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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY. XOVKMHHtt 0, 1922. SECTION 1. Back o' the Flats By Percij Crosby IN WASll HOW TO KEEP WELL By Dr. WILLIAM BRADY Dry THE SECOND GRAM) BOIL is erating those who come in contact with it.

An illustration of this fact is to be found in Washington at pres Eagle Bureau 901 Colorado Building Br JOHN BILLINGS Jr. Washington, 8 Politically the party is not a very good financial investment. It is like betting on a 1,000 to 1 shot to contribute Soney for the campaign of this offering a few hints the other day on "How Not to Handle Molls" I formulnted two Important rules for thoso who do not yearn lo handle a lino of bolls. Tho first rule was: Never tourh a boll. Tho second rule was: Never touch anything that lias touched a boll.

These are very simple rules for cleanly. Intelligent persons who can and do discipline themselves nnd control their Inquisitive lingers. To the two rules of management of bolls already laid down 1 would add another: Never poultice a boll or nny lesion that resembles a boil. This third rnlo will seem deliberately aimed at grandma. Me It so.

My reputation for disrespecting age Is already made and I have nothing more lo lose. He who poultices a boil nurses and nourishes trouble. There could lie nothing morn ngrnrnbln lo the ordinary puaprodiicing germs (Staphylococcus pyogenes Bureus et alii I than a nice moist warm flaxseed meal poultice. Tho doctors of the era before the discovery of the cause of blood poisoning favored poulticing because poultices produced "laudable pus" they Imagined then, us unenlightened folk do now, that it was good for such things to fester copiously and run, to carry corruption and humor out. of tho system, you know.

Now, children, (his corruption nnd humor business is a snd mistake. No morn corruption or humor comes out of the most prodigious boil than comes out of your finger when you cut It. Pus examined chemically and microscopically proves lo lie nothing but the dead nnd dying phagocytes or soldier cells of tho blood, together with countless hordes of living and dead pus germs. Ho, you see, if you are not, a superstitious and totally amblyopic person, that there Is nothing to he "drawn" out of a boll bv a. poultice, even If a poultice would draw anything out.

t'so ho ponltlro ns Charlie Chaplin would use custard pies, hut be careful and don't get one on your boll. OfESTIOXS AND ANSWERS. Acctplienrtldlnc. I'lense (ell me what acelphenetldlnn Is and also what Its effects on the system when used (for headachel over prolonged period, In five grain doses? W. I Answer This Is thfl chemical nnme for one of the coal-tar pnln killers commonly known as pbenacetlne.

Tho effect Is file same ns that nf acetanllldr antlpyrln. aspirin and others of that group, namely. Impairment of thu heart, breaking down of the blood corpuscles nnd In some cases moutat ami physical deterioration. Now and (hen a sudden death Is due to poisoning by one of these much-abused drugs. I'lvo I'nroriitiim Sulphur Ointment.

lieferencn made In your column to a. five percent urn sulphur ointment, for the cure of dandruff. I would appreciate It If you would print tho formula and directions again. W. S.

Answer Well, here Is tn pcr-centuin formula that will do ns well or better: Salicylic field 20 grains Precipitated sulphur I dram Ointment of rose I ounce Apply to scalp with tips of fingers, sparingly, by parting the hair and rubbing the ointment In here and there, each night of the week except Saturday or Sunday, and on that night, shampoo the hair. Continue for two weeks. Then apply It about Once a week for three months. This ointment, properly mnde, contains no particles that can bo felt with tho fingers. Charge Sustained.

Klcven years ago 1 was accidentally shot, and a few buckshot still rcnmln In my body lint, have caused no trouble. Should they bo removed? 3. Answer No. Psychoanalysis 'why Sunday DifWteNT from othc'r oayj josepH? TH comics is colorbo on Sunday." SHOCK LUKE McLUKE SAYS ent. Two men have conic forward in connection with furl mid its manage ment and distribution; each was nc claimed tho protector of the Nation against tho sharp nips of winter and the profiteer.

They became emergency officials. And thry had no more than settled themselves comfortably at their big new desks when the public ana ofllcial Washington promptly for got their existence. Their triumph before the footlights was measured in minutes, not in hums. These two men were Henry It. Spen cer ana Spcns.

in. July, Spencer, .1 railroad man, rich ami prominent socially, was named by president Harding as Federal Coal Administrator, lie was shut off from tne world In a holy of holies wher none could disturb him; le lu l.l secret conclaves. His serene isolation set him off from the world -anil thr wona lorgot all limit Henry Spencer. What ho has done Is a. mystery.

lie touched coal and vanished from the public eye. men Mr. Spens. Hiso a. railroad man, was named by Harding as Fuel i-iismmitor.

