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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
ENDORSE WATER WITH MEALS
Medical Association Journal Says That
1t Promotes Secretion of Gas
trio Juice.

To an inquiry about the effect of
drinking water with meals, the editor
Of the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association replies:
1.-THE immediate effect of water dur
ing a meal is certainly one of dilution.
However, this fact has been over
emphasized by those who are adverse
to the drinking of water with meals,
for it has been shown Individually by
several investigators, working on dog
and man, that water itself promotes a
secretion of gastric-juice, and that
when water is given shortly before or
with a meal it has very definite eff
feet in increasing the seeretory re-
Spouse of the stomach as regards vol
ume of juice and acidity. A given
amount of water has less and less
effect on gastric secretion the longer
the time interval between the. meal
and the giving of water" (Sutherland).
Ivy has likewise found that the in
gestion of water with the meal in
creases the amount and the free and
total acidity of the gastric juice. Incl
dentally, the ingestion of water with
meals decreases the emptying time of
the stomach.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Elrat Phrenoloalst unponuIar.

The man who originated the science
of phrenology had to leave not only
his sand, but also one Of its neighbors
and seek shelter among strangers.
This was Franz Joseph Cali, a Ger
man scientist, who was born in 1853.
From the fatherland he went to vi
emma, and there, at the famous uni
versity of that city, delivered his first
great lecture on his pet subject This
was in 1896. For while he was mere
ly ridiculed, but before long somebody
began to feel that his theory might not
be in keeping with what the Bible said,
and in 1905 the Austrian government
interdicted his lectures as dangerous
to religion, and Gall came near tast-
ing prison fare in an Austrian jail.
France, cradle of freedom, beckoned
him. He went there in 1907 and re-
manned in Paris to the day of his
death, surrounded by pupils and appre-
ciative colleagues.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Education.

A well-rounded education that
makes its possessor a citizen Of the
world, open to all the manifold Inn
pressions the world contains, one who
''sees life steadily and sees it whole, +"
can make only for physical improve
ment and does make for physical inn
provement. The quotation just writ
ten is from Matthew Arnold; he used
it of Sophocles. And is it not a
strange coincidence that in the fes-
tival procession at Athens this same
Sophocles, the great tragic poet, was
required TO walk naked, because Of
the physical perfection of his beauti-
full body? Apparently his many-sided
culture and profound thought We're
mirrored in the beauty of his body. So
1t will always be- The soul will find
its expression in the body. And that
mold win be transmitted to future
generations, for race is all.--Ex
change.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Hotel sulit Of Gold.

AT Rosamond, on the Mohave des.
ert, in California. is hotel built by
an old miner who struck 1t rich"
His gold properties We're in the vi.
entity of Rosamond, and when the mi
ners wealth accumulated he deter
mined to do something "swagger' for
the place, so he reared structure
of rock, and put in the entire front Of
gold ore from his discoveries. 1t
is large building SSG of heavy
construction, particularly that part
made OF the gold-hearing rock. The
mines whence this came have been
worked out. 1t is not unlikely that
some day, when the building is
RACED. the rock will be milled and the
gold extracted, and il may yield a
large amount. because some very rich
streaks were encountered, and part of
this rock came from these lodges.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
steel Barrels

If the statements of the makers are
well founded, 1t is probable that steel
barrels will eventually take the place
of wooden ones. The steel barrel is
composed OF slaves of that material
locked together by an ingenious de-
vice; the hoops and heads are also of
steel. 1t is claimed that the steel bar
rel is more durable and more compact
than the wooden one AS 1t is said
to be lighter and cheaper, it has al
ready had favor in various quarters.
About 300,000,000 barrels are needed
annually, in normal times, to supply
the demand in the United States.
Flour mills will use about 100000,
the sugar industry 100000, and the
cement industry 100000.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
FRANKLlH'S TICKLE "DEBBIE"
She Became Another's Wife in His
Absence, but He Married Her
Anyhow.

