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Newspaper Page TextINDEPENDENCE, OREGON. THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, PAGE TWO THE -KISSLESS BRIDE" DISEASE COSTS BILLIONS A YEAR Economic Loss From Preventable Ailments Is Estimated at Enormous Figure. 1 PROFESSIONAL COLUMN. t Carfada Expropriates Luxburg's Gold Coin DR. ELLSWORTH THE VTEERINARIAN , ' 10th and H. Streets. V . Phone M 3122. SWOPE & SWOPE Lawyers 1. 0. 0. F. Building Independence, . . Ore. Halifax. German gold coins formerly owned by Count von Luxburg, who figured la tho "sink without trnce" notes 'which passed between Berlin and the German embassy In Ar gentina, were ordered expropri ated and turned over to the Canadian government as prlzo money, in the admiralty prise court here. The .steamer which carried the count back to Ger many several months ago put in here, and the money was sclied nt that time. There were thir teen 20-mark pieces and eigh teen 10-mark coins. BASED ON STUDY IN ILLINOIS 4 in. O) o I 1 u. WHY WORRY ABOUT ' your noon lunch on these busy days when you can get a quick meal at the PALACE Main street Lunches from 11 a. m.. until 2 p. m. and from 5 p. m. un- til 12 p. m. FLETCHER & BARRICK, ATTORNEY'S ,t Cooper Building INDEPENDENCE,- .. OREGON. SAFETY FIRST. When your property is in- sured in a good reliable com- pany, you can rest much eas- ier. See WOLF & MIX at Independence National Bank, yrho will insure your home and other property your business burdense will "be less trouble- . some to you. We insure with only good companies. ON OLD ACCOUNTS WE GET RESULTS ' . WE REPORT RESULTS WE REMIT RESULTS WE PAY THE EXPENSE WE TAKE THE BLAME. KNIGHT ADJUSTMENT CO MeMinnville, Ore Successor to , YAMOREG COLLECTION AGENCY. WILLARD STORAGE BATTERY STATION We selL Rent and Repair Bat- ten. OUR REPAIR WORY GUARANTEED. 418 Court Street Salem. , Phone 205 Willamette Valley .Transfer Co Leave Portland Daily Between Salem,- Independence', Monmouth and Dallas at 7 A.M. Our trucks are at your service for all kinds of short or long distance hauling, Furniture moving, etc. Prompt and i service. careful Leave orders at Hotel Beaver Office until de pot is opened. HAVE SPERLING The' Painter To Hang Your .First-Class Workmanship. AUTO, SIGN AND PICTORIAL PAINTING Tinting and House Painting. ' Leave Your Order witn PHONE M 6211 Influenza Epidemlo Responsible for Economic Lot In Vital Atseta of Approximately $1,000,000,000 Health Mean Money. New York. Economic loss In this country from . preventable diseases Is estimated by American Medicine at $2,500,000,01)0 a year. This conclusion Is based on an elaborate study of the subject by Illinois Health News, which shows that in 1918 In Illinois alone Ill ness and death from such diseases en tailed a loss of $24.67 for each man, woman nd child In the state. Ajthough the general death rate In Illinois was at the low figure of 14.2 per 1,000 of population, the loss from the prin cipal preventable diseases amounted to $15,8S1,6S5, or 6.01 per cent of the total property value of the state. "If this ratio or per capita .cost," American Medicine says, "were to apply for the entire United States the loss during 1918 would amount to more than $2,500,000,000. The Illinois figures, however, merely considered the cost of the following communi cable diseases: Typhoid, malaria, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, menin gitis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis and pneumonia. "In computing the financial cost, three items were Involved: (1) The cost of funerals based at $100 for adults and $50 for children; (2) the value of life lost at $3,000 for an adult and $500 for a child; (3) the cost of care of those who recover, including medical service for adults. "Utilizing the same figures for the few above-named diseases In a com putation on the basis of the United States mortality figures for 1016, the death losses from these ten diseases (poliomyelitis not Included) amounted to approximately $570,000,000 and the losses due to medical care and wages to approximately $l,O7S,000. "The recent epidemic of Influenza involved at least ten million persons, with a mortality of approximately 400, 000. Assuming that each case of ill ness involved only $25 , for medical care, the cost would be $250,000,000. Pestilence Adds Another Billion. "Inasmuch as the mortality from In fluenza Involved approximately three persons of working age to one child, one may consider the average loss by death equivalent to $2,400, ,and the funeral expenses at $90, giving thus a total economic loss In vital assets of approximately $1,000,000,000. These fig ures, large as they are, take no ac count of the losses In production due to the pestilence, nor, indeed, of the cost Of labor turnover due to the mor tality of industrial workers. These tremendous costs of com municable diseases may be regarded In part as an Index of the economic efficiency of communities. It certainly does not reflect great interest or care in the conservation of the assets of the community to note the astonishing destruction of resources due to pre ventable communicable diseases.. "It Is