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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
Mystery OF Widespread Disease
Solved By Government. Worker

WASHINGTON R)-Of all the di-
seases which afflict the human Sys-
tenn, only one is 100 per cent Amer
ican, in the sense that its discovery
and analysis have been completed
within the United States.
TularaemiaS or rabbit fever, is the
disease and DR.. Edward Francis Of
the United States Public Health Ser
vice is the man chiefly responsible for
its Identification. His work has pro-
gressed to the point where the next
step to be expected is the development
of a serum for control of the disease.
Being a reticent man, it can only be
assumed that he is moving toward that
achievement.
The disease gets its name from Tu-
Iare county, California, where, in 1912
DR.. G.. w. Mccoy, now director of the
Hygienic Laboratory of the Public
Health Service, was examining the car
casses of rats. One had the symptoms
of bubonic plague but, when further
tested, proved not to have been SO in
fected.
This archaeological mystery re-
mained unsolved for several years. Ir
1915, however, at the request of health
authorities of Utah and other western
states, DR.. Francis was detailed to
make a systematic study of rabbit
fever, which was prevalent in thai
section. He spent five or six months II
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18

WASHINGTON (R-A resolution
may be presented to the senate refus-
ing confirmation of President Cool
idge's recess appointments to the fed
eral farm loan board if discussion Of
the nominations on the floor of the
upper house leaves mistaken the con-
viction of some senators THAT the ap-
pointees are unfriendly to agriculture.
Senators Duncan u Fletcher, demo-
crat, Florida, and Gerald p Nye, pro-
gressive republican, North Dakota,
have launched a determined fight
against Eugene Meyer as chairman of
the board and declare that the two
men appointed with him, George r..
Cooksey and Floyd r. Harrison, must
give satisfactory assurances of their
intentions before consent may be had
to their confirmation
All three men are former members
of the war finance corporation, a sub
sidiary of the treasury department,
and the resolution is expected to be
introduced if debate on the appoint
ments reveals "unfriendliness to agri-
culture"
Meyer is opposed as man who has
IldQ IlO COIlIlCCblOll Will
and is declared by his foes in the
senate to be "too friendly with the
so-called treasury crowd" accused by
farm interest with subverting the real
purpose of the farm loan board
"The farm loan system" Senator
Fletcher declares, sis a system of CO.
operative borrowing for the benefit of
the borrower and is not hanking sys-
tenn. It is designed to give farmers
direct access to the great sources of
lcnnable funds, while still keeping the
borrowers free from subsection to the
money lenders. The bureau has done
more for the farmer than any instru-
ment, except the department of agri-
culture itself. The law makes it a
self-governing body and not a vassal of
the treasury"
He declares the treasury influenced
arbitrary removal of Robert A. Coop
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
MECHANICAL ABUSER
TESTS PLANE METAL

PITTSBURGH R)-A little machine
that duplicates on pieces of mnterial
the tear of bowling winds on the
struts of an airplane or the strain
of an ocean flight on the vital parts
of an engine, runs day and night in
the westinghouse research laboratory
here
Merciless and tireless, the appara-
tus subjects test pieces of metal to a
fatigue process that corresponds to
the punishment an airplane gets in
the air. A sharp snap from the ma
chine indicates that the grinding cogs
have forced the sample beyond the
limit of endurance.
To P. L. Erwin mechanical engi-
neer, the broken strip represents the
potential unit of an airplane-a pro-
pellar hub, connecting rod, tubular
strut, spring or gear. A meter tells
him exactly the amount Of abuse need
ed to break down the piece.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
CALMETE'S VACCINE
PRONOUNCED SUCCESS

