WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS Ey GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D, LL. D. n tution. reported. Mass, S3—Thousands of where many miraculous cures are NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Industry. and Finance Give Assurance That Nation's Business Is Sound. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LNLESS President Hoover and the leaders of finance, industry and labor are all wrong, the country's business structure Is on a firm basis and there is no reason why pros perity should decrease, despite the stock market collapse which in six wezks reduced stock prices by about 37 per cent. What the leaders mentioned think about the situation was brought out in the conferences called in Washing- ton by the President. First to gather were the presidents of a number of railways, together with William But- terworth, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Julius Barnes, chairman of the cham- her's board; Secretaries Mellon and lL.Lamont and Ernest LL. Lewis, chair man of the Interstate Commerce com- mission. President Hoover thus told of the results of this meeting: “fhe raliway presidents were unan- imous in their determination to co- operate in the maintenance of employ- ment and business progress. It was stated that the rallways which they represented would proceed with full programs of construction and better. ments without any reference to recent stock exchange fluctuations; that they would canvass the possibilities of fur ther expansion, and that amongst these particular railways it appeared that the total volume of such con- struction work already Indicated an increase during the next six months over the similar period of last year” Later in the week, at the annual meeting of the Railway Business as- sociation in Chicago, the rail officials of the country gave out more definite information of their plans for ex. pansion and betterment which will call for the expenditure of a billion dollars, The second group to assemble in the White House included the twelve mem. bers of the advisory council of the federal reserve system and the mem bers of the federal reserve board, to- gether with government officials. They gave assurance of the soundness of the business structure and the prob ability of cheaper money. Each mem- ber of the council reported that busi. ness and banking throughout his dis trict were in a sound condition. On Thursday morning the nation's industrial Teaders assembled, with Julius Rosenwald, Henry Ford and Owen D. Young of the General Elec tric company at their head. Included in the conferees were the chiefs of nearly all the great corporations—an impressive gathering indeed. The President asked these men ‘to co- operate In maintaining their business activities on the same plane as In past months and to make expansions wherever possible. What the Presi. dent particularly desires to avoid is a curtailment of Industrial activity in anticipation of a possible business slump due to the stock market col. iapse, He received the assurance that the constructive activities of the vari. ous industries would be continued, and even expanded to take up the slack In employment, That afternoon William Green, pres ident of the American Federation of Labor, and other prominent labor leaders, together with Secretary of Labor Davis, conferred with Mr. Hoover. And it was announced that on Monday there would be meetings of the leading public utility magnates and of farm leaders. Thursday evening Mr. Hoover an nounced that a truce between capital and labor had been made ; that the big industries of the country would not reduce wages and that organized labor would make no demands for Increased pay. Both groups, he said. had pledged themselves to assist the President In his endeavor to maintain business sta. bility and progress, Soon after this Henry Ford an- nounced that a general wage advance was to teke effecr Lnmadiately In all his automobile plants, benefiting about 135,000 men. He gave his views on the industrial situation, maintaining that prices of commodities are too high and must come down, while wages are too low and must be raised. As a result of the series of confer ences It is planned to set up some sort of an orgamization to act as a clearing house for the activities of the different groups. Mr. Barnes and Mr, Jutterworth, in co-operation with Sec retaries Mellon and Lamont, will fig. ure prominently in this work. AMES W. GOOD, secretary of war, died in a Washington hospital fol lowing an operation for acute ap pendicitis. The news of his demise was heard with deep regret through- out the country for Mr. Good was re. garded as a most efficient servant of the pation and was popular with a host of friends. President Hoover was especially grieved by the death of a man who had been his close as socliate for years and who held his high regard. The war secretary was given all military honors at the funeral services which were held In the east room of the White House and were attended by the President and Mrs. Hoover, the members of the cabinet and as many others high In the gov- ernment as could be accommodated. Then the body, on an artillery caisson drawn by six bay horses, was escorted to the rallway station and taken on a special train to Cedar Rapids, Towa, Mr. Good's boyhood home, for burial It