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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

says It is little compensation for having
to go through life in constant danger Of
having her throat cut.
Martha Morris is girl who has sue
cessfully overcome the terrible affliction
of being born without arms. When she
was born in Chicago, twenty years ago,
her parents saw with horror that she
was entirely without hands or arms. Her
shoulders were perfectly smooth and
rounded, but where the arms should have
been there were just little dimples. And,
as though that was not misfortune enough,
when the baby's parents looked at her legs
they noticed for the first time that she
had no knees-there was only one joint
and that was at the hips.
How could a baby like this live? Mar
tina Is now earning her own living, helps
support her family and is at present study
ing to develop the vocal talent with which
she was born.
Every person Of scientific education
knows that the hands are the most direct
link between the brain and the outer
world. II was through the hands that the
human brain was first developed and il is
through them that it executes its concep-
tons.
How then will the brains of a person
born without hands develop? This was
tc 1875 By American Weekly, In
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20
RE you feeling blue?
l Have you found the heat and
humidity unbearable?

humidity unbearable?
Are you over-worked and under-paid?
Have you indigestion or a bad liver?
Do you suffer from any trouble or
natural handicap that you feel is unjust
and no fault of your own?
Then, if you feel any of these things,
read about these people and the troubles
they have conquered, and complain no
more.
Read about Mrs. Agnes Svetkovitch, of
Brooklyn, who has to be always ready to
have her throat cut, or she will choke
in three minutes, and yet has raised a
baby and does all her household work.
Especially read about Martha Morris, the
armless girl, who has learned to type
write, knit, weave baskets and do many
kinds of useful work with her feet.
Read about Harold Wursthorn, who
won a prize for penmanship although he
has lost both hands.
Most of US have heard of Helen Keller,
who, although blind and deaf from birth,
has learned to speak, read, write interest
ton and culture. She is, of course, re-
garded as a phenomenon, but investiga-
ton shows that many persons of moderate
intelligence. but great strength of char
acter, have overcome terrible physical dis
abilities, under which weaker people
would have sunk into helplessness and
death.
Mrs. Agnes Svetkovitch, of Brooklyn.
n. Y, daily and hourly sits under as ter
rible a danger as Damocles of old, who
was forced to sit at banquet with a
sword suspended by single borse hair
above his head.
If Mrs. Svetkovitch becomes III or up
set, or is visited with cold and coughs
or even draws in her breath carelessly.
she will probably strange TO death within
three minutes. The only way Mrs
Svetkovitch can save her life in such a
crisis, is by stabbing herself in the throat
at the point where a bungling operation
which severed her windpipe left its re-
vesling scar
And Il, after this, Mrs. Svetkovitch is
unable to insert tracheotomy tube into
her windpipe, or If the assistant she may
call in is slow or unskilful, she will die.
This terrible condition the doctors at
the Vanderbilt Clinic, in New York, have
all agreed, will afflict Mrs. Svetkovitch
as long as she lives Any time Of day or
night the crucial moment may arrive.
Three minutes will decide whether she
will live or die.
This pitiable affliction of Mrs. Svet-
kovitch's resulted from an operation which
she had had performed to remove goitre
from her neck. For her husbands sake,
as well as her own, she had made up her
mind to risk the dangerous ordeal to re-
move the unsightly Disagreement. Also
the surgeon had told her that il would be
impossible for her TO become mother
until the goitre had been removed. And
on the assurance Of the doctor that the
operation would be simple one, she had
gone under the ether with the happiest
expectations.
But in the hospital, after it was over,
Mr.. and Mrs. Svetkovitch realized with
horror, which increased as the weeks went
on. that the poor woman was much more
terribly afflicted than she had been be-
fore. After consulting many other doe
tors they were told there was no way
10 cure her. II she ehoked, they said
the only way TO save her life was for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

