The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 8

/. guet.of the A so Te FRAMAGUAN CLEA HUN Democracy in Mass., Expressing Itself in - Old New England Town Meeting, Is Making the Town a Municipal Public Health. Model. By GARRET SMITH, In this time of daily world thrilling ‘incidents imagine a community where ‘one of the chief topics of conversation ‘among all ages and classes ig the com- ‘paratively prosaic subject of public jhealth! Such is Framingham, Mass., ia Mttle manufacturing town of about |15,000 in the remote suburbs of Bos- jton. Two years ago had one broached the subject to the average Framinghamite ‘he would have scored nothing but more The town’s death and sickness rates were not It had the usual stock of sanitary regulations enforced about as usual. The health depart- ment spent about $7,500 a year, and \every one considered that quite enough ;whenever they considered it at all, {which was usually only at the annual ‘town meeting, when appropriations or less polite boredom. above the average. ‘were voted, | In short, if any one had asked him \Mr. Average Citizen would have re- | plied, “Why, yes; } guess we have a ‘fairly healthy little town,” and then changed the subject to something that| ¢, ‘interested him, But early in 1916 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company appropriated Framingham, “WHA WAY DO YOY PREIEA $100,000 for the use of the National Agsoclation for the Study and Preyen- tion of Tuberculosis in carryIng on a most unusual health experiment. They wished to determine six things: 1, Is it possible to discover and put under proper control every case of tuberculosis in an average, normal manufacturing community? 2. Is it possible to determine just what conditions caused the disease? 8, What is the best way to use the existing means of. discovering and treating the disease? 4, What percentage of theoretically Preventable disease can actually be prevented by use of all known means?! 5. How can social forces be used to| expect mill hands and their wives ana prevent unnecessary disease? eo eh to get much excited over it. . What cohstitutes the’ ideai com-| Yet this is what happened in Framing munity health machinery | han. Sounds tike a dry sclentifie experl- This town, after a thorough canyes ment, doesitJt? One would hardly | of the country, was selected su CONVICTS TOLD THIS IS NOT A RICH MAN’S WAR Big Business Show Little Busi- ness Sense If It Forced Struggle “Tf this isa rich man's w; the rich men who fomented it showed mighty poor busine: George Buzzelle, B rck Pour Min- ute Man, in addressing an audience of 180 convicts at the North Dakota pen- itentiary chapel Sunday evening. The speaker then proceeded to show that the tremendous war ‘pro-} fits obtained before America’s own entry into the war have been eliminat ed; that through income taxes and pro. fiteering taxes and the régulution of prices ‘Big Business is the heaviest sufferer through thé. war; that the prices of stocks and bonds, held prin- cipally by Big Business, have slumped, owing to the war, and that Big Busi-| ness in general’ has had much the worst of it through a war which agi- tators of the I. W. W. and Kate Rich-| ard O'Hare type have insisted was! forced on thix. country by this same Big Business, “~ Rev. Buzzelle was talking to an au- dience made up largely of I. W. W., who through some depredation or an- other have found their way within the walls of the North Dakota state prison, , At the close of his address he was roundly applauded, and the audience throughout his talk gave him the most intelligent attention. The prison band played a numebr of patriotic airs, Miss Lancetta Steele, supervisor of music in the Bismarck public'schools, sang and the Bismarck high school glee club gave several patriotic: numbers. This war rally, was held at the request of the con- victs; proved as inspiring in its way, declare those who attended, as did the big conference of last week. ORCHESTRA HEAD | DIES SUDDENLY Rocksie Cafarelli, who appeared here recently with his well known ‘Minneapolis orchestra, died on his return to the Mill City from an at- tack of heart trouble. He was. 54 years old, born in Italy, and a resi- dent of Minneapolis from early boy- hood. In his youth he gave much pro- mise as a violiniat, and his dance orchestra had established a reputation throughout the northwes INGREGATIONALISTS ANAMOOSE ENJOY ANNUAL CONFERENCE é (Special to Tribune.) % namooze, March. 4.—The elg! th annual meeting and ban-. tional church of mamoose was held at the church Thursday évening, Feb, 28. Rev. ald Rev. utepdaece. A dibebe'4r@.supporters of the church ‘present, and after the 6 o'clock which .was.greatly enjoyed mit; “Dr. H. M, Pressl rict_secretary, was arge number Of the |" [sar dora tana eit; sone | DIOMARCK .B OY | asic, toasts and talks in’whien some) TELLS HOW WAR WILL BE FILMED | fifteen persons took part. Rev. C.