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The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
THE DEADLY GAS STOVE

ILLUMINATING gas is what chem
4 lists call carbon monoxide. 1t is
made by decomposing coal by steam,
distilling it and catching the gas In
large tanks, from which 1t is piped to
houses, stores and factories for heat
ing and lighting. AS every n knows,
It Is extremely poisonous, and if any
amount of it is breathed into the lungs
1t causes Inconsistencies, blueness Of
the face and extremities and shallow
breathing, which becomes slower and
slower in serious cases, until death
follows from failure of respiration.
Every one knows that turning on
the gas is a common method Of sui
eide. In every town in which gas is
used for lighting or cooking, there are
frequent Instances Of victims, usually
women, being overcome by gas es-
Gaping from defective ranges, gas
stoves or lighting fixtures.
So frequent are these accidents that
the Baltimore health department has
made ascareful study of gas accidents.
One hundred and forty-fye wsre In
vestigated; thirty-fve were attempts
at suicide; forty-nine were due to de-
fective appliances; seventeen were due
to defects in the pipe; nine were
caused by wornout rubber tubes, and
eleven were the result Of carelessness
in turning of the gas.
The defects responsible for the larg-
est number of accidents were dirty
burners on gas stoves, leaky tubes and
the use of gas stoves in small closed
rooms for heating the room or for
heating water. Water heaters in small
bathrooms are especially dangerous
Some one in the household desires to
take a hot bath. The heater is
lighted. The victim goes into the
bathroom and closes and often locks
the door. The bathroom window Is
closed n the shade pulled down.
Through defects or leaks in the heat
err, gas escapes and fills the small
room. The odor is not noticed and
the person Is soon overcome. He can't
get out or turn off the gas and, too
often, by the time the accident is dis
covered and the door broken down, it
Is too late.
Gas heaters for small living or sleep
ing rooms also cause many accidents
Gas tubes, usually made of rubber, be-
come hard and brittle. They crack
and allow gas to escape v e though
the outer covering Of the tube is I'M
broken or they are tied onto the gas
tip and to the stove or to the table
light, and leakage takes place at the
joint.
Don't use n broken or defective
tube or appliance for gas heating or
lighting. Don't S gas In any room
that Is not well ventilated.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
WORLDS BUSINESS

July was one of the best months the
automobile and allied industries ever
experienced.
There is no imminent danger of ex-
haustion of the petroleum reserves of
the United States.
The United States in selling 200
merchant marine vessels to Henry
Ford for 81 ,706, 900 lost approximately
$3.50, O00, 900 on the transaction.
Gross sales of the larger chain store
organizations Of the country estab-
lished high records for some compa-
MES, both for July and for the first
seven months of the current year to
date.
Copper consumption in the quarter
ended June 80 was estimated by the
American Bureau of Metal Statistics
at 9 $500 tons.
Wheat production in the worlds
seventeen principal grain producing
countries is estimated by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at 2,110, 000, 900
bushels.
Reports of 176 Glass / railroads to
the Interstate Commerce Commission
show that they employed 1,767, 292
persons in May, paying them 1921, SOO,-
100. In the same month in 1924,
1,792,504 employees received $780,
029,129.
Imports Of the United States from
Asia during June were larger than
those from any other quarter Of the
globe.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
In a Hundred Years the Uniication of the
Human Race Will Be Complete
By E. E. FoURNIER d ALBE, in "QuO vadimus9"

a LREADY the earth is a network of lines and cables, linking
IN continent to continent. Soon a speaker will have the earth for
IN his sounding board and his hall of audience, and the privilege
Of addressing the human race will be priced above a coronation.
Human sight and hearing will extend its range enormously, not only IN
space, but in time also.
Other progress will go hand in hand with the rapid development Of
signaling communications, such as telegraphs and the like Transport OF
goods and passengers will gain rapidly in speed and comfort and safety
until the whole earth becomes accessible to all. The tropics, original
cradle of the human race, will be ono more reclaimed from our most
formidable enemies of the insect world and the ever-present bacterium.
Everybody will be a globetrotter, but the "globe" will not be confined
to the ordinary tourist resorts 1t will include every part Of the world,
even the poles. And wherever they go they viii find friendly voices, long
familiar in the home through the service of radio-telephony.
The unifcahon of the planet which is being accomplished before our
eyes will have some astounding consequences. Mankind will assume a
definite mastery of his home in the solar system. In a hundred years the
unifcahon of the human ace will be complete. The earth and the fitness
thereof will be under the mastery of man. All animal, vegetable and bac-
tenal life will be kept within strict bounds in the interest of humanity.
The earth will be under one government, and one language will be written
and understood, or even spoken, all over the globe. There will still be
different races and perhaps allied nations, but travel and commerce Will
be free and unfettered, and calamties will be aneviated and dangers met
by the united forces of mankind.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
''Time Flies. If You Would Catch Up With It
You Must Fly Also
By U. S. SENATOR HIRAM BINGHAM. Az Expert.