The name Spcns recalled tne name Spencer where was lie? JNODody knew or cared, (ireat. statements were prepared and issued bv the new distributor. Kvcrybodv watched him lor a clay or two. He did nothing spectacular. Interest In nun quickly dimmed.

If you ask the average officeholder the capital to nay wrto Mr. Spcns is and what ho is doing, he won't lie able- to tell you mr. ripens is a man ol energy vim ura ins. wiiii. a Keen eye and Dulldog Jaw.

Why did he suddenly go tnrough the trap door oil" the stage of national Interest? He touched coal and vanished. There, is something gigantic about the Influence of coal and the coal industry. It casts an immense shadow of uncertainty and doubt. Its complexities are too big for one man. Two oftlclals have already been obscured by its very magnitude.

Who's next? Mellon I.s Most Silent Of Washington Men. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, is the inn! Kuni i this city where loquacity nnd oratory vujiaiuercu naci lonn the novelist, called Washington the oi Yet. Mellon men pa Die ot nemg moved to no for politics, When Interviewed at his desk in the Treasury, he evinces a mi nf tftyilti rpi, He smokes his I'iltsbuiir a lirv CO I nilVft 111,,, nods his head and listens ah of which may account c.i- capability as a Treasury Secrctarv Jwrueiiiiv iie. ft nn i.i home throuKh l.alavettr it UUOIV.

Hir. JlieilOll 1)1 IS KOll overcoat looked just like any other "atiaiiiKLonian who Jiad finished his wum anu was Heading homeward for dinner and the evening paper. Suddenly out of the twiliirhl came a negro bov on liis Plunk! And the second richest 'man in America was toppled oyer on bis head by the care less cyclist, who. pedaled off fr: without pause. or a moment it looked as if there would be a seri ous deficit in tho Treasury.

Tnen Mr. Mellon picked himself up, brushed off i clothes nnd walked off. And In all this he did not say a thing not even an explosive "Goo d- ness, gracious: to relieve his exacer bated foelinms. Odd and Interesting Giraffes can see behind them without turning their heads. The human lungs, if sound, have about 174,000,000 cells In tliem.

Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to run more than half a mile. If you had the misfortune to "break every bone in your body" the number of breaks would be 240. Only queen bees and workers have, the power to sting. Tho drones cannot sting. TT: ,1 I iis ininu mi uiuui Observations of Oldest Inhabitant.

The old-fashioned man whose ambition when he went to college was lo make his grades, now has a son whose only ambition when he goes to college is to- make the "team." This Is It. "I'a, what do they mean by 'now is the winter of your discontent'?" asked Clarence. "They're probably referring to the high price and scarcity of coal," growled his dad. Wlioro Wo Arc on a Diet. Says a news Item: "'Thero is nothing in the soil, climate or other conditions Vlnrt-woud pitvvfmt our raising In this country all the snails tnat tne people demand for food." As far as our own personal demand for that particular variety of food Is concerned they wouldn't need any climato, soil, or other conditions to raise 'em.

Out n' Luck. To bobbed-hair girls It is an awful blow To find shorn locks I Jn growing are so slow. cr Nr. of the most gruesome war stories 1 read appeared In an medical Journal and Is the best Illustration 1 could give of the mechanism of forgetting. Reported by Kngllsh medical officers who did not believe In psychoanaly sis, It also furnishes me with thn most striking argument for tho psychoanalytic treatment.

An English soldier hearing the sinister noise of a large shell coming apparently in his direction. Jumped Into a shell hole to seek shelter 'underground. As darkness had set In he did not notice that there was a dead body at the bottom of that hole. The body was in a state of advanced de composition. The poor fellow fell In a dead faint and had to be fished out of tho mud by his comrades, who re- vived mm.

when revived, however, he gave the appearance of being shell-shocked and was sent out to a field hospital. Although the shell tail struck far behind tho lines and no one nuci neea sliaken by Its explosion, mrro ne was, car painted all over nis countenance and onlv inuklncr from time to time a monotonous motion of the. hands as though trying to remove something from his mouth, nose and eyes. 1' or months he was In a hosnltut a puzzling cnae to the men treating hlni. All the questions nut to him failed to elicit any information from him except that he had fallen Into a shell hole and had been helped out of It.

