The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, May 17, 1917, Page 7

rises, it fs certain that that cow has been captured and thoroughly sub- Jugated by several million germ.s.' The _cow is simply providing ambush for the invading enemy and the sooner. it is put out of the way the better. The same is true if a horse, reacting to an administration of mallein, proves to have the glanders. RIDDING MILK HERDS OF TUBERCULOSIS GERM Since last July Dr, Van Es has sent out about 15,000 doses each of tuber-. culin and mallein. He is now sending out about 1000 doses of each a weelk. The tuberculin is largely used by state spectors in checking up dairy herds’ and the mallein by veterinarians gen- erally in testing horses intended for shipment outside the state, this test being required of all horses before - shipment. Of course all this is to the benefit of the farmers. Under the anti-tuber- culosis law, with the state making the tests with state manufactured tuber- culin, the farmers have a’ chance to clean out their herds, receiving com- pensation for such animals as have to be slaughtered and getting into a posi- tion to prevent further infection. But the farmers are not the only ones to benefit. What about the babies that are assured milk free from tuberculosis germs? Statistics show that North Dakota, with its state /inspection of cows with state manufactured tuber- culin, is rapidly coming to a position where it can take rank with the best states in the union in disease-free milk supply. Sometimes statistics are mis- leading, and they are often dry read- ing. But here is the situation-in re- gard to the North Dakota cows: Ten years ago, when tests were started under the law, one cow out of every . eight tested was found to have tuber- culosis.. Now, only one cow in every twenty is diseased. Doesn't this look as if the drive of Dr. Van Es and the farmers against the germs wero ga.ln- ing ground? COLLEGE STAFF WORKS FOR HIDDEN FACTS If, in the war against germs, the production of hog cholera serum, tuberculin and mallein is to be con- sidered the manufacture of munitions, there is another branch of .work of Dr. Van Es and his assocxates of the- veterinary department, in which they act as the board of strategy. This is the research work. In germ warfare it is just as -important to have ‘the newest method as in any other kind of warfare. It is more important, in reality, because germ warfare is a newer science and conditions are changing more rapidly., While there has been human warfare ever since the first two brothers lived, man’s warfare against the germs is only a matter of the last fifty years. The agricultural college veterinary staff has been spending much of- its time in recent years in the research line in investigations of the most searching character 'in’ relation to two diseases,—swamp fever in horses, and hog cholera. In this work the North Dakota institution has worked along lines parallel to those of scientists in the largest eastern schools of the United States and of the leading men of science in European cities. Many Americans are inclined to the idea that all scientific discoveries of any moment necessarily must originate in Paris, Berlin or London. own country were capable of originat- ing anything, they would 'look for it to come from one of the big endowed eastern universities, not from 'a little land grant college on the Dakota prairies. Because there are such people today, just as there were those nineteen hun- dred years ago who thought no good could come out of Nazareth, I am go- ing to take the space to tell about Van Es and Schalk and avian tuberculosis. Scene in veterinary classroom. If their - You have heard of Typhoid Mary, who spread typhoid fever everywhere she went, though not having the disease herself, and who has been held under de tention by United States health authorities for years. This is Swamp Fever Billy, a horse under observation by the college, which was given swamp fever in 1908, recovered after two years, but still gives the disease to other horses. The horse First, the two kinds of research work done at the college must be explained. HORSES' SWAMP FEVER ALSO GOT ATTENTION The most thorough and exhaustive research work that has been done by the college veterinary staff in recent years, as I mentioned before, has been in connection with swamp fever and hog cholera. Incidentally it may be remarked that there is less of both dis- eases in the state now than there was _is known on the college lists as “No. 636” but the students call him “Billy.” two or three years ago. Dr. Van Es doesn’t claim that his research work is responsible for this. In fact, he says that better drainage is the primary reason for the decrease of swamp fever and that while hog cholera now ap- pears to be on the down grade, it may come back again. But nobody feels badly about there being less of both diseases. This research work in connection with hog cholera and swamp fever is supported by the United States gov- ernment. It is being done along lines outlined in advance by Dr. Van Es, submitted to the government authori- ties, and approved by