Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 247, 12 October 1907 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1907.

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PRICE Per Copy, Dally 2c Per Couy, Sunday 3e Per Week, Daily and Sunday 10c IN ADVANCE One Year .$5.00 Entered at Richmond, Ind., Postcfflce - As Second Class Mall Matter. CARE OF THE INSANE. Members of the county board of charity have suggested that Wayne county build a separate building on the grounds at Easthaven to accomodate insane persons of Richmond and Wayne county who are waiting for admission to the asylum. Aside from the fact that the ground at Easthaven belongs to the state and Wayne county would have to obtain permission from it to erect such a building there, it Is doubtful now If the building will really be necessary after next year. The new village for epileptics at New Castle will relieve Easthaven to a great extent, besides which there is a possibility that with the completion of the new insane asylum at Madison this part of the state may be redistrlcted, which will also take more patients from Easthaven. At any rate before pushing the proposition of the board of charity too much it might be advisable to find out from some state official Just what the possibilities of relieving the pressure at Easthaven will be when the Madison institution s completed. There is no need for Wayne county to Incur an unnecessary expense if the present conditions can be remedied In any other way during the next year. PROGRESSIVE EARLHAM. Earlham may well be proud of the progressive spirit it Is showing and the results it Is obtaining thereby. In a short time the new library will be dedicated and will mark another step on the road of progression Earlham has been traveling of late years. Earlham has small cause to fear for the years that are to come for it is showing the true American push and energy that keeps one at the top of the ladder all the time. In one way we feel the success of a college is expressed by the loyalty of its alumni. In this respect Earlham is very successful for through the efforts of its alumni many new features have been added enabling it to keep in the front rank among the smaller colleges of the country. h T.'JifcGION. Where Smoke Rises From the Sea and Tress Durst From Coicl. Explorer? who penetrate the Arctic and Antarctic sens have a chance to observe o:ie of the strangest phenom ena hi nature, that of smoke rising from the sen. Wherever the temperature falls to ir degrees below zero clouds of steair.i-.ig vapor ascend from the ocean to I o immediately frozen tito tiny partk les of ice and dropped once more into Mie water. The same thin:; takes place on land, the vapor rit;.. ""o:n the snow and even from tlt t ; of the explorers themselves. In . however, the ice particles faii ,.:e ground and make a weird rustling, like the swish of a silk dress. At 40 decrees below zero the sap ol trees Is turned to ice, and the trunks burst asunder with a sharp report These mysterious sounds and sightsare awe inspiring to all who do not know their cause, and they may account for some of the strange tales that are told of the frozen north. Natural light at nea is a much more common phenomenon. As the screw o a steamer churns the water undr "er tain conditions you may see the glowing nnsrlly where they haw i disturbed. This is called phosph js cence. and scientists are not agred as to Its cause. WHISTLER AND MONEY. The Eccentrlo Artist's Utter Lack o Dusiners Inctinct. The Dundee Adv--i;;or tells a stor, aiustrating WW nd utter lack Being hard pres. ing finally been in. lued unless a chev was sent by return forgetfulnes isiness instinct a debt and hav -I he would Lx or the amount post, the artist mentioned the matter to one of hi Mends who lived near him. Explain mg that he had a few pounds in tin bank, the exact sum unknown, he rc quested his friend to stop at tlu ban: an the way to business to ascertai what was required to make his a. sount good for a check of slightly ovc 90 and to deposit that amount for bin as a lo The ! was quite willing and i luc tl. kxI at the cashier's de:of Whistler's bank asking the amous of bis balance and e- alnlng the e rand. The cashier wu .nterested. 11 rent to the big book of balances, tur. td over a few pages, wrote down sou. Bgures and in a moment placed thei before the astonished friend. Whb tier's balance was more than $30,000. The artist was delighted, but found ii llfflcnlt to remember when he had de posited so much money or where he kad.jtot.ItL

DR. C. B. HEXAMER AND WM. RANDOLPH HEARST, j it i- I 'Him Jk

Snapshot showing at the left Dr. C. B. Hexamer, president of the National German-American Alliance, and Hon. William Randolph Hearst, who invited the delegates to the Alliance on a trip to Cambridge, to inspect the treasures of German art at that notable German center. The picture was taken while the gentlemen were standing on the steps of the Germanic Museum at Hartford.

