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OSLEHS SPEECH Confidant-Confessor to 800 Law Breakers |]| [j fj
" SITS f Kirden Moyer Shares Woes of Prisoners
Cardinal Will Ask Old Friend to
Retract Criticism of Catholic
Faith as Superstition.
BALTIMORE, MU April 21.—
When part of the Hpeech of 8ir Wil-
’ liam Osier, at the dedicatory exercise*
of the Phipps Psychiatric clinic of
the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was
read to Cardinal Gibbons the prelate
exclaimed:
"I am shocked!
Sir William, who is profeasor of
medicine in Oxford University, said,
i n part
Primitive views will prevail ev
erywhere of man's relation to the
world and to the uncharted region
about him So recent is the control
of the forces of nature that even In
• he most civilised countries man has
not yet adjusted himself to the new
conditions and stands only hall
awake rubbing his eyes
Ninety-nine per cent of our fel
low creatures, when in trouble, sor
row or sickness, trust to charms, in
cantation* and to the saints. Many
a shrine has more followers than
Pasteur; many s saint more believ
ers than Lister.
Less than twenty years have pass
«d since the last witch was burned in
the British Isles'
Mentally, the race is still in lead
ing strings, in the childhood of the
world we ran not expect people yet
to put away childish things ’
Will Ask Retraction.
Scientists in any line smile and
make statements such as that of Dr.
Osier,” said the Cardinal, "and only
a short time ago I had to defend some
truths that Thomas A Edison at
tacked.
These scientific specialist* think
their statements should go unchal
lenged, but this one of Dr. osier shall
not. and I shall write to him. asking
him to retract it.”
I would like to call the attention
of Dr. Osier to the fact that Pasteur
was a devoted Catholic and put his
trust in the saints. He said that as
bis knowledge of medicines increased
Ms faith grew likewise. The state
ments attributed to Dr. Osier arc an
attack on Christianity.
”1 am surprises that he should
make such attacks in this age.
“What do the things that Dr. Osier
preaches stand for anyhow? Fifty
years hence all his teachings may bo
overthrown by new discoveries. Ills
whole doctrine is based on theory.
"Fifty years ago the scientists of
that day imagined they knew all that
was to be known of medicine; yet to
day their conclusion* are overthrown
by later discoveries.
‘The Catholic Church is not found-
on theory, and whereas the whole
world Is informed of its doctrines, the
conclusions of Dr. Osier are known to
comparatively few. The world at
present is alarmed by the condition of
tli« head of the church, and changes
In hl« health are of groat interest—
more, perhaps, than that of any
scientist whom we know now
Dr. Osier Perturbed.
Dr. Osier, when informed that the
»'ardinal regarded his reported ut
terances as an attack on Christianity,
appeared to be greatly disturbed.
”1 am no enemy of the saints,” he
declared ”1 will tulk to my friend
I he Cardinal about this gs soon as 1
get back from New Haven."
Sir William made It clear that he
regretted the exception taken by the
Cardinal to hi# remarks. And that h®
intends to see the Cardinal about it.
He mentioned the Cardinal's name in
a way that indicated that his feel
ings toward the Prelate are kindly
and that he is eager to have an op
portunity to settle the difference by a
heart-to-heart talk.
Man to Man Talks to Head of
Federal Prison Lighten Burden
of Wearers of Stripes.
It is Tuesday afternoon at the At
lanta Federal Prison. Two score con
victs are waiting on their appoint
ments for interviews with Warden W.
T. Moyer. They are going to tall
him variously of their hopes, their
fears, their joys, their sorrows.
The number Is there, more or less,
every Tuesday {Afternoon, because
then Warden Moyer in the confidant
and father confessor of the men in his
charge, to whom they go eagerly with
their troubles.
■ They talk to me about everything
under the sun,” said the Warden yes
terday, explaining the “man to man”
system which has its application it
the prison. "About business troubles
and family troubles, about life and
death, about themselves and thiir
consciences And, some juK talk."
