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P MARCH 22, 1922, tively repetitions of the tion ever aracter, must naturally produce its [} ’ Tea ¢ j inating of the|theless, the history of the last ffty|iike wherever it finds the sultable op- e all y 7 4 . ot v crossed oy of @ healthy person by (he vira | SE408 AROrs mufiicient evidence o/ yor(unity. In the dlatricts of thia coun —_— vd J ound sloth into the north- | or digease, under any pretext what- | *hoW that even repeated vaccination | try where vacoination is most, general has no merit |y practiced it has been observed that lf.u- " | nustodon and mammoth in- | over, 15 unphilosophieal, unjustifahble, 3 ' lto t outhern continents, sefentists | cpiminal, The possibilities are that Epldemics of smallpox are as nu- [ pulmonary disease appears to he a 6 Ihe fiest ground sloth fonnd in{ pe will not contract 4 contagious dis- | METOUS And a8 severe as they ‘were one | perpetual epidemic, North Americi was deseribed byl orger w0 long as the standard of |07 WO centuries ago, It is probably| The actual perils of smalipox have N s C[A S.S Phomas defferson and hears NS DAMe heaith can be maintained. To infect |10 MOre possible to avert them than |peen largely exaggerated, It has al ! negalonys Jetferson i gt distemper on the plea of| ' 18 1o prevent volcanic cruptions. | ways kept within moderate limita of v M”fi[‘fr.fflllflfi ‘ R protecting him is preposterous, ";‘f"]‘f""“"" ‘]"fn:'r‘“\""-;'f-::":"\"(f'rf"“‘:m_i;:";: ng"’ull:«:l x!l::‘fn u,r:?.nrue;::i:d :l;‘l')" h')." COMMUNICATED ‘ _ The lymph of & vacaine " pustule|yimiiar to another in manitestation or s n'n'- n;:oro zymn!l: discasen prevails, containg no virtue or quality that will it DI (bha and oharestaianaid t J g § ! ¥ e g almost nlways exceed it many fold in | CIGAR PHE PALLACY OF VACCINATION fin any way remove the Habillty to|prnoipally determined hy the pre-| {ntensits ana. (atatity h"“u"yo' i g Ihe wly s of vaceination have| contract smallpox. No one ean In- |50 iing fntaence in the earth and | onation 3 Il SI] E Ced’ 30 Mflhon ac eu IN. THE WORLD |\t i s s romince v teigents Pdeny s 0 sl e om0 e e o 1550 comtnetng o | AU e Exc who distrost its utility, but ingtead | product of decay of fissue WAL IS [theare §8 4 table which shows that{ . ! | A have vesorted to the employment of | produced by the decomposition or | (hora was more smallpox in Knglana | Ineident to the f’”"" of.the putiant r GREEN {uther 4 often reprehensible means. | retrograde metamorphosis of the tis- [y 1560 than in N‘,‘:\"uml wtil ";’m" Apart from ("Iu“ rlwmvlu:‘nl The dl: ‘——BLACKD MIKED Q! yUhildren are exeluded from the pub-|sue of the body. 1t is but a Utte){, 1870 than In 1860, Smallpox had r_vrdfrwl con tion of the parson af- mous FOR o | removed from absolute * rotlenness, 1 i UIRON Nad | g e a nidus or matrix, for the recep- s‘.&dmu? Refuse All Subntitutel- Jie sehools unless they have heen vac Kaubina { 9 sinte e ccome more prevalent - since the) o, "an g incubation of -the morbifle | cinated, therely making iU appear| This being the fact, the inserting of | arvead of s aoeintion and yet in each | . . UALI IY [that o healthy child 18 a menace, and | such material into the lving tsaie of | Sag (o o on and yet In Ach | prineiple. 1t he 1n not already in a - sic p el e 3 $ y bad or depressed condition of health, |, ooited several commissions and |inating of discase under the pretext the attempt 15 made 1o worry and | another person is a calpable act, and | fnan measies. soarlating or consum 0 sles, arl P y [l . coeree the parents and guardians into| nothing less than the contaminating | yon he s not llable to any mailgnant or|, (" o de aiory efidence han aceu-|of averting It 'ia the cardinal policy MADE IN NEW ENGLANDS [ | ompiinnee with the arbitrary condt- | and infeeting of the hody of that in. | an examination of (he tnligfos HIMASTONN, Relaiire. e Mhe, ARG o o e R (e rea | of fnedlonl e pATIARLARTGS. Caha Hon by fprosecution for truancy. In | dividual with fithy, leathsome, pol o 1 f o [ 1 3 i N - P p LARGEST CIGAR FACTORY | 111" Lt "t e Mt e | o et 1 fnet i | " e, AVFerentciten of | the| Wi" et any“incurson of skt | Delusion. 