The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-04-12
Was Yard Long and Foot Wide
Patient Now Suing Her
Former Physician.
REMAINED FIVE WEEKS

REMAINED FIVE WEEKS
New York. Special: A towel, a yard
long and a foot wide, with a red Dor
der, was accidentally sewed up inside
Mrs. Mollie Myers when she was oper-
ated on In st. vincent's hospital in
November. 1905. according to an aff1-
iavit filed with the supreme court by
DR.. Benjamin Friedman, formerly of
this city. now living in Hungary. Mrs.
Panama in Fact and Fiction.
Every n will admit that success in
iigging the Panama canal must be at
.ributed largely to h human factor.
Dur government has found efficient
men to do the work., and has succeeded
IN maintaining their efficiency. Herein
ies the superiority of our method over
that of the French administration. No
we'll informed person will deny these
broad facts, and 1t remains only to give
credit to whom credit is due.
There are about 10000 picked men
and women at work In the canal n
Is, 1000 of these are negro laborers from
the adjoining tropical countries, partic-
ularly from the British West indies.
These laborers found a climate to their
liking from the first day, and wages
and food better than most of them a
ever. before received. Good treatment
with a negro begets docility and con-
tentment which means obedience to law
and common sense regulations. Hence
1t Is not surprising that these eolored
employes-all selected men and pro-
verbally healthy In their home country
where poverty and filth is the rule rath-
er h the exception-should nave
prospered nightly under cleaner ana
happier surroundings. Indeed. would 1t
rn< ho1rn haan c,YrnricinO had results
been otherwise? So while 1t may be
hard to say Just what part the doctors
have contributed to the well being or
the colored class, the fact can hardly
be denied that they have played a MI
nor role.
The same applies, perhaps. with
slight notifications, to the 5000 Span
ish and Italian laborers. To the south
ern European the tropics have never
presented any terrors and the Latin
people nave always been pioneers In
tropical development. That these Ia
borers, most Of whom are Spanlards,
have bettered themselves industrially
by coming to Panama Is self evident.
so that their case Is practically iden-
tical with that Of their colored CO.
laborers-a tribute to good pay, consid-
crate treatment and decent surround
ings. Here again the doctor has no log
ical claim to the limelight.
The tropics heretofore I've proved a
great magnet to gold seekers. explorers
and various adventures who nave
courted hardship and privation. Is 1t
any wonder that the death rate was
high among men who ~endeavored to
traverse impenetrable jungles, who ire
Quently set out unprovided with the
necessary food and supplies. and who
had to learn from the cruelest expe-
rience facts that are now placed at the
ll-----1 canal nvnnlnryn
It Is not at Panam alone that the
tropics are losing their fictitious ter
rors. The northern tourist Is now find
Ing his way through the whole Carfb-
bean country, and steamship companies
are loudly proclaiming the delights of
residence throughout the West Indies
and the Spanish main. Statistics, more
over. SHOW that yellow fever a been
on the decline long before the discov-
cries Of the American s~anitarians in
Cuba and Panama, with its ideal condi-
lions, is not the only tropical city that
can boast Of a diminished death rate.
That is the economic and social con-
dition OF the worker In Panama is ideal
no one can dispute, and IL this leads to
physical, mental and moral well being,
why should the facts be denied? Is not
this experiment too valuable during the
present era Of Industrial distress and
social upheaval to be subjected to the
slightest Misrepresentation?
The American colony at Panama is
composed largely Of men in the prime
of life who have been subjected to the
most rigid physical examination before
acceptance. Having passed this exam
nation and received positions which In
most cases assure a salary much great
er than the recipients could earn in the
United States, they begin to learn bow
philanthropic an employer Uncle Sam
- a. Tho nnuy ovpnlnvnu 20 trans
ported free Of charge to the scene OF
their labor. On their arrival they find
themselves in q modern town or camp,
every building Of which Is constructed
OF the best materials and contains every
modern improvement. The newcomer in
most cases receives free quarters. and
though he must pay for his meals, these
are OF the best quality and are provided
absolutely at cost. The householder who
must pay rent finds that Uncle Sam has
again anticipated his needs n pro-
yided the maximum Of comfort al the
minimum of expense. Food. clothing
and all the n-ecessaries of life, that is
those not already provided free of cost
are sold at such reduced rates that the
high cost Of living in the canal zone il
but a northern echo. II any one doubts
this. let him consult the New Yorl
Eyening Post for January % last, IN
which comparative tables Of the cost OF
food In New YOrk ana fauama are pre-
sented. wholly to the advantage OF thu
latter.
But Uncle Sam has gone farther IL
his paternalism and provides free in
struction OF all kinds, free amusement
centers, free transportation, n as 1
to eliminate the last chance Of worry
ssure every worker that IL he be-
comes i'll, there will be the best &C.
commodation provided for him at tn,
government hospitals. with wages con
tinued, no matter how long the illness
| and ali care and attendance absolutel,
free, This removes that ~corroding feal
40 widespread in U northern indus
| trial centers, to which many scientist
now attribute q large percentage o
! disease with its consequent poverty ar
| distress.
The above is q partial enumeration
only or the advantage OF working TO
| Uncle Sam in this new tropical outpost
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