The Sunday Oregonian., June 22, 1913, SECTION FIVE, Page 5, Image 61

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Barnard College, Annex of Columbia University, Graduates 138 Students and University Proper Has Largest Class in History New York Skyline Changes Constantly.
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NEW YORK. June 21. (Special.)
Drills have been the order of the
day at Annapolis and West Point
for some time. These institutions are
turning' out their annual batch of of
ficers for the Kavy and Army an'd the
cadets mho are graduated this year are
being sent away to join the forces of
the Government and to make for them
selves names that will live in history
perhaps.
The Brazilian battleship Minas
Gereas, with Dr. Lauro S. Muller, Bra
zilian Minister of Foreign Affairs on
board, is now in this country on a dip
lomatic visit. She first anchored- al
Norfolk.
Barnard Collesre, the annex of Co
lumbia University, held, its graduating
exercises last week. Barnard presented
tills year 136 candidates for the degree
of bachelor of arts and three for the
degree of bachelor of science. All the
Barnard girls wore white frocks under
college gowns and most of them wore
flowers. They presented so striking
an appearance as they came down the
steps of the library to cross the campus
to the gymnasium that the spectators
set up a cheer.
Columbia University graduated its
largrest claps this year. Degrees were
awarded to 2141. After the graduation
exercises there was a paseant by the
alumr.l In which the different classes
appeared in costume. Some were cow
boys and son-.e Mexicans and some
rowed little canvas boats, which were
rastened about their waists. -They grot
a lot or undignified and harmless fun
out of the affair.
.The sky line of New York as seen
from the North River is wonderful. The
Woolworth building has made a sreat
cnange in lower .New York's appear
ance in a year. Not far from it is thu
Singer building which was the wonder
oi tne world for so short a time Th
sky line of lower New York changes
vunueriuny even in a lew months.
i ne completed municipal building of
New York is striking. The figure of
Civic Fame has ust been put in its
piace on top or the building. The ex
cavation for the building began it
June. 1S09. The exterior walls were
egun in March, 1911. The contents
me ouuding 18 19,000,000 cubic feet.
The number of bricks used was 12.000,-
weignt or the structure is
. lta windows number
2500; Its doors, 2000; its elevators 33.
It Is estimated that it will cost $250,000
a year to maintain and operate it.
The old custom of putting figure
neads on ocean vessels, which hoc. .1.
most fallen into disuse. Is to be revived
EIGHTY PER CENT OF ALL SICKNESS
IS PREVENTABLE, DECLARES DOCTOR
Whoever Dies at 40, Average Age in United States, Dies Premature Death, Declares Physician, Who Discusses"
Health for Readers of The Oregonian, and With Colonel Quod Says Health, Not Disease, Is "Catching."
BY DR FREDERICK M. ROSSITER.
IT IS a difficult matter to convince a
man or woman enjoying a reason
able degree of health, of the neces
sity of guarding the health, literally
making health deposits for a rainy
day, or for a future stress that la. likely
to occur. In times of peace, prepare
against sickness, should be a health
axiom. The average length of life in
the United States at the present time is
about 40 years, but the promise of life
is three-score and ten, hence any man
or woman dying under this age is
meeting a premature death. Never In
the history of the world was the say
ing of Seneca more true than today
that "Man does not die; he kills him
self." The truth of this statement is fully
demonstrated by Government reports
and Insurance statistics. As a rule any
matter connected with dollars and
. cents attracts the attention of Ameri
cans at once, and hence it Is passing
strange that as a nation we have until
very recently given so little attention
to the economics of health. The Gov
ernment has spent millions to improve,
protect and safeguard hogs, cattle,
sheep and other animals, but what It
has spent in the interest of human
beings is a mere bagatelle. However,
there is promise of something being
done along these lines. During the last
year outside the Panama Canal and the
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on the new Hamburg-American ship
the Imperator. The Imperial eagle will
be the figurehead of the Imperator.
The eagle which is of enormous size
stands on an orb. with wings out
spread. All the old sailing ships used
to have figureheads. When they went
out with the Introduction of steam ves
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HEALTH AND KTI'IC IKNCY. HOW
TO MAINTAIN BOTH.
By Frederick M. Rosslter, B. 8., M. D.
Questions pertaining to health, hy
giene and th prevention of diseas
win be answered in thla column.
