The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-06-21

the next step, the removed of the
cause, many people in the i'm
mediate community may be saw
ed.
Let me give you an illustration
of filtering wafer for typhoid
germs. The interStices between
the grains of sand in a filter arc
as large in comparison with the
typhoid bacillus as a house door
is in comparison with a mouse. I
all the doors of a house were 0p-
en-, could not a mouse so from
the lowest to the highest floor
with no hinderanCe whatever?
How absurd, then, to think a
typhoid germ might be caught
thru a few layers of sand. 1t
seems prepoSterouS, does it not?
Yet when we made an actual
count of the germs in a drop of
raw water, and a similar count
after it had been thru a bed Of
sand. strange to say, one germ in
one hundred had been lost from
its friends.
Now if one hundred mice start
down to the lowest floor there is
no speculation whatever about
how many will reach their native
hauntS, is there? DR.. Robert
Koch'S microscope made i. pos
SibIe to count these germs as cas-
lily as we count emit apped mice.
He came to the conclusion that a
sand filter would not stop germs.
Why not remove all those sand
filters?
Then came a goat discovery
that minute quantity of chlorine
is deadly poison to typhoid germs
When the discovery of ChIorina-
ton of water was made known it
also was argued off the floor.
Consider" scientists said, "try
| ling to kill a million typhoid germs
with such minute quantity of
chlorine to a barrel of water"
Yes, it was perfectly absurd, but
the microbes all died; perhaps by
laughing themselves all to death
over the very absurdity.
How would they have found
that sand filters were no good, if
some persons had not been Strick-
en- with typhoid, his death record
| ed and a search for the cause in
stigated Immediately? This of
course was done. This is only
one of the millions of cases where
where one death recorded saves
one hundred.
Animals, such as dogs, cats and
other pets, carry fleaS, which are
the very worst germ carriers.
Danish these pets. If we were
more careful, we would be of
great assistance in this cleanli-
ness movement.
A CIVILIZED and enlightened
country which stands for high
ideals and principles must have
this registration for the good of
the masses, made up of millions
of valuable individual lives.
Another important conSidera-
ton in relation to vital statistics
is that of marriage and divorce.
Divorce may be defined as the le-
gal separation of husband and
wife, by the judgment of a court.
There are two kinds of divorce;
divorce that dissolves the mar
riage, commonly referred to as
absolute divorce, and second, the
divorce that suspendS the mar
riage, known as judicial separ-
alton.
In the absence of constitutional
restrictions, the legislature of a
state has the power to grant di-
vorces by special act. In the state
of South Carolina divorces are
not granted for any cause. In
most states extreme cruelty, de-
Sertion for a time, and drunken
ness are considered sufficient
cause for divorce. In some places
divorces are also granted for con-
yiction of crime, Imprisonment
under certain condition and for
incurable insanity.
By the contract of marriage is
meant the agreement by which
the marriage relation is entered
upon. A formal marriage cere-
mony is prescribed by statute in
most of our states, as we'll as in
England, and license is often
required. In any case to consti-
tute valid marriage, it must be
entered into with the consent and
agreement of both parties freely
and intelligently given.
A marriage may, by reason of
AN impeachment be absolutely void,
so as to give, rise to no rights or
liabilities, the effect being the
same as if no marriage had been
entered into. Now suppose we
had not registered these mar
riageS. How would we know
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