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MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1918.
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN AND TRIBUNE
SOME OF THE MAJESTIC HEADLINERS THIS WEEK
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By DR. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG
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“Is Baby Weak th« business of a Government
bureau!’’ The observing taxpayer is perhaps asking
this question.
Ever since last October when the General Fed-
eration of Women’s Clubs announced its plan, an
increasing proportion of the bureau’s office force
has been detailed to the correspondence required by
the growing interest in the Nation-wide observance
of Bay Week.
The sociologist and the statistician will remind
us tht the bureau was created to make investiga-
tions pertaining to the welfare of children and that
Baby Week fa not an investigation and is not sta-
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Washington. First business sesslon
of th* Fifty-seventh Congress was held
today and several new members of the
Senate were sworn in. Large crowds
were present in th* galleries to hear
Vic* Presldent Roosovelt’z speech.
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
AND TRIBUNE
WHITE STAG
(Copyright, 1916, by Newspaper Feature Service. Ine.)
the International
When a baby exhibits evidences of
bowel or stomach infetionA, and
thereafter dies. th* loving mother can
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London.— House of Common* giving
serious consideration to the matter of
imposing duty on sugar and providing
for a fixed sugar tax.
J. E. Farnsworth of Dallas, manager
of the north division of the Southwest-
ern Telegraph and Telephone Company,
is among th* visitors here today.
What Statesman's Files
Tell of Years Ago
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fa pen DELIVERY. _ .. ,
Subscribers in th* city who 4o not recelve their, papers
by 8:15 on week days and by 7:30 on Sunday morning will
Enrer a favor on the management by calling the circula-
tion manager at elther phon* 110.
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‘Safety First' into ‘America First,’ for I do believe
that today there is more regard in the United
States for the welfare and safety of the working
man than in any other country in the world.
"It is especially gratifying that this movement
is progressing so rapidly in an industry that is one
of the greatest in the world. The United States
today mines forty per cent of the entire coal of
the world; as much coal as Great Britain and Ger-
many combined; and employs an ever increasing
army of men that has now reached beyond the
three-quarters of a million mark.
“It is difficult to say what might have been had
the various agencies throughout the United States
not co-operated with the Bureau of Mines in the
’Safety First’ movement. All we do know is that
if, instead of decreasing, the death rate had con-
tinned to inerense as it did up to the year 1907,
there would be today several thousand mors dead
miners in the United States.
all possible precision. The results of this inquiry
are being published, ss the law requires, in a series
of reports which consist of statistical tabulations
accompanied by descriptive text
There are many million fathers and mothers in
the United States, ineluding many of the best edu-
cated fathers and mothers, who have never read a
statistical table and never will. Yet hidden within
the figures of the bureau’s reports on infant mor-
tality, the roading of which they will successfully
evade, lie stern facte about the dangers which beset
American babies.
These figures give a clue to the reasons why, on
the great average, one baby in eight dies before the
end of the first year of life. They show that this
average obscures a wide gamut with comparative
immunity from infant loss at one end and with
fearful infant waste at the other.
If the bureau is to investigate and to report as
the law directs, then it must try to find ways at
reporting which will be heard by the whole public
which is was created to serve.
The popular methods of the Baby Week, which
are those of all astute advertisers, form an invalu-
able method of reporting to the parents of this
Nation those standards of infant welfare which
experts are endeavoring to make clea.r
The Baby Week emphasizes the constructive side
of infant care. It addresses not only individual par-
ents but communities.
The best test of its value will be the work that 1
follows it:
Undoubtedly every State board of health should
secure what only six States have at present—a spe-
cial division of child hygiene. No city or town .
should fail to provide instructive nursing service
and to pay constant heed to the problems of hy-
giene and sanitation, of proper housing and of
recreation spaces, since all these immediately affect
the welfare of infants.
There are 3009 counties in the United States. In
every county seat there should be a center for the
health work of that county.
We must have complete birth registration.
