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nbranam Lincoln
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Nome, Alaska, June 27,
I!>l 7.
KNOW NOTHING.
Scientists who have been devoting
profound and prolonged study to in
fantile paralysis have r<*turned a
“negative report".
The investigation was financed by
the Rockefeller institute, and the
result is: nothing.
Infantile paralysis killed off thou
sands last summer in New York
City. It crippled permanently far
more. It was a real menace. It
was a costly plague and the loss
to the nation in those potential fac
tors for the country's man-power
may not he written off in dollars
and cents.
Nor is this all. Notwithstanding
the eflorts that are being made
against the great white plague, tu
berculosis goes merrily along claim
ing its thousands Of victims: occu
pational diseases that cause death
and maiming proceed unhampered:
serious ills like cancer and tire like
long regarded as incurable still defy
the effort ol the physician and the
social worker.
Society does not face these real
menaces at all.
Doctors return negative reports
and admit that they know nothing.
Yet consider the boundless energy
displayed in this war with Germany
Tiie entire machinery of govern
ment is placed in such efficient
shape that it may devote itself
wholeheartedly anti effectively to
that. A tithe of the energy and the
earnestness and the determination
and the authority used to enforce
this war would wipe tuberculosis
off the American map, would make
infanitle paralysis impossible, would
forever destroy any such thing as
an occupational disease and long
ago would have found a remedy for
even the most intractable disease
that flesh is heir to.
What is done and why it is done
are important matters for us. Yet
we cannot but contrast the tremend
ous fatalities from preventable
diseases. from those which could
have been eradirated long ago, from
the persistent victimization of the
workers in industries with our so
cial negligence and wonder at it all.
The average doctor is n man who
has to contend with endless di Acui
ties. It just tykes about all he
makes, even if he charges stagger
ing fees to supply himself with in
struments which will Sill thf most
moderate requirements of his pro
fessison; medicine has to depend
upon the ostentaious charity of
some person of wealth, and scien
tific research is forbidden by reason
of his restricted means to the aver
age physician.
It’s a funny old world. While
nations devote billions to killing
one another off, there's a tax pay
er's howl If millions are spent (o
save lives.
The reason however is not far to
seek. Life is about the cheapest
thing in the world. A loss of a |
mule or hog or a sheep or a cow is
a definite loss. The loss of a human
being is a loss that strikes no one
as very serious. The person is not
such a sacred thing at all, except
when someone driven crazy by con
ditions runs amuck and kills an
other.
But when the life is taken, as a
thief takes a purse, stealthily by a
preventable disease, by an occupa
tional illness, by an industrial acci
dent by failure of society to devote
itself earnestly to the cure and pre
vention of a scourge, no one both
ers. The individual responsibility
is lost in the social responsibility
and no one is moved at all.
When the Lusitania went down
a shudder of pity and shame and
horror was felt throughout the
world, especially for the little ones
that met their watery grave. It
was natural and In a way a fine
sympathetic feeling. But day after
day, week after week, year after
year, millions of little ones are be
ing killed off by social conditions in
shops and slums and mills with
never a word of horror, never a feel
ing of shame, never such an emo
tion as pity -nay with the ungodly
spectacle of gray haired solons fight
ing all efforts to prevent legislation
which might remedy matters.
kooi> coxtroi. mi,i,.
it is all very well to conscript the
masses; it is not bad to make
women do the work of men; it is
an ideal state of things to tax neces
saries; it is certainly all right to in
duce the poor who have Just scrimp
ed fifty bucks together for a rainy
day to buy a liberty bond; but it is
I not right or just or equitable that
> profits; be interefered with. It is
1 nefarious and un-American and un
patriotii to curb the natural oppor
| (unities for the speculator to make
■ money out of food anil ammunl
l lions: it is unjust that good cereals
should not he utilized in brewing
| and distilling; it is unfair and in
equitable that those fine loyal patri
otic souls who gamble in grain and
food products sending the price sky
high : ltd try to corner what the na
I tion eats; who sell spirits and vigor
j nusly inspiring b or to the people
to stimulate their sentiment and
the emotions along patriotic lines
should be denied the opportunity
that opens up before them to com
bine in a perfect social emulsion,
patriotism, profits and productivity.
Who donates so generously to war
funds, lied Cross societies, to flag
parades, to patriotic demonstrations
as these? Who shouts so loudly and
so demonstratively when occasion
calls as these? Who decorates their
places of business so nobly with
American eagles, with national
bunting, with the flags of the nation
as these—who places their emblems
of patriotism so conspicuously upon
their bats and their coats as these?
