POLYCLINIC TO
ENLARGE ITS
HOSPITAL WORK
Extensions to Be Added to'
Building in the Early .
Spring , 1
Plans for an addition to the Poly- i
ellnlo Hospital, and Harris I
streets, are being made by the board
of directors of the institution. Work
is to be begun in the early spring |
on this addition, which will include
several private rooms, a new oper
ating room, an anaethetizing room,
a sterilizing room, a diet kitchen, an
X-ray room and a number of changes |
In the present building.
The hospital was chartered March
1, 1909. and for five and a half years
maintained i. dispensary and beds in
rented quarters. In September, 1914,
the board of directors purchased the 11
plot of ground occupied by the old j
Porter mansion, and after extensive
changes, the ho pital was opened,
October 4 of the same year, \yith
twenty-six beds for the reception of
patients. Approximately $5,000 has
been expended in equipment for the
institution. Three private rooms and
a semiprivate room with two beds,
are in the present hospital. The man
agement has been compelled to re
fuse many requests for rooms, be
cause the supply is inadequate. A stuff
of thirteen physicians, two graduate
nurses and nine pupil nurses is main
tained. A training school for nurses
is also conducted, and a house phy
sician is constantly present. An ex
cellent X-ray and pathological lab
ia tor y is maintained.
During the typhoid fever epi
demic last year, thirty-eight pa
tients were cared for at one time. ,
this being eight more than the full J
capacity. Forty maternity cases were |
treated in the year ending June 1,11
1917.
Nurses - Homo
A nurses' home and a children's de- ,
partment is in project and will prob
ably be built within the next year or
two.
The go%"erning board consists of
fifteen directors, with the following
officers recently elected: |
.Viller I. Kast, president; George
Tt. Bentley, vice-president; D. W. j
Sohm, treasurer; Dr. 11. A. Stine, sec-1
retary and Katheri. E. I.andis, su
perintendent.
The board of directors of the in-||
stitution express their appreciation j ,
for the many contributions, both of j
money and supplies, given them in I
the past years. Funds in addition to |
those already subscribed, are being!
solicited for the building of the new ' I
additions to the building.
Austrians in U. S. to
Be Practically Free, Is
Wilson's War Ruling
Washington. Dec. 13. Austro-j
Hungarian subjects in the United
States, most of the million or more i
of whom are laborers and are loyal I
to the allied war cause, will suffer
few restrictions as a result of war |
between the lands of their birth and ;
adoption.' ! i
. In a proclamation yesterday de-1
daring a state of war with Austria- j
Hungary in accordance with the act j
of Congress, President Wilson sped-j
1 fled that unnaturalized Austro-Hun- j
garians, unlike the Germans in this
country, should be free to live and j
travel anywhere, except that they |
may not enter or leave the United j
States without permission, and those I
suspected of enemy activity may be j
interned. They need not register j
with police or post office officials, us
Germans will be required to do J,
shortly, and are not barred from the '
100-vard zone about piers, docks and |
warehouses, closed to Germans, andt
are not required to leave the District \
of Columbia.
The President's motive in drawing
distinction between Germans anil
Austrians was described as two-fold.
First, it was rtalized that the fym- i
pathy of Hungarians, Jugo-Slavs, j
Poles, Serbs, Czechs, Slovacs s.nd;
other immigrants from the Anstro-
Hungarian empire, generally is not
with the mother country in the war, j
and they have not been guilty of the
multiform campaign of violence j
practiced under the German war rys- '
tern. Secondly, such a large propor- j |
tion of laborers in munition and steel ,
plants and coal mines consist of Aus
trian subjects that it was found vir-j
tually impossible to administer 1
against them the rigid regulations'
imposed on the Germans, who are 1
half as numerous and more individu- j
alistic.
The department of justice even
abandoned its former plans to regis- j
ter Austrians along with Germans, j
because of the immensity of the task 1
and the administration's determina
tion to maintain embarrassment to
Austrians, thousands of whom have 1
demonstrated their loyalty to this
country by enlisting 5n the Army and
Navy.
New Instructor to Teach
Languages at Tech High
Members of the senior and junior i,
classes of the Technical high school
will again take an active part in the j
Ued Hross campaign that will be 1
brought to the people among other
places in the theaters of the city to
night and to-morrow night. The j
Tech students were successful in I
their liberty Loan addresses, and j
with their former experience they
l ope to do even beter. Those who |
have volunteered 'their service to i
make short addresses include: John
Bowman, Fred Essig. Fred Henry, ;
Fred Murray, Fred Huston, Harry
Miller. Reese Lloyd, Lloyd Cole, Lynn i
< 'ook, William Watson, Abram Gross, I
George I. Fisher, John L. Bitner and I
Bay Crane, of the senior class. Among ]
the juniors are Stewart Taylor, Ber
tram Saltzer, Laird Landis and
Julius Kamsky.