Permit me to call to your attention certain things which must be
done if we ar to enjoy the enormous saving of time which commercial
aviation will permit. In the first place, we must plan to use arplanes
over land and airships over sea.
In the second place, we must recognize the absolute necessity OF
proper terminal facilities. There must be adequate anports if there is
to be much air commerce. There must also be suitable flying fields as air
stations and frequent landing fields to use as anchorage in time of storm
and stress.
In the third place, we must realize the necessity of developing navii
gable Always and providing them with adequate charts. lighthouses
buoys, beacons, radio and other necessary aids to navigation. Finally, our
municipalities must aid by furnishing airports; our states must aid by
providing airways. Our national government, through a bureau of air
navigation in the Department of Commerce, must do as much to aid air
commerce IS it has to aid ocean commerce. Time flies. If you would
catch up with it you must fly also.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
Many a Business in the United States Suffering
From Conferencitis
By RopMAN GLIDER, Editor credit Monthly.

Many a business is suffering from conferencHis A grave case is
the department head, whose confidence and courage have been emascu-
lated by the wrong kind of control from above, who believes it necessary
to confer with the chief before taking any action outside Of routine.
A still more serious form of conferencitis appears when an executive
calls together his immediate subordnates and, without profting by their
views, wastes many highprced man-hours in useless repetition of his in
sructions.
Among the gravest conferencits cases Of all are those where the d.
rectors II partners in a business sit down together in the board room OF
over a luncheon table, and permit the discussion of details to obscure the
real questions of policy that should be decided.
The cure for conferencits in nearly every case is in the hands Of the
man higher up. He should call no conference Of any kind that is unneces-
sary and he should at the earliest possible moment dispatch the work in
hand and get every one back on the job.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
"A Proper Discrimination Of Place of Athletics
in the College Order
PRESIDENT EMERITUS C. F. THwING, Western Reserve III

BY PRESIDENT EMERITUS c. F. THWINGs Western Reserve University.
In the undergraduate and graduate mind the year has helped toward
a proper discrimination of the place of athletics in the college order In
tie past the double aim Of the higher education $ a sound mind IN a
sound body has received an emphasis too strong upon the part OF the
sound body. In the yet earlier period perhaps the sound mind was over
valued in relation to the worth of the bodily condition.
Administrative officers and college faculties are becoming convinced
that athletics may be, not an asset, but a menace. Their dominance not
only hurts the influence of the scholarly spirit, but that dominance also
gives to that part of the public which is unthinking a false impression Of
thoughtful greve.
A better proportion of physical and intellectual values is coming to
prevail. The stadium is really getting a larger place by the side OF the
chapel. The extravagant compensation given in the past to football
coaches is becoming less extrayagant. The whole athletic system is as
Stunning its proper relation in the academic order.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
Not a Hill but Has Been Wholly or in Part
Fashioned by Erosion


BY PROF. JULIUS HENDERSON,, IN Geology and Landscapes.
Erosion is the combined chHel and giant plane by which nature,
speaking somewhat metaphoncaly and anthropomorphicaly, seeks to
plane off all inequalities and reduce the surface of the earth to a common
level.
Not a hill but aas been wholly or partly fashioned by erosion; not a
valley but is due partly to its handiwork; not a plain but is witness to its
operations. Wherever a difference in altitude occurs chieing begins.
If the slopes on all sides of each elevation we're exactly equal and
composed of materials in exactly the same chemical and physical condi
ton. and if precipitation and temperatures we're exactly equal on all
sides, then storm waters would flow off in an even sheet and erosion would
be uniform There would be no rivers, no canyons, no rugged peaks
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-13
POINTS ON
KEEPING WELL
DIR. FREDERICK r. GREEN
Editor Of 'HEALTH'


