Court to stultify itself by reversing
its decision which holds that the Public
Service Commission has no right to raise
fares to 10. Is or 20 cents at the pleas
ure of the Commissioner, whose sympa-
thy does not seem to be with the trav-
cling public.
The sun., 1919-08-02
WIRELESS LOOIE' IS
TO Be AN ALDERMAN
Zeltner Gets Backing of G. O.
P. and Tiger in East Side
District.

The first time they call the Alder
manic roll next year the clerk. coming
to the rs, will sing out:
"Zeltnerg'
And before the second syllable of the
great name can have escaped from be-
tween the clerks teeth the very walls
of the old chamber will resound with:
PRESENT.
And who does one suppose this Zeit-
FER will be-is? None other than the
Wireless Wonder of the East Side, the
news conductor who defies all static con-
ditions; none other, indeed, than Looie.
Readers Of THE SUN know the name of
Wireless Looie Zeltner as they used to
know the names OF Ginger McGinnis, the
only Irish pushcart peddler; Joe Levy,
Duke of Essex street, or even the in
comparable Gus Glostein himself. They
may come to know II better, for Looie Is
going to be an Alderman. Nothing but
death or even a convulsion of nature can
prevent that, because the Republican
party and Tammany are agreed upon 1t,
both backing Looie in the Fourth Dis
trict.
II came about thusly: The Repub-
licsns nominated Looie last Tuesday
night and decided at the same time to
support Tammany's candidate for the
Assembly, Sam Dickstein, IL Tammany
would agree to support Zeltner for the
Aldermanlc seat The dicker was made
and there you are, or there Looie will
be- rather
or course, the Hon. Zeltner's personal
popularity. which Is immense, had a
great deal with TammaDy's willingness
to endorse a Republican. Probably
Locie would have beaten anybody Tam
many could have put up. He knows
every man, woman, child, alley cat and
stray dog in the whole teeming district,
even knows what they are thinking
about. Their sayings and doings have
made a pretty good living for him for
10. these twenty years PASTOR him and
Mrs. Zeltner and the gradually increas-
ing crop of young Zeltners. of whom
there are now ten, ranging from rs
months to 81 years.
Looie has been the Homer of the
East Side and he smote his blooming
Tyre to some purpose. He has chron-
icled In some OF our best family news
papers the weddings, the funerals scam
dal suitable to print. animal tales Wild
err than anything in obvious fiction ad-
ventures of the pushcart men, strikes
and many curiosities of human living.
He did not write this news himself.
being much too creative an artist for
that sort of thing. He grabbed the es-
sence Of the thing from the ambient
atmosphere. He sleuthed for news oddi-
ties and told THE SUN where to find the
treasure. He was an ambulating cor
respondent for the East Side.
In recent years Mr.. Zeltner has mixed
politics with the arts. and, as might be
expected, to his profit He was a deputy
sheriff under Max 3. Griffenhagen and
then became an assistant publicity di-
rector for the State Food Administration
He is also president of War Savings
Stamps Society. This is composed en-
tirely OF Zeltners-Looie. Mrs Looie
and the ten children. His home is in
291 Henry street and he has reached
the age of 4S.
Yesterday many congratulatory tele-
grams reached the Zeltner maison,
among them one from President Sam
Koenig of the County Committee and
one from Ex-Governor Whitman.
The sun., 1919-08-02
SENDS SHERIFF TO
MAKE MALONE PAY
Paul Smiths Demands $50
From Ex-CoIlector of Port.

Paul Smiths up In the Adirondacks.
wants $50 from Dudley Field Malone
so earnestly that the hotel has sent
the Sheriff after II. Some lawyers of
the far upstate town OF Malone filed an
execution against Mr.. Malone yesterday
in Sheriff Knott's office. The execution
came on the heels of a judgment OBJ
tanned by the noted mountains hotel.
Mr. Malone was out of town yester-
day. according to his law associate In
their Office in so West Forty-second
str eet, said associate being much nom
plused over the news that a judgment
had been levelled at the Hon. bud.
How Gomez said he. Cant under
stand this at all. I've been with Dud-
ley Malone for more than a year and
there's never been anything of this
kind In his life. 1 have written to
Cantrell & Cantrell of Malone to ask
them what It's all about; something
Dudley overlooked, OF course"
At the Sheriff's ofilce II was said
that there was no information on hand
as to why Paul Smiths wants to pry
$50 out the former Collector OF the
Port.
The sun., 1919-08-02

