Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1913-11-21

AS' FElcn eaen or US has while
mere on earth, and which none Of rs
completely understand. These cells
arrange themselves in groups-the
liVer' the kidneys, the stomach. the
ihtestlnes, the skin, the brain, etc.
THESE various groups have differ
ent functions; and yet have a method
OF cooperation that man vainly at
tempts to Initiate. They have a way
OF helping each other out, which man
may admire and possibly ATTEMPT to
initiate, but which he is a long way
from putting in practice with any
great degree of perfection. For ex-
ample, there are various groups of
cells which tend to eliminate the
waste matter from the system. The
SKIN does the larger part of it, about
90 per cent of the waste matter of
the body going out through the skin
IN insensible perspiration. If for
any reason this group of cells that
we call the skin fails to do it's work
1 D
then the liver and bowels and other
excretory organs do the work for the
time being. If the skin still fails to
90 us proper work, disease sets in,
and the man will die. The failure
OF any part of this complicated ma
chine which we call man to do its
proper work, leads some other group
OF cells or organs to do more work.
ana IN way 1t was not intended for
them to work; and the man dies.
This may not be exactly a scientific
statement; but we are simply trying
TO give our readers little hint as to
the wonderful processes going on
within themselves.
| In certain general way we may
say that society, or the nation, or the
entire human race, is made up Of
cells and groups of cells, each COM
munity being cell, and the work
done in each community being a
necessary part of the work done by
the whole. In man, some of the cells
sometimes go wrong, and as a result
we have abnormal growths. tumors.
malignant cancers, causing death.
We have exactly the same thing in
society-whole classes of people that
are just like abnormal growths, tum-
crs and cancers in the human body
The farming community may be
likened to a group of cells of the
same kind, the business of which is
to provide food for the body polite
the nation. So long as these agri-
cultural cells are in good working
order, this body polite should be
well. If they decrease in number or
vitality, then we have a nation that
is likely to be sick. 1t may not know
it, but it is not we'll, and there is
trouble in store. In short, as food
| is the one condition of life in man,
the life of the body polite depends
on having a sufficient supply of
food, and that is furnished by agri-
culture, that is, by the agricultural
cells OF the nation.
Man can not live just by eating
food, however, Neither can the body
polite. More than that is necessary.
1t must be digested; and the manu-
featuring cells of this great nation of
ours correspond to the digestive ap-
paratus in the human system. If
they fail to work right, we have in
digestion, beginning with sour stom-
ach and nausea, and finally chronic
dyspepsia, accompanied by pessi-
mism, which is a more high-sounding
name for what farmers call the
blues"
The nation, like man, has a dis
tributivc system, its railroads, steam
ships and other modes of transporta-
ton. If this goes wrong, there is
sore trouble-congestion in one part
Of the system, chillness, lack Of
blood, anemia, in another part;
sometimes foot and mouth diseases,
gangrene. and finally the sloughing
off of the extremities. We have had
a great deal of complaint about this
in past times. Whole communities
have been sloughed off simply from
lack of transportation facilities.
The nation, too, has its nerves
telegraph and telephone lines, and
ether methods of conveying informa-
ton. Growing all, it has a direct
ing force-the statesmen, the men
who do the thinking and planning for
the public welfare. If a mans brain
goes wrong, he is all wrong. He is
subject to giddiness, vertigo, head
ache, strange notions and hallucina-
tions.
In the human body there is a
blood circulation, and the health Of
a man depends largely on the circu-
lation of his blood. Our banking sys-
tenn furnishes the blood circulation
T.