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Drutfopmrnt of the rapid trantif ftytfrm,
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A buildtnv for the Free Library
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flnlarvement of the u atrr supply
Homes to accommodate th population
SCHOOL HEALTH FIRST
TUB siiciilen rratizntlon by the Uo.ird of
Education that it Is utile to fiuaace rule
nuuto medical Inspcttlon of public nchool
diildrrn tboli u significant lUlit on inoxrus
eblv dilator. methods.
Some weeks ugo Doctor I'urbuhh an
nounced that the law n-quiring the annual
medical examination of school childri'ti wan
nelnr ylolated and recommended the prompt
appointment of three supervising inspectors,
fourteen assistants and ' seventeen mimes.
The board made Its familiar plea of virtual
insolvency.
This week Colonel Kdwnrd Martin, the
state health commissioner, took up the case,
seconded Doctor Furbush's efforts and Inti
mated that If the laxit) continued the stnte
loapectors would be forced to take up the
work.
An appropriation of $.1!,000 is now slnted
for paasace by the board next week, and nr
nntements will be madp for-annual Inspec
tion of ever school child. Of late only 01
per cent of this necessary health work has
been performed in Philadelphia.
This Is a regrettable evasion of a sanitary
regulation of paramount importance to the
public welfare.
ALL IS QUIET HERE
IN-NEW TOItK plans for housing relief
under the auspices of the state government
are; advancing rapidly. Bills, intended to
provide state aid and encouragement for th
builders of homes, have just been Introduced
in the New Jersey Assembly. All Is quiet
at City Hall and in Harriflburg, though
every-'one knows that the house shortage is a
Common affliction in all industrial centers
and that It is as acute here as It Is In the
larger cities of New Tork and New Jersey.
, JJnder the relief plan that Is likely to
receive most support In the Legislatures at
Albany and Trenton, new dwelling houses
built for sale or rent would be declared ex
empt from taxes for a period of five years.
Simultaneously, a state fund would be cre
ated and from this an owner of land might
borrow for building purposes and pay a nom
inal interest rate. The state would, of
course, bo protected by full mortgage.
Such schemes could help vastly to en
courage building by individuals and oper
ators. What the different communities would
lose by the elimination of new taxes would
be inconsiderable in view of the advantages
of a building revival.
The I'ennsvnnln Legislature will meet In
January. It should give immediate consid
eration to the plans now being formulated In
other states for housing relief.
' ( A DESERVING CAMPAIGNER
A' N ENTOMOLOC.IST backed by an ade
quate appropriation nnd a competent
atalf beats the most -Improved "swatter" all
hollow as a mosquito exterminator. Phlla
delphlans, especially those resident in south
ern and southwestern sections, have more
than an academic interest, therefore, In the
Civil Service Commission's recommendation
of Increased pay for Herman Hornlg, direc
tor of the prolonged campaign against one of
,the meanest and most Insanitary of winged
pests.
Excellent work has been accomplished, but
it la a trifle compared to what is necessary
to rid Philadelphia of mosquitoes. The
task Is not insuperable. Havana and Rio
have long since set the example. Mos
quitoes, such as the damp September
days have been favoring, are relics of un
hygienic barbarism.
Doctor Horniif, the city's entomologist. Is
not a theorist, but a practical public servant
whose scope has been limited by a variety
of causes. The generous co-operation of
other municipal departments is and should
"be, forthcoming until the futile "swatter" is
relegated to deserved obscurity
SOMETHING NEW IN BASEBALL
IT SHOULD not be difficult for the big
(league authorities to find the precise origin
of the false rt'pirt of an arcident to Rabe
Ituth and other hendllnerw Bent over the
h'natfeial wires yesterday to shift betting
Jtends on a New York-Cleveland game at the
Instant when hiavv money was being placed,
jftesou reef ul gamblers might huve sheared a
multitude of lunibs if the routine eervice of
thelnws associations hndn't been too quick
for them.
This Incident, coming in the wake of
rumors of "nied" games, cannot be disre
garded bj men who wish to insure the con
tinuing prestigu of professional baseball.
That gume has survived and it bus been
popular and prosperous because it has been
kept clean. If It doesn't remain i lean or if,
by one method or (mother, it becomes u
yehlcle useful to gambling syndicates, it
will sooner or luter go over the toboggan
on which no one eer was able to turn back
Any one foolish enough to risk moiwi n
competition with highly organized gambling
jiools should have the grace to keep client
when he In plucked. The team owners
themselves have higher stakes in the game.