TENTS neck. Having done this,
the tube should be inserted in
the patients neck. The above
process must be done quickly"
written in red ink for empha-
sis), "as a matter of three min
utes may mean the patients
life"
In spite of her nerve-racking
affliction, Mrs. Svetkovitch is
leading a busy and useful life,
although she knows that her hus-
band may have to cut her throat
at any moment.
She is the mother of a baby
her son Harold-and she is rails
ing him successfully, but she is
tormented by the thought that as
he grows up he will realize that
his mother is afflicted as no other
human ever was.
Mrs. Svetkovitch brought a
suit against the surgeon for cut
ting her windpipe. 1t was set
tied out of court by her lawyer
for So, 500. She is by no means
satisfied with the amount, as she
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

ested to observe that her grasping instinct
went to her feet. Soon the baby was hap
PLY picking up objects with her flexible
little toes almost as we'll as another baby
would with its fingers. Apparently this
was a reversion to the ape-like stage,
when the feet could grasp as we'll as the
hands.
Now Martha can do just about as much
with her feet as normal girls of her age
can with their hands. She can crochet,
knit, string beads, weave baskets, work a
typewriter, clean her teeth, wash her face
and comb her own hair.
She can even hold length of cloth in
one foot and cut it with scissors held in
the other.
Why Martha was born the way she was
is a problem not solved by medical
Science. Some armless people have slight
remnants of arms attached to their shout
ders. The large snakes, such as pythons,
show tiny limbs concealed within their
bodies, which make them approximate
the armless people. But when X-ray pic
lures were taken of Martha's shoulders
there was not a single trace Of what
might have been an arm. She was one
of eight children, all of whom were
normal
81 know a great many people in the
world who are a great deal worse off
than am, who have far less to live for,
and who have but a fraction of the
pleasure that | get out Of life" said
Martha.
"But one time was taken to an in
st.tution where ! saw number of blind
children, and children who were badly
crippled, and otherwise mistreated by fate,
and then and there realized that my lot
was not so bad after all. Even though
child could appreciate the fact that was
possessed of all my faculties and serses.>
/ could read, talk, hear, understand and
appreciate and enjoy the beauties Of life.
Great Britain RlshD Rsarsd
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

Mrs. Agnes Svetkovitch,
Who Has to Be Always
Ready to Have Her Throat Cut in Order
to Continue Living. Here Is the Plac-
ard and the Diagram She Carries
Around Her Neck, Together with Lancet
to Cut Her Throat and the
Tube to Stick in It.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

problem which made sew
eral scientists interested
in little Martha. They
experimental with her
by placing near her nu-
merous small objects which
a normal child would in
stinctively grasp. They
wanted to see what Mar
tina would do with no arms
to obey her instincts?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

could read and they couldn't. |
could talk with my friends, but
some of them couldn't because
they were dumb. ] could hear and
enjoy the beautiful music, while
some of them couldn't because
they were deaf. / had my mental
faculties, and began to look for
ward to my education, and some
of them couldn't because they were
idiots.
"The visit to that institution, I'M
pleasant though il was because of
the misery ! saw, was the best
thing that could have happened to
me, from that time to this ! have
never complained.
"My parents found a cripple's school !
could attend. ] started to school when !
was nine years old, and graduated at six
teen. The school that attended was the
Jessie Spalding School in the city of
Chicago, for crippled children only. | also
had one year of High School at the Spald-
ing School, where ] took up typewriting
and shorthand.
81 weigh about 10 pounds. Physicians
VINO examiner me- compute lHdI my
weight, with my upper limbs would be
about l40 or $50 pounds.
81 eat Is per cent less than the average
young lady. I eat when | feel like it,
and not a great deal, unless it is some
thing am particularly fond Of, such as
chicken, spaghetti and salads. Eating does
not worry me much. The matter of how
much | eat has been a subject of very
keen interest to the scientists who have
studied me. They have estimated the
weight of my missing upper limbs and
have calculated what percentage of
nourishment would be necessary to create
the blood TO supply and sustain, the
muscles, nerves and tissues, all Of them.
Thss has aroused much discussion and in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-20