1t has shown that thora, finie 10 netevs fn the ety o the T whatever. We have all observed that|were numerous deaths from yaccina. ' Procedirs; perhaps profes from a feeling of utter helplessness, | found hy careful ohservation that | soots. Tn the senson when smallpox Iniatie hag CiiiATGA. toTaRapatthele MANCHESTER,N. H. precisely os men submit 1o the has: | whenever a vacelnntor or corps of |1 anidemic, the deatha brom measies| N7 VATIOUS matignant diseases ‘and [ tion, but the facts were carefully sup X‘flf,’w:;"‘ A s Lo T tinido inflicted by Oriental despotism, | vaceinators set out upon a vaceinating | jnyvarlably exceed those from that epidemics leave many persons un-|pressed, that horrible diseuses have ": bl e g e AR AR R.G.SULLNAN I other cases, they followed as in a|crusade, there follows very generally | qigease, while the cases of S ,.,m,“‘""""“"- TA"-‘X"(‘:“‘ ]‘"’I‘h"m":";'""_" heen. often imparted ""’1‘ ""‘: ”'“_" p”,',,,x of time. A hetter intelligence groove, without considering what was|a number of deaths from erysipelas [, ke tent fever, Aslatic cholera, attack only | cination' has no warrant in rcientific PEriac R - SOLE OWNER AND MFGR, ¥ and the deaths from it are far more those llable from deterioration of | knowiedge. Some of the facts dis. |must yet dissipate the thick vapor right or wrong, reasonable or falla-|and other maladies which have been " ’ g f 1 he a the higher numeroun, sometimen. outnumbering | 1 e Cere ahoeking. (o evers: Haman | 0 et in the hlu\ll,,lv'||nfnr|\ hr‘-f‘mp: tigue, or paralyzing terror, sensibility. truth, the true evang § clons, Advantage has heen taken of | induced by the operation accompan- |tnirty to one. If the facts were im- the prevalent inattention to the mat. | ied by suffering of the most heart {¢ S i { , ke — ) partially presented in their true light, s ; p disense Instedd of cansing it. ter to foist upon the statutes various rending character, and no effort made to create a panie Such are the facts in regatd to| Tn Ameriea, ta still lh': nrn"'flfl"" 108, MULLIGAN, M. D, fealth regulations and other require- | with these facts in view it seems|over the few cases of smallpox for|[smallpox. Only those will be attack- [which does not protect. This dissem. O, ATGAN, M. D ments, often i flagrant violation of | st unnecessary to declare the cur- | the suke of jobs in vaccination, the|€d Who are in the way of it, and thetr| g ~ — personal rights, and with no adequate | pent notion that vaceination will pre. [ vublic attention would he directed fo | '!ability is not so much from expoes- | ure and contact with the patient, or | ustification. 'ASsengers upon 0cean|yent smallpox or even mitigate the|the diseases that were actually sweep- 1 steamers are forced o submit to the | goverity of the attack to he entirely[ing away their vietims by the scores|0f morbific emanation as from some W, PALACE—NEXT SUN., MON.. TUES., WED. operation, persons employed in fac-| jigtitute of foundation. Tndeed, every|and hundreds, rather than to the|[!ll condition of the bady which vac ‘ torics, warehouses and the civil sery ;nmnmng person can cnumerate ex-|meagre roll of smallpox cases. Con-|cination can not correct. The people | ? fee are u,mp,m.l to ‘.1I-m|| to be| 1".”