r > POSTURE Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel 0. Dixon, M. D. LL. D., Commissioner of Health "As- the twig is bent, the tree is inclined." Few people, appreciate the vaiue of correct posture. Not alone does it have a decided effect apon oar bodily healtn but an equal if uot a greater bearing upon our mental attitude. W hen « mau is down and out we plead with hi in to "brace up." It is almost im possible to associate incompetency and •i.eßkness with a tirm upright carriage. Resolution seems to be the natural a companiment of an erect well poised physique. Not alone for its effect upon ourselves but for the impression which it makes upon our fellows we should endeavor to cultivate an upright be.ir 111 J!. If you slouch at your work you real lv incapacitate yourself. A proper po sition sitting us well as standing or walking is required to insure the maxi mum us** of body aud brain. A tie pressed hca i and shoulders means a contraction of the chest and a cor responding inability to expand the lungs to their full extent. Any lessen ing of our maxinuim lireatiiiug capacity is harmful. This position if persisted in may also interfere with the heart action. .1; is particularly important for growing children, especially tor those of school age to acquire a proper posture. Considerable attention has been giv cn to the seating of pupils but until every backless bench has been removed from our school rooms and every child is given a properly designed se.it which will permit the feet to Vest ou the floor »ud a desk of proper height, we will not have begun to do the necessary work in this direction. The acquirement of a graceful up right carriage by both boys and girls is an acquisition whose value both in the social and business world ian scarcely be over-estimated. The man or woman who lias fallen into careless habits in this respect will find their cf' forts to correct them well repaid. No violent gymnastics are necessary. A few -ample exercises and a little de termination can accomplish much to ward making proper posture, a perma nent good habit which will benefit us physically and mentally. THREE DEAD IN AUTO WKECKS Five Young Men Injured. Two Fatally, at Scranton Scranton. Pa, Oct. 19.—Returning from a ride to Klmhurst Saturday night, five young men were injured, two fatally, when their car collided with a horse and carriage and swerved into a rocky embankment. The dead are: Joseph Tierney, aged 24, and A. K. Wheeler, a chauffeur. Assistant Dis trict Attorney K. A. Phillbin, of Arch bald, and Matthew t'oar were lacerated. The outfit with which the car collid ed wlis driven by Mrs. A. Dunk-lev. of Moscow. She was throwp out, but not injured. Thomas Klaunery. aged 25. school controller of Dunmore, was killed at 1 o'clock yesterday morning when in that town. A friend's car skidded and threw him to the pavement, fracturing his sktill. MRS. GERRY IN POLITICS Philadelphia Girl Helps Congressman Spouse to Re-election Newport. Oct. 19.—Airs. Peter Goe let Gerry, who was formerly Miss Ma thilde Towusend. of Philadelphia, is acting as campaign manager t'or her i husband in his tight l'or re-election to Congress. While Mr. Gerry is calling at almost every house in his district, Mrs. Gerry .is inviting a great many people to her home, entertaining them in her own brilliant manner and enlist ing their support for his candidacy. Mrs. Gerry says: "If rich men's sons would go into, politics instead of devoting their lives entirely to sports aud tea parties, both they and the eountr\ would he better off.'' World's Interest Grows In the Panama-Pacific Exposition Netherlands and the Argentine Increase Appropriations to Participate—Japan Asks More Exhibit Space—"See America First" America's Slogan Sn 1915—Thousands Flan to Learn Their Own Country Better p panorama showing the main exhibit section of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with the eelosaal Tower of Jewels, 435 feet high, in the center. Thia photograph wia taken in the latter part of August, 1914. By HAMILTON WRIGHT. THE «ar will not cause the post- I ponement of the Panama-Pacific' International Exposition. As all the world knows, the Exposl- ' tion has not been postponed. From j the far corners of the globe there havej <"omtr to San Francisco assurances of Interest in America's great Panama canal celebration. From the bhadow