Scon after his arrival IN Philadei-
phia Benjamin Franklin went to llVe
with the parents of Deborah Read
who later became his wife, and 1t was
not long before he and Deborah be-
came engaged. Their marriage plans
were interrupted by the necessity Oh
Franklin's visiting LondoE
His stay in England was longer
than expected, but Benjamin remained
faithful TO his 'dear child" as he
always called her, and returned to
America. anxious to hasten the we'd
ding. What was his grief and aston
ishment when, upon his arrival in
philadelphia, he learned that his
"Debbie." less steadfast than himself,
had succumbed to the wiles of
Fascinating neer-do-well named
Rogers. who had loved her briefly
and gone away. The deserted
Deborah once more turned her attec-
lions towards Franklin, who forthwith
married her. 1t is asserted by sohs
historians that Deborah took her
famous husband without the formaiity
of divorcing her first one, but that
fact has never been definitely estab-
lished.
The Franklins once they had
weathered the pre-marital storms,
lived happily together. Deborah,
described by historians as an illit-
crate. superstitious woman, seems to
have held her husbands interest des-
pite this great intellectual discrep-
ancY
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Measuring the Moon.

It is difficult to realize how COM
paratively small Is the moon. In the
sky y looks as big as the sun, which
we know is very far away and inn
mensely big But compared with the
earth, the moon is a tiny body. LIS
diameter is just about 2,l60 miles.
Now, if you take an atlas and ON the
map of Australia or Africa draw a
circle Of the radius of the moon TO
scale, you will ind that it would fiji
comfortably within the length of Aus
tralia, the smallest continent, and just
about fiji the northwestern bulge of
Africa. In the great circle of the Pa.
cific, from which, according 10 an old
idea. it was born, the moon would
make a solitary island.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
The Mother Of Rallooninu.

A washerwoman was the mother of
ballooning and it all started in France
about 1880. The washerwoman wished
to dry a skirt more rapidly than could
be accomplished by air and sunshine,
so she rugged it up over the fireplace
The hot air soon dried the cloth and
the woman was astonished to see it
round out like d bali and float up to
the ceiling. A neighbor named Mont
golfer saw the strange occurrence and
it gave him the idea from which he
made the first balloon.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Double Charity

Little Jackie took the church collec-
ton very seriously, and every Sunday
morning he saw that his penny was
READY.
One day, just as the collection was
being taken up, Jackie noticed that a
guest in the family pew was not duly
provided.
Sliding along the seat, he whispered /.
where's your penny?"
Il didn't bring one" replied the lady.
Time was short, and the matter was
urgent, but Jackie came to decision
with great promptitude.
Thrusting his penny into the lady's
hand, he whispered:
Il re take mine Itll pay for you.
and Ill get under the seat"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
An.
Advertisement.

n you put q sign over your
door. Json Ars an advertiser
The sign Is Intended TO g.
vsrriss your business 10 the
p&ssers-by.
An advertisement 10 q nplL
able paper rs ulany fbonsasd
Eigns spnesd over many miles
YOs carr rArry everybody
10 your sign, bar the NeRspa-
per can carry yDgr siFn 10
everybody.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Persistent Superstition.

The superstition concerning wills
ting woman and growing hen IS
nowhere regarded with greater respect
than in Cornwall. A Cornish fisher
man Will on no account permit a
whistling woman aboard his boat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Sheets.

If you find that your sheets persls..
emily wear out at the top and remain
good at the bottom, change the wav
that you put them on the bed. occa.
sionally. 1t really makes no Inference
whether the wide or narrow hem Is At
the top. -
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-10-14
Food e. PuoIlists

Correspondent intrigued by S'Stewed
uppereuts" on a bin of fare says he
ordered some. The dish turned out to
be stewed apricots.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
THE ALABAMA COAL STRIKE

understood that the state authorities
would protect them from being blud-
geoned into the organization, the Walk
cut as means of forcing the mine own
ers to recognize the union was doomed to
failure.
In the circumstances the issues that
called for arbitration proved paltry. The
lisgruntled agents of the United Mine
Workers themselves admitted that IL
would be absurd to require the conf
panies to recognize their organization
when the mines were, in fact, being sue
cessfully operated "open shop But as
it appeared necessary to make state
ment of principle, the arbtral commits
sion declared itself in these words We
do not question the right of men volun-
rilv to organize, but we do question
seriously the asserted right to force other
men against their wishes into the organ
ization."
THE fnding summed up is that the
strike twas called wrongfully ana VIII
ont the slightest justification The gov
ernor suggests, pointedly, that since Z
r,ins workers union is responsible for
tha unemployment of men who struck. it
sbould support them until they find work.
I. would evidently have been better u
tha organization and the men whom IL
n isled had sought arbitration before re-
sorting to strike.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26

