ENDIVIDUAL RESPON- SIBILITY IN WARTIME Shes The demand for men to serve in Khe army is fast making serious in. roads upon the forces engaged as pro: ducers of food, fabricator: of muni Lions of war and gusrdians of the sick Our Indian corn is standing uncut in he helds while other foodstuffs are rotting in the ground for the want af human hands to work them. The prospects are that the home army which produces things sary ite support our boys at the front, is going to be still further reduced in namber. those neCeER. This condition of things makes it sbhilgatory for each individual to take vommre of his own health as well as to } be his “brother's keeper.” © Today, the point of our talk will be on a custom of the retail drug. gizt and of those who have contagious “and infwtious diseases at their homes. Take an an example what may very ravell be a typical illustration in the nemee of a child suffering from scar. det fever. The doctor leaves his pre- seription, which is sent to the retail druggist to be prepared. The medi cine is sent home and given to the patient. There being signs of im. provement, the doctor orders the pre- scription renewed. * The bottle that has been kept in the patients room is sent to the druggist, who Is busy putting up n prescription for another child who only has a bad stomach-ache. © The droggist takes the bottle from the scarlet fever pa. Sent in his hands, but, being in a hur. TY to gut the prescription off to the patient suffering from stomach-ache, sets the bottle down and puts up the powders with his infected fingers. One of these powders is given to the patietn directly out of the paper from the druggist, with a result that moa few days she has a slight sore throat, etc. The doctor is sent for. and informs the anxious mother that be very much suspects wearlet fever. The bottles, boxes or jars in which prescriptions are put up, should never be returned to the druggist from a Bouse where there is a contagious or infectious disease. These communi- able discases have to be uarantined to prevent them from becoming epi- demic. “Thus in the case mentioned above, ‘the illness of the second child would probably make necessary the isola. | tion of some wage-sarner mn its fa- | mily, man or woman, and thus cause permitted to receive from any source the ecqonomic loss of one who con- | tributed not only to the support of | not more than $5. Receipts in excess EN SA SA WA 0 rn SP NR i Sd those at home but also to the upkeep of the soldier boys at the front Let us take ecnre to keep well, that Wit ruay produce our share of the win. ning of the war fought to free the opie af the workl ANOTHER “SIEZU RE” STORY cot Pa a story that the Government 1¢ the farmers rnavivanis koar is Ried irg potatoes they may put it down as a falsehood, Spek 3 varn has been goitig the rounds in New England and inn New York days it has been hoard throughout the northern part of Fennsyivania Daring the past few y thd tale, ment its spents to the growers and a record was taken of all potatoes in storage. The stocks were than com- riandecred in the name of the Govern rient and to maks certain that they would not get away a red tag was placed upon the bin. The Government, according i 1t wns all a very circumstantial story but it was rot true. When the attention of the officials of the Food Administration was called to it an in- vestigation was made. It was traced from one source to another and finally it was discovered that a man who has heard the story in a lodge room had sent it to a local newspaper. The Pennsylvania Committee of Public Bafety anources that it has ten assured by the Federal Food Administration that no potatoes have been siezed by the Government and there is not the slightest liklihood of any such action being taken The farmers of Pennsylvania can go shead with their plans to rise 8 great crop next season without fear of interfer. Goce. WEEKLY WAR NEWS DIGEST Alien Enemies Recvive Fuir Treatment and Puy for Their Labor The interned Germans at the sta. tion at Hot Springs, N. C., are not prisoners of war. They comprise offi. cars and crews of the German merch. ant vessels which were held in the United States at the time of the de. claration of war. These aliens receive no funds from the Government except compensation for labor actually performed. Those engaged in construction work get $20 a month, with an additional $5 to fore men. Interned officers have not been more than $10 a month and crewmen of these amounts mre placed to the credit of the aliens in banks. Three plain but substantial meals are pripared each day. There is no waste, the same mensures of economy ard conservation which are being gry- i "VE upon every American housewife being practiced at Hox Springs. - New Foodstuffs Are Recommended for Use in Germany Corwentrated straw fodder and 3 ground grape pips are sugpested for tabie use in Germany, In a list of new foodstuffs, with descrip tions of found: pablished nee, the following are also Kheubarb leaves, seaweed. straw meal, crashed and ground maize cars, heather stalks, ground sugar beet, parsley soed, wild radish husks, bran, wine yeast, beschnut cake, fish meal, and various mixed foods. Attempts have recently been made in England to establish the use of rubkbarb leaves ss greens, but it ap- pears that such food English have reported several cases of illness following the eating of rhubarb leaf biades *.. Army Medical School Safeguards Millions by Culture and Use of Vaccines in dangerous BEWS DA DES The laboratory st the Army snd Medical School has shipped since April 1 sufficient typhoid and paraty. phoid vaccines to inoculate every man in the Army. Throughout the process of making the is guarded against any contamination. It is VRCC INS thin stormd in sesled vessels in locked refrigerators, to which tfficers in mine of these vessels is ever moved, except in come pany of one of the officers. In more than six months of largescale pro. duction not a trace of comtaminstion has been found only tha two charge have keys, and One of the tests of the vaccines in cludes the inoculation of a mouse, = guineas pig, and a rabbit. 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