T( they know anything about the art of
wif-defense, they will find a way to assure
tb.4 public that baseball is not in u way to
euitr the class with "fixed" sports.
'A WORD ABOUT PICTURES
IN, A'' tlnio when every uew achievement
Jathe movie or In millinery, In clothes
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..tuat-will jo into regular
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autumn exhibition at the Academy of the
Fine Arts. Yet it Is cheering to know that a
great multitude' will tear Itself away from
Jara for aThurrled trip to the older'faahloned
picture shows for 'which the dates were an
nounced yesterday.
Painting' is not going out of style. The
Academy exhibitions continue to recur as
reminders of days that were at once more
tranquil and more discriminating than those
through which we are passing,
, Miniatures were supposed to have seen
their day when the photographic camera was
Invented. But more miniatures are painted
In this and Ttther countries every yenr. It
was predicted that water colon could not
survive the development of photography.
Hut water colors, expressive as they are of
Individual Insight revealed In the most elu
sive of mediums, hnve new admirers and
larger audiences In each succeeding genera
tion. There Is no substitute for the work of
art that can make permanently visible the
light of an Inspired moment. It Is a good
thing for the world that there Isn't. The
movies have a well-earned place in the
scheme of things. There may be artists
among the milliners and, for all we know,
a hnlr dresser may now nnd then be inspired.
Hut the painting that is done by those who
have to do It to express a great mood or a
new discovery umong tbo beauties of life
cannot be replaced, outlnwed or crowded
out of the world. You might as well try
to find a substitute for song.
IF U. G. I. LEASE IS VOIDABLE,
WHY NOT THOSE OF P. R. T.?
Present Attitude of the Gas Company
Is an Enlightening CommentaVy on
tho "Sacredneta" of Traction
Contracts
milK request of the United Gas Improve-
ment Co. for a modification of its con
tract with the city on the ground that It has
become burdensome Indicates that the man
agers of that coinpan) have u different
theory as to the sacredncss of contracts from
that held bv the manager of the underlying
companies Iccvd to the Philadclpnu Rapid
Transit.
When there has been talk of modifying the
leases of the underlying companies with ihc
P. R. T., the "bankers' group." the hhare-
holders In other corporations, and the officers
of the underlying companies have with one
voice Insisted on the sacrednegs of contracts.
At a recent public hearing, a representative
of those companies said on the witness stand
that If the P. R. T. were foolish enough to
make the contracts thatwus Its own look
out it must live up to them; a contract Is a
contract : It Is a kind of sacrilege to violate
it. And yet, within n few weeks of such
assertion, we have the P. Ci. I. asking the
city to relieve it of some of the burdens of
its contract.
If n contract is sacred only to the man
who profits by It. then it is the duty of the
city to turn down the petition of the U. OT I.
and Insist nn Its pound of flesh. If n con
tract can be voided or modified when one of
the parties to it suffers, then there Is no
justification for the refusal of the underlying
companies to reduce the rentals rfnid by the
P. R. T. We cannot have a contract sacred
under one set of conditions and voidable
under conditions exact! similar.
Under the circumstances It is nbout time
that the talk about the inviolability of con
tracts affected b a relation to public inter
est was stopped.
As to the V. O. I. contract nnder which
the consumer geta gas for $1 a thousand
cubic feet, out of which the gas company
pays to the city twenty-five cents, It is im
possible for the public to know whether,
under the existing conditions. It should or
should not be revised. Coal and oil and
labor all cost many times more than they
did In 1807 when the contract was made.
No one foresnw the doubling nnd trebling
of prices. They have upset all calculations
made years ago.
We know that under the lease the com
pany is acting as a trustee for the public
in the manufacture and distribution of gus.
Its revenues come from the public, includ
ing the twenty-five cents on every thousand
cubic feet which goes Into the city treasur).
We know, too, that the company is entitled
to a fair return on the money it has in
vested in the gas plant.
Now, what we need to know before any
sound opinion enn be formed on the wisdom
of granting the petition of the company la
how great have been the profits of the com
pany since It leased the city gas plant. How
big Is Its surplus accumulated after paying
eight per cent dividends on Its capital? That
there Is a surplus is Indicated by the state
ment of Mr. Bodlne, the U. O. I. president,
that the eight per cent dividends for the cur
rent year have been paid from the accumula
tions of past undivided earnings.
