Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-02

in the brush. When the job was com
pleted, the child received one cent In
cold cash. In another instance the
making OF neOkties. hand sewed the
whole length, was rewarded with six
cents a gross. We must look into
something besidca The manufacture of
brushes and neckties IL We wish to
find tho reasons for tho high cost OF
living.
Vital statistics formed another i'm.
portant part Of the exhibition. The
necessity of proper birth records n
impressed. IT. is frequently neces-
say TO prove leally where and when
an individual was horn. Our country
| has been %inexcusably lax In this re.
| gard. Because of this negligence,
many a prominent citizen would have
| great difficulty in proving who his
ltrGnts were, where and when he was
born and indeed, to prove thai he was
| born at all. Tho causes OF sickness
ana death must be correctly tabulated
| edge as to the success OF any or nj!
cur hygienic measures. tt.
A great many people have read in
newspapers and magazines about DR..
Bowling, the Louisiana state health
officer and his famous health car"
DR.. Bowling was present with his car.
giving lectures and demonstrations of
his practical methods. 1t was an or
binary day coach rebuilt into a roll.
ing sanitary school. Cause and pre-
v@ention of many varieties of prevent.
able disease were made plain and the
result has been that both the negro
AID ''the poor white trash" of Louis
lana have entered q new era OF
health and happiness.
Athletics and physical development
were not neglected. The boy scout
and the girl scout were both there.
Dancing as 4 useful physical exercise
was demonstrated on the platform in
a large hall. Folk dances of several
nations were enjoyed by both par.
Elephants and spectators.
Scientific lectures, papers and dis
~cussions were given in no less than
ten different sections every day dur
ing the week of the meeting. Popular
lectures relative, to every phase OF
hygiene and associated branches of
knowledge were given in a large hall
from nine o'clock in the morning until
ten O'Clock in the evening. daily.
Speakers with expert knowledge of
their topics had been chosen. Each
talk was of thirty minutes duration
usually. and frequently supplemented
by camera and moving pictures. With
the exception of the more technical
papers ald discussions in the scien.
tifc sections, it was evident every
where that this was not a congress
by doctors for doctors. 1t was rather
a scientific demonstration to the. peo.
pie, showing what had been done up
to date to avoid sickness and to pro-
long life. 1t was a suggestion as to
what should and must be done if hui
man progress shall continue. It is
too bad that the exhibition could not
have been seen by every man, woman
| and child In the land. Yet the pres.
encc Of hundreds Of teachers from all
grades Of public institutions over the
countyr leaves a guarantee that the
most practical lessons derived from
the congress will gradually find their
way to the right place-the American
boy and girl. N.
Time and space will not permit an
J attempt to describe the multiplicity
Of subjects discussed in the sections,
but mention must be made of one
startling result from the study of the
cause Of i~nfantile paralysis. Dir. Ros.
enau Of Harvard University has sue
ceeded in proving definitely that the
common stable fly is a carrier of the
disease. He confined monkeys, sick
with infantile paralysis, in a cage
containing stable flies. Several weeks
later he allowed these flies to bite a
number of healthy monkeys. All OF
these were stricken down with typical
attacks of infantiIe paralysis, and the
majority died rapidly. While this
does not yet prove the actual cause
and nature OF tho poison, it gives an.
other potent reason why we should
HS,unf tho Elu ~