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INtfiE PUBLIC EYE ? 1 ^ ^ l__l 1 Knox New Head of American Bankers William E. Knox of New York (portrait herewith) is the new presi dent of the American Bankers' asso ciation, succeeding Walter W. Head. Mr. Knox is president of the Bowery Savings bank. He came to this coun try from Ireland as a boy of nine. In his thirty-nine years' connection with the Bowery Savings bank he has climbed through every position from Junior clerk to president. The insti tution of which the former Immigrant boy is the head has resources of more than $230,000,000, Its depositors num ber 187,000 and It pays to these de positors $S, 000,000 annually in inter est ' . Oscar Wells, president of the First National bank, Birmingham, Ala., Is the new vice president of the associa tion. Following are the newly elected presidents of divisions:- Lucius Teter. Chicago, trust company division ; Al vin P. Howard. New Orleans, savings bank division; Carl W. Allendoerfer, Kansas City, clearing house section; W. F. Augustine, Richmond, Ya., state secretaries' section; William C. Gordon, Marshall. Mo., state bank division; Edgar L. Mattson, Minneapolis, national bank division. WBWwmmwwMM immwM 111 immi i miiumwm ?>i h ii twmwwtm* WIM<WM<H<H win Mi>>Miimi<mtMHimwwminww?TwwwMww Mrs. G. W. Vanderbilt Sets Elite Talking Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt and her daughter, Cornelia (portrait here with), have set the smart set of New York and other eastern cities talk ing and ? it may be ? thinking. Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt, It will be re called, was married last spring with much pomp and ceremony to Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil of the British legation. A clause in her fa ther's will provided that Cornelia, to inherit, must keep her Amerlcnn citi zenship. So Mr. Cecil resigned from the legation and announced his inten tion to help manage the famous Van derbilt estate, Biltmore, which consists of 100,000 acres in the mountains of North Carolina, near Asheville. Mrs. Vanderbilt returned from a long trip in Europe the other day, and announced that she was homesick for the North Carolina hills and was go ing back to resume the management of her big dairy business, which, she has carried on since her husband's death in 1914. "We sell all our milk to North Carolina cities," said Mrs. Vanderbilt. "In fact, they take more than we can produce. Oh, yes, dairying is most profitable. I'm a plain farm woman, you know. I'm building a small house on the estate for myself; the larger house belongs to my daughter. It seems to me the next development in social life in America will be the country family life, similar to the country life in England." Dave Windsor, One Grand Little Mixer Well, Dave Windsor? more for mally Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, prince of Wales, heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain? has recently been In our midst and has departed to visit quite extensively among the domin ions and commonwealths of the Brit ish empire. Dav/e had a good time, even if the British polo team was beaten by the American team. As everyone knows, Dave, who is now thirty, has successfully dodged all at tempts of his royal parents to get him married. On the face of it, the casual reader might imagine that Dave's am bition in life was to have a good time. But the truth is, largely, that Dave Is one grand little mixer and Is doing his mixing with a purpose. If he keeps on, he'll know a whole lot about the world and the people thereof by , the time he comes to the throne. He's got the same talent for mixing with all sorts of people that distinguished his grandfather, Edward VII, who was a pretty wise sort of king. Dave is an even better mixer, because he goes in for athletics and sport ? and sport Is the most democratic thing on earth. King Hussein of the Hedjaz Abdicates There Is a complicated mixup in Arabia. At this writing about the only thing that is certain is that King Hussein of the Hedjaz, former grand shereef of Mecca and recently self proclaimed caliph of all Moslems, has been forced to abdicate from both the Hedjaz and the Moslem caliphate throne. The king put his signature to the prepared abdication document after he had spent many hours in prayer and in wireless communication with his sons, Feisal, the king of Mesopo tamia, and Abdullah, the ruler of Transjordania. Hussein declared that he was retiring only temporarily be cause of his desire to