The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 27, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 2 November 1911 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA

BREEDS FOOLS BY SCORE Sensational Murder Cases, Especially Where Woman Is Involved, Produce Many Kinds of Idiots. Every sensational murder case breeds a large crop of fools. Especially If a woman is involved, there is always plenty of idiotic people pressing themselves forward for notoriety or anonymous association with the tragedy. In the latest Richmond crime there has been the usual output of sensation seeking -cranks and maudlin sympathizers, reaching a climax in the man who offered to sacrifice himself in the filace of the accused* husband for the sum of $5,000. This man, howev’er, is no worse than the writers oi letters to the woman witness now held in custody offering themselves in marriage to her. The abnormality that leads people to take a keen personal interest in persons accused of participation in the most revolting crimes passes under standing. There was, for Instance, the case of Ethel Leneve, the companior and possible of Crippen, who slew his wife in London. Nc sooner had the pair been captured on their flight to Canada than the girl .was besieged with matrimonial and theatrical offers, some of them in most alluring terms. People who had never seen her wrote to her letters ol endearment that they should have been ashamed even to acknowledge. Without doubt, the woman in this Richmond case could even without the slightest suggestion of talent, make a comfortable fortune “on the stage.” She has already received what are described as attractive offers from vaudeville managers, her acceptance of which is necessarily somewhat handicapped by the uncertainty of her future. Why any one would want to see such a person in a public performance is beyond comprehension. Yet the fact remains that there is a tremendous. unwholesome curiosity to see such people.—Washington Star. The Irish Ambassador. At an international wedding in Washington, order was preserved in tlie streets near the c.hurch by a squad of policemen under the command qf Capt. Daniel Sullivan, who is famous for his politeness. A young man representing a metropolitan daily paper stationed himself near Sullivan and took down the names of the prominent people as they alighted from their carriage and entered the church. Sullivan’s diction was partly as follows: “The British Ambassador. The Senators from Maryland. The German , Ambassador. The Irish Ambassador The Bishop of Washington.” When the reporter returned to the office and looked over the list he was astonished to see the note, “The Irish Ambassador,” as he realized that Ireland, being a part of Great Britain, has no diplomatic representative of its own. After much trouble, he got Sullivan on the telephone. “What do you mean by ‘The Irish Ambassador?’ ’’ he was asked in great haste. ‘Who is he?” “Why, he’s Capt. Daniel Sullivan,” replied Sullivan. “Ain’t I a policeman?”—Popular Magazine. • Emergency Thought. The Fare —Now, cabman, I wish you to be extremely careful. When you come to a crossing you must wait until the policeman tells you to go on, and if the streets are slippery you must drive very slowly. Cabby—All right, mum; I’ll be very careful, mum. And in case of a haccldent, mum, which ’ospltal would you ( like to be took to? —Bystander. Varieties of Oranges and Lemons. Oranges and lemons of excellent (quality have reached this country from Rhodesia. The introduction of both these fruits into Europe is more recent than many suppose. A native of India, the orange came to us byway of western Asia, the bitter orange being brought in by returning Crusaders and the sweet variety not coming until the fifteenth century, when Genoese traders introduced the tree Into Italy. The lemon was brought into Spain hy the Arabs in the twelfth century According to the experts there are 4? varieties of lemons and 80 of oranges. —London Chronicle. According to Hei* Estimate. “You and your husband celebrate • your silver wedding next week, do you?” “Yes; next Wednesday.” “Does it seem possible that you have lived together 25 years?” “I should say it didn’t! Harry’s a traveling man for a wholesale queens■ware house and we’ve lived together just three years, eleven months and /nineteen days." A Diagnosis. "I know why barbers succeed in •preventing other men from getting in I* word edgeways.” “Why Is it?" “Because they are always cutting the other men short." Too Suspicious. “Say, what does a tailor mean ■when he’s measuring you for a suit of clothes and sings out ‘R. B.’?” “That means ‘round backed.’” “Gee! I thought he meant ’regular beat,’ and I slugged him for It!”

