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The New York herald., 1921-02-26
Immigrants Sleep on Pier.

The Aqultania, which docked Wednes-
day, converted the upper floor OF the
pier into sleeping quarters for her i'm
migrants. Long rows of cots were set
up in two sections for men and women
passengers The Health Department
will allow them to land after the in
spections. which under ordinary cir
cumstances are made at Hoffman and
Ellis islands.
The Calabria of the Cunard Line. from
Trieste, was not given satisfactory
health inspection before sailing and
must lie off Quarantine twelve days
under the new twelve day rule.
DIR. Copeland received a message from
the French Lines offices at Havre
that the Leopoldil1a, which arrived sew
eral days ago with twenty suspects. had
been examined by DR.. Ferguson of the
United States Public Health Service and
given n clean bill before sailing on Feb
ruary 2. The message stated that the
arrangements for disinfecting immi-
grants had not been adequate a month
ago. but were now greatly improved.
A conference will be held in Wash
ington to-day of Federal and city health
officials to discuss the typhus menace
and the best measures for prevention.
Or. Copeland left last night and will
represent this city.
The New York herald., 1921-02-26
Mems Terry Bath Robes
Special 4.05

Robe model, buttoning at neck
Colors - blue, green, tan,
lavender and gray combinations.
All sizes. Fifth Floor
The New York herald., 1921-02-26
Control Passes Monday Night.

Quarantine will pass from state 10
Federal control at midnight February 2S,
according to official announcement made
by DIR. Leland c. Cofer. Every port in
the United States will then be under the
Public Health Service. DIR. Cofer will be
retained in charge.
DR.. Copeland and DR.. Cofer were even
more concerned than the steamship men.
"It is little short of calamity" Com
missioner Copeland said. "The present
situation indicates how helpless the
quarantine and immigration officials are.
Lacking personnel and facilities for
handling multitudes of immigrants. the
harbor is filling up with ships. Hoff-
mans Island Is jammed, and the piers
are being used as lodging houses for
passengers.
Endless misery is being caused the
immigrants, as well as unnecessary
anxiety to their friends and relatives, by
the failure of the Government to adopt
some forward looking plan. 1t seems to
me the most unpatriotic thing Congress
could do to disregard the facts and con-
slider adjournment without taking the
only step that can solve the problem.
"It means the indefinite prolongment
of our local health inspections at the
piers and railroad stations. Had we not
taken precautions three weeks ago fifteen
typhus cases and more than 1000 vermin
infested persons would be mingling with
our population to-day Those fifteen
cases alone might have produced several
thousand more"
Health Department inspectors exam
ined 1901 immigrants yesterday. They
found twenty-seven in need of disin-
fecting bath and sent them to Willard
Parker Hospital for treatment.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

81 have seen men of keen judgment who
had come to Turkey with an antipathy
for any and everything Turkish complete
ly COMPOUNDED by these subtle Turkish
women. They smile up into your face
ingratiatingly and tell you naively that
Turkey wants light and freedom and edu-
cation. They tell you Turkey has been
grouping for years in darkness and is now
only beginning to see the highland will
the Englishman deny Turkey in her desire
to emancipate herself from the terrible
things of her past
"Turkish women now have say as to
their marriage. Where once they were
the prey of their men, now they have
full voice in the matter of matrimony, and,
indeed, of everything affecting their own
lives. Once Turk could discard woman
with a wave of hand. If she no longer
was pretty and attractive or offended her
pasha in any way, she could forthwith be
banished."
Now the Turkish woman may sue for
Understanding she could never do be.
fore-and by showing just cause gain
freedom from her husband. If she brought
property with her into the marriage state
she can take it with her after divorce.
This is something new for Turkey."-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

and about equally conscious of his own
dirty bandages and the ability of his coun-
try to lick creation, and who longed for
darkness as early as he had longed for day,
and split the welkin with his exultant
yell when the first rocket whizzed from
its narrow trough and burst into pale stars.
His sons, on this great day, are hungry at
breakfast time and play tennis in the
parks, and he has watched them knowing
it was well, but it surprised him little.
This year, though, he is not distressed.
This is a new Fourth; the change is
striking But for all our seriousness on
this Fourth we are not less, but more, a
confident country. We have lost our fam
boyance, but we have increased our de-
termination. The spirit is ours not of the
platform shouter out of the Gettysburg
Grafton. Our ears ring not with the sound
of the frecracker but with the great words
of Lincoln: Consecrate dedicate
the government by the people n N
shall not perish from the earth !-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30
DAY OF SOLEMN DEDICATION

