The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., May 31, 1922, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7

About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922.
Keeping Railway Clerks k :t for Their Work
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in order thnt its employees may enjoy better health and become more efficient in their work, the Rock Island rail
road has instituted a system of exercise periods in the morning and afternoon, during which the windows are all open
and the clerks ail go through a number of exercises. The head of a department and his four assistants are here seen
taking their afternoon exercises.
Park Chain From
Ocean to Ocean
National Park Director Mather
Outlines Plan for System
Reaching Across Country.
IS NOT GOVERNMENT PROJECT
Scheme Is Purely a State Proposition,
but Will Have Approval and As
sistance of National Govern
ment—Follow Rail Routes.
Omaha, Neb.—A dream of a park
system reaching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific along half a dozen or more
of the.great travel highways was out
lined in Omaha by Stephen T. Mather
id Chicago, director of the government
national park system. Mr. Mather
emphasized that while these , ark lines
ore not sponsored by the government
and are purely state projects, they
have the approval of the national sys
tem In every way.
‘‘lt Is a gigantic undertaking,” says
Mr. Mather.
Mr. Mather is now in the West get
ting the great national parks, Yellow
stone. Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Zion
and the other playgrounds, ready for
the coming Right-seeing season.
"Many of the states are working on
these park lines now,” says Mr.
Mather, “and we hope to have others
Interested very quickly.”
Will Follow Rail Routes.
rtest of the Mississippi these park
l nep, as outlined by Mr. Mather, will
follow closely the big transcontinental
railroad lines. One system us parks
will follow the Southern Pacific road
from New Orleans across Texas. New
Mexico and Arizona to California. A
Mc-.nd line will follow the Missouri
Pacific and Santa Fe from St. Louis
through Kansas City and on to the
Pacific through Kansas and the states
west. A third lineof parks will fol
low the Union Pacific from Omaha
across Nebraska. Wyoming, ctttl: and
Xevada to San Francisco, with
branched at Ogden to Los Angeles and
■‘ •rtland. Still another park system
'k 111 extend from St. Paul and Minne
apolis out to Seattle.
East of the Mississippi these lines of
1 arks will follow trade coutes across
Xew York, northern Ohio and Indiana
to Chicago; across Pennsylvania, cen
tral Ohio and Indiana to Chicago and
St. Louis; across Maryland, West
Virginia, southern Ohio and Indiana to
ci. L°uis and down the Atlantic coast
and around to New Orleans.
"The national government has noth
ug officially to do with these park
nes,” Mr. Mather states, ‘‘but we are
Assisting all along the line. These
parks will be under the control of the
different states. They will be small
compared with the vast government
playgrounds. Some of them will con
tain but a few acres. Here they will
hike in a bit of rough land with an
•‘specially fine view; there the park
fnay border on a small lake, again it
TRACE STONE AGE IN CANADA
Existed in British Columbia as
Late as Century Ago.
Archaeologists Make Interesting Dis
coveries While Exploring Old Com
munity Sites, Mounds and
Aboriginal Graves.
Victoria, B. C.—The stone age,
which, scientists say, came to an end
in western Europe about 1700 B. C.,
was carried on for more than 3,000
years later, and In its most character
istic form existed in British Columbia
up until as late a. a century ago. In
s»»mc districts, according to findings
of archaeologists who have been ex-
Z* i'loring some of the old community
sites, mounds and aboriginal graves
along the coast and the interior of
the province.
The stone age In British Columbia
has for many years been the study of
•cientists of note, who have been work-
may be on the banks of a stream, it
may commemorate some act of state
wide importance; it may be located
around a landmark, etc. All these
small parks wlj’ ’TG?- r*" ht In with
the national system.
HHie day of the park and o? the
great outdoors has come in America.
The people are getting ready to play
again. We are expecting the largest
crowds at the national parks this
coming season that have visited them
for a number of years.
“For five or six years the American
people have done very little playing.
There was the war and there was the
expense of travel. But the war Is over
and traveling expenses have been ma
terially reduced.
“Steamship lines to Europe are ad
vertising t» specific amount as the ex
pense of a trip abroad, everything in
cluded. To offset this the government
park service has figured the necessary
cost, Including railroad fare, Pullman
and dining car extras and the expense
in the parks themselves. While our
service has nothing to do with ex
penses outside the park, it has every
thing to do with those within the park
boundaries, and we have forced the
total cost down to a minimum.
May Use Different Roads.
“The government service Ims ar
ranged with the railroads which reach
these parks to take passengers in at
one entrance and permit them to leave
the parks at entirely different gate
ways and use a different railroad
thenceforth, if they wish to do so.