| N. J. Pengelley, the local pastor's fine and efficient work was reviewed which showed marked su ss and the)/r. + Fore are 7 church in excellent condition in every’ Pavid Schwartz to Go Into Pho- way, 'SANISH - BISMARCK tographic Department of Uncle Sam’s Forces then’ AUTOMOBILE TRAIL) putin, stim, Maren 4-—tn answer oo: . _|to the government’s call tor photo- Plans Laid at Ryder for Blazing | grapners who are to write. the s- | tory of the war in pictures. vid of New State Highway | Sc just left for Itha N. ce y, sit to. relatives Ryder, N. D., March 4.—Plans for! at oC treet to enter an automobile trail to be blazed from | the. school of military aeronautices Sanish to Bismarck were laid by an/at Cornedd university. enthusiastic and well attended meet-| Mr. Schwartz, who at the head ing of good roads advocates from Me-|of the kodak department of a Bis Kenzie, Mountrail and Ward counties,! marck, N. D., store, was inducted held in’ the commercial club rooms | volunt under special orders from here. It is planned to build at | the chief signal officer of the United which will connect at the McKenzte! States for enrollment in the school, | county line with a road extending | his ability as a photographer having to Schafer and thence to the Montana! made him eligible for this b f boundary. In Mountrail county the! the service. He was the firs trail will first strike Sanish, con-| North Dakota to be selected for the necting thence south to Bismarck, | aviation jon of the signal corps! on a parallel with the Soo line. The in the executive department. | road will be blazed, and state and fed-; “The camera is playing an import- eral ,aid will be sought. A trail will'ant part in the war of 17," he said, also be blazed from Parshall to Elbow- “and the signal corps is organized into woods, giving another excellent line the most up-to-date photographis di- of communication with the Berthold vision in the world. ‘The signal corps reservation country . is calling for photographers, ama- KFAST, tf man in A FINE EGG FOR THE KAISER’S BREA pi-| Some pessimists declared. the ctti- 4 i cal manufacturing community. A lit- {Ue over a year ago a: demonstration | committee wus formed, and Dr. Donald 1B. Armstrong of New York city was’ | chosen to djrect the work, no general, eye clinic. Transportation facilities and supervising aid were provided for the children's camp, and arrangements were completed for the union of the local anti-tuberculosis relief and visit- ing nurse ngencies with the growing Civic League. 4 ‘The-medical men of-the town were 1, Teaching the Lesson of Clean Milk and its Value as Food. 2. Framingham Town Hail, a Fine Old Colonial Monument to the New /England Town Meeting, Around Which the City’s Health Work Centers. 8. Scene in Laboratory During Examination Week.’ 4. Toothbrush Drill at Children’s Health Camp. 6. Baby Week. A Special Crusade for the Conservation of the City’s Future Citizens. } |#en8 of the town would resent being used for experimental purposes, Oth- ers sald they would consider it unnec- essary for the town to spend even its pitiful $7,500 a year as long as_a big insurance company was goir several times that annually in health work, At any rate. it was feared that co-operation could be secured in helping some out- side scientists solve a scientific prob- lem. é But disease, particularly tuberculo- sis, is a social problem largely. committee felt that its solution in any community could be reached only by getting all the community at work in harmony, real purpose of the experiment was to. prove that_any. community could work out its own public health. salvation, could within certain financial limits control the amount of sickness and death within its borders, So diplomatically did the demonstra- to speni interested social forces of tha’ ; teur and professional. Service in al ing at Great La i photographic division will) be, both’ | in this country and abroad, everything ‘being equal, one of. the most import-) ant branches. Those desiring service overse will be given-every chance 0} ‘to go over.” Men physically suitable for military service and possessing any of the fol- lowing attainments are eligible to the photographer's corps of «the signal | corp: Amateur or professional pho- | tographic experience, motion picture experience in any branch of the in- dustry, photographic laboratory - work ! of any kind, camera repaiying or work ; of a similar character, and map man- ipulating, reading or, intrepretation. Schools for aerial and land; photo- graphy are being conducted under expert instructors at Cornell univer: | sity, Columbia university, Fort Sill, Okla., and Langly Field at Hampton, | Va. Few remain privates after a course in one of these super-schools ; of photography, | In order to get a census of photo- | graphers jn this country and their) specialties, the government is supply- ing experience blanks through the| recruiting offices and draft boards. | ENJOYABLE FAMILY , REUNION AT HAGEN’S ‘Washburn, N.