It is a part of the "humanity” sys
tem at the Federal Prison that it is
so. Tuesday afternoons have been set
apart as the time when the prisoner
may forget his stripes, may become
a man with Warden Moyer, and may
talk out of his heart.
2.000 Hav® Interviewed Warden.
Since the custom of Tuesday after
noon interviews began, nearly two
years ago. about 2,000 men have
talked thus to the Warden.
Each prisoner has access to request
blanks on which he may frame a
M RS. CHARLES S. WHITMAN, wife of New York’s militant
prosecuting attorney, and her son who is threatened by
letter with being kidnaped. The baby is being kept under guard
day and night. Ever since he started to expose the police graft
situation, Mr. Whitman has been receiving threats of death.
Blood Transfusion
Costs Father’s Life
Failing to Save Dying Baby, Hagar
Shive. Himself, Falls Victim to
White Plague.
NEW YORK. April 21.—Among his
friends the death of Hagar Shive, a
liveryman of Whitestone, L J., who
died yesterday, is attributed to his
heroic effort to save one of his chil
dren from deatii.
The child, a boy fifteen months old,
uttering from tuberculosis of the
bone, was In the Babies’ Hospital,
this city, last December. In the hope
of saving it the father submitted to
an operation for transfusion, giving I
up a large quantity of his blood. The |
effort was in vain, and h few days
*ater the infant died. The father
never full> recovered from the shock
and his death was due to tubercu
losis.
Shive is survived by a widow and.
: nr Ant child He was twenty-four!
yeans old.
POLICEMAN HAS ONLY ‘LIGHT 1
BREAKFAST; LOOK AT MENU
KANSAS CITY, April 21.—Sam Se !
btee weighs 292 pounds* and ia six I
feet six inches tall He is a patrol
man on the North Side, it takes -i
large amount of fuel to keep a *vs-
tem like that of Sam's going He
complained thus yesterday morning at
11:30 o’clock: "I had an awful light!
breakfast this morning. 1 guest-* 1
will go have lunch.”
"What did you have to cat this j
8am?” was asked, and this
tggf.
bacon.
buttered toast,
of coffee.
went to the restau
formal application for an audience
with the big. hearty man wno is the
prison's guardian. The application al.
way, 1 ' is grunted, the prisoner is
brought down to the Warden’s office
on Tuesday afternoon, and talks.
And because he is their confidant,
hearing things that men in the free
world seldom entrust to the ears of
others, he Is not inclined to talk much
about whut he has heard. Not even
under the veil of anonymity will he
tell you of incidents In the Inter
views; he is the confessor of the
men. and there ie something sacred
In the position.
Man To Man Talks.
But about the "man to man” scheme
in general he talks. And the story
of the system makes it very plain that
here is work that might very well be
deemed sacred. It deals with the
hearts of men. the .secret hearts.
“They talk about everything,” the
Warden explained. "They hear for
instance, that business affairs are
going wrong, and come to me for ad
vice. or for assistance in communi
cating with one man or another. They
want to know what to do. In these
cases it is not hard
"With others something is-wrong
with the prison—their clothes, or their
cells, or something that they want
changed That, too, Is easy.
“But then there comes another man
with another trouble. This time it
is himself or his conscience. That is
harder. The best thing 1b Just to lis
ten, and to help when 1 can. Some
times there is nothing to do to help
except to listen. But that seems to
help some, they say."
Heart Pangs of Prisoners.
Sometimes, he said, a man tells him
Just this: A baby has been born at
home, and its coming has brought a
Joy and a pain together to the father
in prison. Emotions have come *o
the prisoner-father that swell over
and beyond the walls of the peniten
tiary, and somebody must share them,
it is Warden Moyer’s mission.
Sometime!* a death has occurred at
home. A long-term convict, maybe
for the time In a mood of revulsion
against the stripes and the barred
doors, hears this news and must have
sympathy
“It is hard to bear your troubles
alone after a time in prison,” the
Warden comments, “there is some
thing behind the walls that softens a
man’s heart in affliction, and that
brings him to yearn for sympathy
and companionship.”
