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Show THE CITIZEN 4 In placing the county hospital upon a level with other hospitals of the city and state, Dr. Callister has paid particular attention to the nurses training school. In this respect the county institution was formerly behind because of the fact that trained nurses, or those contemplating following the profession, were loath to enter an infirmary where all manner of patients were admitted. To meet this contingency Dr. Callister early adopted the method of segregation and isolation of persons with loathsome diseases or habits, in the medical detention wards of the county jail or the city police department, where attendants are provided according to the sex of the afflicted. With this objection removed from the path of prospective nurses the institution now has acquired twenty-twmost of whom are undergoing intensive training such as they would receive in any of the best hospitals of the city. Owing to the more recent popularity of the county hospital service Dr. Callister finds that the revenue derived from services rendered tos those able to pay, has gone up materially and now totals about $500 a month. As the cost to the taxpayers to maintain the institution ranges around $60,000 annually, it will be noted that the revenue thus secured, constitutes fully 10 per cent of the approximate upkeep o, cost. Medical statistics as furnished by Dr. Callister for the county hospital, disclose that about every ailment known to the human family is either treated or diagnosed during the course of a year. Statistics for the year 1921 show that a total of 8,605 persons received treatment; about 1,400 were classed as bed patients; over 1,200 oper- ations were performed, the surgical mortality resulting therefrom being 2.6 per cent, the lowest in the United States. It is but fair to say that Dr. Callister is giving his best efforts to building up the reputation and renown of this now model public infirmary. He is fully aware of its scope as an institution for the treatment of the poor without charge ; but the doctor has discovered such preference for free treatment by those able to pay for medical service and hospitalization, now that the infirmary has been made so efficient and so thoroughly modern that he finds it necessary to closely investigate all cases coming under his jurisdiction as county physician before recommending them as worthy of county charity. THE NEXT EUROPEAN WAR. can smash up both Germany and Russia in a way to render nations impotent for many years to come. They say they take sufficient German territory to give France superiority jn tion over their hated enemy. They believe they could speedil the abrogation of the Russo-Germa- n treaty, make .both nation their debts, and that, before they could again rise to threato peace of Europe, France can build such a combination of to render herself forever secure. On first thought it is almost inconceivable that a nation suffered from a war as did France, could be led to embark J program of aggression as is apparently contemplated. The F people are, however, desperate. A debacle confronts them permit Germany and Russia to carry out their evident intent to strong, both materially and offensively. This would mean then reduction of France to complete subordination in European j and place her forever at the mercy of her larger and more pd enemies. The hope of France, heretofore, has been the. possible assist from Great Britain and the United States in forcing German Russia to pay up and keep the peace. In this way only coni maintain the balance of power in continental Europe and permit many and Russia to prosper. The Washington conference completely dispelled this hojx forced France into a position bordering upon absolute isolatioi flat failure of the Genoa conference has but added weight isolation of the French ; an isolation they have helped to constn atl by helping to bust the conference by their toward Germany and their unwillingness to deal with Russia. The expected accord which was to have issued from Genoa ing failed to materialize the United States having again disclos intention to stay out of Europe, at least for the present- -it d there is nothing left for France to do but to emulate Napoleaj Wilhelm in an effort to assert her power over the whole Em continent. This is the situation as it exists at the moment. Zero hon arrive when Germany indicates her attitude regarding the paj of indemnities, on the last day of the present month. That getting ready to pay or fight is a mooted question. That sit throw her national existence into the balance, depending upos sian bolsheviki hordes to help sustain her, against the strong national army, is the belief of many a worldly-wis- e politician The administration, despite the insistent clamor of EngK other foreign propagandists for American interference in the p it grows ripe, will evidently make no effort to save the situati least until it senses danger to the national government or a 4 change in public sentiment on the. matter of European particij But it will be recalled that this country adopted the isolation and in 1914, and that it did not preve: being eventually drawn into the European maelstrom. It se tain that Europe will find a way to again draw us into this: European war if it comes and all signs now point in that (fr ; -- non-participati- ng non-payme- nt m a: m hi if , non-compromis- non-interferen- er, h( hi to ing E Through the swift action of the department of state in announcattitude of the United States in The Hague ing the resumption of the Genoa conference, it becomes apparent that the present administration is taking about the same steps that guided Wilson and his advisors in the days preceding the big European conflict precipitated by Germany and Austria. The signs that inevitably lead to war in Europe are not lacking today. In fact, wrar clouds have been hovering over Genoa ever since the first day of the conference and its utter failure to produce anything in the way of an entente cordial in continental Europe, other than the Easter egg handed Lloyd George of England, France and the lesser nations by Russia and Germany in the form of a close alliance, ostensibly economic, and perhaps also offensive and defensive, if the truth be known, stamps it as the precursor of armed events. With the handwriting on the wall all necessary preparations for the return of the United States to Europe are being made by the big men of Europe. With France truculent and offensively active over the of German reparations and also realizing the covert threat in the German-Russia- n alliance, the very European atmosphere seems surcharged with rifle and cannon smoke. Despite her numerical inferiority, France at the moment believes she is in a military way supreme. She has the support of Poland and Belgium, of Rumania and the others of the Little Entente, the armies of whom she has trained as an integrant part of her own war machine with which she hopes to dominate Europe and make Germany and other recalcitrant nations come to time. The French spokesman, since the German-Russia- n pact was sprung upon a bewildered world, argue that by striking now they li ce SALT LAKES CITY OF THE DEAD. And you would go where flowers bloom in profusion, evergreens rear their stately heads, where hundreds of well b trimmed shade trees do their loving duty, where an endless c of new mown lawn greets they eye, where all is fiesh and and beautiful and appealing then visit the City cemetery Perhaps comparatively few of the citizens of Salt appreciate the great change that has come over the Cityf within recent history. From being merely a place to bury it has been metamorphosed into a beautiful a wonderfully metrical plot of ground some three hundred acres in est metamorphism has been brought about chiefly by C. L Eva H who has been ably backed in his labors by Commission at Six years ago when Sexton Evans assumed charge cemetery it was a most unsightly place, unkempt, with $ muddy roads and all things else in keeping with this encr f13 )ta en im eal |