Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT PubllaAaß Every Evanlng Except Bunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres and Gen. Mur. E.W. Kam pe—Vtefr Pres. t Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse— Sec'y and But. Mgr. Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, aa second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies • ••• J cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier ...MOO One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months by mad M Six Months, by mall »L7o One Year, by mall, »3.00 One Year, at office .....»3.w (Prices quoted are within first ami second rones. Additional postage ad ded outside these sones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York < ity N. Y. Life Building. Kansas Cltv. Mo. THE HOSPITAL—A GIFT FROM THE PEOPLE. The beautiful Adams County Memorial hospital dedicated Sunday ternoon with appropriate ceremonies to the loving memory of the soldiers and sailors and nurses who served their country in the world war and to mankind in general, speaks for the unselfish spirit and brotherly love the people of this splendid community have for their neighbor. No finer monument or more useful institution could have been erected by the people of Adams county and in no way could the community show its interest in the welfare and general good of all than in erection and opening of this modern hospital. The hospital as a < modern, up to-date building, containing th<> last word in hospital equip- , meat and construction speaks for itself. But to really appreciate the place you must visit it, see its beauty, coinpleteness and the exactness carried , out in planning to care and adminis- ■ ter to the sick and those suffering 1 from physical pain or ailment. As the days roll by it will more than prove , its worth as a health center. The hospital was constructed because a majority of the people in this county wanted it. Not that it might be of financial gain to them, but that it would be of aid and service to mankind, for no hospital is an outstanding financial success. If the people of this community did not have it in their hearts to help others they would not have bonded themselves for f125.<XW.00 with which to construct and complete the building, nor would they hare donated so generously towards the furnishings of the bed rooms. This spirit of unselfishness

however, is not new to Adams county and its people. It is a part of us. We lire it. As Dr. Hill said yesterday, he was not surprised when he was informed that a county hospital was to be dedicated here for the reason that he had learned to expect good things from the people here and that every six months when he came to Decatur he was always anxious to find out what had been accomplished. The dedication and opening of the hospital is the crowning gift of expression of brotherly love from the people of Adams County and will prove to the coming generations that this community is composed of a great people and is one of the best places on the I earth. The country regrets to learn of the ; illness of President Harding. The president took ill last Friday from an attack of ptomaine poisoning and dispatches received here this morning state that th e chief executive suffered a turn for the worse during the night Regardless of political affiliations every patriotic citizen will hope and pray for the recovery of President Harding. Th® chief executive is on his return trip from Alaska and it is sincerely hoped that he will be enjoying his former rood health within a. few days. * Thirteen peonlj were kilted by a Pennsylvania ffyer adding to the toll of Sunday causia title; The train running two hou*i lat- after wrecking an automobile and k’lltes four near Highland, Illinois, was more than likely trying to rn.sk-. up for lost time and

at Terre Haute. Utt another automobile killing nine people. Altogether 2i lives were chimed in Sunday ciashes throughout the nation. The hospital trustees, A. J. Smith, i Mrs. Clara H. Anderson, Ed M. Ray, Frank Helman, county attorney Henry Heller, architect Oscar Hoffman and others who gave of their time and energy In the building of the Adams County Memorial Hospital are to be cogratulated. The hospital is complete in every respect and will be used by ail. , They work fast in Chicago. Twelve blocks of fancy houses, apartment houses, store and office buildings, and garages, numbering about 250 in all are being wrecked to make room for more modern buildings. This is going some and proves that we are living in a fast age. The big fair was brought to a happy close Saturday. 'The five day Chautauqua opens here Tuesday afternoon and another pleasant week is assured. Join the crowd and attend th e entertainments which will be given every afternoon and evening under the big tent on Liberty Way. O O Dr. Good Delivers Wonderful Address o o Dr. C. H. Good, of Huntington. who is president of the Indiana State Medical Association, delivered a wonderful address at the dedication of the new Adams County Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon. Dr. Good said in part: "Mr. President—Ladies and Gentlemen: I am pleased to come over here from Huntington and be present at the dedication of your beautiful new county hospital with its splendid location andftnodern equipment and 1 know it will be successful if for no other reason than that you have a persistent president. When I was first invited to come over I declined, but your president was like the felJBr 4 IU *** B ■» . * w * <

DR. C. H. GOOD

low who went up to the Mayo clinic

and rushing through he met Dr. Will Mayo and said “Are you the head doctor?” and he replied “No, I am the belly doctor, my brother Charlie is the head doctor.” So your president said the doctors wanted the head doctor to make this address and he was not inclined to take “No" for an answer. So if this speech is short of your expectations, you will blame your president and your doctors.