PARIS (R-Remarkably good results
from the anti-tuberculosis vaccination
of children are announced in connec-
tor Albert Calmette to the Academy
ton with the recent election of Doc
of Sciences. DR.. Calmette is second
in command at the Pasteur Institute
and developed the vaccine.
Mortality in 10000 cases, it is stated
was reduced to 1 per cent from "a pei
cent. These were all cases of children
exposed to tuberculosis. The vaccine
called "B. G. g." is made by cultivat.
ing tubercular bacilli in bile which
transforms it from a virulent into ar
immunizing agent.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18

the field and then returned to his lab
oratory. He soon fell victim to his
germs, an unpleasant experience which
has overtaken virtually all bacteriol-
ogists who have worked on the sub
ject.
After patient tedious investigation,
DR.. Francis was able to show that the
human cases he had studied had been
communicated by contact with un-
cooked rabbits infected with the di-
sease, and that it appeared in a NUM-
ber of animals besides the rabbit. It
was found to be communicated by
wood ticks, flies, rabbit lice, bedbugs
And other animal parasites.
Physicians in all parts of the United
States and in Europe and Asia soon
were seeking information about the
disease and submitting blood speci-
mems from battling cases for diagno-
sis. They disclosed the virtually uni
versal sprehd of the disease, and con-
firming its generally disabling effect
on victims, continuing in some cases
as long as year.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18

bar in 1887. Shortly after he formed
a partnership with Jackson H. Raj
ston, a noted labor lawyer, which con-
tinued for nearly % years, until Pre-
sident Wilson appointed Siddons one
of the three commissioners who govern
the District of Columbia.
In spite of his other activities JUS
tice Siddons found time to assist in
forming the first Civil Service Reform
association, serving it as secretary for
several years. He was appointed a
member of the Presidents home
commission in the District of Col
umbia by President Roosevelt, served
six and a half years as one of the
conference of commissioners on uni
form State laws and up to about a
year ago was chairman of the COM
mittee on public welfare legislation
of the district.
The, justice was appointed to the
supreme bench in 1915 He still finds
time for recreation in music, good
plays, golf and bridge, but his particu-
lar fondness, he says, is for books
''those faithful friends on the shelf.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
RADIO CONTROL
USED in FRISCO
STREET LIGHTS

SAN FRANCISCO GA radio
wave riding a 40OO-volt electric dis
tribution wire, lights and extinguishes
street lamps in one of San Fran
ciSco'S residence districts.
The new method, known as the
carrier current street light control, was
originated in Schenectady, N. Y, home
of the General Electric company, but
the Pacific Gas and Electric COM
pany of San Francisco is the first
lighting corporation in the United
States to give it a trial in actual pub
lie service. So far it has worked
well, and if it continues to do so
radio is to be used for control of all
street lights of the city operated by
the company.
The old method, still in use outside
the experimental district, requires a
separate circuit which is fed from a
switch in Substation and can be
used only for street lighting. Neces-
sity for separate lines arose from the
fact that if street lamps and resi-
dence lights were on the same cir
cults houses would go dark at the
same time street lights were turned
out.
Carrier current light control over
comes the old obstacle. A device
called a capacitor hooks up on a line
at substation and supef-impoSes a
high frequency current that merely
uses the line as path and in no
way interferes with the load it car
! ries to residence lights Lines of any
voltage may be used, as all lines look
alike to high frequency current. The
new method controls GIG lights. AS
| the radio wave used has length OF
| 5000 meters, far above all broadcast
ing bands, it does not interfere in
any way with transmitting stations.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18

KANSAS CITY t)-In hall which
the city hurried to completion in 1900
to house the democratic gathering
which nominated William Jennings
Bryan, Kansas City will be host next
June to the national convention of
the republican party, met to select its
choices for president and vice preSi-
dent of the United States.
Convention Hall, to which thousands
of delegates and visitors will flock on
June IL, 1923, for the quadrennial
gathering of the "grand old party, .
seats $4,000 persons, and it has been
convention-that at which Bryan won,
q years ago, his second presidential
nomination.
The edifice was constructed purpose
ly for that Gathering. The democrats
had chosen Kansas City as their meet
ing place when, 80 days before con-
vention time, the old convention hall
was destroyed by fire.
While the building was still in
flames business men began to raise
money for a new one. The ground
was cleared and the new hall was put
up in less than three months, in time
for dedication on July A. the day on
which the democrats opened their con-
vention in it.
Since the, democrats met there the
hall has been entirely remodeled, and
it rivals in size and facilities most Of
those in which the republicans have
met in years past.
Mayor Albert L Beach will be the
! official host to the republicans, anc
he has promised the party that the
city will extend to it every hospitality
Hotel space is ample, it is declared
to house the guests. At two of the
largest hotels the last four republican
presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Harding
and Coolidge-have been guests.
Henry j. Allen, former governor o.
the neighboring state of Kansas, de-
, clares that the convening of the party
in Kansas City will stimulate party
enthusiasm throughout the agricultUr,
al states of the middle west. This anC
the central location of Missouri's sec
ond largest city we're important fac
tors in it's choice of the republican
national committee from field which
included San Francisco, Detroit, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, San Antonio anC
! other cities.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
CHRISTMAS AND THE CHILDREN
THEIR FAITH IN SANTA CLAUS
SPIRITUAL TONIC FOR ADUI rs

