Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — Ills of Railroad Men. [ARTICLE]

Ills of Railroad Men.

Manifold mental and nervous disorders beset railroad men, according to Dr. Platschek, lecturing before the World Congress of Hygiene and Demography In Berlin. Every year the number of railroad smployees afflicted with various diseases due to their employment increases the doctor says. Among the disorders mentioned are loss of memory; lack of judgment, weakness of intellect, paralysis, melancholia, and about all the nervous afflictions known to physicians. Dr. Platschek pointed out that these *ll-~ ments come from the dangerous and difficult duties of railway workers. An eagle lives from 80 to 160 years. The young birds are driven forth by their savage parents to provide for themselves as soon as they are able to fly. No training is given them by the old bird. That is left to their wild instincts, which hunger and necessity develop. There is no going back to live in the nest and if they emit plaintiff shrieks the old birds dart at them and push them off the crags or rocks and thereby make them take to their wings. It takes three years for a young eagle to gain Us complete growth. —- | , • Every man Is susceptible to argument of one sort or another. Words and logic appeal to some while a shaded eye or maaeeged uose are required by others.