2 NEW LIGHT CAST
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Gases In Last Stages Should
Have More Care.
DISCHARGED, LATER CURED.
Many In First Stage Dismissed as.
Symptom Free Have Relapses—Pres
ent Tendency to Favor Patients With
Early Symptoms of Disease May Not
Be Always Wise.
The Lancet of London prints an in
teresting editorial review of the ulti
mate results of sanitarium treatmenl
of tuberculosis based on a paper read
by Professor Bang at a meeting of the
Medical society of Copenhagen. The
paper, freely illustrated with statis
tics, and the long discussion which fol
lowed its presentation have been re
ported in the Hospitalstidende. The
paper dealt chiefly with the results of
sanitarium treatment estimated man;,
years after the discharge of the pa
tlents from the institutions.
"The many tables and statistical
analyses displayed by Professor Bang,"
says the Lancet, "provoked a lively
discussion as the merits of statistic*
in the estimation of sanitarium results,
and he admitted that a detailed knowl
edge of each case is necessary for tli
Judgment of sanitarium results by tin
standard of figures. One striking fea
ture of his paper was the good prog
nosis which his figures indicated foi
working class patients admitted to
sanitarium in the second and thin
stages of the disease.
"It has long been held that the prog
nosis in pulmonary tuberculosis is best
In the first stage of the disease and
declines as the second and third stage*
are reached. Indeed, this view is so
generally regarded as a truism that its
accuracy has scarcely been questioned
That it does not embrace the whole
truth is shown by Professor Bang
whose figui s are obtained from sev
eral sanitariums in Denmark, when
perhaps more than in any other coun
try sanitarium treatment has beei
thoroughly tested.
Relapses Are Frequent.
"The relative numbers of patients
discharged 'symptom free' from sani
tariums do, 'udeed, fall with the stage
of the disease, but when the fate oi
all the patients is investigated several
years later many of the 'symptom fret
are found to have relapsed, while pa
tients discharged unimproved in th
second and third stages of the diseas<
are often found to have regained theii
capacity for work.
"Professor Bang showed that onl..
two-thirds of the patients in the first
stage, discharged as 'symptom free,
were fit for work several years later
On the other hand, the number of pa
tients in the second stage, discharged
as 'symptom free,' had actually beer
augmented several years later, their
ranks being increased by one-third by
patients who, though discharged as un
fit for work in the second stage of the
disease, had ultimately regained theb
capacity for work.
"This paradoxical result is ever
more striking in the third stage of thi
disease. The explanation of this phe
nomenon is to be found in tlie faulti
ness of the present classification of the
disease according to its extent, but noi
according to its virulence, to the pa
tient's power of resistance and to
many other factors. In many cases pa
tients are classed in the second or thiru
stage, although on admission to a sail
ltarium the disease is practically quies
cent. Professor Bang suggests tho*
the present tendency to favor patient s
In the first stage of the disease in pref
erence to patients in the other stages
when sanitarium accommodation is
limited may not be always wise.
"Though the patients in the latter
stages have hitherto been regarded a*
incurable and treated with scant atten
tioii, he urges that they should in tli
future be regarded more hopefully and
given the chance of sanitarium treat
ment, even though this be only for u
short time. His observation that pa
tients often relapse who are discharged
from a sanitarium with the disease ar
rested in its first stage, whereas oth
ers often recover who are discharge!
unimproved in tlie second stage, is not
at first sight flattering to sanitarium
treatment.
"His estimate of the value of the
present methods of classification of the
disease is also deprecatory, and, as
one speaker during the discussion can
nily suggested, the most reliable class!
flcation would be the following: (1)
Patients that recover and (2) those that
do not"
FLYING, DROPS HOODOO RING.
New York Girl, In Aeroplane, Throws
Away Unlucky Turquoise.
Miss Josephine Lewis Peel of New
York, who is In Palm Beach, Fia.,
with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Pope of New York, went up in
an aeroplane against the wishes of her
relatives.
At the height of a thousand feet she
got a bad scare when the machine
tilted. She pulled a turquoise ring
from her finger and threw it away,
having heard it wan bad luck to weai
the atone.
TAYLOR PIONEER
EFFICIENCY MAN
Was First to Make System an
Applied Science.
MADE iT WORK OF LIFETIME
Put Into Execution His Ideas Regard
ing Organization In Shop, Factory,
Counting Room and Sales Depart
ment —Held More Than One Hundred
Patents For Various Inventions.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, who died
in Philadelphia recently, was the first
man to make efficiency an applied sci
ence. His life work, as his friend and
colleague. Morris L. Cooke, director of
public works of Philadelphia, puts it,
was "studying peoples' desires for
high wages, short hours and an indus
trial democracy ou an economic basis.