‘,“ of ‘m,“m'm] persons who [ sumption follows in the footsteps of [0f Switzerland have rejected comput- || ‘ | i | sary vaccination and every country in ces, Holdiers » and| case. The failure of vacclnation to|over follows a cause. The vaccine pol- , i Adumen i the navyane N0 OBIIKEN [iosiite ‘sxamnflan AEam A salnax Hak|AraiheliE the Riadtict of dseayinslani Idn the name if there was opportunm ADDED ATTRACTION— “THE LEATHER PUSHE Ml]sellm Spe()]mel]s to submit, as a matter of discipline, | heen made a reason or pretest for|mal tlssue and often tuberculous in' The British house of commons hu A% A contury ago they were inocylat- . ed perforce for smallpox. The claims for vaecination have Chleago, I, March 22 €| ever heen demonstrated to he sanc doesn't usually hunt 1,500 poundfyjoned by any ascertained law or| mammals with turtle-like shells and [ GRE0 N B 00 e A e 10-foot talls, except in_bad dreams,| pier, indeed the sole argument, has| (] e but a party from the Field Museum|joen the citing of statistics, more or will hunt for such an animal, and[jaes perverted, and the inference that | [ ; others as Argentina. this | ecause the matter has been made so fall. _Elmer §. s curator of {he ftq yppear, it must he presumed to he | ; department of palcontology, will head'| it} good renson. Ifirther argument the expedition, and he means to bring | o 1y 04 by stolid silence, and by an ap- back the megatherium and the gIvp- |parent concert of purpose to exclude > todon dead or alive—probahly dead carefully all discussion of the matter| as they are recorded as having heen o medical and publie journals and extinet a long while, The glyptodon o genaunce all who object. When an : - I the creature with the charming tail | ,coysed person finds it hard to repel described above; the megatherium, a|, charge, he frequently secks to di- variety of ground slofim is fellow allopg yitention by vilifying another. | tew sizes larger than the """"'“" Yet many objections to vaccination > in trees, from which he hangs all day, | perconal oxperience and observation % Moving slowly ahout toward dusk.la;q hy persons fully entitled to re-| HELPING 19,000,000 PEOPLE x 3 y Fu.. ..... NATION'S HEALTH The megatherium, however, had 1o |canteil consideration, They will not Records kept by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company show an extraordinary need to climb trees, for he could |.jwavs he dismissed by obstinate s About 19,000,000 people are insured 144 health exhibits and emergency stand on the ground and reach 10fty {janee and unworthy innuendo in the Metropolitan--over 16,000,000 | decrease in the death rate among its Industrial, or weekly premium, policy-holders. Com- hospitals at county fairs last year; 295 Lranches with his forepaws Those who object are conscious th under weekl! i licies. Th “ up'’ igns; agitati y 5 )b : s | y premium policies. e g f Clean-up'’ campaigns; agitation by Few Monsters Loft v oleht Al thae e artibeE 0" e weekly calls of Agents at the poiicy | PAring 1921 with 1911, for example, there were 55,000 less deaths in 1921 than there would Avety ,:r healthl Epalstien: Aatinn: These are a few of the huge mon- |heard £ i 3 b i : % 4 sters Mr. Itiggs will seek in the| It the public health and safety con- | holders’ homes provide a wonderful | have been if the 1911 death rate had prevailed. wide campaigns against special dis- opportunity for health and welfare eases; sickness and sanitary surveys; southern wonderland. e won't dis tute the supreme law, then a can- dain, however, to look about for ex-did and critical e¢xamination of this | work. What brought about the : a study of municipal health depart- ! eat saving of life? tinct animals as small as mice, and The Company has accepted the op- & L ments; leadership of practically all S PERERLOR DU oAl o cagiinmb et e portunity and to-day is at the fore- American research work relating to of them. TO Make Rich S T RSN e The general public health movement—progress in medical science and 8anitation— | ;4. c1sa these are some instances of Mr. Riggs' expedition will be one . of five which the museum has begon | other causes, perhaps. But a very great factor has been the tremendous health campaign | the Metropolitan's activity in the interest of public health. 