The Cordova daily times., 1917-04-03
WAR HAS ITS USES.

Wars not always caIames Our with Spain cost
 great many valuable lives and good deal of money but out of it wonderful blessings The yellow fever had been raging in Havana for than century The city had never been free from it, and in the late and autumn months it would develop into an epidemic. From there it would spread to many of coast ctiesNew Orleans, Gal vcsto Mobile and all the Florida cities, Savannah Charcon Wilmington; sometimes to Piladepia and far inland Shreveport and Memphis. It also ravised the coasts of McX and South America as far down as Rio.
 Incomtcd thousands had died from the fever When, in SS troops occupied Havana Santiago and other Cuban cities the dread of the fever vastly greater than thing that the enemy might possibly do It then that President Mckinley sent commission headed by Dr. Rcd of Virginia to investigate conditions and if possible ascertain the of yellow fever That commission finally reached the concu sion that it caused by certain species of mosquito
 To test the matter yscian trained devoted female soldier, and others, voluntarily submitted to being by the mosquitoes All made caruly i'll and the pryscian nurse and soldier died
 Then the truth was known. That did not supply remedy for the dread disease but pointed out preventative. The sol ders and the people set to work to cleanse the city than century accumulation of filth. All the stagnant that was possible to drain drained What could not be drained covered with o that when the larvae de posted by the mosquito in the stagnan water matched and to the surface it smotpred In three months the city the most heathul in the tropics The of this coast and all the coast cities and southern inland cities in country forthwith cleansed, and the fear of yellow fever passed away.
 Then since 1849 fearful assessment had been levied on the lives of people crossing the Itmus of Daren and Ncara ea by Panama Chagres fever investigations showed that that fever caused by another species of mosquito and abolished by the The thing done down the coast low Rio de Janero and since then the tropics in country, for maaria have been heathfu as northern states
 Thus with Spain led to the saving of lives annually than all the lives lost in the When that declared and volunteers called or it has always been when has to cOuntry there plenty of enlist but they knew nothing of military duty Thousands them had to be put in camps to be trained One camp 1abishe at Chckamauga Tenessee the officers in command knew nothing of the need of making the camp sanitay cpl dennis of fever broke out and hundreds died simply because they dld not know how to protect themselves
 From the facts brought out by the war, not only people learned the lesson that cleanliness is absolute ta where large bodies of congregated but the
 likewise learned that lesson When the broke between Russia and Japan broke out before camp permitted by the Japanese physicians sent with ample support out the camp and sent to that it kept in sanitary diton.
 It may be ruthfuly said that our with Spain Providence not only to ourselves but to all the nations of civilization that it taught the essentials of sanitation For then learned that where large numbers of people congegated in cities in schools camps, elsewhere safeguard against the nroads of the fatal diseases that always before had collected such ghfu tolls from humanity is scrupulous cleanliness.
 Breaking of the deadlock brings maps again into acquisition.