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Show THE CITIZEN 30 i We are learning more every day of their purposes and plans. Investigations in New York state, on the Pacific coast and in other sections of the country have revealed the violent plans of the I. W. W. and kindred organizations. An I. W. W. on trial in Kansas City, told a sheriff in 1916 that his plan was the destruction of New York City. In Centralia; Washington, the I. W. W. spoke their mind with rifles and revolvers. reds. OBSERVATION PLANE We take much the same atttiude Public Must Pay Well To Protect Officials A SSASSINATION as a settled pol-Ic- y of revolutionary organizations is making the lives of public officials a nightmare. Those entrusted with the prosecution of criminals, those who must pass sentence and those who must execute the law are becoming marked men and are made the targets for bombs and bullets. However brave and resolute they may be, however disregardful of their own safety, few of them can steel their hearts against the anxieties and sufferings of their families. Weplace our public officials on the firing lines and say to them:- Fight the enemy and do not retreat. If you are killed your families will have to take care of themselves. Prosecuting attorneys, judges and other public officials who must guard the public safety with their lives are given a few thousand dollars a year and the honors of office, but no provision is made to insure their families against wdnt and distress in case the bomb or the bullet finds its mark. That men always will be found to take the risk does not cancel the obligations of the public to do better by officials who accept positions of danger. The night before Hillstrom was executed the late Judge McCarthy was called on the telephone. Responding, he was adressed by some one in Denver, who declared to him that unless he secured a reprieve for Hillstrom he would be slain. For six months his house was watched by a deputy sheriff, for he had been the recipient of hundreds of threats. to- ward the police. There is not an hour that the policeman is on duty that he may not be called upon to face injury or death. He is asked to protect the public for a salary that a mechanic would use for pin money. The result is we do not obtain enough of the right kind of men on the police force. First of all, the chief of police is chosen in a political deal of some sort and to pay for his position he must hire men who bow to his political masters and to that other master, the underworld. The politician therefore, is not always interested in seeing that the policeman receives higher pay. A poorly paid policeman will do his masters work subserviently; a well paid policeman is much more apt to protect the public. All over the land the growth of murder organizations has presented a new and startling problem to the American people. We are preparing laws calculated to stamp out this class of criminals, but we take little thought of the public servants who are entitled to protection while the laws are being enforced. Judges of the supreme court, public prosecutors and all who are engaged in enforcing law and order should receive higher pay and the people would do' well to consider a system of insurance that would provide for the families of officials killed or maimed in the line of duty. But when the public meets that obligation it must meet another also. It must see to it that we have fearless judges, prosecutors and police public servants, in a word, who will not be intimidated by threats, who will not truckle to grafters or become the minions of the underworld, but will enforce the law impartially. We have been blessed wtih a number of such officials, men willing to take big chances for small pay and without protection for their families beyond that which watchmen or deputy sheriffs could afford We can probably obtain officials of that mettle in the future, even though we . Since then other Utah men have been marked for death by I. W. W. and other radical and anarchistic organizations, and yet it has not to the people of Utah that officials in the exposed positions should be granted higher pay and perhaps a state insurance policy. Why should a public official subject his wife and children to constant anxiety, to keen terrors and to loss of health for a pittance? The least the state or the federal government could do would be to pay the family some kind of insurance or pension in case of the official's death. As it is the official thinking not of himself but of oc-cur- , family, is disposed to resign rather than leave his wife and children in penury. his ed not give them the proper protection and their families proper indemnity, but our consciences will rest no easier by the fact that we have ignored our obligations Evidently the fight is just beginning. The authorities in the various states have decided on a showdown. It means a battle, for we need not flatter ourselves that the reds will not fight back. That is why they are do i Hounding Hookworm Around Globe T T is a far cry from Bolshevism to hookworm, and yet both threaten to destroy civilization. Sometimes the most obvious perils are not the most destructive. Sometimes the world 1b filled with the din and clangor of armies battling to decide issues upon which the fate of the world seems to depend and all eyes are turned toward the conflict and issues of more moment in civilizations long struggle to conquer evil and enfranchise mankind are disregarded. We are impelled to this moralizing by a synopsis of the annual report of the International Health Board, a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Foundation. If you should ask our statesmen what most menaces civilization each one of them, obsessed by his particular hobby, would reply variously Bolor the shevism or Militarism, struggle of capital and labor. But if you muster courage enough to dip into the annual report of the International Health Board you shall have a wholly different answer. While we chatter endlessly about our economic and political woes and call on government to cure all the ills of mankind, silent scientists are placing their fingers unerringly on wounds that lie deeper. Once in a while we awake from our economic 'nightmares to discover that true apostles of progress have been working for the salvation of mankind in almost unregarded fields of endeavor. The International Health Board has been fighting the disease known as hookworm for years in different parts of the globe, principally in tropical and countries. It Is slow, difficult work, for not only must the victims he treated, but there must be a campaign of education among the people, who, for the most part, are steeped in ignorance and superstition, to convince them that sanitary measures are essential. Mere treatment is1 useless unless the soil itself is rid of the eggs of the hookworms, for Is almost certain to occur. disease is described as a de- semi-tropic- al re-in- stroyer of civilization and a peril to millions. Here are a few of the things the Board has to say about the hookworm and its havoc: Hookworm infection works subtly through long periods of time. Its cumulative effects are handed down from generation to generation. The disease destroys economic efficiency and social development on the one hand, and while it undermines physi- cal and mental health on the other. It is a menace and an obstacle to all that makes for civilization. As a hand maiden of poverty, a handicap of youth, an associate of crime and degeneracy, a destroyer of energy and vitality, it stands in the very forefront of diseases. Its efforts express themselves in stunted physical and mental growth, blighted health and efficiency, retarded economic progress and general degeneracy and decay. Labor is impaired, home standards are lowered, mental development is inhibited, and there is a tendency for the human machine to wear out before its time. Wherever treatment is systematically carried out and followed by rigorous control of further infection marked improvement in health and general capacity results. the disease Hookworm saps such stages imperceptible strength by that usually the patient himself does not sense any change in his physical condition from day to day, until his powers of resistance eventually become so lowered that the germs of tuberculosis ,of pneumonia, of typhoid fever, or of some other acute infectious disease find favorable lodgment and all too "frequently a fatal outcome , results. Statistics show that the mortality rate of hookworm is greatly exceeded by the rates of the more spectacular diseases. But by its steady sapping of the strength of millions of people, continued without . interruption over many generations, hookworm disease causes human misery and suffering of a much more severe character than its low death rate would lead one to expect. After reading that indictment of the insidious worm we are not surprised to find that its empire is among the more backward races. It seems, in fact, to explain why these races have fallen behind in the march of progress. The ravages of the disease have been especially virulent in India, Siam Ceylon and China, and to a lesser degree in Australia, Brazil, Central America and our own Southern States. Does this not explain much that hitherto has been dark in history? India, for example, has been held in subjection for centuries by a foreign power, but could that foreign power have qxerted its sway successfully had not most of the people of India been aclicted with hookworm and its asso elated diseases? Microscopic examiuation in Ceylon of more than 50,000 Tamil coolies from Southern India revealed the fact that more than 98 per cent were inThis confected, says the report. firms the investigation carried out by the Indian Medical Service at Nega-fectio- n patam the great clearing port for e bor leaving South India which show- la-Th- ) |