protect the holi est of holy Moslem cities, Mecca, from being a center of strife and tlie pos sible object of destruction. He has appealed to the all-Islamic congress, which Is to convene shortly in Cairo, to re-elect him. King Hussein has been holding Mecca against the Wahabis, tribesmen of Nejd, who are trying to tarry out a religious reform program by force of arms. Doctors of Ancient Egypt Knew a Lot Prof. James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago (portrait here with), whose fame as an Egyptologist Is world wide, says that the old idea that Egypt was exclusively a land of magic, mystery and superstition Is dispelled by the discovery of a docu ment showing that Egyptian physicians of the Seventeenth century before Christ studied anatomy in the spirit of pure scientific research. Upon an ancient papyrus now in America there was inscribed In the writing of Ancient Egypt what Pro fessor Breasted calls "the oldest nu cleus of really scientific medical knowl edge in the world." Professor Breasted is making n complete translation of this important document which, although it has been In America for a number of years. has never been properly studied^ The manuscript, known as the Edwin Smith papyrus, now Jn the possession v ,:*? of the New York Historical society, Professor Breasted says "contains Incona parably the most important bodj of pedlcal knowledge which bat survived" 1? Lleuts. p Lyon and Andrew Crinkley, who established u new non-stop flying record of 20 hours, 10 min utes and 10 seconds. 2? Levi Henshaw Gorrell of Wichita, Kans., oldest living Mason, who has Just celebrated his ?04th birthday. 3? New exhibit in National museum, Washington, showing the progress In radio. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Campaign Fund Figures Are Uncovered ? Dissolution of German Reichstag. By EDWARD W. PICKARD SENATOR BORAH'S campaign fund Investigating committee, having shifted the scene of operations to Washington, spent a busy week main ly in inquiring into the truth or falsity of the charge made by Senator La Follette and his attorney, Frank I*. Walsh, that there is a conspiracy to raise between ten and twelve million dollars to secure the election of C'ool idge and Dawes. Attorney Samuel I'ntermyer was associated with Walsh In the cross-examination of witnesses, the most important of whom were 1'ennsylvanlans. It is from their state, according to the LaFollette- charges, that much of the alleged slush fund Is expected. These I'ennsylvanians, among whom were S. M. Vauclain, president" of the Baldwin Locomotive works; E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia partner of J. 1*. Morgan & Co.; Joseph it. Grundy, president of the State Manufacturers' association and author of letters so liciting campaign contributions; and Chester W. Hill and Nathan T. Fol- I well of Philadelphia, testified with i apparent frankness concerning their efforts to raise money for the Repub lican campaign and concerning tlvfir own contributions. They said tlfey were not ashamed thus to aid their party. Mr. Grundy and Mr. iiill taid hey had raised $*105,000 in the eastern part of the state and were still going ahead. Senator Caraway sought to develop that the contributors were "government beneficiaries," but Mr. Grundy said the lis;t to whom letters had been sent had been bought from an addressograph company. 'Tretty good letters," commented Senator Caraway. "Worth $305,000. You say you are grateful for the laws passed under the Republican admin istration. You mean the tariff?" "No. All the laws." Mr. Vauclain said: "I am not ashamed of the Republican party. It never entered my head whether it would take ten or fifty millions to win the election." "Money talks?" asked the sarcastic iir. Untermyer. "No, sir; righteousness talks. I nave confidence enough in the work ing people of this country to feel thut they will not be hoodwinked by any thing. The American worklngman votes straight." "You feel that you speak for the worklngman?" asked Attorney Walsh in amazement. "Yes. I do not speak for Mr. Sam uel Gompers. I haven't the slightest fear of LaFollette. I feel that It won't take more than one hay wagon to haul away his votes." T. V. O'Connor, who led a party of labor men to Washington to tell Mr. Coolidge he had their support, was asked concerning the expenses of that trip. He said he advanced the money and was reimbursed by Joseph Ryan, vice president of the longshoremen's union, and that each man had paid his share. Mr. O'Connor was