During the world war no single factor contributed to our success more than the sacrifice and loyalty of the medical profession for out o£ 145,000, 120.000 offered their services. Os course, all agree it was the private. in camp and trench and battle that finally won the day, but our contribution is immortalized, in that great Pantheon de guerre. You know in that wonderful painting each nation has given its contribution to the war—took four years to complete it. Each one has what is best—but England and America have the ones that appeals to humanity the most. The growth of nursing has been as wonderful as hospitals and today nursing is recognized as one of the most es»ent| I in hospital management. We now celebrate Hospital day, May 12th, the birthday of that greatest of all nurses, Florence Nightengale. Twenty thousand of them enlisted in the world war and many a young soldier gave up his life with no one to soothe his last hours but the gentle care “Os the Greatest Mother in the World,” and in our hospitals and | at the bedside they are just devoted and loyal as in Flanders fields. The i Red Cross nurse will live and ever be jan inspiration to the great body of

the nur-ing profession, to nobler and' higher ideals. | If it were possible. I would like to give you a short history of medicine and what modern medicine to now doing. The first great physician was Heippocrates. the Father of Medicine 4)10-350 B. C. the contemporary of Socrates and lived in the age of Pericles and the temples of Aesculapius still stands. He had famous hospitals and sanitariums and was a master of his profession. He regarded disease as processes which were governed by natural; laws and amenable to rational treatment. and not as a result of offended Gods with marvolenence of offended demons, which ills were only to be cured by prayers, sacrifices, miracles and other super-natural influences He not only was the Father of Medicine, but surgery, and his works covered a wide range—B of his 18 treaties being on surgery.

During the first six hundred years of Rome, the city was without physicians. Cato used incantations for dislocations. Then came Ascelpides who attained celebrity and fame being the first doctor to perform laryngotoniy. He was the contempory of Caesar and the friend of Cicero, who said of him 'Nothing," he says, "brings men nearer to the Gods than the giving of health to their fellowcreatures.” Then in the earlier Christian era, came Ceisus with 8 books on medicine and was ample evidence of the growth of medicine from the time of Hoippocrates they had sects in medicine then as now. He was a first class anatomist and said a surgeon ought to be young or at least not too far advanced in years, to have a steady hand and never liable to tremble, a wonderful description, and that ought to encourage someone to be a Mayo or Crile in your midst. For in the splendid corps of physicians in Adams county, you have someone who will fill out the description and can fill the place in your hospital for without a fine, competent superintendent, good nurses, and able physicians and surgeons, your hospital beautiful and complete as it is, will fail. We physicians stand for one fundamental education. The man or woman who treats so precious a thing as human lite must study a certain number of years and then hospital intern before going out to practice and I am proud to know that your member of the legislature took that stand and the public and the people of Adams county and the medical profession should honor him for it. All the regular profession ask is a man. should be qualified in the medical science and competent to make a diagnosis and then use the remedy that his best judgment will cure or relieve the disease. Then comes Avicerna who with

