The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-05-26
Typhoid Can Be Wiped Out.

wherever you find death from ty-
phoid, some one ought to be hanged for
murder, distinguished sanitarian has
said. This is violent statement, but
there is forcible proof of its justice in
an article by Samuel Hopkins Adams,
in the June McClure's.
Typhoid An Unnecessary Evil is
the whole interesting story of this dis
ease which costs American communi-
ties SO many millions of dollars and SO
many thousands of lives. The results
of far-reaching and searching inyesti-
cation show conclusively the criminal
foolishness of permitting it in any COM
munity.
"The average city of 100000 inhabi-
tants wastes, perhaps, half million
dollars a year on the luxury of having
typhoid. and probably hundred thou
sand dollars more in efforts to avoid it.
That amount of money, properly spent,
would practically eradicate the disease.
We have seen it done in the principal
European cities; yet, with the unpro-
gressiveness in matters of public health
which so strangely contrasts with the
forwarding American spirit, our cities
have continued to poison themselves
and each other" The story of the fight
against infection, the triumphs of
scientific methods and the ignorance
and neglect which turns the viscera of
communities into progression of ba-
cilli cultures, the whole problem is
handled succinctly and authoritatively,
yet with all the interest of a story.
Brilliant Record of Newspaper Man.
The success which has attended
William E, Curtis, the famous cores
pendent of The Chicago Record Herald,
is rarely attained by newspaper writers.
Beginning his career in Chicago in 1872
as reporter he rapidly rose to the
position of managing editor. He re-
signed that position on receiving a
government appointment as secretary
of the South American commission
Mr.. Curtis Travelled extensively in
Central and South America, while in
this position, producing several popular
volumes as the result of his literary
labors. Afterward cooperating with
Secretary of States James g. Blaine,
Mr.. Curtis organized the work of the
bureau of American republics, with the
result that he was placed in charge of
that organization, and at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition he distinguished
himself by his labors as the executive
head Of the Latin American department.
AS correspondent of The Chicago
Record Herald Mr.. Curtis travels have
carried him into every section of the
United States as well as into all
quarters of the globe. His China and
Japan letters were published in book
form; likewise his letters from Eng
land, Germany and France, as well as
those written during his travels in
Mexico and South America.
No newspaper correspondent posses
ses the facility shown by Mr.. Curtis in
writing on any of the diversified sub
jects embraced in his correspondence
and making it luminous. Nor is any
followed so closely year
after year by the thousands Of readers
Of The Chicago Record Herald. On his
recent trip to the Holy Land Mr.. Curtis
letters have been read more closely than
ever, and his descriptions of that in
teresting section of the globe as it ap-
pears to-day have been quoted every
where.
A daily letter from Mr.. Curtis ap-
pears in The Chicago Record Herald.
Wanted on farm near Owosso.