-D., March 4.—The Martin Hagen home at Painted Woods was the scerie of an enjoyable family | reunion when Rudolph, whois in train- HUMPHREYS’ full list of Try Humphress* Remedies for internal and external use, meets the needs .of families for nearly every aflment from Infancy to old age—descrived tu Dr. Humphreys’ Manual | mailed free, 7 PARTIAL LIST FoR, Congestions. Inflammations Yorm Fever rsing, Wakelulness of Infants 4. Diarrhea of Children and adults ‘7, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis 8. Toothache, Faceacho, Neuralgia 9. Headache, Sick Headacto Vertigo. ~ Ind igh, Laryugitis 4 nd Ay 17. Piles, Blind, fa leoding. Internal External 19. 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The local physicians took an active part in putting the health station examiners in touch with suspi- cious cases in their practice, The big manufacturing concerns of the town have become interested in establishing medical and nursing de partments in their plants, and severn! of them have gotten together In a scheme for joint medica! and pursing supervision, The other insurance companies op- erating in the town have co-operated with the Metropolitan in distributing literature, taking the health census and soliciting for examinations. ‘The churches also have lent valuable aid in promoting the educational work. . As a result of the preliminary edu- cational steps the committee has met with an unexpected degree of sympa- thy among all classes with the numer- ous investigations that have been car- ried on, including an infant welfare canvass, a Statistical study of births and deaths, a sanitary survey, @ health censos, a tuberculin survey, a medical examination campaign. etc, The practical: health results after only one year of this work are most strikingly shown in the saving of baby lives, Formerly every year babies in Framingham: under one. year of age died at the rate of 90 ‘o 100 out of every thousand born. Last year this infant death rate was only 67 rer 1,000 births. This is one of the most re- markable cases of reduction in infant death rate on record since infant wel- fare work began In this country. So far the committee has given in- tensive medical examinations to one- third of the city’s population and has discovered approximately 160 cases of active tuberculosis, which are now re- ceiving proper care to restore them to health if possible, but at any rate, to prevent them from further spreading of tlie disease. Before completing its three years of demonstration the com- mittee expects to complete the examl- nation of every man, woman and child in Framingham and to have thorough- ly established. among the. citizens the habit “of an annual medical examira- tion for the purpose of discovering and schools have been converted into chil- | checking disease before it has develops dren's summer health camps, | ed, to the dangerous point, ° tia The committee had paved. the way|~ . The’ demonstrators believe that they for this by enlisting the aid of the po-| ave Put ‘Framingham, firmly .on tts: litical ;leaders of the different: facti ovwnsfeet_ and that thls: foo work. will * % me MODS, go-on uninterrupted after.the: experi- in town, Next the private agencies | nent is over..:Framingham, they hope, were appros hed. The local - Civic will ben real “Spotless, Town,” ‘1 con:. League was inspired with new life and| stant demonstration to other, commun}- added a full time secretary and a ‘full | ties of tie fact. that. any. clfy.or town timé.infant welfare nurse to its staff.| can jmake' ‘itself a shealthful place«to Funds’ and hospital space were -set.| live in if it will'go abot it.in the right aside for a dental, nose and throat and Way, fi i 4 “e qi eae 1! 3RIBERY CASES tion committee go about interesting the citizens of Framingham that the work has become a part of the town's intimate life, As a result the citizens have voted at town meetings gteatly d| increased appropriations for their health department work. The depart- ment now has a budget of $15,000 a year, double what it was spending when the demonstration began. The health officer is devoting his whole time.to the work. A‘school nurse and a full time baby welfare nurs2 have been employed. 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