1o send to South America A botan \cal party 1s.already in British Guiana Red Blood carried on by the Metropolitan itself. This page:telis:a part of.the story. Mr, Riggs will sail in the tall in or fached i > g der to be in the sonthern hemisphere | Revitalize your worn-out ex- 14,000,000 VISITS BY TRAINED when it is spring there. The party.| hausted nerves and increase NURSES. which will also include ). 3. Abbott vour ltrength and gndur‘nca ! ! Free nursing service is given to In- Tron; not metallic iren which dustrial policy-holders in 2,800 cities of the museum and one other exper ienced fie'd worker yet to he selected, ! i < S y % « s will 1ook for fossils where the sea has |"“ghle, usialls take. but pure organic iren and towns. Trained nurses not only ; HOMES FOR 17,744 FAMILIES worn away the rock along the Ar yaurslogd pandcestiies iron Sinifaninesh, heal the sick but teach right living. i ) | In the investment of its funds, the e itachts ome places the [lentils and apples. One doge of > e 5 b G i s gentine Leaches. In some places th np e 0 T4 000,000 et v e Lo Metropolitan is i penl e tow g P! . Tron is cetimated to be approximately rock system of the Argentine coast is| : Lranpraimately, : , A1 i3 now g ; Gl i Al | vquivalent (in organic fron content) to eat made—2,116,875 in 1921 alone, Num- tol which will aid housing, During expes>d for a mile ing one-hall quart of spinach, one quart 3 | Interesting Animals cen vegetahles or '| alf n“:m»:. apples erous letters tell of lives saved. I f I C n 1920 and 1921; the Company made and The extinct mammals of South Am 1‘“”:,\, “‘}.’m‘.fi‘y!' ir”n'flf.v' "'\,‘.}.E,',: ”v::: ".' 1 e nsurance Om a ; pledged loans of $68,080,017, on new dwellings and new apartment houses, erica are particularly interesting, Mr., “ 1t predigested and ready for almost Hises & ‘r\ wuse they are chiefly |immediate absorbtion and assimilation by Incorporated by the State of New York: A Muiual Company e 2 L1l et £ the blood, while metallic iron I8 iron just providing-homes for 17,744 families. R e i (P i e s e St T DISCOVERING DISEASE IN TIME | HALEY FISKE, President FREDERICK H. ECKFR.Vice-President_ lated to the f<una of Australia thanfioen small pieces of iron fillings. S ey Gl 4,000,000 people annually are using ! S s foSthay gl heeongaxtingtgfonndixin N Tron. 1t will not injure the teeth Free medical examinations often dis- North America or elsewhere | i the stamach. A few doses will closing incipient disease in'time to cure Business Statement, December 31, ’,2, The distinctly South American ani-|afien commence to enricn vour bland. Your g | mals now extinet includedy besides the fmoney will he refunded hy the manufae- it, are granted to Ordinary (annual turers if yon do not obtain satisfactory re- ground sloth and the glyptodon, a| 'l ! ? 2 premium) policy-holders, subject to Assets - Sj e e (e i - = =e e .81 115,583,024 $4 camel-shaped beast with the snont of | A A R Always Insist on reasonabie conditions. Larger than those of any other Inmmm Company iniths World. { GRI?::‘I%ECRIAM IN e n:nri‘i':-ll‘\d .-fln.«-l(“;;‘»‘.{\prlm!‘:::"hl..:.\,:‘.:,.'.‘.:'.:' ‘ :r‘:r\ll‘k‘uf‘ 'v“xff""lvl'y',“"‘,' e L Increase in Assets during 1921 - - = - ' $134,669,037.37 y ihils, having hoofs, huge teeth and the i LS At ar Larger than that of any other !nwmuu Cmpa»y i the led The. death rate among Industrial skull of a horse. Liabilities- = = = = - = .« o o ‘o o ‘o $1,068,341,845.04 policy-holders reached its lowest point 4 le’ p’w‘mmu o T N UXA ED | RON HELPING THE EMPLOYER Surplus SR AR T el i g i RO R ,3‘7’241 179.50 in 1921—31.9% lower than in 1911. and North American animal life s TO HELP 5 b Aatde i The rate from tnbmd decressed 71%; Income in 1921 - - - = - $301,082,600.30 tuberculosis, 49%; Bright's d o) e e Employers insuring their employees Larger than that nf any nlhev In:manu Cmpduym the World e i 30‘:: lnfect; ";3 : md N under Group poicies are advised re- Gainin 1921 - - - - % $38,462,919.41 = ynu;lh i m"rh:'e'gfl hil- garding health conditions and accident . Larger than that of any olba I’uwam Cmpauv in the World. e ol}:vhi‘::ul ; klpe:t;tmu prevention, while the employees re- Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1921 - - - - $1,504,780,607 Tl o TEORONSE SO0 ceive the benefits of nursing service and More than has ever been placed in one year by amy other Com”uy i the World. age creased & years. welfare literature. Gain in Insurance in Force in 1921 - - - - = = $625695,328 Greater than that of any otker Company in lht led. Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance- - - - = = $7,008,707,839 Larger than that of any other Company sn the Wuld. 238,000,000 PIECES OF rdinary, (that is, exclusive of Industrial) Insurance in Force = . $3,802,267,274 PUBLIC APPRECIATION LITERATURE Larger thaw that of any other Company sn the World. The Amesi e ; & Number of Policies in Force December 31,1921 - - 25,542,422 it Ie0® Sh e made the Attractive hmk.ezf and‘ pamphkta More than that of any other Company i A oo Metropolitan the greatest life insurance et vady D Number of Policy Claims paidin 1021 - - - - - 323,81 S LE L IR §1,005¢ Portant piHAses Oty hea UL BHCC SOAAS) Averaging one clasm poid for every 27 seconds a!mk business day of & howrs. ,839 insurance in force, : < and prepared by leading experts, are Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1921 $91,348,472.08 It leads not only in Industrial but in ibuted broadcast. - So far, 238,- : OUn PRIC0, O LCy a0 D ETS Prisu B S L 348, Ordinary. Morsthan half of its busi distribu i ) Payments to policy-kolders averaged $630.16 a mm of each business day of & hours. e 0] ness 000,000 copies have been distributed— * Divi i e in force is Ordinary—83,892,267,274— Vot o eI Dividends t'o Pol{cy holders payable in 1?2%, nearly - : $16,000,000 which is miore than that of any Com. In addition, 18,000,000 copies of + Amount paid Policy-holders and Beneficiaries since Organiza- pany in the world.| The Metropolitan, a health magazine, tion, plus Amount now Invested for their Security - - $2,047,602,135.07 are issued annually. A GROWTH IN TEN.YEAR PERIODS ibotanding THE FUTURE Number of Poficies s Insurance | in Fores at End of Year st End of Year A CITY THAT IS WATCHED YEAR [ Income for Yesr | Asets at End of Year |SurplusatPndef Year The Metropolitan will contine its In Framingham, Mass., the Metro- B R i o U i i i ay i & o offer the ere is pnhla.n is Igarlmg the way in a great Dec. 31,1801 | $11,423.406.68 | 1891 | $13,626,048.21 ; 258.707,708 e A : experiment, watched by health author- | Dee. 31, 1901| 38,017,163.59 | 1901 74,771,758.56 1,076,077,204 g & L nsurance, an T ley Hau More ' ities throughout the country, to dem- | Dee.31,1011| 9813527371 | 1911 |- 35278580036 3200040087 | 1011 - 2509878087 to save human life. ‘Continued growth onstrate what proper municipal health | Dec. 31,1021 | 30195269939 | 1921 | 1,115583,024.84 Ammnm | 7,008,707,839 will give the Company still greater regulation can do. Deaths from tuber- LTSN opportunities to serve the American For LeSS losis have dropped from 121 people in insurance protection and in ?&Z,‘fm ‘:\40 ,,;,T:num i 5 The Company issues policies from a bundrod to & Million Dollars of Inmnnco. the conservation of life and health. [} The Packard truck combines | | In fact, its Ordinary is nbw larger than its Industrial. road-mastering power and last- i The Company also issues Health and Accident Policies—minimum $8,000. ing strength with an ability to haul more tons over more miles / ) F for more years at ton-mile and GREA I ES I —— upkeep costs amazingly low. IN ASSETS IN BUSINESS PLACED 1IN ORDINA'RY‘BUSINESS in FORCE IN INCOME IN BUSINESS GAINED IN REDUCTION of MORTALITY IN GAIN of EACH IN BUSINESS in FORCE IN HEALTH and WELFARE WORK “The Company OF the People, BY the People, FOR the People,”’—John R. Hegeman Washington St., at Park, Hartford