them. Also, Uncle Sam pays the bills. This is what Van Es and his asso- ciates call “real, serious work.” But all work and no play, you know, is just as bad for a college professor as for anyone else. Every once in awhile, after working two or three years at something serious, Van Es and Schalk and the others feel the need for a high old time. They want to get out and " run around the pasture and kick up their heels and forget for a few minutes about hog cholera.and swamp fever. So they take a new field of science and spend a few weeks investi- gating that along some entirely new line, without asking Uncle Sam's ex- perts whether they may or may not and are as happy and carefree as a bunch of 12-year-old kids playing hookey from school and beating it for the old swimming hole. They call thig “wild catting.” An article dealing with a North Da- kota, Agricultural college discovery that is now world famous, will appear in next week’s edition of the Leader, The Editor. League Enemies Try a Bold Deception They Garble H. B. 44 and the Constitution Too in ASIEST thing in the world to fool the farmers if we just use a few optical illusions D and a little mental sleight of =—? hand,” thought the authors of “A Socialist = Constitution.” “Let's print the parts of House Bill 44 that we don't like alongside of any old part of the present. constitution, label them ‘parallel columns’' and make the citi- zens of North Dakota think the Non- partisan League demohshed the con- stitution.” “It can’t be did,” put in a doubting Thomas at the war council at Bis- marck, a few days before the final vote on 44. “The farmers are getting wise to our tricks, and I don’t see how we can print parallel columns and fool them. It will be too easy for everyone to see just the places where 44 is like the constitution We want to make it so they will think 44 is all changes.” “Aw, you don’'t get me” replied the first plotter. “That's just what I pro- pose to do—make it so they will think 44 is full of changes, and where there are no changes, put the parts that are not changed, so far away from the corresponding parts of the constitution that the readers will never think of looking for them. If we announce we are printing ‘parallel columns’ t}hat Thelr Campaign of Misrepresentation - Take a chance on being discovered later and use every device to create prejudice now—is the principle on which the Old Gangsters are working. will disarm suspicion entirely. People will take it for granted that we are, and will get all balled up trying to make head or tail out of old House Bill 44. Get me Steve?” HOW THEY. DEVELOPED A NIMBLE TRICK “Believe I do” said the doubting Thomas, with a beaming ray of hope. “Sort of now you see it and now you don't proposition—like reaching up to- wards the ceiling and grabbing a dollar out of the air—I've seen that worked by a good juggler with a coin and he’d fool the audience right along. Made ’em .think he"was actually pick- ing that dollar out of space in front of their very faces. Your trick is pretty good if we can arrange the ‘parallel . columns’ so they won't by any accident be really parallel. You know it would be fatal if we actually put correspond- ing provisions beside each other.” “There you go—in the dumps again. I tell you it can be put over on ’em. "’ We're some jugglers ‘ourselves, and we've got the coin too. We'll juggle those legal phrases so a Philadelphia lawyer would have to look twice before he could find a place to start. We'll double cross ’em—the real, original double-cross. Then leave it to the wise guys to find out our scheme. In the meantime maybe we can . create suspicion, get a lot of good folks hollerin’, the sincere kind who mean well by the League but are kind of conservative like you know, and get them prejudiced agin House Bill 44. “I tell you, the only way we can hope to win is to fool the people about that cussed bill. If they find the real facts about it and compare it with that con- stitution that our crowd put over on ‘em in '89, they’d no more think of keeping the old one, than they'd trade & self starter for one of them two- cylinder sprocket wheel rigs they used to call ‘horseless keerages.’ Now let's get at it an’ see how slick we can he.” THE PLOTTERS HITCH HORSE AND OX TOGETHER After this: conference they went at it, each one looking for a phrase or a ° section that could be dislocated, jammed up against another one of different subject matter, or would touch religious prejudice, or the justi- fiable reluctance to be over-taxed, or suspicion that corporation jokers were lurking in the shadows. “I've got it—I've got it—a ten-strike for a starter” said a diligent carrier of truth to the people after a busy half hour. “Look at Secfion 176 of the con- stitution, read down a few lines until you come to the exemption of church and charitable property from taxation. Let’s tell ’em the clod-hoppers left this out of House Bill 44. It'll set some of the church folks to hollering.” “But they didn’t leave it out,” put im (Continued on Page 14) T & i S S ; . _SEVEN ~ M e 2 T LSS R RENG S s el ot AN S oA Aol 3t BT e IS e i s e SR 3 Y ety 5 e b bt o et 8