Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-10
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU pUY

ONE Of the most remarkable things about
~ men, be they of high or low estate, IS
that they never grow up.
Take, for instance, that group Of elder
statesmen in the United States Senate Here
is the trick they were caught playing on
Sims, the old Negro barber at the Capitol.
who has been shaving them and their kind
for forty years.
Sims is preacher and great biblical au-
thorify when he is not shaving Senators. He
Is profoundly religious. He has confidence
in his fellows:
So, when Senator Harry New, OF Indiana,
told Sims that he had n present for him,
the venerable barber walked into the trap
all unSuspeCting.
The Senator said he wanted to bestow his
present in private. He and Sims went into
an nnt"room. The Senator squatted down
and Sims did likewise. The Senator took
from his pocket large sized pair of dice
ana rolled them out on the carpet. Sims.
watched.
At just this moment group Of Senators,
IN the plot with New, burst into the room.
There, apparently, were Senator New and
the old barber, despite his prstestatons of
religion, shooting craps. The statesmen were
h"rrihcd. An employe of the Senate had
hsd gone wrong after forty years Sims,
whom they trusted implicitly. 1t was a
case that called for drastic action.
DR., Robert Koch, of Germany, the dis
c"Ferer OF the relation that the bacillus has
to tubcrcuIosis, visited DR.. H. NJ. Biggs,
OF the New York Bureau of Health, away
back in the nineties.
1--WE have disclosed the scientific nrinci-
pie, he said, 'and we are waiting for
you Americans TO show us how to use il. -
sure enough, the United States has led
tne W0rld ever since in the development of
methods for preventing the spread of tubcr-
little while later Europe developed an
antitoxin for diphtheria, the most nerfcct
aanntltoXn an yet discovered. 1t used to cost
80 an injection.
,,,T! The NGw York Bureau Of Health sent DR..
William IL. Park, director Of it's laboratories
abroad ana he found ont that the anti
toxins were obtained from the carcassos of
uorseS. lie cabied back directions for its
hInainulact9re and almost overnight it was
pelng made and distributed free
ANY poor child suffering from diphtberia
IN any well organized American city can
! now get its life saved for the asking
~ IS such demonstrations as these that
make the world watch 70 see wha. men of
sc'ence over mere ar" going to do
r, John L. Cable, of Lima, O.. is a babv
congressman; that is, he is serving his first
term and 1t therefore happened that hc was
one OF those who appeared before the Na.
uohal Press Club when it put on it's 'Babv
Nlght som" time ago. So John told these
journalists lot Of things they did not know
about the beginning of newspapers "'"
There are "Gazettos" all over tho corr.
trE' he said: Almost every town has its
Gazette Well, do YOU know whv naners
are given that name? '"Pe''
IT al happened back in tho beginning Of
hcWspapers. y newspaper began as n Iottor
Numbers of these letters were printed in TX, ~
crude way of the time and began TO be sold
In Venice in those early times there was n
small coin known as the "gazetta. y II was
sns , price for which these fret newspapers
have Gazettea come into being all over the The