The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1921-01-15

be provided for the medical inspection
at all our schools.
al am reliably informed that at least
20 per cent of,thc inmates confined in
the insane asyIums Of the state are
there as q result of pa-csis dus To ven
crcal disease. Such contagion should
Pc wiped out Of Illinois and the United
states. aai more rigid provisions made
for its prevention. Illinois should 90
further and abolish all places where
such diseases have their inception AMI
whence they are spread. This will be
true economy for It is cheaper to pre-
vent than 10 build and maintain insti-
tutions to care for the criminal and the
infrm.
The registration Of births is vital.
W. have the standard law. We should
enforce II. T. is essential to the legal
and health interests Of our now bo-r.
I' prevents much blindness. aids the
fccd.ur and rotha-fae Of babies .hrrrs
future citizenship anil facilities such
sights a~ ere Involved fr the irlgr-
ifru,c of property. securing working
-s. certificates. .~f t.a. -.n- uu-
mo'.srrT I'm Foreign lands.
Pc-on=- @ds ST., Care for Sick.
''W. gre r.t with wor.f -r.Ha-.
of t.a.rcI woa.r {, caro- fir or s-ra.
rot only for times Of epidemic. Ja.
normally. Illinois .LourI train thou
sands Of women as q health militia.
preparing them to render first aid in
their own homes ami enabling them to
cane for their nci-hbors in times of
sickness, the same as has been so sue
ccssfullv done in Chicago. Such train
ing need in no way interfere with the
hospital training schools for profes-
sional nurses. I recommend that the
general assembly study ways and means
to provide proper care for our sick.
the 90 per cent who can
neither secure nor afford the services of
professionally trained nurses.
81 heartily favor the upbuilding of
the Illinois state militia and the ma
tional guard and naval militia into ]
voluntary organizations of the highest
possible efficiency. l shall give nv
sincere support to all measures and
policies, which seek to benefit in proper
proportion the military forces of this
state. 1 shall aid and encourage the
officers and men of our militia organi-
cations to attain proficiency in their
lvoeations, and quarters and equipment
in keeping with the importance and
dignity of their generous service to the
state.
'The affairs of the State of Illinois
are inseparably linked with the affairs
Of the nation, and we have a right to
express ourselves upon national policies
to which we may become perpetually
bound. I feel that would be remiss
in my duty to the people of Illinois if
did not take this occasion to direct
heir attention TO threatening policies
confronting the country of which we
form a part.
owe have emerged from the actual
conflict of a great world war. The !,
strain and soreness of that conflict still
bears heavily upon most of our people.
On top Of the grief and distress of our
people over the shedding Of American !
blood has come their resentment and
niger toward the rich and powerful in
,erests that in the nations most sor-
-owful hour and exaeted mereiless tolls
If profits on the necessary and essen .
ial commodities for the sustenanee Of
human life.
Opposed to Any League Of Nations.
"These interests that Cypress the !
people never were and are not now [
PARTISAN. They operate with equal facil- !
ty in either the Republican or Demo
ratio party. They are not American,
hough intensely patriotic in all out
yard manifestations. They are preda- '
DRY in character and worldly in their
inns and objects. 4
'It is our duty to ourselves and to {
he people to investigate closely the
interests back Of every measure that {