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VERY ten seconds, somewhere in the world, a baby dies. A blinking red light made this statement to those who attended the conventfbn of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of infant Mortality at Baltimore, last November. /In one corner of the room was an electric light, encased in a red, bulb. Six times a minute —7,640 times a day—the light went out; and, every time the light faded from the bulb, somewhere in the world. £he light

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faded from a mother’s eyes. So fast do our children die. Sometimes they die faster. They died faster last summer. If babies kept diaries, last summer would go down in the annals of the survivors as the “black summer of 1910.” In the single city of New York, 873 died In a single week. Every little poor street had its little white hearse. Worse still, durin gthe course of the summer, 8,000 children died that ought to have lived; that is to say, they died from preventable causes. Children die from two kinds of causes; those that are preventable and those that are not. This is news. Your grandmother and, possibly, your mother believed that every child that died could not have been saved.’ Everybody thought so. Preventable causes of deaths were not recognized. It was taken as a matter of course that women should bear twice as many children as were required to maintain the population, because half of them were bound to die. We still let half of the children die, but we know better. We know they need not die. We know they were born to live. We know that they do not have a chance to live. We havg even exploded the old supposition that the children of the physically weak must of necessity be physically weak. We now know that the children of the •physically weak are born almost as strong as the child of the strongest.

Every intelligent physician knows this statement to be true. However, let some eminent physician stand for it. Caleb W. Saleeby, one of the most eminent physicians in England, is such an an authority. Read what he says on the subject in “Parenthood and Race Culture”: "Most of the babies born In the ciums

are splendid little specimens of humanity—so far as physique is concerned—bearing no marks of degeneration to correspond with the deterioration of their parents. In a word, hereditory works . . . so that each geheration gets a fresh In another part of the same book, Dr. Saleeby estimated that the number of children who are born so weak that they have little chance for life does not exceed ten per cent.; and he .attributed the weakness of these to the effects of alcohol and certain impolite diseases upon one or both of their parents. Having now some fundamental tacts that meet with general acceptance among the enlightened, we may proceed to seek an answer to the question, “Why are children permitted to die from preventable causes and what are those preventable causes?” We need not go far. Millions of children that are born strong enough to live under favorable circumstances are killed by their mothers. The rest that die from preventable causes are killed by the community—by you and by me, if we help to keep things as they are, and by everybody else who helps to keep things as they are. We will first consider the mothers who kill their children. Every mother kills or tends to kill her children who does not take the trouble tp inform herself concerning the proper methods of child-rearing. It is not that such mothers are lazy. It is not that they are indifferent to their children’s welfare. They are simply ignorant. Some of them are stepped in ignorance. Some of them are half-steeped. But they are all Ignorant. They don’t know that flies, by carrying the germs of diseases, kill more children than all the elephants, tigers, automobiles and street cars in the world. Therefore, flies are considered mere Inconveniences. They are regarded as unornamental in the soup, but as not detrimental to the health. They swarm in the kitchen, the pantry and the dining room, painstakingly depositing their flltn upon every particle of food that the family, Including the children, eat. Some of this filth is not deadly; some of it is. But no such ignorant mother ever connects in her mind the going of her baby with the coming of the flies. Nor does any such ignorant mother have any conception of the care with which she should feed, not only her baby, but her half-grown children. If she doesn’t baby’ she doesn’t realize that any milk she is likely to find for sale is more likely to be poison than food. Nor, does she realize that such milk will be precisely as poisonous for her baby after it has been weaned. Such mothers usually buy their milk from the nearest grocery store. The number of bacteria in milk, when it exceeds 500,000 to the cubic centimeter, makes the milk unfit for use. Yet, some analyses of New York store milk, the other day, showed bacteria as high as 38,000,000. What wonder that every summer is a “black summer” for the babies of New York’s poor? In many other ways, the ignorant mother kills her children with the food she gives them. Many a baby six months old is nibbling crackers, bananas and pickles, while putting ih the rest of Its time at an “all-day sucker" or a stick of candy. Mothers who want their children to Hye should know that the premature giving of any kind of solid food to a baby is exceedingly dangerous; that after a child is weaned it should be given solid food only in accordance with the instructions of an intelligent physician; that meat and fruit (except orange juice) are like so much poison, even if they do not produce death as quickly as strychnine would; and that all during childhood, the food should be simple, with cereals, milk and vegetables as a basis and a little meat not oftener than once a week. But, as a child-killer, the community exceeds in destructiveness even the ignorant mother. By this is meant that the community maintains conflltions that sometimes prevent even Intelligent persons from taking proper care of their children. The community maintains conditions that create poverty and slums. The community even main-