—Al these will be institutions for the common use-
—no more revolutionary, no more eleemosynary,
than public schools and weather bureaus and agri-
cultural experiment stations.
The New Zealand infant mortality rate is less
than one-half of ours and is being further reduced.
Why take less pains for American babies than
New Zealand takes!
organze tho Austin Bar Assoctatton in
order that th. library may be inereaned toilet 1 thi mother’ fault.
Internal revenue collections amount-
ed to $66,877,117 for the first seven
months of the fiscal year. This is $1,-
535,157 more than for the preceding
year at the name period.
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Denver. Colo.—The first annual con-
vention of the American Cattle Grow-
era" Assoclation la in sessfon today with
350 delegate* Most important subject
discussed was whether th* association
should be independent of th* National
LIvestock Association or a subdivislon
of IL
Irada us to translate, as President Wilson
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falis from a wndow,Tis scalded, tum-
bles down a gatesless stafrway or from
chair or porch, it is themother’s fault.
When a youngster has.the snuffles,
bog logs. decayed teeth, Jchafed skn,
constipation, or t* untrained in its
♦ vital general interest and th* ♦ | ill* of Infantile flesh are expelled by
♦ series answers questions of ape* ♦' cream, weakened cow’s milk, orange
♦ cial importance to every moth- ♦juice, cereal waters and vegetable and
♦ or. Tomorrow—Why Baby May i meat julces.
♦ Safely Cry Two Hours inTwen- ♦ Need of Science.
♦ ty-four. ♦ I A sclentific lesson which some moth-
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is the value of 24 hours of starva-
tion for babies whose intestines sud-
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERSI . . ..
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is providing for inspection by any advertiser to determine
for himeelt what *ur circulation ta.______,
“members associated press
Washington. — The education bill,
which has been under debate for
months at various times, finally passed
the Senate today.
denly become active three times or
more on a day in warm weather.
"The poor darling is hungry.’ walls
the grandmother
"1 hal doctor is a brute," scowls the
friend.
Yet, little but boiled water for a day,
and only barley water perhaps for an-
other day, has saved many bottle-fed
children from the death or disaster
caused by summ diarrhcea, cholera
The hardware store of Philip Ger-
hard. 4C3 East Po an Street, was broken'
miner killed fa the largest in the entire history :
of coal mining in the United States.
Statistics gathered by the bureau show that more .
than three quarters of a million men were employed *
in coal mining last year, and that of this number
2264 were killed, which fa 190 less than in 1914
and 521 less than in 1913. The death rate for
each 1000 men employed was 2.95, as against 3.22
in the previous year and 8.73 the year before that. 1
Thia means that as a reault of the general safety
campaign that haa been proceeding for several
years, there was one additional man saved in every
four thousand employed as compared with the pre-
vious year; and three more men saved in every
four thousand employed as compared with the year
1913. There were 228,799 tons of coal produced for
every life lost as compared with 208,078 tons in
the previous year.
"This fa the most gratifying report the Bureau
of Mines haa been able to make since it wss estab-
lished,” said SecreUry Lane: “It indicates very
forcibly to me that ‘Safety First’ has come to stay
in the coal-mining industry and that it is being
practiced more assiduously in mining camps than
ever before.. Every effort along this line spells ।
lives saved, suffering lessened and poverty and
mous tortoises, and then he mad*
some bird*— a bird with a lizard’s tall,
another bird with wings, too small to
fly. a bird four yards high-truly: But,
d*ar me, I simply, ran not remember
all the odd, ungainly monsters that
sculptor carved up there in his rocky
workshop on the mountain.
Then. feeling rather tired of th*
marble giant* had made, tho culp-
tor took a handful of clay and rade
a beautiful little shepherdess barely a
foot high. Oh, but she was sweet and
dainty, with lovely curly hair and a
sweet, saucy face. But, alas! some-
thing th* sculptor did to the angle of
her chin mad* her look a i1*4‛e vain.
There came a day when h wished he’d
only noticed it In time.