also questioned about his intimation, in a speech at Buffalo, that LaFollette was receiving Soviet money from Russia through Mexico. He admitted he had no information to .support this hut said it was "common rumor" and lie believed It, having heard it from crews of boats returning from Russia. William Knox, president of the American ^Bankers' association, wired the comniittee a flat denial of the charge made by Attorney Walsh that a political fund to defeat LaFollette had been raised at the meeting of the association In Chicago. . He said no request has ever been made by the association for funds for political pur poses. Mr. Stotesbury, whom Walsh named as the chairman of the commit tee to raise this fund, denied all knowl edge of it. BEFORE hearing all this testimony, the Borah committee called Na tional Chairman Clem Shaver and Na tional Treasurer James W. Gerard to tell about the Democratic campaign Asks Aid of Churches to Redeem Convicts Albany, N. Y.? Appealing to the churches of the United States to exer cise a greater and more constant In fluence upon the moral and religious work of penal Institutions, Frank Moore of Railway, N. J., president of the American Prison association, quot ed statistics to show that crime In this country is increasing to an alarming degree. He pointed out that the cen- , V " . .V I fund. Mr. Shaver said the national committee had received only $548,440 to date, was already $48,000 In the* hole and expected to end the campaign with a deficit of about $150,000 unless 1 it is pleasantly disappointed by more liberal contributions. Mr. Gerard identified some of the larger donors to the fund, including T. L. Chad bourne, Harney M. Baruch and Henry Morgenthau of New York, C. C. Wat son of West Virginia and Mr. Gerard himself. He cheerfully told the com j mittee that he and his associates [ would gladly spend a million and a | half if it were given them. LaFollette's campaign fund, it seems, is not at all large, but that his managers would gladly accept and spend more is made evident by a for- j ma I statement of Attorney General Ekern, treasurer of the third party. He appeals for contributions without placing any limit thereon, and says: "If our friends come forward liberally now we can put this thing over." Last week LaFollette and Wheeler turned their attention to the eastern states, especially New York, for, as Mr. Ekern said, "We are now assured of enough states in the West to prevent the election of Coolidge." The fight among the three parties for New York's 45 electoral votes is exceedingly hot. If they should be won by either Davis or LaFollette the election might be thrown into congress. As has been said repeatedly, the Republicans de clare that this Is what both the other parties are seeking to bring about. Mr. Davis predicts that LaFollette will carry six or eight stutes, all normally Republican. GERMANY is to have a general election December 7, when a new reiehstag will be chosen. The pres ent reichstag was dissolved on Monday of last week by President Ebert be cause Chancellor Marx had failed so to reorganize the cabinet that he would have a working majority in the legislative assembly. It will be remem bered that the Nationalists consented to vote for t lie Dawes plan laws on condition that they should have three seats in the cabinet, that there should be a tax on imported grains and that Germany should not join the League of Nations unless her claim that she did not start the war was accepted. The government promised all this, but found difficulty in carrying out its pledges, especially that concerning the war guilt. Also the various parties re fused to co-operate with Marx in the formation of the new cabinet, and he finally gave up. The Nationalist party, .largest of the seven, has Issued a proc lamation declaring in favor of the res toration of the monarchy and against the Versailles treaty and the Dawes plan. It says : "We mean to create a new Germany, free from Jewish con trol." If the Nationalists should win control? wlrich is unlikely? civil war might result, for the republican ele ments are prepared to support the re public with arms. The German Industrial magnates are trying to form a coalition of the Na tionalists and People's parties and offer a huge campaign fund for such a combine, provided it promises the res toration of the ten-hour day in the mines and factories and the alteration of the employment insurance made necessary by the Dawes plan. Actual economic evacuation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgians