The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-16

heart must work with. The 'pathol-
| ogy of disease and the pathology of
sin are meeting in their quest in the
J1t of the stomach.
| When years ago g. clergyman stood
with the prison physician when the
conv1cts in the largest penal institu-
tlont IN the world passed by to dinner
Doctor said the clergyman, what,
IN your mind, is the common cause for
the condition of these :rnen?' My dear
man. said he, these men are not in
and OF themselves bad. You ask me
the cause? I give it to you in two
Words--bad food. Most of them you
VIII find, were born of poorly rlourished
mothers and were raised on either in
sumcient' poorly balanced or impure
foods s' -" -. ~ = :
I'VE are beginning to. realize that
| the ideal fdealist' realizes his ideals
when he, becomes a rash materialist
| and in the condition at his very feet
rights the root of the wrong he seeks
! to redress and finds the elementary
source, Of those things that he would
make into ideal men and women. !
i -. Begins in Stable.
=. I'VE are beginning to realize that
real missionary work begins in. the
stable, the store, the market, the kitch-
en-, the alley, the street the air Of the
|
insanity. disease, vice or disease born,
| death and all the suffering entailed by
! them on humanity may be lessened
and largely done away with through
the agency of proper food and sanitary
housing which. can be secured for the
mass of humanity only by legalized in
| spection Of all foods-all food giving
| and food bearing animals, milk inspec-
| ton, barn and dairy. inspection, and
the inspection of all houses and rooms
known as either public or private lodg-
| ing houses.
| ''The wealthy class can purchase
these conditions. The great mass can
secure them only by the vigilance of
| legalized inspectors who bear with
| them the stamp of the law. Only a
couple OF weeks ago I ordered burned
pillows and quilts in rooming house
| and gave them three days to clean up
/ in.
What can be done in North Dako-
TIA? Much has been done by Prof. E.
r. Ladd OF our state food department.
AS a prophet do not hesitate to say,
in the light Of what has been done
and what is being done, that the feder-
ated clubs of the women of North Da-
kota can, between now and the next
session Of the general assembly, cre-
ate a public sentiment that will have
on the statute books of our state, laws
that will guarantee pure milk to un-
born generations, pure food, clean,
wholesome beds, sanitary homes-and
place North Dakota in rank one among
the commonwealth of the world in the
care Of it's people. ~
He who helps a little child helps
humanity l.,
Grand Forks Ordinances.
Grand Forks city ordinances re-
quire. every cow from which milk is
sold to be tested for tuberculosis This
does not include milk and cream
shipped into our city from other To-
calities for ice cream and creamery
purposes This, then, becomes a seri-
Gus questions. The state law only re-
quires the state veterinary to go where
complaint of epidemic is reported. This
man does no inspection of dairies.
In spite of the local handicap, what
has been the result of the city of Grand
Forks sinceSthe inspection of milk and
meat, streets and alleys became a fact?
mention just two things-A local un-
dertaker, whose business had fallen
away, states that he today sells one
little white casket where he sold TWEEN
ty a little while ago.
When asked the cause of this, the
aforesaid undertaken replied: 4 do not
know, unless it is this inspection -busi-
ness, the inspection of milk and food
IHiHk on 1t IN rapidly growing city;
draw your own conclusions. The 9TH
er fact--Our local detention hospital,
a model institution. formerly paid O
good salary to the lnatron.
"The salary was proportioned by the
number Of patients. She recently went
before the city board of health with a
statement that regular salary must
be granted her by the city or she could
not rernain at the institution, and not
one month since has the income from
patients been equal to her salary. SEN
timent has done a great business in
taking care of scalamities, public and
private, after they have happened.
"AIl sorts Of societies and organiza-
tions have been formed and all kinds
of laws passed, institutions builded and
maintained to alleviate suffering and
care for the diseased and needy. is it
not saner. kinder, wiser plan to pre-
vent these things. to strike at the root
instead of trying to handle the fruit?
Authority states that 10 per cent of the
hogs slaughtered are tubercular We
know the alarming percentage OF
healthy looking cows yet cows not
only are the cause of tubercular meat
appearing on the market, but contain
mate their own milk and that of the
herd with their diseased germs.
! Instead of putting more money into