A Tuesday afternoon interview
seems to mend the trouble. There Is
sympathy from the big man in the
office, the sympathy of a man to an
other man Not the sympathy of a
guard to a convict.
Comfort to Sufferers.
“Some men come to Trie,” he went
on. explaining the system, “who have
not heard from their homes and rela
tives. They come at times with a
fear in their heart that they hesitate
to express. Something is wrong at
home.
"The letters that they mailed are
not answered after days and weeks
Maybe there is no reply for months."
The men who have lain In their
cells, sleepless night after sleepless
night, wondering why they have not
heard thinking everything, fighting
all the time against the sense of itn-
potency. praying, with fists clenched
and with teeth locked, for just n word
GRAFT IN EGYPT
—
Wilsons Move Upstairs to Live,
Converting Lower Floor Into
Reception Rooms.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—For-
sons familiar with the interior of
the White House during the last ad
ministration would find themselves in
unfamiliar quarters did they enter the
presidential*home to-day. In the six
we* ks of her residence Mrs. Wilson
has made a complete transformation
in the appearance of the lower suite.
Mrs. Taft the blue, red and
green rooms a.s family living rooms.
The President and Mrs. Wilson and
their family have forsaken the lower
floor and betaken themselves to the
apartments above stairs. The red,
blue and green rooms have been re
stored to their earlier estate and will
be used only on formal or semi-for
mal occasions. The big tiger skin
rug which in Mrs. Taft's day was a
feature of the furnishing of the blue
room, with the baby grand piano
which stood near the couth window,
i has been shipped to New Haven with
sir Tift's peaieMidM The
innumerable tea tables which Mrs.
I Taft'had set about in almost every
’ room have disappeared, and so have
j countless pieces of bric-a-brac and
J many picture?.
The furnishings which the ftresi-
i dent and Mrs. Wilson brought to the
White House have been placed up
stairs. The old-fashioned library
with the fine piano in now the living
room. Miss Margaret Wilson, the
musician of the family, brought her
j «>wn piano from Princeton, an<l this
j she has placed in her own suite.
The much discussed “studio in the
White House” has not materialized,
nor is it likely to. However, the
I numerous •anvuses and photographs
that beautified the modest home at
25 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, have
I found a place in the family quarters.
Mrs. Wilson has her tea table set in
the red room for her more formal &
o’clock teas, and the china service of
the White House is used. This serv
ice was bought at the time of the
renovation of the White House in
Mr Roosevelt’s administration and is
known as the “Roosevelt china."
Nowadays it is at an early hour
j that the President and his household
gather for the morning meal in the
breakfast room. The luncheons and
dinners in the state dining room also
ire served at a much earlier hour
i than for past Presidents, and uunc-
tuality to the fraction of a minute I?
! the watchword of the new family.
| The President himself is never a sec-
! °nd lat*- and the domestic machinery
of the household moves with the pre
cision of clockwork.
Ideal Husband Need
Not Be Handsome:
Standard Is Fixed
Signor Alfredo Jannotta, 76,
Passes Away When Happiest
Hour of His Life Arrives.
LOB ANGELES, pril 21.—Liter-
ally killed by happiness. Signor Al
fredo Jannotta, aged 76, a singing
master and composer, breathed his
last at the Hotel Victoria, Seventh
and Hope Streets, yesterday after
noon.
The doctors, prosaic men who, un
der the influence of their profession,
see nothing but anatomical facts,
wrote it down that the signor died
of apoplexy
Those who know' him best declare
he died of Joy, that his frame, weak
Money Trust and Special Inter
ests Flourished in King
Ha-Em-Hab’s Reign.
ARE Min
Rural Population Flocking to the
Cities Responsible—Schools
and Farms Also Deserted.
PHILADELPHIA. April 21- Egypt
4,000 years ago was troubled with a
money trust, special Interests, graft
ers ami other ills that American flesh
is heir to in the twentieth century,
according to Dr. Max Muller, of the
University of Pennsylvania, in a lec
ture on “The History of Egypt."
King Ha-Em-Hab, according to Dr.