H. A. Liebig, of Hartford, Conn.,
arrived at Tech to teach French
and German. He is a graduate of'
Michigan and Brown universities, and j
has a wide experience.
A special chapel exercise was held
to-day to practice the Christmas
< arols that the students will sing at
the entertainment to be given to thei
pupils of the outdoor schools, De
cember 21. Professor A. M. Lindsay
is directing the music that will be a
big feature of the program.
WE REPAIR
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B Lamps, Fenders,
Hoods, Bodies and ■
Windshields
BNuss Mfg. Co. I
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Extend Price-Fixing
Power, Federal Trade
Board Advises Congress
Washington, Dec. 12.—Extension
of the government's price fixing pow
er to other products than food and
fuel and especially to iron and steel,
is believed necessary by the Federal
Trade Commission in the light of ex
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® Pre-Christmas Sale of Women's and Misses' Coats, Suits and Dresses |
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and saturday
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v -\rnas Sale Price mackinaws and overcoats, value to sizes; worth 2 5c. Pre-Xmas Sale Price A 'C |1
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M I place for Rag Rugs, :)<% 89C, 98 to $1.2.1. WGlass Candle Sticks, 190 each. , 24 m. |
1 ff . Electric Lamps; special, $2.98, Cut Glass Water Sets, *TH>VFRY piet'e wUh S '
U ft " " Towel iScts; special and #1.69. CASSEROLES Shakespeare's Works, complete, $1.98. Al| att r a ctive cord ' C
(O H /. _ Matting-covered Shirtwaist Boxes, $1.85), #2.9. to a Nickel plated Serving Trays, 890 to $1.95. Assortment A O •! I 1
M f QQ n $4.95. " >[- r ° und ttnd oval Pie Cassereles, 89c, 980 and $1.49. 39c to V/ MX -1
8 tSfaWfc t/OL Hand Painted Chocolate Sets, $2.49. „ „ flnH Coffee Percolators; special, $1.29. QC tPL>t/Q VL
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perience g- ined in investigating
economic conditions since the United
States entertd the war. Recommen- i
dation that a temporary admlnistra-
I tive body be established to determine
reasonable prices for prime neces- i
i cities and elso to regulate the distri- '
bution of raw materials and finished
' products .was made in the commis
' sion's annual report, submitted to- >
, day to Congress.
I Other recommendations suggest
• that the commission's powers of ob
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taining information be broadened to
authorize requirement of reports
from individuals engaged in com
merce, as w.'.l incorporations; that
information gathered by temporary
semi-official organizations such as the
Council of National Oefense, incltid
ing all correspondence, be ordered
preserved; that trade association tiles
should be made public records; that
Investigation of foreign trade condi
tions be made to permit proper
measures with regard to American
industrial organization now and
when peace is concluded; that the
Webb bill to eliminate, associations
for export trade from the operation
of the Sherman law be passed, and
that the salary limitation of $5,000 a
year be removed from the commis
sion's expert employes.
Declaration of war has not lessen
ed either the number or importance
of the complaints made to the com
mission of unfair competition, but on
the contrary, the . number of com
plaints has increased. During the
fiscal year ending June 30, a total of
102 complaints were disposed of
without formal proceedings, leaving
191 complaints still under investiga
tion. Applications for remedial pro
cedure by the commission showed a
decrease from the tlscal year ending
June 30, 1916. In nine cases during
the last year, the commission Issued
formal complaints, and in four the
matter was disposed of by the is
suance of order to cease and desist.
DECEMBER 13, 1917.
Negro Woman Dies
At Age of 108 Years
Philadelphia—There died yester
day in the Lincoln Hospital and
Home for Colored People, at Con
cord avenue and 141 street, a r.egro
woman who said she was 108 years
old. She was known ns Ann Cliris
toff and had been in the institution
since 1913.
The woman was an inveterate
smoker, preferably a corncob pipei
She had her own little receipts td
how to attain a "ripe green ago.
First, she was to remain out in tli<
open as much as possible. Second,
to be cheerful. Third, was to re
main single. •
Before she was taken to the hom|
from No. 15 Cornelia street she earn*
ed her living by sewing.
The woman had one ambition.
She wanted to live until the ond oj
the war and prayed that the Lord
spare her.
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