where every one in politics has to be
beliigerent on the b. r. 7. question. an
nounced that they were about TO proceed
to collect n fifty dollar penalty from the
road because they had been overcharged.
1t had cost them nine cents to get to
court because conductors had In each
instance refused to give them transfer
on a transfer. The Public Service Com
missions order provided that this should
be done.
Papa and Mama Knickerbocker and
the kids seemed pretty well trained In
the hard school OF the h. c. !. and on
the whole their well calloused change
pockets didn't seem to vince over one
more additional little nick.
One minute after midnight yesterday
morning marked the transfer OF the
Eighth Avenue Railway to Its original
owners and out of the green car system.
The only change was the charge for
transfers and the fact that oil OF the
Eighth avenue cars now make their
southern terminus at the Cortlandt street
ferry. Those cars which used to run to
South Ferry over the New York Rail-
ways line no longer do SO.
The sun., 1919-08-02
DRUGGIST KILLED BY
BLAST OF MEDICINES
Fire That FoIlows Imperils
Score in Passaic.

Henry Balson, Se. a druggist, was
killed yesterday afternoon by an ex-
plosion OF chemicals that set FIRE to his
store, at 81 Monroe street. Passaic.
He had gone into the cellar to mix
medicines when report, followed by a
draught of flame and yellow smoke, is
sued from the hallway The fumes and
gases drove the drug clerks to the
street. and about twenty-five women and
children, tenants OF the upper floors,
were obliged to escape over the roof.
The fire was put out after II had con-
sumed a quantity of alcohol chloroform
and other chemicals stored In the base
ment Balson was found only slightly
burned. II Is thought he inhaled fiame
and gases.
He was we'll known In the east side
section OF Passaic. where he has been
in business for eight years He in
tended to leave to-day to visit his wife
AMI child. who are at Tannerville, N.
T.. on q vacation.
The sun., 1919-08-02
B. R. T. men DEMAND
rs CTS. AND HOURS
Committee to See Receiver
Garrison and Report to
Union Next Tuesday.

Between seven and eight hundred en-
ployees OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, at mass meeting last night
In the Saengerbund Hall, Smith and
Schermerhorh streets, voted to appoint 4
committee to wait upon Lindley NJ. Gar
rison receiver for the b. r. T.. and pre-
sent demands for increased wages and a
shorter working day. The meeting de-
cided to demand rs cents an hour for
all motormen and conductors on the
surface lines and for guards and con-
ductors on the elevated and subway
lines. with proportlonate Increase for
all employees OF the company and an
eight hour working day. This is an in
crease OF about 33 per cent.
The action OF the B. r. T. employees
was taken on a motion made from the
floor by one OF the men attending the
meeting, after several labor leaders had
made speeches declaring that IL the men
would organize properly they could OBJ
tain wages as high or higher than those
paid TO street railway employees in other
cities.
p. ]. Shea. a member of the executive
committee of the Amalgamated Associ-
alton of Street and Electric Railway
Employees of America. of which most of
the men there are members declared
that II Mr.. Garrison refused TO accede TO
the demand of the employees. I'VE stand
ready to strike at once" He also read
a telegram from trolley men in Man
haitian saying that they would support
the Brooklyn men IL they struck.
The appointment Of the committee was
placed in the hands OF the union chair
men of the various divisions of the
B. r. T., and 1t has not yet been decided
how many men will compose its men,
bership. The resolution adopted, how
ever, instructs the committee to see Mr.
Garrison as soon "a possible and report
at a mass meeting to be held next Tues
day night In the Brooklyn Labor
Lyceum.
Mr.. Shea was chairman OF the meet
ing, and announced that more than 5000
of the $4,000 employees of the B. r. T.
had Joined the union. Other speakers
were Louis Fridiger, attorney for the
union. who said that officials of the
B. r. T. were hiding irf the dark block
or so away to see Just what men had
attended the meeting Hugh Frayne.
general organizer of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, and Harry Jones, pres
ident of the Paterson. N. j., local Of the
street railway workers union. All of the
speakers called attention to the fact that
the company is now receiving 2 cents
for transfers, and declared that conse-
quently It is able to grant the demands
OF the motormen and conductors and
other employees.
Mr., Frayne urged the b. r. T. en-
ployees to organize. and declared that by
30 doing they could obtain wages similar
to those In Boston. Detroit and other
cities, where the scale IL slxty-two cents
an hour Mr.. Jones told how the street
car workers of Paterson had organized
and obtained an increase to fifty cents
an hour. James p. Holland, president
of the New York State Federation OF
Labor. also urged the workers to or
ganize.
The sun., 1919-08-02
UNITED TO CLOSE SUNDAYS.
Cigar stores VIII Give Clerks One
Day on Weekly.