probably a shock to the con servative thinker about ' economic wastefulness to realize that the num ber of Industrial accidents reported to the New York state industrial com mission for the- year 1917-1918 was 286,871, a number larger than the total casualties of our American army oc cupied in the strenuous work of con; quering a pitiless foe. It is of the ut most significance that war, with all Its atrocities, Is' probably responsible for little greater disease and disability during the period of greatest Industrial activity than occurred during the. or dinary years of conditions reflecting normal Industrial activity. , Health Means Dollars and Cents. "Health must be estimated in terms of dollars and cents, in terms of pro ductivity in order to reach the con science of the average taxpayer, who must be called upon to defray the ex penses of health departments and to meet the increased costs laid upon Industry by virtue of the economic losses entailed through sickness and death. The economic value merits greater attention particularly at this time, when every effort Is being made to secure the rehabilitation of the wounded and to Increase the vigor and potential power of those who have suffered from disease while pursuing their course as part of the military or naval forces of the nation. . "It mast not be forgotten, however, that similar problems are of equal Im portance in connection with the every day living of the growing nation, now bent upon renewing national prosperi ty and raising the standards of health, comfort and prosperity for all the types of citizens which comprise the nation." i Needle In Her Body. Concordia, Mass. A surgical needle that has been in her body for more than twenty years has. never given Mrs. F. J. Hannum of this city trou ble until recently. The needle was re mnvprt hv ft ohvslclan after Mrs. Han num had suffered severely witn cramps In the leg until the needle was round. BATS ARE WELCOME IN TEXAS State Passes Law Protecting Them at Killers Of Mosqultoea and Malaria. New Orleans. "Malaria can be elim inated. The mosquito alone Is respon sible, v The surest method of ridding the earth of mosquitoes is propagat ing the bat" These are the words of Dr. Charles A. It. Campbell, mosquito extermina tor and protector of the,, bat. He Is the originator of the only municipal bat roost in the world, at San Anto nio, Ter., which will accommodate 250,000 bats, and already has about 85,000 guests. Through the efforts of Dr. Campbell the city of San Antonio passed, June 8, 1914, an ordinance prohibiting the killing of bats, and on March 10, 1017, Texas passed the first law in the world which proteVts the bat. Since the erection of the municipal bat roost at San Antonio and the origi nal bat roost built by Doctor Campbell at Mitchell lake malaria has practi cally disappeared from the territory. FATHER, 13 SONS, ARE SLAIN Two Daughters In French Family Al0 Killed by Germans Remark able Record of War. Paris. Thirteen sons killed on the field of battle, three discharged with grave Injuries, one wounded four dif ferent times, the father and one daughter summarily shot by the Ger mans for going to Lille to celebrnte the centennial anniversary of a rela tive, and another daughter killed by a German shell at Dunkirk, is the rec ord of the family of M. Vanhee, a French farmer of Remlnghe, near Ypres. M.Vanhee had 86 children, 22 sons and 14 daughters, all of whom were living when the war broke out. One of his sons was valet to Pope Plus X J he returned to France to fight and was wounded in each of four different en gagehients. One of the sons lost both legs, an other returned from the front blind and deaf, and another underwent the trepanning operation. MORSE CODE SAVES OFFICERS Finds His Belt Has Been Left Un. fastened When Pilot Starts Spec tacular Spiral. ' '. - ' ' Camp Dlx, N. J. About to be hurl ed from the tonneau of an airplane that was starting a spectacular spiral 3,000 feet over headquarters when he discovered that in making accomoda tions for a third passenger and a mov ing picture camera Tie had forgotten to adjust his own lifebelt, Lieut. M, Leroy Wlghtman saved himself bj tapping out a telegraph code message to his driver, Sergt. John Morse. Wlghtman was hanging on by his feet and one hand, face downward, when he managed to make known hla predicament. "Come out," the officer frantically spelled out by taps on the aluminum body of the plane In 'lots find dashes, and the driver, catching the message largely through vibration, righted the plane and flew back to the landing field to see what had pone wrong. EIFFEL TOWER 'DEMOBILIZED Will Be Accessible to Tourist Visitors for the First Time Since War Began. Paris. The Eiffel tower has Joined the ranks of the demobilized, Its mili tary Job beihg ended, although its wireless telegraph station will be maintained and indeed strengthened to make it equal to the German post at Nauen. It will be accessible to tourist visitors after being unapproachable for more than four years. During , the war a , dozen machine guns were mounted on the highest platform as protection against air at tacks. On the first platform were four inch guns and searchlights, and later a powerful siren to give warning against air raids. f t "Flu" Decimates the Congo. Brussels. Persons arriving here from the Congo say that Spanish in fluenza has played havoc among the population of the Belgian Congo terri tories'. Many villages have lost neatly one-half of their Inhabitants. - Vast Storage of Food.. . Boston. Despite the exorbitant food prices prevailing, the cold-storage warehouses In this state have reported to the state department of health the storage of 17,750,000 -pounds of food .during the past month. , V .X: . '.