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In business, fortunes are not realized Unless your goods are amply advertised. Intentional Duplicate Exposure VOL. 36. NO. 48 Brings About Inumerable Necessities for Adjustment in Individual. MANY CURED DURING WAR Medical Expert on the Psychoses and Neurosures Developed in Struggle—Chronic Worry Relieved After Real Reason Is Found. New York.—Fear and anxiety, twin demons that make miserable so many lives, have their origin in inward conflict and can only be conquered by tracing the trouble to its source, says Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, associate medical director of the current committee for mental hygiene, in the current number of Mental Hygiene. Complex community life brings about innumerable necessities for adjustment in the individual, and failure to make these adjustments with a measurable degree of success is often responsible for so-called mental or nervous lits, technically termed psychoses or neuroses, according to Doctor Williams, who uses illustrations from the recent war to make this point clear. Many Cured During the War. Many Cured During the War. During the war many men, finding themselves in apparently intolerable positions, sought unconscious refuge in mental or nervous breakdowns. By tracing the history of the conflict so terminating the greater percentage of the men might have been sent back to their commands completely restored and ready to face whatever might come. In fact, Doctor Williams says, many men is type did recover completely with the aid of rest and proper psychiatric treatment, and fought bravely. The measure of a man's success in handling life's problems, according to the article, lies in his skill in adjusting himself to the complicated life of modern society. Some fall completely, developing psychoses of a more or less serious nature, others are partly successful, but the difficulties of adjustment set up nervous disturbances that render them neurotic, while the majority succeed in making their adjustments without too great difficulty. Relieving Chronic Worry. Even among those who are apparently successful, however, thousands are found who are annoyed by anxiety, who are "chronic worriers" and whose uneasiness arises from an inner conflict which may be got at by the use of proper methods and relieved. Doctor Williams says there may be obvious reasons for anxiety or fear, and that these should not be overlooked, but that often the real reason lies deep and must be carefully sought after before relief can come. It is in these cases that the psychiatrist finds his deepest interest and his greatest chance to help. "Where the reaction is out of all proportion to a reasonably assignable cause, or where no reasonable cause may be found, then expert guidance and help are needed," says Doctor Williams, instilling example and pride in the subway, fearful of being alone, in comfortable, happy surroundings and worrying, and crying without apparent cause. Detective's Hat Stolen in Courtroom Atlanta, Ga.—First it was an automobile taken by thieves while two members of the force were investigating a case. Now it is Detective Howell, whose new $12 hat has attached itself to some unidentified person. The hat disappeared from superior courtroom while Detective Howell was on the witness stand. He placed his overcoat and hat on a nearby seat and began his answers to the prosecutor's quiz. When he got ready to leave he found his overcoat as he had left it, but his hat was gone and another, not so good, was there in its place. DOG REMEMBERED IN WILL Colorado Man Pays Tribute to Companionship and Devotion of Shepherd Dog. Denver, Colo.—The faithful service, devotion and companionship of his shepherd dog are remembered in the will of the late Louis Ferrari, who died at Albuquerque, N. M., en route to his mountain home in Bear Creek canyon, where he hoped that his last breath would be of the pure, pinesented mountain air. Maggle, a beautiful, wonderfully intelligent shepherd dog, was Ferrari's constant companion for the last 12 years, and in his will he set aside $500 for her care and for her burial. When she dies she is to be placed in a coffin and laid to rest under a giant pine tree on the sunny slope of Brookville. A Soldier's Farewell. Lexington, Ky.—A letter of farewell which Harry Cunningham wrote just before he went to death in battle was filled as his will for probate. It was addressed to his mother. NATIONWIDE FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE American Red Cross Will Have Health Centers in All Parts of United States. The American Red Cross has launched upon a nation wide campaign of fighting disease and physical defect among the American people. A new and unique health institution has come into being as the result of several months' study by the Red Cross Health Service Department at National Headquarters. Officials in charge of the department predict that before long this new health activity will be in actual operation all over the country, and that the sign—"American Red Cross Health Center"—will become as familiar to the people everywhere as are now the signs of the telegraph commands. Busy Long Before War. The interest of the American Red Cross in the fight against disease is not, however, of recent origin. Long