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A GAIN ON TUBERCULOSIS
(St. Louis Republican.)
According to a census bureau report
just Issued the death rate in the
t nlted States In 1918 was about oue
ilfth of 1 per cent greater than In the
year before, but for the same years the
deaths from tuberculosis dropped from
149.6 In the 100,000 to 147.6. That Is
to say, the general death rate rose a
little while the rate from tuberculosis
fell perceptibly In the same period.
Tuberculosis Is the disease which has
attracted the greatest amount of pub
lic attention and the one against which
preventive measures have been most
vigorous of lute years. The people
understand the dangers, know some
thing about how to avoid it and are
treating the prevention of the disea.su
as a public problem. The tlgures which
the census bureau gives are evidence
that they are succeeding and should
give new courage to the light not only
against tuberculosis but against pro
preventable disease of all kinds.
FARMS HARO TO OET.
(Layton News.)
One of the reasons why more people
do not return to the soil at this time,
when every newspaper in the country
pt preaching “back to the farm” ser
mons, Is that it requies too much
capital. No man can go upon a farm
and hope to cultivate it as it should
P« cultivated uniess he has sufficient
means or credit to enable him to live
ior about two years. And even at the
end of thut time he will find himself
in need of still further credit or capital.
There has been a great deal of talk
•u tills country about creating some
kind of system of farm credits that
would aid the farmeis, but up to the
present little has been done, in ull
countries where there is such a system
it works wonderfully well, but we have
viol as yet hit upon any system in this
■country that can be said to be a real
?c.lef to the farmers, nor an encour
agement to those who wunt to become
farmers.
FINANCIAL CRISIS THREATENING.
(Mining and Scientific Press.)
For countless generations nations
have striven to accumulate gold; tho
tuition with the most gold per capita
wm considered the financial leader.
Now a novel situation hus arisen and
with It a new doctrine. The United
Staten Is accumulating gold too fast,
bat instead of rejoicing, our leading
bankers are preaching that unless great
wisdom is displayed, this influx of gold
may lead to financial demoralisation.
The bankers argue that there Is a
normal status of equilibrium between
the various countries of the world as
regards gold holdings. This normal
at at us Is now upset by the Influx of
gold from Kurope. This excess of gold
ts likely to lead to unwisa extension
of credit, unwarranted starting of new
enterprises, and over-speculation. With
the cessation of the war tho gold will
withdrawn with the possible result of
a disastrous financial disturbance. All
this Is what might happen, but fore
warned Is forearmed. The leading
bankers of the country’ are trying to
arrange for the payment of the debt
due from Kurope In Interest-bearing
securities or dividend-paying shares In
profitable properties either in the Uni
ted Slates or aboard.
8EE AMERICA.
(New Tork Sun.)
Nobody wonts Americans in Kurope
oxcept for what humane service they
can do. The easy, pleasant, loafing
sight as eer has no place on that great
theater of anxiety and suffering. To
many places he cannot go. Nowhere
is he welcome. At best he Is a cum
ber er of tho ground and a reducer of
'■,tm food supply.
He must turn to the too neglected
Charms of his own country. There are
iLn It landscapes and water-scapes as
mysterious and desolate beautiful and
terrible, as bland and idyllic, as wildly
or peacefully lovely, antree as vast and
deserts idle as ho will find any
where. From the Maine lakes of Am
erindian names unpronouncable to
'awful Shaata’s Icy shrine," from San
Juan to Manila, from the terraced
houses of tho Pueblo Indians and their
mystic rites to head hunters of tho
Philippines, and the cxtremest vergn
bf the farthest Alaskan Island, wide is
tho variety and Infinite the choice of
experience.
California itself is a palace of Alad
din, A marvel of the world. Take in
' Abo eXnnotooo stow, if you oaa;
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remember that those Lulled States
and their annexes constitute a per
petual exposition, even it It wants the
measly little funiculars, table d’hotes
and multilingual porters so dear to1
Americans abroad.
THE AQE OF USEFULNESS.
. IDe. urn News.;
Dr. E. B. B an says that six hun
dred of the i. it minent statesmen, j
scientists lnvsiuois and writers were
selected at random, and their ages !
inquired into, together with the ques
tion of the period of their greatest
work. It was found that only 5 per
cent of them accomplished their
world's woik before reaching the age
of 40. Ten per cent of them showed
their greatest efficiency between 40 and
30. Twenty per cent of these notable
men did not accomplish anything won
derful until they had reached the pe
riod between 30 and 60, while 3b per
cent of them did their real work be
tween 60 and 70. There Were no fewer
than 22 per cent of the famous men who
’ hod done their greatest work between
the ages of 70 and 60, but at ttiut
jKilnt the percentage took a sudden
downward trend, and only 0 per cent
of them had performed any notable
feat after reaching the age of 60. Unly
:l per cent—but note that that is a
greater per cent than did anything
worth while before they reached the
ige of 40.