He did this by increasing tbeir effi
ciency."
Mr. Taylor was the son of Franklin
and Emily Winslow Taylor. He pre
pared for Harvard at Phillips Exeter
academy in 1874. but was forced to
leave college through impaired eye
sight. However, he entered Stevens
Institute of Technology in Hoboken
later aud was graduated with the de
gree of mechanical engineer. One year
after his graduation he and Miss Lou
ise Spooner of Philadelphia were mar
ried. Upon leaving Harvard he had
entered the employ of the Midvale
Steel company, and in connection
with his technical study had continu
ed his work with that corporation.
Taylor started at the bottom. Suc
cessively he was gang boss, assistant
foreman, foreman of the machine
shops, master mechanic, chief drafts
man and finally chief engineer. In
1889 he began the study of efficiency
engineering. Fie liked to puzzle over
problems to make greater production
from a given amount and how to in
crease the wages of the workman by
showing him a better and more effi
cient manner in which to labor. So
wrapped in this subject did he become
that Mr. Taylor made it his life work.
His Work In Great Industries.
In 1889 he decided to leave the era
ploy of the Midvale company and put
into execution his own ideas regarding
scientific management. This meant
organization in shop, factory, counting
room and sales departments. His suc
cess as the pioneer in his chosen field
was instantaneous. He was given the
problem of organizing great corpora
tions along his own individualistic
lines. These included the Bethlehem
Steel company. Cramps' and the Mid
vale Steel company.
He turned his trained mind toward
efficiency in cutting metals. Hitherto
there was a great deviation in the
work of the tools. To rectify this Mr.
Taylor began experiments that finalLv
resulted in the Taylor-White process
for treating modern high speed tools.
So successful was he in this field that
he produced tools whose cutting effi
ciency varies less than 1 per cent.
With Maunsel White he also invented
a process of treating steel that requir
ed wonderful scientific investigation.
In addition. Mr. Taylor received more
than a hundred patents for various in
ventions connected with high speed
tools and was awarded tlie gold medal
at the Paris exposition in 1900 and thj
Elliott Cresson medal of the Franklin
institute.<•
Honors thick and fast were also con
ferred on the distinguished engineer
He was given the degree of doctor of
science by the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1906 and doctor of laws by
Hobart college in 1912. ne was also
elected president of the American As
sociation of Mechanical Engineers,
serving from 1905 to 1906.
REDFIELD HITS "STUCK UP."
Rebukes Man Who Objects to Work
Beneath His Position.
Secretary Redfield of the department
of commerce has rebuked an employee
of his department who is said to have
complained recently that he was re
quired to do work beneath his position.
"1 do not know what the kind of
work can be which is beneath any
man's position," the secretary wrote
the employee in passing on his case.
"I think there is no work of which I
know or have heard that is beneath
mv dignity to do, and I am glad to say
that I have done the plainest and hard
est and, what is sometimes mistakenly
called the most menial work and am
ready to do it again if there is occasion
for it"
BIG GUN CRUMPLES CAR.
Fourteen Inch Giant Causes Smash on
Way to Sandy Hook.
So heavy is a great fourteen Inch gun
Just completed to guard New York city
from hostile attack that it broke down
one of the two flat cars conveying it
along the West Shore railroad, near
Cornwall, N. Y.. on its way to Sandy
-Hook to be mounted.
It is said to be the most powerful
fourteen Inch gun ever made. It was
on its way from Watervliet arsenal
when the Journal of one of the cars,
overtaxed by its excessive weight,
wore out and had to be replaced. The
gun extended almost the length of the
two cars, the breech resting on the rear
one.
PENNSYLVANIA PARAGRAPHS
Judge Umbel Willing to Quit.
News reached Harrisburg, Pa., that
H. S. Dumbauld, an attorney of Union
town, had decided he would not press
the impeachment charges aga.ust
Robert E. Umbel, Democrat, president
judge of the common pleas courts of
Fayette county.
The reason given is that Dumbauld
and Umbel are a-leged to have en
tered into an agreement that if Dum
bauld wouid drop the charges the
judge would resign In time to allo.v
his successor to be elected in 1917,
although his term would not expire
until 1920.
It is the belief that Umbel will
be forced to resign from the bench at
once or face impeachment proceedings
based on the agreement Dumbauld
claims to possess. The legislators
were astounded when they heard the
news. They naturally take the posi
tion that if Umbel agreed to resign,
he, by his action, admits the truth of
the charges.
Money by Trucklcad For Sunday.
