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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1922)
■3 Audiences of 50,000,000 Soon COBLENZ T R A FF IC COP New York Women Now Acting as Police Engineers Foresee Amplifiers Bearing President’s Voice to Entire Nation. transcontinental circuits were opened • In 1015. A long-distance call from New | 1 ork to Sun Francisco Involves 400,- J 000,000,000,000 amplifications. The § number of amplifications ne. essary § between any two points depends not | only upon the distance but upon the ! nature o f the circuit. But the principle of the amplifier la | not limited to telephonic use. It Is a j Current From Arlington Was Multi fundamental of radio and wire teleg- l ruphy. of radio telephoning, of all long plied 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,- distance electrical signaling. It was 000,000 Times— Rival of the amplifier that picked up during “ Canned Music." the war the water vibrations caused New York.— President Harding, by enemy submarines and translated who set a record for long'distance or them Into sounds by which command atory on Armistice day by addressing ers of allied warships were able to lo simultaneously three great throngs of cate the hidden foe. more than 100,000 persons, gathered at Because <>f the need of extra police In New York city during the milk wagon drivers' strike, 2.200 women were Arlington National cemetery, San GET STONE FOR HERO’S TOMB •worn In, given uniforms and placed on duty near the sc bools to direct truffle. Here is a squad of the “ coppettea" Francisco and New York, may ea-ily receiving the day’s orders. find himself talking to an audience Canadians Pave Memorial Chamber Among the [s-aceful pursuits of the running high into the millions und American soldiers In the army of occu With Marble From Battle pation In Germany Is that of direct scattered through every state in the bacillus automohllus, whose presence Fields. ing traftic In Coblenz. This dough Union, before he '«a res the White behind the wheel of Ills Juggernaut can House. he discovered without aid from the Ottawa. Can.— Stones gathered from boy looks capable of handling the Job. Indeed, says It. W. King, one of the every Canadian battle field in France mlerosco|>es and whose homicides American Telephone and Telegraph and Belgium will pave the memorial might he largely prevented by more St. Anne's marble, also from Belgium. company engineers, whose work on chamber In whieh Canada's unknown effective policing of our congested Between tlie columns will tie walls of the loud-speaking device made possi soldier Is to he entombed. Around highways. Our experience for ten Savonnlere stone, from France. In ble the ushering in of a new epoch In the walls of the chainl>er will he a base months shows (hut 10,000 human lives the chamber will tie the altar of Great space annihilation at the ceremonies of black marble, the gift of Belgium. will bo brought to premature deaths Britain curved from a solid block of over the bier of America's unknown Rising from tills will be the columns of marble. In 1021 hy motor-driven vehicles, at an In nine of all deaths thnt have oc economic loss to ttie world of ut least soldier, It is well within the range of Insurance Figures Indicate one curred in 1021, we have In mind for $25,000,000. possibility that ('resident Harding may Marked Lowering of Death purposes of comparison the fact thnt see the day when a President can sit "The deuth claims paid hy the life uo longer tluiu ten years ago Its ratio Insurance companies of tlie United at ease in the White House and talk Rate in United States. at once to every city, town and ham stood at one In four. Deaths from States for the year 1920 amounted in pneumonia, ns reported in these tables, round numbers to $300.000,000. Most let In the United States that Is tapped were only 13,708 In 1021, as compared of this was puld mi insured men. wom by telephone wires. An audience of with 22,243 in 1020, nn actual reduc en and children w ho died premature- 50,000,000 perhaps! Or 100,000.000! tion from tills enuse alone of 8,535 ly.” They don't even blink at figures like deaths, or nearly 40 per cent. If we that—these telephone company engin Records Show Suicides and Homicides take Into consideration the greater eers. For ability to look, unabashed. Four Times Normal Rates — Influ number o f lives at risk in 1021 we GETS Into the faces of a column of ciphers, A ROYAL WELCOME might say thnt pneumonia Is only marching In threes across great open Lack of Work Fails to Retard did not soe why she should not find enza Almost Wiped Out— De about one-hulf as serious a cause of Fleeing Eskimo Meets Danish King on white spaces, is one of the prerequi another one now. The idea that good crease in Tuberculosis. Country Lass Seeking death this year as it was last year. sites even to thinking about that mar positions are not floating around to High Seas and I* Given a velous contrivance, the electrical am be secured at will hud evidently not Cigar. City Career. New York.