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service to make an invest iga ton OF the
incidence of tuberculosis trachoma and
other infectious diseases among the In
dams. The report of this investigation
must be rendered to Congress by Feb
ruary ! next Ten officers have Ioen
detailed for this purpose. They viii visit
all of the Indian reservations and exam
inc physically all wards of the nation
This Is important not only because a
the debt which We owe the Indian bur
also because the presence OF disease
among them endangers the health of the
citizens Of the surrounding communities
But what need now * officers.
more officers and then more officers. You
can I make bricks without straw and YOU
can't build and maintain A public health
organization without trained officers IL
takes time. experience. training and study
to evolve good sanitary officers They
must have the good OF the cause at heart
and the work must be more than food
and drink to them. Public health work is
arduous and hazardous in the extreme.
and unless the men give il whole hearted
devotion their labors are az naught.
Take. for example, the problem Of
Rocky mountain spotted fever in Mon
tana. We know great deal about II.
but in the main IL is an unsolved riddle.
The man who studies il takes his life in
his hand. just as did our brave officer
McClintic, who. after working with this
disease for two years and after having
apparently controlled it In the Bitter
Root valley of Montana. fell himself
victim only this summer. Another season
must see the work recommended. Let us
hope that no more human sacrifices will
be demanded. but IL they are we have
i'm the United States public health serv-
ice body of men who will continue the
fight relentlessly until the battle be won.
Il would like to emphasize" continued
DR.. Blue that under the new law We
cannot encroach upon any personal lib
erty nor interfere with the rights of any
citizen. The protection of the individual
against disease Is Il matter for the local
authorities. The United States govern
ment considers these matters in whole
sale way, and aims to furnish wholesa Is
protection Our new work must include
much research. much educational work.
and where it is required the states must
be given assistance. The idea must be
the creation of an ever-growing piece or
machinery. which will act in the broadest
way for the protection of the health OF
our people. There must be an interlock-
ing co-operat ton between the nation and
the state; between the state, county ana
the municipality. and as subsidiary
mechanisms the pulpit, the press and the
ice.
THE child must be taught that his
body is a valuable piece of machinery
which he must not harm by taking into
it infected food water. The gospe. OF
cleanliness as next to godliness must De
preached from the pulpits. and the ritual
of hand-washing made "A part of our
workaday religion.
Copyright. 1912. by John Elfrcth watkns)
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A ReSourCefuI Editor.

HTHE late Gen. Booth" said a Sal
walton Army official Of New York
"often used to urge the 'down-and-ou
to cultivate the quality of resourceful-
ness.
HE would illustrate this quality by
means of a resourceful western editor
who found. one night, that he had neither
advertisements nor copy for his third
page. The page accordingly appeared
blank, with a note in small type at the
top:
This space will be useful for the chill
dren to write upon.
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selected him to succeed Mr. Ankeny. A
warm friendship exists between the Pom
dexters and the Ankenys the latter fam
lily residing in Walla Walla. Mrs. Poin-
deXters old home which she frequently
visits. She expects to make her usual
summer visit to her home, and after visit
ing relatives she always stays for a
week or two with Mrs. Ankeny
Mrs. Poindexter comes of d family
which has many interesting connections
with early history about the National
Capital Her mothers family. the Gales,
were among those who came to Washing
ton city from Philadelphia when the
capital was moved. Joseph Gale became
editor of the National Intelligencer, and
the home which he erected In lexington
is one of the best specimens of early ar
chitecture standing intact.
His estate covered what is now the
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Social Excuses.

MISS INEZ MILHOLLAND, at Q
4V1 luncheon in Newport. lamented the
loss of the suffrage in the recent Ohio
election.
why did We lose? - she walled. Our
opponents arguments are always silly
They're as silly and false as the average
social excuse.
She smiled and added:
"Apropos of the average social excuse.
a Newport man was invited tn house
party in Maine last week. and wired:
Regret can't come. Lie follows by
most -
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Washington is busy place said Mrs.
Poindexter. but the routine of life is
the same here as at home in the essen
tials One of these for me is to keep my
clothes in repair. likewise TO look after
my husbands and my boys when he is at
home. | make il duty like saying my
prayers or returning calls answering
letters. those obligations which YOU must
not shirk even if you would. L get my
share of pleasure out of life in the east,
though l ann again and again impressed
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1T is useless to pass laws prohibiting
people from doing this or that until our
citizenship has taken TO heart the real
reason for such q law. After all is said
and done. folks don't obey laws unless
they want to obey them. and no law is
effective unless 1t has behind 1t pubic
sentiment. During the 1895 yellow fever
epidemic in New Orleans they used to
sing a song called 'Fumisate. fumigate,
every day I would like to see that song
changed to Educate, educate every day.