When we know these facts, the city au
thorities will be prepared to decide how far
it will be fair to compel the company to pay
for Its lean years out of the profits of its
fat years, and after getting the best Infor
mation obtainable on the number of years
that must pass before prices of all kinds
will fall to something like the pre-war level
we shall have the data on which action can
be based
But the outstanding fact which should not
be ignored Is that a contract affected b a
relation to public interest Is revisable at an
time when the equities demand It. This U
a rule which works both ways. It works
In the interest of the consuming public when
the rates charged for gas or electric light or
railroad fares or telephone ratea are reduced
as they have been reduced In the past.
The principle haa been established by court
'decisions and In practice that the owners
of all public service corporations are trustees
serving the public under rigid regulatlous.
Commissions have been estublirhed by the
nutlonul and stat governments to make
the regulation' and to modify thm from
time to time
This brings ue in tne P K f anu its
leases. The right of the Public hervico
Commission to inquire into those leases Is
disputed hy the underlying corapanhs. They
have gone iuto court to question the juris
diction of the commission, unil It is their
evident determination to fight to the last
ditch against auy Investigation which will
put the facts on foimal record.
They forget that they are public trustees.
They forget, too nr Ignore the fact that
the sums paid to them on account of the
leases come from the jwople who ride In the
cars of the P. R. T., and that the rate of
fare Is directly affected by the amount of
the payments made to them.
The Public Service Commission, commis
sioned by law to regulate the transit system
in all its ramifications, cannot perform ltd
full duty unless It can Inquire into every
element entering into the cost of carrying
passengers on the street railroads. If In
equitable contracts have been entered into,
it must have "power to examine those con
tracts or the theory of trusteeship becomes
a howling farce.
It may be argued thut the U G, I is
seeking a modification of Its contract with
the city through negotiation. But even If
that i admitted it .merely strengthens the
liosltion of those are Inshtlug that It
ii nut sacrilege iMuiige a contract the
EVENING BUBLtG.IiEDGEI?HnbEDPr&IA,- A?Rlf)iYi:, SEPTEMBER 10,
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terms of which affect the. public, norrblas"
phemy to demand that those terras be modi
fied.
The lawyers and corporation trustees, who
have been arguing to the contrary, are likely
tosee a grcatllght'beforemany'ycars have
passed. It will be .when they djscover that
the public haa decided that it' has rights
superior to those delegated to any creature
of the state.
BEAUTY-AND THE 'QUAKE
TI1K earthquake-shaken district between
the Apennines rtnd the Mediterranean
coast Is one of the loveliest In nil Italy.
Messina, fated aome cars ngo to experience
one of the most fatal dislocations of the
earth's crust in modern annals, was set In a
scene of exquisite beauty. St. Pierre, trag
ical! smitten by a 'quake and a fire moun
tain, was justly proud of natural surround
ings, unsurpassed in picturesque contour
throughout the West Indies.
It Is a sinister fact that regions on which
nature seems most to have lavished her
wealth of phslcal nrtlstrv are the most
frequent victims of her deadly whims. The
obvious and correct explanation Is that the
beautlfing is the result of previous up
heavals Id n volcanic land.
Far In the remote past prodigious ele
mental forces unquestionably agitated the
greater part of Italy and shook her Into
loveliness. In California, If the truth be
admitted, n similar operation itook place.
Sympathy for sufferers from the ungovern
nble (towers which have displayed their
might In Italy for centuries is accompanied
by the entirely human recognition that there
are compensations for scenic tarieness.
DRIVEN FROM HOME
mm: case of Sir Wilfrid Powell, former
Ilritish consul in this city, who recently
moved from England to Italy to escape the
high cost or living, will draw attention to a
new class of involuntary expatriates that
tends to grow rapidly larger,
'Sir Wilfrid Is British by birth, training
and sjmputhies. But he cannot afford to
live on British boil. In Italy the value of
his pounds is automatically doubled because
of the present low value of Italian money in
iutcrnution.il exchange. An American,
tr.ving a siiuihi experiment, would be even
better off. His dollar in Italy would almost
Invartabl have a purchasing power three
times greater than It would have had before
the war. Tourists know all about the pe
culiar advantages to them of existing ex
change rates.
But what of the French and Italian peo
ple whose money has so declined In pur
chasing power?