of the clouds over Europe have come messages of friend- j ship to the American people. Within three weeks after the war was an- | nounced the Netherlands Increased the 1 amount of Its appropriation for partlcl- j pation from 1100.000 to $400,000 and re- ' quested that construction be rushed 1 upon the great Netherlands pavilion ' near the Palace of Fine Arts; France ' cabled that there had been no change In her plans; the first emissaries of English manufacturers who will take part in a collective display reached San Francisco the last week In August (some of the most costly and elaborate displays ever shown will be represent- ! BARKIS BURG STAR-INDEPENDENT. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1914. PENNSY EXPRESS WRECKED All Steel Cars Prevent Death When the Buffalo Flyer Is Derailed at Glen Union Williamsport, Oct. 19. —All-steel cars again proved their value as life savers when train No. 32, Buffalo-Phil adelphia flyer, eastbound on the Penn sylvania railroad, was wrecked at Gleu Union, 3S miles west of here at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, while run ning 45 miles an hour. The accident was caused by a broken axle under the fender. The entire train, three \ day coaches, three parlor cars, a diner and a baggage car. left the rails, the en gine and baggage car rolling down a six-foot embankment. More than 100 passengers were aboard. All were badly shaken up, but only six sustained in juries, and these of a minor nature, consisting mainly of sprains and bruises. The injured are Mrs. G. E. Van Rip er, Sunhury; Or. W. B. McOorkle, Pittsburgh; Mr-. Edward Hawkey, Port Allegheny; Dr. W. J. Pyles, Swissvale; Robert Warner. Swissvale, and S. ('. Scott. Pittsburgh. All were able to continue their journey. None of the crew was hurt. Some of the cars were badly butter ed. and it is admitted that had it not been for the steel construction there might have been heavy loss of life. When the accident occurred the train was just passing a freight that was standing on a siding. The dining car toppled over against a freight car, this alone keeping it from going over the embankment with the engine and bag gage i-ar. Although the baggagemaster was in the car when it went over, he escaped unhurt. \ relief train was made up here and sent to the scene of the accident, arriv ing here with the passengers at 9.,t0 o'clock last night. Wreck crews were sent from Williamsport, Reuovo and Lock Haven. THAW IS ENJOYING LIFE Shows Skill As Walton Follower. Awaiting Action of Court Boston, Oct. 19. —While waiting for a decision by the United States Su preme Court on the compromise ar rangement to permit him to go to Pittsburgh, Harry K. Thaw is enjoying life in New Hampshire by trout fish iug. Boston sportsmen returning yester day met Thaw in the woods. They >ay he showed great skill at landing trout and that hetakes great deiight in life ill the open. On his fishing trips he is accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Clark D. Stevens and Sheriff Drew, of Boos county. m BRYAN IN KANSAS TO-DAY Tour to Embrace Principal Cities of "State Topeka, Kan.. Oct. 19. Two strenn ous days are planned for Secretarv Bryan by Kansas Democrats this week. To-day Mr. Bryan is touring the south eastern section of the State, covering the cities of Columbus, Parsons, Pitts burgh, Port Scott, Cher-yville and lnue jenden.-e and intermediate stops. To-night he speaks at .Toplin, Mo., an.i on Tuesday, starting with a speech at 8 o'clock in the morning at Kansas City, he will tour the Second and Third districts, ending with a night meeting in Wichita. From Kansas he goes to Colorado. Boulder Crushes Mmer Ha/leion. Pa., Oct. 19.—'Carl Yuri shick. 40 years old, of Buck mountain, was oeaten in a race to escape a stone whi.ii rol el down upon him at tiie Ben jamin stripping?, and is in tfhe Hazleton hospital seriously injured. The boulder pinned him against a stoani shovel. State Senator Hall Improved Kane, Pa., Oct. 19. — Reports from the bedside of State Senator .lames K. P. Hail, of Ridgwav, who was operated upon at tiie Lakeside hospital at Cleve land. state that, his condition is slight lv improved and he has a fair chance for recovery. His wife and four children are at his bedside. | er. .lames P. Braliicr. aged ."55, of Alexandria, aud the injury of i four others, occurred at 1.15 o'clock yesterday morning, ou the Turkey Val ley pike, ten miles from Hollidaysburg. The injured are William H. Woolver ton, Jr., 21, New York, bruised and cut j about body; ex-Senator H. J. McAteer. 