Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 17, 1917, Page 6

l THE BEMIDIT DAILY PIONEER | HALF OF U. 8. DOCTORS ARE UNFIT FOR ARMY More Than 70,000 Will Be Elim- inated by the Standardi- zation Process. Washington.—Of the 140,000 physi- eians in the United States less than one-half_ are available or desirable for medical duty in the military service. in the opinion of the New York com- mittee of the medical section of the Council of National Defense. There- fore it proposes drafting of physicians gelectively upon a basis of federal clas- sification by a medical census. These views have been laid before the general medical board by Major Karl Conpell and other members of the New York committee. The com- mittee also set forth that there is a de- cided shortage of physicians ready to volunteer for. war work. The committee on standardization of medical and surgical supplies and equipment, which has been at work gn the problem of overcoming the short- age in surgical supplies and instru- ments due to the large percentage of this material which has heretofore been imported from Germany, reported that through co-operation among Amer- ican manufacturers substantial prog- ress had been made in increasing the sutput for war purposes. The committee is rapidly perfecting a eomplete standardization of all medical instruments and apparatus, through which the simplest type and the small- est number of styles of instruments consistent with scientific performance will be turned out by all manufactur- ers. INDICT BERKMAN FOR MURDER Anarchist Accused of Plotting Fatal Bomb Explosion. San Francisco.—Alexander Berkman, anarchist, was indicted by the grand jury here for murder in connection ‘with the bomb explosion here last July. in which ten lives were lost. He is accused of taking part in the conspira- ¢y, which, the state charges, culminat- ed in the explosion. Mrs. Rena Moo- ney was put on trial here for one of the bomb murders, and her husband, Thomas, and Warren K. Billings are under sentence of death and life im- prisonment respectively for murder. growing out of the explosion, Berkman, now serving two years in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., for conspiracy to defeat the draft law in New York city, with the aid of Emma Goldman, also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, published an anarchist paper called the Blast about the time of the explosion. District Attorney Fickert said efforts will be made to bring Berkman here for trial before the expiration of his sentence. REMOVES MEN’S HATS. Patriotic Young Woman Member of Band Adopts Forcible Methods. Defiance, O.—Miss June Speiser. a member of the Girls’ band of Defiance. took an unusual method to teach re- gpect for the national anthemn to an audience at Florida the other evening The band was playing “The Star Spangled Banner™ in a street in Flori- da when Miss Speiser noticed that the men in the audience did not remove their hats, She put down her horn in the middle of the selection, walked toward the audience and removed the hat from the head of the first man she met. Several others were treated to the same dose, and finally all hats came off, and there was great applause for the patriotic little lady. who is sixteen Years of age. OLD TIN CANS ADD TO TOWN'S WAR FUND Yorkshire City Profits $2,000 a Year by Saving Junk. The town of Keighley, in Yorkshire, has set the pace for all England in the enforcement of strict economy in every branch of public affairs and bousehold life, Keighley profits almost $2,000 a year from the collection of old tin cans, jars, bottles, newspapers. frayed clothing and odd shreds of cloth. The whole town is within the food limit imposed by the food controller's appeal to patriotism. In every house- hold, printed in letters of red, white and blue, is the pledge, “In honor bound we adopt the national scale of voluntary rations.” Not only has Keighley, with her 40, 000 inhabitants, complied, but she has even kept the m=zat consumption at one-half a pound a week per person under the amount allowed by Lord Devonport. Organization did it for Keighley. Boy scouts were placed in charge of the refuse collection, a squad to every ward, each having a depot at which to deposit the material. Then there is a central depot controlling the collec- tions of the subsidiary stations. The publicity committee organized , sub- committees to reach every ward, and the ward committees had subcommit- tees for every neighborhood, with the result that no householder in Keighley escaped a visit in the interest of food conservation, WAR AGAINST INSECTS. 8t. Louis (Mo.) Health Department Pushes Campaign With Vigor. Three years ago St. Louis undertook a campaign to exterminate those in- sects which are a menace to public health and life, writes Dr. G. A. Jor- dan in the American City. This year the campaign is being pushed with even more vigor by the St. Louis Con- tinuous Clean Up and Paint Up associ- ation and other prominent bhealth or- ganizations, co-operating with the St. Louis health department. Thus far the health department's ef- forts have been directed mainly to the extermination of the fly and the mos- quito, but it Is intended in the future to include the bedbug and the flea in this campaign. The two first mention- ed insects were selected in the first campaign, as they are the two most formidable disease carriers by reason of their power of flight. ‘The question of the destruction of the mosquito is relatively simple, for the reason that it is only necessary to oil and keep oiled the breeding places of the insect. But the question of war- fare on the fly is a different proposi- tion. In nine cases out of ten flies lay their eggs, hatch and develop in the city in horse manure. The tenth case develops in uncovered garbage cans. neglected dead animals and other de- composing organic matter. The most important element, therefore, in the extermination of the fly is the elimina- tion of horse manure from the city. This, with the proper handling and dis- position of garbage and dead animals, leaves the fly very few places in which to hatch and develop. Hogs of Red, White and Blue. Hutchinson. Kan.—One Hutchinson swine raiser, L. E. Griffeth. is patriot- ic to the Hmit. All of his hogs are ved, white and blue. He has Duroe Reds, Chester Whites and the new breed of blue hogs. known to breeders as the Sapphires. Griffeth, who is nicknamed Red for obvious reasons, declares that there is nothing blue about him, although he is shipping in corn at $1.65 a bushel to feed to his red. white and blue hogs. . -3 I Courtesy Baltimore Americaa CAN 'ANDLE T™IS? Huffman & 0'Leary FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING HN mEEmenl Director Phone 178.W ne R J o . ST e 5 L. P. ECKS' " Plumbing, stenfln Hot ‘Water Heating Get our estimate. Phones 555 and 309 Ladies’ and Gents’ Suits MADE to ORDER | Cleaning, pressing n;i alterations of allkinds. AIl work up-to-date, first class workmaaship T. 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