"a, 1926. Western Newspaper Union.l
The Washington times., 1925-06-23

have been elevated this day to the
position Of living, modern saint and
bishop with pontificial powers. in
the Liberal Church, conditioned as
follows:
1. Regarding the inspiration Of
the Bible, you will be required to
get the facts and tell the truth.
2. Regarding the origin of man,
you will be required to prove your
theory by the age Of rocks instead
of the rock Of ages.
8. In regard to proof that prayer
is answered we will teach you how
to prove and demonstrate this by
the use Of modern adding ma.
chine and the mathematical sci
ences.
4. In regard to the divinity and
justice of the Tennessee law
against evolution, you will be re-
quired to prove it by your God
given inspiration.
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
the charge against Chambers for

the charge against Chambers for 1
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The arrest Of Chambers was made
at the. request of Max D. Steuer,
counsel for Mrs. Symington, defend.
ant in the divorce action. Cham.
bers testified several days ago to
acts which he said had taken place
in his own and Mrs. Symington's
a apartment
Edward Hackett, apartment house
elevator boy, who corroborated
Chambers testimony. also appeared
before Justice Ford today. He
pleaded not guilty and asked that
his bail of $500 be renewed.
Chambers attorney entered the
plea of not guilty, with, the privil-
eye of changing the plea when the
hearing is held.
Chambers, who is about thirty
five years old, was in good humor
and smiled at several acquaintance
in the court room.
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
EAT WHALE STEAKS At
LUNCHEON IN PARIS

PARIS, June 23.-Whale steaks
formed the piece de resistance OF
the annual luncheon this year Of the
Societe Generate discrimination de
France. An old nre-vNar custom Of
lunching on only the most exotic OF
foods was revived, and the order OF
the day was sea food, but no fish.
In addition to the filet OF whale
the menu OF the experienced gour-
NETS included coup Of cookies, cas-
soulet OF mussels, devil fish fritters.
roast dolphin and a Japanese sea-
weed Jelly.
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
VILLAGE HAS FIRST
HOL DUP IN so YEARS

SCoTTVILLE. Mich. June "a
County officials at Ludington
couldn't understand why Scottville
was all excited over a holdup the
other night, but this village, &C
cor1ing to the oldest Inhabitants,
had never had a holdup before In
its, more than fifty years exist
ence.
Ralph Cleveau, twenty-five. was
on his way home when an armed
bandit stopped him and took all OF
his money. $500. City Marshal Rex
Parker got on the job Immediately.
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
PROVES HIS IDEAL
so HE MARRIES HER

LONDON, June William Cor.
don thought his sister, Catherine.
was the ideal Of womanhood, he
told the Manchester court, so he
married her. He didn't want any
other man to have her.
The court, after long session,
freed the ideal GIRL" but sent
Gordon to prison.
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
LIBERAL BISHOP
CANON|ZES>
BRYAN
Cleric Addresses Commoner
as Dear MonkeyIess
Brother" in Letter
BY international News Service

DENVER, June ga new honor
has been conferred upon William
Jennings Bryan as a result of his
opposition to the theory of evolu-
ton.
Bishop Frank H. Rice, OF the
Liberal Church, with headquarters
ing communication to Bryan:
Dear Monkeyless Brother:
This ecclesiastical, scientific and
religious communication is to
notify you that you
The Washington times., 1925-06-23
SY NJ | n c 7 D n
WITNESS ON
TRIAL
Chambers Pleads Not Guilty
to Statutory crime-out-
come of Testimony
BY international News Service.

