Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-04-05
ALONG THE SANTA FE.

We stopped for a brief visit to Val !
mora sanato-ium. Watrous. n. NJ. This
institution is maintained by a number
OF large establishments located in Chi
eago. To 1t they send sch OF their
employees as need its services. 1t 10
designed especially for men and women
OF moderate means who haee consump-
ton in the earlier stages and who must
get back to productive employment in
as brief a time as possible.
Was on the grounds for two hours
passing around among the employees
much OF the time. They, We're gathered
INDOORS for a meeting lasting about an
curing. the two hours. The room tn
when they met was much cooler than
most meeting halls. That was one X
PLANTATION of the complete absence OF
coughs.
IN an ordinary audience of so we'll
sembied in February the ear would
nave been continuously bombarded by
Il gattling gun fire OF coughs. Such au-
dlences usually assemble in warm, close
rooms and that is productive OF coughs.
though claiming to be well a consider
ahle majority OF them always will be-,
affected by colds-an important but
neglected disorder. This Valmora audi
ence does not regard colds as a minor
disorder. They live SO as not to have
colds. When one of them gets a cold it
is given attention and not regarded as a ]
common cold, and, therefore, negligible
The chief reason why I heard no
coughs is that this audience knew the
function of coughing. They coughedg
when coughing was necessary, but they
/, did not allow themselves to cough use
lessly or needlessly.
4 Yha Gapto To rn;lra,1 hos Aoa. ooG
tive in controlling the typhus fever that
developed earlier in the winter among
their Mexican track hands and un-
skilled laborers. We learn that there
is "A dearth of unskilled labor in Ameri-ti
! ca. For nearly three years the Euro
in. All of Mexico except the few
thousand fighting men ought to be will
Ing TO escape into the United States.
The Santa Fe has been tapping this
reservoir.
, When typhus came along with the
labor the Santa Ee did not wait for
/; action by boards of health. 1t equipped
a delousing train and has had it at
7 work dipping all employees who needed
, dipping, 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
and has been a great public service as
well.
was surprised to find that New
! Mexico has no funds for protection of
i the health of its people. They have no
vital statistics. They advertise their
heaithfulness. They sell health. But
there is no proof hat they are healthy.
III a man in seach of health wanted
proof that they We're healthy he could
not get it.
War Factors.
IN London Everymap. DR.. Charles Saro-
lea who represented Belgium at Edin-
burgil as consul and at the same time was
professor of modern languages at the Ed
| ton "fiow and When the War VIII End
finally comes to the financial factor. He
! concludes: "It the financial factor We're
alone decisive, the war might last indefi-
nitely, and it would last as long as the
| German people would accept a worthless
paper currency. as long as there are print
ing presses and rags and wood pulp to
quite aware of the inevitable bankruptcy
at the end. But a bankrupt nation may
often be ia y more lifting temper than a
war; During the American war of inIc-
| peildence. S. in paper We're worth 10 cents
IN COIN. During the French reign OF terror
PAPER money OF, the face value of $50
the armies OF that bankrupt people con-
guered the continent OF Europe
Similarly, if the political factor were
aioae decisive, the war might last indeti-
nitely, ana 1t must go on as long as Ger
man people obey their rulers. as long as
they are confident in final victory, as long
as they belieVe in their innocence "a belief,
which by the way, we have taken few
steps to undermined, and especially as long
as the German people are sustained by the
dr.Nlng. power OF love and hatred. and by
u po'itlcai fanaticism as real and as in
tense az that which inspired the soldiers
Oh the crescent"