They, of course, arc the sufferers. They
are palng for the warTn wnys that Ameri
cans do not understand. And yet there are
people who believe that new and nggrefslve
groups of imperialists on the continent
actuall speak in the Interest of the people
when the babble of new conflicts.
SHIPS WORTH THEIR NAMES
ONE of the most Impressive naval pro
grams ever devised Is taking practical
shape In the completion of contract awards
for the great guns to arm the new fleet that
will be floated In the latter part of ll23.
Pennsylvania firms have their share of the
work for the latest commissions, for twelve
of the total of 150 sixteeu-lnch weapons
hnve been given to the Mldvaie and Beth
lehem Steel companies.
Outlines of the elaborate new naval iullcy
have received general Indorsement. In the
nature of a pleasant surprise is an authori
tative announcement of it sane nomenclature.
The state rule, traditional and satisfactory,
Is to be observed regarding the six battle
ships. The battle cruisers will exemplify
the heartening fact that Imnslnatlon in the
navy has not been contaminated by the dead
ening naming methods of the shipping board.
Among the newcomers, ench with its his
torical thrill, will be the Iyexington, the
Constellation, tile Saratoga, the Ranger, the
Constitution and the United States. One
hardly needs to be told that a ship called
United States will be n monarch In her class
and an engine of majestic power, equipped
oy me migntiest modern guns. That the
name has seldom been used for a major
vessel In the nav since the war of 1812 is
u rather curious instance of national re
serve. A ship so called Is not boastful, but
digulfied, inspiring, consonant with her
armed equipment now in the making.
LAMBERTON KNOWS HOW
IN accepting the pay Increase program
outlined by the Civil Servile Commission
for bis employes, Sheriff Lamberton sets nn
excellent example to his fellow department
heads.
The Griffenhngen report is scientifically
compiled and Its recognition facts mnT
be assumed to be without political bias.
That Sheriff Lambertou, a county official,
receives It in the spirit In which It was pre
pared Is evidenced In the Increase In ap
propriation which. It Is said, he will de
mand for his department.
Of the $13,000 additional, 112,000 will
be devoted to the payroll and $1000 for
automobile maintenance. 'Wasteful super
fluities are thus reduced to zero.
By similar methods can salary increases
be made In other city bureaus, notably in
that of water, concerning which the Civil
Service commission has also made important
wage recommendations.
The city can afford to pay its employes
salaries consonant with current economic
conditions. It is the multiplication of use
less offices and fancy experiments which Is
subversive of ordinary justice.
LIGHT ON THE FERRIES
mHE refusal of ffumuel Ren, president of
L the Pennsylvania Railroad, to restore
on the Market-Federal street ferry lines the
old rate schedule under which the controlling
company profited enormously Wore the
recent increase will uutomutlrally send the
whole question of ferry rates and' service In
this region up for review bv the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Nothing better than the outcome of the
recent conference Mween the Pennsyl
vania officials and the Camden committee
could bo aked by the people nn both sides
of the river, because It should fairly nnd
squarely bring out the facts where now much
Is guesswork.
New light on the conditions pf Intercity
traffic on the Philadelphia ferries and a closer
general contemplation of the profits and
losses involved, for the operating company
and the public respective!, should provide
just the sort of stimulus that is needed to
master universal support for a bridge of the
most modern type between 'this city and
Camden.
The effort of the telephone company to
readjust its rates satisfactorily cutises one
to wonder why the corporation hnB never
sought to get rich quickly b revising the
rules that govern party lines nnd charging
the stop-for-nothlng talkers by the hour"
When Mr. Blair, testifying before the
Senate campaign fund Investigating com
mittee, defined "bull" as "expanded truth"
he might have added thnt as such it wos
only convincing to contracted intelligences.
The uncertainty about running the
Gloucester ferry soraehowfcggests the days
when it, was theoretically Mf operation.
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THE GOWNSMAN
"Thoia Wjld Young People"
IN THE current number of the Atlantic
' MontnV Were ls a clever article on
"Those Wild Young People by One of
Them." It Is in nature a reply to several
"indignant treatises" "depicting our extravagance-,
the corruption of our manners,
the futllltyVoLour existence, pointed out in
stiff, scared, shocked sentences before a
sympathetic and horrified audience of
fathers., .mothers, nnd maiden aunts but
particularly maiden aunts"! thus writes
"one of them." Evidently he Is feeling his
oats, and although the Gownsman cannot
speak with that fine air of proprietorship of
"my generation" as does this alert, opcu
eyed and sophisticated young man, the
(townsman's sympathies go out to him and
to his generation in their frankness, In their
folly, in their Philistinism even. From the
beginning there hns been friction between
the old birds and the fledglings after their
first flight. We who are of middle life hug
ourselves In our wisdom and think that all
things come' bjr experience. The young, with
Impulse and instinct strong within them,
see by a sort of intuition how little we hHve
really learned; and U Irks theuitto be lec
tured by those who Invoke only memories
and live in the pride of efforts long past.
