Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1911 Page: 8 of 10
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«EAT MINE
HESCUE TOURNAMENT
NCLiE SAM is going to stand spon-
Bor tliia autumn for ono of the iuoat
novel und most interesting com
petitive contests ever conducted.
So far as known no other govern-
ment in the world lins ever conduct-
ed such a tournament and It Is
bound to attract attention far and
wide. Moreover this unique event
Is all the more Interesting and all
the more commendable from the
fact that Its purpose is not merely
the exploiting of athletic prowess
after the fashion of the average "field day " Oil
the contrary Its aitn and object Is the laving of
human life and the relief of Buffering. It is be-
cause of Its high purpose, combined with the fact
that it is under government auspices, that Pres-
ident Taft, the secretary of the interior, and other
high officials and prominent men will be present.
This innovation which promises to win a per-
manent place on our calendar of public events has
a rather long name. It Is designated officially as
i National First-Ald-to-the-lnjured Field Meet, and
It is to concern itself primarily with first aid
work and relief work as conducted in coal mines
where, as every reader knows, there la most ur-
gent need for such humanitarian measures owing
to the frightful disasters which occur all too fre-
quently in our coal mines, due to explosions, fires,
and cave-ins of rock and earth. The field meet
will be held at a place known as Arsenal Park
near Pittsburg, Pa. xhis site has been chosen
because it will be convenient of access for the
miners and mine rescue workers who will com-
pete In the contests, and because, furthermore,
the United States government has at this place
an experimental station with all the facilities and
#quipment at hand for giving exhibitions and con-
&jcyo-£w Nf-t-rier"
PEACE PACES
ARE SIGNED
HISTORV MAKING EVENT TRANS-
PIRES AT WASHINGTON
HOW IT HAPPENED.
WILL AID IN ENDING WAR
United States, G..eat Britain and
France In Present Treaty Agree-
ment, While Other Powers
May Decide to Enter
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Washington.—President Taft sent
to the senate Friday the general
arbitration treaties between the Unit-
ed States and Great Britain and tho
United States and France, signed for
this government and for Great Britain
here Thursday and signed in Paris for
j the government of France.
Tho brief messages of transmittal to
j the senate were written and signed by
! the president Thursday, and Friday.lt
j will lie with the United States Benate
\ to ratify what has been termed the
! greatest step toward the abolition of
! warfare that the world thus far has
j taken. Already there have been mut-
I terings from the senate over these
j treaties. President Taft is noncommit-
! tal, but was anxious to put them be-
! fore that body before the adjournment
| of the special session.
"Poor man! How did you become a
tramp?"
"1 wuz a war correspondent in Man-
churia, mum. I got so used ter doing
nuthin' dat I hain't been no good
since."
ASSIST
YOUR
STOMACH
OKLAHOMA GETS THREE
MORE CONGRESSMEN
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jjv&eoi 'S3WO st
luctlng contests In mine rescue work
under approximately the same condi-
tions that would prevail after an act-
ual mine disaster.
This inaugural tournament Is to be
conducted by the U. S. Bureau of
Mines,—the newest branch of our na-
tional government and an institution
which congress recently established
under the interior department, espe-
cially for the purpose of studying and
finding remedies for the mine disas-
ters which have been giving the Unit-
ed States a bad name all over the
world for these many years past. How
ever, the Bureau of Mines Is going
to have influential help in the conduct of Its first
national Meld Meet. For one thing the American
Red Cross Is going to co-operate.
Now the Red Cross has been colled on very
frequently of late years to lend a hand after
some great mine disaster, and it is today instru-
mental in supporting and educating many chil-
dren whose fathers were killed in the disasters
of the past few years. Thus the Red Cross offi-
cials have had brought home to them the need
of doing everything possible to save lives in
mines and to reduce the number and seriousness
of mine accidents. And anyway the Red Cross
has become deeply Interested of late years in
flrBt aid-to-the-injured work of all kinds,—so much
bo that It Is now distributing "first aid cabinets"
all over the country and has on the road all the
while a special car with Instructors who travel
from town to town enrolling workmen as volun-
teer Red Cross workers and instructing them In
"first aid" work. So that, in view of all this, it
Is but natural that the Red Cross should want to
have a hand In the first field meet to Btimulate
Interest in the cause. And finally the coal opera-
tors, who have much at Btake, have through their
general organization volunteered to help make
the tournament a success.
It is expected that from 20,000 to 30,000 miners
will attend the Field Day near Pittsburg on Sep-
tember lti. A number of them will come merely
as spectators or because they have been urged to
come and profit by the "object lessons" that will
be enacted before their eyes, but a very large
proportion will be entered as contestants In the
various events It would surprise the average
reader, no doubt, to learn how many men are
eligible to entry In such contests, considering that
organized rescue v.ork on its present scale was
taken up in the mines of this country only a few
years ago.
