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PLAGUE RECEDING SArSDR.R.UI.MATSON Tuberculosis Specialist Tells Assembly Audience of the Cause, Preven tion and Cure of Disease The United States is beginning to show the effect of the various “anti white plague” crusades which have been waged in this country during the last few years, and tuberculosis is gradually being stamped out. Such is the opinion expressed by Dr. R. W. Matson, of the Portland Open Air Sanitorium at Milwaukie, who deliv ered an illustrated lecture on “Tu berculosis; Its Cause, Prevention and Cure,” during the Wednesday assem bly hour. ‘‘In spite of the wide-spread preva lence of the disease, great strides have been made toward its prevention and cure,” Dr. Matson stated. “In ten years the death rate was reduced 60 per cent. This reform was brought about largely by the anti-tuberculosis societies and by the general educa tion of the people on the subject.” “Ordinary daylight is a powerful tuberculosis germicide,” the doctor continued, and the use of sunshine, sleeping porches, tents and horsehol I cleanliness figure very largely in the decrease of the disease. Tuberculosis is essentially a house infection, and the germ itself may be killed by or dinary daylight and sunlight in a few hours.” Dr. Matson stated that 90 per cent of all persons are infected with tu berculosis at some time in their life, and that 50 per cent of this infection takes place before the age of 15 years. Three per cent of these persons re cover, and the others are always, more or less, susceptible to the dis ease. The period of the highest death rate is between the ages of 20 and 40 years. I here is one death from tubercu losis in the United States every three minutes,” Dr. Matson said. “In one year it kills more people than would die of yellow fever in 115 years, and in the 19th century it killed nue people than the combined wars. To day, one person out of every seven or ten persons has the disease.” In general, the speaker stated, those persons following an indoor occupa tion are more susceptible to the dis ease than outside workers. A rela tive table showed that stone workers and printers are among those persons having the highest death rate, and that brakemen, sailors and miners were among those least susceptible to tuberculosis. That there is a higher mortality among certain races than among oth ers, was stated by the speaker. Among the negroes the death rate is very high, and it is probably as low among the Polish Jews as among any other race. The reason for these differ ences was explained by the fact that the Jews have lived in conditions fos tering this disease for centuries, and their bodies have developed the pow er of resistance against it. However, the disease was unknown in Africa before that country was colonized by England, and consequently the negroes have no natural defense. statusoFsummer SCHOOL STANDARDIZED Three Terms to be Equal to One Year Residence; Correspondence Work Will be Systematized Three terms of Summer School may ’now be taken in place of the one year’s residence requirement, according to Dr. 11. D. Sheldon, head of the De partment of Education. This change has been authorized in order that teachers who have not Leon able to take a four-year course at the University may obtain their degree by correspondence and Summer School work. The hours required for a de gree will remain the same. The correspondence w'ork of the de partment will be more systematized next year. Persons taking courses will be urged to form clubs, before which a man sent out from the Uni versity will appear. His business will be to outline the work and lead dis cussions. Patronise oar adrartfaam. DESI6NS “SCORE CARD” | FOR STANDARD HOI Hodge Would Grade Living Condi tions Just as Milk Inspector a Dairy “The Standard Home,” an article written for the February Extension Monitor, by Dr. C. F. Hodge, Profes sor of Social Biology, offers a score 1 card for testing the sanitation of the home. Th< perfect home, according to the i car.l. scores 1,000 points. For each: of che following ten items 100 points are allowed: (1) Lay of land and character of soil (providing for drainage); (2) ventilation and heating; (3) safe wa ter supply; (4) plan of house (for rooms in Western Oregon into which sun never shines, 20 to 100 points are deducted); (5) time saving arrange ment of rooms must also be consid ered; (6) plan of bams and barn yard; (7) apparatus for personal cleanliness (this includes bath room facilities and house sewage dispos al); (8) apparatus for house cleanli ness (score perfecet only if there is an installed vacuum cleaner); apparatus for control of pests and vermin; (9) sanitary, vermin-proof storage for food; (10) beauty of the home (taste ful shrubbery and flowers). “We don’t know what’s eating us,” explained Dr. Hodge. “Why, on the Wisconsin farm when I was a boy, we thought everything was as clean ! as could be, but the score would have been low. ‘Some people think it is too much to require an installed vacuum clean er, but every home from hovel to pal ace needs it. Dust is at the bottom of all our throat and lung troubles. It’s like catching flies; you can chase the same particle of dust for a cen tury with a feather duster. You don’t have to catch it but once.” The best common-sense tests of the air and ventilation of a