McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
Transcriber's Note
Copyright, 1908, by The S. S. McClure Co. All rights reserved
Copyright by Arnold Genthe
John 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 over-rigorous 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 people, do and fail to do, we get, on the whole, better public health service than we deserve, and worse than we can afford.
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McClure's Magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Our Health Boards and Their Powers
Our Absurd Vital Statistics
The Criminal Negligence of Physicians
"Business Interests" and Yellow Fever
THE SCAVENGERS OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Newspapers, Politicians, and the Bubonic Plague
Fighting Prejudice and the Death Rate in Charleston
Killing Off the City Negro
Private Interests in Public Murder
"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"
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS
Travelling in America
HENRY IRVING AS CARDINAL WOLSEY IN "HENRY VIII."
Burned Hare Soup and Camphor Pudding in Pittsburg
ELLEN TERRY
MISS ROSA CORDER
The Best Ophelia of My Life
"Lonesome Brooklyn"
SIR HENRY IRVING
Fussie
MISS ELLEN TERRY
Fussie and "Charles I."
AUGUSTIN DALY AND HIS COMPANY OF PLAYERS
Irving's Strategy
AUGUSTIN DALY
The Death of Fussie
JOHN DREW
The Old Daly Company
ADA REHAN
HELENA MODJESKA
The John Drew Family
Mary Anderson
MARY ANDERSON
JOSEPH JEFFERSON AS RIP VAN WINKLE
Joseph Jefferson
The Night of the Great Blizzard
FOOTNOTES:
"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"
FOOTNOTES:
THE SINGER'S HEART
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"
The Fourteenth Amendment
A Campaign to Destroy a President
Killing of Negroes at Memphis and New Orleans
Johnson "Swings Around the Circle"
New Congress Overwhelmingly Anti-Johnson
The Movement Toward Negro Suffrage
Reconstruction Under Military Control
The Public Fear of Johnson
The Fatal Bungling of Reconstruction
"'I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU EVER SINCE YOU LEFT YOUR OFFICE,' HE SAID"
"'IT'S A DESPICABLE LETTER,' SHE TOLD HERSELF"
II
"'HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE I FEEL, BEING IN THIS POSITION—TO YOU?'"
III
IV
V
GIFFORD PINCHOT
The Fight against the "Pinchot Policies"
Training an Army of Foresters
Land Piracy Checked
The Case of the Wood Haulers
How the Government Sells Timber
A SECTION OF THE BIG HORN NATIONAL FOREST, WYOMING, SHOWING THE FOREST SERVICE METHODS OF LUMBERING. A CERTAIN PROPORTION OF THE TREES HAVE BEEN LEFT STANDING FOR SEED PURPOSES. THE REST HAVE BEEN CUT CLOSE TO THE GROUND, TO AVOID WASTE, AND THE BRANCHES PILED AT A SAFE DISTANCE FOR BURNING
"Two Blades of Grass Where One Grew Before"
SECTION OF A REDWOOD FOREST IN CALIFORNIA, SHOWING WASTEFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE METHODS OF LUMBERING. THE TREES HAVE BEEN CUT HIGH UP, LEAVING A LARGE PROPORTION OF WASTE IN THE STUMP. THE LAND HAS BEEN STRIPPED BARE OF ITS TIMBER, AND IS IN CONDITION TO ENCOURAGE FIRE, EROSION, AND DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS
The Forest Service and the Stock-Raisers
THE EFFECT OF EROSION ON A HILLSIDE FROM WHICH THE FOREST COVER HAS BEEN REMOVED
The Roosevelt Dam Case
THE SAME HILLSIDE AFTER TWO YEARS OF CAREFUL AND SYSTEMATIC GRAZING
Irrigation Revolutionized by National Forestry
HERD OF SHEEP GRAZING UPON A NATIONAL FOREST. THE SHEEP GRAZE IN LARGE BANDS AND VERY CLOSE TOGETHER, AND THE CUTTING ACTION OF THE THOUSANDS OF HOOFS IS VERY INJURIOUS TO THE SOIL. FOR THIS REASON, SHEEP-GRAZING IS ONLY ALLOWED ON CERTAIN AREAS OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS.
The Free Grass Question
$1,000,000 Saved by the Forest Hunters
CHIEF KITSAP, FINANCIER
"KITSAP, THE CLERK, DONNED THE TRIBAL FINERY OF HIS ANCESTORS"
"ON ALL SIDES THE HOP-PICKERS WERE MAKING MERRY"
"PICKING PROGRESSED TO AN END, AND THE INDIANS HELD THEIR LAST FEAST AND DEPARTED"
XXIII
"STOOD THERE LEANING AGAINST 'DADDY'S' SIDE"
"IT WAS SWEET TO BE CHAFFED, TO BE HEEDLESSLY YOUNG ONCE MORE"
XXIV
"SHE CREPT OUT UPON THE LANDING OF THE STAIRS, AND SAT THERE DESOLATELY ON THE TOP STEP"
XXV
SHE TOOK THE PISTOL FROM HIS RELAXED HOLD
XXVI
"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"
XXVII
"LOIS STOLE INTO THE ROOM"
XXVIII
THE END
In the Homes of the "Repeaters"
"The House of Corruption"
Four Hundred Able Probation Officers
Liquor Dealers Vote to Coöperate
Record of Success Ninety-two Per Cent
The Story of Jim the Engineer
Suspended Sentence versus the Gold Cure
The Effect on the Children
The Criminal's "Debt" to Society Overpaid