J. N. M' MAKES PLAIN SOME HEALTHFUL FACTS (Continued From Page One.) of health of Kentucky for a quarter of a century, have licensed every physician in that state, and know most of them personally, have represented my profession before every session of my legislature for 27 years, and during the same length of time, except in very recent years, with co-workers from the other states, have constantly looked after the same interests before the national congress. Within the past five years I have visited almost every state in the Union, and In many states almost every county in it, talking before lay audiences and hearing lay responses, and have thus been able to make a study of doctors, of what they are doing, and of what people think of them, in a way which has nev er been possible to any other man be fore. In the light of this experience spent a good part of last year in Great Britain and on tne continent. making a comparative study of medical and health conditions and methods and have only recently resumed my work on this side. Due to Dissension. In my early experience with the leg islative bodies and courts I found a bias, prejudice, or passive resistance to every effort of the profession for the protection of the people, even in the minds of otherwise broad, fairminded men, and I soon found that this was always traceable to local but almost universal dissention between phy sicians of every school and creed, practically always to the fact that the confidence of that particular official in the profession had been destroyed by the back-biting of other doctors in the community, by his family physician. For a ong time I believed that this evil was confined to Kentucky, but investigation soon convinced me that, ex cept for a few favored communities, extended from Maine to California, and from the lakes to the gulf, cursing and blighting the usefulness and good name of the profession everywhere, and, as I will presently show you, bringing far wors disaster upon the people. A study of medical history shows this evil has always existed. Hypocrates complained of it in his day. and Fra Albertus, writing in the mid' dleages said, "And the sons of Escu laplus. every mother's son of them. took two or three hammers in his kipsey, besides the one he had constantly in use on his brethren, and the sons organized themselves into one gigantic choir, and the only song they ever san? was the anvil choris." It has just come down to ns as a vicious inherit ance from the centuries. Awakes to the Evil. A few years ago the profession of An unexpected pleasure the llrst taste ol Elijah's EU3anna Easily the most delicious flavour of any flak9 food known. Made by Postum Cereal Ltd.. Battle Creek. Mich. Co., Grocers sell this crisp food 5 cents for Pony pkg. and 15 cents for Family size.

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this country was awakened to the enor mity of this evil, to its baneful effects upon it and the disaster it has brought upon the people, and through a great scheme of organization, modeled after our form of civil government, we band ed ourselves together in every county, in ever state to exterminate it. Finding that they had suffered quite as much as we had from the same cause, and realizing that there is no more room or reason for the existence of three systems of of medicine than of lawr, upon terms equally honorable to them and to us, we have invited physicians of other systems to join us in the work, they are doing so in many sections, and the need for al of this was so evident, the efforts were so earnest, and it has gone on so rapidly, that, here in your own city and state, as everywhere, we have one of the most effectively organized and harmonious vocations now in existence. Unfortunately, however, the evil had existed so long that the public sentiment growing out of it had become a fixed habit with the people. and today, almost as much as a generation ago, there is a widespread, complex, passive, often Intangible, but none the less obstinate feeing, that ours is not a united, harmonious profession, and consequently cannot be safely entrusted with the ad ministration of great public affairs. I have faced this sentiment in the highest executive, legislative and judicial officers at my own state capitol and at Washington, day after day, cutured statesmen, who want to deal fairly and justly with all men, but could not do s with us. Instances Are Cited. Reference to three instances in re cent history wil show what this condi tion of public sentiment has done for us as a nation. On account of the inadequate authority of our army medical officers during the Spanish-Ameri-

can war we lost 16 of our vigorous, deaths from preventable diseases, tuitously by the Association, with amhealthy young soldiers from prevent- Now a state has no more valuable as- Ple reward to those who complete the able sickness for every one dying as a set tnan that represented in its I four Tears course, it is proposed to result of battle they died like sheep j Wealthy population. According to the , so stimulate the scientific spirit of the

and 85 of every 100 were inmates of Poetical economists, to say nothing of proression as 10 piace a competent, upthe military hospitals from the same the cost of caring for the sick who ; to-date physician within the reach of class of diseases. With medical offi- recovered from these diseases, this re-! eTery family in the United States. In