Now th* sculptor was a wizard, too.
“Safety First" is beginning to show substantial
iesults in lives saved in the coal-mining industry,
according to a statement made by Secretary Lane
of the Interior Department today. A report of
the casualties in the coal mines for the year 1915,
made by the Bureau of Mines, shows that:
The actual number of men killed is the lowest
in the last eight years.
The death rate for each 1000 men employed is
the loweet in the last sixteen years.
The nuuter of tons of coal produced for each
option or PUHLIcATOX
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Any erroneous reeetton pe the eharactera.stanatn«;
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation whish
appe ara in th* columns 'f th* Statesman and Tribune will
b* gladly corrected if cailed t* the attention of th* pub*
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Parle—John Wison Durant, an
American eitizen, waa killed at Ostend
today in a duel with a Rusatan duxe.
Durant’a home was in New York.
Washington. — General McArthur
cabled the War Department today that
the transport Logan sailed from Manila
on the 1st with General Young and
General Harr with twenty-two officer,
and 764 enlisted men.
Published dally, afternoon ana night—and Sunday morn-
|T[ Ay Th, Ag.tla Stalemuaa Company._______________
PM Austin siqtesman, entabllhed 1871.
J Austin Daily News estabtehed ,1922.
; caqvzqafz"pacqutth"ky Austin statesman Com.
Mar 2’" CoasoUdated with The austin States-
stipation- the very thing grandmoth-
er* think it combais. Diphtheria antt-
toxin may need to be given if that
dread scourge Is manifest, but colic
and scurvy, rickets and bed wetting
can not and should not be treated by
Washington.- The report of the com-
mittee on naval affairs, recommending
an increased navy appropriation, says
"We trust the bill may meet with the
approbation of both houses of Con-
gress. and its enactment Into law would
bo an Important step toward the cre-
ating of an efficient navy and contrib-
ute to the feeling of ncreased national
security. At present such a feeling of
security among well informed poo pl?
can only come from the belief that no
nation will attack another when it is
hapless."
March 6, 1886.
New York.—All surface cars are tied
up as a result of a strike declared heit.
today. No disturbances have been re-
ported, but in anticipation the police
officers have been given riQt guns and
hundreds of deputies sworn in to han-
dle the situation.
High up. near the top of the world. feet as bigas hub* treestumps, enor-
there dwelt in the old, old days, a
giant sculptor. Half wizard he was,
with strong, beautiful hands that mold-
ed all sorts of curious things of clay
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Infantum or some other April to De-
cember baby ailment.
Of the many abominations unto the
new mother, few of the long list of
medical fallacies and granny supersti-
tions are more pernicious than “teeth-
ing." "grwing pains” and a "touch or
taste of whatever is blamed.
Exper ' says Prof. Abraham
Jacobi. “to many self-made people te
a mistake made hundred of times."
In other words, since few persons
live long enough, »r go to the trouble
to learn to distingufsh between ap-
parent results, coincidences and mere
sequences of events, they not only con-
tinue in the same crrors all their live*,
but they pass them on unto the Phird
and fourth generaticns. It in difficult
for truth to catch up with tradition.
Cemeteries tell no tales. Doctors are
not the only ones who bury their mis-
takea
“Teething** could not conceivably
cause "colds," "coughs," bronchitis,
pneumonia, dysenteries, measles,
mumps, whooping cough and other se-
rious ailments. Yet doctors are not
the only ones who refuse to throw
it way these scapegoats and easy roads
to comfort and self satisfaction.
As for “growing pains," there are no
such things, Dos a Iwig shoot, a blos-
som unfold, or a tre* grow with dis-
comfort ? Why should one child have
"growing pain*" and ten hundred oth-
er children you know never have them?
Why is elementary eucation an neg-
lectful of logic? Full many a tubercu-
lous joint is born to blush unseen and
undiagnosed until too late, because so
many persons are ready to pronounce
the ch’ld’s complaint as due to "grow-
ing pains" or a “touch of rheumatism.’