When for lack of space and when
questions are not suitable, answers
will be made by mall, providing; a
stamped en-relope . with address Is
enclosed. No question will be con
sidered without" the name and ad
dress of the sender. No diagnosis
will be made In this column.
Army the Government gave about half
the cost of a battleship in the interest
of public health.
Statistics reveal the astounding fact
that there are in the United States all
the time, daily, over 3,000,000 of peo
ple on the sick list. It is not a very
pleasant thought to entertain that
while we are eating our Sunday din
ner there are over 3,000,000 of our fel
low citizens too sick to eat one. Over
3,000,000 sick, today, tomorrow. the
next day and so on throughout the
year. There are several millions more
able to be about alecudinarians, limp
ing through this vale of tears, from
whose lips we can almost hear that fa
miliar expression, "I feel like a stewed
prune."
Three millions sick every day, in
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taken ashore and preserved. There is
one at the Annapolis Naval Academy.
Many of the Navy-Yards have them.
When Ecott sailed on his Ill-fated ex
pedition to the Antarctic, his ship the
Terra Nova was equipped with a fig
urehead. other terms, means 13 days of sickness
per capita population. Or in other
words about 4 per cent of the popula
tion Is sick all the time. It must be
apparent to any one that sick people
are an expense to the state, whether
the state bears the expense or whether
It is borne by the individual, for the
wealth of the state is the aggregate
wealth of its citizens. Three millions
sick all the time means an enormous
loss in material wealth to the nation
aside from the pain, sorrow and mis
ery and weariness and domestic un
happiness and death..
Say that for loss of time, expense of
physicians, nursing, medicines, patent
medicines, expense of traveling and
minor expenses the cost for each one
sick for 13 days is $2 a day, or $26.
The cost of 3,000.000 sick people for one
year would be $2,190,000,000. The Com
missioner of Labor shows that the
average expenditure for sickness and
death, per 'capita. Is $27 per annum.
This is for a laboring man. Doubtless
the general average is higher. Dr.
George Qould estimates that sickness
and death in the United States annu
ally costs $3,000,000,000. This would
amount to $33 per capita. Let us. apply
these figures now to Portland, and to
the State of Oregon. Portland with a
population of 225,000 people, each aver
aging 13 days of sickness each year,
costing $26, or a total of $5,850,000. Or
for the 700,000 in the State of Oregon
It would be $18,200,000. But we will
.say that this is too high for this state
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and so I will reduce it 50 per cent.
Even when cut in half we are Spending
an enormous sum for unnecessary sick
ness. 80 Per Cent Preventable.
Eighty per" cent of the sickness in
our. midst is absolutely preventable,
and Professor Irving Fisher estimates
that 50 per cent of the mortality in this
country is preventable, or may be post
poned indefinitely. Three hundred
thousand infants under 12 months die
annually in this country. Most of these
deaths are preventable. There are over
300,000 deaths from absolutely pre
ventable diseases each year. Five' hun
dred thousand workmen are injured or
killed each year in our midst. Most of
this is preventable. Americans do
things on a large scale and it is per
fectly evident that we do not come
short in the matter of sickness that is
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preventable, and death that is avoid
able. These are startling facts and figures
and it is time that men and women in
all the walks of life were taking an
interest in the matter of health re
form. The National and state govern
ments can do much in matters pertain
ing to health, but after all it is largely
a personal matter. A man cannot be
made good by legislation, nor can he
be made well and strong by any legis
lative procedure.
There are several classes of people
that particularly prize health with a
true valuation. First, those who have
lost health and wish to regain It; sec
ond, those who feel that health so
long neglected is slipping from their
grasp; third, those who have had to
look into the grave, but by diligent
effort have so far escaped; fourth,
those who recognize the divine owner.
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ship of body, and that the highest
type of service is only possible with
the best of health. Outside of these
four classes Is the great mass of
humanity, the people who do not prac
tice prevention except as a necessity.
Unfortunately, too large a class is rep
resented by the woman who declared
I would rather live ' 10 years less
and eat and drink the things I like,
tnan to give these things up. This
woman is still enjoying poor health.
In order to make more substantial
gain against the inroads of disease a
pigher valuation must be placed upon
the health by each Individual. The
laws of this world restrain us from
pulling down our neighbor's houses,
setting them afire, breaking in the
windows. The public safety even re
quires a statute prohibiting us from
destroying our own houses. But we
tear our bodies to pieces, burn them
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up with poisons, mar and mutilate the
wondrous structure. International law
prohibits the mutilation of a dead
body, but what is that to misusing a
living body throbbing with life and
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There is a saying that "we cannot
have our cake and cat it too." So we
cannot expect to have strong bodies.
keen minds and' good morals and at
the same time violate all the laws of
our being. It docs not work that way.