the food that eat is just about as much
less as the missing limbs would require
Il am pleased to receive the attentions
Of young men and am glad to say that
Wnen they get, used to my one popularity
they seem to like me-"
Still another way of triumphing over al
cruel affliction has been demonstrated byI
fourteen-year-old Harold Wursthorn, of
West New York, N. J. He lost both
hands and one arm in an accident. THERE
were Of course many things that Harold
could do, but one would not have ex1
pected him to excel at penmanship. Butt
he set his mind and will on that ambition.
With the help of an artificial hand at-|
tached to the stump of his arm, he wcSl
a prize for penmanship at school, beating|
many boys who had two good hands.
Such cases prove that success and hap-|
piness depend on our mental attitude and
not one our physical strength and good
fortune.
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terest, and my intake,
as they call it, and diet
have been watched and
examined. They say
that my appetite and
Evening star., 1925-11-20
SURGERY HELDCURE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Operation Claimed as Sue
cess in 81 Per Cent of
Cases Described.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 20-A
surgical operation for tuberculosis Of
the lungs, which was reports ed to have
effected practical cures" in 34 per
cent of the cases. was described yes
terday at the New York Tubercu-
losis and Health Conference. 1t also
was announced that New York
Health Department authorities ex-
pected soon to make available a
vaccine for tuberculosis originated in
Paris at the Pasteur Institute and
that good results We're being OBJ
tanned in this country by a sun
treatment, developed in Switzerland
for tuberculosis of the bones, joints
and glands.
The conference is being attended
by National, State and local health
authorities and by physicians and
nurses engaged in public health work.
Dr. Ward w. Archibald, professor
OF surgery at McGill Universitay,
Montreal, explained an operation for
the treatment of tuberculosis in
which the surgeon cuts away por-
tions of the ribs on one side of
the body, allowing the other ribs to
sag inward and compress the cavi-
| ties left in the lungs by the ravages
of the disease. BY compressing these
Evening star., 1925-11-20

cavities the lungs are permitted to
rest and develop a resistance to the
tubercle bacilli. which aid the body
to apparently throw off the disease
In a large percentage of selected
cases, he said.
DIR. Archibald warned against oper-
ations in cases of the very virulent
type, where the body did not show
"A tendency to develop "a strong re-
sistance, saying the operations in
such cases tended to make the
~
Evening star., 1925-11-20
Prepare Old Fort
AS Birthplace of
National Anthem
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, November 20
The razing of buildings at Fort
McHenry and the transformation
of the reservation into a national
memorial shrine as the birthplace
of THE Star Spangled Banner Is
now under way. The old star
shaped fort, the chapel and the
keepers home near the gate are
all that will be left standing.
The structures being razed include
hospital buildings, officers nurses
and enlisted mems quarters, the
post exchange and the post Office
buildings, garages, storehouses,
stables and miscellaneous houses
and sheds erected during the war.
Evening star., 1925-11-20
LAWYERS Trial January 5.

RICHMOND, Va. November 20
@.-By order of the Virginia Su-
preme Court of Appeals, issued yester.
day, State Senator Alfred c. Smith
will appear before that tribunal on
January 5 to answer charges of the
Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association
that he is not a fit person to practice
the legal profession in this State.
Evening star., 1925-11-20
Again Heads National Founders.

NEW YORK, November 20 CP).-
William II. Barr of Buffalo yesterday
was reelected president of the Ma
tional Founders Association at it's
twenty ninth annual convention. L.
r. Clausen of the Case Threshing Ma
chine Co.. of Racine, Wis, was elected
vice president and j. N. Taylor of
Chicago was reelected secretary.
Evening star., 1925-11-20

the equipment for taking care of this
class is limited. In addition, the in
crease of fees might be a dangerous
policy for the Y. NJ. c. A. as it strives
to place it's facilities within the reach
of everybody.
Evening star., 1925-11-20

YEiV, uTII SpcC1tfI ttdHI, $-,IUU.
Among the contributions received
through the mail at the central build
ing Of the Y. NJ. G. A. yesterday was
a check sent by man who asked
that the money be considered a memo
rial to Newton w. Preston, for many
years night clerk at the central build
ing and who died last week.
In the course of his address yester-
day to team workers, William Knowles
Cooper, general secretary Of the Y. NJ.
c. A., answered a suggestion that a
special fee might be set for business
men who used the y. NJ. C. A. by
pointing out the confusion which
might attend the adoption of such Il
plan. A special locker room and extra
facilities are now provided with bust
ness mems membership. he said. but
Evening star., 1925-11-20

temperature of 10000 degrees Cent?
grade as compared with our suns
6 900 degrees
Evening star., 1925-11-20
|Y. M. C. A. MUST GET
$23,941 In 3 DAYS
Teams Warned That Only Short
Time Remains to Complete
Drive for $45, 900 Fund.