The old Fourth is gone like the dedo-
the Fourth of tail-twisting and eagle
screaming, and crash-banging, and dyna-
mite, and lockjaw. 1t had its uses. A
nation has long youth, and our old
boastfulness, and self-esteem, and excit-
ability, and recklessness beftted us we'll
enough. On the old Fourth we let our
crudity and our arrogance and our raw
love of noise rise to the surface and
skinned it off all at ence, and were the
better for the process, costly though it was.
But time has Quilted our Audience into
something nearer maturity, and the old
sound and fury can never return.
Doubtless to some, to whom old asso-
Citations are dear, the change has some
times seemed almost painful. He was
happy, that boy who slipped from his bed
with the first streaks of dawn, who by
noon had used up his available supply of
frecrackers and fingers, who spent the
afternoon on the edge of the crowd in the
grove, vaguely aware of gesticulations
from the wooden platform in the center
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

"And, when the flag that they love goes by,
With swelling bosom and moistened eye
They can look, for they know that it floats
there still
By the might of their hands and the
strength of their will,
And through perils countless and trials
unknown
Its honor each man has made his own"
Alan Seeger.
Biographical Note:
Alan Seeger, Harvard, 1910, joined the
Foreign Legion of France, August, 1914, and
was killed in action July A, 1915.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30
NOTICE TO INMATES

Each inmate is accorded the privilege of
sending one paper home, or to friends free Of
charge To do this you should write your
own name and register number and the name
and address of the person you wish to send
the paper to, and hand same to your officer.
If you desire to send more than one paper,
each additional copy will be charged for at
the rate of so cents year.
The paper delivered to your cell each week
must be kept clean, and should be folded in
the same manner as you receive it, placing it
at the foot of your bed on the morning fol-
lowing the day on which it is delivered to
your cell.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30
ABOUT LIBERTY BONDS

The SO-caled thompson plan to raise
the rate of interest on Liberty bonds to
prevailing interest levels and to adjust it
at various times would not accomplish the
desired result. The plan itself is not new;
the British consus have no fixed rate of
interest, and even so the rate has been
rarely changed.
Certain economic laws are ignored when
such a proposal is suggested: the law of
supply and demand is memorable and has
no favorites, not even Liberty bonds. The
fact that people were told certain things
regarding the marketability at par of those
bonds is another matter. We all would
like to make good on this troublesome, but
under present conditions, unfulfllable
promise. Nothing in this world of ours
has fixed value, or rather deed centre
value.
Liberty bonds declined because of the
quantity issued; we have not as yet
digested them properly, and to raise the
interest rate will not change the situation.
Increased earnings and savings and re-
duction of the amount issued, and this
only, will do the trick. If motor car
company should build twin skies in the
same quantity as Aivvers, then the twin
skies would sell at discount, because not
enough people could digest the supply at
the price.
The Government must of necessity COM
pete for capital with other users of CAPT
tai, and to try to give the Government a
theoretical advantage by higher rate
would mean that vast amount of capital
now invested in companies of producing
and wealth increasing industries would be
securities.
This would also automatically reduce
in value all other securities and seriously
affect the soundness of our savings banks,
life insurance companies, ETC., which now
hold the bulk of long term lower interest
bearing securities. Far better we take our
loss in its present form than to jeopardse
our entire financial structure.
To make Government securities more at
tractive the Government must by good
management reduce expenditures and gen.
erously decrease existing loans as well as
taxes. Business as we'll as the Govern
ment will pay the rate of interest pre-
scribed by conditions-supply and demand
and not by act rates. it does not neces-
sarily follow that you can borrow at that
rate commercially. To raise the rate
would greatly increase the cost of living,
as industry would have to pay still
higher rate, increasing prices all along
the line and the consumer bearing the
burden. The rates of foreign exchange
reflect conditions, and just so do the prices
of Liberty bonds reflect condition and
not theory.
Our national assets alone will not de-
tcrmine the price of Liberty bonds, but
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

Anger is the most impotent of passions
it effects nothing it goes about, and
hurts the one who is possessed by it more
than the one against whom it is directed
Clarendon.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

NOTICE-Contribution submitted to THE
MIRROR for publication must be absolutely
original; if not original, proper credit must
be given, if known; if writer's name is not
known, it should be so specified by said con.
tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
with this request he will henceforth be dropped
from THE MIRRORS contributing staff.
Approved by WARDEN. Editor.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

