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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1921
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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL. 12, 1921.
Strength is natural, but grace is
the growth of habit. This charming
quality requires practice if it is to be
come lasting. Joubert
The Pioneers
.- Welcome to the pioneers today, the men and
women who carved and paved the way and made it
possible for the later ones of us to come who opened
up the best state in the union.
As a rule the pioneers reaped little of what they
sowed. They were so worn by the toil of planting
that the harvesting was largely left to those who
came fresh and vigorous.
We wonder at the hardihood and the endurance
of the pioneers. What a high courage1 must have
been theirs to set out across the trackless desert with
unnamed perils at the' end.' And then there were
the discomforts and the privations. Such self denial
was imposed as the pioneers of no other region had
been called upon to endure, unless we may except
the Pilgrims who arrived in midwinter on the in
hospitable New Bngland coast. -I
It is to be regretted that this reunion was not
held earlier, many years earlier, when' hundreds of
men in the vanguard were alive and might have
been brought together, and when an association might
have been formed and arrangements might have been
made for future reunions.
No achievement of The Republican has been so
Beatifying to it as the one which has been given ,
so great promise of success as this calling together of
die pioneers. The call has been answered from every
section of the state in louder volume than was antici
pated. Though many of the men who took part in
, 1Jie building of Arizona- have not answered by their
flrepence, they have replied by letter expressing their '
appreciation of the movement for their reunion and
their determination to be here in spirit.
Hardly less gratifying has been the interest and
(ie co-operation of our citizens who are not pioneers
Out who recognize their obligations to those who
opened the way for them. It is the first opportunity
they have had to give voice to their recognition of
ttiat obligation.
" The whole people of the state, as a consequence of
Oils reunion of the pioneers will be brought closer
together; they will have been given a touch of one
another, more intimate than they have ever felt be
, fofe. It will be felt by those who are not present.
It will be communicated to them by those who will be.
The present will be linked with the past.
Northern Californians see before them two perils.
the Yellow peril of Japan and the Whiskered Peril
of Iowa. If they can be freed of the latter by the
secession of the southern counties they can th,e more
effectively maintain themselves against the Japanese
Irruption.
The Pioneers' Edition
The Republican's "Pioneer Edition," to be issued
tomorrow, will be unlike any other, so far as our
knowledge goes, that ever came from a printing
press. It will be replete with stories of adventure by
men who were a part of the things which they relate.
These stories are thrown together, perhaps, in a
heterogeneous way; some of them are well told and
some are ill told. But altogether they represent a
wealth of material never before collected and which,
but for such an enterprise, could never have been
collected the experiences of hundreds of men in
battle with Indians, . with beasts, with the desert, the
most implacable foe of all, and with the sorest pri- "
vations.
Though many of these incidents are worthy of a
place in the history of Arizona, they had never been
brought to the notice of historians, or even to that of
two generations of newspaper writers'. Within a few
years they would have been lost forever.
We have often heard, in the, course of several
years, expressions of regret that so much of the
, wealth of material for a story of Arizona was being
allowed to expire with the men who made it Much
has gone never to be recovered. But ia The Repub
lican tomorrow there will be preserved practically all
that remains at this date.
This ia an accomplishment far beyond the origi
nal scope when this edition was conceived. It grew
of itself, of the unexpected interest the pioneers have
taken in the movement and who brought in un-
dramed of, rich contributions.
What a storehouse is here opened for the novel
ist and the short story writer, of red-blooded adven
ture. Here are actual incidents stranger and more
thrilling than any Which even the most vivid imagi
nation could have conjured. No fiction could be so
remarkable as these actual happenings within the
experiences or the knowledge of the men who tell
of them.
For what a plot may the writer select from this
mass, the raw and sometimes crude" material to be
woven! Out of this collation, by a master hand, may
be constructed "the great story." ,
The South of Tehachepi Secession
t A movement is under way for the secession of
the southern, counties of California those counties
lying south of Tehachepi. It Is not universally known,
but such a secession has been possible at any time
within the last sixty-four years under a resolution
adopted by the California legislature of 1857. It has
remained for the south to decide whether it desired
to withdraw. There has always, however,' been so
much local opposition to secession that it has never
been seriously attempted, notwithstanding the periodi
cal agitation of politicians who are always at the
bottom of state and county divisions.
This opposition has always rested on two things, -loyalty
to the great state the foundation ' of which
was laid, and the center and associations of which.
are, in the north, and the objection to the expense
of a new Btate government.