Hippocrates tnd Celsus gave more medical knowledge to the old world than any other three names. He was hailed as the Prince of Physicians. For 900 years his books were the leading ones of all the world. He also treated cancer vigorously and the medical profession today is using every means to find some remedy that will stop this terrible disease-surgery—X-ray—Radium and all used and give wonderful results if taken early and the people can rest assured tributed by men of wealth the search that with the funds that are coni will go on until it is controlled. ' In an early day the alliance between medicine and theology laid the foundation for quackery and incompetency. In the 14th century, in England medicine was almost extinct, but today next to America England leads the world by her discoveries in the art of healing and medical science. In the close of the 16th century another event added a great impetus to surgery by Ambrose Pare of France, the ligation of arties instead of using hot irons. The discovery of America led to an intercontinental exchange of two most loathsome diseases which afflict the human family—pox and small pox. Europe gave .America small-pox and received in return Syphilis. The former disease has been almost blotted out and were it not the people listened to those opposed to vaccination, it could be wiped out. Just now Indiana has organized a health crusade in connection with the National Health Association to start a campaign for a birthday examination of all well people, beginning July 4, 1923. and ending July 4, 1924, while the average of human life has increased from 33 to 53 both men and women in the past halt century, it is the younger period of life where the increase has been made and after 45 it has not lengthened, so by this campaign we nope to discover any latent or hidden disease and thus prolong the lives to the allotted period, three score years and ten. If Abe Martin has it right when he says "We. kin remember about forty i years th' average expectancy of lite was about 75 years, but today we are ' tickled if we get across th’ street to

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JULY 30. 1923

fl fl A. J. SMITH, President

say nothin' of gettin' home again after a little Sunday spin three or four hundred miles. .Right today in the United States there are 3,500 men and women who have passed a hundred mark, but they had already got a good start before autoin’ and flyin’ and eatin’ quick was thought of.” So from Abe’s version this examination of over 45, will be a good thing. Your hospital Is a life insurance policy on the people of this county and the county will, and should, see that ample funds from taxes and receipts from patients maintain it in an up-to-date manner so that all who are compelled to enter it will bless it when they leave its portals. I have talked along the surgical lines and for a moment I want to mention what preventative medicine has done for our country and the world. When, I began practice in 18S3, the death rate from diphtheria was 50'7 and today with early diagnosis as low as 4% and among all. 9% and when the Shick test is carried out and those who are treated susceptible with toxin antoxin, the disease can be obliterated. The same is true of Typhoid Fever, during the Spanish American war, Typhoid Fever killed our boys more than bullets, there being 7.000 cases, while in the great World’s War. with four million soldiers, only a couple of hundred cases, and most of them had it before enlisting, and in private practice, you can all remember every fall, each! neighborhood had its epidemic, and, today, we are almost free from it and with typhoid vaccination and i hygiene and sanitary rules followed] out. it will be a thing of the past. And Pasteur’s great treatment for Rabies made him a friend of the| children, as Riley by his poems inj America, so he is acclaimed in France, her greatest citizen, as Riley | in Indiana as her,.most loved. They now not only vaccinate the child that is bitten by the dog, but the Japanese doctors immune the dogs, so your child that loves the dog so well can now have the dog treated and made free from danger. Tuberculosis, the great white plague, has by treatment in hospitals and sanitariums been reduced In

death rate from 200.000 to 100,000. cut in two. And Yellow Fever and Malaria brought under absolute control. In early times the hospitals were largely under the Catholic church and at present both the Catholic and Protestant churches have and are conducting a great many hospitals, but the county hospital in a community like Adams and Huntington, in my mind, is the ideal method for all the people to become interested in its management and success. It can bg used as headquarters for a health center and yju in time will have a nurse’s home to which you may add a school of nursing, but that is a bridge your board will have to cross. There is no doubt it has a fine influence in getting young girls to go into the profession. Our president, who is present and our superintendent. could give you good advice for we have the reputation of one of the best hospitals in the state. Cooperation is the key that unlocks the gate of success, by the board, superintendent. nurses and doctors, with the interest of the patient always paramount and your doctor can be selected by you the same as in private practice, and you can change him when ’you so desire. In other words, the hospital belongs to the people, but should be conducted by those who are educated about hospitals and their taanagement. And I now have the pleasure as president of the State Medical Asso- : ciation, dedicating this beautiful hospital to the good people of Adams county whom we hope and trust it , will always be a blessing and in a ■broader sense dedicated to the good