A motor truck drew up to Billy
Sunday's tabernacle in Philadelphia
last Sunday night and three bumy po
licemen, three armed guards and two
assistants piled sack after sack o.
jingling coins and crisp b.ils and
checks into it for transportation to
the vaults of the Land Tit] '- and Trust
company. Billy Sunday ,ad drawn
his pay.
Three times while Sunday was
preaching there was the same scene.
Thousands of dollars in checks, gov
ernment notes, gold and silver was
being carried through the city's
streets. Envelopes held checks for all
sorts of amounts. Nobody but tlie
writers of such checks and the of
ficials of the Land Title and Trust
company know the amounts.
Eelons Vote to Adjourn on May 6.
The Pennsylvania house of repre
sentatives adopted a resolution fixing
May 6 as the date of final adjourn
ment. If this was intended as a club
to force the hand of the governor on
local option he did not show that he
had felt the blow. When told of the
action of the house he remarked:
"If the legislature can get through
with its work before May 6 I would
be glad to see them adjourn earlier.
It is merely a question of speed on
the part of the legislators."
Assistant Cashier Ends His Life.
Walter L. McJunkin, fifty-five years
old, assistant cashier of the Clearfleid
(Pa.) National bank, shot and killed
himself in his room at the Diamond
hotel. He shot himself through the
head and when he was found a re
volver was lying at his side. At the
bank it was reported that his accounts
were faultless. For some time lie liad
been despondent because of ill health.
Man Shoots Woman; Takes Own Life.
Samuel Keys, a young chauffeur,
shot Mrs. Irene Hosle, twenty-four
years old, in the cheek when he met
her on the street near her home in
Harrisburg, Pa., and then committed
suicide by blowing out his brains. No
cause is known for his action as Mrs.
Hosie cannot talk and friends did not
know they were acquainted. The wo
man will recover.
Pastor Is Acquitted.
Rev. H. A. McKelvey, forty-two
years old, pastor of the United Breth
ren church of Bellwood, near Altoona,
Pa., who was accused of miscon
duct with Bessie Smith, fourteen
year-old daughter of Ward Smith,
treasurer ot the church, was acquit
ted of the charge in the Blair county
court
Warden Sentenced to Read Bible.
For permitting a prisoner to leave
the jail before the prisoner completed
the reading of some chapters in the
Bible, "Jack" Sheeiian, warden of the
city prison in Johnstown, Pa., was
sentenced by Mayor Joseph Cauffiel
to read three chapters of one of the
books of Corinthians. Sheehan did.
Perry County, Pa., In Dry Column
Perry county, Pennsylvania, with a
population of 25,000 went dry by
judicial action. Judge William N.
Seibert refused to grant seventeen ap
plications for liquor licenses, sixteen
of which were renewals. This is the
tenth Pennsylvania county to be put
into the dry column.
Tank Woks Runs Night and Day.
The Pennsylvania Tank Car com
pany at Sharon, Pa., a subsidiary to
the Petroleum Iron Works company,
is working night and day to fill its
orders. Within the last forty-eight
hours the company has booked orders
for 100 tank cars.
Young Italian Is Electrocuted.
Rocco Tassone, aged twenty-four,
of Lancaster, Pa., was electrocuted in
the Center county penitentiary at
Rockview, near Bellefonte. He paid
the death penalty for the murder of
an Italian in Lancaster county.
Deprived of Drug Seeks Death.
Virgie McDermott, aged thirty-four,
of Lock Haven, near Williamsport,
Pa., unable to secure morphine under
the new Harrison act, attempted sui
cide by jumping from the river bridge.
She was rescued.
Lad Killed Playing Cowboy.
Eleven-ye.r-old John Potosky was
shot and kibed while playing cowboy
with five companions at West Hazle
ton, Pa. J<;hn Oblosky, aged twelve,
who is said to have done the shooting,
disappeared shortly afterward.
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WILSON EDITING "BLOCKADE" PROTEST.
Photo by American Press Association.
President Wilson reading over United States' note to England protesting
i against hitter's attempt to stop all shipping from reaching or leaving Germany.
Secretary Tumulty is standing.
JACK ASTOR, BABY.
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Copyright, 1915, by American Press Association.
John Jacob Astor. or Jack, was born after his mother, Mrs. Madeleine Force
Astor, was saved in tlie Titanic disaster, where his father lost his life. He is
now two and a half years old.
GENII IN WHOSE HANDS WHEAT SOARS.
Members of New York Produce Exchange In wheat pit, .where numerous
fortunes have been won since war started.