The loyalty of the southern part of the state has
been steadily weakening until now, it is asserted, the
old Californian spirit is dead. It has been replaced
by the Iowan epirit--not the spirit of Iowan cities.
but of Iowan rural life, the spirit of Bird Center and
of IBllville, whose inhabitants have moved en masse
to Los Angeles, taking with them their whiskers, their
arctict overshoes, their earmuffs, their shiny Sunday
suits and the household goods and gods of their
fathers.
But in Inverse ratio to the decadence of the Cali
fornian spirit' south of the Tehachepi has been the
strengthening and the ascendancy of the second of
the objections of the south to a new state the ex-
pense of it. The Iowan Is thrifty. He is not given
to wild and riotous expenditure. He is not the kind
of a man who would give up his good right eye with
no other object than to stimulate the glass-eye indus
try. Desirous as he may be for a separate govern
ment he is unwilling to yield himself expensively to
the schemes and whims of politicians who want a
new set of state offices with appurtenant salaries
created. He would rather let the wealthier north
pay the lion's share of supporting the present state
government.
The people north of the Tehachepi, we learn from
their newspapers, are Indifferent to the secession
movement of the southern counties; they are willing
to let the erring sisters go. ' There is no longer
homogeneity. The Californian and the Iowan spirits
cannot coalesce. Beside, we suppose, though there
has been ho allusion to this fact, the population of
the south is increasing entirely out of proportion to
U Increase of taxable wealth, and if the present rate
,t increase of population is maintained, it will ulti-
ewtely dominate the state government and the Iowan
Tiirit will prevail.
' Then will have passed forever "the days of old.
.the days of gold, the days of '49." No longer will
the Native Son feel a pride in his paternity. He must
yield to him (paraphrasing Cowperj,
Whose boast is not that he derives his birth
' TVom loins enthroned and rulers of the earth,
i,t from men uprooted from Iowan soil, and trans-
.: r-nlifornia without the loss of any of
11 III I L-W 1,1 -
those attributes formed by the long contact of them-
- Q,l their ancestors with the winu-swept prai
ries out of which the llawkeye state was carved.
The Sweets of Disappointment '
Some people cling to a disappointment as if it
were the pearl of great price. Foiled in a cherished
plan, they mope and lament their hard luck with a
constancy that is worth of a better cause.
This is a great mistake. No good can possibly
come of it; instead, much harm through the waste of
.time, energy and enthusiasm. So much of the world's
enthusiasm is lost in crying over spilt milk, it is
small wonder that there are so many mediocre people
in the world.
That is something the wise never do. Of course.
there is always the first shock of the disappointment
which means the altering of our plans, and for the
moment things may look dark. But once we see the
positive necessity of abandoning a plan, we should
do it and begin at once to cast about for a better
one. More often than otherwise, we shall find that,
after all, the disappointment was really a blessing In
disguise. .
How many boys or girls in the teens have been
broken-hearted at the sudden termination of the
most wonderful love affair in the world, only later
to thank an their lucky stars that they escaped the
entanglement.
Disappointment is simply a signal for shifting our
sails according to the kindly breezes that are bearing
us toward our coveted goal in life.
v
We cannot understand this stagnation in copper
in view of the increased demand for copper coil stim
ulated by the home brew industry, and the multi
plicity of private distillers.
One would acquire a reputation for truth-telling
if he would refrain from criticism.
We tenderfeet may find comfort in the reflection
that we will all be pioneers some time.
The fact that the money into which we have
recently come is anticipatory of tax collections need
not detract from our enjoyment of it. - Nothing but
death is surer than that taxes will be collected.
WHAT OF IT?
(By Berton Braley)
Gone is the stately minuet.
The lancers and the gay gavotte,
Some view their passing with regret
But I confess that I do not.
Virginia reels are gone to pot
They coaldn't hold their vogue, somehow,
I can't say that I weep a lot,
We're dancing only fox-trots now.
The waltz-quadrille is never met
The two-step's in a burial plot,
And who is there remembers yet
The maxixe or the turkey-trot?
The one-step's on the wane, I wot.
Soon it will make its final bow.
Well, let it go, I care no jot,
We're dancing only fox-trots now.
Oh very soon do we forget
The dance of yester-year, and blot
It from our memory, and let
New steps absorb us on the spot;
The shimmy's bolt is nearly shot
Though 'jazz still rules the floor, 1 vow,
I like it, though it may be rot;
We're dancing only fox-trots now.