Some of the most skillful first aid workers de-
vote their entire time to this occupation. These
are the employes stationed on one or another of
the U. S. Government's Mine Rescue Cars The
Mine Rescue cars. It need scarcely be explained,
are Pullman cars which Uncle Sam purchased &
year or two ago, turned over to the newly-created
Uureeu of Mines, and had transformed into com-
bination school rooms and hospitals on wheels.
Each car has a crew of several ('*!.<ns who eat
and sleep aboard, like firemen ever ready to re-
spond to an alarm. They a/id their car have
dual functions. When a mine disaster occurs, the
cars in that district are hurried to the scene and
the men on board tuki the lead In the rescue
work. At other times when no such emergencies
demand their attention the cars traverse regular
routes, visiting one mining town after another
Just as a traveling circus might do and tarrying
for two or three days at each camp, while the ex
perts, by means of demonstrations and "night
Bchooi" lectures In the car, give instructions to
•«« community as to how to prevent accidents and
yVvV^c5- Ojcy&E- A?
how to carry on rescue
and relief work if a
disaster does occur.
The result of this
plan of Uncle Sam for
having these "mission-
aries" of the First Aid
crus de c o n,s t a n t ly
traveling up and down
the mining r e g i ons
showing the once-Ignor-
ant miners what to do
in an emergency and
how to do it, has been
that a considerable pro-
portion of the under-
ground workers are
coming to have some
knowledge of what to
do to relieve the suf-
fering of one another
In time of accident
when doctors and nur-
ses are not at band.
Bettor still, a feature of
the government plan
and the Red Cross
plan to organize at
each mine a volunteer
corps of "first aid
workers. These volun-
enough time to the work
Washington—The amended house
congressional reapportionment bill, pro-
make believe coal mine, | viding that after March 3, 1913, the
house shall consist of 433 members,
exclusive of Arizona and New Mexico,
an increase of forty-two over the pres-
ent membership, was passed by the
senate without roll call.
The bill now goes to the confer-
ence between the two houses before
going to the president for his signa-
ture.
It gives Oklahoma three more mem-
bers.
teers agree to devote i-..--- „„,.v,
to gain more than a superficial kno b
as Is acquired by the rank and file o to m •
Uncle Sam's experts devote any necessary amount
of time to instructing these volunteers an u
Red Cross and the mine operators have shown a
disposition to provide them with all the necessary
equipment,—expensive though it be.
The result of this development of a humanitari-
an militia in the coal mines has been that we now
find at many a mine a volunteer corps of lust
aid" workers who are thoroughly qualified for
their work and who can do just as much for their
entombed fellow-workmen or for miners overcome
by poisonous gases as could the experts on any
of the government mine rescue cars and who
are on hand to act immediately without waiting
for the arrival of a government car. It is these
volunteers who are expected to give zest to the
competitions in rescue work at the oig gatheiing
In Western Pennsylvania. "Teams" made up of
volunteer workers at verlous mines have been in
training for months for the event, working to be
able to do each stunt in the shortest possible
space of time,—for in these contests as In hook
and ladder races and hose laying contests, a sec-
ond or two may mark the difference between vic-
tory and defeat.
The "first aid" tournament is going to have
some very realistic features. For one thing there
will bo provided
open at one side to the view of the spectators,
and in this will occur on signal an explosion just t
like that which occurs in a real mine except that |
there will be no actual loss of life. However, j
men will be apparently injured by the shock and
overcome by the fumes and will fall in supposedly j
perilous positions from which they will be res-
cued by "first aid" men working in double quick
time just as they would do under the stress of
a genuine disaster. These rescue workers will
be called upon to Improvise stretchers from their
jackets and ::aine drills; to hurriedly bring to the
scene mine hospital cars; and do the other things
they would do In time of serious trouble. Of
course, all their operations will have to be carried
on by means of what illumination can be gained
from the new pattern of electric safety lamps for
It is out f the question to carry into a mine
filled with explosive gases any ordinary lantern
or lamp with an exposed flame of any kind.