The United Cigar Stores are going to
shut UP shop on Sundays The an
nouncement was made yesterday in the
most positive terms that the company
will no longer be bound by the tradition
that cigar stores should keep open on
Sundays. t0'
Tradition" said the announcement,
has compelled cigar stores TO remain
open seven days a week. Tradition has
been responsible for a big majority Of
the worlds evils We are firmly con-
WINGED that the world has outgrown any
tradition that compels a week of seven
days labor. We ask your Saturday pat
ronage to take care of your Sunday
needs"
The only exception to the Sunday clos
ing rule will be In the case Of few
summer resort stores
The sun., 1919-08-02
LID ON ARMY JOY RIDING.
Cars Not to he Used mt Night
Check Put on Speeding.

Joy riding chauffeurs of the army Mo-
tor Transport Corps are made the sub
ject Of special orders issued yesterday
by Headquarters OF the Eastern Depart
ment requiring them to keep the ma
chimes In garages from p NJ. to 9
A. NJ and to implicitly obey city traffic
ordinances. In every case where 1t is
found necessary to exercise more than
normal haste In carrying out Official
business written orders must be issued
by commanding officers and the officers
must be ready to accept responsibility In
case OF accidents.
The strict limitation of passengers on
motor transports to official parties or
members OF the corps is directed. The
use OF large trucks 10 not to be permitted
when a small car can do the work
The sun., 1919-08-02
ASKS ALIMONY RELEASE.

DR.. De Forest Want. to he Re-
Iieved of Payments for Daughter.
DIR. Lee DeForest. the wireless in
ventor, living at Riverside Drive and
232d street. began action In Supreme
Court, White Plains, yesterday TO OBJ
tain his release from payment of S25 a
week alimony for the support OF mis-
daughter, Nora. He applied for AN or
der to determine the financial status of
Morgan Barney, a Manhattan architect.
who married Mrs. DeForest after her
divorce in 1919.
Mrs. DeForest at the time the decree
was granted made an agreement that
because OF DIR. DeForest's financial con-
ditlon she would not ask for elimony.
In 1917 she obtained an amendment TO
the decree allowing almony TO be used
for the maintenance OF her daughter.
Mrs. Barney was. before her marriage
to DR.. DeForest, Nora Stanton Batch,
daughter of Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch,
the suffrage leader.
The sun., 1919-08-02
Take. ana Depo.it. Increase.

The statement Is offered also that en-
ployers are very we'll satisfied with the
new conditions. saying that the bad
Mondays" are over, that there Is a pro-
nounced increase in the efficiency OF the
workmen ana that nine-tenths of the pow
erty has disappeared. Department stores
report better business, especially in the
sale OF women's and chlldren's clothes.
People are buying Victrolas instead of
booze. Candy sales are, of course. boom
ing. and boot and shoe men claim that
their business has tripled. .-.r ,.
The Chenango Valley Savings Bank re-
ports an increase In deposits since the
city went dry OF S265, 900, and the Bing-
hamton Bank has gained 100000 since
November l.
Taxes have increased somewhat, pro-
hibitlon costing the citizens OF Broome
county about q dollar head. but the ju-
bilant drys maintain that they save a
big crime bill and that bank deposits
show how much the people have gained.
The sun., 1919-08-02
VIII Train sunday school Teachers

Announcement of the establishment or
a church normal school for religious edu,
cation to be opened 'y the Episcopal
Church in November was made yesteT-
day. The Rev. George F. Taylor, curale
of the Church of the Incarnation, Madi-
son avenue and Thirty-hfth street, has
beer named as principal and will nave
fourteen teachers. The school will tram
Sunday school teachers iu a uniform
method, called the Christian nurture
course. in which Biblical texts Will DC
little used. Similar schools are TO DC
opened in Baltimore, Chicago Cleveland
Detroit and other cities.