Moreover, and finally, there I* no
such thing as “a touch of scarlatina,
typhoid’’ or wat not. Either a child
is infected with a malady or it is not
infected.
Because the laboring people of Fort Worth be-
lieve that it fa possible to operate Sunday moving
picture shows m a manner in keeping with Sunday
observanee, the Union Labor organizations of that
city were hosts to the people of Fort Worth Sunday
for demonstration purposes. We have not yet
heard ef the success of the free shows given by
the union labor people but unquestionably they
must have, done well. They would hardly have
begun such an undertaking if they had not believed
that they would do well.
' Fort Worth is one of the Texas cities which has
been operating Sunday moving picture shows.
Against that plan of Sunday amusement, there has
recently been some agitation.
Recently the same situation prevailed in Waco.
A local option election wee held in the eity of W aco
and a tremendous vote of approval waa given the
Sunday pictures. The same result was had in
Dalls in an election upon this question several
years ago. The right of Fort Worth to vote upon
the proposition fa now being questioned.
Whether or not Fort Worth does vote upon the
question, there can be little doubt about the attitude
of the people of the Texaa cities on the matter of
Sunday moving pictures. They want Sunday pie-
tures. They probably want them as badly in Austin
as they want them in Waco and if given an oppor-
tunity to express themselves, would unquest ionsbly
so vote.
The State law and the State courts say that there
shall not be Sunday pictures and the rural Legis-
lators have been unwilling to repeal the law. They
see great harm in Sunday pictures but we do not.
Ab a matter of fact present day pictnrea are
offering come eplendid and wholesome amusement
—much of it educational and much of it portraying
u strong moral lesson. We would not favor opera-
tion of picture shows in a manner to interfere with
religious worship but frankly we can aee no great
harm in giving the people who work six days in
the week an opportunity to enjoy a harmless amuse-
ment et certain prescribed hours on the seventh
day. There may be harm but we have never found
it. We have in fact very little faith in blue laws
aa means of reforming the world.
it is to be hoped that the Texas Legislators will
watch well the eentiment of the Texas cities and
'heed in a way the will of the people who are not
clamoring for vice but who would like very much
indeed to have the opportunity to eee a Sunday
picture ehow at certain hours of the day and who
rAnnot see that they will be forever and eternally
loot if they do co.
Ex-Senator John Young Gooch of
Palestine was in tn* city yesterdny. He
favors Bryant T Barry for Lieutenant,
Governor if Brunet Gibbs will not make
the race.
You haven’t fotgotten that, have you?
And he liked the dainty, saucy little
shpherdess 8o murgh that he decided
to wave his wizard s wand above her
head and bring her to life. Yes, he
was even wizard enough to do that
- and did and, my dears, Prsto! Into
the eyes of th* little shepherdess came
the twinkle of life, her sculptured
drapery futtered in the wind up there,
her lip* parted with a sigh.
"Dear me!" she sald. "I do feel--
very queer!" ch
But the wise rd wA staring around
his workshop in horrified dismay.
Every single one of his marble ani-
male had disappeared!
(Continued Tomorrow.)
, ♦ six artioles on th* scientific ♦
♦ oar* of baby. It is offered by ♦
♦ this newspaper as a part of th* ♦______________________________
♦ observance of National Baby •drugs or home remedies.
Week. Each day there will ap- ♦ Mother’s milk 1* the medical ambro-
pear on this page an article ♦ J sin and cure-all for babies under
dealing with baby's needs. Each ♦ twelve months of age. Lacking this
article contains information of 4 elixir of life and health, most of the
not shirt the responsibility upon th*
busy-body neighbor, aunt or grand-
mother who dimmtssed the early symp-
tom* as "teething" with a multiple
of "sure" remedles. The murder Will
out, and It I* Infanticld*. Disinclination
to adopt the knowlege that is now
available for young mothers is no ex-
tenuation for the unhappy conse-
quenceg of Intrenched ignorance.