Team workers in the Y. M. G. AS
! campaign for 900 needed to bal
ance the organizations budget for the
current fiscal year were cautioned to-
day that with only three more work
the campaign daily contributions must
he brought to something more than
$1,000 If the goal set is to be reached.
Amounts reported to date total S21 ,059,
and yesterdays figure was $7.159.
Amounts reported by teams yester-
day at the daily campaign luncheon in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-01
Rules And Regulations

a. Eeery candidate is authorized agent of the
Zines Recorder aud as such may collect su9scrPlon
payments from present well from new subscribers
-. Extensions of subscriptions "9i receive votes
according the vote schedule in effeG when the first
subscription paid, except that no extension Vo'e' VIII
IL, given ia the final period.
Is is distinctly understood and agreed that can
ddeta viii bc responsible for all moneys collected and
taat they will rcrt such amount in lu at frequent M
t.ryals or demand of the campaign departments
-. There win be several big prizes awarded, be
e;dp+a Is por cent cash commission all ACTIVE
p.iz winners but it is distinctly understood that the
event ANY candidate becomes INACIlEE' failing to
make weekly cash report, he or she aI, at the dis,
erection OF tn" management become disqualified and
thereby forfeit all right TO a prize commission
is. TO insure absolute fairness in tire awarding of
PRICES, TIE VIII be brought to close under seal
ed ballot box system, and will be under the personal
@s2ovfson Of two more Judges selected from the
Advisory Board During the last few days Of the q e.
ton, the boX-lockcd and sealcd-wil rcpose in the
vaults Of local bank, where candidates and their
friends viii deposit their final collections and reserve
votes And not until the race has been declared closed
viii the seals be broken the unlocked and the judges
begin the final count In this way, one, not even
the campaign manager can possibly know the VOTING
strength of the respective candidates which produces
any possibility of favorsm and nsures fairness to the
49, The Times-Rccorder reserves the right to
amend add to the rules of this election if necessary
for the protection of the interests of both the candidates
and this newspaper The right is also reserved to in
crease and add to the list Of prizes
20. The Times Recorder guarantees fair and i'm
lla treatment to all candidates but should any qucs
tIon arise the decision Of the management will be abso
lutte and final.
q. SIXTY thousand extra votes will be given
each yearly subscription during the first period Of
the campaign; forty thousand will be given
on each new yearly subscription during the second pc
rod; fifteen thousand extra votes will be given each
new yearly subscription during the third period, and
NO extra votes will be given subscriptions during the
last week Of the campaign. Opportunity coupons
will be issued from time to tine during the first period
There will be long term subscriptions, accepted and
no change or extra votes given with the exception Of
those mentioned in these rules and regulations
p Campaign opened today--cosing Oct 31s
All extra Vote certificates will be issued the
Of the third period.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-27

of improved road construction is
que to your splendid engineering
corps which deserve and is receiving
the concentrations of the public
In beginning the construction per-
iod for 1925 it must be a source of
qualification to the Commission tn
realize that your financial condition
IS excellent, and that your auditing
department is functioning smoothly
and efficiently.
Your Chief Engineer C. DOUGLASS
Buck, has handled the difficult prob
lem of policing the State with an cf-
f1ciency that has met the full an
proVal of the people of Delaware. In
fact your Commission has so con-
1ucted the business of the Depart-
nent that it has received the peo-
Pies stamp of approval.
With best wishes for continued
and public approval, 1 am
Yours truly,
A. r. Benson.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-27
Bowers Beach

