Dayton tribune., July 23, 1925, Image 3

I Find Relic* of Life in
Egypt at Time of Chriat
President» Laugh at Their Fun
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I nun McKinley to t'oolldge. George II. U'Connor (left! and Mutt Horne
(right) have made the Presidents laugh right out loud George O'Connor has
known personally nil of these Chief Executivi* and Tuft used to cull him to
the White House I» help him forget the troubles of state. At a recent banquet
lie made President Coolidge laugh aloud.
Auto Death Rate
Is on the Increase
I tecember.
than
I,(NX) rooms unit !M»1 houses have tMN>4
cleared of sand and det ria. The site
t the city Is so dry that the preser
.at Ion of pellabable aubelsBces Is pel
fact.
The articles found Include mon
than «50 Greek papyri, Including i>
small library dating from the Second
to the Fifth century; a large collection
of glass vessels, 30 examples of bat
Cairo.—The University of Michigan
expedition which la excavating on the
«Ite of um teni Sgranla in Egypt tm*
found more Ilian 2.0UU obj»' ts Illus­
trating the life and culture of th*
Greco Roman period The city flour
labed In the centuries lismodlately pre
ceding und following the birth ot
Christ. Prof. Francia W Kelsey. <11
rector of Ilie work of excavation. re
ccntly returned to the United Stales,
ketry, textiles showing ancient fabrics
from fine linen to course weaves re­
sembling burlap und more than 100 ex
ample« of wooden tools, preserved
without decay.
About 390 terra cotta objects. 200
luin|Hi und a great number of coins
und smaller objects have been found.
Among the tools found are Imple­
ments Used by farmers und complete
und perfectly preserved sets of bar
ness for donkeys am) camels. A large
bakery was unearthed with a number
of grain bin« und a large mill foi
grinding the grain, and at one si' e
w ere found several (files ot court*. fl ll
loaves of bread. Just ns they were left
ben the takers abandoned the town
SHE’S A FINE DEPUTY
Radford
Fatalities in 58 Cities Reach
19 Per 100,000.
Washington.—Deaths caused by ■»
tomotdles nnd other motor vehlclss. !
except motorcycles. In 58 of the prim I- I
pul cities of the country In 1924 In
creased In the aggregate, both In num- j
ber und In proportion to population,
figures announced by the Department
ot Commerce showing s total of 5.939
deaths und n fatality rute of 19 per ;
loo.ooo population.
This compares with 4.908 deaths nnd |
a rute of 18.8 for the same cities In i
1923. Thia rate hue shown a progres I
»lv» Increase from 14.6 In 1920. with i
15.7 tn 1921 und 16.9 In 1922.
While New York hud the largest |
number of deaths. 1,91)1. th» highest
rate, 34.3 wns reported for Paterson. ;
N. J., ini’ 45 cities exceeded the New
York rats of 16«. The second highest
rnte, 29.6, wu» shown for Pltt»l>urgh.
and the third hlgl^t, 28.5. for Cam
den. N. J.
New Bedford. Mnss., find the lowest
rate, 9 8, while the se< ond lowest. HA
was reported from Sun Antonio, and
the third. 117. for Des Moines.
Available figure» for «8 cities were
innde public by the department, al- i
though reports and estimates
lacking for some of these, and their
figures were not included In the com
paratlve analysis.
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N«w Vurk.... 1.001
Newark. N.J lol
Norfolk ......... .
K
Oakland ........
Omaha ............
4»
Philadelphia
1«1
Plttaburah
IV
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i*rovh|en<« ..
17
Heading
24
Richmond ...
13
Hoch«*atrr ....
41
St. I.oula ....
Ht Paul..........
IA
Halt Lake City
Han Antonio .
n
m
Heran tun
Hr« i tU ...
Sputtana ...
Mprlngdsld.
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Hyracusa ...
Toledo ........
Trenton ....