“From inquiries the Dark service is
receiving now, we believe the word
ANCIENT SHOP HAS BEEN SOLD
Nothing but Drugs Ever Sold in
This Landon Pharmacy.
Worshipful Co.mpany of Apothecaries
Disposes of Its Historic Shop in
City of London —Established
in Seventeenth Century.
London.—The Worshipful Company
of Apothecaries has sold its ancient
shop to a London firm of druggists.
It has been carried on by this city
company since early in the Seven
teenth century and was, as it were,
the classic druggist’s shop, with its
discreet window of frosted glass—the
apothecaries did not display their
wares —the shop forms, the plain
facade behind which Is hidden a dim
old courtyard and then the hall and
other rooms of the society. Almost,
next door, in Water Lane, was the
Blackfriars theater, where Shake
speare and Burbage played.
The society’s prescriptions, formu
las and special preparations—many
of them centuries old —are taken over
by the new owners. The little fac
tory where the society makes drugs
wholesale, chiefly on government or
ders, has not changed hands yet.
Ing to build up the story of the evolu
tion of the prehistoric civilization as
exemplified In the tribes which worked
out their existence between the Rocky
mountains and the Pacific. Valuable
collections have been obtained.
It was omy recently, however, that
British Columbia, in an effective way,
turned Its attention to the past. Un
der the direction of Premier John
Oliver, the provincial museum has
been partly rebuilt and the collections
put on exhibition.
The aboriginal occupants of the
country belonged to the neolithic, or
new stone age. scientists determined
from the specimens obtained from old
villages and burying places. Stone and
bone tools were In common use when
the first white explorers visited the
north Pacific, although iron and cop
per in small quantities were found
almost everywhere.
In some instances the native races
had developed a degree of art. One of
the exhibits in the museum is a copy
‘pleasure’ is coming back into the
vocabularly of the ordinary people,
and this year these greats western
parks will entertain their largest
crowds for many years—if not in their
histories.
“The people are going to enjoy the
great outdoors more in the future than
they have in the past, and when the
different states complete these chains
of state parks across the country the
American people will get a new idea
of what it means to be out-of-doors.”
SUPREME COURT MARSHAL
Mrs. William Chesley Lewis of Okla
homa City, Okln., the only woman In
the Uulted States holding the position
of marshal of a supreme court.
The shop is a spacious place, lined
with mellow-looking old bottles,
gleaming warmly with gilt and color.
You look in vain for patent medicines
<>r any paraphernalia of the modern
chemist. It is ail drugs and nothing
but drugs, and people who come in
with prescriptions'are usually known
and addressed by their names. The
shop is leisurely and quiet, as befits
Its pedigree. Many customers are
sorry that the company should be giv
ing up Its useful service of selling
sound drugs In these days when the
city companies rarely still perform
their original functions.
In rhe old days no apothecary could
open a shop in the city without a
license from the Apothecaries’ Hall,
nor could he sell drugs that had not
been duly tester] nt the hall.
The old charter gives the company
the right to burn unwholesome drugs
In front of the offender’s door. The
company is one of three bodies en
titled to grant a medical degree. In
the early Eighteenth century there
was a fierce quarrel between the phy
sicians and the apothecaries over this,
and Doctor Garth In his dispensary
spoke rudely of the Apothecaries* Hall
as the place “where tyros take tlie
freedom out to kill.”
of a seated human figure holding a
bowl. It was chipped from a solid
block of stone and then polished.
There are two of these specimens very
much alike. One was discovered near
Departure bay, Nanaimo, and the
other in North Saanich, on Vancouver
Island.
Perhaps the most characteristic of
the stone age are the stone axes and
tin miners discovered in many places.
The stone weapons include daggers
and war clubs. There are many ex
amples of stone dishes, hewn from
small bowlders. With what appear to
have been rolling pins of somewhat
angular design the prehistoric woman
of this coast seems to have been well
supplied.
Primitive man In British Columbia
apparently did a little smoking now
nnd then. Old shell mounds on the
Thompson and Fraser rivers have
yielded what appear to have been
stone pipes. The early explorers
found the native races using a true
tobacco, nlcotlna attenuata, which
grows wild In the Thompson river
country and was smoked alone or
mixed with grease and klunlkluick.
Immunity in
Measles Serum
Doctor Rudolf Degkwitz Reports
Successful Experiments With
New Preventive.
MEDICAL SCIENCE INTERESTED
Hope to Conquer the Most Deadly of
all Children’s Diseases— Danger in
Public Apathy and Ignorance
of Infectious Malady.