OUR young friend, "ono of them," is
highly Indignant, as well he may be, nt
the mess which we huve made of things In
the broken, mutilated world whicli we arc
handing down to him nnd his generation.
And he reprobates nllke the Idealism that
could not deliver the goods and the meddling
dog-lu-the-mnngcrism which prefers na
tional obloquy to not being able to do the
thing Itself. "One of them" has seen the
nakedness of mankind when war brings out
the boast In him, nnd he is disillusioned at a
time In life when you nnd I were dreaming
altruistic dreams. He at lenst is not to be
fooled, but proposes to take the material
joys that come to him; more, to go out after
themKand live his life. He wonts the real
thing. Disillusioned nennle nlwavs dot ns
if there were any real things. And he wants
It now. The disillusioned are always Impa
tient and they (.nil perilously on uneven
keel. He resents our forethought in ar
raugiug to guard his morals by way of pro
hibition and otherwise in his absence, and
reminds us that it "has never been con
tradicted" that n one of 'ihe Hague con
fcronccs before lite v ar, America stood out
in favor of Ihe ue if poison gas In war
fare. Cannot some ono authoritatively con
tradict this? Or must we bow our heads,
already bowed enough, to this further his
toric disgrace?
TT IS a bad enough case that "one of
them" makes out against us and we have
not bettered It since the war. But are we
that is we of the older generationwholly
to blame? Did we not have in our turn
foolish old parents who insisted on admo
nition when what we needed was some
understanding of our youth for we, too,
were sometime young? Did we not inherit
early Victorianlsm, which, the Gownsman
takes It, means something very prim and
snug and awful? Were not we, too,
preached to and scolded for our untra
dltlonal manners? For the licenses of the
cotillon dad the german, for our addiction
to cards and .tobacco, for potations when
potations were not legally a crime, and for
our dreadful slang which, resuscitated now,
sounds much more antlqunted than Chaucer?
No, no, my boy; you arc not the first to
experience life, howsoever your dose of it
has been much more concentrated than was
ours. We, too, have lived, if all that Is
alone life. The only thing which our youth
escaped, the fates be praised, was ja
music.
LET us face the facts; this is a wicked
old world and a foolish; nnd its wicked
ness and folly are not ofnfined to any one
time of life or to any one generation. His
tory Is the tale of one continuous sprinting
event between the wrongdoer and the-long
arm of the law and, for a large part, the
hand that tips that arm grasps feebly and
most of us escape. What we do not escape
is the irrevocability of the effects of our
acts upon ua. We may tear down onr
churches and tear up our creeds; we cannot
escape our religious and moral obligations.
We mny throw down the barriers of our
conduct, throw reticence, civility and a part
of our decency to the winds; It Is only we
who suffer in the upshot In a slide back
ward on that arduous ascending plane up
which man has struggled through the ages
from savaging and the beast. By all means
let us have no illusions. War has bar
bariied everv age in which It has been tol
erated; and there Is nothing of which man
kind and especially senators are so tol
erant ns of war. Only an occasional philoso
pher seriously tries to end It; and we call
him a dreamer and see to It that no parcel
of his dreams shall come true. The Gowns
man Is no pneifist. In fact, .there nre times
when only the final syllable of that abused
word really Interests him. But It strikes him
to the heart thus to see a naked young soul,
stripped bare and Fent astray without the
many accepted ideals--be they wholly true
or something false which have sustained
the young in former generations. "One of
them" is right, after all, and it Is we who
are responsible for his lawlessness, his
disillusion, the broken Idols which He scat
tered about him.
INDEED, each generation is responsible to
the next and It could scarcely be other
wise. We who were grown in ante-bellum
days will soon go our way, leaving to these
"wild young people" their Inheritance,
buildings and ruins alike. The one hopeful
thought which our young Iconoclast leaves
with us is his recognition, his zeal for work.