before the war the organization began this health service through its medical units in disaster relief work and its department of Town and County Nursing. During the war and following the armistice thousands of American Red Cross officials have been fighting disease in the war-striken countries. At the same time tens of thousands of local Red Cross officials have been engaged at home fighting disease, notably during the influenza epidemics. The American Red Cross has determined that all this valuable experience in health service abroad and at home shall not go to waste. So long as there are a half a million people dying in this country from preventable causes, one-third of the American children and young people are victims of physical defects, the Red Cross recognizes the urgent need for continued Red Cross health service at home. How Organization Works. The Red Cross Health Center is governed by business principles, applies business methods, and, in its more simple form, can be established and conducted by lay people. It proceeds upon the demonstrated fact that health is a commodity that can be bought and sold like brooms and soap. Therefore, it establishes itself in a storeroom in the principal business section of the community. It displays its goods in the form of attractive health exhibits in its show windows. It advertises constantly and extensively. And it uses every business and social device to attract customers. The Red Cross Health Center is of service to the sick in that it gives out reliable and complete information about existing clinics, hospitals, sanitation and other institutions for the sick and the defected. It provides nurses, both trained and practiced; about when to consult a physician and why to shun the quack and his nostrums. Teaching Disease Prevention. The Red Cross Health Center is, however, of even greater service to the well. It teaches people how to prevent sickness and disease. This is done in many interesting and attractive ways—first of all, by the distribution of popular health literature and through health lectures illustrated with luntern slides or with health motion videos. In other special exhibitions are given, one after the other, by health subjects. Practical demonstrations are made; also health playlets by children to interest and instruct themselves and their elders. Classes are organized in personal hygiene, home care of the sick, first aid and in food selection and preparation. Health training with the health playlets, are formed; also Little Mother-Leagues. Nutrition and growth clinics are conducted for children. Already more than a hundred of these Red Cross Health Centers are in actual operation throughout the country. Many of them also conduct medical clinics, but the one chief, outpatient American Red Cross Health Center is its well education service which teaches well people how to keep well. FRENCH PRAISE FOR OUR RED CROSS WORK Lauding the work accomplished by American philanthropy for warstricken France, Andre Tardine, former high commissioner from that nation to the United States, in a recent article widely commented on throughout the French press, says: "American philanthropy has accomplished a work which calls on the heartfelt gratitude of every true Frenchman. In 1918 this great relief organization spent in behalf of France nearly 87,000,000 francs, and in 1919 its expenditures on charitable projects in our country attained the tremendous total of 171,000,000. It has recently turned over to the French relief organizations huge stocks of supplies whose value must be counted in the minds of the hands of France." "Fifteen million American boys and girls, banded together in the Junior Red Cross of America, are back of a movement to establish the closest ties between themselves and France's younger generation through the charitable works they have financed, and are now carrying out among our little war sufferers." "A fund of friendship between France and America is cemented with mutual admiration, respect and gratitude." THE APPEAL. WHISKY BURIED DEEP IN BAY WHISKY BURIED DEEP IN BAY How Canadian Smugglers Cached Wholesale Quantities of "Booze." BROUGHT FROM VANCOUVER Arrests in Seattle Cause Breakup of Big Ring—Trips Between Seattle and Vancouver Were Made Under Cover of Darkness. Seattle, Wash.—Watery depths of Elliott bay formed the hiding place in which a liquor smuggling ring cached wholesale quantities of Canadian whisky brought by boat from Vancouver prior to the arrest of four of its members, according to disclosures made by Leuct. E. C. Collier, head of the police dry squad, says a recent issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Lieutenant Collier made public the information regarding the ring following the sentencing of two of its members in federal court and the failure of the launch operated by the gang to arrive at its customary place in keeping with the schedule planned previous to the arrest of the four members of the ring. Gus Hanson, licensed mariner, and John Morris, a deck hand, were sentenced to serve 30 days in the county jail and pay a fine of $200 by Judge Jeremiah Neterer when they pleaded guilty to transporting liquor. The charges against them were the first in this district to be filed directly under the authority of the new federal