The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-07-29
CHIEF INTERESTS
In NORMAL SCHOOL
TWO IMPORTANT ADDRESSES
GIVEN ~ PROFESSOR COLLINS
AND STATE SEC. .ETARY or AS
ISOLATION FOR PREVENTION
or TUBERCULOSIS.

i The chief interests In normal school
circles for the past week were the adj
dress OF Mr.. Collins at the Congrega-
tional church, last Sunday on The
Psychology Of Religion, the confer
ence of President Weld and Mr.. Bal
lard with Dean Woods Of the Agri-
cultural college, and the lecture on
tuberculosis by G. Easton, secretary
of the State Association for the Pre-
vention and Cure of tuberculosis.
Events in prospect are the address Of
President Weld at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning, and the
contest between the faculty and stu
dents in baseball this evening.
| In his address on the Psychology Of
Religion Mr.. Collins referred first
to the changed attitude in the study Of
religion. 1t was once philosophical,
then historical and comparative; now
| 1t - study of individual experience.
Four questions were treated in detail,
with scholarly analysis. First, What
Is the Origin of Religion? Is 1t in
stinctive or only a social custom?
| 1t IL based on so many fundamental
religion is a complex, regulative, or
harmonizing. instinct, which sets upon
these basal instincts to modify and
refine them. Second, Is Religions An
Expression Of Feeling, Intellect, or
viii? We have long worshipped i'm
tellect. but we cannot prove any Of |
the great questions of religions by
reason. Feeling probably only attends |
the expression of religious impulse, |
but is not its seat Being impulsive |
and dynamic, religion is probably a |
will phase. In part, it is of course all |
three, intellect, feeling, will; since the |
mind operates as unit. Third, How
Does Religion Get It's Contest? There
are two views; one assigns social
custom; the other insists on an i'm
stinctive quality of it's own that ac-
counts for conscience and a desire for |
union with God. Fourth, How Does |
Religious Organization or the Church |
Contribute to the Nature of the Mind? |
1t enleavens the whole of life, brings |
| its members into personal relations |
with a more enduring life, counteracts |
the dangers of materialism, serves as
philosophy for many, and emphasizes |
practical effort and the spirit in which |
| 1t is done
With regard to the conference with |
Dean Woods of the agricultural col |
lege concerning the work to be under |
taken by the normal schools in agri- |
culture, President Weld expressed the |
frankest satisfaction. Some very in
teresting plans were tentatively work |
ed out at the conference which will be
presented in organized form to the
| normal board When the board has
had opportunity to take action, it
is hoped that a valuable phase Of
education will be newly opened up for |
the youths of Minnesota.
Problem of tuberculosis.
Mr.. Easton, in his lecture ON tuber-
culosis, dealt almost exclusively with |
the sociological and political sides of |
the problem. He incisively argued for |
liberal public control of the disease
through an efficient department of |
state, and regretted the tardy and tim |
i'd efforts of the United States, and |
of Minnesota in particular, to grasp
this problem and solve it. There are
100000 sufferers from tuberculosis in |
the United States, said he, 10000 in |
Minnesota alone. The federal govern
ment. though 1t spends millions to
conserve the forests, spends nothing
to conserve the health of human be- |
ings, the greatest asset of the country. |
New York spends $4,5O0,000 for public |
health; Pennsylvania, $s,000,000; Mas |
sachusetts, S2,000,000; while Minneso-
Ia spends less than 100000. The city |
Of New York alone spends $750,0O0 q |
year for the health of its people. There |
is only one sanatorium for consump- |
tives in Minnesota, and it takes care |
of only 100 out of the total OF TO- |
900 patients in the state. There ID one
child In every school district in |
Minnesota that has tuberculosis. The |
The loss to the world from this dis |
ease in money alone, Is millions OF |
dollars yearly, an unnecessary loss. |
But human life is cheap with us. |
Three times as many people are killed |
on the railroads in the United States
as in Europe. Minnesota appropri- |
ates more money to protect animals !
than she does to protect the health of |
human beings; because our legislators |
are blind to the Importance Of this |
problem.
Mr.. Easton conferred his argument |
about four points as follows: Health |
and longevity are valuable communi- |
ty assets; bad conditions Of living are |
the indirect causes OF tuberculosis and |
other diseases; the direct causes are |
germs spread from diseased persons,
and therefore the control of tubercu- |
losis requires the control on large |
scale of the tuberculosis population: |
latent tuberculosis is very prevalent |
among school children and other peo-
pie.
These conditions, concluded Mr.. |
Easton, are necessary for the ultimate |
conquest Of this dread disease: Regis
tration; every person affected with |
the disease should be reported to the /
health officers. Isolation OF the pa
tient, preferably under a trained nurse
and In hospital. Every consumptive /
who dies In a home imparts the dis |
ease to one or more OF the relatives Il
who attend him. Public hospitals |
for the isolation OF consumptives. /
In time it will become a crime for
consumptives 10 d. In private homes
where others are doomed to death by /
the conditions that necessarily pre-
vail.
Farmers to Meet.
Red Wing Republican, Editor p. ".
Collin OF The Northwestern AgricuI-