Carlyle long ago declared that work was
worship. The Gownlman would humbly
suggest In such an august presence that
work is more work is salvation ; be It said
without odium tbeologlcura our only salva
tion. Wherefore let the young folk jazz
If that recreates them for the work of the
day. Let them be b little wild if they like;
it becomes the spirit of youth. And who,
after all, are we thut we should correct
them? They are only slipping a little back
ward on the arduous plane alluded to above,
and It is their destinv, as It was ours, to
recover themselves and continue the ascent.
Who knows but that the quickening of their
young blood, now at times betrayed in folly,
may not lead tbem upward and further
onward than it was ever our fate to go?
Russian peasants, by Ignoring bnl
slievism, are keening It alive; but, by nnd
by, they will kill it. If Italy catches the
Russian madness it will probably demon
strate the futility of bolshcvlsm before the
Rutslun peasantry gets round to it; for
Italy cannot live without the products of
the outside world, and the first involuntar
move of the scourge is to paralyze mm
merce. Young men in the Chicago stockyards
according to reports given out at u curreut
wage hearing, wear silk shirts that some
times set each owner back not less than
$18. In Washington the beauty parlors
once patronized exclusively b women now
give up half of their space and attention to
men. The dreadful consequences of the war
seem endless.
Insurance underwriters report thut 11 .
000,000 people nre hurt Irf accidents in this
country each year, while 105.000 are killed.
Speed has its uses. But It costs pretty
heavily.
"When is a woman M'l" usks the
Board of Education. The answer Is easy
A. woman is never old until she loses inter
est in the movies.
Tho only failure which art political
party is ever eager to acknowledge is the
failure to collect funds.
There Is uothlug qulto so chilling to
self-respecting Intelligence os the heat of a
polltjcul campaign
The earthquake zone Is. grimly clawl,
fiable as the intemperate
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS!
Daily Tallts With Thinking Philadelphia on Subjects They
Knoxo Best
DR. CHARLES K. MILLS
On "Sleeping Sickness"
rpiIE SO-CALLED "sleeping Blckncss"
disease which has been prominently In
the news during the last few months has
some connection with Spanish influenza and
grip, and can generally be found to follow
closely after epidemics of the latter, ac
cording to Dr. Charles K. Mills, prominent
Philadelphia neurologist, who has himself
handled a number of cases of tho strange
disease.
Doctor Mills emphasized two points par
tlcvlarly in commenting on "sleeping sick
ness" or' "endemic encephalitis" as it if
called In the scientific world. One Is the fact
that the disease Is not by any means a new
one, and the second Is thnt It is not to be
confused with the real "sleeping sickness,"
which is common only to Africa.
"One of the seriouB diseases attracting
nttentlnn here nnd abroad," declared Doctor
Mills. "Is thnt whicli has for one of Its
i most prominent manifestations a lethargy
, or somnolence, although, nccordlng to its
variety, It has various other smptoms.
"Every neurologist sees a few of- these
cases every now nnd then, and bus son
them for years. In my own time, I hnve
seen the most case since the Influenza epi
demic of 1889 and 1800. ,By the wa , with
regard to new diseases and the newness of
this disease, the old phrase might be em
ploed, 'there Is nothing new under
the sun,' and sleeping sickness comes in
the records as early as the sixteenth cen.
tury.
"Some ono in the ICOOs spoke ubout it
being not u new disease 'morbus non
novus' and It is not unlikely that it oc
curred back In the twelfth dynasty of Egpt.
"It seems to recur with, nnd directly fol
low, every Influenza or grip epidemic; but,
we muBt confess, that It occasionally occurs
without Buch-nn nttack.
Not African Disease
"It Is best to speak of It by Its pathologi
cal name as 'endemic encephalitis,' with
such a qunllfylng statement us 'with ieth.
argy.' It is not desirable to call It 'sleeping
sickness,' despite the fact that It is uc
companled by the accustomed bomuolenee
because, when doctors and pathological
biologists refer to 'sleeping sickness" they
refer to the well -known disease of Africa,
nearly always fatal, occurrlrg over large
areas and discovered to be due to the poison
ous tsetse fly. ,
"Just as some kinds of mosquitoes carry
the malaria germ and sprend disease by
biting men and nnlmals, so this tsetse Jlv
carries the germ of the 'sleeping sickness,'
and the disease of that name in Africa Is
now known to be due to one particular form
oi germ, the 'trypannzoma,' carried by this
fly, whereas the disease occurring hero uiri
la England in known not to be produced by
this particular form of germ. Just whit
does cause It has not et bien exnetl de
tetmlned. "The lcthnrgy in thlj disease is of a
peculiar typo in most cases, as the patient
Is not continuously t-omnolent or lethargic,
but can be urocscsl temporarily, or cun even
arouse himself teuiiornrlly, onl to sink buck
aguln.