be gan last week, the Important fiscal services being transferred to the Ger man officials, and tliis restoration was to be complete by midnight of October 27. Miliary evacuation also is under way and the inhabitants of Dortmund and other cities gave themselves to de lirious rejoicing as the foreign troops departed. IN THE final week of the British parliamentary campaign the situa tion was so confused that it was al most impossible to predict the result of the elections, but it seemed no partj would obtain a clear majority of the seats. The united front of the Lib erals and Conservatives against Labor appeared to have broken down, many of the Liberals giving actual support to the right wing of the Labor party. Great bitterness developed, there were many riots and various notables were heckled into silence at the meetings. FENG YU-HSIANG. the "Christian general." has executed a coup that may possibly bring an end to the In ternecine warfare in China. One of his brigades entered Peking and quiet sus shows that from 1004 to 1022 this increase was at the rate of 50 per cent and that every year approximately one out of every GOO citizens of the coun try greets the new year in prison. "If the men in prisons are going to be free from sin und froin the fetters that hind them/' Mr. Moore said, "the churches must take an interest in the prison problems of the country. It I? not a question of punishment but of reformation that must be worked out in the prisons. ? "There are many men In charge of ly took complete control of the city, cutting communications and closing ? the gates. A proclamation was Issued stating that General Feng did not wish to m?ke war and hayj called a confer ence >veen the government and the Manchurlins. It was said he also de manded President Tsno Kun re sign, and H?ports from Tokyo said Tsao had flee* from Peking. Earlier in the week General Chang fought two bloody battles with the Peking forces in the Shanhaikwan re gion and, according to the most reli able reports, defeated them with heavy losses. Part of the Manchurlan army reached the sea near Chinwang tao and thus had about 15,000 Peking troops virtually surrounded. It was believed General Wu would flee on a warship. Sun Yat-sen, having worsted the merchants' volunteer corps in Canton, is having as ninny of its survivors as he can catch strangled and their fam ilies are being tortured to obtain In formation. Gen. Chen Chiun-ming I* advancing on Canton and Doctor Sun says if. he is attacked by Chen he will burn what Is left of the city. IX THE United States, also, the Chi nese are fighting for the tong war which broke out several weeks ago has not been stopped, although the po lice of New York, Chicago and otl\pr large cities have arrested hundreds of Chinese gunmen. Every day or two there is a new killing or bombing, and as the Chinese, like the Italians, never will tell on one another, the authori ties have great difficulty in sup pressing the outbreak. Attorney general stone, id a brief filed in the Federal court at St. Paul, Minn., seeks for "effective dissolution" of the International Har vester company's alleged monopoly of the farm machinery business. The proceedings are supplemental to the consent decree in dissolution entered in that court in 1918. This, Mr. Stone holds, did not go far enough, and he asks that the court give proper pro- | tectlon "to the farmers and land own ers who are dependent upon agrlcul- i tural machinery and Implements ob tainable at reasonable prices." Dur ing a test period which ended IS months after the declaration of peace, according to the brief, eight of the Harvester company's competitors went out of business, and in 1922, the last selling season under the test period, the defendant company's busi ness actually increased. The govern ment's plan for dissolution has been j worked out by the federal trade com mission. SHENANDOAH has been having j rather a rough time on the Pacific coast, what with hard winds and fogs. Last week she started on the return ' flight from Washington to the east coast. In crossing the Rockies her gas cooled so rapidly that It was nec essary to drop much of the water and gasoline carried. ZR-3, now known as the Los Angeles, has been deflated and will soon be refilled with helium gas made in Texas. The big dirigible has been officially inspected as a prelimi nary to her formal surrender Jo the i United States navy. ORGANIZED labor won a victory when the Supreme court of the United States last week