Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 27, 1917, Page 3

THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Some Odd Things That Are Found in Philadelphia HILADELPHIA.—Co}. Caldwell K. Bibble u book about the quee: people he knew in Philadelphia, Another book pould be written about the many odd institutions or odd features of institu- tions about which only a few persons F : know anything. There are the two quaint old fire insurance companies. meetings,” says a polic n one, “last only six minutes, but the annual dinner following the sumes three hours,” The “Hand-in-Hand” Tr are quite as unique as their names, while as for solvency, the Bank of England may not turn up its aristocratic nose at either. Then there is that. curious old Free Quaker charity, a big one, too, devolving solely in its management upon the Wetherill family. This is the remnant of that glorious band of belligerent Quakers of the Revolution, made still more notable by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's “Hugh Wynne.” Another curious fact is that one of the city’s savings banks could p: every depositor every cent and have remair ng more than $16,000,000, apparently would belong to nobody, as the Then there is that tir reservation that must rem used to say he could write a THIS BANK COULD PRY EACH DEPOSITOR EVERY CENT AND | STILL HAVE REMAINING | @ i%,000,000 | THERE ARE NO |) STOCKHOLDERS meetings con- and “Green ay which are no stockholders, square behind the Ritz-Carlton hotel—an Indian vacant for all time. Who except the relatively few who contribute know ubout the Merchants’ | decided that her life would be devoted | fund? And yet that very honorable ass Philadelphia, which is to say sixty-two years. It has an invested fund of more than a million dollars, the income from which goes to “furnish relief to the indigent merchants, especially such as are aged and fnfirm.” Last year its beneficiaries numbered 51 and they each received an aver- age of $412, Akin to the Merchants’ fund is the Mercantile Beneficial association. With a record of noble work of exactly three-quarters of a century behind it, few outside of the nine hundred or so who keep the fires burning know it ey It has more than $200,000 invested and, like the Merchants’, it is mena by a set of remarkably high-class men. As its name implies, the Mercantile Beneficial is open to anyone engaged in merchandising, and its helping hand is reached out, as in the other case, without any of its own r a small committee knowing who has called for help, eater ution Is exactly as old as ¢ bers except Romance and Comedy in Postal Report of Chicago HICAGO.--Iwo certified and indorsed checks, each for $24,000, wan- dered idly and carefree through the musty confines of a United States mail sack, with no apparent destination and no home until a scrupulous clerk spied them and found their own- | ers. This is one of the many incl- dents, of mystery, of romance, of tragedy, and of ec dy, which fill the report of the C igo post office for the last year. Traveling on its way to the limbo of forgotten and unread writings, in which government reports rank high, this report has been dis ered as a mine of philosophy, satire, humor and pathos. With each detall enumerated of the enormous business done by the Chicago post office which brings it near the top of the list of post offices, a sentence or two of observation by the compiler gives spice that makes the teport singular among its brethren. Commenting upon the number of newspapers which are sent by home folks to the man away from home and which because of defective addresses are undeliverable, the report observes: “To the lonely man in a strange land, the home paper is about the next | thing to c certified check.” Of the total of 981,751,026 piece: Chicago during the year, 1,500,000 pic “This not inconsiderable item gives an inkling of the number of people,” ys the report, “who, through hes s or the disposition to ‘let orge do it,’ Indulge the human t s the buck.” of mail originating and delivered in Ss were short of postage. nit of 7 Figures That Show New York’s Traffic Congestion EW YORK.—No wonder shoes are wearing out and the price of sole leather soaring le by the traftic squad of the police ¢ ment shows that persons cross the principal street intersections during the average ten business hours a day in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. The largest number of pe- destrians is observed at a crossing in Park Row—296,200 in a day, and the greatest number of vehicles at the trossing of Fifth avenue and Forty- second street. The figures indicate that about one-half the population of the city uses the streets each day. Recent complaints to the police about “hold- ups” of pedestrians by vehicular traf- | | | human f | | | | | | | | pleasure and a life of luxuriant ease sof GOTHAM SHE TURNS HER BACK ON SOCIETY Wealthy St, Louis Matron Is Touched by the Misery Around Her. TO TRY CHARITY WORK Young and Pretty Woman Decides That Her Life’s Work Must Be That of Caring for Poor and Needy. St. Lovis.