We are already trying TO do this. ana
have issued a large number of bulletins
and pamphlets. The press as whole is
apparently very willing to lend its pow
erful aid in this direction. and what is
required is plain. simple stuff which the
workman hanging on to the street car
strap in the morning with one hand and
to his newspaper with the other Will
read and remember
What Do you hope to do in the matter
of leprosy especially in view of the cases
which have been recently reported IN
several of the larger cities?
That depends very largely on Con-
gress." said Dr. Blue. IF we could get
an appropriation for leprosarium 10
which could be taken the various lepers'
upon the request of the states where
they reside and if these poor unfor-
tunates could be made wards of the gov
eminent. 1t would be a great deal better
for them and the public health would be
greatly protected. We already have IN
this country several hundred lepers. NOT
a large number for population OF NO,
600 600. but still it is more than we want;
If We could get suitable island Wei
isolated and having good climate ana
Mace thereon suitable buildings ana
everything necessary for the care, treat
ment and amusement of those cit!ZehS
who are unfortunate enough to be aHllct-
ed with this frightful disease. We Wouiu
rid ourselves of a danger ana at tue
same time make these poor people DIS
comfortable as possible Any way you
want to look at it. it is humanltarian
movement, which every Sanltarlan "ou'u
like to see brought about.
X *
"another problem confronting Us and
demanding solution is that of trachoma
:, the United States. Do you know that
this contag ious eye disease. wnich we
formerly thought was entirely confined to
foreign countries, has existed in many
remote parts of our country for long
time? 1t has made frightful inroads
among the Indians, and in certain Sec
tions Americans of pure Anglo-SaXon
stock and of several generations resi-
dence in the United States are being
rendered blind through its ravages. A
short time ago an officer of this service
made an investigation of trachoma In
one of the inland states. One court day
in a remote mountainous district he eX-
amined over go men who had come
from various parts of the counties; one
out of every five examined had trachoma.
This investigation will go on, and 1t is
hoped that an active eradicative cam
paign may be launched against it.
Congress has directed the public health
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PQmMEXTER FROM WASHINGTON

ington. however lax they may become
in other states.
II do not think. however. said Mrs.
PoindeXter, that women will ever neg
lect their civic duties as men have done
That is the argument in giving them the
ballot; they will value il and exercise ~
and remember the long years spent in tie
desert within sight of the promised land
/ rejoice to say that We do not stand IN
need of much reform in Washington, but
if we did We have taken the right road
to get ii by admitting women on equal.
terms with men,.
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Though always a supporter of the sur
frage movement Mrs. PoindeNter is not
in any sense public woman, nor has she
taken more than a contributing part IN
the long campaign wased for suffrage III
her state.
She looks into every question thor
oughly before she votes, and though
consistent republican progressive IKE her
husband, she is ready to aid reform
measures. Her devout hope Is that WON.
on now having the ballot will exercise it
intelligently and diligently. and she says
that at least they will vote so In wash
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Congress was waiting adjournment. Seat
ed j. "a comfortable chair. Mrs Poindex-
ter can chat on every variety OF theme
while her needle flies busily through
hosiery Of both sexes. ard the contents
OF 4 great basket piled with black, white
striped coucoction4 dwndles before her
onslaught and disappears as snow before
inc sun.
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Fl Nat D0NAAL b
~ Pv|RLLIC FIEALII:

A FTER Long Haggling
"A Congress Provides a Real
Board of Health for the
Nation-Head of the New
Service Outlines His Aims
and Representatives, Rights
Not to Be Trampled Upon
Citizens Right to Be Treated
for Disease as He Sees Fit
Not to Be Interfered With
Typhoid and tuberculosis to
Be Tackled First-Investi-
CATION of Goiter. Leprosy,
Trachoma, Infant and Negro
Mortality Also to Be Com
menced-Pollution of Lake
and River Waters Also to Be
Fought.
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HOSE. who think
I j. at darning,
merding and gen.
cral supervision of
tn" wearing APP
parel are lost arts
should have visit
ci Mrs. PoiudeX-
Ter, wife OF the
: - II Il [ or from
W a shington state,
during the morn
ing hours While
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rs a Native of Walla Walla,
i and Was Before Her Mar
rage Miss Elizabeth Gale
Page, Daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Page, Well
Known Pioneers of the North
ernrnost State-Mrs. Poin-
dexter Is an Earnest Advo-
cate for Suffrage and Has
Contributed Large Share
Toward It's Success in Wash
ington State.
