Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 24, 8 December 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, MONDAY. DEC. 8, 1913.

The Richmond Palladium

AND 8UN-TELBORAM.

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, by Palladium Printing: Co. Masonic Building:. Ninth and North A Streets. R. G. Leeds, Editor. E. H. Harris, llgrr. In Richmond, 10 cents a week. By Mall, In advance ne year, $5.00; six months, $2.60; one month, 45 centa. Rural Routes, In advance one year, $2.00; six months, $1.26; one month 25 cents.

Btatere it the Post Of flea at Richmond. Indiana, aa Second Class Mali Matter.

The Appointments At the beginning of the recent campaign, Mr. Robbins appeared before the people of the community as candidate for mayor and announced as his platform an efficiency system of municipal administration. In his platform published September 26th, he wrote: "I shall appoint only trustworthy and efficient men to fill the various offices connected with the city's government, and shall stand responsible for them in the performance of their various official duties. In a folder issued at the beginning of the campaign the Progressive City Committee said this: "The Progressive City Committee believes the city needs to put its government on an efficient business basis. National politics is not an issue in this campaign." In the issue of October 28th, the Palladium wrote in an editorial under the caption, "How the City Can Save $25,000 in a Year," the following: "The Zimmerman machine has not pledged itself to the efficiency system. The Democratic party has not pledged itself to it. The Socialists have not. The Progressive party is the only organization in the field that has contracted with the people to apply efficiency methods if elected. THAT'S WHY THE PALLADIUM IS SUPPORTING MR. ROBBINS AND THE MUNICIPAL PROGRESSIVE TICKET." It was understood on all sides after election that Mr. Robbins had been elected, not by partisans, but by all those desiring more business like methods in the city hall. It is because of this that many are very much dissatisfied with the appointments made public last Saturday. If there is anything in efficiency principles in city rule it is that a man's sole right to hold office is his competency to do so and that no man shall be removed from office merely for personal or political reasons. It appears that at least three of Mr. Robbins' more important appointments are a flagrant violation of this cardinal principle. Mr. Harry Goodwin is a capable man and well thought of by his associates and employers. He has made good as a machinist. But he has had absolutely no experience as an officer or with police methods. Mr. Gormon, who has had an excellent record as chief and whose long experience makes him a valuable man to any city, was let go. A man who has had no experience and whose life has been spent in unrelated pursuits was given the place. This seems to us a violation of the principles of efficiency. Mr. Clarence Kleinknecht is not sufficiently known for us to speak with certainty about his fitness for the place, but it seems that his sole experience in electrical work has been as a lineman for the Postal Telegraph company. We

have no doubt that he may be an honest, sincere and hard working man, but we cannot understand why he was given the place of Mr. Johnson who has made an enviable record as head of the Municipal Light plant. The place calls for business experience and executive ability, two qualifications which seem to be absent in Mr. Kleinknecht. Most unfortunate of all was the appointment of health officer. Dr. W. G. Smelser is a man with a wide circle of friends, he has a heavy practice, and he may be a first rate physician, but his selection for the place is not diplomatic. A health" officer should by all means, have the good will and the co-operation of the medical profession, and this, unfortunately, Dr. Smelser does not have. He should also have sufficient time for his duties, always exacting and always demanding a great deal of attention, and this is something, in view of his unusually heavy practice, Dr. Smelser cannot claim. The board of works is the city's equivalent of a board of directors and requires quite as much executive and business ability. It makes contracts, draws up specifications, and is the head of the city's growing business. For this reason it is everywhere felt that at least one member should have been a business man with business experience. We think his street commissioner will give good service ; we believe he was wise in postponing the appointment of a dairy inspector, and in retaining Mr. Bond and Mr. Miller at their present positions ; but we fail to understand the consistency of the other appointments. And as Mr. Robbins accepted the whole responsibility in making his appointments, and since the Palladium has not attempted to share that responsibility, we are compelled to join with a great number of local citizens who feel that these very important appointments were not made in harmony with pre-election pledges.

' ing through the Review of Reviews for December. ! Dr. Kelly has had for use a single gram of the precious substance, a quantity barely sufficient to fill a small salt spoon, but even so has had remarkable results from his half decade of experimentation. These results, however, are not such as to justify the hopes of a miraculous cure which has been held out to the public or to give any foundation to those "radium specialists" and "radium institutes," all of which, because of the extremely high price of the substance, are on ; their very face, frauds. But still the results are

more encouraging though not enough to give us hope that the surgeon's knife may immediately be dispensed with. When commenting on this last point Dr. Kelly was very careful to make it plain that radium cannot supplant surgery: "at best," he says, "radium is its handmaid." And he strongly advised that every person be most careful to have expert examination made of any kind of swelling or other condition giving the faintest premonition of the dread disease. "Prevention," he says, "is the medical profession's greatest hope. If cancer is caught in its earliest stages almost every case that can be reached by the knife may be cured." Radium has proved most useful in superficial cancers, those that form on or near the surface

jof the body. "In many cases it effects cures without pain and without deformity."