—The year 1921 was the The most nmuzlng factor In the henlth entered her mind. plifier, o f which the louds|>euklng de healthiest year in the history of both situation o f the year Is the almost London.— An amusing story of the “ We have dally to send hack refus the United States and Canada, ac complete disappearance of Influenza vice is only one In a long list of prac als to out-of-town applicants who cording to the records of 37 leading as a enuse of death. Only 1,730 deaths King of Denmark's recent visit to tical applications. would like to find rooming quarters In American insurance companies. The are reported for ten months of 1021, Greenland was recently told hy M. Aa- Sees Nation as Audience. one of the Young Women's Christian > figures for the first ten months Indi us against 14,041 for the corresjiond- gaurd of the Danish legation, to mem For Instance, the electrical current association boarding houses. The cate a lowering of the death rate Ing period of 1020, which was not re bers of the Danish club In Loudon. that carried President Hnrding's fu neral oration to the crowds at Arling Employment Bureau* Crowded With waiting lists show there will be no among policy holders from 0.80 per garded as nn epidemic year. As the royul yacht wus approaching vacancies for months. The pitiful Women Who Have Been Thrown ton, San Francisco and New York was Greenland, u dark speck became visi Increase In Suicides. thousand last year to 8.24 per thou pr.rt o f It Is that we have so many multiplied 3,000,0U0,000,000.000 000,- Out of Employment— War sand In 1021, “ But there are always some excep ble on the open sea. It proved to be older women who are desperately III 000.000.000 times before It rolled out. Work Brought Unrest. Among tlie striking tilings shown hy tions to be noted, and mention must a solitary Eskimo In his little eayuk need of a place to stay, let alone the converted Into great sonorous sound the figures, which cover 27,000,000 now be mode of certain causes of (native cano«). The Eskimo came on waves, over the heads of three audi New York.—The seriousness of the question of work to do. More and persons, are that iulluenza has ut death that are showing Increases over hourd und Ills loyulty In having braved ences. unemployment situation among women more women well past the thirty-year most disappeared from the United those of Inst year. Suicides and hom the iierll* of the sea In such a frail It took 3,000.000,000,000,000 amplifi lias apparently no terrors for the girl mark are being forced out hy the States nnd Canada, and that pneu icides amounting to 4,174, have In- cruft assured him, needless to say, the warmest of welcomes. The king pre cations to convey the oration and the from upstate, the Middle West or the stress of the times to earn their own monia has decreased 50 per cent from «reused by the number of 1,02(1, or other ceremonies to Snn Francisco so South, says Miss Amy Talbot of the bread and butter. Tliey stand little sented him with u cigar mid what the 1020. On the other hand, mortalities about four times wlmt the Increase Eskimos most highly prize, a ride. that they could have been heard Central Brunch Y. \V. C. A„ accord chance of being met even half way— due to automobile accidents— “ bacillus would have been bnd ttie rate per through nn ordinary telephone receiv ing to the New York Sun. New York the competition Is too strong for them, On lunding the king described the nutomohlllu” It is referred to in the thousand of 1020 remained constant er. Then they had to lie amplified a is the meeoa toward which she turns with those eager Intelligent young Incident to the Danish commissioner In report— show u 15 per cent Increase, for 1021. Tills undoubtedly Is a direct million million times hy the loud her steps, confident that once here minds ready to snatch up every good with an Indicutlou of 10,000 deaths result of war reactions, business de Greenland und usked him who the mun speaking device. there will lie jobs without number thing that comes along. Watch any from this cause. Homicides nnd sui pression, unemployment and other wus. A mere ten-million billions—10,000,- waiting her acceptance. Miss Talbot, line In an employment office and see The commissioner in accents of hor cides also show large increases. phases of economic disturbance, and 000,000,000,000-- of amplifications were who Is head of the K i h m i i s Registry how many of the women on it are ror, replied: "The man's an escaped will largely cure Itself as times Im The figures were analyzed hy Rob necessary to bring the ceremonies out Service, has noted little decrease In grny-hnired. There ate few hoarding convict. lie broke prison, stole a 0 n'- clubs ert I.ynn Cox at the annual eonventlon prove. clear and strong