"Said a wise man, he hadn't time to
worry. In the daytime he was too busy,
and at night he was too sleepy"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

To see what is right and not to do it is
want of courage.-Confucius.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30
CHURCH NOTICE

CHURCH NOTICE
Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning, Protestant and Catho-
lie service every alternate Sunday. Rev. G. E.
Benson and Rev. FIR. Corcoran, Chaplains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

the manner in which we keep house and
the amount we reduce our Liabilities must
ever be the determining factor.-Neav
York Herald.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30
QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit of any inmates who appre.
ciate and see the opportunity that their spare
through correspondent school courses, study OF
good literature, acquiring an education in our
Night Schools, or, who need helpful informa-
ton in connection with their work in our var
ious departments, will herewith be privileged
to use the Query" column. You are wei.
come to send in any queries OF serious interest
liberation of Miss Miriam E. Cary, Super
visor of Institutional Libraries, will gladly
endeavor to supply the requested information
NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
of this column inmates must sign their name,
register number and lock number to all queries
submitted for publication, Inmates names OF
course; will not be published only the initials
of each querist being used-Editor
Q:-Can trains take on water without
stopping ?-L" R.
A:-There is an ingenious device by
which train may pick up water with
out stopping. A shallow trough between
the rails is kept filled with water. Engine
is equipped with small scoop which lowers
into trough and thus scoops water up as
the train goes along.
OILS the original round table of King
Arthur still in existence PIP. H.
A:-There is in the Castle of Winches-
ter, England, a relic which is said to be
the round table of King Arthur.
O:-What is the source of the heat of
the sun &c. r.
A:-Theories as to the source of the
suns energy have narrowed down to
about two, the meteoric theory and the
contraction hypothesis. According to the
former the sudden arrest of bodies falling
into the sun generates the heat. Assum-
ing the bulk of the sun to be mainly case
Gus it has been calculated that contrac-
ton of about $50 feet per year in its
diameter would supply all its present rate
of radiation. 1t is a curious law of
gaseous bodies that by losing heat they
contract, but the heat generated by con-
traction exceeds that which it had to lose
in order to produce the contraction.
Q:-What were the total casualties re-
sulting from bombardment of Paris from
the air and long range guns?-W. R.
A:-Records have it that 522 people
were killed and over 1000 wounded.
Heaviest loss of life in one place was in
the Church of St. Gervais on Good Friday
when a shell pierced the roof, killing and
wounding many of the worshipers.
O:-Please give the meaning and origin
of the expression "sou markee."-H. S.
A:-The sou is French coin equivalent
to about one cent. 1t was formerly the
practice to mark a bad coin as sign of
its worthlessness, and thus "sou markee'
French "sou marque"-came to be an
expression for no value.
NOTICE-All inmates using the Query COL
umn and desiring more detailed information te
their queries are invited to use the splendid
reference books in library to be had on
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
techinal subjects. Consult the Reference, Use
fu1 Arts Iiterature Chauoiatrv Pioora pbv
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published in
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and
managed by them. 1t aims to be home news.
paper; to encourage moral and intellectual i'm.
provement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true status of the prisoner
to disseminate pathological information and to
aid in dispelling that prejudice which has ever
been the bar sinister to fallen mans self
redemption,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1921-06-30

NOTICE-AI inmates using the Query COL
umn and desiring more detailed information te
their queries are invited to use the splendid
reference books in our library to be had on
request. The International Text Books are
especially complete in their information on
techinal subjects. Consult the Reference, Use.
full Arts, Literature, Chemistry, Biography and
Science divisions Of our library catalogue for
diversified subjects.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-08-06
la VISTA DE- LA !.
MISSION AMERICANA
A las FHlPlNAS