Children have been indulging
themselves in building their child
lsh air-caStles for several weeks now,
appropos the visit of their favorite
old man Santa Claus. The observance
OF Christmas with those customs that
cultivate and encourage the childish
fancy to cling to belief in Santa
Claus has been one of the sources
OF enjoyment to the adults of the
race. With each recurring yuletide,
every family promotes the childish
faith in an appeal to Santa for those
things it may want as it's Christmas
remembranceS. Many of them have
been writing letters addressed to the
North Pole and other distant points,
hoping to intercept the fancied dis
tributor of gifts and good cheer.
They reach the effective destination,
because the echo of the wants is al
ways heard by fond parents or low
ing friends who bring something,
whether it is just what the child
asked for or not, and that it is
remembered on Christmas morning
is answer sufficient for it.
Some of the children have been
euuA ScoAtAS C4lC1I 1CQueSUS 10 LIE DlS-
patch. 1t would be impossible to pub
lish all or any great percentage OF
them but an occasional one will Suf-
flee for, after all, the child mind
always runs along much the same
track. The letters are interesting be-
cause they. suggest, to a degree,
something Of the childs surround
ings They reflect his natural in
clinations either to selfishness or to
altruistic habits If selfish, the letter
is apt to contain only requests for
the things it wants and with a total
absence Of suggestions for happiness
for any other Of the family. But if
it has a broader cultural nature, its
requests cover its relatives, and es-
pecially its parents Here, for example,
is a child that will grow into big
hearted man or woman, which ever
it may be, and the name will be
withheld because of the fact that
reference is made in this story to its
letter. But listen to what it asks
santa Claus to bring to its dearest
friends. 1t says:
The spelling in the letter is as
penned.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
RESOLUTION MAY DENY FARM LOAN
BOARD JOB TO COOLIDGE APPOINTEE
~ ~ (. mSa

er of South Oarolina, Elmer J. Landes
of Ohio and Edward E. Jones of Penn
sylvania, farm minded" members OF
the board, and prevailed upon Presi-
dent Coolidge to appoint Meyer, Cook
sey and Harrison in a deliberate plan
to usurp power vested by law in the
board and "to make certain that trea-
sury orders would be obeyed.'
Neither of the men removed, the
senator insists, was unfaithful or in
competent. ALI were men of high
standing, in thorough sympathy with
agriculture and acquainted with It's
needs. They were removed before their
terms expired, Senator Fletcher says,
and from that time on independent
functioning of the board ceased to
exist"
He characterizes the treasury's "as-
sumption of authority as "mon-
strous conception" and suggests that
'it is not impossible the next step will
be to undermine confidence in federal
land banks, impair credit, restrict
farm loan mortgages and raise interest
rates throughout the country"
In his annual report Secretary Mel
lon declares that Meyer, CookSey and
Harrison were selected because of
their demonstrated ability and wide
experience in the field of agricultural
finance. Their work with the war
finance corporation brought them
into contact with agricultural prob
lens throughout the country and it
was felt that they possessed the special
qualifications required for the task Of
improving and developing the admin
istration and supervision Of the farm
loan system The secretary said his
only purpose was to safeguard and
guide the system.
Other members Of the aboard are a.
c. williams of Texas, formerly of the
war finance corporation; J. H, Gull Of
California. and Lewis Pettijohn OF
Kansas. Secretary Mellon is ex-of-
ficio chairman and member OF the
board.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
Sinclair-Burns Judge.
Comes From Picturesque / amlly