In New York. Ten the number of applications for rooms houses and liuslnos cunoe and put to sen. We thought he "A matter of no small concern of the Association of I-lfe Insurance thousand were used to bring the eere- received from out-of-town women which will admit a won, n to resident nmnng the Increnstng causes of dcHth hud been drowned." membership w Itliout considering her Presidents, held here Inst week. moines here, and a million million to seeking careers In the big city. "The 37 companies constituting Is the steadily mounting mortality age most carefully. In many of these raise them to audihility for the New “ As far ns I have been able to dis these figures transact nliout SO per caused hy nufnninblles nnd other rao- ASK QUEEN ADMITTED TO BAR York audience. The other million mil cover,” says Mis« Talbot, "girls are places thirty yeais murks the age The number of cent o f the life Insurance business of tor-driven vehicles. lion amplifications were u«ed to carry not concerned with these reports of limit. The reasor that Is given for the country,” he said. “ Combining deaths in 1021 reported by the life In London Templars Suggest She Be First this preference Is that since there nrp the President's voice to the Arlington unemployment. Jobs seem of little Im not accommodations for nil. It Is felt both ordinary and Industrial life In surance companies that furnished their Englishwoman Formally crowd. portance compared with the fact that surance business, these 37 companies figure* for the compilation on which “ Called.” Iiy providing a few more scores of the young adventurer tins reached New that the younger woman Is more In report thnt, while they experienced In tills paper Is based wns 2,(124, which thousands o f miles of wire, some thou York. There Is one difference. I find need o f the protection afforded by the iirst tan months i f IM S deaths Is nn Increase of nearly 15 per cent London.— The Interesting suggestion sands of loud-speaking devices and a that now ttie demand Is almost entire these clubs. numbering 205,011, for the same peri over 1020. We talk learnedly of bac War Work Brought Unrest. Is being limited about In the Temple few foolscap sheets filled with tiny ly for the $5 room, where It used to teria and bacilli, hut overlook the “ Undoubtedly, the wanderlust which od this year only 184,800 deaths have ciphers Indicating more amplifications, lie that rooms were sought not so that the honor of being the first woman occurred. Tills shows a reduction of the entire country might hear future much for economy ns for convenient brings the younger women from the to he “ called” to the English bur should 21,081 in the actual number of their security of their homes here to com public ceremonies, Mr. King said. *+ he proffered to the queen. The ad- locations. bat nn almost tnqK-less situation Is n death losses this year.” vocates of this course urge that the It would he relatively simple, he de Situation Is Serious. phase of the unrest which followed Causes of Death. Rector Bans Short clared, to set up equipment In the capi 9 historic occasion on which a woman “The situation Is rapidly assuming hnrd upon the heels of the war. So tals of the 48 states through which The ctiuses of death for the first Skirts at Weddings 00 for the first time Is admitted to the serious proportions. Women, old and many of our girls who until that time ten months of 1021 with the corre English Imr would he observed In the 150,000 persons In each city—n total of i ' most fitting manner if the queen 7.200.000— could hear a • ceremony In young, are now being laid off hy firms were content to stay quietly at home sponding period of 1020 are as fol Rev. W. C. Robertson of 0 Washington or elsewhere as distinctly which have employed them for long I Jumped Into all the hundred and one lows : Christ Episcopal church nt Chat 0 would consent to stutid us the pioneer activities that suddenly required the 0 periods. Our employment bureaus are ns If they were seated within a few F irs t T en F irs t Ten tanooga, Tenn., has Issued rules 0 In tills great advance o(»encd to the crowded with women who have been services of women. They found them M onths Months | highest capacities o f educated women. 0 yards o f the speaker. defining the length of skirts, and 0 thrown out of employment, and yet selves necessary In a way they had !9Si 1921 A Rival of “ Canned” Music. hints thnt any one violating the 0 Tw o young women have already been j never before dreamed of. They swung Influenza ........................... 14.941 1.73«' “ Canned” music, too, faces a poten every train that comes Into our rules will not tie permitted to 00 admitted to the bar lu Ireland. IS.70S big Jobs, small Jobs, middle-sized Jobs, Pneum onia (a ll fo r m a l... 22.249 tial rival in the loud speaker. Tele terminals brings Its quota o f new take part in a church wedding 0 Tuberculosis (a ll form a». 