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tains conditions that foster ignorance. What chance has the poor mother anywhere in this country to Inform herself with regard to the rearing of children? What chance has the poor mother in New York? She has no money with which to pay a physician for consultation. le she went to a physician paid by the city, she would hardly know what to do with her children while she was away. She might leave them at a day nursery, it is true; but did you ever think how many more day nurseries and how many more city physicians we should have to have if every mother who needs to know how to rear her children were to adopt this plan? We should have to have thousands and tens of thousands more of each. And, if the community were Intelligent enough to demand such conveniences, it would be intelligent enough not to need most of them. Therefore, we who know enough not to need them are responsible for the slaughter of the children of those who won’t. And, is not that a pleasant thought? How can intelligence prevail against the neglect of communities to keep their water supplies pure? Almost every city claims to have pure water. Almost every city is a liar. So long as we have typhoid fever, we shall know that we have not pure water. The water supply of nearly every city is bad part of the year. One city drinks the sewage of another. The contamination could be prevented, of course, but it isn’t Detroit, for instance, will have another outbreak of typhoid fever next fall. Scores, if not hundreds will die, and, the following autumn, there will be another outbreak Careful parents, of course, can give their children only boiled water to drink at home, but they cannot be sure what their children drink at school. They can only hope for the best and be thankful if they get it. The most deadly disease that threatens children this summer is infantile paralysis. In June, reports came from the south that the disease had broken out in several widely separated places. Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, says It does not , follow that the disease will again be epidemic in the east and the middle west, but he cautions physicians and parents to be on the look-out. Infantile paralysis is caused by a living organism so small that it readily passes through a germ-filter of the finest porcelain. It is believed that this germ enters and finds lodgment in the nose, and that children whose noses are not clean are most likely to become infected. From experiments made upon monkeys at Rockefeller Institute, it is known that the average period of incubation is a little less than ten days; that is to say, definite symptoms of the disease appear ten days after the germ enters the system, though illness has sometimes followed in four days. The first symptoms of the disease appear to vary somewhat with the individual. Also, no individual has all of the symptoms. Restlessness and irritability sometimes mark the approach. At other times there is apathy. Also there may be a low for a few days. Dr. William,Palmer Lucas of the Harvard Medical School, who is one of the leading Investigators of the disease, offers this general advice: “Headache general or frontal, is not infrequently met with .n children old enough to locate the pain, and this is often accompanied with rigidity of the neck. If with any of these nervous manifestations, there should be trouble in the upper air passages, such as bronchitis or sore throat, suspicion should be aroused.” But even if the dwisease, early in its progress, be correctly diagnosed, ihe best physician cannot «top it. Like scarlet fever, measles and all other germ diseases, this ailment must run its course.

