anaheim-gazette 1909-11-18

ORGANIZING FOR HEALTH FOUR GREAT WASTES, LAMENTABLE AS WELL AS UNNECESSARY Government Protects Animals And Plants, Why Not Human Beings?—Millions Expended Annually for Former, Not a Cent for Physical Well-Being of Latter — Food for Thought We have received an interesting communication from J. Pease Norton, of Yale university upon the Economic Advisability of Inaugurating a National Organization of Health, which is of timely interest at this moment. Dr. Norton maintains that in an age of great things, a civilization must not be staggered by its own creations. Greater and greater things must it do because of the necessity that compels it. To falter is to lose grip, and to lose grip means a more or less slow destruction of the civilization by divers melancholy wastes. The salvation of the civilization and of the race lies in the hands of exceptional men. The hope of the race rests in its efficient organization for action. Efficient organization consists in compelling each individual to do that thing within his capability which has greatest value for society. To do otherwise is a great waste. To permit great wastes to go unchecked is more than a suicidal policy; for an evil more destructive than race suicide is race homicide. There are four great wastes today, the more lamentable because they are unnecessary. They are preventable death, preventable sickness, preapplied against the Department of Agriculture as effectively as against a national department for health. (Or, as President Roosevelt has recently expressed it, "It seems to me that such questions as national sovereignty and states' rights need to be treated not empirically or academically, but from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.") It is not, then, a question of constitutionality, but, rather, of whether or not such a department is needed by the nation. The idea is by no means a new one. As far back as 1879 Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson advocated by articles and books the establishment in Great Britain of a ministry of health. Solvay, in Belgium, has emphasized the importance of this field for government action. Sir Francis Galton, in recommending the study of the new science of eugenics, created by his own investigations, holds that the laws now being worked out by the brilliant group of mathematical biologists in England bearing on such subjects as heredity or homotyposis, reproductive selection, inheritance of longevity and mental traits, and disease causation, should become the basis of constructive action by the state. And this point of view has been the subject of much discussion at the meetings of the British Sociological Society. Two years ago an interdepartmental committee was appointed by the British parliament under these terms of reference: "(1) To determine the steps that should be taken to furnish the government and the nation at large with periodical data for an accurate comparative estimate of the health and physique of the people; (2) to indicate generally the causes of such physical deterioration as do exist in certain classes and (3) to equalize differences in principal operations as load, fuel suction—were cared were made within in the same environment other engines or same size (10 at the same piston degrees of compressibility bustion. ion consists in compelling each individual to do that thing within his capability which has greatest value for society. To do otherwise is a great waste. To permit great wastes to go unchecked is more than a suicidal policy; for an evil more destructive than race suicide is race homicide. There are four great wastes today, the more lamentable because they are unnecessary. They are preventable death, preventable sickness, preventable conditions of low physical and mental efficiency and preventable ignorance. The magnitude of these wastes is testified to by experts competent to judge. They fall like the shades of night over the whole human race, blotting out its fairest years of happiness. The facts are cold and bare—1,500,000 persons must die in the United States during the next twelve months; equivalent to 4,200,000 persons will be constantly sick; over 5,000,000 homes, consisting of 25,000,000 persons, will be made more or less wretched by mortality and morbidity. We look with horror on the black plague of the middle ages. The black waste was but a passing cloud compared with the white waste visitation. Of the people living today over eight millions will die of tuberculosis, and the federal government does not raise a hand to help them. The Department of Agriculture spends seven million dollars on plant health and animal health every year, but, with the exception of the splendid work done by Doctors Wiley, Atwater and Benedict, congress does not directly appropriate one cent for promoting the physical well-being of babies. Thousands have been expended in stamping out cholera among swine, but not one dollar was ever voted for eradicating pneumonia among human beings. Hundreds of thousands are consumed in saving the lives of elm trees from the attacks of beetles; in warning farmers against blights affecting potato plants; in importing Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in California; in ostracizing various species of weeds from the ranks of the useful plants, and in exterminating parasitic growth that preys on fruit trees. In fact, the Department of Agriculture has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of dollars. But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington was ever set Two years ago an interdepartmental committee was appointed by the British parliament