Washington,
It
Wllminrton
21
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Youngstown
41
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40
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Cat Mothers Foxes
Seattle, Wash.—Snowball, a cat
owned by <1. II. Jensen of the Silver
Fox farm near Tacoma, Is playing the
role of mother to two baby foxes.
When the mother of the foxes showed
u luck of maternal Interest and left
them Snow Indi adopted the twins with
Mrs. Amelia Hull. Tovey. Hl.. U
the oldest woman deputy sheriff, being
slxty-two years old. Sworn In two
years ago, she l as made a remark
able record for enforcing the law, and
Shiilff Flesher highly praises her ef
flclency, her bravery and her loyalty
She Ims arrested many of the most
troublesome and dangerous characters
of the community and her success In
handling men crazed by liquor has
amazed the citizens of Christian
county.
Two-Year Tabulation.
Comparative figures on the total
deaths and the rate per 100.000 of
population for the Inst two years were
given us follows:
Drsths
In 1924
City
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Akron ..............
n
Albany ............
41
Atlanta
..........
Baltlmor» .... 12»
Birmingham . M
Boston ............ 112
Brldseport ... fi
BufTalo .......... 111
Cambridge .. 27
M
Camden ..........
Chlcaso .......... 56C
Fi
Cincinnati ...
Cleveìanl .... 220
69
Columbus ....
34
Dallas ..............
:«
Dayton ............
40
Denver ..........
17
Dea Molnea ..
»fi
Drtrolt ..........
1«
Fall HI ver ...
Fort Worth..
Granii Rapida ll
M
Hartford ....
il
Houston ........
Indlanapolta . 70
Jaraey City .. M
Kansas City,
II
Kan...............
Kansas City,
R7
Mo...................
boa Anselsa . 2«7
14
IgoulHvIile
23
............
M
Memphis ........
h3
Milwaukee ..
M
Mlnneanolla
M
Naahvllla ....
Ity
Deaths Hate
In 1923- IW4
40
n«
17
55
H 4
131
37.4
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1*3
1X3
23
20 1
137
24.1
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19 0
20.«
101
34.1
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22 0
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14
19 1
15 4
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14 5
43
11.7
18
251
13 3
23
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63
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Rata
1923
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16 5
25 1
SI 4
20 4
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16 6
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14.1
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10 4
24 1
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Hoquiam, Wash.—Surpassing
the discovery of the dinosaur
skull nnd Its Identification by
University of Washington scien-
tlsts recently, J. H. Geoghegan
of Hoqulnm hns brought to light
fossils and mnsslve forms of
saurians on hu expedition to the
hill« adjacent to Snginnw Log-
glng company's camp No. 12.
Several forms visible on the
sides of n grade cut for the log-
glug company’s railroad were
easily Identified by Geoghegan.
Each measured close to 100 feet
In length. Parts of the crea-
tnre's limbs and all of the ribs
were visible, and samples Iden-
tided ns teeth nnd a rib were
brought here.
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Billions Are Lost
Yearly, Is Claim
Industry
Pays
Big
Sum
for
Preventable Waste.
Washington.—Preventable waste In
Industry
throughout
the
country j
amounts to $10.900,000.000 a year, ac-
cording to Roy M. Hudson, chief of the
simplified practices division of the De |
¡isrtment of Commerce.
With these great wastes “which
drug so heavily on our collective ef­
ficiency,” Hudson snld he was nmazed
nt America’s ability to maintain rev-1
enue ubove the polut of operating ex
¡lenses.
“Waste elimination,1 11u.lson said.
"Is a vital topic wherever business Is
done or service rendered.
It Is re­
garded as nn essential by authorities
on management who give It a place ut
the top of the list of the ten most Im­
portant things In busines administra­
tion."
Hudson snld the total preventable
waste was double the sum spent for
buildings In 1924 nnd equal to over
hulf of the capital Invested In rall-
roads of the nation,
Kallroads, after carrying on ahn
plincutlon ami standardization efforts
In their mechanical departments, ure
now giving consideration to similar ac
tion in all departments of the road
with an eye to reducing waste and de­
creasing expenses wherever possible.