"Those Interested tu tracing the disease
know that It may assume various forms.
sometimes misleading. The clinical form of
the disease is dependent at bottom on the
part of the nervous system which Is at
tacked by the Inflammation coming from the
original poison. A greut limn) cases ure
letnarglc because the midbrain is uttacked
with the inflammatory disease which arrests
Impressions am! stimuli from the outside
world.
"The midbrain, It muy be eiplalned, U
situated between the splnul cord and tho
higher regions of the brain and is tho placj
where the various nerve-tracts and centers
for cranial nerves nre located.
Mums Many Forms
"There ure other symptoms than )lmrgv,
however, all according to the part of tho
brain attacked. The disease muy attuek nnv
part of the hniiii or spinal cord; afflicting
it locally or spreadiug over large ureas. It
muy come as a palsy of the nerves of the hcud
und face, all dependent on Just what parts
of the brain are Inflamed.
"It muy come In u form very much Hko
Infantile puralis, or, on the other bund
It may come, un,d I have seen auch cases
lijksnch a form that the putleut exhibits
ciiUleiisorand even insane, uiutifeitatlona.
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RATHER.HARD ,T0 TROTEC1VEH?
Another form, and one quite fairly com
mon, will cause the patient to show peculiar
twitchlngs or convulsive movements. There
are still others in which the symptoms df
various other diseases are simulated, such
as the well-known 'ahakicg palsy.' Some,
times, when it affects the more or less
psychic parts of the brain, the disease may
cause peculiar hallucinations.
"From my own observations, I would say
that this disease, which we loosely call
'sleeping sickness,' is fatal in from 5 per
cent to 20 per cent of the cases, whereas the
African 'sleeping sickness' is nearly 'nlways
fatal. In this country, the cases mny be
very slight, or they may be of the very
slow, lingering nature.
No Cause for Alarm
"The connection between 'sleeping sick
ness' nnd Influenza is almost certain, al
though there is probably no positive proof. It
may be that the Influenza poison so reduces
the resistance of the Individual thnt the
cncephal can get to vv6rk.
"At any rate, there hns been r.o over
whelming increase of late, but people have
just begun to notice the disease which has
caused its recent publicity. There Is, by the
way, n kindred disease called 'nona,' which
hns lethargic sjmptoms very similar to this.
The disease which we know In this city Is
pretty well senttcred over the earth's sur
face, and, let me say right here, It has
shown no alarmirg increase.
"It can be treated, the main theory being
to keep the patient mentally and physically
quiet and to use drugs to reduce the inflam
mation. The public should be told about
the disease, but there is not the slightest
reason In the world for becoming unduly
alarmed over It."
A charity guest nt one of New York's
municipal lodging houses has just died, leav
ing an estate of $125,000. Here was evi
dently a man who did not let his right hand
know what his left hand stowed away.
iTW Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What two states of the United States
have "panhandles"?
2. Who was the most conspicuous and gifted
early advocate of the policy of protec
tion In the United Stntea? '
1 3 What was the flrst name of Huxley, the
great English biologist and philoso
pher? 4. In what terrible flood of modern times
were a million peoplo drowned?
5. How does tweed get Its name?
0. What Is a "vude mecum"?
7. What were werewolves In medieval
mythology?
8. Who wan Palestrina-
f. What Is the welkin?
lu. When did Hiram Johnson lun for the
vice presidency?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. According to recnt researches the word
Dixie Is n corruption of the Trench
"dlx," ten Before the Civil War Urn
Citizens' Hunk nt Louisiana Issued 110
hills which were engraved with th
word "dlx" on their hacks. Louisiana
came to he known us tho "I.und of the
Dixies," und Ihe term was later hro id
ened to uppl to nil of thf southland.
2. Arpeggio Is an Italian word elvrnlfvln.-
"In harp style." The word dcHcrihirf
n chord In which the notes ure stnick
successively, not sounded together.