under these terms of reference: "(1) To determine the steps that should be taken to furnish the government and the nation at large with periodical data for an accurate comparative estimate of the health and physique of the people;(2) to indicate generally the causes of such physical deterioration as do exist in certain classes, and (3) to point out the means by which it can be most effectively diminished." The committee returned a report recommending a permanent advisory council, in substance a national department of health, along with fifty-two other constructive measures. In America physicians connected with the American Medical Association for a number of years have advocated that the executive cabinet include a secretary of health. The necessity for such a department has also arisen in connection with the Panama canal. Indirectly two medical experts are now associated with the canal organization. In 1906 Mr. Hubert Higgins, in a book entitled "Humaniculture," elaborated the advantages and necessity for national action through a thoroughly equipped national department of health. The recent book by Dr. Shadwell, a physician, on "Industrial Efficiency" tends to the same conclusions. STANTON AS A CANDIDATE Deacon Clarke Comments on the Whenceness of the Wherefore Phil A. Stanton, speaker of the assembly, has made the following statement regarding his position with reference to the nomination for governor: "Personally I don't want to be governor of California. I will not say positively that I will not run for office, but if there is any way to escape it I am going to do so. With all due respect and gratitude to the friends who have suggested my candidacy for the governorship, I am frank to say that I do not want to make the race. When I left Sacramento last March I doubted whether I would ever see the capital of California again, and I wanted no more of public life. I am still sincerely opposed to being a candidate..." of beetles; in warning farmers against blights affecting potato plants; in importing Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in California; in ostracizing various species of weeds from the ranks of the useful plants, and in exterminating parasitic growth that preys on fruit trees. In fact, the Department of Agriculture has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of dollars. But not a wheel of the official machinery at Washington was ever set in motion for the alleviation or cure of diseases of the heart or kidneys, which will carry off over six millions of our entire population. Eight millions will perish of pneumonia, and the entire event is accepted by the American people with a resignation equal to that of the Hindoo, who, in the midst of indescribable filth, calmly awaits the day of the cholera. During the next census period more than six million infants under two years of age will end their little span of life while mothers sit by and watch in utter helplessness. And yet this number could probably be decreased by as much as one-half. But nothing is done. In the United States alone, of the eighty millions living today, all must die, after having lived, say, a little more than 3,200,000,000 years of life, on the average slightly more than two score years. Of these years, 1,600,000,000 represents the unproductive years of childhood and training. Consider that the burden of the unproductive years on the productive years is 20; 20, or say 100 per cent. Could the average length of life be increased to sixty years, say to 48,000,000,000 years lived by 80,000,000 of people, the burden of the unproductive years would fall to 50 per cent. In the judgment of men competent to hold opinions, this is not impossible. The states' rights doctrine can be positively that I will not run for office, but if there is any way to escape it I am going to do so. "With all due respect and gratitude to the friends who have suggested my candidacy for the governorship, I am frank to say that I do not want to make the race. When I left Sacramento last March I doubted whether I would ever see the capital of California again, and I wanted no more of public life. I am still sincerely opposed to being a candidate again, and am perfectly willing to retire. In saying this I may appear presumptuous, but I am sincere. "My present plans do not include making the race for governor, but I will admit that if the demand is strong enough and circumstances so shape themselves I would become a candidate." If Stanton really means what he says, observes Deacon Clarke in the Riverside Press, he may as well be eliminated from the list of candidates. If he does not want to be governor and is waiting for a great popular uprising to take him and just compel him to run, he will probably be still waiting on election day. Perhaps we ought to select our governors in that way; but we do not. There are several men who have already declared that they want to be governor and what is more they are taking pains to proclaim that fact on the house-tops. The coyness and modesty of Mr. Stanton is something new in California politics, and we fear some one else will be nominated before we get over our surprise at the speaker's attitude. Mr. Stanton is a man with many qualities that would make him an aggressive candidate and an efficient official; but when he says he is opposed to being a candidate, the chances are the people will take him at his word and not attempt to force the nomination on him. GASOLINE CHEAPER FUEL EFFICIENCY COMPARED WITH THAT OF ALCOHOL IN ENGINES Equal in Power-Producing Capacity—Alcohol the Cleaner of the Two, Less Liable to Yield Obnoxious Odors—Gasoline Preferred A gallon of