Mrs. Lavinia Johnson has severa
carpenters employed making i'm
proVements to the hotel property.
Willis Johnson has carpenter,
making improvements tof his hom,
on Main street and OtheS propert,
owners will make repairs as soon
as the help is available.
Capt. Thos. E. Morris has had his
home beautifed by Michael f. Flynn.
our local painter.
Alfred Gilbert arrived in port last
Friday after having been delayed
several days on the trip from Es-
sington, Pa, where he purchased the
motor boat, Catherine"
Jacob Culver of Seaford has leased
15 acres of land from Mrs. Blanche
Graner for 10 years and had force
OF men last week at work and they
set out seven thousand ana five hun
dred Lucretia blackberry plants.
Edward Lipins and family of Len
nj, Pa, were weekend visitors of
j. p Cross and wife.
.Tribbitt and Flack have a 40 foot
motor boat nearly completed for Mr..
Arts of Dover and will Start one for
John Tribbitt in a few lays which
will be S5 feet in length
Miss Dorothy Patterson has re-
turned home from the Emergency
Hospital in Milford whe he she went
or treatment.
Dickinson and Short re catching !
ome nne shad IN thei stake nets S
md are selling them flor fancy 2
rices.
Mrs. Della Z. Mitten, 1r. and Mrs.
lppIe and son Chal . of Frederick
-ere Sunday visitQ f Mrs. Alex
Inner.
Bowers Gun CT held a team
boot on Saturday rch S1st. The
'ams comprised: lis Johnson.
lptaln of one te and Howard
captain E second team.
was a 25 tar vent. Willis
team Fon by a margin
5 targets.
The Bowers Fl e Company is mo-
rlzlng their A Tx chemical tanks
d Will in few days be able to re-
ond to out of bwn fires. The Fire
mpany is hol9 hg weekly meetings
hnance the n hodelling of the ap-
ratus.
A large nun pr Of Sunday visit
enjoyed ID king over the YES
IN the harl r and walking along
beach frol Some gathered
Ills for ami 9ment.
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-27
Minvine

Inc Rev. A. B. Frye preached 2
very able sermon Sunday morning
using for his subject "Tbe Prodiga1's
s' Se.uIn' Two accessiOns were ad-
mltted to the church on probation
@LIeF which an invitation was given
ana three penitents came forward
ana confessed Christ as their saw
lour' Mr.. Frye left on Tuesday to at
tenu conference in Wilmington but
Is expected back for another year.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hudson of
wilmington visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Stephen Wharton on Sunday.
Ihe Ladies Aid met at the home of
Mrs. Clinton Evans on Tuesday
night.
stephen Wharton has accepted a
position in Wilmington.
Prof. and Mrs. Jarrett of Selby-
vile were Sunday callers with DR..
and Mrs. K. J. Hooker.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. o. Derrickson of
Omar visited Mr.. and Mrs. L. w
Bennett on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Holloway of
SelbyVille visited Mrs. Annie Dukes
IN Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland West enter
aimed Sunday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
.ance Lynch of Bayard, Mr.. and Mrs.
raymond Belts and Mr.. and Mrs. r.
;. Steele and son Charles.
The Parent-Teacher meeting of
ORD Baltimore school met in the as
embly room Friday evening, March
9TH. A good program was rendered
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-27
THEY APPRECIATE SERVICE
RENDERED BY CHRONICLE

At the annual convention Of the
sussex County Christian EndeavoI
Union held in M. P. Church, Milton
Thursday, March 10, attended by sew
eral hundred Endeavorers, repre-
senting fourteen societies of the
county, the following resolution was
by a unanimous, standing
vote:
Resolved that this Convention
does express the deep apprecia-
ton of the Sussex County Chris
tan Endeavorers to the follow
ing papers for the generous
amount of space they have ac-
corded Christian Endeavor ac-
tlVities during the past year, and
that the Secretary of the Union
inform said paper of this action.
The papers are:
Every Evening, Evening Journ-
Milford chronicle., 1925-03-27
o a very appreciative audience.

TO a very appreciative audience.
Several posters were made by the
school Subject, "Flies," and were
clearly illustrated by the school, af-
ter which lecture was given by
George S. Williams of MilIsboro, his
subject being Cooperation and
Health"
The last teachers meeting for the
year for Eastern Sussex County will
Degln at $3.50 a. m. in the court
mouse in Georgetown, Saturday,
March 2Sth. There will be six dem
onstrations at group meetings.