The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1909, Page 4

Me Wahed datty by t8® Co. or of the United Preas, Pub- The Star Publish~ " Newspaper “Ethics” vs. Newspaper Duty rr 1 : her surprised t Niven ¢ A read in today and he Star fathers and n Mayor good many r about mtaine, Ohio, what tands for The printing arti afraid to prin Mayor Niven And because Mayor Niven is right. 15,000 been blind “ i this because it isn't t n’ say and do. what ' blind this f their mothers and to Every year there are babies born in country who would not have fathers sex infection les oners of were marching the lock-step, and led by the strong ha Only the and as prisoners they are innocent of any crime against man kind or their Maker, Mayor Niven can to stop the annual birth of leg ful army of the innocent blind Everyone who has a young son or daughter can help do what Mayor Niven is doing. The father of a boy it to the name he bears to tell that son what is on his mind after he reads about Mayor Niven. He it, not only to his son, but to someone's else you of a young girl owes it to the name that girl will bear as a wife to do the same thing All parents have a duty to perform to the unborn grand children of another generation. 3 Perhaps you never thought of it that way before. do you keep silence? Perhaps the silence of some newspapers on this subject free , sease duc mainly their fathers re free from sisease will, an army of 15,000 sight Imagine, if you men and women servit terms in darkness as pris vice. Their way on earth is as helpless as if they single file through a real prison, bound by vd of a captor in their case vice is hand that leads them, who has dared do what he ms of recruits to this piti is mayor one owes owes daughter, The mother Why has helped you feel secure in the hope your children were safe. But were you right? The Star admits that, so far as newspaper tradition goes, But every- body it ought not to print the story about Mayor Niven body cannot read profound medical treatises, and ev should know and think about this terrible thing If in breaking newspaper tradition we shall have nerved you to speak, and speak plainly, to your children, we shall be content. There are many faults to be found; Place that Senor Castro used with with the Madison st. cars, but most #0 much eclat of them would be forgotten if they would only run during business hours. One thing can be said in favor of this disorderly weather; it furnishes }a live topic for n Perhaps the counct! won't enforce | ists. the brewery-saloon law because it does not wish to make any exception! 45 to the question of love at first by enforcing any particular liquor sight, it should be sufficient to say, jaw. |"I'm from Nevada.” r-conversational Secretary Ballinger may not mind muckrakers, as he says, but he cer- tainly has a voluminous way of dis- playing his indifference. Every time a white girl doesn't marry a Chinaman, she owes Cupid & vote of thanks. | | Every day brings President Ze-| What's the law among city coun- Jaya nearer to the same jumping-off | cilmen, anyhow? TRUTH AND POETRY iY F. R. LEET. Washington, Nov. Dear Dad: The insurgents in the house are surely hatching trouble for Uncle Joe. am reliably in formed that tt ave 47 members, all republic pledged against Cannon and rules. There is dynamite in . more vigarous months ago. Contact vents has made some representa fives strongly anti-Cannon. They are willing to accept Cannonism as an is#ue to save their skins. But the danger from these new adher jents is the substitution of equally reactionary member in the place of Cannon. Already th is talk of Walter 1, Smith of fowa for the place, and some have gone so far as talk of Jim Tawney of Minnesota, Of course it is the sys tem more nit is the man that is responsible, and the substitution of a Tawney for a Cannon would do no good at all than it was four with constit his that some When going down the om the big wa @r Cannon said my being czar | house is ruled t if the rules of ti satisfactory them.” Which challeng ea@; Victor Murd to the speaker: tion and we will Majority.” this is the only difficulty now. The only way in which Cannon can provect himself in his of power will be to refuse recognition te the insurgent members. Mississippi rway junket, Speak This talk about all buncombe, The the majority, and speaker are not a majority can change th has been accept k has sent word Give us recogni you the A large amount of conversation will mark the coming of congress. Its results see it now, will be nil Taft's program will be elaborate. But, like some other programs, it will be largely ornamental. Sincerely RATH show session I President as abuse Mrs. dead r, Cochin oll Mallard8o poor Mr, Rooster's “ , i vent movement in the | a aa Mense of representatives Is much |» by Yale Recora, “*" Killed tn THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE out of elty—t aio0) t ntered Beatile ffloe, as second-class 6 PUSSIES SERIES LES eRASSASECLiistssscic. (Shae COSeSLe Laos senagagtargeeteagssassisessaasett: | Wm, R. Niven of Bellefontaine, ©., Haé Opened a Campaign to Teach the Young the Truth, to Quaran tine Secret Disease and Persuade His City Physicians to Help Pro- tect the People From That Which Blasts Many Lives and Kills, BY J. Vv. KNIGHT. BELLEFONTAINE, 0. When the called Into office rich, middle elected the mayor who dared And because he was the mayor who dared, Niven set about to fight jthe vice that ia always with any community, the viee of the