MANILA Ell general Wood y ,el ex
gobernador Forbes trazaron ol ltincra-
rio para sus viajes por las sieto peovfp
ciag cercasias esta capital; Cavite, Ri
zal, Bulacan. Batangas Pampanga Ia
yabas y Laguna. Ell viaje que la mission
trataba de emprender a Cavite queda
aplazado, no habiendose acordado aiin
la fecha en- que iran dicha provincial,
o mejor dicho cuando iniciaran la serie
dc visitas a diclas siete provincias ad-
yacentes a Manila.
Motiva este ell hecho de que los miem
bros de la mission quieren informar de-
bidamente todos los Gobernadores pro-
vinciales de su vista v para que estos
preparen y reunan a todos los presiden-
tes municipalities y demas frncionarios de
aguellos pueblos donde es muy dificil
llegar en- autom6vil.
La mission ira q las capitales de las
provincias mencionadas para celebrar
audiencias v reuniones despues Sc di-
rigiran a algunos munioipios que sean
fitciles de llegar por autom6vil.
Despu6s de estos viaies liferentes
provincias del Centre de Luz6n, cuyo
itinerario Sc esta trazanlo por el gene
raj Wood y Mr.. Forbes, La comitiva Sc
dirigira a las provincias del sur.
Mr.. Forbes estuvo recibiendo en- Ba-
guio, antes de voIver la capital, la
vista de varias delegaciones de igorro-
tes que Sc presentaban ante la mission
rara pYotestar contra la segregation de
algunos municipios de la provincia Mon
tafiosa en- donde habitaban, otra pro-
vincia.
Los jefes de la mission tambi6n de-
claran que estan muy agradecidos la
franca y alberta cooperation extendida
ellos por todos durante su viaie por
las provincias del norte de Luz6n. y
que por esta nismo cooperation. segdn
el general Wood, Sc ha negado saber
ei vertladero sentimiento popular.
Tan1bien declaran que han salido hon
damente inpresionados de la cxcelente
hospitalidad de los pueblos.
En- el campamento Stotsemburg, la mi
sion pas6 un dfa muy agradable. Hubo
un encuei1tro de polo entire el equipo de
la mission. capitaneada por el general
Forbes Ell team del campamento. Este
i,timo fu6 derrotado por el prilncro
por SO. Despues Sc celebr6 una recep-
ci6n informal y por la tardo una revis-
ia de las trcpas Y por Qltimo una visi-
ia la reserva del general Treat.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-08-06

Comprendo la algeria de C6rdova.
Es mi propia algeria, la algeria del
hosnbre que Sc dispone estar en- ar
monia consigo misno, que Sc dispone a
decir 10 que siente y sentir 10 que
dice, que quiere ser fiel slis ideas aun-
que haya Gle sacrifcarlo todo, hasta Ia
vida.
A C6rdova 10 persigui6, una multitud
" el tuvo ell valor de ponerse frente a
la multitud. Habra pronmciado muchos
discursos elocuentes en- la tribana, en- Ell
Congreso, pero ninguno tan elocuente co
mo el sencillo Giscurso pronunciado ante
ei pueblo q. acaso sus enemigos aglome
raron la salida del editicio donde Sc
reune la Junta Central Unionista. "Vi-
va Pto. Rico americana dijo con toda
la fuer2a de sus pnlmones, con todos ell
valor de su sinceridad, con toaa Ia ener
gia de su caracter y este senciil0 cur
so pronunciado ante una multititi ale h
cxpresa su disgusto es como un ofreci-
miento de la vida al triunfo de SUI causa.
Aqui estoy y este es mi ideal -quiere de
cir. La muftitud no espera este rasgo de
yalor y retrocede admirada. C6rdova ano
Ia en- cl libro de sus combates publicos
un exito mas. Su algeria es inmensa. No
importa Que ALA en- ell seno de Ia Junta
los hombres que tienen la representation
Official hayan preparado una derrota de
artifcio. Aca el destiro le preparaba un
triunfo espontaneo. Al retroceder la nlul
titud le dio la raz6n. De ahora en- aae
lante pensaran los yiejos v los j6venss
en- las palabras de C6rdova, el patriota.
''viva Puerto Rico amerieano" es que
rer para Puerto Rico la mayor hbertad
es desear una association, en- la cual ell
porvenir es immense, es amor nuestra
isla Y amar al pueblo hermano que nos
expresa su ,deseo de que entremos en-
Ia gran familia, es realidad, porvenir,
felicidad, ammonia. No Sc sentiran mas
alegres los que han querido encontrar
en- unas palabras francas motivo para
enardecer los animos.
va ha pasado todo. FL momento de
la refexi6n nega al fin. Ahora cada tlia
que pasa pone en- cada coraz6n enarde-
cido una desilusi6n. Y veremos quien
triunfa ante Ell pueblo defnitivamente,
81 Cordova, dici6ndole la verdad desill,
da, mostrando austeramente toda la be-
lleza que hay en- la verdad o los que tie
men que recorrer La isla para asegurar
adhesiones, y tienen que basas sus eli
meros exitos en- la torcida apreciaci6n
de las palabras que Sc dicen, Y quieren
mantener el brillo de su posici6n iayl
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-08-06
Cursos escolares para
erlsenar hlllnanidad
-(De nuestro cOrresponsal en- New york

