THE 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,.
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"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.
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Mr. S. L. Bo wen, of Wayne, W.
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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.
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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
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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. .
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