Envoy
Princess, you savvy what is what
We'll dance while fortune will allpw,
All other steps are quite fongot
We're dancing only fox-trots now!
What Every Husband Knows
By Herbert Johnson
Wom.n will have equal rights with men, in regard
to employments and occupations, in New York, if a
bill recently introduced in the legislature passes. The
measure provides that women doing the same work
as men, in. any occupation, shall receive the same pay.
Report of the Employers' Association of Detroit
indicate there are 18,000 fewer people out of work
in Detroit now than on February 1.
Formal notice of the severance of relations be
tween the American Federation of Labor and the In
ternational Federation of Trades Unions has been
dispatched to ' the international's headquarters at
Amsterdam.
A change in the working schedules for employes
of the United States Steel Corporation has been an
nounced. The seven-day week, officials say, is abol
ished and it is expected that there will be a reduc
tion soon in the 12-hour day.
The Jones and Laughlin Steel Co. of Pittsburg,
which reduced wages of all laborers 20 per cent March
1, has 49 per cent on the pay roll classed us laborers.
The company normally emplois 25.000 men.
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- BY DR. FRANK CRANE
Copyright, 1921. by Frank Crane
THE .ONCE: OVER.
11 By H. I. PHILLIPS ii VL
THOUGHTS ON "DO-DAZE."
Now for Eat-an-Onion Day!
Eat-Fish Day, Eat-Apples Day, and
Eat-an-Orange Day were quite suc
cessful. But there was this short
coming: the enforcement officers
couldn't tell with any certainty
whether every citizen had done his
duty or not. A citizen can eat fish,
apples, and oranges and prunes and
not show it. Or not eat 'em and still
show it.
But with an onion it is different!
When a man has consumed the
National Fruit of Bermuda the proof
is conclusive. Against tho man who
hasn't, he stands out like steerage air
against a pine breeze. Consequently
the Onion Day slacker won't have a
chance to escape.
Onion Day may, as a matter of fact,
be designed not so much to promote
the onion industry as to definitely lo
cate the people who have been lgnor
ing the Eat-What-We-Tell-You days
and vie Do-as-W e-bay vveelfs.
If it doesn't work an Eat -Garlic
Day may be resorted to. There will
be no way of evading that.
Onion Day hasn't been set as yet,
but the date will be named soon by
the Department of Agriculture. The
new onion crop is a bumper, and there
is an excess of 2,500 carloads of As
phyxiation Fruit from the 1920 crop.
Something has to be done.
A grand reunion and barbecue of
the onion eating classes, a sort of
Onion Eaters' World Fair, would
seem to be the fair solution
where the entrants could be divided
into Fried Onion, Boiled Onion.
Stewed Onion, Onion Soup and Onion
Sauce and Onion Poultice groups.
They could be smothered in Onions
to their hearts' content.
But the Department' of Agriculture
expects every citizen to do his and
her duty in affairs of this sort. There
will be no escape. 1
Personally we abhor onions, and
have never quite trusted people who
get along with onions. But in a mat
ter of national duty we might ao our
bit. not by eating an onion, but by
investing in one and feeding it to the
grocer's horse or .using the Juice as a
hair tonic or sumpln. Or we might
buy a few onions and frame them
with the day and date and a certifi
cate testifying to our loyalty in the
matter of onion consumption.
Two thousand five hundred car
loads of onions would seem to be quite
a heavy lunch, but one meets people
every day who at close range give
every indication of having devoured
that "many at breakfast.
Up to a late hour the National As
sociation of People Who Use Sub
ways and lnterurban Trains" had not
taken any action, but they realized
that they will have to do something
in self-defense if Eat Onion Day is
generally observe Nothing ever
leaves them quite breathless, but they
are greatly disturbed.
The happiest man tin America,
meanwhile, is the Chef Who Puts
Onions in Restaurant Hash, he real
izes that he ought not to do this ex
cept upon specified orders, but for
one day at least he will be able to
do his worst and have the govern
ment behind him.
Search For Woman's Place
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, April 11 A
change in the attitude of the onlight
ened toward that knotty problem of(
women's proper place in the scheme
of things is shown by the great inter
est which has been aroused in this
country by the Sheppard-Towner
bill, and ,by many state measures
which have . been passed pensioning
and otherwise caring for motherhood.