cers having co-equa authority and rank j with those of the line, except in the presence of the enemy, Japan, which we had considered a semi-barbarous country, lost but one of her soldiers from preventable sickness for every four dying from wounds, and but 15 of every 100 of them ever saw the inside of the hospital during the much more severe and protracted struggle in Man churia. And the report of our sur vu.. Auu tu icyut i uui 0ut-geon-general, recently published, shows that even in the time of peace, with one exception, we have the sickliest .iui m i. ia v nuiiu. no ua i u l liw w ti j for years that this danger hung over our army in the event of a war and constant, patriotic, unselfish efforts were made for its removal but, even with the contrastive object-lessons fur-

nished by Cuba and Manchuria before.."", T , . Al . , . I intend to. and vet no one of them ever the congress and the country no legis- i f " . . .. , .. . M ca . ' . , i suffers from the want of attention, latton has been secured, and should a i , , , .. . either city, town or country districts.

tions our armies would again face pestience, and the nation possible danger and disgrace because a large part of our defenders would be in the hospital and cemeteries who should be on the firing line. From the same cause mainly we have been delayed month after month in digging the Panama canal. Lay men were given sole control over a work which at the outset was almost purely sanitary, and, while most of them remained at a safe distance and drew their large salaries. Dr. Gorgas. a great trained expert, was sent down to do the real work, but with his hands as effectually tied as were those of Surgeon-General Sternberg during the war with Spain. His authority was gradually extended, and Mr. Roosevelt cut all the red tape and put Dr. Gorgas on the commission as soon as he took in the situation Tor himself, but the failure to appreciate

the necessity for this at the outset has caused much, of the delay, cost hundreds of lives and millions of dollars. Two years ago last month I was In Cuba with representatives from most of the other states because we feared that yellow fever was about to beak into this country, and we wanted to make a close study of the methods which had proven so effectual there. We decided that New Orleans was the weak point in our line of defenses and, as a result of our deliberations, Dr. Konke.

the great health officer of that city, returned home with ordinances already drawn and, backed by the profession of his city and state, went before his council and begged for authority to drain the gutters, to screen the cisterns, and to make it impossible for the disease to gain a foothold. They laughed him out of the council chamber, and when pestilence came four months later these same people insist ed upon disgracing this devoted man, j and had the national government taken charge of an epidemic which would never have occurred but for them. Thus, in all of the affairs of this great nation, civil and military, about which our profession alone has a knowledge, now and always, those who have the special training have no authority, and those who have the au thority have no training, and today, except in the emergency of an epidemic, the health service of this country, "is as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean." Bad Record for Nation. Now this is a bad record for us as a nation, but that for your own state Is even worse. One-third of the people sick in this state last year, and every year, and one-third of those you took to your cemeteries, wore sick and died of diseases which your medical pn fession could and would have prevented if they could have had the intelligent co-operation of your people. You had in that year 4,456 deaths from consumption, which means that you have about 20,000 cases of this disease in your state constantly. The common impression is that this is an inherited malady, but this is an error. No matter what your mother and father died of you can no more have con sumption except by getting into your body the germs from a previous case than you can raise corn or wheat on one of your rich farms without seed. If all the expectorated matter and the other infectious discharges from every case of this disease now in your state could be collected and destroyed until they recover or die, there need never be another case within your borders unless it be an imported one. You had j 1,823 deaths from the diseases of children caused by using dirty, adulterated or spoiled milk, out of 18,000 cases. We often speak of the slaughter of the innocents by Herod, but he was a no vice in the business as compared with our modern cities. You shudder with horror over the loss of life on the Larchmount and in the New York Central wrecked a few months ago, and properly so, but more babies die needlessly every week in your state during the hot season than there were people killed in both of these disasters, and it goes on almost without comment. And it would be cheaper for you to inspect the dairies, or sterilize the milk, and save these babies than It would to bury them. You had 448 deaths from diptheria and scarlet fever out of 19,000 cases, all distinctly preventable. You had S46 deaths from typhoid fever during the year. This means, according to the best estimate, that you have about 20,000 cases of this disease during each year. Typhoid fever is a typical filthy disease. No one can have it except by getting into their mouth and stomach some of the discharges from bowels or kidneyB of some one who has it. This Is not a nice thing to think about. But nice people ought to think about it and stop doing it. In cities it often comes ' from the use of infected water, as in the epidemic now at Scranton, vess frequently in the milk, sometimes on the hands, cooking utensils or food. In small towns and country districts

typhoid fever is usually carried by the j 70,000 members, in every state and ordinary house fly, as It was at Chica-' section. Through a well planned postmauga and the other military camns graduate or University Extension

during the war with Spain. In short, ; during this one year, you had 10,718 Presents a distinct loss to your people each year of over $10,000,000, Legislator Is Obtuse. Your profession has tried for years to secure the legislation which would prevent these diseases, but the aver-; age legislator honestly believed that thy sought it for their own benefit

not stopping to consider that in so ial information. Through the teachfar as doctors prevent sickness ther ers- with stereopticon and other dem-