One day. however, under a running fire of questions, he exhihlted In creased signs of terror, running about i tho room, shouting, stamping his feet, running nis hands over his face. Then be suddenly remembered all the hor- rihio details, the dead man, tho works, etc. He stated that ever since he nuo been trying to repress that memory and to make himself believe that It had never happened. Tho result of that repression had been the neurosis The Mystery national party a to 1 shot, with the short end -of-.

the chance blanked against you. Tou Bond in your contribution to the coffers of the prohibition party With, the certain knowledge that its cause, though worthy, is hope-lees. Tou are a "hauvinist the broadest sense of the word. Your ingle 'return for your money is the sight of your can- dldates name the ballot under the fountain em 'Diem. tVila low! rn in naign tho Prohlbl Ition party received donations amount-j 4 tt ten it wns mostly small ohlnge" 'contributions.

With 3.953 on hand, the party expended $3,829 in crusade to put over candidates "Prohibition." Quite natu MJIy this sum had to bo spread pretty thin over the 3,743,000 square miles h. iTnitnrl States. Roughly the Prohibition party managers have spent r.nt fnr everv ten square miles of territory. Surely the electorate could fmnioH in the direction of political, corruption with a penny. Nor could sucn a meagre i stifle the naturally virtuous incllna-in the, average voter.

Hence it a. i ni nrv nf fraud has never IB uia i i A nt this party which? politically speaking, is without a living wage to support itself and family. Its candidates, never winning, arc deprived of the necessity of descending into the muddy streets, where they might get their flowing white robes spotted and stained by partisan calumny. The Prohibition party has won tta salvation by dealing in pennies where Its two major companions of tno ballot Juggle dollars. The Anti-Saloon League recently announced In its preliminary statement that It had spent $3,760 for this campaign.

This money, unlike that of Its half-sister the Prohibition party, was used not to elect anybody, but rather to defeat somebody. Where the Prohibition party tries to elevate a man of unquestioned virtue lo a seat of 'governing power the Anti-Saloon League tries to thrust down into obscurity a man of power whose virtue It questions. There's the difference The Anti-Saloon League civtlA, the sum of for this fight from Detroit 6 and 10 cent store merchant ertnee. This contributor is a wa ons ehfTmplon of industry, inlmitabiH ty and anti-Inebriation. Yet you can still buy a corkscrew in his stores.

But all this dough is only a ftvop in the bucket. Uncle Sara In the SU hands out the wherewitha to Prohibition across. These little fellow- ot fanatical prohibitory tendencies spent, in toto, $7,779, as-re--iiVte ho far-h this campaign, -to Seddle their dusty wares among the MOOle of the country. This year the Sovernment is spending $9,250,000 to tern the tide of booze. Mopping up the wet spots of the Nation with dollar bills is an expensive luxury.

Here's one suggestion: fcet the Prohibitionists cease to name candidates and run purposeless Let them turn their political contributions over to the Treasury to be used In the practical enforcement of the principles of their faith. How to BO Forgotten In Washington. Coal' has a strange quality of oblit- Memory Test Can Yon Aiuwer TheeoT 1. Who discovered that the blood circulates through tho body? 3. Why does the wind whistle? 3.

What is steel? 4. When is Indian summer? 5. Where is the Cape of Good Hope? Answers to Yesterday's Queries. I. Charles Dickens wrote "Bleak House." 2.

As some materials conduct heat better than others, there Is naturally a difference In the temperature of objects even in the same room. S. Portugal is a republic. 4. When it-Is noon in New York it is 4:35 p.m.

in 5. The spleen is an organ near the stomach which produces certain modifications in the blood. a mi TT- nt ima inen xie iiiaiigcu Another Story by Kathleen Norris THRIS CtNTS I 1 ruREiciMrtj W'iiVLL JIM, I HOCKED FAMILY JEWELS AND i VLoao th" money on I WXUM? OMDRUfT" ou idlo me 'I ijSgw ow! I Birthday Character Reading By ANDRE TRIDON AM NEK I A. which might have in the long run led to absolute Insanity. After telling the story several limes, with gradually Increasing emotional efTect, bo became more and more normal nnd recovered entirely.

This is exactly the way a psychoanalyst would bavii treated that bringing1 back In -'onscloiisiiess the horror he had for- "iirn III! IUUI1U II lOO IIOI'. Hide to think of it. DANNY "DUBBJ7 GOLF DOPE BY BRtWtRTON ETERAJAU. Al TE 1 SOLFER'S BR.EA.ST,- ARE A4UCH of November 9 letters in the same handwriting. The) last of hese stated that the next crime, the ninth in the fatal series, would committed on the evening of Nov.