This change is based upon the dis
covery that woman's entrance into,
industry has greatly reduced her
value as a mother, that there are only
a few kinds of work women can
safely do, and that poverty and fac
tory work between them are costing
thousands of lives of wpmen and
babies every year.
The feminists of a quarter of a
century ago demanded loudly that
woman should have complete econo
mic independence. "We demand all
labor for our province," wrote Olive
Schrelner, one of the most eloquent
and influential of the early feminists.
And then the war came along, and
women eot iust what Olive demanded.
1nt of them had never heard of
feminism and had not personally de
manded anything. They got all labor
for their province because all the mw
were at the tront. ui course. f
before the war, the number of women
in indusirv was great and growing
The reason for their presence in the
factories was not that they had been
inspired bv visions of economic inde
pendence but that it was becoming
increasingly hard to find husbands
who could support them. A little
group of women at the top demanded
economic independence. They got it
by going into th - arts and professions
and to some extent into business. At
these occupations they were remark
ably successful. They won places in
the" working world without sacrific
ing either their feminine charm or
their right to motherhood. But it
does seem as if these leaders of the
feminist movement did not fully real
ize that only a very few women can
go into arts and professions, that for
the great majority of them work
mins eieht hours a day in a factory
with very little hope of progress. The
great bulk of women have gone to
work because they had to. and tho re
sults have often been injury to their
own health and that of their children.
Back to the Home
This fact the feminists themselves
have just lately realized. Several re
cent intelligent books on feminism
set forth the new viewpoint in a very
convincing way. That long discard
ed and much ridiculed motto: "Wom
an's place is in the home," seems to
have beerf hauled out of the attic,
dusted off, subjected to a few revi
sions and qualifications, and placed
on the wall again.
At least these recent writers seem
to have reached the conclusion that
woman should be protected from all
sorts of work which in any way in
jures her usefulness as a mother, and
they are forced to admit that many
kinds of industrial work are in that
class. Thev agree that the woman of
brains should follow a profession if
she chooses, and that women in the
arts and professions have as good a
chance as men. They admit that
every woman should be given every
opportunity to fit herself for any kind
of work her health will stand. But
they see that motherhood is her most
important function, from her own
viewpoint In most cases, and from
that of the state in all cases.
The trouble is that woman Is now
in industry by the million. For the
most part she is not there by choice.
She is there because sne nas lo oe ir
order to eat. Therefore merely to
ostnhli.ah the conclusion that she
should come out again is futile. Sh.
is going to stay there because she hat
to. And industry itself is going t
try to keep her there because shi
furnishes a cheap labor supply.
What is to be done, then? The
answer of the scientific feminists is
that laws must be made protecting
her from conditions that menace her
health and her value as a mother, and
giviner her all possible aid in caring
for herself and her child. England
and France have gone much farther
than we have in protecting women in
factories bv laws regulating hours
and character of employment, pre
scribing rest periods and the like.
Thev have also gone much farther in
providing care for women during the
prenatal and maternity periods
The Sheppard-Towner bill is the
most advanced step yet taken in this
country.
measure, providing for the instruction
or mothers by state agencies under
th general supervision of the chil
dren's bureau. As originally drawn
the bill provided also that' actual
mediral care could be given by the
state when it was needed. This ob
viously socialistic measure was
stricken out by the senate, which then
passed the bill with a reduced appro
priation. It will doubtless come be
fore the house at an early date. It
has attracted so much favorable at
tention that there is little doubt of its
passage in some form.
The proponents of the bill have
made out a strong case to the effect
that something should be done for
motherhood in America. A few ex
tracts from the hearing before thjs
house committee will give in brief
space the main facts upon which the
demand for this legislation is based:
Wasted Lives
"We are still sacrificing the lives
of as many mothesa as we did 10
years ago. In 1918,3,000 made the
supreme sacrifice ehsll I say for
motherhood? No. Rather - paid the
supreme sacrifice to lack of suitable
instruction, to absence of prenatal
care, to unskilled and bungling ob
stetrics, and to dirty hands. - Reliable
statistics Indicate that the maternal
mortality this year will be about 15
per cent higher than the preceding
yer.
"The infant mortality rate and the
maternity mortality rate are an In
dex of social well being. Every fac
tor that lessens the infant and ma
ternity mortality tends to lift un liv
Ing standards, and every advance in
Irving standards automatically tends
to lessen these deatn rates."