prohibition law. Bert Jackson and John Olson, laborers, were arrested at the same time Hanson and Morris were taken and are still held in the city fall. The arrest of the quartette took place at the base of a 200-foot cliff on Magnolia bluff while the men were taking the last 180 quartis of Canadian whisky out of the water preparatory to carrying it to the top of the cliff above and storing it in a thicket less than forty yards off Magnolia boulevard near the southern end of Thirty-seventh avenue west. A member of the dry squad had purchased the amount in question by making an initial payment with marked money, when he was joined in the fellow squad members, and the four men resisted. The launch that had brought the whisky from Vancouver was scheduled to return another load some time before midnight and daylight. In the morning dry squad officers waited in vain for its arrival at the customary point of Magnolia bluff. Liquor Sunk in Sound. According to the plan of operation as gathered by Leitenant Collier, the ring was composed of about seven men, three of them thoroughly versed in navigation and particularly acquainted with sound waters. Trips between Seattle and Vancouver were made entirely under the cover of darkness, the boat taking its load at a scheduled spot near Vancouver and unloading it into the bay off Magnolia bluff. Each sack was tied to a small cord and lowered to the bottom of the hay, the cords being tied together on an iron bar and the bar placed under shallow water near the shore. The sacks containing the whisky seized by the dry squand were still wringing when found, while a maze of cords was discovered near the water's edge where they had been discarded. The path up the side of the cliff showed that the place had been used for some time, apparently for the purpose of bringing up whisky. SWINE SWARM IN 'DETROIT Driven in Herds Through Streets on the Account of the Switchmen's Strike. Detroit, Mich.-City ordinances and custom both went by the boards here because of the switchmen's strike. Squealing pigs—1,500 of them—had to be removed from cars in railroad yards and driven for some distance through the streets to the packing houses. They scattered in all directions, demoralizing traffic and furnished amusement for almost everybody except the street car motormen. Some of the porkers were caught under street cars, but were recovered without serious damage. Woman, 105, Dead; Drank and Smoked London—Betsy Arnold, one hundred and five years old at least, who claimed to have remembered the battle of Waterloo, is dead in Bryngyn. She drank whisky and smoked a pipe all her life. Betsy was born in Skiltberen, County Cork. Her husband, still alive, was many years her junior. The ancient Irish woman just before her death avowed her belief in hard work, a drop of whisky and a puff at a pipe. Her diet consisted mainly of plenty of potatoes and vegetables and cabbage water. JUNIOR RED CROSS WORKING AT HOME Production of Sound American Citizenship the First Aim, Says Dr. Farrand. On the badge of every member of the Junior Red Cross are the words "I Serve." That tells the story of the school children's branch of the American Red Cross and its efforts to bring happiness to children throughout the world. Realizing that the time never was so propitious as right now for teaching the highest ideals of citizenship, the greatest present program of the Junior Red Cross needs to be trained under the very inclusive phrase, "Training for Citizenship Through Service" for others. Since the Junior Red Cross is the agency through which the American Red Cross reaches the schoolbags and the schoolgirls, all its activities are designed to come within the regular school program, and without creating new courses or increasing the number of studies to lend its aid in vitalizing the work of the schools. "The thing that is needed," says Dr. Livingston Farrand, Chairman of the American Red Cross Central Committee, "is not a perpetuation of the Junior Red Cross, but the training and breeding of sound American citizenship inspired by the true, fundamental ideals of sound democracy. One of the goals in making the Red Cross a contribution to ship in our American democracy is the realization that after all the sole hope of any nation is with the children of the country." The plan of organization of the Junior Red Cross makes the school—public, parochial and private—the unit, not the individual pupils. Mutual service, helpful community work such as clean-up campaigns, care of the sick, promotion of health regulations, participation in civic and patriotic movements—all these creative agencies deemate into life and action the regular unit of the machinery which the Junior Red Cross places at the disposal of the school authorities. Graded study courses give practical methods of civic training, supplemented by pamphlets and helpful suggestions, are supplied to the local schools by the Junior Red Cross. An elaborate plan for promoting an interchange of correspondence between children in different sections of the United States as well as with children in foreign lands is being devised and will take a prominent place in the established program. The ideas and the objectives of child welfare, Red Cross courses in home hygiene and care of the sick, first aid, and