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A physician can only put the patient in a tion to weather the storm as well as possible. But while little can be done after the disease has developed, careful parents can do much to prevent thair children from taking the malady. The children’s noses can be kept clean. Dr. Flexner regards this as most Important. Also, certain disinfectants, if used as a mouth and nose wash during the summer danger period, are effective. A one per cent, solution of hydrogen peroxide, will kill the germ of infantile paralysis. So will plain menthol. Each of these statements is made upon the authority of Dr. Flexner. Yet the germ that causes Infatnlle paralysis is more virulent than the germ of rabies. Dr. I* lexner discovered that the paralysis germ could not even b.e weakend by drying it for weeks over caustic potash, nor by keeping it frozen for weeks. But hydrogen peroxide and menthol kill it Dr. Flexner is now and has been for some time conducting experiments to learn whether flies carry the germs and spread the disease. He has already definitely learned that flies do carry the germs, but he has not demonstrated that the germs, when carried, get into the system and produce the disease. Infantile paralysis came to this country from Scandinavia. Prior to 1907 it had seldom occurred here. Since then it has been epidemic from the Atlantic to the Pacific. New York and Boston, where so many immigrants gather, have suffered most. Minnesota, to which so many Scandinavians remove, comes next. The flourishes during hot, dry summers. It Is sort of a sister disease of cerebrospinal meningitis and, years ago, was probably often mistaken for that disease. A conspicuous point of difference is that the former malady comes in late winter or early spring, while infantile paralysis comes in summer. Infantile paralysis is most likely to attack children less than four years old, though adults are not immune. But one attack most likely makes the subject immune for life. Dr. Flexner’s experiments upon monkeys indicate as much. But, harking back to the causes of preventable deaths of children, this much more may be said; Mothers, are too prone to buy medicine from doctors and not enough given to buying information from them. Mothers who do not know how to care for their children should not wait until a child is sick and then call the doctor to dose the child. They should call the doctor when the child is well, and pay him his regulation fee for sitting down half an hour and instructing them with regard to the care of the child. Most mothers need information more than their children need medicine. Doctors, when called, often give harmless medicine, when none is needed, simply because the public feels that it must have something for its money. The public is not wise enough to know that it can spend its money in no better way than to buy certain information that tends toward the maintenance of health. Diarrhea, for instance, which kills more babies, perhaps, than any other single cause, is solely a disturbance of the digestive tract due to wrong feeding. Milk containing thirty-seven million bacteria to the cubic centimeter—or even a million —will cause it Cow’s milk not properly modified is certain te upset the stomachs of infants. A half-hour with a good physician will enable a mother to get information that may prevent her child from sicken- > Ing and dying. In the meantime, the responsibility for the avoidable deaths of children must largely rest with the few who, knowing how to take care of their own, do not, for one reason or another, take effective measures to pass on this knowledge to others. A few men control every governmentnational, state and Municipal. These men, if they wanted to, could compel government to dlssemi nate the vast amount of information concerning the prevention of infant mortality. France mover when her blrth-rrte became so low that she ha< to move. When children become scarce, govern ments are sometimes as careful of their health a they are at other times of the health of hogs.

When Friendship Counts. The doors of the deformed man are always locked, and the key is on the outside. He may have treasures of eharm Inside, but they will never be revealed unless the person outside cooperates with him In unlocking the door. A friend becomes, to a much greater degree than yrith the ordinary man, the Indispensable means of discovering one’s own personality. . One only exists, so to speak, with friends. It is easy to see how hopelessly such a sensitiveness incapacitates a man for business, professional or social life, where the hasty and superficial Impression Is everything, and disaster is the fate of the man whb has not all the treasures of his personality in the front window where] they can be readily Inspected and appraised.—From the September Atlantic. < A Broken Bone. & Your first duty, after notifying a surgeon, is to provide support for the Injured member in the form of an improvised splint. Flat pieces of board, ns broad, if possible, as the limb and •lightly longer than the broken bone, canes, umbrellas, in fact anything that will accomplish your end may be used. In adjusting these, pad with ariy soft material that Is at hand; straw, leaves or cushions made of grass may be used. Avoid any pressure on ihe injured part, cover it with a cloth, and keep wet with clean, cold water].—Woman’s Home Companion.

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