"The United States has the highest
maternal death rate in a list of 17
civilized countries, and the chances
of a child surviving its first year are
worse in this country than in 10 other
countries.-
"Studies of nearly 24,000 infants in
seven industrial cities show that an
income earned by the father fairly
guaranteeing the possibility of decent
family life and permitting the mother
to remain at nome with the children,
accompanies an infant death rate
arout three times as favorable as that
in the lowest Income group. In fami
lies in the lowest group, one baby In
every six failed to survive Its first
year. In families of adequate income
but one baby in 17 died In the first
year. These studies have no class
basis. They Include every baby bora
in a giVen town In a given year.
"In one city the infant death rate
was five times as great in the mill
district as In the fine residential district."
"The bureau's studies in rural area.
of six different states revealed the
fact that SO per cent of the mothers
had received no advice or trained
care during pregnancy."
It is rather difficult to sav who is great and who
is not, perhaps only God knows, but the most practical
measures of greatness are wriat one does, the spirit in
which one does it, and its usefulness to the world.
Gauged by these standards, the greatest woman in
the world today is Madame Marie Curie.
Her great deed wTas the discovery of Kadium.
Her spirit is altogether worthy of 'her accom
plishment. She is the incarnation of Science, working
for the good of Humanity and not for selfish aims.
. She is a pure seeker after Truth, bhe does not
strive nor cry. She seeks not honors and precedence,
but service. So she exemplifies the word ot the great
Teacher, "He that would be greatest among you, let
him be Servant of All." '
She is coming to America in May. The women of
this country are raising a hundred thousand dollars to
buy her a present. It will be the thing she wants most;
not diamonds nor estates, a title nor a coronet, but just
a little something you could put in a thimble.
It is a gram of Radium.
Radium is the most precious substance on earth.
All the Radium extant today, extracted and puri
fied, amounts to only sixty grams, and you could carry
it all in your pocket
Twenty-five years ago there were dumped out of
the uranium mines of Bohemia thousands of tons of .
reddish refuse, waste. It was worthless, and any one
could have it who would cart it away.
Out of this refuse Madame "Curie, by a long series
of experiments, succeeded in extracting a few particles
of a strange substance with powers that seem miracu-
l0US It is Radium. It is not measured by the pound,
but by its force. It is the strongest creator of force in
the world. . . , .
There is power enough in one gram of it to raise a
battleship of twenty-eight thousand tons one hundred
feet in the air. .
Tte mvs arft neculiarlv luminous. They will shine
through wood, leather, or almost anything else, except
lead or steel. v . . , . . .
If you carry it-in your pocket, ana torget n, n
will raise a blister. . .-.
It will make a watch face visioie m ujeudr.
It will detect a true diamond, and distinguish it
from imitation. , . , , ,
It can cause blindness, paralysis, ana uwuu
Its greatest value lies in its use in the treatment of
discuses. -
It is far and away the most wonderful substance
d Madame Curie has a right to be called the
most wonderful woman. As we honor her we honor our
selves, showing we know true greatness wnen we see iu
To quote John urinKwater:
'When the high heart we magnify.
And the sure vision celebrate,
And worship greatness passing by.
Ourselves are great."
Questions And
Answers
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Q. Why do the Polish people uee
HE PROVED IT
Scene A northern infant school in
poor district.
Teacher Nw, children, what
hymn shall we sing this morning?
A 6-year-old The one where the
boy pinched the old feller's watch.
Pause. Further questions. Child
turns over pages of hymn book and
triumphantly points to No. 46.
Teacher reads hymn alond. Half
way through the second verse the
infant interrupts
"There y'are!"
Teacher, re-reading
The old man, meek and mild.
The priest of Israel, slept;
His watch the Temple Child.
The little Levite, kept.
London News.
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SCRAP PARIS FERRIS WHEEL
A "Seeing Paris" device, which
ranked with the Eiffel Tower in the
splendid panorama it furnished of the
city, now is being dismantled. It is
the huge Ferris wheel, known as "La
Grande Roue." The authorities have
declared it no longer safe, according
to the Scientific American.
The wheel was built in 1899 and
was one of the big attractions of the
exposition of 1900. It was 235 feet
in diameter, but was not heavily-
constructed. Thousands of visitors
had ridden on It, when it ceased oper
ations last fall. Now the owners are
tearing it down to realize on its ma
terials.
