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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUA kRYli, 1910. i 1 ,3 4 A M ; is hi; j, ' I', , WILL WORK TO PROLONGUFE OFFELLOU 5Z Committee of One Hundred ,to , Form Plans wnereoy a 'v Strong National Health As sociation May Be Built. 1i 5 1' fi I! li Y t , By Ftfederlc J. JIaskln. ' ' Washington,'. Feb. 1L -If President Tat'a fortl:onrtng recommendation to congress arte' followed Out by that body, the United States will bt last have a rreat health ortanlcation commenaurato with the needs iPf the nation. Tha de partment'of sgitoulturs can Bend vac J cine virus for thyrotectlon ' 'rnl f 'r'a cattle- f rom . lAAokleg . but only In : ; a most Indirect wa . can, the . health agencies take acy atey to protect that ' farmer s children from mallpo or scar lot fever. The government stands pow. erless to check the ravfl'es of tuber culoals In the human fairn'r. although It can turn back the sprsaO of Texas fever among cattle toy drawtftg a quar : antlne Una toorth of. which . southern cattle may not go, except under well-defined protective conditions.. i ' Marine Hospital terrloe. ' But this la by no means the only fea ture of the existing health laws of nation which call for a radical change. There are a number of bureaus now In operation In the government that are conoerned principally with health mat-v ters. The publlo health and marine hospital service ranks first among these. under the able administration of Sur geon General Walter Wyraan this sr vice has made itself invaluable to the nation at large. Us work in stamping out the yellow fever epidemic in the south a few years ago.' its labors In protecting San Francisco from the threatened outbreak of pestilences after the earthquake, Its efforts to bring K... - Jk (,... i .11 . V. .. j remedies and the purity of all viruses .1 j for vaccination and anti-toxins, no leas A than its duty of visiting every ship that i . i i . . H.i vuuicn lu mil liii' i ,iu yui i it,. IM..U ura that quarantine laws are observed, have all been done so succussfully that it has been Justly styled America's fly ing squadron for the defense of the na tional health. Work of War Department. The war department has Its medical corps which has distinguished Itself In many nam to hand conflicts with disease and death. The triumphs of Its sanitary work In Cuba, where the death rate In Havana was cut In twain in a single year, represents a great victory for public health over the hosts of pcstllenee. The work of Major Walter Reed and his co-laborers in pvovlng to the satisfaction of every medical man the truth of the mosquito theory of yel low fever transmission, constitutes ono of the most brilliant chapters in the book of human progress. The labors of 'the army doctors on the Isthmus of Panama, where the Reed theories were strain applied to practice, have borne glorious fruitage. The navy, also has its medical corps, its hospitals and its dispensaries. )', ' m The department ofagrlculture haa its' bureau of chemistry, and under the ad ministration of Dr. Wiley this bureau has effected a -veritable revolution in the dispensing of food products. By striving to guarantee to the people pro jection from mlsbrunded and-mlsrepre-' sented products, and Sedurlna lerlsla- f )lon to that end, this bureau has made itself a force that affects every .human being In the country. The census of- l flee, Jtj-the department -of commerce and labor, gathers the mortality statis tics of the nation which reveal the state ; of the publlo health.. Thus four of the departments of the government have a more or less direct relation to the pub lic health. , . . -To Concentrate Departments, With each of these agencies actlvo in Its work, it is Inevitable that there should be great overlapping of duties, a . continual repetition of labor. With no co-ordination among them, three de partments at once may be making In dependent investigations of the relation of the water supply to typhoid fever. At least three of these bureaus may be studying the relation between milk and tuberculosis at the same time. It Is In evitable under . these condtlons that much , money Is expended in duplica tion of research, money that Is sorely needed on, account of the economical policy of congress at present .? With all these agencies concentrated under one head,. with each of them work ing in proper co-operation with the oth ers, the same money and the same effort now expended would yield much greater retutjns in reduced, mortality and in. creased longevity. . It was to foster the idea of .such a consolidation of health agencies that the committee of one hun dred on .national health was created. This organization has been active to such a degree that it isbelieved its recom-nendatlons, which have the ap proval of President Taft. will be en acted into law before the present ses sion of congrees adjourns. This com mittee, has over six thousand names on its mailing list, and it has proved a great force in the education of public sentiment in favor of proper health measures. m Many right Tuberoulosl. One scarcely realizes how much is done and how much is expended in the1 interest of public health. The National Association for the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis has-gathered the financial and educational statistics of the nation-wide crusade against the I white plague, and finds that during the. year or iu me various