dieting may be established in all Junior Red Cross Auxiliaries. The ideals and the objective of the Junior Red Cross are embodied in the pledge of service which the pupil takes when he signs the membership roll and pins on his coat the Junior's badge. The pledge which binds together service and citizenship reads: "In all ways to live up to the idea of the Junior Red Cross and devote ourselves to its service. "We will strive never to bring discredit to this, our country, by any unworthy act." "We will revere and obey our country's laws and do our best to inspire a like reverence and obedience in those about us. "We will endeavor in all these ways, our citizens, to transmit America greater, better and more beautiful than she was transmitted to us." At the foundation of this school program of the Junior Red Cross is a great love for America's children. RED CROSS ACTIVE IN DISASTER RELIEF When disaster hits a community—fire, flood, earthquake, explosion, bad wreck or tornado—the American Red Cross can be depended upon to follow right at its heels with help for the stricken people. Red Cross relief is almost immediately forthcoming—clothing, shelter and funds; doctors, nurses and special workers with long experience in handling similar trouble elsewhere. During the last year, ending June 80, there was an average of four disasters a month in the United States. One hundred and fifty communities in twenty-seven states suffered. The most destructive of them were the tidal wave at Corpus Christi, Texas, and tornadoes in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In these events of horror 850 persons were killed, 1,500 were injured, 18,000 were made homeless, about 30,000 families needed help, the property loss was nearly $100,000,000, not including emergency supplies was expended. To the sufferers from all disasters during the year, the American Red Cross sent $120,000 worth of supplies, 110 Red Cross nurses and seven special relief trains. To meet the needs of the community the organization provided relief stations, thirty food canteens, and as many emergency hospitals. One hundred and twenty-five Red Cross chapters gave disaster relief service. If disaster ever strikes this town or county, the citizens can be absolutely sure the Red Cross will be right on hand to help them in every way. Defective Page ALTER NAMES TO AVOID RIDICULE Washington Lawyer Says Business Has Been Humming Ever Since War. MANY GERMAN NAMES SHED Some Are Turned Into English Equivalents and Others Are Replaced by Plain American Names —Simple to Make Alteration. Washington,—A young man dropped into a lawyer's office here the other day. "I want to change my name," he said sadly, "I'm a locksmith. I have my name on the door—B. Ware—and customers are always creaking jokes and pretending to be afraid of me. People even come in just to make silly puns and take up my time. "Why don't you write your first name out?" suggested the attorney. "Oh, that would be worse. My name's Barry Ware—it sounds like bow-wow." The lawyer drew up a petition for the young man, to be called Barry Ward, and in three weeks the change was effected to the client's joy. Many German Names Changed. The lawyer who told us this story says business in changing mannes has been humming ever since the war. Families who had been in this country for four generations, and who prided themselves on their American qualities, woke up in 1916 and 1917 to find their German sounding patronymies were regarded with disguise, if not with suspicion. There was one remedy, and a great many took it. German names were legally turned into English equivalents, or were replaced by plain American Smith, Carter or Johnson. In some cases, owners of German names desired changes as a means of showing they were not hyphenated Americans. In others, it was a matter of business. Such names as Kalser and Hindenburg, the owners stated, were injuring their trade, as Americans regarded them as German firms and were prejudiced by war associations. Names besides those of German sound sometimes have an undesirable effect on business. Such names seem to be discarded by their owners in greater numbers than ever before. These are chiefly the masterpieces of the Russian, Greek, Italian and Slavic languages. Some of these combinations contain the best part of the alphabet and defy pronunciation, let alone spelling. Occasionally a clever man makes capital of a peculiar name, as the man named Easum, who once advertised "Easum's pills" all over town. But as a rule the old name which suggests amusing comparisons is regarded as something to put up with, like awkward hands or a stiff neck. Most names brought to court for revocation are surnames. Now and again, however, the American name which has worried the owner is the old name of the sea, is happily discarded. It hard to get the point of view of parents who give their children ridiculous names merely to gratify an overdeveloped sense of humor. Father's Little Joke. A governor of a certain state, by name Hogg, will always be remembered for the fact that he named his two daughters Iura and Ira. At least one of these girls, we are told, married early, thereby spoiling the point of the father's little joke. Still more outlandish is the record in British history of a father who desired to name his