The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-04-23
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mas Deen learned or the relation OF Inllk
to public health, 1t can be found in the
report on the subject which Surgeon
General Wyman has lately made to the
Secretary of the Treasury. In passing.
it may be remarked that 1t seems
strange for health officer to be a sub
ordinate Of the chief financial officer
of the government, and have to make
reports to him. The surgeon-generaPs
investigation was made at the direction
Of the President, who wished to direct
attention to the need of protecting the
milk supply of the cities from contamin.
alton, and to the Importance of so treat
ing the milk given to young children
that their lives might not be put in
danger. The report, of course, recon-
mends PasteuriZation, that is. raising
the milk to temperature Of one hun
dred and forty degrees, and keeping it
there for twenty minutes. This kills
the common disease germs without in
juring the milk. tuberculosis, typhoid,
scarlet fever and diphtheria are COM
municated by milk, to say nothing OF
the infantile bowel troubles. Seventy
two cases of diphtheria were traced
last year to a dairy where milk
cooler was washed by person attend
ing a diphtheritic patient. He did not
mean to give the disease to Others nor
does any mlk-producer deliberately
neglect the proper precautions against
contaminated mIli. He usually sins
through ignorance, but the time is rap
idly passing when such ignorance can
be excused.
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The interstate Commerce Commission
has issued special report made in con-
nection with the preparation OF uni
form system Of accounting for all inter
state railways. 1t shows how the rail-
roads have been interviewer into vast
systems of stock control, and makes
possible a uniform balance sheet. For
the first time it gives official statistics
Of the amount of stock in the hands Of
the general public. Out of about $1S,-
0OO,OOO,00O Of outstanding railroad Sc
curities, $5,5OOOOO,OOO is held by the
corporations, leaving in the hands of
the public $7,SO0,O0O0OO of funded debt
and $4,7OO, 100000 of stocks.
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In order to- make room on the flag
for the forty-sixth star, which muste
SHINE there on me Fourth or July, the
rows will be entirely rearranged.
There will be six rows, four containing
eight stars each and two containing
seven. This leaves two vacant spaces
for future occupation. A change in the
flag involves an expense of many thou
sands of dollars. The army will need
about thirtytive hundred new flags, and
the Treasury Department will have to
supply about four hundred and fifty for
federal buildings throughout the United
States. .#
An Indian fight took place on the
floor of the United States Senate the
other day. OF course neither Indian
lost his scalp. Senator Curtis of Kan
sas and Owen of Oklahoma, both of
whom had Indian ancestors, disagreed
over the propriety of designating Mr..
Owen as a ward Of the government"
The necessity of treating the Indians
as national wards is disappearing rap
idly, and the controversy between
Cherokee and Kaw on the floor of the
Senate is a picturesque reminder of
what is taking place.
In recognition of the growing intima-
cy between the regular army and the
national militia, Acting Secretary of
War Oliver has issued an order Gre
ating new division in the War De-
partment, to be known as the division
of militia affairs. Col. f. III. Weaver,
of the coast artillery, has been named
as chief. 1t will supervise and partici-
pate in national guard affairs.
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Representative Scott of Kansas,
chairman of the House Committee on
Agriculture, proposes the establishment
of 100 experimental farms of one acre
each in every county I'm a group Of four
Western agricultural States for the
purpose of giving the farmers a prac-
teal demonstration of the best meth
DDS of growing different kinds of crops.
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The Signal Office of the War Depart
ment has received ten bids for the con-
struction of dirigible balloon, the
bids running from $4,000 to $4,000.
The specifications cover, the construc-
tion of balloon 10 carry a combined
weight of $50 pounds and at least 100
pounds of ballast, and to have a speed
of twenty miles per hour in still air.
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