Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-04-13
ALONG THE SANTA FE

VeOtV0 tuSe OCIv ea
We stopped for a brief visit to var
nora sanatorium. Watrous. n. Nj. This
Institution is maintained by a number
II large establishments located in Chi
:ago. TO it they send sch of their
employees as need its services. 1t is
Resigned especially for men and women
II moderate means who have consump-
ion in the earlier stages n who must
J get back to productive employment in
Is brief a time as possible.
was on the grounds for two hours
passing around among the employees
INDOORS for a meeting lasting about an
aour. did not hear a patient cough
Turing the two hours. The room in
which they met was much cooler than
most meeting halls. That was mi ex-
,lanation OF the complete absence Of
coughs.
In an ordinary audience of so we'll
sersons or supposedly we'll persons, as
iembled in February the ears would
lave been continuously bombarded by
I gattling gun fire Of coughs. Such au-
licences usually assemble in warm. close
ooms and that is productive Of coughs.
Though claiming to be we'll u consider
bile majority of them always will be
Effected by colds-an important but
neglected disorder. This Valmora audi
nee does not regard colds as a minor
disorder. They live so as not to have
solds. When n Of them gets a cold it
8 given attention and not regarded as a
common cold. and. therefore. negligible.
The chief reason why l heard no
coughs is that this audience knew the
junction OF coughing. They coughed
Ehen coughing was necessary. but they
lid not allow themselves to cough use
cssly or needlessly.
The Santa Re railroad has been ac-
i've in controlling the typhus fever that
developed earlier in the winter among
heir Mexican track hands and un-
tkllled laborers. We learn that there
s a dearth of unskilled labor in Ameri-
"a. For nearly three years the Euro
Iean flood OF immigration has not come
n. All Of Mexico except the few
thousand fighting men ought to be will
ng to escape into the United States.
The Santa Fe has been tapping this
reservoir.
When typhus came along with the
nbor the Santa Fe did not wait for
tctlon by boards of health. 1t equipped
I ~delousing train and has had it at
york dipping all employees who needed
lipElng, and sterilizing clothing and
PERSONAL effects. The stations reek
With the odor of disinfectants. The
prompt n scientific action has saved
The road many thousands of dollars
Ind has been q great public service as
we'll.
/ was surprised to find that New
Mexico has no funds for protection of
The health of its people. They have no
!ital statistics. They advertise their
nealthfuiness. They sell health. But
here is no proof that they arc healthy.
Ii a man in each of health wanted
proof that they We're healthy he could
aot get it.
War Factors.
In London Everyman, DR.. Charles Saro-
lea, who represented Belgium at I.din-
burgh as consul and at the same time was
professor of modern languages at the I'D
ton GLOW and When the War Will End"
finally comes to the financial factor. He
concludes: "If the financial factor Were
alone decisive. the war might last indeh-
nitely, and it would last as long as the
German people would accept u worthless
paper currency as long as there are print
print such currency. The enemy may be
quite aware of the inevitable bankruptcy
at the end. Blu a bankrupt nation may
often be i'm a more fitting temper than Il
war. During the American war of indie
pendence S. in paper were worth 10 cents
In coin. During the French reign OF terror
paper money OF the face value of 500
the armies of that bankrupt people com
quered the continent of Europe.
Similarly, II the political factor were
nite'y. And it must so ON as long as Ger
man people obey their rulers. as long as
they arc confident in final victory, as ion;
as they believe in their innocence "a belief.
tsteps to undermined. and especially as long
as the German people are sustained by the
driving power of love and hatred. and by
tense as that which inspired the soldiers
OF the crescent"