Manchester, England.—Dr. Rudolf
Degkwitz announces in the Deutsche
Medizinische Wochenschrift ian au
thoritative publication) that he has
succeeded in conferring Immunity to
measles by injec ting a serum prepared
from convalescent patients.
“This may prove to be one of the
greatest epochs In preventive medi
cine,” writes a medical correspondent
of the Manchester Guardian. “In his
last series of 1,700 cases Degkwitz
claims that ail the contacts inoculated
were completely Immunized or so pro
tected that the disease was developed
only in its mildest form and there was
no untoward result.
“If these results are confirmed and
the method can be effectively and gen
erally applied, the result should be an
even greater saving of life than has
accrued from Jenner’s discovery of
vaccination.
Most Deadly of All.
“Measles, the most deadly of all
the diseases of childhood, continues
to he the least controllable of the
scourges which regularly affect our
people,” the Guardian’s correspond
ent says warningly. “With the pos
sible exception of influenza there is
no form of epidemic disease in face
of which preventive medicine is so
helpless. The causes for this are
mainly two. In the first place the
disease is not only highly infective
hut its infectivity is highest before
tlie symptoms can be recognized. The
child which contracts measles has
three or four days in which to Infect
his family, his friends and his school
fellows before It is known definitely
that he is suffering from measles at
all. The second cause Is public apathy
and ignorance of the dangerous nature
of the complaint.
“Half a century ago there appears
to have been some justification for
regarding measles as a trifling dis
order, something tiiat every cMld must
‘get over,’ and the sooner the better.
Owing to the operation of the still
mysterious laws which govern changes
in type of disease, scarlet fever, which
was justly dreaded, has declined in
virulence and ceased to be one of the
major dangers of childhood : diphtheria
is also much milder in form and its
dangers can almost be eliminated by
Trying the New “Postage Meter”
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Officials of the I’ostofiice department in Washington are here shown watch
ing the first demonstration of a new stamp cancelling machine. This remark
able machine, known as tlie “postage meter,” postmarks, stamps, seals, counts
and stacks letters at the rate of 35 per minute.
Lightning Kills Trout
in New York State Pond
Washington. An interesting
letter was received by the fish
eries bureau the other day from
B. H. Norton of Syracuse, whose
ponds were stocked with trout
fry by the bureau a while ago.
It reads:
“We have been very successful
in raising the trout allotted to
us. The only loss we have had
was one trout that whs struck
by lightning.”
Town Putt Ban on Aviators.
Rye, N. Y. An. ordinance prohibit
ing aviators from flying loss than
2,(MM) feet above the land or water of
the Rye town park at Oakland beach
has been passed by the commissioners
of parks. The ordinance forbids the
performance of aerial acrobatics at
any height over the park, because of
the danger to persons In the park.
the early use of anti-toxin. But
measles has become more deadly year
by year.
Recent Epidemic.
“The present writer can recall one
recent epidemic of measles in a Lan
cashire town which slew ; .n six months
precisely tlie number of children that
had succumbed to scarlet fever in ten
years. Yet It Is still not an unknown
thing for a mother to put the other
children in bed witli a case of measles
so that they may all ’get over it to
gether,’ and It is the constant com
plaint of doctors that they are not
called in until tlie child is blue from
pneumonia and beyond all aid.
“Compare tins apathy with the hor
ror of smallpox. Yet, before the in
troduction of vaccination, when small
pox was regarded as the national
plague, the death rate from this cause
averaged 420 per million. In 1915 the
death rate from measles was -.398 per
million. Neither tlie government nor
the local authorities seem to have
Study Chinese in
New York City
Group of Philosophers Live in
Bamboo Forest and Teach
Lore of Far East.
SCHOOL IN A TEA GARDEN
But a Foreign Language May Also Be
Learned by Dancing, Head Phil
osopher Finds —Comes From
Famous Family.
New York. —Not many people know
that among the many interesting
things which develop in New York
city Is a group of Chinese philosophers
who dwell in a bamboo forest. Know
ing that the forest is on Macdougal
street helps, for many interesting
things come out of Macdougal street.
The head of the philosophic group Is
Dr. Liu Tien Tao, who received de
grees both in China and at Columbia,
and who, once a week, may be found
imparting knowledge of Chinese lan
guage. philosophy and poetry to a
group of students. These include art
ists. writers and Chinese students,
i The Chinese in themselves are inter
! esting, for they come from different
' parts*of the world, where they have
lived since leaving their native land.
1 One speaks French and does not un-
MEXICO IS NOW FAST PICKING UP
Remarkable Progress Being
Made in Overcoming Illiteracy.