child Beelzebub. When the boy was brought to church to be christened the bishop refused to bestow the name upon him, saying it was not a fit name to be sanctioned by the church. The process of changing an undesirable name is simple. Here in Washington all you have to do is to file a petition with the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, saying it wastes too much of your friends' time to call you by your proper name, or whatever reason you may have for the change. You must swear that you are not hindering your old name to hold dear or any demands, against you. Then or after a notice of the change of name printed in a local newspaper once a week for three weeks. At the end of that time, if nobody comes forward to object—and nobody ever does—the court formally grants your petition and you go forth with whatever name you have picked out. Considering how easy it is, we wonder that there are so many people with names that are unmelodious to say the least—Fredric A. Haskin, in Chicago Daily News. Income of Fake Cripple Rated at $69,000 a Year With a perfectly good right arm bandaged, Arthur Harrison, beggar, admitted in a New York court he had received $13 in a half hour from sympathetic passersby. Magistrate Steers estimated to be the rate of $69,000 a year. He sent the beggar to the penitentiary for six months. If you have ought that's fit to sell, Use printer's ink, and use it well. AMERICANS ABROAD IN RED CROSS WORK AMERICANS ABROAD IN RED CROSS WORK United States Citizens Far Away Enthusiastic Members of the "Fourteenth" Division. Among the most enthusiastic and energetic members of the American Red Cross are those citizens of the United States who live outside the continental boundaries of their country—sons and daughters of the Stars and Stripes residing at the far corners of the city. These people compose the Insular and Foreign Division of the parent organization, generally known as the "Fourteenth" Division, which has jurisdiction of all territory outside the country proper; that is, Alaska, Porto Rica, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, the Philippines, Guam, and even the island of Tahoe, which came under our flag as a result of World War. For the year 1920 this division reported 30,808 paid up members. The main object of this division is to give our citizens everywhere the opportunity to participate in the work of the organization which stands for the best national ideals. Americans in far places intensely loyal and patriotic, treasure their membership in the Red Cross as the outward expression of their citizenship. It is an endeavor to the homeland and to each other to achieve this division in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canal zone, Chile, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Japan, Manchuria, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Porto Rica, Siberia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela and Virgin Islands. During the war these scattered members of the Red Cross contributed millions in money, and millions of dollars for the men in service, and sent many doctors and nurses to France. At the same time they carried on an excellent Home Service in their respective communities for the families of those who had gone to war, and in some regions gave large sums of money and immeasurable personal service to the relief of disaster and disease victims. The division is now establishing service clubs in foreign ports for the benefit of sailors in the American Merchant Marine, making plans to aid in trouble in foreign lands and completing arrangements for giving adequate relief in case of disaster. It is the Fourteenth Division's part in the great Peace Time program of the American Red Cross. RED CROSS ASSISTS DISABLED VETERANS The American Red Cross is carrying on a wide program of service for the disabled World War veterans receiving treatment in United States Public Health hospitals, and those being trained through agencies of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. In each of the Public Health Service hospitals Red Cross workers devote their time to the general welfare of the patients, and when they enter the receiving unit until they are discharged. After the soldier's discharge the Red Cross continues its friendly service through the Home Service Section in his own community. The Red Cross maintains a convalescent house at all of the hospitals, where patients can amuse themselves after they are well enough to be up and around. Parties and picture shows in the wards are also furnished, with occasional excursions when convalescent care is required. Great service has been rendered by the Red Cross in mental cases in identifying those who have appeared in state hospitals for the insane, and helping them secure compensation due from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. In the Federal Board's various district offices the Red Cross worker, acting with the Home Service Section, makes necessary loans to the men, arranges suitable living conditions, helps collect evidence and supply facts to the Board, assists in "appearing cases" and provides medical care for the men. The workers also follow up and aid all men who discontinue training. The Red Cross agents find men "lost" to the Board, help clear up delayed