New-York tribune., 1908-03-29
A MUCH WORSE FATE

Naturally. the unbelieving scohed at the propSeu
antidote. for they deemed the sueeefuoh 'ld'ou
lous. They asked a reason for so eN'raord'fSiS q
prescription.
,rha macmillan favor Of the stanordshire cheese
comes from, a hybrid clover which formerly grew
| here in great abundance. said SIT Johf' ne
burnbetpe is the one Of crossfertizns that
! clover The field mice have increased very rapinV
in numbers Of late and they destroying the
nests of the .bumbehees. II you can destroy hle
mice the bees can work that clover and star
fordshre cheese w1i soon be as good as ever. pe'
cats therefore
Il dom, vouch FOR the story continued Dr.
Cushman but indorse II for its power OF hluS-
,ratinp the delicate equilibrium which. under our
complex civilization. exists between the puohc
health and public utilities Nobody VIII DENY tha'
the 10000 miles of public roads OF America CON
sti.ute the national dust factory and furnish fully
% per cent OF the dust inhale. The deiioate
brea,hine anparatus of the human body was never
meant 10 harbor such substances as every pass
ing breeze blows from the thoroughfares. and the
percentage of people dying from disease carried ny
dust is higher than is generally believed.
when the public will concede that to be fact
the director OF public roads and the state and
county road builders and overseers VIII get I
greater degree of popular support than they no"
receive Tell the ordinary citizen or the busy
farmer that the bad. dust heavy roads are not
merely disagreeable but dangerous health as
we'll and he smiles sarcastically and shifts the
conversation.
The American becomes skeptic when you con-
front him with a proposition which. To him, is
akin the cats of Starordshire-' If he doesn't
understand what you talking about. he as
sumes that you don't understand II yourself. He
finds dusty roads menace only when II Is brought
home to him that they cost him money That was
demonstrated the orange growers of California
a few years ago. when dust covered fruit no longer
commanded so high price as when free from
dust The result aroused interest in road
Improvement and in dust suppression Appeals on
a1tl,
stirred the Californians. but slump IN the price
tvity. The outcome gratifying. and Califor-
had dustless. oiled roads In that state
the oils possess a higher asphaltum base than the
oils Of any other section of the world, and when
they are spread the roads the volatile portion of
the oil evaporates and the asphalturn remains
a binder.
The almost immediate of this plan at
tracted the attention of highway engineers through
out the world In France and some OF our East
States It assumed that oiling was
best road treatment. and that the longed for
! solution of the dust nuisance problem had been
found This has not been proved TO be the case be-
cause in many localities the only oil available pos
sesses petroleum rather than asphaltum base.
II has been found that when the volatile portion
evaporates the oil left behind becomes greasy and
similar in consistency to vaselne. Such quality of
oil does adhere and bind the road but is picked
up and scattered by passing traffic. and the man
who gets reasonable quantity of it his
clothes becomes firm enemy road oiling.
IF, then, the doctors say, dust means dirt
dirt means disease. and disease means death. dusty
roads have no place in our national economics"