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RY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

OW the nation s
new public health
service will affect
the people was to-
day described to
me at length by its
surgeon general,
DIR. Rupert Blue.
You will reInem =
Der that for several
years c n g r e s S
has been haggling
over this matter
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village of lexington as far out as the
Brentwood road which marked the land
marks of the Robert Brent property.
This Joseph Gale was only a collateral
kinsman. for his grandfather. Joseph
Gale went to Oregon in the first half of
the last century and with William r.
Kent was one of the provisional govern
ors of the territory.
Mr. Gale was likewise associated with
James Nesmith, pioneer of the north
west and father of Mrs. Ankeny, wife
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During the closing DAYS Of the last ses-
sion. these and other legislators, backed
by various sects and cults that aim to
combat disease by other than old-school
methods forced through Congress a COM
promise bill organizing the much needed
public health service. not as a department
by itself. but as bureau of the Treasury
Department. AS matter of fact. 1t IS
but another expansion OF our old marine
hospital service. established I'm the colo
MES by George III and reorganized ten
years ago.
The latter bureaus head, DR.. Blue. will
direct the new service That he is an
adept at the science of conserving the
health of the individual. well as that
of the public. is given evidence by his
powerful physique and the radiance of
his countenance His brown eyes beam
with good ne.ure. and. southern gentle
man that he is-a South Carolinian-he
makes you feel perfectly at home the
moment he greets YOU with his warm
hand grasp. He is a giant in stature.
and, like his predecessor, the late Sur
geon General Walter Wyman is bach
elor. Commander Victor Blue. one of
the naval heroes of the war with Spain,
Is his elder brother.
The surgeon general although only
forty-five. has to his credit a distinguish
ed career of over twenty years as an
oScer of the marine hospital service,
under which he has helped to guard our
principal eaports-incIuding New York,
San Francisco and New Orleans-against
foreign infection. He has also done for
eign service at Genoa. Italy. He early
became recognized as the greatest Amer
lean authority on plague. and for the
third time he has just saved his country
from an epidemic of that hideous disea Sc.
He is graduate both of the University
of Maryland and of the London School
of Tropical Medicine. He succeeded Sur
geon General Wyman only nine months
age.
In careful legal verbage Congress has
directed that The public health service
may study and investigate the diseases
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of man and conditions influencing the
propagation and spread thereof, includ-
ing sanitation and sewage and the pol
luton either directly or indirectly, OF
the navigable streams and lakes or the
United States This single sentence is
fraught with the greatest moment to the
people of this country. The new act
makes de jure what was formerly de
facto, and throws about us additional
protection by extending the scope Of the
governments defenses against disease.
Besides examining, for disease, all i'm
migrants knocking at our gates. main
tanning the national quarantine and as
Stunning charge of all other safeguards
erected to prevent the Introduction of in
lection from foreign countries into our
own, or from one state or territory into
another, the public health service will
now proceed to a general investigation
Of the diseases Of man and their pro-
ducing causes.
II think it Is an extremely good bill and
1t has followed the policy of our govern
ment of building up from existing
agencies said Surgeon General Blue, by
way of comment upon the act comforting
these powers. THE law of 1893 COM
PEELED cooperation between the head of
the marine hospital service and the state
and local boards of health in the enforce
ment of sanitary regulations. 1t has
never been the intention or desire of the
general government to encroach in any
way upon the powers and duties of the
state and local health officers, but it has
been felt that 1t should be it's policy to
assist them in every way possible, to sup
pIement them where they fail, and where
there is danger that surrounding states
might take harm from insanitary con-
ditions existing from neglect within
state and to lend to that state the strong
assistance of the general government.
Il think this measure is one OF the
wisest pieces Of federal legislation which
has been passed for some time. 1t goes
right down to the heart of the health
problem Note it's wording: The public
health service may study and investigate
the diseases of man and conditions IN
fuenctng the propagation and spread
thereof That means that the general
public will get the benefit of the lnVesu-
cations of the trained sanitary experts
of the nation.
