McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908., by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Author: Various Release Date: December 12, 2008 [EBook #27501] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, JULY 1908 *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note The Table of Contents and the List of Illustrations were added by the transcriber. Hyphenation standardized within articles. Quotation marks added to standardize usage. Updated spelling on possible typos: ninteenth, beafsteak, and embarassed. Preserved other original punctuation and spelling. MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE JULY, 1908. VOL. XXXI. N O . 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. By Samuel Hopkins Adams. 241 Our Health Boards and Their Powers 242 Our Absurd Vital Statistics 244 The Criminal Negligence of Physicians 246 "Business Interests" and Yellow Fever 246 Newspapers, Politicians, and the Bubonic Plague 248 Fighting Prejudice and the Death Rate in Charleston 250 Killing Off the City Negro 251 Private Interests in Public Murder 251 A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL. By Josephine Daskam Bacon. 253 AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS. By Ellen Terry. 263 THE HERITAGE OF HAM. By Lieutenant Hugh M. Kelly, U. S. A. 277 THE SINGER'S HEART. By Harris Merton Lyon. 291 THE REPUDIATION OF JOHNSON'S POLICY. By Carl Schurz. 297 The Fourteenth Amendment 298 A Campaign to Destroy a President 298 Killing of Negroes at Memphis and New Orleans 300 Johnson "Swings Around the Circle" 301 New Congress Overwhelmingly Anti-Johnson 304 The Movement Toward Negro Suffrage 304 Reconstruction Under Military Control 305 The Public Fear of Johnson 306 The Fatal Bungling of Reconstruction 307 THE THIRTEENTH MOVE. By Alberta Bancroft. 308 GIFFORD PINCHOT, FORESTER. By Will C. Barnes. 319 CHIEF KITSAP, FINANCIER. By Joseph Blethen. 328 THE WAYFARERS. By Mary Stewart Cutting. 337 THE CATHEDRAL. By Florence Wilkinson. 357 THE NEW GOSPEL IN CRIMINOLOGY. By Judge McKenzie Cleland. 358 ILLUSTRATIONS DR. CHARLES HARRINGTON, SECRETARY OF THE MASS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH DR. THOMAS DARLINGTON, COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH FOR NEW YORK CITY DR. CHARLES V. PROVIDENCE, RI CHAPIN, SUPERINTENDENT OF HEALTH IN DR. JOHN N. HURTY, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH IN INDIANA DR. GEORGE W. GOLER, HEALTH OFFICER OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK DR. J. MERCIER GREEN, HEALTH OFFICER OF CHARLESTON, SC THE SCAVENGERS OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA CAROLINE WALKED AHEAD, HER CHIN WELL UP, HER NOSE SNIFFING PLEASURABLY THE UNACCUSTOMED ASPHALT YOUNG GIRLS ... CANTERED BY; THEIR LINEN HABITS ROSE AND FELL DECOROUSLY, THEIR HAIR WAS SMOOTH THE STANDING CROWD CRANED THEIR NECKS, AS DELIA SAT UP STRAIGHT AND HELD OUT HER ARMS 'I'VE GOT TWO O' MY OWN' 'WHO—WHO—WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?' HE WHISPERED HOARSELY HENRY IRVING AS CARDINAL WOLSEY IN "HENRY VIII." ELLEN TERRY ELLEN TERRY WITH HER FOX-TERRIERS, DUMMY AND FUSSIE MISS ROSA CORDER SIR HENRY IRVING MISS ELLEN TERRY AUGUSTIN DALY AND HIS COMPANY OF PLAYERS AUGUSTIN DALY JOHN DREW AS PETRUCHIO IN "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW" ADA REHAN AS KATHARINE IN "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW" HELENA MODJESKA MARY ANDERSON JOSEPH JEFFERSON AS RIP VAN WINKLE ALL DAY LONG OLD SERGEANT WILSON SAT IN THE CORNER OF THE SQUAD ROOM, CLASPING AND UNCLASPING HIS STRAINING HANDS CABLE THE PRESIDENT! WHAT A JOKE! THE CIRCLE CLOSED IN AS THE SEA SURGES UP UPON THE LAND HARRY BARNES, OLD ACTOR HE GRINNED AND WINKED AND FRISKED AND CAPERED 'OH, YOU DIVVIL, YOU! YOU OLD, BLATHERSKITING DIVVIL' HE SAT STARING INTO THE BLANKNESS OF THE LITTLE ROOM JOHN POTTER STOCKTON, THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY SENATOR CARL SCHURZ SENATOR PRESTON KING SENATOR JAMES LANE SENATOR ZACHARIAH CHANDLER 'I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU EVER SINCE YOU LEFT YOUR OFFICE,' HE SAID 'IT'S A DESPICABLE LETTER,' SHE TOLD HERSELF 'HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE I FEEL, BEING IN THIS POSITION—TO YOU?' GIFFORD PINCHOT A SECTION OF THE BIG HORN NATIONAL FOREST, WYOMING, SHOWING THE FOREST SERVICE METHODS OF LUMBERING SECTION OF A REDWOOD FOREST IN CALIFORNIA, SHOWING WASTEFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE METHODS OF LUMBERING THE EFFECT OF EROSION ON A HILLSIDE FROM WHICH THE FOREST COVER HAS BEEN REMOVED THE SAME HILLSIDE AFTER TWO YEARS SYSTEMATIC GRAZING KITSAP, THE ANCESTORS CLERK, DONNED THE OF CAREFUL AND HERD OF SHEEP GRAZING UPON A NATIONAL FOREST TRIBAL FINERY OF HIS ON ALL SIDES THE HOP-PICKERS WERE MAKING MERRY PICKING PROGRESSED TO AN END, AND THE INDIANS HELD THEIR LAST FEAST AND DEPARTED STOOD THERE LEANING AGAINST 'DADDY'S' SIDE IT WAS SWEET TO BE CHAFFED, TO BE HEEDLESSLY YOUNG ONCE