26.239 22,441 with nn efficiency that amazed them, phone engineers say the Armistice day comers— all of whom expect to he sup O th er re a p lra t'y dleeaaea 3.4*9 2,732 j ceremony. He asserts that no 00 Found Eating Wasp Nests. j Now they are not content to fold their » r ig h t 's disease ................. 14.(22 14.369 ; experiment proved that music could plied with some menus of earning dress called technically an “ eve 0 Texarkana, Ark.—Eagerly eating hands. Puerperal state ............... 1,429 9,126 0 their livelihood. Not nn hour ago I l>e reproduced over the wire circuits ning dress” will be allowed. wasp nests, n man who said lie was M easles ............................. J.ltt 492 0 "The younger generation hns ac at least ns purely ns it Is reproduced talked with a girl who had Just come Skirts must not he higher than 0 John /.lug wns found the other day h oop in g cough ............ *96 647 quired a marked distaste for staying W 0 In from upstate. Nothing I said In M en in gitis (a ll fo r m s ).... (HI 792 on the best phonograph records and where the spring of the ralf of 0 under a bridge near death from star at home, where they may lead a nor D iarrh ea and e n teritis ... 2,392 2,327 that It will he a matter of but a few explanation of the seriousness of this the leg begins, sleeves must not 0 vation. He said he hud been unable mal life. They find they must he up Typh oid fe v e r ................ 1.321 »1.27» problem that Is confronting so many he shorter than above the elbow, 00 to obtain sufficient food hy begging. j'm rs when tlie last vestige of metallic *12,**« and doing and In their minds New C erebral h em orrh age ___ 12.7*2 of our men and women today had any 0 and hats must he worn. ring will be eliminated. O rganic disease o f heart 22,73* *24.416 He was turned over to n charitable She has always York Is the only place for their nctlv- E x tern a l causes (e x c lu d Mr. King believes It will he but a effect upon her. Institution. 1 Ities. The question Is, ‘Where are the wanted to come to New Y ork : she ing suicides, hom icides short time, too, until all the principal and au tom ob ile a c c ld t a ) 10.4*1 I0.0M had always had a good Job. and she I Jobs for them?’ ” public halls an«l large university audi 46.' « I H lrH Iz n rn u i •47.403 toriums are equipped at least With lo 192.472 164.944 cal loud speakers. Those, he pointed Causes of death showing nn In out, could easily be switched on long crease In the death rate: distance circuits carrying public ad 1 C • s Cancer .............................. 14. dresses and similar events from other 1.462 p l< Idee ............................. 2,*** cities. l l o 'i i- M es .......................... 1,062 A ' • m obile accidents s ad While the loud-speaking device Is a UM Infurtes ........................... L in development of the last two years, the fo-arlet fe v e r .................... *61 amplifier which made It poslhte has Dip ib e ria ........................ 2.666 been in widespread use, piling up 23.249 24.49* ciphers unseen on every long-distance telephone line In the conntry, sin«-« the IN ITS INFANCY, THEY SAY 1921 Healthiest Year in History j Jobless Girls Storm New York AUTO DEATHS UP 15 PER CENT SITUATION REALLY SERIOUS : MMMR Interesting Visitors From China C a p t a in s o f the Fencing Teams 0 4 to tal (a ll r a u e e s )...206.941 1*4,MO •Though certain cause# o f death show |r,< r-»s e e In actu al number o f deaths for 197! over 1920. the ra le per thousand Is. In fa rt, lo w e r because o f the Increased num- I t e r o f liv es at rtak lo 192L Lays Tw o Eggs Daily; One Just Shames Her. New York.— Wilton Green of Union Brick, N. near Bclvl- dere, has a Plymouth Itock hen which, he says, lays two eggs a day. most days. When she produces only a sln- * gg she is so ashamed o f her perf<wmance that she doesn't cackle. Green says. Green says she has maintained the two-a-day speed Since last spring, with few holidays. The eggs, according to Green, are brown, well formed and of normal size. Col. Ronald Camp American teams no' cupimos of «he RritRh and “ We see at the outset that shout 28 per cent o f deaths during this year have t>een caused hy diseases which under our present habits of life ere pretty *-:re to continue at high ratios among the various causes of death,” j raid Mr. Cox. "These diseases are cerebral hemorrhage, organic diseases ot the hrarl and Bright's disease. In the main they are aliments of the m* re advanced years of life. T ie re- fore we turn for hope to the other causes of death, constituting 72 per Cel t of the total. ‘ Though we learn that tubérculo 'Mrs. (6. T. i haw, wife of tl»e director of the Chinese educational mission sis has caused the enormous total of to the United Htatea, with her two children. Merry May and Y. William Chats 22.443 dead)« that Is to say about | photographed outside their hotel In Washington.