NEW YORK. June ga plea of
not guilty was entered today by
Talbot w. Chambers when he ap-
peared before Justice Ford in the
supreme court charged with a
statutory crime as an outcome of
MS testimony in the divorce suit
o. Thomas H. Symington. of New
YORK, Baltimore and Rochester,
mililonaire dealer in railroad sup.
Justice Ford set the hearing of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
O. K. MOUNTAIN CEMETERY
Officials Set Aside Plot on Pixies
Peak Summit.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Janu-
airy S.-An acre of land will be set
aside Immediately as a burial ground
on the summit of Pixies Peak. it was
announced here last night. Many re-
quests have been made within the last
few years for burial ground on the
nationally known mountain, and the
latest from Carl Lotave, famous art
list. who ended his life December IS,
when threatened with death from can
GER, has been granted.
Work on the new burial ground
will be started as soon as weather
permits, and a shelter house will be
erected, where services can be held
and accommodations made for urns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
ANCIENT BEASTS
SWEPT BY PLAGUE
Malady Blamed for Disap-
pearance of Mammoth,
Tiger and Horse.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, January S.-NIam-
moths and mastodons, numbering
thousands, which once roamed the
Western plains of America. penetrat-
ing to Alaska and as far east as New
York, died under the blight Of some
mysterious power of nature. some
thing that the science of man has
not yet been able to discover, ac-
cording to Prof. Clinton r. Staufter,
geologist at the University OF Min
nesota. Not only the elephants of
North America, but the horse and the
fierce saber-toothed tiger, his early
contemporaries, died and vanished in
way that has not been explained. .
Three natural assumptions, that
they died because of climatic
changes; that their proper food van
ished, or that man slew them, must
all be abandoned, DIR. Stauffer de-
clareS.
OF PoSt-GIaciaI Era.
AT least some of these creatures
lived into post glacial times. when
the climate was much what it is
now, and all could stand tempera-
lures even colder than those of the
modern age" says DR.. Stautfer In
the stomach of mammoth found
frozen in Siberia, where he had died.
~ -
still grows He was the same type
of animal that lived in North Ameri-
ca Primitive man lived when these
creatures did, but with his small
numbers and crude weapons, he
stood as much in danger of them as
they did of him. He did not slaugh-
ter them as his successors did the
bison.
THE only modern parallel for such
i,,
that of the passenger pigeons. Man
slaughtered these by the million, but
1t has never been established that
this carnage alone caused their final
extinction"
Big Animals Suffered.
DR.. Stauffer incIines to the belief
that a pestilence caused the disap-
pearance of the mammoth tiger and
horse, although he sees no reason
why all should have succumbed to
the same disease, nor does he think
they all passed at the same time. But
they did all live at the same time,
and all vanished, possibly 100000
years ago. The horse alone repop-
ulated part of North America after
escaping from Spanish invaders in
the sixteenth century. He then pro-
ceeded to flourish greatly.
Since last Summer when the dis
covery of several Jeffersonian ele-
plants in Minnesota was reported by
biologists, the number has increased
TO so. Formerly only about half
that number had been known in Min
nesota
American elephants were visitors
from far away Egypt in the first in
stance, DR.. Stauffer says. From
Egypt they spread to France and
throughout Europe and Asia, finally
crossing Behring Straits to Alaska.
Thence they wandered over North
America North American types in
cluded the maStodon and two mann
moths, elephas jeffersoniensis and
elephas boreus. Still another type
was found in South America to which
il had wandered from the northern
continent, DR.. Stauffer asserts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
ALLEGED AFFRONT KEEPS
MEXICO OUT OF LEAGUE
Bar When Body Was Formed
Deemed Insult-Wil Not
Seek Entry Now.

By Gable to The Star and New York World.
VERA CRUZ, January S.-Advices
from Mexico City reveal that the
minister of foreign affairs declared
Monday the Mexican government has
resolved not to attempt to enter the
League of Nations. This attitude has
been taken, the minister said. because
Mexico was excluded from the league
when it was formed in a manner
which the government considered an
affront
This is the reason why the gov
eminent some time ago declined the
invitation of other Latin countries
to apply for membership in the
league.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
MRS. A. ]. DEVEREUX WEEDS
Divorced Wife of Polo Star Mar
ries Second Time.

PHILADELPHIA, January S.-Mrs.
Frances Fell Devereux, former wife
of A J. Antelo Devereux, information
ally known polo player, was married
Tuesday to Radcliffe Cheston, jr., OF
this city.
Plans for the wedding were re-
vealed when Mr.. Cheston and
Mrs. Devereux obtained a marriage
license at Norristown, Pa, which dis
closed that she had obtained a divorce
al Norristown on December %. from
her husband, who is In a hospital for
the treatment of mental ailments
Mr.. Devereux's disa bility is due to Z
number of accidents while playing
polo and hunting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
CUBAN CONSULS REMOVED
DUE TO IRREGULARITIES
President Zayas Acts in 8 Gases
on Information Alleging Mis-
handling of Funds.