—Mrs. Lucile, Bernhelmer | Lowenstein, a wealthy young widow of this city, who has been spending her time and money freely in helping to prepare a code of state laws that will govern with a kindly and sympathetic interest the lives and destinies of des titute children, the deaf, feeble-mind- ed, the delinquent, insane and others of the less fortunate members of the amily, chose the work of char- above that of society, rounds of ity simply because she was touched by | the misery that she saw about her and to the dispensing of aid and the ad- ministering of philanthropy. Prepares for the Work. In order to prepare herself for the work, Mrs. Lowenstein studied for two years in the New York School of Social | Economy to perfect herself for work in her chosen field. Returning to her native city, she plunged into the study of conditions existing among the poor and friendless, forsaking all social functions, parties and entertainments in order that she might devote all her time to the work she had undertaken. Mrs. Lowenstein says: “We are working toward an end that will mean salvation for the children of the poor and of the delinquents. - They will have a chance to become useful citizens. Their education will be cared for and everything possible will be done to give them the right outlook Chose the Work of Charity. and bring them to the realization that the world is not against them, The fact that Missourl is the first state to undertake the work makes it doubly important that there be no failure here. Children’s Court. “Every county will have a children’s court, to which all chiidren who break the law will be brought. No child will be left in a common jail with adults, and no destitute child will be confined | in staté reformatories with delin- quents. Boys under eighteen no longer | will be committed to the penitentiary. | and adults responsible for the delin- | quency of a child will be dealt with | fic and their accompanying dangers at the principal crossing, not to speak of | by the same tribunal that disposes of the inconvenience to which the public is being subjected dally thereby, have emphasized the necessity of diverting traffic to lesser used thoroughfares, The police officials, however, are wondering how this can be accomplished. The rreatest delay and the busiest street crossing in New York is the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, where it was found that nearly 1 000 vehicles, the greater.number being autos, cross between seven in the morning and five in the afternoon. It is estimated that between five o'clock and midnight about 4,000 make use of Fifth avenue, or an average of 600 an hour; this added to the previous figures, shows that more than 22,000 autos use that avenue daily. Numerous accidents along Fifth avenue are solely due té this great congestion of traflic. Despite the efforts of the traffie policemen to hold the crowds in check while vehicles are making the cross- ings, impatient persons frequently are struck by autos In an effort to cross the streets between the densely packed vehicles which fill the street from curb to curb, Mining for Garnets in the City Lots of Gotham EW _YORK.—Buyers of unimproved city lots ought to be sure to have the garnet-mining rights included, 1 into it and turn it over. fron) the pick and shovel into it an .. t until you put 2 Manchester, president of the James G. New this city. was supposed at the time that this particular gem one of a large flock. Prospecting in the rich on eeaibalr an tecventy-24iica street lode, near Northern avenue, recently, where apartment-house borings are being made nearly every day, Mr. Man- chester and the treasurer of the Mineralogical club, discovered half a crystal in which was embedded 50 garnets, One gem weighed three-fourths of a karat. The other half of the crystal is probably in the cellar walls of one | were buried alive in the cave-in of a of the new six-room-and bath apartments. ‘oremen of exca’ that way nearly all wear garnet stick pins. | dead and the fifth, Frank Davis, aged Boys of tha righhorhood hang around with ash sieves in the hope of pan- fourteen years, was so budty crushed ning a gem or two. Oh, yes, New York is a regular garnet bonanzg. the child's case. | “The edacation of the bijnd, the deaf, | the feeble-minded and the epileptic will be placed under the state depart- ment of education. These institutions now are under the direct charge of the} heads of the separate organizations | with no means of inspection. HUNG ON WITH CRUSHED LEG Man Swung From Trestie With Bad) Wound to Avoid Further | Injury. | Cathlamet, Wash.—With one leg) erushed, P. Gossard, a brakeman for | the Portland Lumber company, held for you never can tell what's in a 25-foot | the ties of a 40-foot trestle to save York Mineralogical club, says that | accident occurred late the other after- more than 100 minerals have been | noon, when the two engines were mak- found in recent years lurking under | ing a transfer of loads. A truck load- A nine-pound-ten-ounce garnet | ing Gossard between the brakebeams, was turned up just oY Broadway 21 | crushing the leg so badly that the at- years ago. This is the largest garnet tending physician amputated it at of any kind found in the country. It | once. had wandered away | the plucky man lowered himself over from its regular reservation and be- | the edge of the trestle and, deSpite his come lost in the big city, but recent | injury, remained in that position sev- himself suspended from the ends of himself from being crushed by plung- ing to the bottom of the canyon. The ed with logs Jumped the track, throw- To save himself from further inJury, eral minutes until help arrived. He was taken to a Portland hospital. Five Boys Killed in Cave-in. West Baltimore, Md.