76. of Alexandria, three rius fractured, condition serious; Charles Rosborough, 30, postmaster of Alexandria, ha :ly con fused back, suffers from shock: R. B. Roper, 32. Alexandria, cut about face, body bruised. The party had been in attendance at the Democratic mass meeting i n AI too.ia Saturday night, and were on ihe ; ' way home to Alexandria. William H. Woolvertou, dr.. millionaire son of the 'ate W. H. Woolvertou, who had been staying at his summer home in Alexandria for the last six weeks, was driving the party in his GO-liors,'power car. Coming to a steep iowugrade the driver failed to note " sharp curve at the bottom. The ear veered from tli? roa 1 and as Woolvertou threw on the emergency brake it turned turtle, pin ,ning all of the party beueath. Another automobile party also bound for Alexandria came upon the over turned car an.l extricate.i the injured. ! Dr. Brallier was dead when taken from beneath the ear. his abdomen crashed. H. .1. McAteer, the most scriousiv ! injured, is one of the most piMininent : men in Central Pennsylvania, He served as a member of the s-a'.e Senate 1 rjm the Franklin-lluntingdon district from ' 1884 to ISS«. Dr. Duncan who is weighing souls, prefbabiv has not yet | come to one of those persons who are i said to have 110 souls. THE photograph shows the vast matn exhibit section, with the framework of the hug* Tower of Jewels, the dominating architectural feature of the Exposition, rising in the center of the exhibit group. The size of the palaces may be Inferred from the fact that the tower Is 4.15 feet In height. The tower rises In seven ter races. the last terrace giving away to a group of figures supporting an immense globe typifying the world. It will be richly decorated with heroic sculptures signifying achievement On the extreme left of the picture Is seen the framework of the great Palace of Fine Arts, which faces upon a large forested lagoon. In which Its classic outline* will be reflected. This building, which describes an arc, is 1,100 feet In its outside perimeter. Next and facing the harbor for more than 3.000 feet is the central group of eight vast exhibit palaces, forming a rectangle. The four palaces facing upon San Francisco harbor are, from left to right, the Palaces of Food Products, Agriculture, Transportation and Mines and Metallurgy. Paralleling these buildings from left to right are the Pal aces of Education. Liberal Arts, Manufactures and Varied Industries. The Tower of Jewels rises from the space be tween the Palaces of Liberal Arts and Manufactures. The domes of each of these palaces are ,160 feet In height and 100 feet In diameter. In the foreground on the left is the superb Palace of Horticulture, surmounted by a glass dome 186 feat In height and 152 feet In diameter. The domes and minarets of this building Buggest the famous mosque of the Sultan Ahmed Lln Constantinople. On the extreme right of the group may be seen the huge Palace of Machinery, S6B feet In length. 368 feet In width and 136 feet In height. The smaller structure In the foreground near the Palace of Machinery Is the Service Building, the headquarters of the Exposition's Divisions of Concessions and of Works. The framework to the left of the Service Building is that of beautiful Festival Hall, where hundreds of great conventions and con gresses will meet In 1915. This building will be Illuminated by light rising through its floora the coming generation a better idea of what it means to cut B.OOT> miles from the Journey between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. U. S. BUILDING OPERATIONS General Decrease in Expenditures in I IMS, but No Index to Coun try's Prosperity Washington. D. 0., Oct. 19.