Easily one of the most interesting phases of the
contests will be the competitions involving the
use of the oxygen helmets so called. A helmet
of this kind, which may cost as much as $200,
may be described as an air-tight, armor-like cov-
ering for the head and shoulders which enables
a rescue worker to penetrate into mines filled
with noxious fumes just as a driver's suit enables
its wearer to live and work under water. The
air-tight helmet not only excludes the deadly gas-
es of the mine but it supplies Rs wearer with
necessary flow of life-giving oxygen, drawn as
needed from metal cylinders of compressed oxy-
gen worn on the back, like a knapsack. The com-
petitions at Pittsburg will Include tests as to how
long a uian can work effectually in such a suit
of armor and tests as to the ability of the respec-
tive wearers of the helmets to detach empty oxy-
gon cylinders from their backs and replace them
with fresh cylinders. This is highly important I
because in mine rescue work it may happen that
there' is no second rescue worker at hand to as- I
sist In changing cylinders and unless a "first aid"
man can do this for himself he must leave his |
work and hurry back to the mouth of the mine i
for fresh air.
Another form of apparatus, and it is a new one, ;
which will be demonstrated Is the Pulmoter. The
Pulmoter Is a German invention, and for all that j
It would almost fit into an ordinary suit case,
It is so delicate and remarkable in its mechanism
that it costs $800. The Pulmoter is, In effect, an
automatic breathing machine. It will compel an
unconscious man to breath whether he wants to
or not and it mechanically draws poisonous gases
out of the lur-ga with one operation and forces in
the life-giving oxygen with the other. That it is j
caiiable of well nigh performing miracles may be
appreciated when it is explained that with this |
agent for mechanical resuscitation the experts
of the U. S. Government have brought back to
life, miners who fiad remained unconscious in
mines for 26 hours and who had been abandoned j
as dead.
Reapportionment Bill Increasing Mem-
bership of House 42 Mem-
bers Passed by Senate
In its work of digestion
and assimilation by be-
ginning your meals with
a dose of
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS
It will prevent
SOUR STOMACH
INDIGESTION DYSPEPSIA
SICK HEADACHE
HEARTBURN MALARIA
Try a bottle today.
BODY OF CUBAN REBELS
ARE ON WAR PATH
More Than That.
"Did they water tho stock?"
"They fairly turned the hose on It."
Smile on wash day. That's when you use
Red Cross Ball Blue. Clothes whiter thua
•now. All grocers.
General Acevedo Heads Revolutionary
Party in the Suburb of Havana—
Shot One Citizen Dead
Havana, Cuba—An uprising against
the government apparently of a ser-
ious character appeared at Regia, a su-
burb of Havana, situated across the
harbor, when General Guillermo Aceve-
do, a revolutionary veteran, with eight
or ten companions armed and mount-
ed took the field.
It is reported that the party was
reinforced by 200 men.
Before leaving Regia Acevedo Is-
sued a manifesto denouncing the ad-
ministration of President Gomez as
scandaalous and corrupt, and adjuring
all patriots to rise and overthrow It.
He declared he would give Gomez
fifteen days in which to resign after
which if the warning was not obey-
ed he Intended to apply the torch
and destroy property indiscriminately
until the whole island was reduced to
ashes.
Wanted to Know.
Ella—She has a rosebud mouth.
Stella -Does that explain her mak-
ing so many flowery speeches?
the
Patient Creditors.
Gibbs—Do you ever think of
debts you owe your ancestors?
Dibbs—No; they are not pushing mu
like my tailor and grocer.
Truthfully Said.
"My friend, you should join the
church. As the prophet says 'Come
thou with us and w-e will do thee
good.'"
"You have already, parson. I was
at your church fair last night."—Smart
Bet Magazine.
Unexpected.
Suddenly the umpire called time.
"Aw, what's the matter!" demand-
ed the catcher.
"Somebody in the grand stand ap-
plauded me," he said, wiping the
blinding tears from his eyes, "and I
wasn't prepared for that .
Play ball!"
An Undefined Definition.
A few days after school opened In
I tho spring a teacher in a Brooklyn
} school was testing the members of
j one of her old classes on what they
| had remembered of the definitions she
had taught them during the preceding
term. Finally she asked tho bright
Baby Born to Mrs. Neapolitano
Saulte Ste Marie, Mich.—A baby
girl was born at the general hospital
in Sault Ste Marie, Ont., to Mrs. An-
gelino Neapolitano, the convicted slay.
er of her husband, who was sen-
tenced t ohang on Wednesday next, but
whose sentence was commuted to life j boy of the class this question:
Imprisonment in the Kingston peniten- j "Now, Robert, tell me what a hypo
tiary. The infant, which is said to ; crite is?"
he robust, will be placed in care of the "A hypocrite,'
Children's Aid Society, which is now
looking after the other four children.
The Danger of the Inferior
Texas Legislature Takes Up Regulation
Austin, Tex.—The first step of the
special session of the legislature to-
ward stringent saloon regulation in
Texas, was taken when a special sen-
ate committee reported favorably a
resolution for the closing of saloons
from 7 at night until 6 in the morning,
ten-mile law and a quart law. The
replied Robert with-
out hesitation, "is a kid w'at comes to
school wit' a smile on his mug."
