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HEALTH AUTHORITIES MANNING TO MEET igirFLU” OUTBREAK CHICAGO, Dec. 2. — Plans for combatting another influenza epi demic which is expected to sweep the country in 1919 will be consid ered by health authorities from all parts of the United States, Canada and South America at the forty sixth annual convention of the American public health association which opens here Dec. 9. Members of the association say that all the influenza epidemics since 1729 have been recurrent for from two to three years after the initial outbreak. For this rea son leading authorities feel con vinced that the visitation of 1918 will be repeated in 1919 and prob ably in 1920. Also it is pointed out that in previous epidemics the second and third outbreaks have been more virulent and attended by a higher mortality rate than were the initial manifestations. It was early in 1918, according to Dr. W. A. Evans, former health commissioner of Chicago, that the now so-called Spanish influenza made its apeparance in Spain. Now Spain is having its second out break, according to Dr. Evans, more virulent In form and attend ed by an alarming death rate. During the three-day meeting : the methods used in combatting the 1918 epidemic in the United States will be thoroughly considered and plans outlined for meeting any future emergency. Among those who will present papers and take part in the discussion are Major W. H. Welch of the national med ical corps; Dr. E. C. Rosenow of the Mayo foundation, Dr. Herman Biggs, commissioner of the New I York state department of health, and Dr. A. J. McLaughlin, assistant surgeon general of the United j States public health service. Besides consideration of influen ! za, many subjects of general inter est pertaining to public health during the reconstruction period \ will be taken up. There will be discussions regarding proper pre cautions in the care of children to reduce mortality rates, rural sani tation, the effect of fashions on health and the use of narcotics in war times. BRITISH COMMITTEE WANTS EFFECTIVE GOLD STANDARD MAINTAINED • LONDON, Nov. 30. — Conditions necessary to the maintenance of an effective gold standard should be restored without delay after the terms of peace are signed, reports a committee headed by Lord Cun liffe, which was appointed to con sider currency and foreign ex change problems after the war. The committee said: “Unless the machinery which long experience has shown to be the only effective remedy for an adverse balance of trade and an undue growth of credit is once j more brought into play, there will j Tie grave danger of a progressive credit expansion which will result in a foreign drain of gold menac ing the convertibility of our issue and so jeopardizing the interna tional trade position of the coun try.” To maintain the gold standard the committee recommended ces sation of government borrowing as soon as possible, establishment of an adequate sinking fund out of the revenues and the raising of the Bank of England discount rates. SHOOTING SUSPECT CAUGHT LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3. — Lieu tenant H. E. Perry, sought in con nection with the shooting of Cap tain Abram Posner at Escondidio yesterday, was arrested today at Palmdale, 75 miles northeast of here. MASONS ELECT OFFICERS The following officers were elected last night to serve in Mon tezuma lodge No. 30, F. & A. M., for the ensuing year: H. W. New ton, master; Joe Jonasen, senior warden; Edward Moore, junior warden; Dave Ward, secretary; J. O. Walther. treasurer. PNEUMONIA HIKES PROMINENT YOUNG GOlDEItlD WOMAN Mrs. R. H. McLaughlin, wife of the chief engineer for the Goldfield Consolidated Mines company, died at the McLaughlin residence at 1 o’clock this morning after having been ill about one week. Death was from pneumonia following in fluenza. Mrs. McLaughlin’s con dition was such that there was lit tle hope for recovery after pneu monia set in. Mrs. McLaughlin had spent prac tically her entire life in Goldfield and her death is mourned by a large circle of friends. She was married here in September, 1910, and was only 23 years of age at the time of her death. She was born in Great Falls, Mont. Mrs. McLaughlin is survived by her husband, father and 15-months old son. Her father, R. A. Brown, is one of the pioneers of the Gold field district and for many years was employed in mills here. He is now in Ely and no funeral ar rangements will be made until he has been heard from. Have Varying Terms. Judges of the state supreme courts fire chosen for a fixed term of years, varying from two in Vermont to 21 In Pennsylvania. Eighteen states have a term of six years, seven states of eight years, five states of 12 years, one of fourteen years and one of fif teen. Indiana has six years. In all the states they are eligible for re election. Gets Along Without Nest. The whippoorwill doesn’t build a nest. It lays two large, round eggs in a slight depression in the ground—say i i a cow’s track in tlxe pasture, or even upon the top of n dead and rot ting log in the woods. If me eggs are discovered the bird will carry them away in its mouth and deposit Ihem somewhere else, and it will do the same thing with its young. I-—JK—1LLL-™ SJ-iJill! .ILIL"■!!'■' 1 ' 1 """--* ■■ ■ "-L1—1m LAUNCHING OF A MODERN MINE SWEEPER M■ BiBaMtllMMBggaMMIIMMMBBMflMMBWM—WMaQBBM—I—I——M—I—MMM————^ The Sauderling, fifth of a series of ten mine sweepers and layers con tacted for by the Todd Shipbuilding company, taking to the waters at Brooklyn. The ship is 188 feet long, has 1,400 horse power and can make a jpeed of 14 to 15 knots an hour. WHAT THE HUNS DO WHILE THEY ASK FOR PEACE i .r Tiifn-iriirr'mrTr~nii rr -rffllil I llllillllllfl—h i hough tlie German government has been asking the allies for peace, the German military command continues its i policy of frightfulness on land and sea. This photograph shows all that is left .of one of the hospitals of the St. John’s Ambulance association after a deliberate air raid on it by the lluns. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Oh, say, can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, * Whose stripes and bright stars, through the peril ous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there! Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence re - poses, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam In full glory reflected, now shines in the stream. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, ’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country they’d leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footstep s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wove O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh. thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desola tion; Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heaven-res cued land Praise the Power that hath made apd preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this he our motto, “In-God Is Our Trust.” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! A A A aaaaaaaaAAAA The Whippoorwill. . The favorite hunting ground of the ] whippoorwill is about the edges of a i j forest, or over the tops of the trees, | where the big, fat “moths are to be j found at night. It makes no noise as j it flies, because its feathers are soft and fluffy, but as it darts past you sometimes it utters a sort of groan. The nighthawk occasionally gives vent to a loud “yawk” as it flies througli the evening air. • The More Spots t! c More Meals. The number of cpois burned on i Chinese monk's neud shows how mud he has elected to endure, iy: a recen writer on the subject of China. The; receive as severe an initiation as the desire, and get therefrom cirmin lieges. If a mop*'- has three spots k. can get three meats free tit tiny mon astery in China; six spots entitles hit; to six meals; nine spots to three days j board, aud the maximum of twelve i month’s care. __ All Called On to Show Courage. Whatever your sex or position, life Is a battle'in which you are to show your pluck; and woe be to the coward! Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field. It is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinc tions. Despair and postponement arc cowardice and defeat. Men were born i to succeed, not to fall.—Thoreuu. Whetstone in Tree Trunk. While sawing down a large poplar I **ee on *1 e Weimar farm two so is of Joseph Weimar found their saw would not. penetrate. They began a little j higher, and after the tree was down they discovered a whetstone in the heart of the trunk. It is supposed that many year ; ago, when the tree was a sapling, hnnl-ennen working !n the fields laid :hc same there and i forgot to take i; avay, and the tree rrew around ii.—>.l•'tn (Pa.) Cor •espondenee, Phi adeiphia it word. Little Things That Count. Life is made up, not of great sacri fices or duties, hut of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win apd preserve the heart and secure comfort.—Sir Humphrey Davy. Turtle's Instinct. It has long ago been ascertained that tiie eggs of the loggerhead turtle are laid in the sand at some distance flora he sea. As soon as the young are hatched, however, they move with un erring instinct to the water. It is found that newly hatched loggerhead turtles move away from red, orange and green, hut are attracted by blue. Under normal conditions, then, the: blue gleam of the sea may be sup-' posed to attract ihem, while they will j turn away from the reds and greens of | the land. I ASSESSMENT NOTICE Great Western Consolidated Mining Company Location of principal place of business, San Francisco, California. Location of works, Tonopah, Esmer- : alda county, Nevada. Notice is hereby given that at a! meeting of the board of directors held on the 17th day of September, 1918, an assessment (No. 10) of one cent (lc) per share was levied upon the capital stock of the cor poration, payable immediately in United States gold coin to the sec retary, at the office of the company at 542 Mills building, San Francis co, California. Any stock upon which this assess ment shall remain unpaid on the 22nd day of October, 1918, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless pay-; ment is made before, will be sold at the office of the company in San Francisco on Wednesday, the 13th day of November, 1918, at 2 o’clock p. m., to pay the delinquent assess ment together with costs of adver tising and the costs of sale By order of the board of direc tors. EMERY W. ELLIOT, Secretary., Office 542 Mills Building, San Francisco, Cal. POSTPONEMENT Delinquent date postponed until December 18, 1918. Day of sale postpone! until Wednesday. Janu ary 8th, 1919, at 2 o’clock p. m. First pub—Nov. 23, 1918 Last pub—Dec. 14, 1918 WOltl.n A!,MAN ACS _ I Tribune Book and Stationery Store | BIG EASTERN TAROS ‘ Will CONTINUE 10 CONSTRUCT SHIPS PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30. Announcement that the coming of peace will not slow down material ly the shipbuilding activities of the yards fringing the Delaware river is made by Charles Pies, vice president and general manager of the emergency fleet corporation. The work will be lessened only through elimination of all overtime labor. Further assurance that no move is contemplated to curtail operations is given daily in adver tisements in the papers here for skilled and unskilled workmen for employment at the yards. Ships and more ships, according to Mr. Piez, will be needed to transport food supplies to feed Europe and for the necessary ma terials that will be required for the reconstruction period in the war-stricken area. “We must continue to build ships for an indefinite period to carry on that work,” said Mr. Piez, “as there are not nearly enough at present. If any changes are made in our building program, they will affect only the iorm ana degrees of the work outlined.” There is to be no wholesale can cellation of contracts or the elimi nation of departments, insisted Mr. Piez, who declared that whatever changes are necessary will be of a gradual sort, and workers whose departments may be abandoned will be placed in other branches of the industry. At the world’s largest shipyard, Hog island, work will go steadily ahead, and men skilled in build ing vessels will have no difficulty in getting employment there. Men without experience may find em ployment also, for the school for instruction where green hands are converted into shipbuilders will be continued. BAKER POSTPONES TRIP WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.— Secretary of War Baker announc ed that he had decided to postpone his trip to Europe, which he had planned to take about this time. Assistant Secretary Stettinius, his personal representative in France^K will return home for Christmas^^ and they will go to France togeth er, probably in January, on war de partment business solely. -o RESIGNATION ACCEPTED WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3.— President Wilson accepted the resignation of Frank P. Walsh, joint chairman of the war labor board, and appointed Basil M. Man ly to fill the vacancy. ^ •" ' i- " -— — COPYRIGHTS TRADH MARKS IMTISNTS DESIGNS JERRY A. MATHEWS —Solicitor of— AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS —and—— COUNSELOR IN PATENT CASES Colorado Building - Washington, D. C. John $. Cook $ Co.! ....BANKERS...- ! 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