—1f the degree of activity of the building in dus try is taken a* an index to prosper ity, figures gathered by the I'nited States ideological Survey of building operations in 1913 show that prosper ity is sporadi". Por instance, Now York City, t-ho largest building center of the country, showed in 1913 a consider able decrease fro.m 1912, whereas New ark, only a few miles away, tfhowe.t a large increase. Chicago, which show ed the largest decrease in 1912 ral lied and showed the largest increase in 1913. Most of the cities that showed increases in 19 12 showed •livrOAse.s in 191:1, A few t'iint showed decreases in 1912 showed increases in 1913, though none of these, except Chicago and Pittsburgh, were among t'ho larger cities. Many cities ascribe the decrease in 1913 to the fact that in 1912 the structures erected were unusually costly. In 4 8 of the largest cities of tile country, the total cost of'building oper ations in 1913 was $659,515,746vc0m pared witlh $T35,959,a10 in 1912. The greatest decrease wjs in New York City, $36,-114,655. The largest increase was in Chicago. $6,492,527. New York City is the leading city in the cost isco was second, with $3.- 745,389. DEOWNS ON RIVER OUTING Clandestine Boat Trip of Two Sisters • Ends in Death of One Chester, Pa., Oct. 19. —Drowning was the outcome of a clandestine river outing which Agnes Diamond took with her sister, Sara, yesterday, after tell ing their mother they were going to church. Instead, they went out on the river in the vac lit Mermaid with Charles Shaw, of -Norwood, who is associated with his father in the manufacture of women's hats in Philadelphia: Frank Oxsenfel.l, this city, and Henry gas tilled room yester day al his recently-purchased home, 28 South ll:u : isburg avenue, has not yet been revived at the City hospital. In \ est'gation by the police shows beyond doubt tiiSt the a.-; hyxiation was due to a defective gas cock. Tobacco Strangles Man Coatcsville. Oct. 19. —Going to deep in a ceil with tobacco in his >•: i.ith, Joseph McGinnis. 2S ye-. »'•!, nitK hand of Parsesburg. sttj'i- i lea: ■ here Saturday eight. \ |:o»;-mort;ni examination repealed t'n ;• the man had swallowed almost a ha:t' of a package of tobacco. The resources of South America, the ▼ast continent but little known to the people of the United States, will be dia played upon an axtenslve scale. Said THE STAR-INDEPENDENT Presents You Something Worth While In OUR $4.00 NEW Modern English DICTIONARY This Dictionary is the LATEST—up to the very day—filled to the full 1300 pages with needful information—ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS AND MONO TONE—and s complete, accurate and authentic from cover to cover. 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Argentina's commis si otier to the Exposition: "The expositions which for yea/s . Ijast have taken t place In all parts of the world are a clear and Indisputable demonstration of the resource.* which each country hn» and me also the means of u commercial interchange throughout the entire world. To ac cept the invitation is to show In a sim ple nay the extent of advancement of each country. Is to show its culture. Its science. its riches. Its resources, and to open It* doors-to all thoso who desire •to unfold their activity and their intel ligence under the shadow of Its fl.-jg "What, then, will be the result of the' coming Exposition? It will be that all j American countries will rirmw closer ] their relations and that the commercial : 'development will increase to splendid proportlona." And the Exposition will go ahead with the Indorsement of it* yrell wish ers In all part* of the Thirty nine nations have accepted America's invitation to participate. Upon the Pacific coast and In the west and south thousands of prosper i eus communities have prepared to wel- I the trav«ler.on .his e way to the. 9 great international Exposition In 1918. Today the Exposition gives a glimpse of Its future glories, its sculptured marvels. Its palms and glai.t tree ferns and blossoming orange trees. Ten out of thlrteon of the great main structures to be built by the Expositor are com pleted. One of the unfinished buildings Is an auditorium at tile civic center of San Francisco, to cost, mora than 11,- 000,000 Here thousands o! lelegltus to conventions will. ir?«* l'he atidi ! torlum has a se.iting capacity of ".S.OOO 1 persons. It is 85 per tei.t finished and ! from It along Van Ness avenue runs | the new double tracked "Exposition Street Car" line, built by Mayor Rolph and City Engineer O'Shaughjiessy in double quick time. The other build ings to be finished are Festival Hall, on the grounds, also a meeting place for conventions, and the giant Palace cf Fine Arts. And the Exposition will open on ■chedule ttm&~don't forget rhe ipen- Ing day, Feb 20. 1915—perfected and . perfect in every detail.