Hudson said.
Ono large railroad, according to
Hudson, recently reduced the Items
carried In Its stores department. With
the elimination of 62,000 items there
was shown an immediate reduction of
23 per cefil In the Inventories.
"Another system,” said Hudson,
“cut 11« stores account from $.18,000,-
(MX) to $20,000,000, by the same weed
Ingout process.
Forty large roads,
applying the same program, released
$180,000,1)00
of
capital
formerly
locked up In Idle Inventories, cutting
down stock on band from a six
months' supply to a three months’ sup­
ply. bringing about a better service
of supply.
"In this achievement, it was shown
that the average cost of carrying or
maintaining supply stocks was
per cent of their own value, and
that obsolescence accounted for nearly
half of this Item."
I I I I I I I I t i ll I ' F I I I I 'l- H- H-b* ■
Award Degree to Dead
Student Who Died for It
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Philadelphia.—The memory of
a young Swedish student whose
desire for nn education resulted
In his denth from starvation was
honored nt the commencement
exercises nt the University of
Pennsylvania when n post-mor-
tetn degree was nwnrded In the
nnmo of Homer Oscar Acker-
strora.
Ackerstrom died nt the uni-
versify hospital two months ngo.
Ue was without funds and was
working his way through college
and at the same time was
sending money to his mother
and his sister In Sweden. He
ate hut little, anil finally, under
nourished through what his fel-
low students say was sclf-lm-
posed starvation. he contracted
pneumonia and died.
His efforts to obtain an edu­
cation so won the admiration of
his classmates that they peti­
tioned the university authori­
ties to award a post-mortem
diploma and send It to Acker
strom's mother
The request
was granted nnd on the rolls of
the graduates the following ap-
pears:
“Bachelor of arts In econom
les, Homer Oscar Ackerstrom
(post mortem).”
41 I I I l l-H I I I IH-i-H-D II- H-l
Government Cost
in Running Alaska
n ACT f\RA tv-,
Total . of t tt
$10,467,064
Was
Spent L*bt Year.
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Washlngton.—A
compilation Just
completed by Secretary Work of the
Interior department shows that a total
of $10,467,061 was spent In the fed
eral administration of the territory of
Alasku last year, and that control of
these expenditures wu» divided be­
tween n.ne of the ten executive depart­
ments of the government.
Approxi­
mately t enty-five different bureaus
within toeae department» expended
appropriai ions made by congress for
the 125 various government activities
In Alasku.
The figure« also Indicate that,
baled oo the white population of 27A00
now residing In the territory, the cost
of federal administration Is $380 per
white person, while the amount spent
by the government for the entire popu­
lation,
Including
27.500
Eskimos,
Aleuts and Indians, was $190 per cap-
Ita. In this connection Secretary
Weeks «tute«! that 3.«», or more
than one-tenth of Alaska’s white pop-
ulatlon. In at present In the govern
meut ernploy In some capacity or
other.
had It for many years.
Since then
it has been a court costume In the
Yakima tribe. Prince«« Helen's great-
great grandmother added the human
hair belt which I« over eight fest
long and Is woven from the hair of
her sister, who married Captain Page,
the Brat Indian agent on the Port
Madison reservation. The great-grand­
mother. who was ths isst wife of
collection of customs, guarding the
fr,,m ,muia.1:nRi
eral taxes, supervision of national
banks, registry of ships, maintenance
of quarantine stations and hospitals. -
protection of the public health and!
other activities.
The Department of Justice, through :
the maintenance of federal courts I d i
four judicial districts in Alaska with j
marshals to arrest violators of the fed i
eral and criminal laws, including the |
necessary machinery, spent $«88,186
last year, of which $374,520 was re­
turned through revenues received from ;
fines, forfeitures and license fees. The
Navy department's expenditure of
$176,792 for the operation of radio sta­
tions In the territory Included the
maintenance of a naval patrol along
Its coast and supervision over naval
coal and oil reserves. The Labor de­
partment expended $11,18$ In eon
controlling Immigration to the terri
tory.