THE BOARD OF HOSPITAL TRUSTEES

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of ail IttUßiutii:’ in nulmist :d«a in life. "Let w liuwl wllu luva us For timer wlu uvu au true For tiv torumui Im smiles abuvu us And awxis mtr spirit true. For the vamw time numis assisiaucw For the wrong -iim uuuuh resistance , And the c.xd v; uua io. ’ + TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Daly Democrat Meo ♦ ♦ 20 year* s-ju Wia -in? * +♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Teamsters Union organised md price scale is increas dtc $3. 1, 0 m-r day instead of $2.40. Several citizens receive - »< r when lightning strikes tree on MarsdOs. street. Misses Rose Martin gave a straw ride and moonlight picnic- f-.-j th Misses Overman of Cincinnati. Mrs. Carrie Ehinger and children visit at Minster, Ohio. Force of G. I. & R. men are painting the river bridge here. Dr. G. V. Connell is attending meeting of State Veterinary association

Everybody Out! | This Is “Chautauqua Week” I First Performance Tuesday Afternoon. I I DAILY PROGRAM I OLD ADAMS TUESDAY. JULY 31 g COUNTY BANK Admission All Sessions: Adults 50c; Children 25c |g O AFTERNOON H , H 3:oo—Opening Concert—The Mercer Concert Company—A B| I H great mixed quartet atid a'ccompanist. H evening H FIRST NATIONlB 7:3o—Con rt —Tl. Merc-r Company—Featuring Harry Y. B' Merer. noted American tenor. B AL BANK rS B:3o—Lecture "Turning Fear Into Faith” —Frank Waller *H | Allen —Author, psychologist, lecturer. H $ WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1 B R 2:30 —Entertainment Program—Albert Phillip Meub —Char- PEOPLES LOAN acter delineator, dialect reader. B, V, 'TTJITQ’T C*O 3:3‘> —Com- r:—The Sidney Municipal Band—Under the di- H| **' H re< tion of F. O. Worrell—The zand selected by the H H Ohio Kiwanians to represent them at the Kiwanis HI B International Meeting at Atlanta, Georgia. H S evening K ’ 7:30 —Burgderfi r. Apostle of Fun—Story teller, impersonator.’ H ■ I ’ ATITR ■ 8:30i— I The Sidney Municipal Band—A splendid organization Hi Ituvniuiv B with many special features. H DAILY THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 Hi DEMOCRAT g| AFTERNOON S H, 3:00 —Concert—The Oibsonians and Fisher Shipp—Vocal, K H instrumental, entertaining. • '■ g| EVENING ® B 7:3o—Concert—The Gibsonians and Fisher Shipp—Quaint Hl B old Colonial Costumes, charming music. H Hg B:3o—Lecture "Problems of the Day”—United States Sena- H tor Pat Harrison. from Mississippi—A Chautauqua H ‘ SEASON TICKETS M headliner, M • Adults $2.00 M FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 H. 5 afternoon B Children sl-00 3:oo—Concert—The Weber Male Quartet—Well known con- wj n War Tax cert and Chautauqua artists of New York Citv H EVENING ’ 'Hi 7:3o—Concert—The Weber Male Quartet-An enjoyable B b.ending of the old and the new, the classical and the B fji popular. M H: S:30 —Lecture “The Destiny of Democracy”—Fred G Bale B Powerful as a speaker, sound in philosophy. ’ SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 B || AFTERNOON H 3:oo—Concert—Goforth's Black and Gold Orchestra—With'L r 4an unexcelled reputation as a Chautauqua success Performances Hl H _ EVENING ’ i. 30 Reading Hazel Dopheide—Unusual dramatic THIRD & B:3o—Great Closing Coneert-Gof orth's Black and Gold 1 IDUPT»V W \ V soloto g rge C - Go(0rlh ’ Vlophone LIBERTY WAY

\ wB.--I A \ ♦■.'F. - 'AMR I . kP| MRS. CLARA H. ANDERSON. Secretary

at Indianapolis. Mrs. A. P. Beatty returns from visit at Omuliu. Eggs drop to 12 cents per doxen and butter to It cents a pound. Misses Annie and Katie Ginley visit al Fort Wayne. CONNERSVILLE IS GROWING onneisrilie. July 30.—The populat„n ( ,f Connersville is now above the mark according to estimates made from the new directory which has just been compiled. The census of 1920 showed a population of 9.901, ■nit since that time. Connersville and the outlying territory has been brought withm 'he city limits. Ashbaucher’s ■ FURNACTS UGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING PHONE 765 or 739

FRANK HEIMAN

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