BY the Associated Press
HAVANA, January s. - President
Zayas has signed an order di
recting the removal of the Cuban
consuls at Valparaiso, Chile; Kings
ton, Jamaica, and Coruna, Spain, be-
cause of alleged irregularities in
handlieg consular funds. 1t was said
at the state department that the case
of the consul at Coruna might be
reopened, as his remittance had been
received, although it was delayed
beyond the prescribed period.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08
WILL PHONE TO TAMPICO.

MEXICO CITY, January S.-Direct
telephone communication between
Tampico and the United States is to
be inaugurated, perhaps within d
months time, contract having been
signed by the state government of
Tamaulipas and the Mexican Tele-
phone Co. of Boston for establish
ment of long distance lines by way
of Laredo. Work on the lines will
soon start, press dispatches say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-08

Even a fretful, feverish, bilious or
constipated child loves the pleasant
taste of California Fig Syrup"
This gentle, harmless laxative never
fails to sweeten the stomach and
open the bowels. A teaspoonful to-
day may prevent sick child to-
morrow. It doesn't cramp or overact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

tons with her; that he beat her, bit
her or things Of that sort"
Oh Dear!
Inman then assumed both pro-
nunciations of the exclamation
Madge is said to have made when
she saw a revolver: "Oh dear! Put
that gun away" After assuming
that the party arrived at Hammond,
he asked the witness:
"Now, Doctor, even if you should
assume those things to be true, in
addition to the question / pro-
pounded to you, would that have
changed your answer"
ut would not" replied DR.. Will
liams.
You may cross-examine," said In
man. Cox who is conducting the
medical side ofthe case.
Cox had seen the witness making
some notes and began to question
him about that.
1T was just some little data on the
date, age, and so forth" said the wit
ness.
SIS your memory bad?" asked
Cox.
ut is better not to make mis-.
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takes than to make them said
Williams.
"That's not what / asked you"
"My memory / consider as good
as anybody else's," replied the
young doctor, somewhat nettled.
Where do you live?'
"At 1853 Shelby ST."
Where did live before that?"
"I've lived there two years. 1 lived
at the Methodist Hospital before that
nine months"
did you ever treat ID. G. Ste
phensOn for delirium tremens?"
1--WE object to that, Your Honor,
as an improper remark" shouted
Ira NJ Holmes and Floyd j. Chris
tian in unison.
Cox and the attorneys engaged in
a cross talk and Judge Sparks
raped sternly for order.
wait a moment" he said. "1f
you gentlemen have any remarks
to make, make them to the court.
Not that / like to be talked to,
but make yqOr remarks through
me-"
AS the witness had already re-
piled NO" Cox proceeded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

give whites of eggs, milk,
flour; give strong stimuIants such
as whisky, coffee, ETC."
why do they say 'Antidotes'
there?" asked Cox.
For the simple reason-well I
don't think that's right anyhow. I'd
never give coffee for an antidote
for this poison"
''Then you don't think Eli Lilly
and Company know what they're
abOut?"
Cox and the witness got into an
argument, Cox telling the Judge
that the State was entitled to an
answer. Attorney Holmes took a
hand In defense of his witness, &C
cusing Cox Of "heckling" the wit
ness.
Internal Expert"
The doctor said that he practiced
internal medicine.
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Are you appearing here as an
expert?"
mo, as a practionery Of internal
medicine. Only as expert as those
people are"
You said to Mr.. Inman that moth
ing could save the life Of a person
who swallowed this poison and kept
It secret for six hours without medi-
cal aid?" questioned Cox.
That's right. Nothing could.
"You said that, and you'll stand
by 1t, will your"
az do"
What is the time in which people
die from this poison?"
From thirty minutes to forty-hve
days. The usual time is from one
to twelve days"
The record case of the time be-
tween taking poison and death
from bichlOride of mercury has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-11-06

alany other opinions and many
other authorities on toxicology."
well, read this then, Doctor, p"
said Cox, "read it out loud. Go on.
read 1t out loud to the jury"
I'VE object. Your Hoor, to making
the witness read it out loud to the
jury" said the defense attorneys.
THE objection will be sustained"
said Judge Sparks promptly.
Cox Out-Smarted
Cox then read from the book, and
then asked a question.
eff Witthaus says the record
case is that of a young woman Of
thirty, who took bichloride Of
mercury in AQUEOUS solution, was
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