—Five boys sandbapk here. Four were taken out that his death occurred a few hours later. ee ats alse ao SEBS SE cea A vases nnd 8€ AUSTRIAN BARRICADE ACROSS A RAILWAY — An Austrian barricade built across railroad tracks on the eee Itallun front. RADIUM IS USED WITH SUCCESS IN ADVANCED CASES OF CANCER | {mportant Palliative Results Have Been Obtained, but It Cannot Be Relied Upon to Effect a Permanent Cure in Late Stages of Inoperable Tumors, Is tne Message of Science to the Public. New \>ork.—Although radium has Produced very important palliative re- sults in advanced cases of cancer, and } even, siderable number of s apparently caused a complete disappearance of the disease, yet it cannot be relied upon to #ffect a per- manent cure in the late stages of in- operable tumors, and therefore the im- portance of early diagnosis of cancer is again emphasized. Such is the es- sential from science to the public on “nt status of the radium according to Dr, James Ewing of Cornell University Medical college who took part in a symposium on this disease held this afternoon at the American Museum of | Natural iiistory under the auspices of Section K (Physiology and Experl- mental Medicine) of the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Sci- ence. Other papers of special scien- tific interest were presented by a num- ber of the foremost students of the cancer problem. Doctor Ewing spoke from his expe- rience with the radium treatment of cancer at the Memorial hospital with which he is connected as director of Cancer Research and which is receiv- g, through the generosity of Dr. James Douglas, a large part of the radium now produced under improved processes by the United States Bureau of Mines in co-operation with the Na tional Radium institute. Remarkably Little Scarring. Actording radiuin in ¢ ina ¢ essuge the pr treatment, to the speaker the use of within the weer lust | d itself as an ex cellent method of dealing with benign and mi it tumors of the skin which, when properly applied, it usu- ally removes promptly and with re- markably tule searring. In the major types of cancer of the accessible mu cous membranes radium bas als achieved considerable success. It has been chiefly tested in uterine can ir which disease it has accomplished rad fecal improvement of many inoperable al apparently comple post-mortem ex ten years cures ns attested by amination after the patients had died from other causes. A number of for- eign surgeons state that their results are better than with surgery and they ‘employ radium in both operable and inoperable uterine cases, The leading American surgeons who are using radium obtain equally good results, but take the opposite position that they prefer to operate in suitable cases. According to the speaker, much the same situation exists in regard to many other forms of accessible cancer, while a few authorities even report apparent success with such difficuit cases as those of the lip, tongue, rectum, etc. “It has become apparent,” said Doctor Ewing, “that success depends very largely upon the skill and accuracy of application, upon a knowledge of the | anatomical character of the particular tumors treated, and above all, upon attacking the disease before it is too fur advanced.” Limitations of Radium. Referviug to the Ilmitations of radium therapy as “numerous and for- midable,” Doctor Ewing pointed out that “the supply of this metal is small and generally restricted to a few in- stitutions, The requisite skill to ap- ply it safely and effectively and to choose sultable cases Is still more re- stricted. Beginners often do more |. harm than good and It is easy to dis- credit the agent entirely. The meth- ods are badly in need of standardiza- tion. Underdosage may destroy super- ficial tumor cells only and leave the deeper ones to grow in the inflamed tissues. Overdosage causes the de- struction of normal or diseased tis- sues, resulting in fistulas, hemorrhage and severe {nfection, With repeated doses tumor cells aypear to become Several workers have had fatal results from ‘their attempts to cure advanced eases, Finally, radium has only s local effect, at most to a depth of six to ten imeters, and if it bas aay constitutional influence this cannot relied upon to deal with extensive or generalized cancer Under * circumstances, a general recom mendation to the public to resort to radium for all types and stages of can- cer is decidedly inadvisable Future of Radium, to the future of radium, Doctor ing did not venture a forecast, but pointed out that very great significance must be attuched to its selective action on many kinds of tumor tissue. In spite of rapid im- provenient in the technique of