Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-29
SOME OF ExposIrIoNs. SIGHTS
DIR. Porter's Observations at Sanfran-
cisco and Elsewhere
ELKo. NEVADA. November n.

DEAR EDITOR: have ridden all day
through the alkali desert, from a little
town called Keddie, in eastern Cali
fornia. where | had a GOOD bed and
breakfast. 1t was hot IL Sacramento
yesterday and has been cold today with
snow on the mountains This is an up
to-date little town 5, 066 feet high, with
electric lights. gooo hotels and stores,
and well. dressed people. The county
recorder tells me the per capita wealth
of the county is 81, 500 1t is mostly in
fiocks and herds and ranches, having
up-to-date homes.
| was eight days studying the expo
sition at SanFrancisco. The architec-
ture there was simply grand. The
trees and flower beds have been gIo.!.
Gus. and many of the exhibits were rich
ones The Canadian exhibit | saw in
Brussels in 1910, in Gment in 1913, and
now it is almost the best building here,
as it was in Belgium. France has a
very beautiful building. In it are
shown Balzac's old desk and chair on
which he wrote ''Droll Tales" and
many other works. The Greek build
ing is little classic, with hundreds of
large photos showing the great work
done in uncovering the buried cities
there A beautiful women of forty SUI
perintends the domestic exhibits She
8 a typical Greek woman, born in Ath-
ems. but of English parents. She kept
pension there after her husband died.
Pension McTsggart, and knows num-
hers of tourists from America. The
u s government exhibits in all the
buildings are very instructive The
Rockefeller hook worm commission
shows the oil king to be one of the
worlds greatest philsnthropists In
five years the commission examined
/, 1873. 600 cases microscopically at
cost of 75 cents each. Treatment cost
81 Is each, and thus many th0usanas
were rescued from a life of i'm 5aiiE Cd
health This hookworm disease girdles
the globe and several hundred millions
of people have it in the warmer coun-
tries. The treatment discovered by
these investigators is very simple--a
few doses of EPSON salts and few
doses of thymol and they are rid of
hook worm. In addition as q preventa
tive, the worms in the feces must be
destroyed and tight toilets are neces-
sary for destruction of the hookworms
so they cannot infect the soil again
The Philippine exhibit has valuable
chart, which must be a sumner for the
anti vaccinationist. The number of
deaths from smallpox was annually
40, 000 In 1914, after Is million vacci-
nations were performed, the number of
deaths that year from smallpox was
1923. The PHILIPPINE health service
caused a decrease in the deaths annual
/ ly of 700, 00A. at cost of saving one
life of So saw these great educators
on the pla Jrm of Festival Hall, one
day. One was Mrs. Annie Sullivan
Macy. Another was DIR. Maria Mon
tessori of Rome. Between them sat
| Helen Kellar, who has taught the world
lot about how to educate children.
Mrs Macy spoke beautifully to the
California teachers. She scored the
schools numerically. She said most
of her early work with Helen seemed
TO her like mere play, and yet the child
grew in knowledge Montess0ri spoke
through an interpreter. Miss Kellar
thanked the committee for the bronze
medal given her. On the Utah building
/ / saw this sentiment in gold letters:
Education is the power to think clear
! ly: the power TO act we'll in the world s
work, and the power to appreciate
life "-Brlpham Young to board of re-
gents of Utah University 1850. The
Japanese have an anti tobacco law
Smoking under % years is prohibited.
Parents are fined ore yen if cognizant
of fact Sale to minors, 10 yen. A
similar law is IN force regarding use of
alcohol by minors. The w. C. 7. u.
booth shows Ga gallon pipe or tall
keg, marked Liquor drank in Wis "
On it rests 2-quart keg marked liquor
drank in Kansas" | tried 10 argue
with the woman. She said we were
the worst state of all for amount of IL
quor drank 1sdn't any way to dis
prove her libelous statement Perhaps
we produce that amount of beer but
we don't drink three times the average
quantity consumed in the U. 5.
Expect to be in Salt Lake City day
Rillquist is shot. c.vP.
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