From the Providence Journal
R1HE issues involved in the strike in
the .Aaabama coal fields nave now
* been settled by the governor OIL
that state officiating as arbiter, ASSISTED
by three representative citizens appoint
ed to take testimony. The strike ltsel
eeased to be effective some time ago
the governors commission reports that
the mines are producing more coal than
there is demand for. Some strikers nave
not gone back, but that is due not to
tbeir determination to stay out, but to the
fact that there are no vacant places
The disturbance in this coal region mas
not filled so large space in the news
nc the one in the West Virginia field,
beca,se II has not been marked py san
culinary violence But the origin was the
same in both cases, an attempt by the
leaders of the United Mine Workers OF
America, to "organize" the field. The
oriy open-shop mines in the country are
in west Virginia and Alabama; when
accounts fer the use of force and the ex-
penditure OLA great sum out OF the
treasury Of the United Mine Workers to
unionize them.
Haa more than a small minority of the
miners chosen voluntarily to unionize
themselves the story might have been
a;fferent. When the majority of them
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
Effect of Campaign
Against Worthless Dogs

MM UGH has been said in criticism
GVU Of the determination campaign
which has been waged against the
worthless dogs of Birmingham, but
the fact remains that the campaign
has not only justified itself, but has
resulted in striking decrease iii the
number of rabies cases treated at The
city Pasteur institute.
1t should be borne in mind also
that there has not been a single COM
plant lodged of really valuable dog
killed as a result of the health de-
partment's action. Considering the
seriousness of the rabies situation, the
officers who have been charged with
the duty of exterminating the stray
ours of the streets have SHOWN COM
mendable discretion and judgment.
Those who love good dogs have APP
parently failed to consider the numer-
Gus children who have been victims
of the ownerless mad dogs which have
been on rampage ever since the
warm weather began but they should
remember that the saving of one child
f1cOtN, tho fota IF Il
bite is more important than the lives
of thousand dogs.
Nearly every man and woman loves
good dog. But after all the friends
of such dogs have much to answer for.
They are responsible for the fact that
in every county of Alabama there are
hundreds of worthless ours which are
not only source of danger but which
are directly responsible for serious
economic loss to the state. Alabama
has been pronounced one of the most
luedl SpObo III Iile WOIlu IOT sheep
raising on big scale. 1t is a profit
able industry and could be pursued
with advantage from one end of the
state to the other. And yet the farm
ers of the state cannot raise sheep
because the helpless animals are at
the mercy of hundreds of stray sheep
killing dogs.
Dog lovers can do no greater serv-
ice to their state than to join heartily
in any movement for determination of
the mongrels. They will thus incur
more respect and protection for their
own valuable animals and will at the
same time contribute to the wealth of
the state as well as to the protection
of innocent children whom a rabies
epidemic places in continual jeopardy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
FARMER DOOLITTLE, REPORTER

,,Led. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter and
William Allen White.
Farmer Doolittle was contented with
his paper, and never ventured Tar
afield in literature. wichita was once
school for newspaper men; as sooA
as they could they sought the metro
politan press. Big cities are noisy and
said the Farmer. explaining
why he chose to stay in wichita Ii
his route developed no items he would
write of the Douglas Lincoln debate,
a story of Abraham Lincoln, OF the
DAYS when Bill Mathewson was shoot
ing buffaloes, or when gold-hunters
were travelling over the santa Fe tran
to pixies Peak. When the spring first
came and the boys and the tomboys
playing truant came around the office.
the seven foot Farmer and the three
foot boys and girls all of the same
age. went down to the bank OF the Ar
kansas and fished. The Eagle might
the next morning suffer severai beats,
but it would have good plea for
Stocking the ARKANSAS with game iiSn
and opening, it to navigation.
His friends told Farmer Doolittle
when he was so that he was old
enough to stop work. He did not be-
lieve this any more than he did when
the same friends told him the same
thing three days before he died at the
age of "a. Almost to the end he went
on with his pleasant work of gather
ing local news items for the Eagle,
which, under father and sons, he
served so long and happily.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
Large Cotton Surplus
Demands Reduced Acrea