low places, rutnous alike to the high and low--the social evil He continued, against the oppost tion of scores of citizens, a cam paign for the teaching of what ry ehild should know, tn the school room or in the home. Racked by a tate law, generally ignored, that forces the board of health to help him, he has done more tn this emali community toward right living In the young than has r been done before. Nov this Niven, a they | 30. wm bachelor | aged tt Needed Courage. To do this and to dare this he only had to know what all doctors know, and what every father and} mother should know--thia That every year more than 15,000 babies are blinded from birth be cause their parents, or one of them, | usually the father, “sowed wiid oate.” That young men and boys are an-| nually done more harm by disease due to the social evil, than from ail other forms of dis combined! That the children of the rich, a well the chiidren of the poor, are having their minds poisoned and their lives ruined through two | things that he held their parents re- sponsible for: IGNORANCE and FEAR, Never a mayor before out to fight such a battle But Mayor Niven is a different sort of man—he is the mayor who dared The Facts Nerved Him. When I came into office.” he ex plained to me tn the efty hall, “the police records showed mo things I didn't believe possible. | came into office believing that truth was bet ter than silence. “Ag & magistrate I made a study of children. I conducted a mission in the Weat ond, which was largely attended by the poorer clasaes | “One day I got a clrealar from the! Obto board of health, in which was shown tho great decrease in dis. eases which were being quaran- tined. Already I had met cases of dixease that I knew werg due to social evils, and the victims were jyoung-—-of the clase that made me realize what a serious thing this evil was among young men, boys and girls. “The same circular showed, too, that, thengh quarantined diseases | were being stamped out, the jn Crease in secret diseases was an Sreat as the decrease in all other who set Emotional “Cause Celebre” BERLEYSPORT, Mo., Nov Not since the sensational Zweiboor | case has Beeleysport been thrown | into such a frenzy of conflicting sympathy and abhorrence as has been aroused by the thrilling case of “Mike the Bite,” whose trial, un der the newly adopted French sys tem, for stealing a red hot stove day reached a climax. Hounded and brow-beaten, he faced the im-| placable pro courage. I'm like a stray mutt bein’ tin canned (‘rough an alley,” be sobbed, today, bravely forcing back the are. His acting ts superb, marvelous. A buzz went round the room as the red-garbed judges filed in, look jing for all the world, ax “Mike the Bite” wittily remarked to the press, “lke bedbugs.” This bonmot made a bit with the fury, which is made jup of men able appreciate the resemblance The presiding judge |Jury against being arts and eloquence or by | nation. | > I ain't even ter baw! out, am 1?" screamed Mike, jing his teeth and foaming ;mouth, “Wot'ell! | “Chop those mock sternly commanded the Then to the spectators the judg jeried I am going to throw one junder this mutt, Watch him stall. He will rave, and then fake a |swoon. Get bucket water | ready A mutter of protest went up from the celebrities and fashionables in court | But “Mike the Bite’ again provec himself a remarkable man. He ve frewhed himself with a chew of fine cut, and smiling faintly ed at his watch, It was a dramatic scene At 16 you were planning this} crime,” the judge flung at him. “is | Cough to. to warned the moved by the of the prisoner his tears and virtuous indig-| ev youse gnash- | at the herotcs,” judge a of 1] Stop | | Those hard night coughs of the chil- dren! Whatshall you give them? Just what your mother gave you, and just what her mother gave her! In some| families, Ayer®™ Cherry Pectoral h | been the only cough medicine for seventy years, Once inthe family, | stays. Keep it on hand. | Ask your doctor if he endorses Ayer's| Cherry Pectoral for the coughs and colds of | childyen, Doanhe says, 1.2, Ayer 00 | solutely | “MIKE THE BIT The Admiral Gailic System of Just That jing themselves nervously THE MAYOR WHO DARED 7 BIOs Lieb tener nettrrsiireiiettite str tenet ree CSL RRR ORR TORO TOIT OTOTOTO TORTI IT IOI - PLAIN, SADKeED TRUTHS BY Truth Boys enth chapter of Proverbs. Whose Whose ebild?) Whose maimed wife? The teller of dirty should be suppressed; let him tell the story to his own son and daughter The man Neve in the secrets ia better read that wonderful than allence sister? who docs educating his of hfe invite destruction of his daughter. it not true not be in the sons Women and ehildren are the diseases due to view; the ean be no bigher honor in man than to rotect them from infection. There the man is no b Hore reason why average healthy young wo hauled hospital a fow weeks after sity of a dispensary for cate. are largely the cause. should mar M eee So SEE ERE EERE Re infectious diseases, Then why quarantine these diseasca also? The Campaign Starts. ai application for a Heense to open an um. To come exhibit, the man ager plotured the ravages of secret classes of and the benefit to be gained by his form of educa ton. However was mac anatomical objections discase ° that the education should be tn the hands of thoae who had at heart only the welfare of boys, and not one that was inter ested in ao financial way, was evi dent There hat given i hom training equat tet fined and Chrts ften the morag av) mosphere