denatured alcohol can be made to do the same amount of work in an engine as a gallon of gasoline; moreover the alcohol does not produce smoke and is less liable to yield obnoxious odors, but the lower price of gasoline makes it the cheaper fuel. These conclusions, based on the results of 2000 comparative tests of the two substances as engine fuels, are given in Bulletin 392 of the Geological Survey. R. M. Strong, the author of the bulletin, briefly describes the tests but discusses the more important results at some length. The tests formed part of the investigation of fuels now being carried on by the Survey. To determine the relative efficiency and economy of gasoline it was compared with denatured alcohol. In this comparison not only the heating values of the two fuels but their adaptability to engine use and the effects of variations in fuel quality and in the principal operating conditions—such as load, fuel supply, and time of ignition—were carefully studied. Tests were made with gasoline and alcohol in the same engine and repeated in other engines of approximately the same size (10 and 15 horsepower) and the same piston speed, with different degrees of comparison, different methods of governing, and different combustion. HORSETHIEF CONFESSES What Would They Do With This Man If They Had Him In Texas? Robert J. Perry, musician, poet, church worker and horse thief, was given preliminary examination before Justice Ling in Los Angeles on Friday, and held for trial in the Superior Court under $2000 bonds. Perry did not supply the bonds. There were members of the Y.M.C.A. ready to put up the money, which had been raised by popular subscription, but the Sheriff would have none of it. He warned the prospective bondmen that if the money was put up he would immediately file other charges against Perry which would keep him in jail indefinitely. Horses, harness and rigs, amounting to $6000, have been recovered through Perry's confessions, and the officers credit him with being the shrewdest horse thief that ever operated in Southern California. Perry has been having confession spasms ever since he entered the county jail. Officers have been working night and day following out the tips given by him relative to the location of stolen property. There is no doubt that Perry is smart. He is a handsome young man, unusually talented. He is the author of "California, the Land I Love," and other songs. He stood well in the various communities in which he lived. His work as a horse thief was as high class as his efforts in the world of music and literature. According to his confessions, he entered upon his career of crime about a year ago, and since that time has been unusually active. That is, he was active until the time of his arrest and incarceration. Since then he has been detained. report advisory on the terms of operation for an article about people causes and do it can vary in fuel quality and in principal operating conditions—such as load, fuel supply, and time of ignition—were carefully studied. Tests were made with gasoline and alcohol in the same engine and repeated in other engines of approximately the same size (10 and 15 horsepower) and the same piston speed, with different degrees of comparison, different methods of governing, and different combustion. Mr. Strong states that almost any engine with a well-designed carburetor will run as well with alcohol as with gasoline, except for a difference in ease of starting and in certainty of operation at low speeds. By using alcohol in an alcohol engine with a high degree of compression the fuel-consumption rate in gallons per horse power hour can be made practically the same as for gasoline in a gasoline engine of the same size and speed. An alcohol engine with the maximum compression for alcohol will have 30 per cent more available horse power than a gasoline engine of the same size, stroke, and speed, and the weight per horsepower may be less. Tests with mixtures of gasoline and alcohol showed no gain in efficiency over gasoline or alcohol alone. Diluting gasoline with water did not affect fuel economy. With alcohol the case was different, but with dilutions up to 80 per cent alcohol the effect was so slight that 80 per cent alcohol is a cheaper fuel than 90 per cent if it can be had for 15 per cent less. In regard to general cleanliness, such as absence of smoke and disagreeable odor, Mr. Strong says that alcohol has many advantages over gasoline or kerosene as a fuel. The exhaust from an alcohol engine is never clouded with black or grayish smoke, as is the exhaust of a gasoline or kerosene engine when the combustion of the fuel is incomplete, and it is seldom, if ever, clouded with bluish smoke when a cylinder oil of too low a fire test is used or an excessive amount supplied. The odor of denatured alcohol and the exhaust gases from an alcohol engine are also not likely to be as obnoxious as the odor of gasoline and its products of combustion. Denatured alcohol costs more than gasoline and the quantity of denatured alcohol consumed by an alcohol engine as ordinarily constructed and operated is in general relatively greater than the quantity of gasoline con- LEMON RATE FIGHT ON Growers Will Have Hearing Before Interstate Commission The fight to defeat the plan of the railroads for a raise in the lemon freight rates is at last on in the courts and before the Interstate Commerce commission. The Federal Court has granted a temporary injunction against the rate which was to go into effect this month to points in the northwest. The question of a second injunction and the making of both permanent will be heard by the court later in the