Muller, had the time of his life when
he started to ascertain the causes of
poverty of the Egyptians. First His
Majesty found tnat a lot of ward
heelers were making a good thing out
of his harem.
The King prided himself that his
harem was the smallest over known.
He had only 800 wives. His predeces
sors had double that number But
from the time he put the golden crown
on his royal head until he died, he
stood for economy even in his own
household.
The monarch was surprised to learn
one day that a group of ancient
grafters who had the contract for
furnishing his maidens with hair oil,
lingerie and dancing slippers, were
using “the unit" system to secure an
over large chunk of the pork in the
harem barrel.
Then the King found that interests
which had been running the royal
brewery were overcharging for the
drinks. There wasn’t anything the
matter with the beer on draught. But
it appears that the clerks in the
brewery office were charging the Gov
ernment for fancy drinks that the
brewery employees were putting down
their own throats At least so history
relates. »
Professor Muller said that Ha-Em-
Hab issued a decree against all sorts
of grafting and placed offenders in
the penitentiary.
Criminals had their ears and noses
cut for identification purposes before
Bertlllon was thought of
COUNT WEDS WAITRESS
AFTER HOTEL ROMANCE
PRINCE ALBERT. SASK.. April
21. -From the rank of a dining room
girl to that of Countess of the Court
of Denmark is the step taken by Lena
Roy, of this city, formerly of Fall j
River, Mass Miss Roy wa? married I
to Hugo VonHolstein Rathbon. eldest
son and heir of Lord Frederick Emi!
VonHolstein Rathbon. of Denmark,
and they left immediately for a short
trip through the United States, after
which they will go to Denmark.
The Count met Miss Roy when she
was employed in a hotel in Fall
River. hut returned to Denmark to
obtain the consv, • of hiv parents to
tht- marriage
WASHINGTON April 21 Clergy
men throughout the United States,
and especially in the rural districts
of the Middle West and South, are
seriously alarmed over the increased
number, of churches which have to
be abandoned because their attend
ance and Income is not sufficient to
support them.
Prominent clergymen have come to
the conclusion that the large number
of abandoned churches is due, not to
the decline of religion, but to the
abandonment of the rural districts
by the younger generation in favor
of the cities.
Statistics compiled by, the Census
Bureau show that the population of
the rural United States is declining.
In 35 per cent of the counties of the
country the population decreased
during the 1900-1910 decade. Thli
decrease has worked a grave hard
ship upon the churches, and also has
caused the abandonment of many
schools, the loss of employment bj
hundreds of school teachers and a
general decline of the parts of tht
country in which It has occurred.
Counties near the large cities have
suffered most from the decline In
population. Newspapers and auto-
ists are blamed for feeding the Im
aginations of the country lads until
they leave home .
Statistics compiled by the Play
ground and Recreation Association,
of New York City, to whom thou
sands of these wanderers go each
year, show that In certain sections of
the South and Middle West schools
which have only seven and eight
children to-day housed from forty-
five to fifty ten years ago. These In
stances are not uncommon.
The effect of the loss In population
can be realized when It is considered
that during the last decade 1,000
churches were deserted In Illinois. 750
in Missouri. 600 in Tennessee, 300 in
Kentucky, 200 In Louisiana, and over
10,000 in the entire country.
The abandonment of these churches
has been accompanied by the aband
onment of a larger number of farms,
and the Department of Agriculture
h*s sounded a warning in repeated
bulletins, declaring this to be one of
the greatest dangers to country l^fe
in America.
The department places a goodly
share of the blame on the farmer, so
called, who travels from one end of
the country to the other year af er
year, renting farms for the season.
Not having any Interest in the land
other than how much he can obtain
from it in one season, this renter be
comes careless and leaves-behind him
a wake of destruction which, after
only one season, requires Severn 1
years to repair.
Kansas College Girls Say He Must
Be 5 Feet 11, Weigh 159 and
Eschew Drink and Cigars.
TOPEKA, April *21.—The Kansas
college girls have fixed the standard
for the "ideal" young man, the pos
sible husband, and throughout the
State in the college Young Men’s
Christian Association buildings there
is potted the list of things that go
to make up she Kansas ideal man.
