The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-11
prevention Better Than Cure.v

Editor Morning News: The federal
government, in it's quarantine system,
pursues policy of prevention in order
that there may not be any need for
cure. A vessel loading at foreign port
where infectious disease prevails is sub
jected to a rigid system of inspection,
and every possible precaution is taken
to prevent the conveyance from shore
to the crew of any germ of diseases.
When the home port is reached there
is repeated inspection, and if any I'M
favorable symptoms appear the vessel
and crew are detained at quarantine
station until the authorities are con-
WINGED that there is no danger of trans
mission of disease. This has enabled
men to carry on the work of importing
at all seasons of the year. Thanks to
this intelligent supervision we enjoy
complete immunity from the visitation
OF yellow fever, cholera, smallpox and
kindred evils.
The most earnest advocate of
states rights" looks approvingly up
on the proposition to establish uniform
FEDERAL laws governing quarantine d.
Vorce and collections. One thing leads
10 another, and now comes the "penol-
ogist and asks troublesome questions
which we find it impossible to answer
unless we are prepared to surrender
more of our liberty" Why pursue a
usage which does not reform the GRIM
mai? Why permit children to grow UP
criminals instead of preventing them
in youth? 1t would be a wise economic
measure If every child who is deprived
OF parental training of wise sort were
taken in charge by the state and car.
FForh Ii.
the technical school and thus fitted for
the duties of life instead of being per
mitted to grow up in ignorance and
vice.
Quarantine has prevented the spread
OF bodily disease; it will be equally eff
fective in the prevention of the spread
of vice
The card of Gen. P. McGIashan which
appeared in the News is a bit of inter-
esting Confederate History The Cen
eral need have no apprehension of be-
ing misunderstood, the people know,
love and respect him. No title that he
can bear will be more than he has de-
served; he has done his duty always,
and his fellow citizens know that he
was worthy Confederate soldier who
never flinched in the hour of danger,
and who only flinches now by reason
of his underestimate of his own worth.
Mrs. Lenora Beck Ellis has a most
interesting article in the September
Forum. She is an earnest, intelligent
advocate of reform in the matter of
employment of children in the cotton
mills. She is writing of Pelzer, S. c.,
which she terms "A Model Factory
Town. and the article demonstrates
the fitness of the title. 1t should have
wide reading. The managers at
PelZer are doing a noble work in the
improvement of conditions of the work
ers. She gives us this gratifying testi-
mony: The officers of the company
say that the money they expend on
the health and welfare of their en-
ployes, on recreations. schools, and
other facilities. pays az handsome a
dividend as any investment they could
make" What more can we ask or
wish, increased comfort for the child
worker. increased profit for the en-
ployer?
Other mill owners are folwloing In
the lead. and more will follow.
Mrs. Ellis has not only done good
work, but she enjoys land so do WEI
the knowledge that the condition of the
children is gradually becoming more
what child life should be.
The Forum contains thirteen articles,
each writer is distinguished as a spe-
cialist of note, but only one is a wo-
man, the rest are men, yet I am con-
fident that in all that makes for hu-
man progress, and profit, no one has