handed down an opinion to the effect that Federe) courts must not refuse Jury trials In | contempt cases growing out of labor 1 disputes. The decision is in two case9 1 arising from the railway shopmen's ' strike and holds that the section of the Clayton act requiring a jury trial in 1 certain specified kinds of contempt )8 j constitutional ; that railroad workers ! on strike are "employees" within tl\e meaning of that law; that the con tempt charged constituted a criminal offense, and that a trial by jury was mandatory when demanded. AN EXPLOSION aboard the scout cruiser Trenton, as yet unex plained, killed four men putright and Injured sixteen others, of whom ten have since died. The vessel was on target practice at the time of the dis aster. ONTARIO, the only remaining dry province in Canada, decided last Thursday to remain dry. The tem perance act was retained by a major ity of about 25,000. The cities and towns voted wet, but the rural dis tricts carried the day for the pro* hibition side. the prisons of the country who are anxious to do moral work with their charges, but are not able because they do not have men and women who would be willing to work with them in reaching the individual offender. The head of a penal institution with hun dreds, and it may be thousands, under him has so many duties that personal work with each individual is a physi cai impossibility. It is easy to see how the church could be of valuable help to him if it would only offer its ?Mistance." ?1. . "* POINTS ON KEEPING WELL ? .'.J Dr. Frederick R. Green, Editor of "Health." .(?, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) FRESH AIR DOESN'T COST ANYTHING OEVERAL years ago the superln : tendent of a large, new hospital x Invited me to visit his institution. t; The building had been erected with out regard to expense and contained every improvement that ingenuity . could suggest and that money could buy. We went over the building from top to bottom. He showed me the lar^, ' sunny wards, the beautiful private rooms, the wonderfully equipped and Immaculately clean operating rooms, the sterilizing rooms, the kitchens, the pantries, the storerooms, the heating plant, and all the other won derful devices which the building con tained. Last of all, he took me to the basement to see the ventilating plant. An elaborate and expensive system had been Installed, by which the outside air was drawn in by re volving fans, purified, washed and cooled, and then distributed through out the building by a system of ven tilating pipes. He said, "With this equipment, we can pump pure air into every room and provide plenty of pure, fresh air for every occupant." I said, 'That's a wonderful system. Is It going to work?" He replied, "Of course, It will work. The company which Installed It guarantees it." Two years later, I visited the same hospital. Going Into the first room, I noticed that the window was wide open. I sai(> to the superintendent, "What have you got that window open for?" "To let in fresh air," he re plied. I said, "What's the matter with your ventilating system?" He said, "Oh, we gave that up long ago. When we want fresh air, we open a win dow." This experience has been confirmed by the New York commission of ven tilation, which made a careful study of ventilating systems in school buildings, hospitals, assembly halls and public buildings, and found that the best way to ventilate a room is the old-fashioned way of opening a window. The report says, "While weH-devlsed and controlled systems of tan ventilation with closed windows were found capable of producing ex cellent result?, certain characteris tics inherent 5ti this method made them definitely Inferior to window ventilation." Ventilation was not a difficult prob lem In the early days. The log cabins and primitive frame houses had abundant cracks In the walls, the floors, and around the doors and win dows, through which fresh ' air could come. The large, open fireplace with a roaring log fire created a draft. The fresh air came In at the cracks and the foul air was swept ^up the chimney. But the best form of ventilation Is still the open window. A screen or a glass deflector In front of the win dow prevents direct drafts without ex cluding the air. WHOOPING COUGH IS NO JOKE YX7HOOPING COUGH Is generally * v regarded as one of the mildest and least important of children's dis eases. It Is often regarded almost as a joke. Sometimes mothers, ignorant of the danger, deliberately expose their children to it so they can "get