month. Now that the fight is really on there is all the more reason for a united front among the citrus fruit growers. For the action that has been undertaken through the Citrus Protective League concerns not alone the lemon growers. The rate on oranges is attacked as well as pre-cooling charges where the railroad does not actually perform the services, the railroads having determined to make a charge for that service whether it is done by the shippers or not. This, of course, to compel the growers to use the railroad plants and to discourage the erection of private plants for iceing and pre-cooling. There seems to be a disposition on the part of a small percentage of the citrus growers and shippers to keep out of the fight. By this they will benefit if the fight is won, without having expended any of their own cash to further it. If it is lost, they figure they will be out nothing. This is not as it should be. There should be an absolutely united front, every grower of lemons, or oranges, or of any other variety of citrus fruit should feel that he has a personal interest in the fight. Come in and let’s talk over et. You’ve thought about WICKERSHI Fullerton, a fearful tax to the industry. “But the situation is one full of hope to the citrus growers. The best judges of the situation agree that by bringing the fight on as they have, the railroads have laid themselves open to probable defeat. And it is altogether likely that the railroads by forcing the issue have brought upon themselves a battle which will result in lowering icing charges and orange freight rates, and also in keeping the lemon rate down to the old figure. TAFT IN 1912? Cummins Picks Big Fellow to Land Again Senator A. D. Cummins of Iowa, leader of the Republican insurgents of the United States senate, said after a short visit to the President in Washington the other day, that Mr. Taft would be renominated and re-elected President in 1912. Mr. Roosevelt, in Senator Cummins’ opinion, will not be a candidate at that time for the presidency. Senator Cummins said that President Taft was popular in the west, but that a fight was on among the republicans of that section against Speaker Cannon and the House rules and the tariff. “The tariff, the speakership and a fire test is used or an excessive amount supplied. The odor of denatured alcohol and the exhaust gases from an alcohol engine are also not likely to be as obnoxious as the odor of gasoline and its products of combustion. Denatured alcohol costs more than gasoline and the quantity of denatured alcohol consumed by an alcohol engine as ordinarily constructed and operated is in general relatively greater than the quantity of gasoline consumed by a gasoline engine of the same type. It seems reasonable to expect a greater general improvement in alcohol engines than in gasoline engines. Where the restrictions placed on the use of denatured alcohol are less stringent than those placed on the use of gasoline, or where safety and cleanliness are important requisites, the advantages to be gained by the use of alcohol engines in place of gasoline engines may overbalance a considerable increase in the fuel expense, especially if the cost of fuel is but a small portion of the total expense involved. Denatured alcohol will, however, probably not be much used for power purposes until it becomes as cheap as gasoline and until the equality of gasoline and alcohol engines in respect to adaptability to service required and quantity of fuel consumed per brake horsepower becomes more generally realized. Bulletin 932 is issued for free distribution and can be had by addressing the Director, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. PUMPING PLANT PITS All kinds of wood or brick well pit and cesspool work done in a prompt and workmanlike manner. Old pits repaired. Rates reasonable. Call on or address Ben Cook, Anaheim, Cal. Residence corner Santa Fe and Charles streets. 8-5-tf Washington the other day, that Mr. Taft would be renominated and re-elected President in 1912. Mr. Roosevelt, in Senator Cummins' opinion, will not be a candidate at that time for the presidency. Senator Cummins said that President Taft was popular in the west, but that a fight was on among the republicans of that section against Speaker Cannon and the House rules and the tariff. "The tariff, the speakership and the rules will be the issue in the republican congressional primaries next year." said Senator Cummins, "and I think that it will go to the extent where candidates for the nomination will be pledged for or against the speaker and the rules. This will be the case in Iowa, at least, I think. But after the republicans have settled their differences I believe they will get together. "I may be prejudiced, but I think the new tariff law is not well received by the people of our section, but I do not wish it to be inferred that I am in favor of another revision of the tariff, nor do I believe the President wants another revision. The trend of the sentiment of the people of Iowa is for a tariff commission, and it is probable that it will be the subject of discussion at the next session." "There is not any doubt that the lines are being drawn definitely in Iowa and in other states in the Middle West between the standpatters and progressive republicans." Senator Cummins believes the president's proposed legislation regarding the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroads and corporations will be of great prominence this session. He has been giving much attention to planning one or two rate bills. Imported Winningsted cabbage seed at Dickel's. 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