South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 87, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1918 — Page 6

THF SOUTH BEND NEWS-TLME: Water and the Things That Get Into it in the Billets in France Help Fill the War Chest A Simple and Logical Plan For Raising a Patriotic Fund Without Waste or Duplication of Effort. We recommend and endorse liy Vih1h Jlutcliiuon, M. I).

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At this time of the year people feel weak, tired, listing, their blood is thin, '.hey have lived icdoorg and perhaps expended ail their mental and bodily ?nery and they wart to know hov to rene-A- their energy and ftamina, overcome headaches and backaches, have clear eyes, a prnooth, ruddy skin, and feel the exhilaration of real ood heailb tinjjlinj thni their body, (iood, pure, rich, red blood is the be;t insnraucc aain?t ilia of all kinds. Almost all di.'easeg come from impure and irnpovrrähed blood. It is to 1 noticed in the pale or pimply fare, the tired, hazard appearance or the listl-? manner. iJrink hot water a half honr bffora Enyals. and for a vegetable tonic there's nothing better than Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the o!d-fxshioned herbal remedy, which has had Kuch a fine reputation for fifty vrars. It con tains no alcohol or narcotics. It il TnaI from Golden Seal root, Bloodroot, Oregon jprape root. Queen's root Black Cherry bark, extracted with gly crrine and made into tablet-? and liq'ii' Tablets sixty cent?, at mot drrt Ftor In order to infnre pnre blool and bnild up th system try this tonic kt;n ?, Dr. Pierce' (ioldcn lledicnl 1) :- rv. Get it now '

Y r two r f tti" inot difficult aril v;itiv inijiortant sanitary f-ats of an arriiv staff aro pr-ci.-ely to Rt-t a pn-jx-r ipply of pure air into thr liiriL-.s of th- soldiers, particularly at niu-lit. aii'i of c!-an water Into thei. t r: . :i c-1: Th- iiffif ultif -; of a convenient wat-r .su.ily in tlie open fif-Id ar often ol)vi;:s enousrh. for the streams run obstinately down the bottoms tf th valleys while th trenf hes tollow the crests of the hills. But surely when the troo-is are billUfd in the village and lit towns, there om,'ht to be no such !iffieUltie.i about water to drink. IKre is the town pump, there are the illnrr? fountains, th resort of bright-eyed, friendly, rustic beauties, all mat is necessary is to life The brimming dipper or nil th-3 .swirling con. The water is clear and sparkling anl cool r.ml if any furtlier voucher were required for its whole5omebe.ss, look at the apple-red cr russet brown cheeks of the village eldf rs and grannies todflllrv up anl down in the sunshine. Hut glas for the deceitfulness of appearance". The cold and ruthless eye of thd microscope turned upon that sparkling purlins: sater may show millions of se;v;i;'f bacilli, the briefest sanitary survey of the peaceful, healthful villape will jrobably uncover scares of cases of typhoiJ. either present or recent, while th-3 apple-cheeked old people are the scattering survivors of hundreds, who sta-ted neck and neck with them in the race of life ."0 or CO years before, not SO or 00, as you miKht think to look at them.

In oth r words, typhoid fever Is now largely a rural disease, the death rat from it lein often higher in country districts than in great cities and citv dwellers go oat into the country for health and come back with typhoid. Much of the supposed superior longevity of country dwellers is due to the fact that they age early and have short memories. What makes it worse Is that troops bilkted in a vi.'lage, like other stranuers coming into a country district, always suffer much more severely from the drinking water, if

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Nl:'l:R has Miladrs footwear been more delightfully feminine than in this season Long slim lines are the rule, and in the very simplicity of design and pattern lies that daintiness which adds so much to a pretty frock. Oxfords are the Leaders 0tiis are the voiit just now, n they are the realiy :ie 'A' thr.vc in spring footwear. Handsome shades of brown kid ami ot tan calf, also gun metal and patent, with straight and curved heels.

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A "War Chest for a city is pimpfy i plain, common-sense plan of providing a fund for expenses which you know the community will sometime he required to meet during the year, and ly subscribing to it as liberally as you possibly can you are merely contributing your share to the financial support resting upon your city and your home which thi.s war. for the defense of the freedovi of the institutions, has forced upon us. If you will just think a Lit you will see that this plan, although under a new name, is a rule that you have been following ever since you have been responsible for the support of yourself and others. You

have maintained a War Chest or a savings fund against the enemy towers of debt, want and distress, haven't you? V You kr.ovv that every ear you will be called upon to make payment for rent or taxes, food, fuel and clothing, and a certain amount for alleviating the suffering of thoso who have been wounded or defeated in life's battle, and so you have gone about it, saving what you could out of your earnings to be prepared to meet such demands when made upcn you. If you are at the head of a family you know that a like responsibility devolves upon all of its memlers of i self-sustaining age. Consider South Hend as one larg3 family upon whom the government i? continually making demands for assistance in providing for the protection, support and comfort. of those who are lighting our battles,

and for their dependents; reflect up on our duty to see to it that sir;1, demands are cheerfully and prompt iy met in full measure, and you wi'i have a very clear and comprehensive idea of what a War Chet why it is necessary, and why yo should contribute to n. As you can plainly see, this pl.t : will enable you to make a lix. l charge apainst yourself i'nr y.i share of -pcial contribution for ua purposes of the year. In other words, not only will you kno. "ivhere ou are" in this particular but your contribution to the '-m Chest reliees you from the annoyance of innumerable solicitations the work it embraces.

