Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-08

black death mortality record Of Is.
million souls, and to Europe, in the
great scourge of 13,571,35O, and see
25 million people dying, when we come
on down the years and see the untold
millions who have died from the nu-
merous pestilences which have in
flicted, death upon mankind, then, and
not till then, can we begin to appre.
ciate what the patient man of the MI
croscope has wrought in humanity's
behalf" writes William Joseph Sho.
walterf, in an article on "Redeeming
the Tropics" sent to the National
Geographic society, at Washington, D.
C. The writer paints a glorious pic
-ture of the future when the topics,
freed of ravishing diseases, will be
taking their part in the sustenance
and development of the world.
How can the mind conceive of the
terrible epidemic diseases would take
today, with our world wide commerce,
with Jul metropolitan and cosmopo.
Titan cities, and with the constant
commingling of the people of all the
lands, were it not for preventive mea-
sures " continues Mr.. Showaldter.
"FOr hundreds of years man stood
helpless and appalled, in the face of
the onset of great epidemics. He saw
millions of his fellow-beings visited
with deaths more horrible than ever
torture chamber could invent, but not
knowing whence the AN. lotion came
or whittier it went. He surmised and
guessed, and finally saw a. certain
relation between dirt and disease, and
gradually the elimination OF, dirt
checked the ravages of some epldem-
ic diseases"
The writer then reviews the results
OF the discovery Of the part taken by
the mosquito in the carrying of yellow
and malarial fever germs, the fees
on rats and ground.squirrels in the
transmission of tbubonic plague, the
t~setse-fly in the carrying of sleeping
sickness, and more recently the body
louise as the typhus agent. The or.
binary house-fly has been christened
the typhoid fly" Typhoid vaccina-
ton and the publication of the water
supplies are described. Panama, Gu
ba, Porto Rico, Erazil, Italy, India, the
Philippines and many other tropical
countries have been redeemed from
their various scourges.
THE fundamental principles OF the
fight are expressively laid down in
simple terms like these: No mos
q%uitoes, no malaria no yellow fever,
no dengue. No fleas, no bubonic pla-
que, no lice, no typhus; no tsetse.fy,
no sleeping sickness; no ticks, no
spotted fever Not only does SAM
tary science open up the tropics for
man himself, but for his domestic ami
mails as we'll. In the generations to
come, there can be no doubt that with
a sanitary science that is broad
enough to reach both man and beast,
the great plains of the highlands in
the tropics will be converted into vast
cattle ranches, where cattle can be
brought to the stock cattle stage and
then shipped to the temperate elm
ates for feeding and finishing, thus
adding to the worlds meat supply TO
the extent Of Billions of pounds.
"The discoveries that have brought
about this era of control of tropical
diseases have a deeper Significance
than would appear upon the surface.
Here. indeed, lies the hope Of the
worlds future food supply. Mean
While, with the restrictions imposed
by disease food tides of immigration
might set into the tropcs, populatng
them with people who would cease to
be a drain upon the food supplies of
the temperate zones and become, OIL
the contrary, contributors thereto.
Tropical swamps may be drained,
tropical deserts irrigated, tropical jun
giles tanned, and millions of acres of
the richest land IN earth added to the
productive areas which feed and cloth
the world. ...
"And what benefits these times
must bring to the race! New blood
in the tropics is needed. The suns Of
centuries have burned out much of
the initiative, the easy methods of
gaining a livelihood have taken out
much Of the trift, and the lazy ways
of the tropics have eliminated much
Of the natural love of cleanliness OF
the people," 3
The National Geographic society has
taken a prominent part in these dis.
ease-destroying campaigns. The mi.
ro.photographs of the deadly house.
fly, which this organization scattered
broadcast a few years ago, gave the
first impetus to the fly-swatting fight
that has since been waged all over
the world.
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