Here they are:
Height, five feet eleven inches.
Weight. 159 pound.®.
(’best, 40 Inches expanded, 34 inches
contracted.
Waist, 30 1-2 Inches.
Must make a good appearance, but
need not be handsome.
Must be careful of personal appear
ance, but not a dandy.
Must be jolly, accommodating, con
siderate and a true sportsman.
Must be a good conversationalist,
but not a flatterer.
Must revere and respect the aged.
Must show courtesy to men and
women.
Must not smoke, drink or be guilty
of attendant evils.
Must not sneer at religion or joke
lightly of it.
Must not recognize a different stan
dard for men and women.
The physical qualifications were the
averages taken from the reports of
hundreds of girls of the State, each
girl being asked to submit the meas
urements of what she considered her
ideal man. The nine commandments
for the ideal young man were chosen
from hundreds of statements of girl*
who were asked to specify the re
quirements each would make, and the
nine items most mentioned in the let
ters were the ones taken as the av
erage ideal young man.
The physical tastes of the girls are
cause for wonder. Some liked giants
and some liked little fellows who
would have to stand on a chair to
button his wife’s gown. Unusually
tall girls liked short men, while
plump girls liked tall, attenuated
chaps.
BOSTON FIRM FORMED TO
BREED ‘SILVER-BLACK’ FOX
BOSTON, April 21.—The raising of
the Prince Edward Island "silver-
blaek” fox i? making progress in Bos
ton A charter has been issued for
a $350,000 company to be known as
the Massachusetts* Silver-Black Fox
Company.
A pair of tested breeders o? this
type of fox is worth from $30,000 to
$35,000. Prince Edward Island has
long boon noted as one spot where
“silver-black” foxes can be raised
with .sucoos- The Industry began
on the iaitwui twenty year* ago
ened by the ravages of years, could
not endure the great happiness
brought to him last Sunday, when
“Alidor.” an opera, the favorite child
of his brain, was rendered for the
first time in Los Angeles by the
People’s Orchestra under the direc
tion of Charles Farwell Edson.
Came to America in 1865.
The man was a musical composer,
and he wrote operatic music of rare
order.
Alfredo Jannotta was a native of
Capus, Italy. He was born in 1837.
In 1865 the singing master, his breast
aflame with the call of the musical
piuse, thought he saw' his oppor
tunity in the country from which
Mars had just been evicted. He
came to America at the close of the
Civil War and made his home in
Chicago, then one of the outposts of
the faraway West. The musical
world at that time had a satiety of
Verdis, Gounods and Liszls, and
the young aspirant after lyric honors
was only a beginner.
Then came the operatic revival, but
Puccini and the others seemed to
have the call, writing their music
from foreign climes.
Fails of Appreciation.
The poor American w'riter of mu
sic, an exotic in art, failed of appre
ciation, although he lived in his art
and will live long after his death in
the heart of every true musician.
"Alidor" was his chief creation in
the operatic world of music. For the
same reason that ha* denied invent
ors and creators of all descriptions
recognition in their own country and
time, the opera failed to secure that
recognition that would have brought
plaudits and emolument to its crea
tor, Puccini and the others came and
won the laurels of victory, but not
so with Jannotta
Dire necessity prompted the teach
ing of the vocal art. The creator was
compelled to become a nurseryman
in tne orchard of Calliope, to bend
the young voices In the way in which
they should grow.
Weeps for Joy.
Last Sunday, Signor Jannotta was
called to attend a rendition of “Ali
dor," his best opera.
It was a shock to the old man. He
wept profusely ^fter the concert, as
he stepped forward and thanked Ed
son and insisted on thanking each
and every one of the members of the
orchestra that ha^i found him out.
And last evening he died The am
bition of his life had been achieved.
He had heard tht? plaudits of a de
lighted audience.