habitants. The reason being; that the latter become hardened, immunized is the technical term, to its infections, often by a mild attack in earlier life. So that you can get a lovely little epidemic of typhoid in a camp whether army or construction on the outskirts of a village, even at a season when there is no actual typhoid amo.tg the local inhabitants. Knowing all these things our army doctors in France turned a most watchful and suspicious eye upon the innocent looking and refreshing waters which flowed freely in the village streets in which our troops were billeted. And their suspicions were sadly and quickly Justltied. Nearly 90 per cent of all the samples of water examined in th.? army zone were found to be swarm ing with sewage bacilli. Tanks and sedimentation basins there were none, filters of sufficient capacity for thousands of troops would have taken months to construct. The only practical immediate way to solve the problem was by the use .l canvas, 30 gallon bleaching-powder bags suspended on tripods which are to be seen dotted about every encampment. They, however, are only really suited for autumn maneuvers or the old open and moving style ol war, and will soon be replaced by proper double tanks, or modern motor pumps and sterilizers combined, of the English fashion.

nation of moat of the native drinking water in the army zone that disinfectants used in our latrines give a strong flavor of creosote within 4 few days to all the wells and fountains in their neighborhood.

The baers are portable and quickly set up, but for permanent use they have the very serious drawback of having the water drunk from the same vessel in which it was chlorirater. As there is no telling by the look of the water whether chlorination is complete or not, this mear.s that unless some orderly stands guard over the bag from the time the bleaching powder is put in until the chlorine has been completely

neutralized, the first man who conies up to take a drink out of it will get a mouthful of bleaching powder, rlus any dregs and sediment which rr.ay have settled to the bottom 'n the process. Which gives him a strong prejudice against any sort of chlorinated or otherwise 'Moped" drinking water for the rest of liü campaign. He will drink from any pump, or well, or stream he can come across sooner than resort again to that "chemical" bag.

"While water which has been trerd with bleaching powder is usually quite tasteless and good to drink, in from three-quarters of an hour to an hour, it Is much better and safer to let It stand overnight. that all permanent plants for the chlorlnation of drinking water consist of two tanks or large casks sid? by side, in order that the water rr.ay !o trt-ated and allowed to settle completely in the one. and then siphoned over into the other for use. leaving six inches of water and all the dregs in the bottom of the first container. Unless this is done it is difficult to get the wary and suspicious doughboy into the habit of drinking "bleached" water. Our army medical officers are so zealous and vigilant that they succeed in making the soldiers take mo.. of their uncooked -fluid nutriment from the bleaching bags, as is evidenced bv the almost complete absence of diarrhea and other intestinal disturbances. In our armps. And remembering that nine-tenths of all the specimens of water from wells, fountains or streams examined in th; zone hav been found heavily loaded with colon and other sewage "'acilll, this shows a real triumph for their enthusiasm and efficiency But it is a constant and wearing strain upon their vigilance, wh.ch is unnecessary and mifht be entirely avoided by the installation of proper tanks and pipelines supplying each barrack in the camps. direct and striking is the contarni-

The third great sanitary requisite for the health of an army, latrin?s and sewage disposal, presents tho greatest difficulties in the way of Its sohition. As none of the villages cccupied by our troops has any pipeline system of water supply the only methods of waste disposal possible are Ly the simple pit or trench latrines, and the running of sewage water in open ditches directly into the streets. The soil of the valleys in which the villages lie Is simply underlaid with sheets of water, so that wastes disposed of in pits in the soil promptly find their way into all the ether deeper pits called wells within 100 or 130 yards around them. This makes the pit or trench type of latrine distinctly undesirable from every point of view. Th'; sanitary , corps of the army is keenly alive to the difficulties of the situation in which it finds itself, and application has been made to the authorities for the pail and incinerator system of the Italian and English -.amps, -and this will probably soon be granted. In this method, the wastes in the latrines are kept entirely a bow ground i:: large pails containing small quantities of disinfectant fluil. These are emptied twice a day directly into a special type of incinerator in 'which, by a skillful arrangement of draughts they can be burnt completely without either smoke or odor, at an expense of only about 100 pounds of coal per day for each r00 men. This is the ideal method of camn sanitation, for it protects the so.l absolutely from any kind of contamination, and what is even more important practically, it absolutely prevents tlat busy middleman of the pestilences, the fly, frotr carrying infection from one case to another. Every other known system for the disposal rf wastes simply means their reappearance in somebodv elses food or drinking water soontor iater. Tails and the materials for build!ng the incinerators have be?n promised, and this admirable system will doubtless soon be installed in all our army camps.

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