Against opinions of grandmother*
and neighbor* who have "raised dos-
ens of children" by wrong methods,
stand the observtions of science. ’’Th*
on* that died" could have been saved,
and th* "ralsed on# could have been
reared to live mor* efficiently and in
better adult health with a little more
knowledge wisely applied. A baby
should, as a rule, receive no medicines
in the first two years of Ite life. Even
oastor oll to iniquitous and cnumes oon-
There are, perhaps, ten million moth-
ers of young children In the country.
How many babies there are may be
easily imagined. The Government at
Washington is co-operating with the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
to turn over a parental leaf of its own.
It has booked an engagement for all
parents this week. This is National
Baby Week.
Baby week has been established for
the purpose of saving little ves-
maybe your baby’s life—and to protect
little bodies that ctherwlse might be
deformed by dust, cirt and dysentery
from April until December, or from
respiratory maladies from December to
March.
There is hardly any excuse or any
maternal justification nowadays. In the
light of the precise knowtodg* accumu-
lated in the last fifteeh years, for
breast-fed ba bl or lo fall ill. Almost
every infant nurtured on human milk
should reach its second anversary
free from disease nnd accidents
if a baby is the victim of sicknesg
before Its second year it means that
its mother and doctor have clung to
ancient methods, despits the wonderful
advance of medicai science during the
twentieth century.
Rsponsibility of Mothen
When a baby is suffocated, strangles.
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tisties.
To All these groups WB are accountable. What fa
orr reply I
For the three years the bureau has been in n-
istence it has put a considerable share of its energy
into a statistical study of the sociat nod economie
caumes of infant mortality, planned with the great-
est care and conducted by trained field agents with
nnd marble—trees and bird*, animal*
and fish- but th* wonder of It was
that he made the clay himself and the
marble, too. He had lo. for th* worid
was so young ther wasn’t any clay or
any marble anywhere. Myself, I be-
I tore ’twaa he who carved the lon‛
body an the young woman’s head of
the mysterious Sphynx upon the desert,
but of that I can’t be sure. If he did
he likely worked upon it in the dead
of night chipping chippin, away while
the world was sleeping.
Dear me, he was a hug* fellow, that
sculptor, and no mistake. And if he‛d
only stayed honest, aa he was at first,
there wouldn't be any white stag in the
waterfall—but therel that was after
the shepherdess began to bothr him.
and I blame the shepherdess quit* a*
much aa th* sculptor.
Now that sculptor was such a giant
that when he walke abroad he
merely stepped from hill to hill, and
many and many a time he cam* home
with a star or two tangled in his hair.
However, that never worried him. It
wa so simple, you see, to reach up
and replace them.
Quite naturally, so large a sru dpt or
molded giant thinga. He made a mar-
ble lizard Mxt v feet long. Think of it!
He mad* flying reptiles, lit*rd* with
feet like birds, and one lizard with
Fort Worth.—The strike inaugurated
recently on the Texas & Pacific has
proven a failure, as men hav been
supplied to take the places of all the
strikers and all trains are running out
on scheduled tipe.
Wichita Falls.—Two negroes who at-
tempted a burglary of a department
store were roped up until their tongues
hung out, beaten, stoned and chased
out of town.
Seventeen men recently recruited in
this city "or service in th* United
States Army in the Philippine*. They
left yesterday for Ran Antonio.
A cold norther blew up yesteray
morning and in a few hours th* tem-
perature dropped to 20 degrees. >
Father Joseph Just, a teacher in Rt
Edward's College, nccldentally fell from
th* window of his room yesterday and
was instantly killed.
Governor Sayers appeared before the
Legislature today and spoke at length
on th* matter of unnecesaary appro
p riation and stated that up to <b* pres,
ent tlme Approximately $300,000 had
been appropriated
Colored cltteem of Austin held n
| mans meeting last night nt the eoort
I house to take some action in regard to
I CM cit campaign.
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