This is a world of compensations. If
one expects to excel in a certain line
he must give up pleosures in other
things. Good health is incompatible
with the Indulgence of all tho senses.
Some time ago a boy was asked to
compare the word "sick." After some
hesitation he gnve this answer: "Sick,
worse, dead." This represents In a way
the stairway of disease down which
so many go for the simple reason thut
they neglect simple beginnings, and
are not willing to exercise the ounce of
prevention to produce the pound of
cure.
Canal Fortification Vital.
There ' has been considerable discus
sion regarding the necessity of fortify
ing the Panama Canal -as one of the
means of National protection. It
should be done. One time in a class
in geography a teacher asked the
question, "What is the most important
canal in the United States?" It took
her some time to recover when a lit
tle urchin answered, "The alimentary
canal." Nothing was ever more true.
It is the most important canal by all
odds. Foreover it should be fortified,
not by Uncle Sam, but by You, Us &
Company. In fact if this canal were
properly fortified by each Individual
this Nation would save between $6,000.
000.000 and $10,000,000,000 in money
alone, not once, but every year. With effi
cient protection of this canal we would
have sufficient money to build a lit
tle thing like the Panama Canal every
year, and then have enough money left
to make every American city and every
American home immaculate and a Joy
forever. If it only costs $2.39 per In
dividual to make the Canal Zone one
of the most wholesome placed to live
in the world, what could we not do
with a few billions to promote health?
This is the season when the straw
berry is king among fruits in nearly
every state in the Union. The popular
estimate of this toothsome fruit Is re
flected in the saying, "Doubtless God
could have made a better berry than
the strawberry, but doubtless he never
did."
Strawberry Moat Wholesome.
The strawberry is richer than most
of the fruits In potassium, sodium and
magnesium salts and Iron. For this
reason the strawberry is especially
wholesome In rheumatism and gout. It
has more iron than any other fruit and
comes next to spinach among veg
etables, hence if one is in need of an
iron tonic this is nature's delightful
method of supplying this very neces
sary element, furnishing the iron in
a physiological organic form. It is
iron "in this form that makes red
blood. Most people can eat straw
berries until they are tired and not
suffer any ill consequences.
It 13 interesting to observe how e-
llghtlful the strawberry tastes wnen
we can get down on our Knees ana en.
them risrht from the vines, witnoni a
thought of sugar or cream, but Just as
soon as they appear on the table most
people hardly wish to eat them witn
out both of Xhese extras. Sugar com
bines perfectly with the berry, but
cream Is not a good combination, how
ever pleasing It may be to the taste.
It Is the addition of milk or cream that
makes trouble for many people. Also
the strawberry may cause indigestion
when mixed with soups, meats, pota
toes and other vegetables. For this
reason the acid strawberry is most
wholesome when eaten freely, but with
only one or two other simple foods.
Colonel Quod says:
"This is all nonsense about disease
being 'catching. Disease never comes
without an invitation. It is health
that is catching, not disease. Health is
the most catching thing in the world.
We catch it especially at night when
we sleep. We catch it with every
breath of pure air we breathe, every
drop of pure water we drink, every
mouthful of pure food we eat. We
catch it from sunshine, from friends,
from flowers. We catch health and
health catches us. It Is on our track
every second of our lives."
Mother Goose on Health.
There was an old woman who ached In
her shoe
And had so many symptoms she didn't
know what to do.
She fed them on medicines, patent and
not
She brewed them decoctions unspeak
ably hot.
She whipped them with tonics and
spanked them with pills.
She spent all her money and then ran
up bills.
And yet this old woman still ached In
her shoe.
Her symptoms on dosing alarmingly
grew
Until, in a frenzy of rage and despair.
She threw out her bottles and vowed
then and there
She was well. "I am well." she de
clared, "and to stay:
Tou horrid old symptoms, go on off
away!"
'Twas astonishing, very, the change
that was wrought
By this simple affair of a curative
thought.
"I am well, I am well." she declared
night and day.
And every last symptom went on oft
away.
Alio. uw hub uiu ?t uinau icns una in
her shoe
And thinks before long she can wear
number two. M.fH. R.