WASHINGTON 49-Daily during
the Sinclair Burns criminal contempt
hearing in the District of Columbia
supreme court, while everybody in the
courtroom stands, United States
marshal escorts to the dias slender,
keen-looking man, his Judicial robes
thrust back and his hands in the coat
pockets.
Frederick L. Siddons associate JUS
tice of the supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who presided at the
FALL Sinclair conspiracy trial, mounts
the bench, gazes over the courtroom
with eyes that twinkle, missing moth
ing, but darrying a conviction of kind
linesS and court is opened.
A dignified man, active in legal and
civic circles of Washington for years,
Justice Siddons looks much younger
than the 63 years he reached last
November 421 He has lived nearly 53
years of his life in Washington.
In his veins flow English, Scotch
and Italian blood. Among. his ances-
tors is Mrs Sarah Siddons, renowned
English actress, who won fame in the
latter part of the eighteenth and the
first of the nineteenth centuries. His
grandfather, son of the famous ac-
tress went to India from England. On
board ship he met an Italian girl, and
they were married at the Cape of Good
Hope.
AT Calcutta in 1901 Justice Siddon'S
father was born For about SIS years
the Justices parent lived in India. He
published a newspaper at Calcutta,
selling it to come to this country at
the. close of the Civil war. In New
York he married Mary Agnes Cameron,
and the couple went to England, where
Justice Siddons and one sister were
born. Another sister was born in Ire
land, In 1875 the family came to the
Z United States, settling in the District
of Columbia three years later.
Here Justice Siddons has lived his
life. In 1882 he married Miss Harriet
G. Van Auken of Virginia. They have
two children, IA daughter, lthe wife
of Prof. George Starr Lasher of Ohio
University, and Frederick P. H. Sid
dons, secretary of the American Secur-
ity and Trust company of Washington
Justice Siddons was admitted to the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
WESTINGHOUSE VETERAN
NAMED VICE PRESIDENT

NEW YORK P)-When the board
of directors of the Westinghouse Elec-
trio & Manufacturing company elected
"a vice president this yinter the Oldest
employe of the Westinghouse Group
was chosen. He is James Charles
Bennett, comptroller and secretary,
who joined the staff in 1886, only five
months after the company was formed
Mr.. Bennett was the first and at
that time the only assistant to the
auditor. In his new position he will
have charge of the accounting and
treasury departments, in which he has
served continuously. He is director
of the company and an officer and
director of a number of subsidiary
companies
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
RRITONS RAP IMPORTING
OF CONDENSED MILK

LONDON (P-C Constantly rising i'm
ports of condensed milk are causing
concern among English farmers.
In the first ten months of this year
100000 tons were imported, while at
the same time the home dairy COM
munities suffer from a great over-pro-
duction of milk
The National Federation of Dairy
mems associations has joined with the
farmers in asking for prohibition OF
condensed milk imports on the ground
that the product constitutes "a men
ace to public health"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
GIRLS FORM 49
4-H CLUBS FOR
COUNTY In 1927

Forty-nine All club projects were
completed by girls of Cochise county
during the past year. Nineteen pro-
jects have been begun this fall and
will be completed and Achievement
days held next May.
These girls were enrolled in first
year garment and second year gar
ment making projects, meal planning
clubs, girls own room clubs.
Eight demonstration teams were
trained to. give demonstrations before
the other club members and at the
local and county Achievement day
programs. Teams were trained to
demonstrate, making the hemmed
patch," making the stockinet darn, =
Cutting and making a princess slip, y
"table setting and table service" and
"shoes for health
The first week of May, 1927, Achieve
ment day programs were held in
B Bowie with an attendance of 80;
Frontier, attendance so; Doub e
Adobe attendance 48.
A County Achievement day program
was held in Double Adobe sc h O
house, Wednesday, May 4th with an
attendance of rs club members, par
ents and friends.
At the county fair, garments made
by the sewing club members and meal
planning posters made by the Meal
Planning club were exhibited and SIS
in prize money was awarded to the
group.
A Cochise County All club exhibit
was sent to the state fair where the
girls won ten prizes amounting to SIS
/ cash.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
TRUCK GUSTS MULE

ANTOFAGASTA, Chile-The motor
truck gradually is replacing the high
two-wheel mule cart in hauling nitrate
ores from the mines to plants in north
ern Chile Business depression during
the past two years has demonstrated
to operators THAT a truck has little
overhead when idle, whereas mules
have to be fed and drivers paid. 1t is
estimated that within the past year
the number of trucks and tractors used
has increased rs per cent.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
DOUGLAS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 49, 1921