The Department of State Is the only
executive branch of the government
not shown on the tabulation as having
activities and functions In Alaska
qulring federal ex[*ndlture» for sd-
miulatratlve purposes.
Spends the Most.
The largest expenditure of any one
of the executive brancht*» for federal
administration In Alaska was made by
the Department of the Interior last
year, the amount being $4,134,028. This
represented expenditures for the ter­
ritorial government, including the gov­
ernor; supervision of Alaska« public
lands, comprising the Issuing of min­
ing, oil, coal and other mineral per­
mits and leas**« ; sale of town and man­
ufacturing sites; operation of the gov­
ernment railroad; the national parks
and monuments, prodding schools and
hospitals for the natives; propagation
of the reindeer Industry; topographic
mineral and geographic surveys; sup-
pression of traffic In Intoxicating
liquor, and the protection of game.
These expenditures Include also $•><),-
000 paid to the Agricultural and Me­
chanical college at Fairbanks, Alaska,
annually by ihe government, and $59.-
856 for the care of the native Indian
pupils at the school at Chemawa, Sa j
lem. Ore.
The second largest expenditure In
Alaska was made by the Department
of War. the amount expended during
the last fiscal year being $2,070,687.
The operation of the cable and tele­
graph Unes In the territory, the main­
tenance of army posts and military
reserves. Improvement of Its rivers and
harbors and other navigable streams,
and the construction ot trails and
roads through the Alaskan mad com­
mission. Of the total amount expend­
ed only $637.813 was for military ac­
tivity, while $1,438,873 was for non
military purposes.
Third on the list Is the Department
of Commerce. Its annual expenditures
amounting to $1.389.397 for federal ad­
ministration in Alaska. The largest part
of this sum was expended for the
protection and supervision of the fish
Industry.
Other expenditures under
the jurisdiction of the Commerce
department Included the maintenance
of lighthouses and other aids to navi­
gation along the Alaskan coast and
enforcement of the maritime laws
through the coast and geodetic survey.
Spent for Agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture ex­
pended $879.362 In Alaska, its activities
consisting of the supervision over the
national forests in the territory, the
fur-bearing animal life, the weather
bureaus located there. the public
roads, migratory birds, and agricul­
tural development through the opera­
tion ot experimental stations. The next
largest sum amounted to $624,916,
spent by the Post-Office department in
the operation of mail service, postal
routes and post offices. Of this amount
$132.305 was returned to the govern-
meut through postal receipts.
The
Treasury department’s expenditure in
Alaska lust year was $480.509 for the
Princess Helen.
Indian Princess Wears
Court Costume of Yakimas
Chief Seattle, wore this dress on all
tribal occasions.
Helen Wilson, who has never been
given an Indian name. Is an en­
thusiastic member of a .very different
tribe from that of ber ancestors. She
is one of the 600.000 members of the
4-H Hoys and Girls' Farm and Home
Project clubs organized In every state
In the Union by the United States De­
partment of Agriculture.
Excellent
needle work has entitled Princess
Helen to many honors, and on such oc­
casions she wears proudfully this cos­
tume of ber people.
Seattle, Wash.—This true Suquamish
Indian princess, a daughter of Tick
Obld, and a great-grand daughter of
Chief Seattle, Is wearing the price­
less, age-old, buckskin costume worn
by the royal princesses of ber fore­
fathers, the Yakima tribe of the state
of Washington.
Princess Helen's great-grandmother
was married to a brother-in-law of
Qualchen, a great chief of the Yaki­
mas. On one occasion, with her bus
band, she accompanied the Indian
chiefs band on a buffalo bunt to the
Hard to Do
"big country far to the east.” They
stayed over a year, and this early In­
It Is all very well to tell people to
dian princess brought back with her forget their troubles, but when we for­
a gorgeous costume, purchased from get ours the creditors become impa­
a very old Indian woman who bad tient.—Milwaukee Journal.