it and have It over with." But whooping cough Is no joke, as most mothers and all doctors know. Any disease which kills one-half of all the babies under one year which take It Is rather a grim joke. During the second year 27 per cent die. Between the second and fifth years 18 per cent die. Over 80 per cent of all cases and about 97 per cent of all deaths from whooping cough are in children under five years old. The great danger is not in the . dis ease itself but in the pneumonia that often follows it. Whooping cough is caused by a germ which grows In the lungs and throat. When the sick child coughs, It throws out drops of moisture which contain quantities of these germs. The well child breathes them in and in from seven to ten days develops the dis ease. It can also be carried from the sick to the well child by slate pencils, lead pencils, apples, candy, especially all-day suckers, gum or anything else which is passed from one child to an other. The symptoms are those of an or dinary cold with a slight cough and fever. Soon the cough changes to the peculiar "whoop" from which the disease gets its name. This is due to the choking up of the throat with mucus. There may be half a dozen or as many as forty or fifty of these spasms in twenty-four hours. The disease usually lasts for about six weeks but may last for four months. The danger Is in the pneumonia which may develop in the weakened child and cause speedy death. Whooping cough is a dangerous dis ease. Don't take any chances. Keep your child away from children who may have It. \Don't let it play with Infected children. If your child does get It, protect it from cold and ex posure until the disease has run its course. Earthly Immortality An earthly Immortality belongs to a great and good character? history em balms it, * it lives In its moral influ ence, its authority, in its example, in the memory of its words and deeds. ? Edward Everett. Making the Bett of It He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to tend him the whole prefers to lose only the halt? Mar ??* Relieved Mrs. Laura BerbehcV, years ot age, 13)5 \V:Vj*V tlobnkcn, N ].. writer. j attack oi La Grippe Wit s* J a hoarseness arid slime ia^Ji and thr<- at. 1 had cV.ror.ic qj It grew worse. 1 could wxCl or sleep at night. I *u bothered by the slime, back and a terrible heaii^J morning. Finally 1 bought a Vr* Pe-rn-na which was oi fit It gave me blood atid I have no pains in hea-1. '.-"-J nor noises in the head. has gone ar.d 1 can \\<^J weight has increased. ful and happy, thanks to which 1 shall always j, house and recommend n\ friends" For every iorm oi J p^-ru-na meeU the mi (3 Colds, Na;al Catarrh, Bowel disorders art all i?^ catarrh. Buy it any where in ^ liquid form. Don^tletyow,,^, Don t ?fa and di?.? u; whol? iy,!eni Mun.yon'? Pt? p? TJ and Niturt wil] __ J der.foryou. T For Conr-jrjs, I Muayoo'iPmPnul MUNY0N1 PAW PAW TOUd Satisfaction ruaranutd m %?**, , * There U Hope " Much the Samt "What lias Im-< < >:u?- ? She was a jok?* in <? k." "She i.s now r';iy:n;r ? I'our economy?:,. v..,. waste lift-. Help That AchyBjj| Are you dragline ar jr.l i day, with a dull. nnceavcj a Are y<>u lame in the trcd with headaeh?\ '-.vj* urinary disorders? F. <\ '.:ni : and discouraged? Th-n !h?'i (something wron?. and Ur.'v r. weakness. Don't nejrie'-: your health while ymi can Pills, a ptimulaiit <hur*-'.'- tt if neys. Doarfs Lave h^vi r and should help }i>u. iu Neighbor! A South Carolina Cue liKts : and -.v"! bad'.v !' V-J ached and r.y iadM hardly kidr.'-ys *1 !>ad drovT a*?J pi Doan's Pllh symptom." DOAN'S STIMULANT DIURETIC TOTHHjJ Fotter-Milburn Co.. Mig. ChenuMi^f No mail ter >i"u ?n: a - :.k(1 mains on the mm-'' gray in the uervh'e A liljrh hr??w may ??rains. _ _ When You Catch OJ Rub on Muster* MustcroleiseagW?^ in its good ftork ng prevents a^old 1 or pneumonia. Just ^ PP ^ >Jf| with the Angers. _ , work of grandmothers without the blister Musterole is a clean. ,.fj made of oil of mU5 * simples. It 's ref 'j '. doctors and nurses* - ;tC. sore throat, cold on ? tism, lumbago, PIe"n;j'n3i ohitis. asthraa, I pains and ach^ 6prains,soromu^-:--f frosted feet - cold \t To Mothers: M" for^% made in ^ ^ babie. and ?r#Mu5j| Ask for Children ,^| 35cand^.r?f 1 '? L ' Better than n The hn? ?kW,L'' serve \"u :r":" v"' Y? hi |h treatesl - 1 ! 'I-' ~Tc.? IF Bl "CASCAKEI5 ,|" CONSTIPATE^ ^ If Clay. * ii? Sour, C ean - I T lo" t y 52 i "' -4 is X- r J) :h . Wt.-' ?% ,A S?<? distress P"' itorefi
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