The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, April 14, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MOItNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1908, 3 ADDITIONAL DUTIES Imposed Upon Public Health and Hospital Service . METHODS FOR PREVENTION Besides Providing for the , Invent! gstlon of the Preventable Diseases, the BUI Authorlxes the Widespread Dissemination by Meant of Bulla- tine. Two bills affecting the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service have been introduced into Congress, and their enactment would inaugurate a very important movement In the intercut of preventive medicine in this country. The function of thin service have, been enlarged so often In response to the growing demand for more active participation by the government In the prevention of die eaie, that it la necessary from time to time to provide by legislation the authority and. facilities required by the service to meet Its new responsi bilities. The bill entitled A bill to ifirther protect the public health, and imposing additional duties upon the rublic Health and Marine Hospital Service" (H. R. 18792, S. 6101) does thia, but, in addition, it provides for the broadest Investigation by the crvlce into the prevalence1, thte con ditions influencing the spread, the methods for the prevention and sup pression of "tuberculosis, typhoid fever, rabies, and other diseases af fecting man." This bill, If It becomes a law, will mark the beginning of aggressive action by the government In the pre vention of thoae diseases which cause the greatest waste of life, and In en trusting the first organized campaign to the Public Health and Marine Hos pital Service assurance is given that Congress has been aroused to the necessity of assuming, within its con stitutional limits its important share in the warfare against disease, Be aides providing for the investigation of the preventable disease, the bill authorizes the widespread dissemina tion, by means of bulletins exhibits and reports, of the results obtained as well as of practical information a to the control of infectious disease. Trovislon is made for the establish ment of a school of hygiene under the administration of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, In which instruction may be received by accredited health officers of States, countries, and municipalities, and for the detail of commissioned officers of the service, upon request of the prop er health authorities, to cooperate In the sanitary work of states and. terri tories. In accordance with recom mendations made by Surgeon Ccncral Wyman in his last annual report, cer tain additional administrative officer.' nre provided for in the bill. These Include an assistant surgeon general, to have charge of a new division (that . .... w or waicr suddiich ana Rcwcraitcj h sanitary engineer ot hign attainments, niu a solicitor conversant wim kcii- eil and local laws and regulations relating to the public health. The growth of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service illus trates the beneficial effect of reward ing the efficient performance of one task by the imposition of a more dif ficult one. From the professional and administrative success with which the marine hospitals were conducted, and the familiarity with quarantinablc disease which the care of lick seamen involved, cams the'Sdmlnlstrafion ty th'e" Ma'rtta "Hospital Service! of the national' maritime' quarantine and' the coli rol ' of the1 early1 yellow ' epldemlci of thd,-ifoufh!"The confidence InsplrJ cd by the devotion and ability of the officer's of the service In tht perfor mance of these duties resulted lit the assignment of new tasks, one by one, uniil the 'activities of the Service In clude the ' control ' of epidemics' too serious for the resources of local health authorities or which threaten interstate communication (examples fresh in the public memory being the epidemic of yellow fever in New Or leans and of bubonic plague in San Francisco), the administration of the Federal quarantine system, not only In the United States and Its posses sions, but In every Infected port In the world, the investigation of disease! of peculiar local interest, like that of leprosy lit Hawaii and of the hook worm disease in the south, the super vision of the production of vaccines and curative serums, the medical in spection of immigrants, and the op eration of the marine hospitals. ' THIS MAY INTEREST YOU. Growing Sentiment I of Including This Feature in Proposed Finan cial Legislation Business Men Re gard It Aa Application of Insur ance Idea, NEW' YORK, April ll.-Keen in- tcrcst in the experiment which the new state of Oklahoma has inaugu rated in guaranteeing bank deposits is reported by Mr. : Irving TBush, President of the Bush Terminal Com pany,' who hai just returned fronts tour through 'the West. Mr." Bush went out partly for the purpose of presenting, for the Merchants' As sociation of New York, the merits of the Fowler Currency Bill to other commercial bodies of the country, and in this capacity delivered , ad dresses before, the chambers of com merce of Pittsburg, Los Angles, San Francisco and Omaha. , "All over (he country, at least that portion which I have visited, the pub- j ic is greatly interested in the ques tion of the guarantee of deposits," said Mr. Hush tvl.iv. "Th nrnvJ. No one Is Immune from Kidney io m.d n Oklahoma seems to be trouble, so Just remember that papu,ar wkh ,he majority of dcposJ. Foley's Kidney Cure will stop the trtr. th, .,,;. !,.n,t(.r irregularities and cure any case of ..., d.,u8.ion tn other oarts of kidney and bladder trouble that is lh. w-t tTfnrfiinafMv thni . not beyond the reach of medicine. ' nlrii tn , ,.irani,, fif H,n.i. w,. Mt . V t T . 