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CAN’T AFFORD TO GET MARRIED.
(f rom the Kansas City Star.)
In one of his first books, "Wages in |
the United States," Dr. Nearing proved |
that half the udult men in the United
Slates are earning less thun 6000.00 a .
year; that three-quarters of them are j
earning less thun 6600 annually; that
nine-tenths ale receiving less thun
4600 a year. It has been estimated that
a man and his wife and three children
cannot rnuintuin a normal standard of
life on less than 61*00 a year. Element
ary arithmetic would seem to show
why there are fewer early marriages,
why there are fewer marriages at any
age, why there ure smaller families. j
"It is the unmarried worker who
fixed the wage, not the married one,
said Dr. Nearing. "Our economic atti
tude toward marriage Is antl-soclal,
anti-moral, the worst word you can
think of to call it. It's the exceptional
young man who can afford to get
married before he’s 30, unless his
father says to him, ‘CJo ahead and I'll
support you.’ ”
BIG GUNS ON BRITISH SHIPS.
(New York Times.)
England now is building six battle
cruisers of thirty-two knot speed,
which will be mounted with a new
sixteen-inch gun.
Such is the assumed perfection of
the building arrangements under the
special speeding plans prepared by the
admiralty that these thips, it Is ex
pected, will all bo launched within five
or six months from the date of laying
down; and they will therefore be In
condition well within the present year.
These ships are supposed to be "the
last word” in naval construction. They
will, of course, all have their proper
complement of light cruisers and de
stroyers.
A sixteen-inch gun should hurl a
ton of explosive from sixteen to twenty
miles. Artllerlsts usually calculate a
mile^flre radius for each Inch of cali
ber in the big guns, but the latest
targe caliber guns are believed to have
oettered this proportion. It has been
said, for Instance, that the new fifteen
inch guns of the superdreadnought
Queen Elisabeth would drop shells al
most twenty miles away.
ABOLI8HING SLANG.
(Seattle P.-L)
From various centers of culture in
the east comes the word that slang
Is to be eliminated from the written
and spoken language of the United
States. Purists have become convinced
that, Instead of enriching the language,
slang weakens the vocabulary and en
courages slovenly mental habits.
That the purists will not succeed Is
certain. The breezy vernacular of the
street has too firm a position in the
language to be jarred loose by any
number of purists fewer than a ma
jority. And It la unlikely that they
will ever attain to such importance.
Compel the Rev. Billy Sunday to us«
pure, undeflled English and his con
gregations would melt away like snow
in a summer sun. Listen to his narra
tive of the one-roivul bout between the1
white hope, Goliath, and the Justly
celebrated welter-weight, David.
This big hick Goliath was the loud
noise of the Philistine gang. He was
|the main guy with the pig-sticker—
j broader than the rear of a taxicab
and taller than the front plzzazza. He
invited the Israelites to sashay out
into the clear so that he could smear j
them over the landscape. David gave j
the Philistine white hope the once over 1
and cut loose with his sling. He heart
ed the giant and Goliath did a stage
fall that jarred the tent poles across
the river."
That other famous exponent of slang,
ilr. George Ade. would .also And him- '
self In verbal hobbles If compelled to i
forego the use of the pat and breezy |
expressions of the street. It is proba- j
ble that many of the words and phrases 1
now looked upon as slang will retain a j
place in the language, so that In the
end we shall be richer.
Between the extremes of the purist
and the Sunday or the Ade there U
a broad ground upon which the ma
jority of us may walk. The inele
gance and barbarisms of toduy may
| be good usage tomorrow. Doubtless
a leaven of pargon of the baseball Aeld
the race track or the street will help
he average person In making himself'
understood. To that extent, at least,
his vocabulary has been enriched.
FRISCO POLICEMAN
SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS
A. P. A. kerviee.
BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.—Police
'Corporal Frederick Cook today sue- i
cum bed to wound* received In a re
v olver buttle with bandits in the
Claremont cafe night before last. Cook
wus a witness to the attempt of sev
eral men to hold up the cafe at an
early hour In the morning and, on at
tempting to place them under arrest,
was shot during the resultant battle.
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