in which a child is regred is thought to be sufficlent to Rive character that will keep the child clean without specific Instructions Child Learns Wrong, ~ Indeed, this would be the way, if safe. In the homes offthe; careless or vicious, the child } ho such training, but gets infogiha-| tien from depraved companionk tn & way that makes it @ lure, instead of a warnt | Believe that the question off sex diseases is a skeleton im the) closet of every reputable physician in the country. The extent of the: plague and the awful consequences | resulting therefrom have so ap palied them, and the solution of the Great question as to how to repress it is apparentiy, to them, so impos sible, that they have decided to| Practice secrecy, knowing that trou | ble would ensue if the public knew that no adequate effort to protect | it from the ravages of these disessre was being made. There i* @ law in Ohio that re quires physicians to report to a E” GETS FR te in t no t { jad | ice Given Its Firat Tryout in the Un: Thrown o Missouri Metropoli: BY FRED SCHAEFER, WHO DARED ACCEPT A HEAVY TASK blind storion innocent and helpless victims of off to a HIS WORK 16 A VICE SERMON FOR MOTH ERS AND FATHERS MAYOR | MAYOR WM. R. NIVEN. riage than there is of the ne an’a Ignorance and wicked SEES PELE EERE REESE EERE ESSE EERE REE REE EHS health all cases of di ylic health Unde this law a doctor here wan arrested a short time ago. He pleaded guilty | and wae fined for not making a re port on a@ case of sex infection Niven’s Proposition. proposition to the the board ¢ eo: That th | Here my three physielans heaith in Bellefontai constit & commt to recelve reports from doctors of secret in fectious diseases, and that they rec ommend such action as they think necessary in controlling cases that they feel are dangerous to public health. This agement would keop such information In the handa|f] of the profession. A person affect ed would be notified personally and secretly to maintain a personal quarantine, When it is found that) this ts violated, then it in time for the authorities to step in and en-iii force @ quarantir “Up to the present time the | sicians of this city have refused to} consider any proposition whatever.” | The newspapers in Hellefontaine are with the mayor, heart and soul That is, the eliitors have told bius 0. Papers Don't Print It. But you couldn't notice it by read-| ing any of th newspapers. Oh,! no! Perhaps it isn't right to print such o story as this in a newspaper it may be a wrong thing to do, but i Think about the 15,000 blind ba-| bies: you who are mothers and| fathers, ask your doctor about it H He'll tell you more, if he is on} the square. | There is the mayor who dared in Bellefontaine. This newspaper you. Who are the parents who dare? ENCH TRIAL! is te i i i i has dared tell lf | ited St, -—Fuil Account of the is Into a Seething, Spongy Ferment “Don't git me sore,” was the hot! reply, “or I'l! squeal on de g |r up, you slob of a bullfrog 1 “MIKE THE BITE.” } The Accused in One of His Most | Appealing Poses. | it is not,” erled “Mike thé wildly gesticulating At 16 wuz a plumber’s apprentice.” You Mar,” interjected, the prosecuting attorney, his face white with rage Molcy He around guished Bit ! moaned Mike would look well with a tope his neck said a dietin member of the bar, who was present but not concerned in any way with the case, This was promptly admitted as evidence. Yes, and hasn't he the head like a gorilla?” replied, the prealding judge. Youse out is tryin me. falling back hands ter make a fall burbled the prts in the dock, hi clasping and unclasp-| a guy o oner dirty You tried to drape this ertix on} % other people before you were snagged,” persisted the implacable Judge I wuz mad the defendant, hemence The audience and Jury applauded. | At this the court admitted that} Mike might, perhaps, be merely an accomplice, instead of the main Yet, what has become of the fed hot stove?” the judge added: Speak, pig of a porchelimber.’ bughouse,” with shouted passionate ve Bring Your Bye To ue @nd we will wive ¥ ndvice as to what Is best t recommend glasses on} necessary oubles » do. when We ab SCHUCHARD OPTICAL CO, Spectalinin 1207 Becond Ave | serious! | depot Then, amid hisnos yooate summed up. 5 ‘ate dentnciation, He admitted| mental attainments and volup tious physical charm of the ac , but lashed him unsparingly.| reviewed the childhood of “Mike the Bite," laying stress upon the rumor that at the age of 4 he had| robbed @ bird’s nest. He took up| bis married life with all of his 10] wives, and drew # pathetic_picture {the red hot “stove peacefully cooking a dinner of botled cabbage | and snalls at the moment when it was ruthlessly yanked from its foun z Interrupted only by addi estinony from the presiding Judge and convulsions on the part of the anguished defendant, he painted “Mike the Bite” a veritable pousse cafe of good and evil, mostly the latter Then the jury was allowed to re tire, and during a hush the 12 men good and sick-of-it-all Not guilty nysport tonight. “ON THE TRACK. Astute Constable (to gent whose confidential secretary hax abscond-| od)—-You say he has white bair,| pink eyes, broken nose, a short leg ‘nd a squint in his left eye? Now,| is there anything peculiar about him?—Chips ju Patient Objected. It's @ serious case—very I must at once remove the vermiform appendix Patient—For heaven's sake! Can't you perform fome other operation instead? 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