agencies right ing the disease spent;-$8,180,621.80 'in V. if the campaign. Over 10,000,000 pieces of literature were circulated, and 117,313 patients were treated for tuberculosis. Sixty-one thousand of the patients were , treated at dispensaries. New York takes first rank In the effort to wipe out this disease, Pennsylvania Becond, Massa chusetts third, and Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, California, Colorado,' Con necticut and Ohio In their, order. . Recent studies' c-f the death rate' from various ailments reveal startling condi tions. They show that Americans are paying a "terrible penalty .for overwork. While the death rate from contagious diseases has dropped per cent since 1880. that from diseases Of the kidneys, heart and brain has increased 83 per' cent In the same period. These figure! tell of the tax of hard work and . high j living. Kidney diseases, springing from I Intemperate "eating and , drinking ; and ' from hard work, now show a death rate that - has Increased 131 per cent since 1 X880. There are 84 per cent more t&- tall ties from apoplexy today than there ) were 20 years ago, and 87 per cent more I deaths from heart disease. Meanwhile! all contagious diseases are showing a! rapidly aiminisning death rate. It cannot be argued that this 'increas ing mortallty4a- the- diseases- of- tjvbt work and over indulgence is due to un- preventahle causes. It is estlmatd that in the United Btates more than j00.000 lives are annually sacrificed on the altar or Indifference to known laws of health. Mora than ,1,000,000 people are con stantly seriously ill, half of them Buf fering from diseases of a preventable nature.., . , , , . . -a , .. v ' ; Ufa May Be lengthened. Once It was supposed that the laws of health were Inexorable, that the death rata could not be increased nor dimin ished.. But sta4lstloa show that there are no Iron laws for mortality.' The span of human life in Europe haa dou bled In less than four centuries. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centur- iee the average life was lengthened at me rate of four years per century, and during theflret. three quarters ot' the nineteenth century the average life lengthened at 1 the rate of nine yeais. Biaoe then civilised countries have made mankind longer lived at the rate of 17 years a century. In Prussia, which s the home of preventive medicine, the span of life Is lengthening at a rate of 27 years a - century, ' Whether this increasing span wlir ultimately bring men back to the ripe old agea of the Methuselah and Adam and Noah, no one can safely predict. Dr. Talmage once expressed the conviction that if men re turned to the simple life as gradually as they had traveled away from ltthey would eventually live to be as old as those who lived In the day of Noah. roor Die More rreqnentiy. , It Is shown by mortality, tables that death comee far more frequently among the poor than among the rich. Insur-, a nee figures of Industrial - companies demonstrate that the death rate among the poor ia from (0 to 80 per cent great er than among the 'well to 'do. In the nnsanltary districts of, Glasgow and Parle the death rate Is double that of the better eectlona - The effect of a campaign of education on a -city's mor tality is shown by the. fact that alnce New York undertook the improvement of conditions in health matters, It has reduced It doath rate . to the lowest point on record. - '.' ; . The committee of one hundred on national health Is seeking to have all life Insurance companies Join In a cam paign in favor . of disease prevention. Dr. Irving Fisher cf Yale, president of this, committee,' declares, that the In vestment of a fraction of I per cent on the policies carried in an educational propsganda, will so lengthen the aver age life as7 to make it commercially profitable to tbe insurance companies themselves, to say nothing of the vast good that will accrue to, the nation at large, . He thlnke that by a. pro per co ordination of all the health Interests of the nation, headed with a magnificent, conaolidated national . health : bureau. such an onslaught can be made upon the strongholds of disease as to give the average American a new lease on life equivalent to one third of hie pres ent anoued years. . , ' (Tomorrow "Model License League.') ''CONFESSION" SELECTED ; BY PASTOR AS SUBJECT - . -1 - Rev. W. F. Reagor, pastor Of the First Christian ehurch, who delivered an addresa at the-men's meeting in the Young Men's Christian association auditorium last Sunday, will again be the speaker next Sunday afternoon at S o'clock. Hla aubject will be . "Confes sion," . - ; i The muslo will be a special feature of. the meeting next Sunday. At the beginning of the service several selec tions will be played by the Y. M. C. A. orchestra, after which there will be a I eong service. In which the audience will Join. This .will be followed by a 'vo cal solo by y. W. Gordon and a num ber by: the Altrul Octette of young women, ' led by Miss Holman. , of the T, W. C. A.. . After the meeting H. W Stone, gen eral secretary of the Y. M. C A,, will conduot a popular bible class, to which I all men are Invited, and following this. at 5:80, there iwlll be a fellowship tfupper. Only One "BXOVO STVm- ' Tbaf ta LAX ATI V BBOMO QIUNIB. Look I fortbe ilsnature ot E. W. OBOVS. Utd h World er to Cure s Cold ia use Jjar. zoo. Journal want ads bring results! Sale toty it The Combined Stocks of