1 ' i. jaunn uwi f rug aiorc. "BILLY" BURKE'S POPULARITY Jhe sudden, popularity of Billie Burke, overleaping anything antic! pated by her manager, is another ef fective answer to foreign criticism of the American managers for the exis tence of the star system. All such criticism, of course, is either error grounded upon a flabby-minded eon fusion of Ideas, or a total blindness to facts. It Is to forgef, for exam ple, that since the day Noah followed the last goat Into the ark and then locked the outside door on the first circus Mother Earth ever had, man agers do not lead but are led by their public. With no other thought jn mind than obtaining the best avail able leading lady for John Drew, Charles Frohman brought Billie Burke to America and gave her the part of "Trlxie" in "My Wife." Then everybody that saw the play became infected with Billie.burkitis and with that her picture was framed In gold and hung in the lobby of the F.mpire Theatre-Charles Frohman's quiet way of obliRlng the public that has always obliged him to oblige it. How to Avoid Appendicitis.. ... Most victims of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup .cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels and restores the natural action of the bowels. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nause ate or gripe and Is "mild and pleas ant to take. Refuse substitutes. T. F. Laurin Owl Drug Store. Mr. S. L. Bo wen, of Wayne, W. Va,' writes; "I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that at times I could not get out of bed, and when I did I could not stand straight I took Foley's Kidney Cure. . One dol lar bottle and part of the second cured me entirely." Foley's Kidney Cure works wonders where others are total failures. T. F. Laurin Owl Drug Store. The New Pure Food and Drug Law. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affect ed by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs, and we re commend it as a safe remedy for children and adults. T. F. Laurin Owl Drug Store. Fisher Brother's Company SOLE AGENTS Barbour and Finlayson Salmon Twins and Netting ! McCormick Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled Ploughs - ' Malthold Roofing 1 .Sharpies Cream Separators Raecoli'th Flooring . ' Storrett's Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Tan Bark, Blue". Stone, Muriatic .Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, 1 Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web Wo Wotit Your Tfode FISHER BROS. " BOND STREET created In many quarters an impres sion that the Fowler Bill and 'the Oklahoma plan of guarantee are wild and radical. As a matter of fact, they are ' simple and conservative.' The guarantee feature is merely every-day mutual insurance applied to bank de posits. The State or Nation does not guarantee, it merely holds the guar antee fund as trustee. The Okla homa act Is more conservative in some respects than our national bank ing laws. It rcguires twenty per cent reserve in towns having. a popu lation of less than 2.S0O, and twenty five per cent in communities larger than 2,500. Our national laws re quire only fifteen per cent, outside of reserve cities. It is an old device to discredit a proposed law by calling it too radical, and by cloaking crit icism in apparent conservatism. "The Fowler Billbases its note issue upon the same underlying prin ciples gold reserve and liquid assets, upon which rests the notes issued by the Bank of France,, usually admitted to be the best example of a central national bank. The bill divides the country into banking districts, and places the responsibility for banking methods in each district upon the banks in that district, and insures care and watchfulness by assessing twenty-five per cent of local losses upon each district. It offers induce ment to the state banks and trust companies to take out national char ters and thus unify our banknig sys tem and strengthen bank reserves. It gradually substitutes gold for our three hundred and forty-six million of legal tenders now only partly secured. Surely these measures are not wild and radical." "But, do not some of-the bankers object to guaranteeing each other?" was asked. "Yes," replied Mr. Bush, "some of them are very decidedly opposed to a mutual guarantee. I discovered this in Omrfha, where one of the leading bankers spoke in opposition to my views." "Why do the bankers object to the provision? Would it not strengthen their position with the public and prevent bank runs?" "I believe most emphatically that it would," was the reply. "Of course those bankers who oppose the guar antee have several very plausible ar guments. One is that the "sk in volved is great; another is , that a guarantee would encourage bad bank ing. I do not believe myself that either argument is well, founded.