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rill' ; VKT1 K-TIMKS. JIKl'PNKK OREtJOX. TM'KSD V, .IWI'UIY 30, 1010, TA-K TWO PHONING AX AIRPLANE IN FLIGHT XKWEST YANK TRICK.' "3, J 1 ? 'i a Talking to an airplane In flight through a wireless telephone .s one of hne. '""".Vem Tierfected hy Yank ingenuity, with the necessity of war as mother of the "an r rulver wilh be of the Senate Military Affairs Committee testing oat the new radiophone. Col C C CuWMwJ hand up to mouth) is phoning orders, and Senator Francis E W.rran ver t0 ear) 18 ll8temn in In the foreground is Senator John W Week, with Major Maurice B Connelly. QUARANTINE Rev. H. A. Xoyes. "Cummand the children of Israel that they uut out of the camp every leppr p.vj ev.rv '.hp tlut lr.t'.h an ist. e and whoswer itf unclean by tin; doad." Numbers r:2. .Ag.s before modern science was bo-n lio Jews prr.,'ii' od 'v-arantine. Kc . .-;(; in the wripture of the text liu i:i many oilier pa:-sa.sres Mtes ta'. j.1 i them t ) :i?parto between the diseased and i'ue liealUifi-l in order to rr voi.t the spieaJ ul rontagion. Th" Jew :ra., also .a.i;.;!!t to dis tir.s '.;isii between the clean and the uni .uu:, not only ii. r.ru drink. b;r vi'h regard to pcrxuial contact i!': cnclcanncss. Dsfiletvent of the body vas scrupulously avoided and the virtue of lirthia? in running va.er was inculcated. So emphatic were these distinctions among the propenito.s of this mighty race the " they are racially unique among ancient peoples, and a recent medical authority attributes to their scrupu lously cleanly habits die remarkably longevity of the Jewish P.abbis of our iwn time and country. The mental habit of habitually dividing between the clean and the ur.c;fan became an object lesson for moial distinctions. Virtue is to the mind a:id spirit what cleanness is to the body, but vice is moral pollution, to be rejected and shunned. This illustrative thought is carried all through the Bible, so that when Gcd reveals a way of salvation for the sinner it is said in the vivid figurative, language of Scripture that lie hath "Opened a fountain to the th" hii'se of David and the inhabit ants of Jorusalern for sin and un eleanness." A few years ago, during a summer vacation in the mountains a friend guided me to a spring bub ,J'iiJ 4 1 A i N - 1 ft . t bling out of the ground, pcrhaf-s ten fc-et across and several feet deep from which a large stream flowed down into the valley. My friend was accustomed to take a morning dip in that rvcrflowing fountain of pure mountain water. What a sense ;.f cleansing power the sight of that sparkling water conveyed. So through the acts 1'ic . lun'.ala of God's love and forgiveness has flowed to cleanse the sin-pollutod souls of men. The observance of quarantine reg ulations is a mark of civilization. Contagious diseases are many time? more fatal where the value of cjuar anaine is not known, or where for any teason it is not put in practice. Uncivilized or half-rivi'.ized rates suffer many fold destructoin by pest ilence compared with lands where modern science has taught the value cf quarantine. Our government vigilantly guards our coasts from oriental plagues by quarantining every approaching ves sel where there Is reason to suspect the presence of contagion. Several years ago it was found that the Bu bonic plague had boen carried ashore at San Frascisco by rats escaping from Asiatic vessels. The California ground squirrels contracted the dis ease, and Immediately the U. S. gov ernment employed a force of men to trap the squirrels until the disease si'iould be exterminated Hie enforcement of quarantin" by a temmunity is an instance where 1'ie restraint cf individual liberty is required for the common good. We have learned that it is better that ono family should be deprived of freedom, while every effort is made for their recovery, than that the whole community should be exposed to the ravages of disease.. The argument is strengthened by the knowledge that contagious diseases usually become more severe as they advance. This principle of the restraint of 'the individual for the common good nmr ''iiillll ill!1' smokespot with Prince Albert it hits you so fair and square. It's a scuttle full of jimmy pipe and cigarette makin's sunshine and as satisfy II- ing as it is delightful every hour of the twenty -four 1 It's never too late to hop into the Prince Albert pleasure pasture 1 For, P. A. is trigger-ready to give you more tobacco fun than you ever had in your smokecareer. That's because it has the quality. Quick as you know Prince Albert you'll write it down that P. A. did not bite your tongue or parch your throat. And, it never will! For, our exclusive patented process cuts out bite and parch. Try it for what ails your tongue! Toppy red bags, tidy red tint, handcome pound and half pound tin humidori and that clever, practical pound crystal gla$t humidor with tponge moittener top that keept the tobacco in such perfect condition. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. r is utilized in many other ways. A man might be to indolent to remove a hnd-siiieliing nuisance from his premises, fur his own sake, but he must at least do so for the sake of his neighbors. The citizen has a perfect right to the use of firearms a right guaranteed by the Constitu tion but he must not fire a gun within 'he city limi:s. The prohibi tion of the liquor traiflc is enacted on the same principle and there is reason to hope and believe that certain vices v.l'lii before the war were left free to contaminate the public health will i ' bo -iiiaran. ined for the protec tion of the innocent Thus increasing civilization means more and more individual restraint, and i lie and of greatest personal freedom becomes at the same time i::? 'laud where the vicious must practice self-control for the good of 'he body politic. Hell may be con ceived as the eternal quarantine of tho incurably sin-polluted, and hsaven as the realm from which they are permanently excluded. "Where 'ore come cut from among them, and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and be a Father thUij y-,u and ye snail be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al mighty." The consideration of quarantine suggests many moral analogies. The germ theory of disease reveals myriads of minute forms of life -tiugg'.lng, like ourselves, for ex istence. They are everywhere, in the food we eat and the air we breathe, in ' the hoavens aboTe and the earth beneath and the waters under the eartn." Many of them are harmless, others are beneficial and iu fact with out tiieir salutary activity we could net live. They render our broad digestible, give flavor to our butter a:id cheese, and vinegar abounds with them. iiui as with visible animal and vegetable life, there is a distinction YOU can't help cutting loose joy'us remarks every time you flush your to be made among these invisible breeds. From the standpoint of human ate they are good or bad. Just as seeep and cattle are worth mere than cougars and rattlesnakes, we are able by scl nitific i.ivcstiga- i..!i to dis tinguish seme of the char .cteristics of various micro-organ-ins. Seme we welcome, agaisst .'I'.e-s we contend. When certain vicious forms of bacteria begin to operate within tho body we are put up. .n a fight for life in which eery ci'th.rt sometimes proves unavailing and death ensues. It lias been contended by some that, given absolutely perfect human li:'. such a person would prove im mune to the attack of any disease genu. Others have asserted the power of the mind to resist all forms of disease. These contentions how e.er tail prae'.ieally, for we have no example of a perfect human life, and typhoid or diptheria germs will eat a Christian Scientist with as much relish and as little regret as though he were a skeptic. These destructive bacteria infect not only the human body but also prey upon lower forms of animal life, and indeed form a wonderful chapter in the history of nature. By means of diligent investiga tion, scientists have learned much of i the nature p.ud activity of these in- finitestimal forms of existence, so that civilized races are protected in . a large degree from their ravages. : The present epidemic of influenza has i been much more fatal w hen it has : appeared among lower races, than iu Europe and America. Before the j'.ime of modern science plagues of various types periodically swept over ' the nations destroying life in vast i numbers, liven iu our own country in earlier times when cholera or yellow fever appeared people simply hitched up t heir teams and drove t safety i leaving crops and stock to care for themselves as best they could until the pestilence should disappear. I Physicians as well as missionaries have not infrequently exposed thein : selves to the dangers of contagious diseases that they might bring re i lief to the suffering and to study the ! nature of the pestilence in order to discover a remedy. Such heroic ! men and women are benefactors of the race, entitled to no less honor than the soldiers who fight our bat tles. Christianity has produced the conditions which have made success ful scientific investigation possible. It has also taught that spirit of self sacrifice which has called forth almost countless examples of person al consecration. Every law for the restriction of wrong is in its nature a quarantine law morally applied. Before the Civil War laws were repeatedly en acted for the purpose of confining slavery to the states south of Mason and Dixon's line. For many