MORE SHE CREPT OUT UPON THE LANDING OF THE STAIRS, AND SAT THERE DESOLATELY ON THE TOP STEP SHE TOOK THE PISTOL FROM HIS RELAXED HOLD THE TWO WOMEN SITTING ON THE BENCH, WRAPPED AROUND BY THE LONELINESS AND THE INTENSE STILLNESS OF THE ONCOMING NIGHT 'THEY'LL GET FULL OF EARTH AGAIN,' SHE PROTESTED LOIS STOLE INTO THE ROOM Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved Copyright by Arnold Genthe [pg 241] GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS J OHN CHINAMAN is the logician of hygiene. To his family doctor he says: "I pay you to keep me well. Earn your money." Let him or his fall sick, and the physician's recompense stops until health returns to that household. Being fair-minded as well as logical, the Oriental obeys his physical guardian's directions. Now, it may be possible to criticize certain Chinese medical methods, such as burning parallel holes in a man's back to cure him of appendicitis, or banging for six hours a day on a brass tom-tom to eliminate the devil of headache; but the underlying principle of "No health, no pay" is worthy of consideration. This principle it is which, theoretically, we have adopted in the matter of the public health. To our city, State, or national doctors we pay a certain stipend (when we pay them at all) on the tacit understanding that they are to keep us free from illness. With the cure of disease they have no concern. The minute you fall ill, Mr. Taxpayer, you pass into the hands of your private physician. No longer are you an item of interest to your health officer, except as you may communicate your disease to your fellow citizens. If he looks after you at all, it is not that you may become well, but that others may not become ill through you. Being less logical in our conduct than the Chinese, we, as a people, pay little or no heed to the instructions of the public doctors whom we employ. We grind down their appropriations; we flout the wise and by no means overrigorous regulations which they succeed in getting established, usually against the stupid opposition of unprogressive legislatures; we permit—nay, we influence our private physicians to disobey the laws in our interest, preferring to imperil our neighbors rather than submit to the inconvenience necessary to prevent the spread of disease; and we doggedly, despite counsel and warning, continue to poison ourselves perseveringly with bad air, bad water, and bad food, the three B's that account for 90 per cent. of our unnecessary deaths. Then, if we are beset by some well-deserved epidemic, we resentfully demand to know why such things are allowed to occur. For it usually happens that the virtuous public which fell asleep with a germ in its mouth, wakes up with a stone in its hand to throw at the health officer. Considering what we, as a [pg 242] people, do and fail to do, we get, on the whole, better public health service than we deserve, and worse than we can afford. OUR H EALTH B OARDS AND THEIR POWERS As a nation, we have no comprehensive health organization. The crying need for one I shall point out in a future article. Our only Federal guardianship is vested in the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, which, by some mystery of governmental construction, got itself placed in the Treasury Department, where it certainly does not belong. It is, with the exception of a few ancient political appointees now relegated to unimportant posts, a highly trained and efficient body of hygienists and medical men, the best of whom have also qualified as diplomats in trying crises. Any germ-beleaguered city may call upon this Service for aid. It is a sort of flying squadron of sanitative defence. When yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, it was the M. H. S. men who, working quietly and inconspicuously with the local volunteers, mapped out the campaign which rid the city of the scourge. In the San Francisco panic eight years ago, when bubonic plague beset the city, it was the Marine Hospital Service which restored confidence: and a Service man has been there ever since as the city's chief adviser. The Federal "surgeons," as they are called, may be in St. Louis helping to check smallpox, or in Seattle, blocking the spread of a plague epidemic, or in Mobile, Alabama, fighting to prevent the establishment of an unnecessary and injurious quarantine against the city by outsiders, because of a few cases of yellow jack; and all the while the Service is studying and planning a mighty "Kriegspiel" against the endemic diseases in their respective strongholds—malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, and the other needless destroyers of life which we have always with us. In the Marine Hospital Service is the germ of a mighty force for national betterment. Of the State boards, perhaps a fourth may be regarded as actively efficient. The rest are honorary and ornamental. Undoubtedly a majority would be ready and willing to perform the services for which they are not (as a rule) pa