, - v " l " income, in iaci ii uas onen seemea to me inai we have been misunderstood largely because the work is so mirelv altruistic. It is not rememhereri to their credit Viot ihmr i .i.H. i

of the other people put together. Over;01 arg ac tne care oi ui

a third of your people never paid a ! t1tfitir'G Villi in lfttn 1 i - Qiljl All other citizens may profit by invention, but if a doctor makes a discovery he is forced by his vows to give humanity the benefit of it without price. In spite of all this, doctors are misunderstood because away back IF YOU HAD A NECK A Lm TMs ruOum. and ho ORE THROAT TO USUI TIE WOULD QUICKLY CORE IT. 2SsadS0c AflDraobts. WEMiSSJUCa. Casta. I

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In the dim past our forbears spoke unkindly about each other. The clergy and all of the other seggregated callings did the same thing and have been forgiven, but it is still held against us. Lawyers Harmonious. The legal profession is the only one which has always been harmonious. This is solely due to the fact that lawyers live In the aggregate and work In constant elbow touch with each other, but it has been a great benefit to both them and the people. Had we been equally wise and united always health and medical boards would have been: as much a part of the warp and woof of our government as the courts are. They ought to have been. They are more important, just in proportion as health and life are more important, than mere property interests. A great central health department at Washington, with a representative in the cabinet, and all of the facilities for continuous scientific research is just as important as the supreme court of the United States, great as is the need of tribunal. A state board of health, with its members so supported that they can devote their entire time to their duties, is just as important in Indiana as your Appellate court. A board of health in every city and county, with an effective corps of officers and inspectors devoting their entire time to their duties, in the schools dally, at the dairies and abattoirs, supervising every possible source of disease and danger to your people, with well equipped laboratories, are indispensible in the light of present 3:nowledge, and are constantly becoming more so In the growing complex problems incident to the rapid growth of urban population. And It will pay to do these things, for the greatest tax upon the people of your state today is that paid into the city, county and state treasury, but is that expended for unnecessary sickness and for funerals which ought, not to occur. No Ordinary Problem. To meet conditions so grave, woven into our laws and, -what is far more important, into the habits of thought and life of the people, is no ordinary problem. Legislation, however cont nlete. unless supported by an educated professional and public sentiment, would have only an educational value. Our plans are being laid along the broadest line for creating and fostering this sentiment, through the 2,470 county societies, with over Course, with weekly or semi-weekly meetings, outlined and furnished graaddition, lt is planned that thesi county societies, or schools shall hold frequent joint meetings with the local organizations of teachers, lawyers, ministers, editors, commercial and other bodies which lead public oplnion wlth view to practical instruc tion about a11 of these life-saving mat ter8 of w&ich medical men have spec onstratlons, it is proposed in time to , rr.i - , i and easily understood instruction to I every child in the land, and in time ' provide a generation of voters, legislators and administrators who will rec- ; ognize, as Mr. Gladstone was so fond 11 li V U i LIX lO 11.1 iJV f ant duty of the statesman." This will ! be no easy task. It will involve great j expense and years of consecrated, unselfish labor. Doctors must lead In I it, not because they have more inter-1 est in it than other citizens, but because they have the special know ledge and training which tits tnem for and makes it their duty to lead. Revolution in Methods. Ultimately this means the same revolution in the methods of medical men which has gone on so rapidly but almost without comment in the legal profession. Until within recent years lawyers were employed almost entirely to conduct litigation in courts. Now great corporations and wise men employ them to prevent or avoid litigation and many of those most eminent seldom enter a court room. All sickness cannot be prevented with our present knowledge, but most of the acute diseases, especially the domestic pestilences so fatal to children and young children, and so difficult to treat, are distinctly preventable, and with the kind of research and Invest!'

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