was accompanied by committees representing the administration and the senate and house and by Acting Secretary of War Hurley and Gen eral Summerall, army chief of staff. presiEsT HOOVER has com pleted the delegation to the naval conference in London by naming as additional members Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams and Am. bassadors Charles G. Dawes, Dwight W. Morrow and Hugh 8. Gibson. The others, previously selected, are Secre tary of State Henry [. Stimson, Senator David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania and Senator Joseph T. Robin. son of Arkansas, Admiral Willlam V, Pratt, commander of the United States fleet, and Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones, retired, will accompany the delegation as naval advisers, The addition of Secretary Adams and the three ambassadors to the delegation was a measure taken to pacify Admiral Jones, who had threat. ened to refuse to go along because he thought the administration was not giving proper consideration to the navy and the naval authorities who have been opposing what they consid: ered too great concessions to Great Britain, It was sald the admiral fs now satisfied, JioRg it was impossible to com plete its version of the tariff bill this month, the senate voted, 49 to 83, to adjourn the special session of con. gress sine die on Friday night, and the house concurred. This gives the lawmakers an Intermission of ten days before the regular session convenes on December 2. The adjournment was proposed by the Democrats and the old guard Republicans voted for It because they are disgusted with the tariff measure as It now stands, The new grouping of younger Republicans, headed by Senator Allen of Kan. gas and called “Young Turk®” by Senator Pat Harrison, tried to keep the session alive, believing much more progress with the sched. nies could be made. The tariff bill retains its place on the senate calendar as unfinished business, and though the Vare case comes up for disposal during the first week of the regular session, the senate leaders hope the tariff measure can be passed before the Christmas recess. Doings of lobbyists {n behalf of high and low tariff on sugar were investi. gated by the senate committee on lob bying duoring the week, and the In. formation elicited was Interesting though not especially ineriminating, Most Important of the witnesses was President Rentschler of the National City bank of New York, which insti tution 1s deeply interested in Cuban sugar plantations and refineries, ern radical senators recently. committee met last week and appar. ently all was harmonious. Consequent- ly the New Hampshire senator will be in charge of the arrangements for the re-election of those solons whom he stigmatized during the tariff debates as “sons of the wild ass” ARRY F. SINCLAIR, ofl magnate, completed his term of imprison ment for contempt of the senate and the District of Columbia Supreme court and was given his freedom after 108 days of confinement, He seemed happy and healthy and posed ingly for news photographers, declared he was guilty of no moral turpitude and asserted hig Imprisonment was “in violation of common sense and com mon decency” to make him the scape goat for corrupt politicians, oblig- ONGRESSMAN Edward E. Denison Marion, Ill, a bone dry, is added to the victims of the prohibition laws He and John layne, his former sec retary, were indicted by 8 grand jury in Washington on a charge of illegal possession of liquor, The Indictment is based on the fact that, eleven months ago, a trunk and suit case containing liquor were delivered to Mr. Denison in the house office bullding, being ad- dressed to Layne in Denison's care. Federal agents opened the trunk in his presence. The congressman says he explained at the time that the bag. gage was not his and had been checked to him by mistake in New York after his return from a trip to Panama. The agents, he asserts, expressed them. selves as satisfied and sald there would be nothing more to it. In Wash- ington It was sald Denison’s receipt for the trunk was laid before the grand Jury. Layne, who Is now connected with the internal revenue bureau, has flatly denied any connection with the liquor. WO of our new ambassadors pre sented their credentials last week at the courts to which they are ac credited. John W. Garrett was re ceived with all due ceremony by King Victor Emmanuel of Italy after being conveyed with his staff to the Quirinal palace in three gala coaches, In the dor Gerrit J. Diekema was recefved by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands. O8Tyof New York, New England M Canada were startled by a series of week. At first it was believed no ma- terial damage had resulted, but in a few hours the cable companies found that nine of their twenty-four Atlantic cables had been broken, of the tween Nova Scotia and New York, and several liners that were In that they had run against a reef. Toward the end of the week came const of Newfoundland, PASCUAL ORTIZ RUBIO majority. Rublo may be relied on to He is of an old Mexican Indian fam- the Tarascan kings of Michoacan. part in all the revolutionary activities since his youth, OVIET RUSSIAN forces, Invading Manchuria, captured Dalai Nor, the key position of the Chinese front line defenses in the “Three Rivers” district, ufter nineteen hours of bloody