cases and aid the college counselors in their friendly work with the men. Many Red Cross chapters have set up recreation facilities, and in some instances living clubs, so these victims of war may have attractive surroundings and the fun which must go with effective school work. To the American Red Cross Institute for the blind near Baltimore, Md., more than half of all the Americans who receive training for training. The Institute, through the Red Cross, long ago conducted an exhaustive industrial survey to determine the vocations for which blind men could be fitted. As a result it is putting forth well trained men equipped to meet the social, civic and economic requirements of their respective communities. Aid for Spanish Red Cross The Iberian chapter of the American Red Cross, composed of Americans resident in Spain, has just contributed $480 to a fund being raised by the Spanish Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies for the purpose of fighting malaria. $2.40 PER YEAR SAY THOUSANDS DIE FROM H. C. L. United States Scientists Give Startling Facts Gleaned From Investigation. CHILDREN MOST SUSCEPTIBLE Claim Vice President Marshall's Adopted Son Killed by Lack of Nutritious Food—Proper Diet is Needed. Washington.—The high cost of food is killing thousands of Americans and undermining the health of thousands of others. This is the deduction made by scientists connected with the government, whose job is to figure out just what kinds of foods are necessary to sustain the human body. The reason for the H. C. L. casuity list is that the most expensive foods are the ones most necessary to good health. Economical shops select the cheaper food and thereby deprive themselves and their families of life-sustaining elements. The disease that develops is called acidosis. It is not a new disease, but its prevalence in America has developed in the last five years. The word "acidosis" is so new that it hasn't got into the dictionary. Children Most Susceptible. The disease is more prevalent among children. It was the malady that killed Vice President and Mrs. Thomas Marshall's adopted son. That child had been properly cared for after the Marshalls adopted him, but he was undernourished before he fell into such fortunate hands and several years' of proper feeding failed to restore his health. "Bread and other starty foods are the cheapest." said Dr. Carl Vegetilin, professor of pharmacology, government hygienic laboratory. "For this reason they are consumed more extensively. They are the foods that, used to excess, bring on acidosis." The principal symptom of acidosis is abnormality in breathing. The respiration is more difficult because the lungs are trying to eliminate the excess of poison. What is the preventive or remedy for acidosis? Sometimes doctors give bicarbonate of soda or magnesium—alkalines that neutralize the acids to prevent acidosis after operations, after other anesthesia or relieving established acidosis or diabetes. Proper Diet Needed. But to keep from getting acidosis there is a better way. The necessary alkalines can be taken into the body in a mixed diet, containing green vegetables, fruits and milk. "One cannot emphasize too much the value of milk, fresh vegetables and fruits," declared Doctor Voegelin. "From these foods one gets sodium and potassium carbonates and other inorganic salts that are absolutely necessary in neutralizing the acids if one is to keep well. The juices contain the alkalines the body needs. We should have them regardless of cost, for it is not economy to save money and ruin our health. "The starchy foods, such as cakes, pies, hominy, hot cakes, biscuits, bread and potatoes should never make up more than 50 per cent of the menu, and should be much less, if possible. People should eat lettuce, cabbage, chick carrots, turnips, onions, apples, grappefruit and other fruit and vegetables." "String beans contain about the right proportion of foods and we should eat all we can get of them. The people now eat a half-pound of meat a day per capita, which is just 100 per cent too much. Sugar is a luxury that could be entirely eliminated with no bad effects. The best rule to follow is a mixed diet, with emphasis, especially now that summer is near, on the green vegetables and fruits and milk and its producers, and eat plenty of food at regular intervals." Wolves in Manitoba Meet Trains, Claim Winnipipe, Man.—According to Christopher Possett, station agent at Ginton Village, a short distance from here, the only thing wolves don't insist on doing in his town is voting. Possett was here to get provincial permission to carry a gun and says the wolves know the railroad timetables as well as the chief dispatcher and come in wolves to meet the incoming trains. He was given the permit, bought a gun and loaded up with enough ammunition to last blim a year or two. Returns Watch. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Another "honest" thief has made his appearance here. This time a watch taken from a hold-up victim was returned to him. According to J. S. Miller, he was held up and robbed of $7 in cash and a watch and chain which was a family heirloom. A few days later Miller noticed something hanging from the knob of his front door and upon investigation discovered that it was his watch and chain.