The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-09-06
THE UPL|FT OF
THE negro RACE
Especial to Silver State.)
The Negro Uplift.

making any advancement will do well
to take notice of the meeting of the
National Medical Association of Negro
Physicians which began its sessions in
Washington August 23d Just few
weeks previous to this the negro Elks
held their national convention in Wash
ington. From time to time other negro
associations meet in the national capi-
tai. The colored people are gradually
becoming educated, and they can be
found in many positions of RESPONSE
bllity in the government service The
civil service commission recognized no
color line. and negroes are admitted to
the examinations, SO that they are
frequently certified for vacancies oc-
curing in the various branches of the
government service. This sometimes
results in negroes getting appoint
ments from officials who would not will
lingly employ negroes in their Offices
II they knew that they were doing so,
Even in the appointive Offices, however.
negroes are recognized. The registrar
OF the treasury is a negro, and both
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt recognized the right of the
eolored people to be represented ON
the government pay rolls. In many
cases. it must be said, the colored peo-
pie. make efficient employees and Off
cials.
Disputing Science.
Those practical persons who have
rushed into the lists with Secretary of
agriculture James Wilson, and have
declared that the gentleman from
Tama, Iowa, did not know what he was
talking about when he said in a recent
report that chickens ought to be kent
without food for twenty-four hours be-
fore they were killed, should pause be-
fore obtruding their opinions upon the
public. Secretary Wilson had as a basis
for his declaration, the report of a very
clever young lady who is known in the
department as DIR. Pennington. DIR.
remington is an expert and a scientist
and In the words OF the secretary him.
self Is mighty nice girl" She has
been investigating this chicken oues-
tion for a year or two, and last spring
she went before the cold storage ware,
housemen and told them a lot thew
never knew before about their own
business. They took it nobly. too. and
voted their thanks to boot. What DR.
Pennington knows about preparing
poultry for market and the effects Of
cold storage on it, the relative merits
of dry picked poultry and poultry
which has been scalded, and other
things pertaining to the subject, would
NIL book. Accordingly, it is recon-
mended again, that n-professional
persons should go slow in contradicting
the deductions and findings of DR..
Pennington, who "has the dopen as
the sporting editor says, to back up all
that she says
Passing of Landmark. !.
The old generation remembers Jay
Cooke & Co.. the famous banking firm
of Philadelphia and Washington which
floated the bond issues and raised the
revenues for the prosecution of the
war. The building in Washington
which was occupied by this firm is now
being torn down to make way for
modern improvements. AS the Metro
politan National bank building, the
old structure has been a landmark in
Washington. Many persons never
knew, until the decision was reached
to demoiish it. that it had any particu-
lar historic association. It was there.
however, that the heads of the gov.
ernment often met with jay Cooke and
discussed the methods which could be
pursued for raising money at times
when the government was hard pressed.
The firm which rendered such signal
service to the nation failed in 1873
during the disastrous financial panic,
and the First National bank moved in.
to its quarters. The First National
was succeeded by the Citizens Nation
al and, in 1904. this bank was consoli.
dated with the Metropolitan National
bank. after which handsome new
banking building and Office structure
was erected on a site adjoining the old
building. which was then sold to the
owners of the Riggs house, the latter
a building also with many historic as.
soeiations. This too will be razed next
year. when the existing lease on it ex.
pires, and on the sites of the two build
ings big modern office building and
theater will be erected The theater
will become the home for vaudeville,
having been leased to p. B. Chase,
whose playhouse is on ground which
the government has purchased for Off
cial structures.
Fighting the Fly.
With the season that is passing
there comes to a temporary conclusion
the most vigorous, concentrated, deter
mined warfare ever waged against the
house fly more appropriately and cor
rectly known of late as the Typhoid
fly" 1t seems that if anything def
mite about this pest has been discovered
it is that the fly spreads contagion, and
especially the typhoid fever germ. In
Albany the authorities came to this
conclusion and in Washington where
there has been an outbreak of typhoid,
the doctors in general share this
opinion.
BY systematic work carried on by
medical men and others interested in
the general welfare, the public has been
systematically advised of the dangerous
character of the fly and has been
taught how to fight it. It's life history
has been explained. and is not yet end
ed. but it is not too soon to consider
the manner in which the fight against
the fly is to be carried ON next year.
Medical science in these days is con
cerned even more with the problem of
preventing disease than it is with cur
ing it. The brightsst minds in the pro-
|fsssion are engaged In seeking out and