The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-06-05
TREATMENT Of
TUBERCULOSIS
MANY ALLEGED CONSUMPTION
CURES ARE NOW ON THE
MARKET
EFFICIENCY OF AMERICAN WORKMEN
Is High, But Some Countries Excel Us
In Certain lines-Other Washing
ton News Of the Week

(From Our Washington Correspondent
Following the spectacular visits to
this country of DR.. Friedman, the Ger
man specialist, and the administering
of the turtle serum to tuberculosis vic
tins, there have many alleged dis
coveries of cures for the white plague.
When DR.. Friedman visited Washing
ton he administered his treatment to a
large number of persons, and it is
claimed that the results have been
beneficial, Notwithstanding the cry of
the medical fraternity that this is an
other great fake" The retort is that
the medical men are usually the last
to admit great discoveries in medi-
cine. Ex-senator Lorimer of Illinois,
recently brought a supposed cure for
the dreaded disease to the attention
of the government, and asked for an
investigation, which was granted,
and resulted in the Illinois man
Withdrawing his support from the
cure" The latest tuberculosis treat
ment to come into prominence is that
Of DR.. Won Ruck Of Ashville, N. c., and
the Senate has directed the Public
Health Service to investigate it. The
reason for this unusual procedure Is
the fact that Senator Kern of Indiana,
has confirmed the statement that he
was attacked by tuberculosis and cured
by this treatment several years ago.
In the course of a speech by Repre-
sentative Green of Iowa, he discussed
the efficiency of workmen in our own
country and abroad, arriving at the
conclusion that while our W people
have attained great skill in many Of
the trades and arts, excelling all ma
tions in many of these; yet Gin many
industries which have been developed
for centuries in Europe we are so
lacking in trained workers that the
American makes a poor showing in
efficiency as compared to the Euro
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Mr.. Green criticized the Department
of Commerce for attempting, through
tables produced by it, to analyze the
conditions between laborers at home
and abroad. The use of this table
for the purpose mentioned reminds
one of Mark Twain's calculations from
statistics as to the shortening of the
Mississippi during the years he was
navigating it," said the Congressman.
Following the average for years, he
was able to demonstrate that a century
ago the river stuck out over the gulf
into South America, and that a e
tury in the future it would shrink until
it's mouth would be about Cairo"
Senator Gore and a number of other
democrats of the upper house are very
much concerned because Of the sug-
gestion from the White House that in
view of the Importance Of the tariff
legislation, that they should remain
home on the job, instead of going to
Europe to study agricultural credits"
Senator Norris Of Nebraska, loves to
poke fun at the society danes of the
Capital, who sport fine poodle dogs,
but are childless. Some of the women
have been writing him tart notes, in
6icating that he ought to be more dig
nifed. The Senator has responded
that his remarks were not intended to
reflect upon the usefulness and WORTH
s of the poodle dogs, from whom
he has the most profound respect"
And now the "old girls" are madden
than ever.
The tariff debate in the senate ap-
pears to have gradually turned upon
the point as to whether the demo
cratic national platform declared for
free sugar. Senators who were dele
gates to the Baltimore convention
assert that the platform committee re-
fused to commit the party to free
sugar, although they tell how Mr..
Frank c. Lowry, an agent Of the big
reiners on the Atlantic Coast, who
have been conducting the campaign
for removal OF the tariff, made a des-
perate fight to have a free sugar plank
1 n the platform, but was unsuccessful.
Under the leadership Of Senator New.
lands Of Nevada, tine western demo
cratic senatores are waging an active
fight against the free sugar clause in
the pending bill, and other features
which they maintain discriminate
against the west. Senator Newlands
has been receiving protests. not only