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.
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LAUNCHING OF A MODERN MINE SWEEPER
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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