And here is Congress, here is an
ungrateful administration would
curtail their profits—clip their bus
iness expanding wings—practically
obliterate them from the social
scheme! It's a sad world indeed!
—
NO ItllASON I OH (.1,0011.
Quite a number of our more radi
cal exchanges are' dismayed at the
fact that the government lias done
many things of late which can hard
ly be considered democratic. Con
scription is one thing that the labor
papers all took seriously and pessi
mistically. They regarded it as Da
niel Webster regarded it, and
fought it until figlVing it any longer
was no use in the world. Efforts to
establish strict censorship laws, to
clip tlie powers of organized labor,
to remove the rights which labor
had secured only after endless
struggle—these things occasioned
considerable concern.
But that is the narrow view. The
future is all before the masses, and
it is to be remolded to suit the
masses.
We believe that tire role of pro
phet is an idle one but beyond any
doubt in every country there are
portents which may be read and re
cognized which foretell with reason
able certainty a change in things.
Recently Brisbane in a remark
able editorial in the Examiner said:
“The official Washington mind,
takes it for granted that when the
governments have made peace and
have arranged the division of what
soever spoils there may be, the peo
ple are going quietly back to work
for their former masters, to live
under the same institutions. To be
in short the same nations, guided
and controlled by the same financial
aristocratic and diplomatic castes
that have ruled them lor many cen
turies.
These seem also to be the views
and conceptions of the public jour
nals and most private citizens, who
naturally have no other source of
information than the public jour
nals.
We can excuse the private citizens,
but it is amazing that men who are
hailed as statesmen cannot see what
is going on before their eyes. Can
( not see that the Europe of 1913 has
• j vanished as completely as the Eu
)rope of the dark ages; cannot see
that the proletariats have at last
in their hands the weapons and in
their hearts the resolve to do away
with all the social distinctions and
social inequalities; that institutions
of government and laws which still
seem to be solid and enduring edi
fices, are only hollow shells, mined
and ready to be blown to pieces
when the relief from the pressure
of the outside war gives the peoples
each time an opportunity to over
throw and rebuild the fabrics ot
society.
This talkof autocracy still to be
overthrown and democracy still to
be saved and established, is proot
enough of the mental incapacity of
so many men, esteemed wise, to re
alize what has happened in Europe.
For the war has already achieved
these two tremendous results. They
are accomplished facts”.
That summary is by the ablest
writer and the most far-seeing man
in America. That It is founded
upon facts which are known to him
by daily contact with an universal
news service, that it is founded
upon a trained observation by a
mind not usually obscured by im
pressionism—these are things that
give that summary unquestionable
weight.
And surely it is a fact, The Europe
today is not the Europe of 1913
any more than it is the Europe of
the dark ages. The Europe today
knows, knows how, knows when
and it will act accordingly.
Consequently instead of pessimis
tic feeling, the masses not here
alone but the world over should re
joice for a new social evangel is
soon to be its light and guide.
NOTED EDITOR BUYS
WASHINGTON TIMES
I
| WASHINGTON. I). C.. June 26.—
I Arthur Brisbane, recognized as the
\great?st living editor and the right
I hand man of William Randolph
I Hearst, has himself bought the
Washington Times. The announce
! ment is creating great interest.
^Brisbane has been conducting a
heavy campaign against many of the
administration measures and some
of his recent editorials, always
vigorous beyond the ordinary, have
been creating quite a stir. It is
wondered whether he will continue
such a policy in the Times, hut this
is doubted.
LOANS MONEY TO ALLIES
WILL BE SPENT HERE
WASHINGTON, D. June 2G.—
The Treasury Department today
loaned the British fifteen millions
and France ten millions. The tot; :
loaned the Allies to date is one bii
! lion eight milfion dollars. None el
j this money leaves the country and
j is simply spent here, the govern
< IIINESK OI1K 1V1.S I IKill).
PICKING. June 2".—Two high
I Chinese officials, Chen Chin-tao, Mi
j uister of Finance and Yin Ju-lien.
i Vice-Minister in the same depart
i mcnt, are seeking new jobs here to
day, following the disclosures of a
bribery scandal in which they were
implicated. The Vice-M inistt r when
called before President Li Yuan
j hung admitted that the finance de
partment had accepted $100,000
(gold) from a syndicate which put
forward a scheme last January for
buying and melting brass coins.
President Li investigated the
charges. Then he issued a mandate
dismissing the officials. Criminal
proceedings may be instituted
against them.
C. L. Ross
Lumber
Milling
Contractor
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; the credit of the Allies us a sort of
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