The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-01

ficulty of feeding the people but does
some and improper food.
Fourth, the problem of excluding
these organisms which produce dis.
ease is one of supreme importance
and, as it has been recognized as
legitimate function of the state to
establish quarantine stations on our
frontiers, the further application of
this principle to secure greater prOtec-
ton of the public health cannot be re-
garded as unconstitutional. The two
great diseases which decimate the hui
man race at the present time are tu-
berculosis and typhoid fever, both of
them specific, infectious, and cOnta-
gious diseases We segregatc those
suffering from smallpox. yellow fever
and leprosy, while we permit without
sufficient regulation the existence OF
peripatetic tuberculosis and typhoid
fever. 1t is the duty of the state, in
my opinion, to Segregate those suffer
ing from these threatening dangers.
In SO tar as sentiment is concerned, it
is no worse to be segregated for IT,
berculosis than for leprOsy. 1t is hard
the time being of family and friends,
but as Tennyson says:
Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil
dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless o. the single life.
THE states and nations of the earth
should cooperate in Well-planned
campaign to further stamp out these
dreadful diseases which have made
such inroads on the health and pros
perity of all the peoples of the world.
Fifth, danger threatens from the
aggregations of population in the great
centers OF exchange Of the community.
The man whose foot never touches
the turned soil cannot be said to be
healthy. The great manufacturing en-
terprises should be segregated and
confined to the smaller places furnish
ing the raw materials and where each
workman may have a garden and a
front yard where his leisure hours
could be spent in healthful co-opera-
ton with Mother Earth. Cities should
be reserved for exchange and manu-
facture should be excluded therefrom.
This state or nation SHOULD see to it
that every artisan engaged in produce
ton should be provided with a lot
where he can breathe the fresh air
and touch Mtoher Earth. If we ad-
are sufficient to be spent in manual Ia
bOr we should provide an opportunity
for the artisan to spend eight hours
more in normal employment for his
own benefit and for that of his fami-
ly. How infinitely superior is the gar
den to the saloon for this purpose! If
production were eliminated from the
for those engaged in exchange there
would be room to work and to walk.
Sixth. the sanitary surroundings Of
those who live in segregated locali-
ties like the country and the smaller
villages should be radically reformed.
The farmer should be the longest liv-
ed OF any profession, but at the pres
ent time this is not the case. The
sewage Of the farm is an unknown
problem. Being unknown it cannot be
solved. The bathtub is scarcely
known in the farmers house and the
septic tank is unheard of. The laws
of hygiene are either unknown or
neglected. The agricultural colleges
should teach hygiene and sanitation
hive no
plant breeding,
FINALLY, in order to pacify the ma.
tional and state activities making for
public health, the establishment of a
national department of health is al
most a necessity. DO not be deter
red by the cry which goes up of a
doctors trust" 1t is true that the
wise physicians are in favor of the
national department of health, not be-
cause it is "physicians' trust" but
because it is for the good of the peo-