OCTOBER 1925
THE UNITED AMERICAN
with an application to those who? wrong their fellow
men, yet, that is a pert analysis fitting a vast number
of people.
The man whom you could trust implicity yester
day, who turns out a villain and a traitor today,
furnishes a case in point. The soul-power that governed
his life the day before probably snapped under the
strain of the retrogressing process, the bending of the
mind in the direction of the purely selfish and
physical
The Seeahtiks tribe, the anomaly in the Indian
legend of man, is not apt to die out so long as the
agencies of human retrogression are permitted to
function and offer inducements to those of a peculiar
mental weakness, noticeable in lust of money, lust of
power, or lust of doubtful pleasures.
Human attainments measured in a beautiful
character may not be worth much to the world that
has sacrificed that, and more, to accumulate material
riches and to enjoy the fruits of unleashed passions,
but the beautiful character is the edifice of the Gods
where the Tamanaweis in the Indian lore, the soul
power of man, has its eternal home.
Fage Eleven
government paper, which buys just as many loaves
of bread and twice as many white poker chips as two
one dollar bills. At a remote period it is probable that
some gambler bet his last two dollars and lost. Any
way, gamblers have a dread of two dollar bills.
Still another objection to these so-called unlucky
bills is their alleged resemblance to five dollar bills.
Treasury officials meet this argument by declaring
there is a closer resemblance between the one dollar
and the five dollar bill.
The restoration of the two dollar bill is said to be
in the interest of greater economy for it is said that
banishment of the two dollar bill cost the taxpayers
one million dollars a year. The cost of each bill printed
is 1 3-4 cents. Each additional two dollar bill would
retire two one dollar bills. Under these circumstances
the public may as well make up its mind to welcome
Mr. two dollar Bill back in society. He’s coming.
Treasury official have planned immediately to put sixty-
five million new two dollar bills into circulation.
The one dollar bill which, for some time has been
the only twin-sister of the five dollar bill of smaller
denomination is in consequence due to change place
in public popularity with the banished two dollar bit
of currency.
WOODROW WILSON MEMORIAL
TN THE little town of Valdosta, in Southern Georgia,
1 where the late President Woodrow Wilson spent
“NARCYL” A NEW ANAESTHETIC
his boyhood days and his young manhood, there will be p'THER AND CHLOROFORM as anaesthetics, with
erected a unique memorial. This memorial will be in
their unpleasent after-effects upon the patient,
the form of a college, a school for young men which are beginning to lose their popularity in the surgeries,
will cost five million dollars, part of which has already due to the superiority in rapid action and the elimina
been subscribed and raised.
tion of the serious after-effects found in a new
Valdosta, Georgia, has a population of twelve preparation called “Narcyl.” “Narcyl” is made from
thousand inhabitants and is situated on the main acetylene and oxygen gas and only the purest acetylene
Georgian Highway, leading to Florida. The town gas is permitted in the new preparation which is
itself is just seventeen miles from the Florida border being manufactured in Sweden. The finished product
line.
is being delivered in steel cylinders which are directly
Among those who are giving particular attention connected to the appliances used. The new anaesthetic
to making this Memorial possible are the close friends is pronounced by leading physicians to be far superior
of the late President.
in many respects to both ether and chloroform.
There are to be twenty buildings. The gothic
The dread of a surgical operation, superinduced
style of architecture is to be used. Three hundred by the knowledge of the many fatal effects produced
students from all parts of the United States, who can by the forms of anaesthetics now applied in the surgery
pass the entrance requirements will be the maximum. rooms in the hospitals, will, by the introduction of
Only an intellectually able student can be accommo “Narcyl,” pass from the minds of many people who
dated within its gates. The subjects to be taught are rather suffer from an ailment generally pronounced
literature and history, economics, principles of govern curable through a surgical operation, than face the
ment, sociology, international relations. Languages alternative of taking a dose of ether or chloroform
will be taught as a conversational and literary instru sufficient to produce unconsciousness for the duration
ment, not as means toward commercial success. It of the period required by the surgeon performing the
will be a nonsectarian institution.
operation.
Anyone having watched a loved one, even of a
RESTORING THE BANISHED TWO DOLLAR BILL
strong constitution, struggling through sub-conscious
TV HEN THE government a little while back decided ness, against the disagreeable stuff being applied, and
” to put the two dollar currency bill out of business who subsequently has been watching the patient “com
it did not figure on revoking the order and releasing ing out” of it in the sick-room after the operation,
the bill again before it had been perceptibly withdrawn will give three cheers to the inventors of “Narcyl”
as a means of exchange.
an anaesthetic of pure oxygen and pure asethylene
It isn’t commonly known that there is a bit of composition which quickly produces unconsciousness,
superstitious tradition attached to this particular piece without forcing the patient to take a lot of nasty
of currency, but as traditions are very persistent, the tasting poison with the possible dangerous effects upon
new issue of crisp two dollar bills will probably share the heart. The “coming out” of “Narcyl” is equally
in the reputation of their predecessors.
rapid. In fact consciousness is restored at once when
Nobody seems to know when or where the fear the appliances are removed, permitting the natural
of ill luck first cast a blight over this modest bit of vitality of the patient to react at once against the effects