Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — LIFE IS CHEAP IN EUROPE [ARTICLE]

LIFE IS CHEAP IN EUROPE

Dr. Lobdell So Declares After Passing Four Months Abroad— Frenchmen Inferior. Chicago.—Human life is the cheapest thing in Europe, according to Dr. Effie Lobdell, who has just returned to her home in Chicago after passing four months in various parts of Europe. “There is a lack of system in the fighting of disease in the countries across the water,” said the doctor, “and as a result typhoid fever and cholera are killing thousands. The doctors there receive only 20 to 40 cents a visit, yet they do the best they can with the facilities at band. “Americans especially are subject to the prevailing disease across the water,” continued the doctor, “on account of their carelessness in eating and drinking.” . * Doctor Lobdell’B admiration for the average Frenchman was not increased by her visit to that country. She declares the men are far inferior to the women in general business*and management, being content to let the women do the work, while they fill the positions usually filled by sixteen-year-old girls in this country. One thing that impressed the doctor forcibly in Europe was the remarkable cheapness of labor, and the fact that several persons are required, as a rule, to perform the same task that one person performs in the United States.