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I THE MOTH AND!
| THE STAR I
X The Story of an Automobile t
$ Accident That Was Not t
| Wholly Disastrous. |
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❖ By MARVIN DANA +
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J Copyright by FranK A. Munsey Co. *
"One never sees you alone." I com
plained. "Always." 1 persisted, "you
are in haste, occupied with a thousand
things, with everything except me. To
me you are unattainable as a star.
Though I am near you often, really you
are always remote. I can no more
reach you than can a moth the star to
ward which it flutters."
"Yes." she said musingly. "I am a
star. And. to tell you the truth. I like
it There is something about the cen
ter of the stage"—
But I interrupted rudely.
"You must understand that I require
an opportunity."
"An opportunity?"
"In all this time 1 have had no op
portunity. Your life is one wild whirl."
Elsa sat up straight and stared at
me with all the ravishing beauty of
the loveliest eyes in the world.
"No opportunity?" she repeated in
credulously. "Now. what can yra
menu? Here you are alone with me in
my drawing room while we are wait
ing for aunty to get her hat ou. Here
we are alone. I say. And you declare
you have no opportunity! Opportunity
, for what?"
"Why. to declare my love." I an
swered indignantly. "Aunty. Indeed!
That's it—we're always waiting for
her. She's pervasively present. I
know she has planned deliberately to
; make me propose in her presence."
"Wli it shall I do. then?" she ques
tioned meekly as I paused.
"Just waive it all aud be engaged,"
I suggested triumphantly. "Will you?"
"Yes. I think I will." Elsa said softly.
At that 1 had her in my arms and my
lips met hers. My heart leaped with a
Joy new. dominant, complete. Beneath
the mask of light words I had offered
her my very soul.
Aunty entered the room. I went to
her. gathered her up in my arms and
kissed her with might.
We had been engaged three months
when the inevitable serpent obtruded
himself into our Eden.
I was in the orchestra tlie first night
Elsa appeared in the role of Juliet. I
was carried away by the simplicity
and passion of her interpretation, its
girlish purity, its womanly abandon
ment to love's dominion. Then, quite
! without warning, a pang of anguish
pierced my heart.
The Romeo was an actor new to me,
: handsome, young, an ideal lover to the
sight, and as Elsa looked adoration
1 into his eyes the evil of Jealousy enter
ed my heart and remained.
That night after the play, at the gay
jupper party where 1 was with her, I
remained sad and distraught. I forced
i myself to utter congratulations on the
success she had achieved, but there
was little heartiness in my words. She
rallied me on my dull spirits, laughing
ly at first, then with kindly serious
ness. But I could not shake off the
gloom of my mood, which I explained
by alleging an indisposition. Neither
then nor after could I bring myself to
confess my trouble.
A new play was put on, but it
! brought me no relief. On the contrary,
my torture was increased. In the cli
max of the play the hero, he who had
! played Itomeo. saved the heroine. Elsa.
; from great peril. She in an ecstasy of
gratitude threw herself on bis breast
in complete abandonment of love. As
she lay yielding in his arms, her head
thrown back, her eyes burned into his
with such fires of love I groaned aloud,
j The sight maddened me. 1 left my
seat and the theater and did not see
Elsa again that night.
I could not decide on my course, but
in the morning I was calmer, and I set
: out with a fair amount of composure to
; fulfill an engagement with my fiancee.
I had promised Elsa to take her in
the auto out to Bronx park. I found
her ready when I reached her house,
and very soon we were rolling swiftly
up Fifth avenue.
It was a perfect morning. The air
was crisp with the chill of dawning
winter, but not too cold. It set tlie
blood coursing with new vigors and
drove out sorrow from the heart.
There, in the glory of the morning, in
the pleasure of our smooth movement,
with Elsa nestled close to my side, I
forgot despair and reveled for the mo
ment in the delight of it all.
"I love automobiling," Elsa said ir
relevantly. "It is the lightest, dain
tlesf movement, so—oh, subtle and. yes.
aerfal. I feel like a bird."
As we came to the open beauty of
the Plaza I turned from the avenue
: into the park, and we went rolling
along the gently undulating and wind
ing driveway, charmed by the land
scape on either hand.
As I ran the machine out of the park
into Seventh avenue a carriage was
passing, and I attempted to check our
! speed. To my dismay I found that
| there was no response to my effort. It
! was only by skillful guiding of the au
-1 tomobile that I escaped a collision.
Once free of that danger. I set myself
to regain control of the apparatus. But
my work was vain. Somehow the
mechanism had gone wrong. I could
only guide the automobile and pray for
a safe issoe. Unfortunately In the last
stretch of the park I had increased, the
speed, and we were rnnning fast.