Three Stores of the mMed llafl Stores C0 IN THE HANDS OF THE L. M. DUNCAN COMPANY IN A Wews Item from the Oreg-onlaa of Xe oent Date: wgatic Bsifeiripl Sate The most stupendous and colossal sale of Men's High-grade Hats and Clothing evericnown. To turn the stock into the cold cash in the shortest possible time are our orders. Buy two or 1 even three Hats now for less than the price of one. Thousands of Hats of every conceivable shape and style. All must be sold for a mere fraction of their worth. DOORS OPEN AT 9 A. M. AND CLOSE AT 10 P. M. SATURDAY UNITED HAT FAILS CREDITORS, FOUR SCORE Xdabiunes Tar In Sxoess of Estimate riaoed on Stock and Fixtures of Three Stores in City. Through bankruptcy proceedings, be gun yesterday morning In the United States court, L. A. Bertllllon has sur rendered control of the business of the United Hat Stores company, of Port land. A receiver was appointed by Judge Wolverton upon the petition of E. A. Mallory & Sons. Rosenthal Cloth in company, Rosenthal, Hlegel A Co., and the O. C. Hansen Manufacturing company, representing $4341 M ofthe total Indebtedness. -Stock and fixtures of the United Hat Stores company arc estimated to in voice about $14,000, while the listed In debtedness of the company aggregates $23,885.19. Kighty creditors are repre sented In the listaof firms to which the United Hat concern is indebted. 48 of them being Portland concerns, and It Is Set out that the Indebtedness enu merated covers bills for advertising. lights, rents and merchandise. The largest unsecured creditor named In the bankruptcy proceedings Is the Mulvehlll Hat company, of Spokane, to whom the sum of $4638.60 Is due. The largest Portland creditor of the com pany Is Burgan-Springer Hat Co., who have furnished the United Hat com pany with goods to the amount of $606.95. i it x - A i) -to ; f 3000 Hats at $1.00 Each Never such an absolute Sacrifice before. Every shape, every color, every style, every size. Every MM - I liat guaranteed to be worth $2 and $2.50. Join the crowds; be here tomorrow. 500 Hats at 50c Each "i This lot consists of 500 soft and stiff Hats, which are regular $1.50 and $2.00 values. To clean them up quick, take your choice at 50 all sizes. 4 A I :-vV)r i M ' "mot ' mmm 2000 Ms $1.50 Each Every hat this season's make and style. Every hat -worth $3 and $3.50. All shades of soft and derby styles, including: such well-known makes as "Con queror," "Mulvey," "Chester;" "Pey," and Lion Brand hats ; also "Mallory Rpelofs" and Imperial hats. The greatest gathering of high-grade hats ever of fered at this price. 4000 H ats at $2.00 Each Thevfinest American and imported hats are embraced in this wonderful collection, and include such famous , makes as Mallory Cravenette Hats, Downs & Co. " imported stiff Hats, Borsalino & Co. imported soft Hats, Albertini & Co. imported soft Hats; also few John B. Stetson's in soft Hats, made in every con ceivable new style and shape in either soft-or stiff Hats. Every hat in this lot worth $3.50, $4 and $5. Several Hu overcoats to be sold for less, than it costs for the cloth and buttons BUY NOW JlUJ EL JL A li JLM M ; Merchants i ' See us', for prices on large .quantities of Hats.' 'Don't delay. It is' the ; oppor- tUnity of years. i ! . '" NOTE LOCATION CAREFULLYLOOK FOR . RED FRONT SALE ONLY AT Between Oak and Stark Streets Uo MailOr dcrs Address mail orders to the L. M: Duncan Co., 21Q Lumbermens Bldg., Port land, Or. . L SPRING STYLES, 1910 YOUMAN and BROOK HATS n: YOUMAN'S DERBY, SILK nd OPERA HATS FOR SPRING Now Ready for Your Inspection "BROOK DERBY" The Peer of AH $3 Hats 100 Styles and Shapes for Spring IMPORTED ENGLISH NOCABOUT BRUSH HATS J FOR SPRING In Popular Shades and Styles t (D)(0) To Be Gwem Away s HI Will You Be In On It? Fine Pianos at Cost Your Greatest Opportunity New Pianos al less Than Second-Band Ones - Buy Your iPiano Saturday AND GET $100 Buy Your Piano Saturday AND GET $100 ; , Do not fail to see us Saturday if you need a piano. Owing to the fact that a number, of school teachers, as well as others, could not take advantage of our crreat offer . w cuucsudj, in wiuv.il we mauc a reuuciion oi iuu on eacn ! piano to the first ten customers, and believing that the re sults in the end, from an advertising standpoint, will more than make up our losses, we have concluded to make SAT URDAY a great piano-selling event; so, from 8:30 in the. morning till 10 o'clock at night, all persons presenting a' copy of this ad will be entitled to a discount of $100 on any f new piano selected from our large stock. Now please rc member this is a bona fide reduction from our regular prices, which are marked in plain figures, and which we guarantee i are from $50 tq $J0p less than the same grade of piano can be obtained elsewhee, so if you need a piano do not fail to see us SATURDAY. This means pianos that sell' for $250, for $15Q; $300, for $200';. $350,' for $250; $400, for $300; and so , on, and payments as low as $6 per month. Here vou find - the Ivers & Pond, Gabler, Wallworth, Davenport & Treacy, ? Meivine ciarkr Irving, ana otners, and the AfULLu, the greatest of all player pianos. , 1 ' '. , AND REMEMBER .' ; theres no limitation. Those coming Saturday night' have the same show, as those coming in. the "morning; but bear in mind, this offer is 'for Saturday, only, and will not be made again. ; . : . . :-, (- , - - - HOVENDEN-SOULE PIM0C0. - 106 FIFTH STREET, NEXT TO PERKINS HOTEL. i mi