The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-05-04
, COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

the Western Continent by an African
mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, which
deserves the title Of one of the most
dangerous enemies, of man. At home,
in Africa, this insect carries a par
ticularly virulent form of malaria,
often called "blackwater fever" In
Brazil, it carries the jungle type of
yellow fever.
Yellow fever is virus disease; the
poison which causes it cannot be seen
through the microscope, and goes
without losing it's virulence through
the finest filter-just as does the
poison which causes infantile paral-
ysis. We banished the ordinary form
of yellow fever from the West Indies
and Central America, from which it
frequently jumped to our own land,
by killing off the mosquitoes that car
ried it.
That was one of the finest health
victories ever gained; and the credit
of it goes to the American Army medi-
cal service, and to the American SOL
diers who volunteered to be bitten by
infected mosquitoes.
But a Jungle variety has been found
in the tropics of Brazil and this Afri-
can mosquito is busy carrier of it..
The Rockefeller Foundation and the
Brazilian government are cooperating
in fighting it. 1t can be prevented by
vaccine, and more than a million peo-
pie of the danger regions have been
vaccinated. The campaign will be in
tensifed this year.
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A totalitarian government, holding
all political, industrial, financial and
social life of the country in it's hands,
and abolishing even the courts, has
been proclaimed in Bolivia by the pres
ident, Lieut.. Col. German Busch. He is
reported to be in constant consultation
with Dionisio Foianini, hitherto min
lister of mines and petroleum. The
army is said to have accepted the new
government.
Obviously, this is meant to be
modelled on Nazi or Fascist lines;
which is quite different from the or
dinary Spanish-American dictatorship
though not much more cold blooded in
dealing with labor or the common peo-
pie generally. But only one thing gives
it any particular Importance to us.
Bolivia is the second biggest source
of our tin; the East Indian islands and
Malay Peninsula being by odds the
first. If our supply from the Orient
it cut off by war, it would be en-
barassing to have the Bolivian govern
ment shut down on that export
Only few papers are printing it at
all and these put it well back from
the front; but there is deal of sharp
fighting in China. For several weeks,
most of that has gone to China's way.
The Chinese have chased the japanese
out of several minor cities, mostly in
the south. No very large numbers
have been involved in any one place.
1t seems a sort of glorified guerilla
war; and the ordinary guerilla war
meantime goes on unchecked.
SEE OUR OLD FRIENDS, JUNE 10
TOPS in VACATIONS
(From the Union Leader, Chicago
Efforts of the local divisions of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Electric Railway and Motor Coach
Employees to secure paid vacations for
their members were crowned with fur
ther success in 1898, when thirty-five
more local divisions obtained for s.
Alb members contractural agreements
providing annual holidays with pay.
For the last few years the Amalga-
mated Association has led all labor
organizations in the number of its
members who have been successful in
obtaining vacation concessions from
employers and it is likely that again
the Association will head the list for
1898. According to practically .com-
plete figures for last year, 155 local
divisions containing a total of 6S,2lI
members enjoy contracts provisions
for vacations of from one to three
weeks annually. In 1887 the total Wa
120 divisions, containing 59,S04 me-
bers.
In 1888 thirteen local divisions were
successful in having their vacation
periods increased from one week to
two weeks with pay; four obtained al
addition of three days, bringing the
vacation periods to ten days. One di-
vision secured an increase to twelve
days vacation and twelve days sick
leave, where previously the members
had obtained only one week, and one
local division increased the vacation
period from twelve days to three
weeks.