fighting. The Russians thus cut off the Chinese position In Manchoull and opened the way for a drive on Hallar, besides gaining possession of valuable coal mines, P. O'CONNOR, called the father of the British house of commons and familiarly known to the world as “Tay Pay” died in London at the age of eighty-one years of septic poisoning. Famous as an Irish Nationalist and as a journalist, he had served as a member of parliament for forty-nine consecutive years. The Black Death HE Black Death of 134840 devas tated a quarter of Europe, killed 25,000,000 people, and drove Boe cacelo ohtside the walls of Flor ence, where he whiled away the time writing the Decameron, In India, the Almost all plague bacteria are ted to man by fleas, lice, mosquitves, or other parasites, A flea on a dylng rat seeks a fresh victim, carrying the rat's plague germs with It. Any man will do, flea empties ts alimentary canal, then bites: the bite irritates the skin, the man scratches it—thereby opening his first line of defense to the enemy! i the new Anothep blood to get Into the blood. In host they begin to multiply flea may this tainted victim, More instructive is the propagation malaria, or ague. When found out where the mosquito malaria sand why the astounding clock like regularity of the paroxysms which wrack the bones with chills and burn the body of the victim with fever,.a long siride was made In making this world for human beings. Malaria Is caused by three (possibly four) varieties of of the utiicellulur Sporozoa. repro. duce by spores, bence the name. Or one cell or one bacterinm di in tion by spores, one divides into many to life SPOTeS. now carry sinfe lasmodin Sporezoa dinarily vides and becomes two, reproduc tiny spores, each and spore Crows size, divides into Each kind of Plasmodium has it Ein own The the time rate of reproduction. paroxysm coincides with ductive cycle. Once any one of the three varieties of malaria germs has entered the blood-stream, It propogates itself by ague repro existence of its progeny is dependent simply on the supply of red blood cor But how does it get into the the first place? the there puscles, in Enter which blond Anopheles mosquito of are several The mosquito bites a human victim, discharging saliva and a few thou thread-like spores. In man's can take care of them They enter an asexual cycle. They soon incredibly numer Assume that the mosquito left 1.000 by the tenth day they TOON (KX): two days later, 1.000.000.0000, When 150.000. 000 blood corpuscles have been invad ed, fever begins, The germs of trench and fevers carried by “cooties™ phus fever alone killed 120,000 Serb during the war—all inoculated by lice. When control measures were inaugurated the fever But troe control cannot come to stay until the facts of nre known. In 19015 there were 2.0% cases of malaria In an Arkansas town; within three years there were 73; re- duction of U7 per cent, Formerly, yellow fever lived in the tropics and now and then visited our southern ports, with great loss of life. It is almost forgotten now. Con- trolled by controlling its carrier. varieties, sand blood they selves become ous, whnily EDOres | have become are Ty- fans disappeared propagation lower animal agency to help complete their vicious life cycle; mere human social relations suffice. The very man ner of cur living Is sometimes a fac tor in the presence of germs—and in our susceptibility to their ravages. Ag Jordan says, tuberculosis is primar ily and chiefly a disease of men living in houses and of cattle kept in sta tornte up to 3.000,000,000 tubercle ba- cilli in one day; the dried sputum in a cool, dark corner may contain virn- lent. germs for eight months, A few drops of urine may contain up to S500.000,000 typhoid bacilli The typhoid bacillus, into the body of another victim, car ried by milk, water, food, filth, fies, ach of the new host, nodes of Payer in the small intestine, in the blood, it has already multiplied into an army and has already sent some of its forces out to find new vie tims, ete, of have similar eycles. But they from ane victim to another without a carrier than a letter crosses the sea without a carrier, Many disease producing germs which make their homes in our nose, throat, or lungs (germs of tuberen losis, diphtheria, pnenmonia, searlet fever, Influenza, measles, whooping: cough, pneumonic plague, ete), may be enrried by the als itself, and generally are sneezed or coughed out to be waft. ed about until they find new hosts, The conquest of gern diseases has only just begun. But the start of that conquest might have been delayed un ti the sweet by-and-by without the discovery of the germs themselves uuder the microscope, * (® by George A, Dorsey.) Real Devotion Father—Donald, 1 am only punish. Ing you because 1 love you, Donald—Well, daddy, I wish | was big enough te return your love A A S55 Sl ILC possessing six independent wheels ane depicted, a speed of GO kilometers an hour. i 3 which ean run over motor and r-cooled PERFORMANCE OF ANY SPARK PLUG mum of Efficiency. With Ligher toward the im. portance of keeping the spark plug in the COMpression trend engines, general phasized If the motorist would enjoy the maximum tion, letin, which “A surprisingly Inrge of poor performance may and often eliminated by an examina- tion of the spar plugs, which often responsible for of efficient car