The Detroit times., 1914-12-11
Why Not Assist Natives
As We DO H71n1iQrants?

VINO PAID their Tees TO New 1OTN
agency which sent them TO North
Carolina for contract work. Theid
transportation was paid by the conf
ractlng ilrm, and when the laborerSf
arrived they we're told that they would
nave 10 work certain length Of tim3
before the cost OF their transportaf
tion was covered. The men worked
three weeks. and were then dist
charged without resources and With
no hopes or finding position. PenniI
Tess, they started 10 walk from NORTH
carolina TO Washington, and thd
thfee or the number who arrived told
ofhcials of the bureau OF Information
"a pathetic story OF the hardshipA
which they had suffered.
Government employment bureaust
according TO experts. are the onlH
means OF giving satisfactory SERVED
ana assistance 10 unskilled laborersl
many or whom are illiterate, and al
the same time insure protection fob
the men against exploitation. Thd
distribution of incoming immigrants
and the helping OF hundreds OF them
each year TO find positions In tho
United States is pointed out as hawk
ing already proved the efficiency OF
a we'll conducted government employb
ment bureau. L
Although the present outbreak oe
foot and mouth disease in the United
States is more sert
Cattle ious than any ondi
Losses. OF previous yearsk
the losses will BID,
insignificant when compared with the
losses sustained by farmers and stock
raisers each and every year from thd
more common diseases OF live stockt
This fact is brought out in detailed
estimates OF the losses OF live stock
In the United States, which have ,beed
compiled by the officials OF the bliSeau
or animal industry OF the Unite<$
States department OF agriculture.
Ii is estimated that cattle to th8
value OF more than 81 100000 have
been lost during the present outbreak
of the foot and mouth disease. OF
this sum the government pays $50O,l
600 and the states in which the cattld
are killed pay the other half In addil
ton 10 the 100000 which the goT
errment has paid farmers up TO datd
for the stock which had to be killed.
approximately $250,000 in addition had
10 be paid for transportation. laboH
salaries, subsistence, disinfectants and
supplies for the 500 or more men Wild
have been engaged by the bureau OF
animal industry in the fight against
the disease. The total amount OF
$750.000 spent thus far by the governI
ment is more than twice what has
been spent In previous epidemics OF
foot and mouth disease. In 190SI
s267 900 was spent by Uncle Sam, and
In 1902 the amount was 100000 Durf
ing both OF these years, however. thS
area covered by the disease was very
much smaller than at the present
time.
In contrast IN the loss from fooA
and mouth disease, amounting already
TO approximately s750,000. the govern!
ment has estimates which shew-that
the loss from other live stock diseases
amounts 10 more than $212, 1000. 00C
| each year. The largest part OF this
loss is caused by hog cholera, which
causes loss OF si0,000.000 a year,
| tuberculosis OF cattle and other stocR
comes next with loss OF s25 600, 900 !
Contagious abortion $20,000.000: am
thrax. 81 100000: scabies of sheep and
cattle. $4,000 600: black leg. SIS 900 900
glanders. $4,000 900: other diseases ot
live stock. $22 100000: parasitesl
$5,C00000, and poultry disease, moro
than sS.750.000, making total of ext
actly S212.S50,000 lost by live stock
and poultry raisers each year due I'd
various diseases, a large number OF
which are known TO be preventable. |