The Washington times., 1921-06-14
uUM ANISMS
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 states
men in the United States Senate. Here is the
trick they were caught playing Sims. the old
negro barber at the Capitol. who has been shaw
ing them and their kind for forty years.
Sims is a preacher and a great biblical author
ity when he is not shaving Senators. He is pro-
foundly religious. He has confidence in his fell
lows:
So, when Senator Harry New OF Indiana told
Sims that he had present for him. the vener-
able barber walked into the trap all unsuspect-
. The Senator said he wanted to bestow his pres
ent in private. He and Sims went into an ante
room. The Senator squatted down and Sims did
likewise. The Senator took from bis pocket a
large-sized pair OF dice and rolled them out on
the carpet Sims watched.
At just this moment a group OF Senators, in
the plot with New burst into the room. There,
apparently, Senator New and the old bar
ber despite his protestations of religion, shoot
ing craps The statesmen were Mortified. An
employe of the Senate had been caught gambling.
sims OF all men, had gone wrong after forty
years SINS that hGm saed ihsy for drastic acdn
Or Robert Koch, OF Germany the discoverer
of the relation that the bacillus has to tuber-
culosis visited DR.. H. M. Bggs. OF the New York
bureau Of health, away back In the nineties.
n. said land we are waiting for you Americans
. to show how to use It.
sure enough, the United States has led the
rvorld ever since in the development OF methods
for preventing the spread OF tuberculosis
A little while later Europe developed an anti
toxip for diph eria the most perfect anti-toXin
vet discovered. 1t used to cost s25 injection
The New York bureau of health sent DR., Will
liam n Park, director OF its laboratories, abroad,
and he found out that the ant-toxins were OBJ
,oIned from the carcasses OF horses. Ho cabled
hacL attractions for it's manufacture and almost
overnight II was being made and distributed free.
kny poor child suffering from dipht iberia in any
we'll organized American city now get it's
life saved for the asking.
II is such demonstrations as these that make
tbe world watch to see what men of science over
here are going to do.
robn l. Gable, of Lima, Ohio is a baby Con-
vressman; that Is, he Is serving his initial term
and II therefore happened that he was one OF
those who appeared before the National Press
club when II put on its Baby Night" some time
.so So John told these Journalists a lot OF
tbinss they did not know about the beginning OF
newspapers
There are "Gazettes' all over the country he
.eid Almost every town has It's Gazette Well
40 YOU know why papers are given that manner
n all happened back in the beginning OF news
naners A newspaper began a letter Num-
her. Of these letters were printed in the crude
way OF the time and began TO be sold. In Venice
In those early times there was a small coin
Lnown as the gazette" IL was the price for
yhIoh these hrst newspapers sold. They took
,neIr names from it. SO have Gazettes come into
hsins all over the world.
toopyrisht 1871. by Public Ledger Col