It can also be used as an aid to surgery in destroying those scattered tissues not available to the knife. In some cases cancers, not too far advanced, may be reached where the surgeon would not dare to cut, such as, for instance, the neck. Cancer of the uterus, which is such a dread to women and which has usually proved inaccessible to the surgeon, often gives way to radium treatment. Blemishes, birth marks, "port wine" stains, and other skin irregularities have been easily handled by the radium specialist. Cancer, the doctor explains, is a group of cells which have escaped the control of that innate biologic law that causes the tissues and organs to grow in symmetry. Cancerous cells are really anarchistic tissues that have gotten free from the harness and run wild in extreme prolific growth. Were it not for the law of symmetrical development, one's thumb would grow to seven or eight feet in a life time; and since these cancer cells have somehow escaped the control of that law they are doing that very thing, growing at such a rate as to become a peril to all other cells and tissues. If a surgeon can succeed in cutting out all of these prolific cells from the flesh, he can stop the cancer, but if any scattered ones remain they will multiply so fast as to develop a new cancerous mass. That is the reason that surgeons are most successful in curing cancer in its early stages: they succeed in g-etting out all the cancer cells. Radium is a dirty salt that emits three rays, called "Alpha, Beta and Gamma." It is the last of these three that seems able to destroy diseased tissue. It will pass through healthy cells without damage, but it disintegrates the cancer cells lying behind and causes them to seem to melt away. "The radium salt," writes Mr. Hendricks in describing the method of administering the cure," is kept enclosed in a fine platinum tube about an inch long. The tube is again encased in lead, which is used because it acts as a filter,

keeping in the alpha and beta rays which are more destructive of normal tissue while letting the gamma rays slip through. The tube, further screened with some soft substance, is then laid in immediate proximity to the diseased part; if necessary, it can be attached by surgical plaster; in some cases incisions into the diseased part may be made, as recommended by Dr. Abbe. Its action upon the cancerous tissues begins at once; the application lasts from 4 to 6 to 24 hours. Sometimes in a month or six weeks the growth vanishes. The radium so used can be used over and over again."

Departments in Washington Resemble Curiosity Shops

Officials Accumulate Antiques and Curios Which Are Filling Corridors in All Government Buildings.

BY JONATHAN WINFIELD. WASHINGTON, Dec. ". Go-rn ment depart ni nts in Washington within the next few years will reembie an old curiosity shop if the pre, nt art is maintained !n accumulating antiques and curios. Althoueh the national museum, the United States Museum, the Smithsonian institute, Medical museum and Congressional library are i 1 led with things that are of interest to the visitors, each govern

ment department has its own little museum or collection which its strings along its corridors for the benefit 01 tourists. In some of the buildings, there is not space enoussh to show the collections that have been gathered and they have been consigned to the storage rooms in the basement of the building. In the war department for instance, the upper floors of the big building are crowded with exhibits of all kinds. Not only ran one see the various uniforms worn by the soldiery of the United States government at different periods from pre-revolution-ary days to the present time, but one can see exhibits of sculptors' work, of the artist, and models of the defenses of the United States along the coasts and island waters, as well as of battleships. Exhibits Fill Corridors. All of these exhibits are placed in the corridors of the building, usually on the top floor, this part of the building not being used to the extent of the lower floors. In the state department wing of the state war and navy building, the portraits of former secretaries of state, of senators and foreign diplomats adorn the walls of the secretary of state's office and of the offices of his subordinates. In one instance the picture of a foreign diplomat has been relegated to the messengers' room. i On the navy side the corridors are filled with models of the first and last step in naval architecture and construction. The model of "Old IronBides" looks like a penny sail boat of chudhood days alongside of the modern dreadnaught as typified by He model of the Wyoming, which stands just outside of the main entrance to

Secretary Daniels' office. Submarines, aeroplanes, wireless cruisers, and the navy hospital ship the Salace. can be seen in these model. The model of lii.- Arkansas, a siter ship of the Wyoming, cost the United States government fin. .' to luUd. Many other :nodr-is of the earlier vessels of t.: navy are kept in packing oases in th i- ii:tr of the building. In the treasury department, the accumulation oi paintings of the farmer secret. cries have overflowed from the walls of the offices of tae secretary ar.d his to as.-:s;ants ir.o the c .rr.dors adjarent to the secretary's office The revenue cutter service, which also is in the treasury department, has jii interesting exhibit, but only part of it can be seen as there is not sufficient space in the building to display it.

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Radium as a Cure for Cancer Dr. Howard A. Kelly, gynecologist at Johns Hopkins University, has been experimenting for five years with radium as a cure for cancer. Although a very modest man and much averse to self advertisement, he was finally prevailed upon by Burton J. Hendricks to make public his find-

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CIVILIZATION COMES PRETTY HIGH. Mohile Register. The Harvester Trust has helped to spread civilization, ays the counsel for the trust. Yes; but it has charged too much for the job.

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