-' The risk, when reduced to a mathematical basis, is almost infinitesimal. Comp troller. Ridgley in his last report shows tthat on the average the losses to creditors of insolvent national banks from tthe beginning of the na tional banking system until October 31st, 1907, were approximately one thirteenth of one per cent of the an nual average of individual deposits. His figures show average deposits of $1,529,339,311 with annual average losses on claims proved of $1,114,223. That 'figures out at a percentage to deposits of 0.073, which is approxim ately one-thirteenth of one per cent." "Dox you mean to say that failed banks have shown losses equal to only one-thirteenth of one -per cent? was asked. "Oh, no, the percentage of defici ency ''n liabilites of., the institutions which have failed has been 19.17 or less than 20 per cent. Of course the percentage has differed with different institutions .and in different years. What is proposed by the guarantee of deposits is to pay these losses from a fund raised by all the- national banks. Vhcn this . is distributed, it becomes so small in relation to tthe whole volume of their assets that it shrivels up to One-thirteenth of one per cent." ; .,, "YoU say these are the average fig ures. . They are not those of .last year?" "Yes, the figures I have used are the average for the entire life of the national banking system good years and bad covering fourteen years of specie suspension, the panic of 1873 and ' the long period of depcrssion which followed, the crisis of 1884, the panic of 1893, and the free silver campaign, ; "But how would the averge losses figure on last year's business?" was the next query. "I would like to show you," said Mr. Bush, "because it illustrates very well the working of the proposed guaranty fund under the Fowler Bill. The individual deposits in national banks at the time of the October statement were $4,319,035,402. The losses in failures during 1907 cannot be given, because the affairs of insol vent banks have not been closed. Ap plying the average of one- thirteenth of one per cent, however, one funds that the losses would have been about $3,320,000. Of this amount the Fow ler bill provides that one-quarter shall be assessed on the banks of the re demption district where the failure occurred, in order to give them a mo tive for close scrutiny of each other. The amount called for under this pro vision for one-quarter of the losses would be $830,000. This would have to be paid without regard to the guar anty fund. In the case of a bank with deposite of $1,000,000, the'assess ment on this account would be about $192.50. In the case of a bank with only $100,000 deposits, the assessment would be 19.25. This is certainly not a heavy burden." 1 "But how about the other three quarters of the losses?" "I am coming to that," was the re ply. The total estimated losses for the national banks of the country would be $3,320,000. The amount to be provided from the guaranty fund, after one-quarter had been assessed on the banks of a given district, would be $2,490,000. It is provided by the Fowler Bill that the banks shall re ceive interest ot one per cent upon their deposits in the guaranty fund. As the guaranty fund would amount to about $350,000,000, the interest re turned to the banks would be $3,500 000. ' Thus this single item alone would pay all losses charged to the guaranty fund and leave a surplus of $1,000,000. More than this, the guar-i anty fund is swelled by the tax of two pgr cent proposed by the Fowler Bill on the bank notes which it authorized. T Summer Comfort at ia'j'ta'u' .nio utU Don'f !dd thef:heat fofv-a kitchen fire to the sufficient discomfort of hot weather. Use a New Perfection Wick Blue Flame : Oil Cook-Stove and cook in comfort ;. ? ' ;i With a "New Perfection"' Oil Stove the weoaration daily meals, or the big weekly "baking," is done without raising the temperature perceptibly above that of any other room in the bouse. ... . "." If you once have, experience with the . v IVWic m you will "enables - us NEW; PimOM lue Flame Ofl Cook-Stove be amazed at the restful way! in which it you to do work that has heretofore overheated kitchen and yourself. " ; , , The "New Perfection" Stove is ideal for summer :.; Made in three sizes and all warranted. If ot at yojir dealer's, write our nearest agency. ss whether high or low is therefore free from disagreeable odor and can not smoke. Sifej conyenienl, omimotl the ideal light - u noi f our aeaier s, write onr nearert gency. STANDARD OIL COMPANY '! 