years the people of certain states sought by quarantine to protect their citizens from tlie degrading influences of the saloon. Now the whole American people have a constitutional law to quarantine our country against the rightfulness of booze, and every loyal citizen will lend a hand to secure its enforcement. It is true thai, a people cannot be made good oy law. But t is also true that the laws of a democracy are an expres sion of the moral life of the people, and by wise laws faithfully enforced, the innocent may be protected and the baneful contagion of vice re stricted. Scripture admonishes us to prac tice individual quarantine. "Be not deceived, evil communications cor rupt good manners." Also this, "En ter not into the path of the wicked. And walk not in the way of evil men Avoid it pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on." After quarantine, and connected with it is disinfectant, which is in tended to exterminate the deadly bacteria of contagious diseases. For this knowledge we are also indebted to faithful students of nature's laws who have made it possible to estab .ish sanitary regulations of very great practical benefit. Yet above all ar tificial disinfectants In potency are pure air and sunshine God's gift to all. Health is God's gift, and is normal condition of human free the life. But we are in a world where we are beset with enemies, so that in cessant study and toil became nec essary for our protection. Thus the Creator has stimulated us to that mental, moral and physical effort without which development and progress would be impossible. All health comes from God, and to learn its laws that we may secure its blessings becomes our privilege and duty. When the physician success fully prescribes in case of sickness, he simply utilizes means which the Creator has placed within our reach. While it is evidently our duty to cultivate and protect health, the best of our ability, with how much greater force does the principle apply to spiritual health. A diseased moral nature is even more to be deplored than bodily sickness. A corrupt mind may diffuse contagion more deadly to sociejy than influenza or typhoid. Disordered mental faculties arouse our pity but how much more lamentable a soul Infested with the bacteria of sin. This however ia possible only by the personal choice of the victim. Every sinner is such because in the last analysis, he has choBen sin. We often seek to lay the 'responsibility on some one else, but when the eyes of the spirit become clear we know that the sinful choice was our own. The contagion of' physical disease may be brought to us by the fault of another, but thank Cod, no other can force the con tamination of sin upon the soul. Mark Twain iiiijlit About Tom Sawyer. ; "You can't always tell how young-' sters will turn out when they grow t,i manhood." says Mine. Clara Cle-; mens, who, though, a well known1 finger, is a n. other herself and ought to know: "but anybody would know that my father, Mark Twain, wouldn't devote so much time and attention to 'Tom Sawyer' if he weren't a real worth-while fellow. "And recent events hare proved the wisdom of his judgment. Private Tom Sawyer has helped to win the war and has been recommended to General Pershing for bravery "1 read about him in the last issue of the Stars ond Stripes, the official publication of the American Expe ditionary Forces. At midnight, un aided and unaccompanied, he left the American lines, crawling on hands and knees until he reached the German lines. Then he had to cut through the barbed wire fence which marks the line with an instru ment which made a harsh noise, fearing every moment that the noise might attract the attention of some j watchful Boche, who would imme i diately send him to join the angel choir. But nothing happened. Tom Sawyer worked his way through the wires and found himself in the land of the Hun. He went on a little ; further and found himself in a dense forest. So far he hadn't sighted a 'living soul, but he did sight some i machine guns and cannon, and I though he wasn't able to take them back for Uncle Sam, he did succeed in putting them in such shape that they'd never sing another hymn of hate again. After going on a little further and gathering the informa tion lie had been sent to get he was about to return, when suddenly he ' ran right into half a dozen of the Huns. Tom Sawyer admits that his The wift Dollar for 1918 rf wmm ira mm 0 2.96 dbc; 1 Expenses jf JJ 0 O III ToStock Raiser! M The above diagram shows the distribu tion of the average Swift dollar received from sales of beef, pork and mutton, and their by-products, during 1918. 1919 Year Book of interesting and instructive beta sent on request. 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