-(De nuestro Corresponsal en- New York;
Iba yo en- una OCCASION en- un tranvia
en- una pequeia ciudad no lejos de Chi
cago. De slbito Ell tranvia Sc detuvo. Me
extrafio mi que Sc detuviera sin que
ninguna persona quisiera entrar en- Ell
Y sin que nadie intentara salir. 5Que
ocurria? Jun acciaente en- la Inca?
Por un momento estuve perplejo. No
podia conlprender. Luego note que Ell
conductor Observable la via. IFaltaba
un pedazo de rieI? Yo mir6 tambien.
Un animalito pequeiio, un insignifcante
animalito delicioso, una ardiIa, estaba
EN- la via. La calle era como una aveni-
da, con varias hileras de arboles. las
ardillas Sc encontraban ALI como en- ca
sa propia. Y esa ardilla insignifcante
detenia todo Ell tranvia. Yo iba apurado
a una cita. Otros iban sus oblgaciones
con un itinerario flo. todos, hombres
mujeres, habian sido detenidos porque
de seguir adelante ell tranvia habria he
cho una vfctinla de la ardilla inecente.
Todos soportaban con paciencia, iquei
con delicia la inesperada espera. Mas
aIn, 81 ell conductor no hubiera deteni-
do Ell tranvia y hubiera herido la ar
diIla, los pasajeros Sc hubieran indigna
do contra su crueldad.
Ell anterior es un detalle que tipifca
un rasgo caracteristico nacional en- los
Estados Unidos. Generalmente Sc dice
que este pals es el pals de las mujeres.
Podria agregarse que es el pals de los
animales y de los pajaros tambi6n
de los arboles, tai es la solicitud cut
dado que Sc les dispense. No he visto
EN- ninguna otra parte dispensar mayor
cuidado a los caballos y perros que en-
los Estados Unidos. Los pajaros estan
en- los parques, plazas Gales de la ciu
dad con el mismo SANS SOUCI con que
vivcn en- el campo. Una de las grandes.
delicias de los nifios en- las ciudades nor
teamericanas es ali1nentar, en- los par
ques, de su propia mano, a las ardilIas
y los gorriones. Los caballos tienen be-
bederos especiales en- las Gales van
abrigados en- invierno y protegidos del
calor en- verano.
Convengamos en- que este no es el
case nj en- la America Espafiola nj en-
Espaia; no es Ell case entire La genie de
nuestra raza. Un entretenimiento comnn
entire nuestros nifios es martirizar a los
pajaros v amarrar tarros de parafna a
la cola de los perros. La honda para ma
tar pajarillos ,es un juguete tan comdn
para los niiios como Ia muneca para las
snifias.
5Por que esta diferencia? 1Es que 50
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-08-06
.hDOWsh jagda con
RBeShOS CdlllpeO1eS
de ajelrez manana

David janowski, considerable hoy
pbr su gran victoria en- ell famoso tor
-neo de Atlantic City, como ell segun-
do iugador del mundo, jugara, una 81
n1ultanea contra los mejores jugado-
res de Puerto Rico en.sel Ateneo el
domingo por la maHana.
Sci espera que todos los amantes
del afte asist3n este interesante de-
safidy vean en- nccion al gran ajedre
cistas que permanecera varias sema-
mas entire nosotros dando instructed
mes !, todos en- este interesante jue-
go,
Jan6wski ha sido trafdo a Puerto
Rico por algunos aficionados del Ate
neo, quienes han sufragado los gas
stcs p3rticularmente. Su estadia result
tara de gran benefcio para los aje-
drecigtas, y quizas resulte que Sc des-
arroHe algun Capablanca que sea ell
orgullo tde nuestra tierrl.
Todoss los paises tienen sus campeo
mes de ajedrez que envian a los tor
torneos mundiales, no vemos por-
qne Puerto Rico ha de ser la excep-
cion en- este particular.
De San Juan ira para Arecibo por
varios dfas. Parece que en- ningln otro
pueblo de la lsla hay mucho interes
por el ajedrdz, en- cuyo case perma-
necera el resto del tempo en- San
Juan.
Los aficionAdos del Casino Espa1ol
desean que Janowski de una exhibi-
cion en- los sAIones de dicho Centro,
y Sc .estdn noviendo para que la Co
mission de Recreo, cuyo Presidente es
el simpatico M. Suchs, les compiazca
en- este sentido.