THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For County Judge.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of W. D. Mc
Lain for the office of county and pro
bate judge of Jackson County, subject
to the action of the Democratic pri
mary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of James H.
Johnston for the office of county and
probate judge of Jackson County, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of John A.
Melville for the office of County and
Probate Judge of Jackson County,
rubjcct to the action of the Demo
cratic primary.
For Representative.
The Independent is authorized to *
announce the candidacy of J. M. Mar
dis, for the office of Representative of
Jackson County, subject to the ac
tion of the Democratic primary.
For Treasurer.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of John H.
Camp for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of Jesse W.
Shuford for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of J. M. Ivy
for re-election to the oflice of Treas
urer of Jackson County, subject to
the action of the Democratic primary.
For Coroner.
The Independent s authorized to an
nounce the candidacy of Henry Grant
for the office of Coroner of Jackson
County, subject to the action of the
Democratic primary.
The Social Evil And Ils Reme
dies.
Chief Justice Olson of the
Municipal Court, in an address
delivered before the Purity Con
gress held a few weeks ago on
facts concerning the social evil
which deserve general attention.
He also suggested remedies
which might be successfully ap
plied in every city.
So much has been written of
late in regard to the social evil
so many explanations have been
volunteered and so. many reme
dies suggested that it is not sur
prising that the public mind has
become confused.
The first outstanding fact, ver
ified by ample investigation is j
that the great majority of im-!
moral women become so before
they reach the age of 17. The ;
second is that the same great!
majority of them have but lit-j
tie education. The third is that 1
as a rule they are mentally de-1
ficient either from birth or)
through failure to grow to men
tal maturity.
With respect to the deficien
cies of education, Justice Olson ;
gave two interesting illustra
tions. The first was from the re-J
searches of the Chicago vice
commission with respect to the j
inmates of a Chicago house of ]
prostitution which had obtain-!
ed national notoriety. It was j,
generally understood that some j
of the inmates, a majority of !
them, in fact, were college grad- (
nates. Not one had ever been to i
college, not one had ever passed :
the high school grades, and some
were very illiterate. The other j
was the report of the Chicago i
morals court. Of 494 women
whose misconduct had caused
their arrest and whose record
was traced, only 17 had passed
the grammar grades and but
one had graduated from the
high school.
It therefore appears „ from
these statistics that the root of
the evil is ignorance. The
cause for professional prostitu
tion or commercialized vice as
distinguished from occasional
yielding to personal passion is a
mental deficiency more or less
congenital and uncorrected by
proper education and training.
The remedy is to begin with
the children and, as suggested
by Justice Olson, the social evil
will in a measure be checked.
If ignorance is the principal
i cause, enlighten the child. See
that girls are well schooled. It
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the age of 17 is successfully
passed there is but little danger.
After 17 the girl has her charac
ter practically formed. She has
her ideas fixed. If she goes
wrong later it must because of
some other reason.
The mere fact that 90 per cent
of immoral women are practi
cally illiterate is conclusive
proof that this is the real cause
of professional prostitution. To
combat any evil first treat the ^
source.—Commercial Appeal.
Anti Tuberculosis Day.
Churches, schools, labor uni- ^
ons, fraternal orders and other;
organizations to the number of j
200,000 at least, are being asked j
to join the anti-tuberculosis |
workers of the country in the ob- J
servance of the Fourth National
Tuberculosis Day, which has
been set for December 7.
The movement is being fur
thered throughout the country j
by more than 1,000 anti-tuber
lulosis societies working through j
their various state organizations j
and the National Association, i
Personal appeals are being made
to clergymen of every denomi- \
nation, school principals and j
leaders of various organizations, {
urging them to set aside a defin- j
ite time duirng the week preced- ]
in. or the week following Decern-!
ber 7 for a lecture on tuberculo- j
OlO.
While for the sake of conveni
ence December 7 has been des
ignated as Tuberculosis Day.
the National Association and
all the other anti-tuberculosis or
ganizations are urging that the
subject of tuberculosis be pre
sented in the churches either on
that day, or on any other day
during the week before or fol
lowing December 7 that may be
convenient. There is no desire
on the part of those interested in
the movement to insert another
“Day" into the already crowded
ecclesiastical calendar at this
season of he year. The chief
aim of the national movement is
to secure the presentation in the
churches of the tuberculosis
problem and the need for co-op
eration of church members and
others. It is not necessary that
an entire special service be set
aside for this purpose, though
this would be extremely desira
ble. The chief aim of the move
ment is to get the churches of
the country interested at as
nearly the same time as possible
in the anti-tuberculosis cam
paign.
That tuberculosis is a serious
problem among the church con
gregations is evidenced by sta
tistics gathered by the National
Association, which show that 10
percent of all deaths among the
church members are caused by
tuberculosis. Based on these fig
uies ana on tne mortality statis
tics of the Census Bureau, over
60.000 of the 40,000,000 commu
nicants in churches in the United
States die from tuberculosis ev
ery year. This figure assumes
that the death rate of 1.60 per
1.000 population in the registra
tion area applies to all church
goers. when, as a matter of fact,
the rate would probably be high
er if the entire country were in
cluded.
Last year over 60,000 church
es gave attention to this sub
ject on Tuberculosis Day. It is
hoped this year to swell the num
ber of churches to 100,000 and to
urge similar action besides the
action taken by the churches, in
a large number of schools and
other societies. The Tuberculo
sis Day Campaign will come this
year during the Red Cross Chris
tmas sale. While the Tuberculo
sis Day movement is strictly ed
ucational and not for the purpose
3f raising money the churches
of the country are urged to co
operate in the Red Cross Seal
Campaign.
The observance of Tuberculo
sis Day was endorsed last year
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Keep Them Clean” |i
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“Clean up the bowels and keep
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physicians, because the." r?r.’. ze '■
danger resulting from habitual con
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by President Taft, Cardinal Far
ley, Col. Roosevelt and many
other prominent churchmen and
public officials. Proclamations
calling upon the people to ob
serve this day were issued by
governors of more than a dozen
States and by the mayors of a
considerable number of cities.
Similar endorsement will doubt
less be secured this year.—Ar
kansas Democrat.
Revival Meeting.
The Misses Lotta, Bernice and
Nellie Wisdom of Macon, Mo.,
arrived on No. 3. Wednesday and
are guests of Rev. and Mrs. B.
L. Wilford. These three young
ladies are gifted musicians, all
having most excellent voices,
and have chosen as their mission
in life the work of singing evan
gelists. They were heard with
much pleasure by the large con
gregation at the Methodist
church Wednesday evening,
singing two trios, besides assist
ing in the chorus choir.
Arrested at Child’s Grave.
A pathetic scene took place at a
Geneva cemetery the other day, when
a French couple, who had been ex
peled from the town, were arrested
as thy were attending the burial of
their only child. While the priest was
reading the burial service, the detec
tives informed them that they would
be conducted to prison, but they were
allowed to remain, until the end of
the ceremony.
World’s Meanest Man.
We have just heard of the world's
meanest man. He doesn't like his
wife’s rod hair, so he Is trying, by fill
ing her days with care, to cause it to
turn white.
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