Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-31
Contagious Diseases in Cattle.
tBy DR.. w. E. Langford.)

Yielding to the invitation of the ed
itor of The Journal TO use column
of his valuable paper for an article
on the contagious diseases of animals
and their bearing upon the health and
welfare of man, and more especially
that an impression might be made on
the minds of the citizens of the city and
county, that by our lives we concede
that health is valuable. that we can
lng more profitable to our
selves than the laws of health and
the means of preserving tit would
seem to require no great amount OF
reflection to be convinced of the fact
that it is not the intention of the wri-
ter to obtrude his opinions upon any
one
So many men. hearing and reading
nothing that concerns all alike, have
succumbed to the fascination of their
own calling that everybody else and
their rights are as If they We're not.
These little eccentricities of conduct
may be regarded as custom, style, ia
shion or business, because men, as a
rule, are most interested in people
and things that are beyond their
reach, and that are unknown, as we'll
as inaccessible They pass by un-
needed the poor and deserving at their
. IL. IN frl tad hnu u.
en- in distant lands that stirs their
emotions and arouses their enthusi-
assn. They are always anxious to
help the Lord, though they know we'll
that the Lord does not need their help.
They would do anything for the Lord,
but the cries of the suffering and
needy at home they fail to hear They
are doing things daily that produce
no appreciable result. They imagine
they are doing good; they go about
spending their time and perhaps
some of their money-for what? To
make reputation, to be seen of men,
to get a position in society.
| The myterious machinery of law OPP
Grating for the supposed purpose OF
wiping out or holding in check dis
eases of a contagious or infectious
character has been SO manipulated by
fallible men at Charleston (whom we
designate as legislators), and failing
| to legislate to reimburse the owners
of infected stock for those destroyed,
| their course of action will manifest
| itself in enfeebled, broken-down con-
situations through the ravages Of dis
ease, when it is apparent an. oppor-
tunity for the furnishing of remedial
agencies passed by unheeded. and the
people allow them to excuse them
selves on the plea of necessity. or no
money from which to make an appro-
priation This is one of their defects
real defects--not fancied imperfec-
| lions. Our superficial people at
| Charleston, by their acts of indiffer-
| ence to the claims the state has upon
l them, absuredly disregard the wants
/ of the citizens.
i Governor Dawson turned deaf ear
to the appeals for veterinary legisla-
| ton, and by so doing disregarded sci
ence and nurses incompetency to the
| detriment of the health of his fellow
men. To whom does the United States
government entrust the great work
Of the care and protection of the
/ American people from the ravages OF
/ consumption? The veterinarian. Ev-
! cry state in the Union, except West
| Virginia, has availed itself of veter-
mary science, and the result has been
veterinary associations. The medicals
have that mantle of protection, the
broad arm of the law, while the vet
erinarian has been refused state leg
islation.
1 Is the sanitary science, or medicine,
of the lower animals what it might
and should be in West Virginia? II
veterinary science was on a proper
footing, West Virginia would not be
the only state. in the Union with no
| veterinary legislation. If the legisla-
ture would accord to the veterinary
1 profession the same privileges ac-
corded the profession by our sister
states, then will it be called bene-
factor of the human race. On Fri
day of last week The Journal report
ed visit next month from DR.. Long
streth, of Charleston, with view Of
/ organizing an anti-tuberculcsis lea
que in Berkeley county, and we hope
his efforts will meet with success. On
the subject of heredity the doctor will
undoubtedly explain why the body is
susceptible to the bacillus of con-
sumption, and what conditions rem
ders the body SO, etc.
4 1t is especially the poor people
4 who are deserving of an explanation
that they might be better enabled to
/ protect themselves from disease. Like
all true men. the doctor perceives he
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