Practical Safety
for Home Folks
Carelessness Cause of Many
Home Accidents.
By C.
B. AUEL, President National
Safety Council.
York.—"Safety First" has coma
to be one of the most universally
known catch phrases In existence, and
all kinds f interpretations have been
placed up<>n it.
This unique phrase, which originated
some fifteen years ago with the safety
movement, does not mean safety above
all else. Bather. It means a thought­
ful viewpoint or attitude ot precaution
toward all the’natural and artificial
hazards of our complicated existence.
Lack of thought or lack of precau­
tion was responsible for 20,000 deaths
due to accidents In and about Amer­
ican homes last year. In other words.
20,000 Americans were killed directly
or indirectly because they or somebody
else did not adhere to the principles of
“Safety First."
The practice of safety (precaution)
begins in the home, where there are a
multitude of hazards little suspected
by the average citizen. Nearly every
'convenience we have in our houses
presents an accident hazard, and this
we must recognize Individually so as
to minimize our group fatality ratio.
Fire Great Hazard.
fire, of course, is generally recog
nlzed as an Important hazard.
To
guard against fire, the home must be
Poles Give Colonel House a Degree
Col Edward M House und Ignace Paderewski, famous Polish pianist
and statesman, with Mrs. House and Mme. Paderewski, on the occasion of the
bestowing on Colonel House of an honorary degree from the Posen university
lu recognition of his efforts to help Polish students.
kept free from rubbish and especially
oily waste: the chimney flues should
be Inspect Al occasionally for defects
and clogging; open-hearth flreplaces
should be guarded with screen when
used; none but the fuse prescribed by
law should be used tn the electric wir­
ing system; electric appliances such
as the Iron, the percolator and the
toaster and grill, should pever be left
unwatched while connected with the
current; the baby should not be al­
lowed to be within reach of matches.
A little cut or scratch Is as poten­
tially dangerous as a severe wound If
not attended to immediately and prop-
perly. The cut should be washed
clean In clear water. Iodine (3 per
cent solution, fresh) Is a good disin­
fectant, and should be applied only
on the cut Age strengthens the acidity
of Iodine, especially If It Is not corked
properly, and severe burns may be
caused.
Dress the cut in a sterile
gauze until healed. A properly treated
cut, scratch or bruise will never give
you fear of bloodpolsonlng.
To prevent mistaking bottles of poi­
son for medicine, stick pins through
the corks of all poison bottles. Then,
when you reach into the medicine cab­
inet for your cough medicine you will
make no tragical mistake. Keep all
bottles out of baby’s reach.
Chairs are poor substitutes for step
ladders,
and even
step
ladders
should be watched for Insecure steps
or faulty construction. Of the 84,000
persons who were killed In industrial,
public and home accidents last year,
more than 15,000 died from falls.
Soms Hints.
Firearms should be kept always out
of reach of children and used by Ju­
veniles only in the presence of an
adult.
Don’t let the baby play around boil­
ing water.
Give yourself plenty ot fresh air.
Don't be stingy with It just because
it Is winter.
Keep the temperature ot your rooms
from 63 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Overheated rooms cause 75 per cent of
all winter colds.
Bathe frequently, but never just be­
fore going out Into the cold.
Rinse
yourself In cold water to close the
pores.
Don't keep gasoline In the house.
Finally, protect yourself against
carbon monoxide or other gas poison­
ing and asphyxiation by being con­
stantly on the watch for leaky gas
stoves and gas pipes and connections.
Never run your automobile motor In
a closed garage.
Carbon monoxide
gas Is extremely hard to detect, so
never expose yourself where you know
there might be some of the gns.
It Is not cowardly to practice
"Safety First” In the right spirit. It Is
cowardly to expose yourself to dan­
gers through disrespect for accident
hazards or a false sense of bravery.