5 . . .j.UMttBPOJUTK . , " ; f f. IWiH.IHWJ.M)"' 000,000, this tax would "bring to the fund annually about $14,000,000, or for keeping their funds?" "There are several answers to those' more than five times the losses charge arguments was the reply. "In the able to it. There are, of course, other first place, no bank officer who values charges for administration which are his head is going to fritter away the teviea against tnese receipts, but it is obvious that the income of the guar anty fund would more than meet all charges and losses and that it would never be necessary to dip into the principal of the fund except, per haps principal of the fund except, perhaps The public would be guaranteed sixty five times over by the principal of the guaranty fund, because five per cent of the deposits would be sixty-five times the average losses," and would also be guaranteed several times over by the income from the fund. Cer tainly there would be. no motive for the public to withdraw deposits be cause of distract of the solvency of banks, and the burden of meeting possible losses would fall more light ly on the average banker than some of ,the bad loans which he makes in the course of a year." "It is asserted that the guarantee of deposits will make bankers reck less in leading their resources, and that the knowledge that depbsits are If the bank note circulation were no guaranteed will take away the motive larger than at present, or about $700-'from the public to select sound banks f " money of his stockholders because hii deposits are guaranteed. There is nothng in the Fowler bll or any other bill that 1 know of, to make make good losses to stockholders of a failed bank. So far as the public is concerned, the average small de positor has practically no inside in formation as to the soundness of the banks under the existing system. The provision in the Fowler bill, that local committees shall be chosen by the banks themselves in various re demption districts and that these committees shall have the power of visitation and scrutiny over the as sets of the banks of the district, would alone probably save the. banks more than their contribution to the guar anty fund. It would stop bad bank ing in its inception. Such occur rences as were developed by the Walsh failures, wher loans were made on improper securities, would not even be attempted in many cases, because the banker 'would know that they would soon fall under the scru tiny and criticism of his fellow bank- hi One of the Important Duties bf Physicians and A is to learn as to the relative standing anc) reliability of the leading manufactur ers of medicinal agents, as the most eminent physicians are the most careful as to the uniform quality and perfect purity of remedies prescribed by them, and it is well known to physicians and the Well-informed generally that the California Fig Syrup Co., by reason of its correct methods and' perfect equipment and the ethical character of its product has attained to the high standing in scientific and commercial circles which is accorded to successful and reliable houses only, and, therefore, that tle name of the Company has become a guarantee of the excellence of its remedy. TRUTH AND QUALITY appeal to the Well-informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent suc cess and creditable standing, therefore we wish to call the attention of all who would enjoy good health, with its blessings, to the fact that it involres the question of right living with all the term implies. With proper knowledge of what is best each hour of recreation, of enjoyment, of contemplation and of effort may be made to contribute to that end and the use of medicines dispensed with generally to great advantage, but as in many instances a simple, wholesome remedy may be invaluable if taken at the proper time, the California Fig Syrup Co. feels that it is alike important to present truthfully the subject and to supply the one perfect laxative remedy which has won the appoval of physicians and the world-wide acceptance of the Well-informed because of the excellence of the combination, known to all, and the original method of manufac ture, which is known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only. , : ' rV":";, '"--'V This valuable remedy has been long and favorably known under the name of Syrup of Figs and has attained to world-wide acceptance- as the most excellent of family laxatives, and as its pure laxative principles, obtained from Senna, are well known to physicians and the Well-informed of the world to be the best of natural laxatives, we have adopted the-more elaborate name of-Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as more fully descriptive of the remedy, but doubtless it will always be called for by the shorter name of Syrup of Figs and to get its beneficial effects always note, when purchasing, the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package, whether you simply call for 'Syrup of Figs or by the full name Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the one laxative remedy manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. and the same heretofore known by the name Syrup of Figs which has given satisfaction to millions. The genuine is for 6ale by all leading druggists throughout the United States in original packages of one size only, the regular price of which is 'fifty" cents per bottle. -n ' ,-rr';i f '-JX, ,.,',;. r.. fl v. . Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company ,; filed with the Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C, that the remedy is not adulterated or iooo. misbranded within the meaning; of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. io. Louisville, Ky. In San1 Francisooy Cal. , ' -j , u s. a; - , . London,., England. , New York, N. Y.