The cabins which the big wheel
carried aloft are to be used to bouse
inhabitants of the war devastated
regions.
NEUTRAL
"Dilworthy is always talking about
the high cost of living. '
"In his case the discussion is purely
academic'
"How so?"
"His wife supports him." Bjr
mingham Age-Herald.
According to the internal revenue
bureau, women consumed about 20.
000.000 cigarettes in the United
It is chiefly an educational I States during l'J20.
the ending -ski" on their last names
I. I O.
A. The termination "ski' in Polish
means literally "son of."
Q. Why was George Washington
called the Father of Hi. Country? D.
T. G.
A. George Washington was called
the Father of His Country in grateful
remembrance of his heroic patriotism,
and the fact that having no child of
his own, the United States represent
ed to him the posterity which should
keep his name. .
Q. Is millet saed used for any pur
pose other than seeding? I S.
A. Millets nave oeen grown tor
centuries in India, China, Japan,
where they are used as human food.
In th United States millet is used
only as a feed for domestic animals.
The only use of seed in this country
is for feeding domestic animals and
for seeding purposes.
Q. Who first occupied the White
House? E. M. H.
A The White House was first oc
cupied by President Adams in ISOO.
Q. What is meant by -catcn-aa-
can" wrestlingT Lf. r. r.
A. The catch-as-catch-can method
of wrestling is otherwise known as
the Lancashire and is the only method
used in professional wrestling in this
countrv. There are a great many
methods of wrestling some of the best
known being the following: Graeco-
Roman. Cumberland, Westmoreland,
Irish and Jiu Jitsu.
Q What is the average number of
fatal motor accidents each year?
W. G.
A. According to the National Safe
y Council the deaths from automo
bile accidents now approximate 15,
000 a vear in the United States. -
Q. Waa there a War of Devolution,
or is the "D" a typographical error?
R. M. .
A. There was such a war In 1667-68,
which arose from Louis XIV's claims
to certain Soanish territories in right
of hia wife MariaTheresa, upon whom
L . AnmAoVtin n AllPCed tO Ii3.'f&
"devolved." This war was ended by !
the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 16t8.
Q. Is there a material called bom
bast?" H. S K.
A. In the time of James I of Eng
land, a mixture of cotton and silk
yarn was called bombast. It was
used to pad the enormous breeches '
worn at that time. Hence bombast '
Is applied to anything written or
spoken in an Inflated style.
Q. Where may I obtain a flux to1
solder aluminum cooking utensils? ;
E. N.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
It is impossible to solder aluminum
cooking utensils and obtain a repair :
that will satisfactorily resist corro
sion. Q. When I order double cream and
it will not whip, what can be done to
make it thicker? K. W. M.
A. Cream that is too thin to whip
properly will whip much better if the
white of an egg is added. If a large
quantity of cream is used, use the
whites of two eggs. This will add '
both to the quality and quantity of '
the cream.
Q. What is the seating capacity of
the Mormon Tabernacle? I. V.
A. The seating capacity of this edi- '
fice. gallery included. Is 10.0UO. i
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Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C
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ANIMALS THEIR OWN DOCTORS
A child's pet canary recently re
ceived surgical treatment at the Sea
man's hospital, Greenwich. The bird's
leg was badly fractured, and its
owner's appeal for help met with a
ready response from the house-surgeon.
He very tenderly lifted the tiny leg,
gravely applied a match -stick for
splint, and the fracture was sec The
patient Is reported to be doing welL
Usually, animals are their ow
medical advisers afld surgeons, and
"some wonderful cures have been put
on record. Cats off color chew grass,
as do dogs; but the latter require a
certain kind, commonly known as
"dog-grass." It is thicker and coarser
than the usual variety.
Sheep and cows seek ont a certain
herb. Rheumatism sufferers stay out
In the sun's glare. A wounded ape
staunches the flow of blood by dress
ing the injury with leaves and grass.
The sting of a viper seldom kills one
of the four-footed tribe; they know
how to deal with this danger.
Most wonderful of all Is the ant
world ambulancs and hospital. Num
bers of these marvelous tittle crea
tures are allocated first-aid duties,
and apply healing restoratives to
their wounded comrades in the form
of a transparent fluid which they se
crete In their houths. Answers, London.
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NOVELIZE IT
1921 Did you see that
called "Oliver Twist?"
FroshrYes, and say, wouldn't that
make a peach of a book?
Seth Tanner
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