"It doesn't mean that there will be
disease in the individual, or that there
will be any hampering of the individual
right to choose his medical attendant,
but It does mean that new light will be
thrown upon the causation of disease in
general and the methods to be employ
ed for it's control and eradication Stop
and think. for example. what 1t will
mean to the people of the United States
to have goiter investigated. There are
certain districts in this country where a
large percentage of the population have
this defornlity, and everywhere you turn
you see some pretty woman who is ex-
cluded from the wearing of cool, low
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do not freeze to death and how glad L
should be to spend my winters in Wash
ington. Comparisons are odious. and
give full credit to Washington city and
admit that it is certainly d rare privilege
to spend the winters here without refer
ring to climatic reasons. In Spokane we
have no piercing winds, as here, and
though the mercury drops. the air Is SO
dry that it appears incredible counted by
degrees.
Zone acceptable and rather poetical
part of our winter is the warm Winds
called by the Indian name chinooks.
These winds blow for days at a time,
soft. fragrant and delicate as the winds
of early June. They melt the snow at
once. I have seen eight or nine inches
of snow on the ground when the CHI
hooks begin to blow, and I'm an hour
not a trace of it is left. These winds
kindly come many times during the wiz
ter. and they accomplish for us what
the & 1lf stream does in the FAR north on
the Atlantic side.
Senator and Mrs PoindeXter have one
son. boy of sixteen, Gale. who will next
wear enter the State University of WASH
ington. He has been in a preparatory
school in New York all winter and has
paid frequent visits home. Senator Poin-
dexter comes of we'll known family in
Virginia but is a native of Tennessee
He was educated at Washington and Lee
University, and for time considered
sending his only son to that venerable
seat of learning. Times have changed
since his college days and he has de-
cided that the University of Washington
is the place for a loyal son of the Ever
green state.
Senator and Mrs. Poindexter We're
among those who attended both the con-
yentions in Chicago. and Mrs. PoindeXter
remained for a fortnights visit. Both are
ardent admirers of Col Roosevelt, though
they are on terms of cordial friendship
with the present executive and his wife
Mrs. Poindexter cares little for formal
social intercourse. and beyond paying her
calls and receiving on occasion. she gives
little time to official society. She makes
warm friends and she prefers visiting
those she likes and having time to ex-
change views on topics which interest
both, rather than the hurried rush of for
NAL calling.
She delights in reading. and is like all
the women in the northwest, a good poll
tician and at home on every theme.
whether of local issue or the broad ma
tional policies. She spends much time
reading the Congressional Record and
very frequently may be seen in the SEN
ate gallery listening to the debates.
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of Mr.. PoinGexters predecessor III the
Senate. The friendship between Mrs
PoindeXter and Mrs. Ankeny results from
the close tie which bound their parents
interest bound men and women in bands
of steel. Mr. Gale left Oregon for Cali
fornia, and here Mrs. Poindexter's moth
er was born-in the old home at San
Jose. Mrs. Joseph Gale still survives
and spends much of her time in her
daughters delightful home in Spokane
She is accounted one of the brilliant and
forceful women in the northwest. She
has recently passed her SEVENTEEN birth
day anniversary, but is vigorous and as
interested in life as woman in her early
thirties.
Mrs. PoindeXter's father, Thomas Page,
was born in County Galway, Ireland, and
came to this country when very young
He was among the early pathfinders to
California, but eventually left that state
and went first to Oregon and later to
Walla Walla, where his daughter, Mrs.
PoindeXter, was born.
MY native city, Walla Walla. is a
lovely little town of about $4,000 inhab
itanta and it is an ideal spot to live
said Mrs. POindeXter. Small towns offer
more Individuality, though, of course, L
find that Spokane possesses nearly all the
charms of the small city, with some val
liable adjuncts. In Walla Walla the air
Of prosperity is eXhilarating. l do not
think that | ever saw a beggar there
and l know that there are no poor-no
one dependent on the city for a living.
That appeals to me very forcibly and re-
minds me of that exquisite oriental
prayer. Give me neither poverty nor
riches. Thou who giveth all.
Riches as understood in some sec
tons do not exist there any more than
the s9ualor. the want and the crime and
i'll health of the congested cities In the
larger places the problems are different
and we find all that goes with old trou-
bles of urban life and how to assist those
with the best results to their present
needs and future welfare Washington
is suffrage state, and l performed my
small part at least in enthusiastically adj
vocating the movement
Il see in suffrage part of my creed and
| hope great things when We have had
the ballot long enough to work out our
aspiration At present we can claim one
of the cleanest cities in the world, one of
the most prosperous, and every attention
is being paid now to humanity within our
walls.
$50 many here think of us in Wash
ington state as about next door to the
north pole, and l am often asked II we