1.-THE President has assured Repre-
sentative Oliver that he will as
certain the requirements of the. Gu
ropean markets for American cotton
and how much they will purchase if
granted long-term credits. The for
eign trade finance corporation is be-
ing organized for the purpose of ar
ranging such credits based on good
security.
Sincere efforts are being made in
many quarters to help the cotton pro-
Queer out of the difficulties caused by
low prices received for the last crop.
Some facts stand in the way of
vicarious assistance. The Wall Street
Journal points out one, saying:
Demand for cotton in the near
future depends on the fortunes of
Europe. The progress OF the mar
ket to more active consumption can
be no faster than Europe's return to
stable business conditions. The one
is inextricably bound up in the well
fare of the other"
There is also the fact that at least
100000 bales remain on hand for
home mill use and exports during
the next five months, or until the in
coming crop is available. Conslmp-
ton and exports in seven months
from last August to March l amount
ed to only 7,036,000 bales and the
rate of consumption and export is
no greater now than in that period
There is only one answer. AS Rep
resentative Oliver puts it, "There is
certain hope for the cotton planter
but every authority from the Presi-
dent down agrees that the farmer
must help himself"
How can the farmer help himself
BY not adding the usual cotton pro.
duction to the large surplus remain
ing this season. Reduced acreage viii
accomplish that and the acreage Gi
verted from cotton to other crops vii
yield greater revenue than if devoted
to product already difficult t.
move.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26

we would have to create practically
a new service. Europe is far ahead
of America in using aircraft CONNER
cially and is still further developing
the airplane for military purposes.
Airplanes may eventually become as
indispensable as automobiles. AS an
offensive and defensive weapon they
have already stood the test of war.
1t is paradox that the country
where the heavier-than-air machine
was perfected has yielded precedence
to other nations in its development.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
Homely Truths Expressed
By a Woman Expert

AZ M RS. HENRIETTA w. CALVIN,
IVU home economies specialist of
the bureau of education, in talk to
the girls at the Alabama Technical
Institute for Women at Montevallo,
declared that Anybody who prepares
food rightly serves it rightly, sits
at table and talks rightly and sends
people out three times a day better
equipped for their tasks, is doing the
finest thing in the world
Mrs. Calvin is not an old-fashioned
aerson, coming from a village With
ept the distractions of city life, but
a modern woman employed in de.
partment of the government seeking
to teach women the best way to live
and care for others. That she EN-
phasizes an old truism is proof of nsr
common sense.
She also told these young women
that it 1T not one bit more respecta-
Bile to teach than it is to be in bust
ness That is regarded as truer now
than it was two decades ago, when,
especially in the south, fewer women
had been called into business life. A
few decades prior to that the south
ern male aristocEcy rather leaned
away from the bridesmaids calling as
below the dignity >of a profession
Now no such foolish distinction ex-
lists.
Usefulness is the keynote Of re.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26
Value of Airplane
in Peace and War