opera. ig to an engineering bul- RAYE: accor percentage he are engine tions: Trouble Classifications, 1. Engine hard to start low idling speeds, sluggish. ~-migses at at high speed, on hills or hard pulls “Conditions described above may be to fouled, type spark plugs. Justment of sg “If the p dae worn out or or to improper ad ark plug gaps. lugs are out they should gap is too wide it replaced, be n 3 to 025 inch for average engines 020 inch for high The distributor contact points It should compression Sines, should also be cleaned or renewed and the no less than 016 inch or more than 020 inch In most cases. gap set at Cleaning Easily Done. “In the case of fouled spark plugs is easily done: “Fill the lower part the plug with alcohol, metal or equal parts and water, and let It stand for a seconds, “Rub from Insulator stiff wire or small wooden peg ered with one thickness of cloth, wipe the piug dry. of polish ammonia fow carbon with “Ov. Then Clean the sparking Adjust the gaps, Car manufacturers recom mend that spark plugs be renewed every 10,000 miles because worn out plugs cannot be restored by cleaning.” Highway Grade Crossing Accidents on Increase Of the 5086 highway grade cross were Involved during the past year in the United States, 1.270 resulted from motorists crashing into the sides of trains, which were either standing #till or in motion. This was an in- crease of 113, or 0.7 per cent, com- pared with the number of such accl- 27. Highway grade cross- accidents resulting from motor 3.761 In 1028, an Increase of 74 com- AUTOMOBILE HINTS GPPPIPIITIPEPPP IPI PPPOE Modern man drives 2,000 miles In a Statistics show there is one auto mobile for every 70 of the world's Some drivers scem to oft the other €0. . * * - “And how do you know I spent my asked “That,” said Sher- lock, “is elementary. Only the back of your left hand was sunburned.” * » * The town of Montelimar, France, averages 200 arresta of speeders a day. One reason for this is that the legal speed is seven miles an hour, and, secondly, the law is en- forced. * * » The movement is gaining ground to have the name of every community palaped on some conspicuous roof, Thid will be a great help to the mo. torist struck by a fast freight at the crossing. «0. “Perhaps the proposed 200-pound automobile would give the pedestrian less to contend with,” We don't know ; A Brooklyn girl was taken to the hos- pital recently after being run over by ¥ baby buggy. vp | Homemade Oil Filtering System Fits Any Motor The u | ofl filtering system ut can be plied | modern and iHustration shows a homemade ap to any nautomobi muke It up-to-date, You need one vacuum working order. A servic be obtained at a low pri | auto wrecking yard, Ir need the outer shell of an { tank to serve us a fi 4 : “ar wryrtl this tar 1d in good can from any ddition, you her vacuum artment, dered up from sheet metal In any shape sired, nect the tar tration, If , Hs » One iter comg i Of course, be wo de- Copper i to con- K& a hown in the you I ‘ 1 filus- {i elbow on If your ca | the air which is directly to a coup! tank oil through the filter ing fitted into a hole FILYERED Oi rg Sn ALYERS OF MUSLIN H ARUND SCREEN COARSE SCREEN iL FROM BOTTOM OF CrRaAank CASE VACUUM LINE CONNECTED TO GASOLINE VACUUM TANK VACUUM TANK Thig Oil Filtering Device Can Be Ap. plied to the Lubrication System of Any Auto Motor, drilled In the intake manifold. As iong as the motor is running, oil will automatically be pumped up through the filter and sllowed to run back into the crank case. This system will work perfectly on any type of gaso- | line engine no matter what type of lubricating system is used.—Popular Science Magazine, Junked Cars Cluttering Highways Called Menace There sre scores of thousands of automobiles on the highways today which were actually disposed of by their owners as junk, but which were salvaged, put in running condition and sold by junk dealers, according to the safety division of the American Auto- mobile association, The American Automobile assocla- tion points out that it is a common practice throughout the country to buy junk cars for a few dollars, put them in some degree of running shape and sell them back to the public. “These mechanically ungood cars” says the American Automobile asso ciation, “produce three very bad re- snits. First, they create a serious hazard and intensify the safety prob lem. Second, they clutter the high- way and increase congestion by rea- son of their inability to maintain any- thing like an average rate of speed. And, third, since these salvaged cars are almost invariably the first venture of their buyers In car owning, they get badly stung and oftentimes get soured on automobles in general.” Find Another Effective Anti-Freeze Combination The United States bureau of stand. ards has found another anti-freeze that is =ald to be even more effective than glycerin, in that not as much is needed proportionately, That is ethy- lene glycol, a petroleum product which has the advantages of both alcoho! and glycerin, It costs more than glycerin, Glycerin mixes easily with water and is kept in circulation by the pump or the thermosyphon system of cars without pumps. It doesn't settle either down or up, 80 as to permit any part of #he cooling system to freeze while the engine isn't running.
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