-L ' Mrs. Virginia Hooves Harris bur ner, known as the "kissless bride," is having no particular trouble nnmil lng her secret marriage1 to the youth who told her that "ho wWwI married i h,,.! children." and that 4ie didn't care for her any more. War ner visited his young bride, wno still known as Miss Harris, sevcrul times after their marriage, but for fear somebody would find they wore married thoy did not even kiss, but when she was willing to live with lilra on $lf0 a month she says he refused to allow her to do so. When he ad mitted that he did not care for her Miss Harris told her parents and the untying of the knot began. The bride Is popular In society In both Washing ton and Philadelphia, being the step daughter of Commander Archibald L. Parsons, of the Philadelphia navy yard. TRIAL WITH ONE-MAN JURY Seattle Has First Case on Record Where One Man Bring In. Verdict. Seattle. One-man street cars now pass without comment, one-man sut marlnes were more than a theory when the war ended, but what Is probably the first one-man Jury tried a case In the court of a Seattle Justice of the pence recently. , Earl E. Uarr, a returned soldier, was the only one to appear of six prospec tive Jurors whose names were drawn to try a suit for damages. Ilnrr was properly examined aud passed for cause by both sides, and neither at torney exhausted any of the possible peremptory challenges. Several witnesses were examined, and after giving oral instructions the Justice allowed the Jury to retire and deliberate upon Its verdict. Barr was out 2f minutes and re turned the following verdict : "We, the Jury In the above-entitled cause, find for the plaintiff In the sum of $03.18 Earl J. Burr, foreman." TWIN BROTHERS RE-ENLIST Lure of Army Life Too Much for Vet erans Who Served Overseas. San Francisco. The lure of the army has won out. Jesse II. liruce und Robert II. Bruce, twin brothers, who received their discharges when they arrived from overseas with the 303d, "San Francisco's Own," recently re-enllsted for service with the Army of Occupation. The twins, who look exactly alike, requested Col. John II. Gardner, re cruiting officer, to see that thoy were placed in the same unit. "We have never been putted," the Unices told the colonel. "We enlisted together and fought side by side in the Argonno, and we want to remain together when we get to Germany." WANTS TO END COUNTY JAILS Philanthropist Receives $30,000 for National Campaign With That Object. New York. Adolph Lewisolm was 70 years old, so he gave a garden par ty at his country home at Ardsloy. The party was combined with a meet ing of the national committee on prison reform, and $.'10,000 was pre sented to Mr. Lcwlsohn by friends for a nntional campaign which the com mittee will soon begin for the abolish ment of the county Jail. Hundreds of friends of Mr. Lew isohn motored up from the city to pay their compliments to the philanthro pist. . Mr. Lewlsohn said that fully 85 per cent of the, men in county Jails today are innocent. Build Own Truck. Medford, Mass. Members of the fire department at the central fire station have built and equipped a combination motor truck which is now in commis sion. The new truck was constructed com pletely by the firemen and represents a cost to the city of but $500 for materials used. The engine in the truck was rebuilt from an engine In one of the discarded pieces of apparatus. ovX'f ihs dinner cooks 'M 9 Culinary oK-mtn tuntl ',1f5 I not mi HVr t U result of I The G-E Electric Range 1 allows Mich iH-rfitt Wat control that nny in.ul ran bt I cookol "by tho clock without four of b. itK Killed. I I Telephone MtIa-6011 and ask boot our wbol jut jmj plaa. j Mountain States Power Coj I fi pSirtOlWlglT a tT ? " n I i,"Bllin j n Otis D. utler. , - . . A Grocery That Never ROGERIES Calbreath 8c Jones THE The Leading and Lamest newspaper'! r i " .,'. . it . -all1! independence as well as most vvidiy 11 The Independence National Bank j OFFICERS. j H. HIRSCHBERG, Tret. D. W. SEARS, Vkt-fml IRA D. MIX, Cahier. ' INCORPORATED 18B9. Transact a General Banking Business Interwt Tald on Time Depi DIRECTORS-II. Uinchberg, W. II. Walker. D. W. Sean, I. A. Abi Disappoints Customers CheapesT jfli) Not Best Because BifflU mfmXj ) But Biggest Because Best S Ar ' ; No 'Order Too tart To Fill i I "'; ''"'A No Order Too Small To j LarseQuaiues H This Store Aims to Serve the Public Pleasantly and Well- Goods Wo Sell are Just as Represented and When Dnlcrs are Given ;; We NEVER DUPLICATE. We Send You Just What You Order, Never Send the "Just as Good" Kind. f DO YOU READ ENTERPRISE