INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE,
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THE -KISSLESS BRIDE"
DISEASE COSTS
BILLIONS A YEAR
Economic Loss From Preventable
Ailments Is Estimated at
Enormous Figure.
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PROFESSIONAL COLUMN.
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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.
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INDEPENDENCE,- .. OREGON.
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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. '
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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. ,
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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.
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