Signor JannottA came to Los An
geles about eight years ago in the,
hope of recuperating his falling
health. His hlnme was in Oak
Park, Chicago, J where he leaves
a widow ond a so in. The wife, tom be
tween the husbaiid and the son vis
ited him here at j regular Intervals
Kansas Pastor Sues
Another for Slander
Brings Suit for $10,000 Damages, and
Town of Peru Is Divided
Into Two Camps.
SEDAN. KANS., April 21—The Rev.
J. D. McBrian, formerly chaplain at
the State Penitentiary and pastor of
the Christian Church, at Peru, acting
a?* his own lawyer, has brought suit
in the District Court here against
the Rev. J. \V. Brown, pastor of the
Methodist Church, for $10,000 dam
ages, alleging slander The suit is
the result of a church row which has
affected almost the entire population
of Peru, which is divided between
the two churches, and which has* re
sulted in several fistic arguments.
It is*the outgrowth of a revival in
the Christian Church some weeks ago,
when a traveling evangelist, in one
of his sermons, made a bitter attack
on the Methodists and dec lared they
“get all their religion out of their
church discipline.”
Suffragists Given
Gallery in Congress
Also Will Be Allowed to Distribute
Petitions for Ballot Among
the Lawmakers.
WASHINGTON, April 21—The
Committee on Rules of Congress has
made the suffragists happy by send
ing them 135 tickets to a special gal
lery which has been allotted to the
women who will march to the Capitol
on Monday and petition the members
of the House and Senate for nation
wide suffrage.
The women also were notified that
permission has been granted them to
invade the rotunda of the Capitol,
and that ample provision would be
made for them to distribute their pe
titions for a nation-wide suffrage
among the members.
However, they were instructed to
leave their bands and banners out
side.
NEW YORK. April 21.—Guarded
day and night by heavily armed de
tectives. little Olive Whitman, the
two and one-half year old daughter
of District Attorney Whitman, prat
tles away undisturbed, while her
mother watches over her in wide-
eyed terror.
Ever since the start of the police
graft exposures In New York City.
Mr. Whitman has been receiving
threats of death and bodily injury.
But the most cowardly threat in the
whole deluge of slanderous and in
timidating letters is the message he
has just received, threatening that
his daughter would be kidnaped.
“Do not let your baby out on the
street with her nurse,” it reads, “un
less there is a police guard."
For six months threats have been
flowing in upon the Whitman family,
and though they often average two
and three a day, nothing ha? yet come
of them.
In the past fortnight Mr. Whitman’s
veiled enemies have made thes'f
threats- %
To blow him up with a bomb.
To “get him” if he dared show' him
self in certain streets in Hariem.
To "plug” him if he ventured out
after dark.
Some are vulgar and blasphemous,
and demand that he let up In his
fight against graft. Others nrge him
to give the police a chance and at
tack some of the other departments
Thus far Mr. Whitman has never
been molested or Interfered with, and
frequently makes night trips getting
evidence, unattended.
Likens Fashions to
Lunatics’ Fancy Ball
Basil King, Author, Says Women's
Dresses Affect Their
Morals.
SCOTT PARTY SURVIVORS
•GRAY-HAIRED OR BALD
TORONTO, ONT., April 21.—Two-
thirds of the survivors of 'the Scott
polar expedition will come home eith
er gray-haired or bald. Alfred Wright
to-day received from his son, C. S.
Wright, the physicist of the ill-fat
ed company that sought the South
Pole, a letter which said this was a
result of their hardships and suffer
ings.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. April 21
Basil King, writer of fiction, declared
to-day that the changing fashions of
the modern women savor of the lu
natic asylum, and that a woman’s
wearing apparel affects her morals
for good or bad.
"I walked down Fifth Avenue the
other day and it was like being at
a fancy dress ball in a lunatic asy
lum,” he said.
"The more ’ civilisation was in
creased the further people previous^
had come to covering their bodies
up. The inclination of the present
generation Is on the down-grade, for
women take off instead of put on.
“The spiritual qualities of women
dw'ell in their faces. Since their
faces are hidden under hair or ha-
or put under a total eclipse by their
clothes, the appeal women make Is
most decidedly to the grosser senses