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be of the Senate Military Affairs Committee testing oat the new radiophone. Col C C CuWMwJ
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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heart skipped several beats and he
didn't take a breath for what seemed
at least ten minutes, when, much to
his amazement, they fled with one
accord, muttering 'Der Amerlkan
er.' "
So Tom Sawyer has made good.
"I always knew he would," declares
Mine. Clemens.
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Gus Williamson returned to Hepp
ner Saturday from San Francisco,
where he has been stationed most of
the time since going Into the service
last summer. He has received his
discharge and is really glad to got
back to Morrow county again, having
had about all he wanted of army
life on this side of the pond. Gus
was pretty much disappointed in not
being able to join the forces going
across to the front In France.
Billy Cronk, Tum-a-Luin hustler at
lone, was doing business in Ileppaer
on Saturday.
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