STRONGER THAN MEAT
A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nuts.
A gentleman who has acquired a ju-
dicial turn of mind from experience
on the bench out In the Sunflower
State writes a carefully considered
opinion as to tho value of Grape-Nuts
1 as food. He says:
I resolution was introduced simultane- : v "For lhe pa3t ? year„3 r'raPf"Nut3
has been a prominent feature in our
| bill of fare.
"The crisp food with the delicious,
ously in both houses.
We are often told that one reason why we
Fhould not go down to the inferior things Is that
they can never satisfy us But the danger is that
they may satisfy us A boy at school may come
to like evil talk and unworthy stories When he
selt homo puch things were unnatural and dis-
tn teful to him, but he let himself down to them
little by little until anything else Is uncongenial to
him. The inferior things have come to satisfy
Sim. A popular lecturer told recently of having
heard one woman say to another as they came
away from an Ibsen play, "I do not like Ibsen.
Il takes the hope out of life." If she spoke sln-
( ■ rely, It was only because she had brought her-
self to such an unnatural philosophy. She did
not begin life with so unwholesome and untrue a
view In the days that were real and worthy It
was hope which made life beautiful. If now she
preferred hopelessness It was because her pref-
erences had degenerated, and that had begun to
tatlsfy her which formerly would have been tha
very depth of darkness to her
This is the peril of the soul's freedom. The
very capacity to rise Involves tho capacity to de-
scend. Just as we can go forward from any at-
tainment, discontented with it, to higher things
which alone can satisfy us, so we can go back-
ward and downward Into tastes, experiences, and
character which would once have been utterly re-
pugnant to us, but which have the dreadful power
of becoming the soul's desired aim, so that we are
satisfied. The soul can shrivel as well as ex-
pand. And we must beware of those who tell us
that we can go down to anything we wish with
out fear, that we can throw off the inferior
things whenever we wish and return to our na-
tive place. We cannot. The soul adapts Itself
to Its environment, and we may become so satis-
fied on the low planes that we shall never wake
to discontent. Then our birthright will be gone,
and we shall not care to have It back again. The
danger of all sin and surrender is that they may
stupefy the taste and satisfy it.
Admiral Fox Retires
Washington—Rear Admiral Charles
E. Fox, commandant of the Charles-
ton, S. C., navy yard, was placed on
the retired list Wednesday at his own
request, after forty years service in
the navy. During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war he commanded the torpedo
boat Morris.
Stom Sweeps Topeka
Topeka, Kan.—A violent rain and
electrical storm occurred here. A
number of houses were struck by
lightning and some telephones dis-
abled, but no one was hurt. The rain-
fall was about a half inch.
HUMAN HANDICAPS.
We do not require the same attainments from
all. Some are well taught, some are ill taught,
some are not taught at all Some have naturally
good dispositions. Not one has had power to rul
fill the law completely. Therefore It is no crime
in him If he falls. We reckon as faults those only
which arise from idleness, wilfulness, selfishnesi
and deliberate preference of evil to good. Eac'j
Is judged according to what he has received.--
James Anthony Froude.
Business Man Selected
Fulton, Mo.—Simon L. Walker a
business man of Portland, Ore., has
been selected as superintendent for
the Missouri school of deaf, and Im-
mediately took charge of the institu-
tion here. He succeeds Dr. Noble B,
McKee, who recently died.
Wilkerson Confirmed
Washington—The senate confirmed
among others, the nomination of
James Wilkerson to be United States
attorney for the northern district of
Illinois.
nutty flavor has become an indis-
pensable necessity lu my family's
everyday life.
"It has proved to be most healthful
and beneficial, and has enabled us to
practically abolish pastry and pies
from our table, for the children prefer
Grape-Nuts, and do not crave rich and
' unwholesome food.
"Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect
physical condition—as a preventive of
i disease it Is beyond value. I have been
I particularly impressed by the benefl-
j cial effects of Grape-Nuts when used
by ladies who are troubled with face
Blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. It
clears up the complexion wonderfully.
"As to its nutritive qualities, my ex-
perience is that one small dish of
Grape-Nuts is superior to a pound of
meat for breakfast, which is an impor-
tant consideration for anyone. It sat-
isfies the appetite and strengthens tha
power of resisting fatigue, while its
use involves none of the disagreeable
consequences that sometimes follow
a meat breakfast." Name given by
postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
Ever road the above letterf A new
nppfHra from time to time. They
■ re genuine, true, and full of bunma
■
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