9 (Jn the day predicted the body of Mary Anne Kelly was found In a room on the ground floor of a house in Whitechapel, where, In spile of thu fact that the windows were uncurtained, tho mysterious assassin hail completed his work In broad daylight. Pinned to the door of tho room was the statement, written in the handwriting of Dr. Winslow's former correspondent: "Jack the Ripper will never commit another crime." In spite of the fact that one or two othep crimes were attributed to him, thisj prophecy appears to have been correct, for the bodies of the later victims! larked the distinguishing marks of the) Ripper's brutality. Every one who took part In thJ search, as well as practically every ono who read tho details of the strangn series of events, had his own theory as) to tho character of the unknown murderer. Some, following tho lead ot Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," were of the opinion that the crime were the work of an escaped gorllla, The lunatic theory was adhered to by many, while among the other solutions! advanced were those of a woman who had become angered at her sex (the nine victims being all women), a man, who had been stripped of all of hla possessions by an unscrupulous adventuress, a sufferer from epilepsy or a detective who wished to try out his own discoveries In connection with, crime.

Hr. Winslow's belief was that "the Ripper" was a man of position and means a man of the Dr. Jekyll typo who suffered from a religious monomania and who, when the paroxysms of fanaticism passed off, returned to the bosom of his family somewhere In the most exclusive residential section of London. But, as the murders ceased as suddenly as they had begun and as the sole clue to the Identity of tho guilty man was the note found near the body of the ninth victim, the case remains as one of the outstanding riddles In the history ot criminal investigation. Tomorrow Tho Lcvltatlon of Ms, Home.

THE NINTH VICTIM are lot of stenographers who se to think they are being paid lo pose In a beauty parlor. www The reason some men will take a chance on marrying a bobbed-haired llpsticked, cigarette-smoking flapper Is because, they know divorce Is easy und they have plenty ot money to pay tho alimony. There's only one thing a woman likes better than having' her clothes make a hit with the men, and that's to have them make the other women Jealous. girl who throws herself at a man, never makes much of a hit with him. We have pot sense enough to quarantine a man with smallpox but we'll show real sense when we begin to quarantine the old Joy killers.

The world bates a grouch worse than it docs any other known contagious disease. Daily SentoiiTO Sermon. Being full of conceit always means having an empty head. Problems of Conduct rty 1'rnfrsnor Dick Calkins. OfFICER- MAN SAID HE CARRY MY SUITCASE But COlNi THE WK0M6 WHAT'S WRONG HERE? Study the I'd 4 lire Before You Rcal tho Answer.

Answer Remember that if a gen tleman makes a lady an offer she has no right to speak of it! Pithy Paragraphs There is no beautlfler of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Emerson. There, should be an upland district, where springs are born, and where rivers of inspiration have their birth. J. II.

Jowctt. We may sin against law and maim or muiiiato ourselves, Dut 10 sin against love is to be cast out of life altogether. Georgo Adam Smith, Todays Puzzle She is asking them their names, and the names of their colleges. Each comes from a different large Eastern college. Rearrange their names and have the name of the col-lego each attends.

Answer Yesterday's Puezle. A STORK IN FLIGHT. There ir it nui A bobbed-hair girt may look attractive enough, but a short-haired girl belongs in the class with longhaired men. The only thing that looks worse than one of these calclmined flappers, is a public official who has been given a coat of whitewash. The reason some wives do not waste any tears over tho loss of their husbands, is because tho loss Is fully covered by insurance.

A woman waives hair, but nil a JuiiH-can in waVo 'his good-by. ONE MINUTE FOR THIS Three cities one In Massachusetts, one In New Jersey and one in Ohio: MvO OUT) TAN SWL OEO BNT. Answer to yesterday's: California, Aii.onu. By I3LSA ALLEN. position, but actually you hold your inner s'lf remote from your assocl ates and even from most of your friends.

You are fond of society lie cause, you are naturally entertaining and) you enjoy the study or human na ture, under all conditions, dread or trivial. You are experimentally and intuitively a good judge of character. You are extremely fond of the good things of the earth and you have no hesitation in indulging your tastes in food and drink. In truth you would do well to practice' continence, as you have in you the making of a libertine. You are amorous but not affectionate and not In any sense the ideal matrimonial type.

Today is one of generally uncertam omen and actually dangerous outlook for all business concerned with electricity or radio-active forces. The ensuing year will 'bring you both happiness and sorrow. You will lose one of your dearest frlcnon. but the loss will be almost Immediately replaced by a person you do not yet know. A child born today will be robust and energetic, courageous and Indomitable, but withal a sensitive and Imaginative mentality.