Dear Santa Claus: Please sent
me a doll and airplane and a
doll house and buggy and new
corset for mama and pipe for
paper. Your fried The number is
avenue, Douglas, Arizona. -
Now that child will get sore
thing and will be satisfied because it
believes in happiness. 1t wants mother
and father to be made happy along
with it and it tells the absolutely
necessary things to make dad and
mother happy. 1t doesn't realize that
in this corSetless age, a pair of shoes
would have been a more practical
gift for mothter, but ii motner gets
shoes, the child will be just as hap
py as if she got a corset.
Here's another child that has a
nature that enfolds the entire fam
lily with its love and desire to see
them all happy. It's request has in
it practical angle for if mother
gets the thing asked for, certainly
the child Will get some use of It..
Here is its letter, name omitted, as
above:
OCctI k0dLlUd CLAUS. ElGdSG ScIlu
me a tricycle. and marbles and a
little airoplane and papa a teddy
bear and mothetr a buggy and doll
and will be a good boy. Your friend
These are but couple OF samples
of the childish faith that blossoms
so fully at Christmas time, which
have come to The Dispatch. The
reading of them sends the older ones
back in memory to the day when they
had similar conceptions of Christmas
and gained a similar happiness in
writing and promising to be good and
asking for gifts for all and sundry
members of the family 1t is because
of that refreshing effect that turns
back the years and blots out the
gray hairs and the wrinkles from the
older head that makes Christmas a
merry time for all, no matter what
the financial status and it is that
fact that will always keep it hal
lowed period, a period for short
time each year when the older ones
push back the curtain of the past
and live for a moment in the halcyon
days Of youth.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
PUT SHARKS TO WORK

SYDNEY, R)-A floating factory is
being outfitted here to capture the
man eating shark, scourge OF the
South Seas, and convert it to useful
purposes. Sharks caught in huge nets
will be made into articles of commerce
nearly every portion of the savage
fish being utilized except the hard
spicules on the sides.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
VICTORY FOR MACHINE

+ WASHINGTON Machines have
scored another victory over man. De-
partment of Commerce reports indi-
cate that in September one American
made washing machine was exported
to China, home of the hand laundry
Some tired sanitary expert paid SIS
for it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18

HONOLULU Sugar production
per acre in Hawaii has increased in
the past Is years from 6.1 to rs tons
for irrigated land and from 1856 to 5
tons for non-irrigated land. The ave-
rage yield now is better than 6.4 tons
per acre. The number of laborers en-
ployed has declined 5000 in 10 years.
due to increased use of machinery.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
NEW POTATO KING

ALAMOSA, Colo. (R-Fred Spicer,
San Luis valley farmer, has been
crowned Colorados new potato king" !"
He raised 1882 bushels of potatoes, or
1895 pounds, on a measured acre of
ground.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-18
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BUB'S CHRISTMAS
AFTERTHOUGHT

After a thoughtful, almost pain
full pause,
Bub sighted, "I'm sorry for old
Santa Claus.
They wuz no Santa Claus ner
couldn't be
When he wuz ist little boy like
me-"
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-06-09
Who's Right?

OF all the of automobile accidents, thu
most disastrous is the practice of contesting fol
the right-of-way. This is established after thor.
ough study, by the national conference on street
and highway safety.
This includes not only the inevitable contest be-
tween automobile and locomotive, but that between
automobiles only.
The fault lies in the firm belief of each driver
that he's right. Neither Contestant" mag be
reckless, but at least of them is careless and
inconsderate.
If the latter crosses corner without at least
slowing down and looking both ways the ensuing
accident may be his fault But the feeling of hav.
ing been right, the part Of the victim Of this
accident, doesn't soothe his nerves or relieve his
injuries.
General rules have been attempted to settle ques-
tons Of right and wrong at crossings of equally inl
portant streets, but even these rules of courtesy
can't allay the injuries of the man who tries to
respect them.
In this case, there is only rule, and that APP
plies personally to each driver, without depending
the thoughtfulness Of others That is the rule OF
caution and watchfuness.
Let the other fellow take the chance.