room, the ar ticle states, is to see if it smells stuf fy or close or disagreeable after one has been in fresh air. Some homes, Dr. Hodge says, would score very high. Consider this one, however: “The kitchen-dining-living-room of a considerable family was the only room provided with any heating stove. There was no bath tub in the house. But the most disagreeable feature was a mess of cats that habitually slept on the dining table among the dishes and exposed foods. They were often seen lapping the milk and lick ing the butter. The district school teacher, who was expected to board here, found this typical of the dis trict.” Dr. Hodge says home conditions are no worse in Oregon than elsewhere and that his score card is not con structed with the idea of going into homes in a critical or fault-finding spirit. The purpose, as with the Bet ter Babies Standard Score Card, from which Dr. Hodge got the idea of a home score card, is to enable people to find out their rating for themselves. CHANCES OF GETTING PHI BETA KAPPA GOOD SAYS CLARK “The chances for securing a chap ter of Phi Beta Kappa are strength ened considerably since the Board of Regents have decided to move the Law School to Eugene,” said R. C. Clark, head of the History Depart ment, who is acting as secretary for the committee of the faculty which is trying to be recognized by the na tional senate of Phi Beta Kappa. The national senate of the honorary fraternity is composed of 20 men, many of whom are well known to the public of America. Among some of the men on the senate are President Lowell, of Harvard; Dean Edward A. Beirge, of Wisconsin; Edward Hamil ton Mabie, associate editor of the Outlook; Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews; and John H. Fin ley, of the New Y’ork University and formerly President of Princeton. Coach Conibear, who seems to have the faculty of turning out winning crews for the University of Wash ington, is also a track trainer. He was the first coach that the Univer sity of Illinois track team ever had. In two years, between 1901 and 1903, he had the Middle Western champions inoculated with the bug and had won four meets. He was succeeded by Coach Gill. LEE MOUNTJOY FOULLY TACKLED BY AUTO Lee Mountjoy was waylaid by an automobile driven by a high school girl, and as an aftem&th of the col lision is now recuperating in the Iota Chi house. The victim, returning from town, met the auto at Ninth and Oak streets. The two began a dodging game. It is said that the girl in the case, although a parvenue at the game, finally got the better of the scrimmage. The auto tackled Mountjoy below the knees, knocked him down and ran over his ankles. In the fall Mountjoy sustained a painful injury to his hand. The driver of the car is unknown and still at large. Y. M. CO-OPERATES WITH CHURCHES FOR STUDENTS The Y. M. C. A. is distributing one thousand blotters in the interests of the series of meetings to be conduct ed by (Eugene ministers concerning the fundamentals of Christianity. These meetings are primarily for Uni versity students. The following subjects will be giv en: April 25—How to Understand the Bible. May 2—What Shall We Believe About God? May 9—What Shall We Believe About Jesus Christ? May 16—What Is It to be a Chris tian ? These subjects will be the same in each local church in the morning ser vice, and each pastor is preparing his address especially for the students. SIGMA DELTA CHI TO INSTALL KANSAS CHAPTER Sigma Delta Chi, the honorary jour nalistic fraternity, will install a chap ter in the Kansas State Agricultural College soon. Sigma Delta Chi re quires for active membership both marked ability and a definite inten tion of entering the field of journal ism. C. R .FOUNTAIN, ’01, HONORED BY GEORGE PEABODY COLLEGE Prof. C. R. Fountain, who was grad uated from Oregon in 1901 and is now head of the Department of Physics of the University of Georgia, has been chosen as head of the Department of Physics at the summer session of the George Peabody College for Teachers, at Nashville, Tenn. The announce ment for the summer session shows a list of nearly 100 on the faculty, drawn from all over the United States. Ruth Holmes was a dinner guest at Mary Spiller Hall Tuesday. Ruth Wilson, who was ill with ton silitis and unable to go home spring vacation, is not in school yet. William S. Morgan, Ph. D„ of the Pacific Unitarian College for the min istry, in Berkeley, California, has been selected by the Carnegie Peace Foun dation as lecturer on international policy and conciliation, at the Univer sity of Oregon Summer School. The Peace Foundation pays Dr. Morgan. PIERCE BROS. Staple and Fancy GROCERIES Vhone 246-Cor. i)th andOak Sts Bugs’ Retry Company £«n<r ei'Mft wl Purl r%¥* it Quality Portraits Dorris Photo Shop Fboit 741 6th and Wi/lamett Street BINDERS BROTHERS n (mi, Mm m EVOENE. OREGON FORMER ASSOCIATE OF PROF. AYER LOST IN SINKING OF F-4 One of the men who lost their lives in the F-4 in Honolulu harbor was a former athletic associate of Fred C. Ayer, Professor of Education. He was George Ashcroft, and when Pro fessor Ayer was teaching in the Nor mal School at Tempe, Arizona, Mr. Ashcroft was a student there. They constituted the Normal baseball bat- j tery, and played together also for baseball teams in surrounding Ari zona towns. 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