applica- tion, the speaker believed that on the whole the methods are still compura- tvely crude, although he had little doubt that exact dosage and accurate adjustment of the apparatus can be worked out to a much greater degree than is now accomplished. “For in- operable cases,” Doctor Ewing suid, in conclusion, “the value of radium, al- though grent, is perhaps already over- estimated, To what extent it may es- tablish Itself in the treatment of op- With referen }erable cases it remuins for the future to decide, Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood of Johns- Hopkins university spoke from the surgeon's point of view on cancer in the vuman being, dwelling especially upon the Importance of the pre-exist- ng lesions which may develop into ancer and in the treatment and re- moval of which Hes the chief oppor tunity of preventing this disease, Doc tor Bloodgood made {it clear that cun cer in its early “The springs from a pr xisting lesion al- lowed to go unattended, Chronic trri tution of a sore may also contribute In external cancer the warning is vis- disease ible or can be felt, Unfortunately, in is rarely present, A mole or a art, a smull aren covered with a scab small lump or nodule beneath the skin, an unhealed wound, all of these may indicate potential cancer, The appearance of these defects should mean a call upon the physician for ex- amination as to the probability of tn- ciplent cancer. Nothing is lost by taking the precaution if symptoms are | not found and, on the other hand, the risk is too great to allow the warn- ings to go unheeded. The question in MRS. BEN LINDSEY BALKS AT TRIP FOR “REMAINS” uy from the - office with a reading, “Bring remains of Mr. Rosenfield from Graceland cemetery to Mrs. Rosenfield, No. street.” Jerry began wondering whet mess carried bim to a ceme- tery. Opening the messng he read it, then got off the car, and returned to the hotel, where he told) Miss Flynn, “Say, I will carry anything but a ‘stiff’ 1 balk at the ‘stiff’” and left the hotel for home, Another messenger delivered the message and took the “re- maine,” which had bee cre- mated, to the proper person, north the other ditorlum . hotel sealed messny ees this case is decided by the physician, and in many cases a minor operation removes a probable cause of the dis- ease,” Always Gives Warning. “No man ever yet had a cancer on the lip or tongue without first experl- encing some warning,” continued the |speaker. “The defect may be a burn from continued smoking or an Irrita- tion from ragged teeth, The probabill- ties of a cure are excellent when men heed such signals of possible danger and are treated at once. Tobucco users are more subject to cancer than those who do not use it. There Is no means of preventing cancer of the breast, the appearance of a lump or a discharge from the nipple being the first sign, but when such lumps are at once removed on their discovery, half will be found benign, that ts, not can- us. The removal of benign lumps oubtedly prevents cancer in many since modern medicine clearly +s the danger of benign lumps turning to malignant disense of the breast. The chances of permanent re- | covery in true breast cancer ry with the exact type of the diseuse, but are excellent if it is recognized early and completely removed, The chance of recovery grows less and less as the de- lay is more and more protracted until cancer is Incurable from the extent of | the local or general involvement, Can- }cer of the stomach Is a more difficult proposition, but even in such cases there Is usually a warning. Abnormal sensations of daily recurrence should not be neglected. So-called tndiges- tion or what is styled ‘colic’ may be the warning. The chances are that It is not, but it may be so, If the pain, the sensations, the message from this part of the body comes time and time again, especially among people over thirty or forty years of age, a physi- cian should surely be consulted,” Nothing to Be Ashamed of. ‘The mortality from cance con- cluded the speaker, “could be reduced considerably if the average person knew how to take care of himself. It is not a ‘blood disease,’ it Is not a dis- ease which people have any reason to be ashamed of. So far as physicians can tell, it Is not brought on by fl- ‘|health or food, It comes to healthy persons, the healthy man or the healthy woman; but if the simple, eas- ily noticed warnings be heeded the task becomes comparatively easy and the only miracle we have to perform is to educate a million people where we now educate one.” A historical survey of the crusade | against cancer through the education of the public was given by Curtis B, Lukeman, executive secretary of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. He said that the first widely known campaign of this kind was tni- tiated by Professor Winter of Koenigs- berg, Prussia, in 1891. As a result the cancer death rate of that vicinity had been definitely lowered and a large increase in the number of women ap- plying for treatment in the early and operable stages of the disease had besa noticed. Old Man, Never Sick, Shelby, N. O,—B. PF, Jolly, a farmer and lifelong Democrat, was in Shel-