BECAME GREAT HOUK LAW A SEWING MACHINE pentcr; now he became a successful Then, as is perfectly normal, he set his thoughts on something still higher. In those days sewing machines were Just coming into wide popularity. A company had been organized to make a new type of sewing machine. John W. Wheeler was acquainted with some of the men who were influential in the new company, and they asked him to Join them in the venture.

He had faith in the machine, gave up his prosperous grocery business, and embarked eagerly in the business of manufacturing and selling. It was not at all easy to establish the new company in its work, and he needed all bis previous years of experience in business, a I'd all the help that his many-friends could give him in order to bring about success. Success came at last, the mnchlne became tho New Home sewing machine, and Mr. Wheeler became president of the company. Then, looking still higher, ho interested himself in many-organizations for public benefit, and won great respect.

The utory of his life Is the story of many ambitions realized througlf honeSry and effort. NOVEMBER 0. Famous Persons Born This Bay. King Edward VII of England. Stanford White, architect.

John M. Carrere, architect. Mai. Gch. Frederick Funston, captor of Aguinaldo.

YOU art if bo dominant and determined orn today, ana no manor what vour vocation, you will lead the field or know the reason why. You have tjie inborn desire for competitive excellence. Your mind is active, supple and eager, but must be confronted with dltticult problems to show Its true mettle. You are both imaginative and creative, and although you have artistic talent you lack the fiery emo tional sensitiveness of the genius. Your tastes are apt to be cold and classic.

You should be robust and as good at sports as you are fond of them. Hut, after all, you prefer a mild exercise in which you can think while you are doing it, as in walking or iiding. You are genial and affable in dls-i POOR BOYS WHO By FREDERICK JOHN W. WHEELER, THE GROCER'S CLERK, KING. HILE more than 30 years have elapsed since tho commission of tho mysterious crimes which terrorized the Whitechapel district of London, the mention of the name of Jack the Ripper is still suflioient to send a thrill of terror through the residents of that section, while newspapers in all parts of the world frequently refer to particularly brutal murders as "being apparently the work of a Jack the Ripper." The first of the victims of this strange and still undiscovered criminal was a woman whose body was found on Christmas Day, 1887.

There was seemingly not the slightest motive for murder and tho police were on the point of dropping their Investigation when a second crime of a similar nature occurred not a great distance away from the scene of the tlrst. Several others followed in quick succession and from the brutal manner In which the victims were killed the newspapers referred to them as the work of Jack the Ripper a nome which was soon to be on every tongue throughout England and America. As even tho Joremost detectives of Scotland Yard were unable to find a traco of the man who seemed to kill for tho sheer lust of killing, numerous private citizens attempted to take up the trail and it was even reported that one of the directors of the Hank of England went so far as to disguise himself as a laborer in order that he might frequent without suspicion the neighborhood In which he believed Jack the Itlpper would next appear. Hut the efforts of all of the amateur detectives were, like those of the profes sional police, of no avail, although the distinguished criminologist, L. Forbes Wlnslow, came closer than any one else to the solution of the mystery.

ollowlng a theory of his own, which he declined to make public at the time. Dr. Wlnslow spent night after night In the Whitechapel slums seeking the clue which always eluded him. Through advertisements Inserted in the "agony columns" of the London iress, the criminologist sought to get in contact with the murderer and succeeded in that he received several 7T' iW's SjOff'Y if ru. meet you A HERE" AFTR mk THE race! gg FIRST i gN lgdk! torn ey OES it pay to be honest? Tho story of John W.

Wheeler, the maker of the New Home sewing machine, shows that honesty brings its friends, and something that is far better, a reputation for honesty in all things; Home time later, when he saw an opportunity to buy a store for himself, he was able to borrow the money and to set up in business. With this start, he went much further than the grocery business, and became one of the great manufacturers of the United States. If he had not been a trustworthy clerk he could never have become the man that the country now honors. i When John W. Wheeler, as a small boy, watched his father, the carpenter, plane boards, he had but one ambition in life, and that was to become a carpenter.

He fulfilled that ambition and worked for nine years sawing, planing and nailing. Then larger ambitions came into view and he left the carpenter's shop and became a grocer's clerk. 1 le saved his money, learned the business and embarked for himself, with the help of friends whom he had made. He had been a successful car- 0MB ARB ETIA Will Begin in Next Sunday's DON'T MISS THIS GREAT SERIAL BY A GREAT WRITER Ea2le 1 Wife.