Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-29

  take to send our army merei maybe it mistake | to relnqusa control of MezIcos front door at this time But let's what boys in khali actually did. Vera Cruz, when the troops landed there in April was dirty and mhealthfu It had been so for centuries When the snipins stopped and the dead were buried and order restored the municipal povernmen, was in running order again the invaders set about to make the place hababe according to the standards of race that respects health and loves soap rnat meant tremendous job of housecleaning. The place swarmed with flies and mosoutoes which ue natives regarded inevitable afnctions Pecauso there were flies there typhoid fever Because tnere were mosquitoes, there malaria fever The flies fourished because every street every stable ever, house and every restaurant or cafe as filthy The os quitoes ourished because the streets were poorv rso and drained and because there was staqpant water everywhere
 tuberculosis was rife owing to the poor housing and the native dstrust fresh air Dysenterv had always been epidemic there in the summer There was the ever present danger of an outbreak smallpox The water supply was bad
 We'll the army got down to hygienic business
 Every man, woman and child in Vera Cruz was vac einatec against smallpox Every person that entered the city was vaccinated Soon the disease was stamped our
 Then the army attacked the flies The soldiers went throush the city building by building They made every householder clean house and showed him how. They made the cafe keepers remove the accumulations of years from floors walls ceilings celers closets and ranges They condemned unsanitary refrgerators They removed and destroyed all garbage and organized sys tenn of garbage disposal Soon the flies had vanished
 They tackled the mosquitoes draining the swamps. filling up depressons full water banning rain barrels and open eisterns, putting sewers into working or der cleaning gutters paving the streets Every contaminated well sealed or filled up Every possi biiy of any human being swallowing disease germs was guarded against
 The army doctors looked after the health of the ma lives well the soldiers in every particular The, opened dispensaries and treated all corners free Tn, population is healthier at this moment than before
 The most notable job was the cleaning up of th famous old fortressprison San Juan de Unoa It hat not been cleaned years and was filled witt h indescribable filth The army jumped in and did thorough ob using up of soap sulphur and othe d dsinecants Then they used it for barracks settiu free the political prisoners those against whom n i- charge recorded
 d Now, many persons may say that ali this is fin 4 achievement, but undignided and even humiliatn ,e task for the nations soldiers.
 5e But is rather the very highest and noblest wor an army be devoted?
 Always heretofore armies have been raised and keI for purposes of destruction. Is this army that i al vaded Vera Cruz of all the armies of u Re future, that shall fight not their felow,men, but u
 hostile forces of nature?
 re We ought to have big standing army But tn are army ought be devoted precisely such tasks or that accomplished in Vera Cruz. It ought dra er- swamps. It ought irrgate It ought to bu ing bridges It ought to protect the forests ought
 make rivers nayigabe, and prevent devastating noo eat ought open up territory like that of wealt cn but undeveloped Alaska
 y- We shall always need armies to fight nature, wh sly is our only enemy, and foe whose conquest sho tive higher than any gained slaughter