7NHE Manufacturers Aircraft asso-
u citation, with headquarters in
New York, courteously takes excep.
tons to an. Age-Herald editorial on
Aircraft a Menace to National
Safety"
The editorial in question was not
intended in any way to reflect on
the great value of aircraft, both for
defensive and offensive purposes. As
its files will show, The Age Herald has
deplored Americas failure to keep
pace with other nations in commercial
and military aviation.
Mr.. Luther X. Bell, director of in
formation for the association, says in
his letter, Authoritative opinion
abroad, as well as at home, states
that the only defense for aircraft is
aircraft" That may not be the "only
defense" but it is certainly the best,
as demonstrated when the Germans
were making air raids on London and
Paris. 1t was not anti-aircraft gurs
which drove off the invaders, but
British and French aviators.
Mr.. Bell incloses with his letter a
summary of American aviation at the
close of the war and at the present
time, which is Of interest to everyone
interested in this vital subject. "In
the period Immediately following the
armistice," this statement says, when
the pressure of war had not yet
abated, American aeronautics con-
sisted of:
United States air service 20,56S Of
ficers. 174456 men: naval aviation, s,117
officers, 1862 men, American built
equipment. 1900 planes. 10000 engines;
industry dncluding allied lines. $780,
100000 capital employees dncluding
spruce forces). $4,000 men and women.
Today American aeronautics con
sists of: United States air service.
1880 officers. Ss43 men; naval ayia-
ton, sa4 officers. 4.62S men with avia-
ton rating), Equipments: Obsolete
war material and few hundred ex-
perimental aircraft and engines insult
ficient for even the depleted person
mel. Industry: Plants allied with the
aircraft industry during the war have
reverted to their original lines; the
capital remaining in this key air
craft industry consequently has
shrunk to one-tenth the war figure.
or slo.Ooo,ooo. Employees, under 1000
all told.
These statistics show in striking
way how sadly our air service has de-
Perforated. Once powerful, it is nov
mere skeleton organization and j
I've were to engage in another wal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-26

From the New York Herald.
n BOUT half century ago FARM
IN er Doolittle, gawky, thin, al
RS most seven feet tall. alighted
.ro, santa Fe train and stroiled
a,one Douglas avenue, wichita's main
a+~aet It was wild and woody town
tbroneed almost any day with
rox.s cowboys. buffalo hunters IN
~ n,ains and Cheyenne and Co.
.,A ,bpcks with their squaws ana
aoses from the Indian territory.
noo,,ttle climbed up the stairs of the
off,ce Of Col. Marshall Murdoch. foun-
der AZ the wichita Eagle, and said ne
ntsa 70 write his impressions anu
a iob. you're a damn funny look
~. ma, for a reporter" said Colonei
Nurdock. MOST OF US literary fellows
are. replied Doolittle. He sat down
!. a small table by window anu
... nd he continued to sit at the
..a table daily and write his copy
unti, two or three days before ms
death last wednesday.
rarmer Doolittle was the only name
~ which he was known in Kansas
ana many people Of the state AneW
Tor the first time when they read ms
obituary that his name really was
c.orss richtenberg. He had an Idea
49, he vent to Kansas that he would
hA = farmer. But agriculture on the
az. windy prairie of Kansas meant
labor and hardship. So he made up
h,s mind he could do as we'll by adj
v,sinr the farmers. Before Don Mar
ouis and most Of his column WRITER'S OF
the present day were born, Farmer
Dooiittle had signed column IN the
Eagle.
on his way to Kansas as he stopped
in Illinois and lived for several years
la the town where Lincoln praoticeo
hav He travelled Around the circuit
n the great Douslas-LAncoln debate
anc he developed an admiration tna'
amounted almost to idolatry for LIN
coin. He talked with him often' ne
absorbed his homely philosophy an0
ria humanity. and he had to express
|, n IL his column. He kept this column
~o,ns FOR 20 or rs years. and It nisn'
navs continued it longer had not his
love for the outdoors drawn him more
and more from his desk.
IA vent the round Of his beat h'
.,opped writing on cowboys and thu
dams 10 write on land boomss OF high
soc,1tv and the teas. operas ana thea
,,.s that came With the growth OF thu
tovn. He saw the changes in kansas
nciit,os that arrived when hts friend
INGALLS, and plumb. gave way to Peffel
ana Mary Ellen Lease. He saw Henri,
A,,en FUN OF energy. swoop down OF
wichita and start rival paper across
tnA street from the Eagle. He saw thu
Isunflower state enrolling in literature
Instead OF Noble Prentiss and Eugen,
i ware, the names OF Ed Howe, who OK
pressed broader ana better the 1omel.
philosophy that Farmer Doolittle hes