3. It should be pronounced as though' it
were spelled "ar-pedg-ee-o," with tho
acci-nt on the second iu,rP
4 Of LudwlB Holherg, the celehrated nnd
prolific Scandinavian ioct. novells
historian and playwright. It his been
said that he "found Denmark Tit lout
books and he wrote a llbrar for her "
"llnsmus Montanua" Is among the best
17M. He wns born In Ilergen, .VoAvSJ
6. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated In
lTml ' WnWnn. n A,il
0 Caraway seeds uro so culled from th
undent province of Carlu. Asia Mlhor
whem.0 they were first Imported
7 T"mt"Tr ltVy 3i-
" "TuVus fi'T&'r0" Mta """ha
9' W1preyidJencUyr.J"n '"" U'r? -",nca for4he
10. The story of Joseph und his cat of many
SHORT CUTS
Phniooh'a daughter has nothing on New
Hampshire.
Come to think of Jt, the greatest pessimist
in the world is the cynical optimist.
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Perhaps the candidates are holding
their very best' arguments until the last
minute. '
. .
There arc ns many thrills in the present
presidential campaign as in a game. of.
checkers.
Tombstone literature is the work of
pessimist who believe that all the- good
men are dead. i
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It would appear that the sanctity of
a public utility contract depends entirely on
whose ox Is gored.
La Follette has lost Wisconsin. Fall'
congratulations for the state are withheld
until Wisconsin has lost La Follette.
Judging by the number of Investigating
committees in existence, the sovereign cltl
zen considers himself monnrcn of all hev
surveys. ,
That Italy should be the- victim of,"
earthquakes and bolshcvlsm seems to clinch
the old-time assertion thnt misfortunes'
never come singly.
While there is no wild scramble U.
adopt the baby bond, there is no reason to
suppose that the little protege of the school
will be homeless. "
The United States special livestock coui'
mlssloner to Argentina is h commercial dip-
loraat with powers that mnj eventually rea.H"
the American dinner table.
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One of the most wholesome things that
can happen to n man is for him to discover
when he returns from his vacation that no
body knew he had been away.
"It pays to wait for the right man, '
says a Baltimore spinster of seventj win?
has just married. fTIs a course, at least,
characterized by more patience than,
progeny.
Banking commissions for floating rail
road bonds have riseu from half of 1 per
cent to 3 per cent. Beer, it will be re
merubered, traveled exact! the same road
but In the opposite direction.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce in Washington has on dlspluy
Austrian paper suits retailing at fifteen cents
a suit. American mouey. A shave and a,
suit of thnt kind would make u man feel
like thirty cents.
The League of Women Vpters liai
recommended to the count commissioner
thut better places thun cigar stores unci
barber shops be used ns voting places. Why.
not substitute mlllinerv stores ami lee
cream parlors? a frivolous suggestion, by
Ihe way, which In no wny Ignores the eviW
the ladies wish to correct. J
Brooklyn street-car men say they ure
striking for tin right to arbitrate guaran
teed them by the company in Augunt, lfilO.
t ompctcut legal authority now declares that
this right wns nullified by a superseding
contract entered Into In December, 101"
The imsslblllty that u strike which ha
alreud caused loss of life and damage tr
liropert Is wliollj due to a misunderstand-,
ing Is another excellent reason for the es
tubllshment of an Industrial court wide Ir
this paper perslstentl advocated long 6V
fore the Idea met with general favor.
There hns lieen unrnn nunsltnn hfltf.
women voters shall give occupational des l
scrlptlou of themselves when they ure ea-' I
Kiigcci in iio giiiiuui worn ami cannoi vr.
correct!) classed ns housekeepers. This la
Inhibition applies particularly to tbe
wealthy womuii who emplo)s a housekeepi'n
to manage her servants. It Is true that she,
might use the abbreviation "gent." afliiH
to the mimes of some male voters; sincor
"gent." 'might well stand for gentlewoman
us well us gcntlemuu; hut there are dlplo
mutlc objections of n social nnture fo the,
use of the word In this connection the same.
objections, though somewhat modified, tliftt
mnke "lady" unclerirnhle on assessment n'
reL-lstrutlnn lists. Wn. l)irfre. Micnest
"flomo-keopcr" as a term (hat .might mi', J
Wie need of the .hour. "Homekeepcr J
term that mlfcbt fitlj be applied to mo? 1
unmrit, ,illlil tt fs qne vlicll nil vii'
ehould Uproud to have applied tuhcii.
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