Night Schools in Capital Have Taught
Many Persons to Read and Write
—Laboring Class Is Deeply
Interested.
Mexico City.—Remarkable progress
is being made in overcoming illiteracy
in the capital, according to informa
tion obtained from the department of
public education of the federal gov
ernment.
During the first three months of the
present year approximately 15,000 per
sons of the lower class were taught
to rend and write. This educational
work is being carried on largely by
means of night schools, which are of
themselves something of a novelty In
Mexico.
It is stated that Interest on the pert
of the laboring class In this education-
PAGE SEVEN
Plans to Dive for Lost
Treasure of Buccaneers
Cape May, N. J. —Jay E. Me
aly of Cape May, N. J., is organ
izing a syndicate to try to re
cover the doubloons and pieces
of-eight which formed the cargo
of the Spanish vessel Matizun
eros. sunk off Turtle Cut Inlet a
century ago. Mannefl by pirates
ur.t! c.n joqtc from the Spanish
mail, to New York to dispose of
the loot, the ship was driven by
a gale on die shoals off the inlet
about seven miles north of Cape
May.
waked up to the facts represented by
these figures. We continue to lavish
enormous sums of money on the hos
pital isolation of scarlet feveF with
very Tittle effect on the prevalence of
the disease, but hospital accommoda
tion for measles is very rarely pro
vided.
“Scarlet fever is compulsorily noti
fiable; the notification of measles Is
optional and, in these days of anti
spending as opposed to true economy,
practically in abeyance.”
derstand English; another speaks Rus
sian.
Teach Chinese.
Chinese is taught by Doctor Liu in a
semi-popular way, much as the Euro
pean languages are taught. It Is com
paratively simple to obtain a slight
working knowledge of the language,
the students find. The delight of writ
ing mysterious characters such as
those which grow on tea chests is
one of which the pupils never tire. In
time they expect to a certain extent
to read Chinese poetry and philosophy.
In the meantime they imbibe It from
Doctor Liu, who later is to arrange
special courses in Chinese poetry and
philosophy, with the aid of lecturers
from Columbia.
Doctor Liu believes that his work is
valuable in promoting mutual under
standing between Chinese and Ameri
cans. He thinks each country can ob
tain of the other something of value
which it needs —that China can get
practical business methods from Amer
ica and America can feel the quieting
influence of Chinese philosophy.
In the meantime, the American stu
dents of Chinese are absorbing knowl
edge literally in a bamboo forest. It
is something like Shakespeare’s
“tongues In trees, books in running
brooks.” At the Bainboo Forest the
students read —if they can make it out
—Chinese poetry written on lacquered
tables, some of It by great national
poets and other verses contributed by
Doctor Liu himself. Big decorative
Chinese characters signifying “happi
ness” or “wisdom” cover the walls or
the bamboo poles which form the forest.
In Bamboo Forest.
This forest is a Chinese tea garden
which, with American business vision.
Doctor Liu saw would have to pay
overhead charges while he was carry
ing on his chosen work and gathering
around him as applicants for Chinese
wisdom little coteries of interested
philosophers and friends. The tables
covered with Chinese characters were
all decorated by the head philosopher
himself.
The Bamboo Forest is indoors in a
basement of the little old Macdougal
street house In winter, but in fair
weather extends to a more real bam
boo forest in the open at the rear.
Doctor Liu is a philosophic philoso
pher. He takes the American world as
he finds it and adopts its customs and
habits. He attended the recent ball
<»f the Independent Artists at the Wal
dorf dressed as a prince of the old
Tang period. But he danced American
dances with the rest of the American
world, an accomplishment he learned
while at Columbia.
The head philosopher of the Bamboo
Forest comes from a family of both
students and warriors. His father was
president of a Chinese college,, and an
uncle, the famous Gen. Hwang Hsing,
led the republican forces in the revo
lution in China in 1912. j
al work Is unbounded. They crowd
the schools to full capacity ana there
are hundreds who cannot as yet be
taken care of on account of the lack
of teachers and other facilities. Men
and women of middle age vie with
sandal-footed youths to obtain enough
instruction to enable them to rend and
write.
The teaching of the fundamentals,
which is being done in the schools, is
supplemented by n series of educa
tional lectures that are given in mov
ing picture theaters on Sundays. Sc
successful has been this plan of teach
ing the lowly natives the rudiments
of rending and writing in this city
that the department of public educa
tion plans to extend the work to all
of the larger cities and many of the
smaller communities of the country.
President Alvaro Obregon has
shown a keen interest in this new
phase of education and has pledged
to provide the neccrsary financial
means for carrying It forward.