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For Mothers and Babies 
More About the Sheppard-Towner Bill and Its Aims 
W HILE the death rates from tuber¬ 
culosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever 
and diptheria have decreased year 
after year, until the average “expect¬ 
ancy of life” has len^hened a full dec¬ 
ade since health statistics began to be 
studied, one record of mortality has re¬ 
mained practically at the same figure 
since 1900. That is the death rate from 
causes connected with childbirth. Our 
business men and women, professionals, 
farmers, laborers, all stand a chance of 
living ten years or so longer than did 
those in similar occupations twenty- 
five years ago, but our mothers still 
face possible death in the proportion of 
a less health-enlightened era. 
As this unwelcome fact was grad¬ 
ually forced upon our notice and we 
saw that, among twenty civilized coun¬ 
tries keeping such records, the United 
States stood seventeenth on the list in 
maternal mortality, the women of the 
country began to protest vigorously 
against the indifference and short¬ 
sighted “economy” which denied 
mothers and babies the right sort of 
care. 
For public health is purchasable and 
one experiment after another demon¬ 
strated that where there were visiting 
nurses, maternity centers and well-baby 
clinics, the mortality rate instantly 
fell far below the average National 
figure. In one of New York City’s 
most congested tenement districts, 
where an expert corps of public health 
nurses visit practically every family, 
the mother and baby death rate is just 
half than for a typical, American up¬ 
state community boasting fresh air, 
country food and an apparently splen¬ 
did chance for every baby born within 
its boundaries. 
Investing in Health is Economy 
But could both the Government and 
the mass of people be made to under¬ 
stand that the ounce of prevention, 
though it meant the investment of out- 
and-out cash, was far cheaper than the 
many pounds of cure—or rather, the 
cost in deaths, and in illness and per¬ 
manent suffering? The lesson was 
driven home so simply and well that 
the answer to the question, in the shape 
of the Sheppard-Towner .Bill, passed 
Congress and the House of Representa¬ 
tives triumphantly and is now in work¬ 
ing order in twenty-three States, and 
up for acceptance in the rest. 
Just what is the Sheppard-Towner 
Bill and why does each State have to 
accept it? The bill provides for a Fed¬ 
eral appropriation of funds, the money 
to be spent “for the promotion of the 
welfare and hygiene of maternity and 
infancy.” But it does not impose a 
Federal program upon the States. That 
is why each State must accept the law 
for itself. 
For each State must vote a similar 
appropriation, and the joint fund thus 
created is administered entirely by 
State officials. The bill merely stimu¬ 
lates the individual States to act by 
providing a Federal fund. 
New York needs the Enabling Act 
Nor will any effort be made to force 
expectant mothers to receive help and 
advice. It seems amazing that any 
mother should resent an effort to make 
it easy for her to get the proper care 
for herself and her baby, and the bill is 
so framed that any distrust of its meth¬ 
ods can arise only from complete mis¬ 
understanding. 
The Enabling Act, by which New 
York would accept a Federal endow¬ 
ment of $80,000 as soon as a State fund 
of $75,000 was appropriated, has had a 
chequered career in our Senate and As¬ 
sembly. No one has attempted to deny 
the basic facts on which the act was 
framed. No one has contradicted—or 
could contradict—^the statement that 
literally hundreds of lives would be 
saved within the next year and there¬ 
after, by the passage of this single bit 
of legislation. But other States have 
seen the purely selfish benefits of the 
act, as well as its great humanitarian 
purpose, far more clearly than has the 
Empire State. 
New York will eventually pass the 
Sheppard-Towner Enabling Act. Post¬ 
poning it means unnecessary loss of 
life. It means, in one up-State county 
alone, the death of 120 babies out of 
every thousand. “The welfare and 
hygiene of maternity and infancy” to 
quote the bill itself, demand its pas¬ 
sage and the sooner it is passed, the 
sooner unnecessary loss of life will be 
checked. 
In the Valley of "the Giants 
(Continued from page 426) 
John Cardigan smiled and held out 
his arms for her. “This,” he said, “is 
the happiest day that I have known 
since my boy was born.” 
CHAPTER XXXIV 
OME days later, Bryce, riding the 
top log on the end truck of a long 
train just in from Cardigan’s woods in 
Township Nine, dropped from the end 
of the log as the train crawled through 
the millyard. He hailed Buck Ogilvy 
in the door of the office. 
“Big doings up on Little Laurel 
Creek, Buck.” 
“Do tell!” Mr. Ogilvy murmured 
morosely. 
“It was great,” Bryce continued. 
“Old Duncan McTavish returned. His 
year on the mourner’s-bench expired 
yesterday, and he came back to claim 
his old job.” 
“He’s one year too late,” Ogilvy de¬ 
clared. “I wouldn’t let Jules Rondeau 
quit for a farm. Some woods-boss, 
that—and his first job with this com¬ 
pany was the dirtiest you could hand 
him—smearing grease on the skid-road^ 
at a dollar and a half a day and found.^ 
He can get out the logs, hang his ras¬ 
cally hide, and I’m for him.” 
“I’m afraid you haven’t anything to 
say about it, Buck,” Bryce replied dryly. 
“I haven’t, eh? Well, any time you 
deny me the privilege of hiring and fir¬ 
ing, you’re going to be out the service 
of a rattling good general manager, my 
son.” 
“Oh, very well,” Bryce laughed. 
“Have it your own way. Only if you 
can drive out Duncan McTavish, I’d 
like to see you do it. Old Duncan is in 
possession.” 
“What do you mean—in possession?” 
“At ten o’clock this morning McTav¬ 
ish appeared at our log-landing. The 
whiskey-fat was all gone, and he ap¬ 
peared forty years old instead of sixty. 
With a whoop he came straight for 
Jules Rondeau. The big Canuck saw 
him coming and knew what his visit 
portended—so he wasn’t taken un¬ 
awares. It was a case of fight for his 
job—and Rondeau fought.” 
“The devil you say!” 
“I do—and there was the devil to 
pay. It - was a rough and tumble — 
just the kind of fight Rondeau likes. 
Nevertheless old Duncan floored him. 
While he’s been away somebody taught 
him the hammer-lock and the crotch- 
hold and a few more fancy ones, and 
he got to work on Rondeau in a hurry. 
In fact, he had to, for if the tussle had 
gone over five minutes. Rondeau’s 
youth would have decided the issue.” 
“And Rondeau was whipped?” 
“To a whisper. Mac floored him, 
climbed him, and choked him until he 
beat the ground with his free hand in 
token of surrender; whereupon old 
Duncan let him up, and Rondeau went 
to his shanty and packed.' The last 
I saw of him • he was headed over the 
hill to Camp Two on Laguna Grande. 
He’ll probjably ;chase that assistant 
woods-boss out of Shirley’s woods. I 
don’t care if he does. What interests 
me is the fact that the old Cardigan 
woods-boss is back and I’m mighty 
glad of it. The old horsethief has had 
his lesson and I think he’s cured.” 
“The infamous old outlaw!” 
“Mac knows the San Hedrin as I 
know my own pocket. He’ll be a tower 
of strength when we open up that tract 
after the railroad builds in. ^ By the 
way, has my dad been down this morn¬ 
ing?” 
“Yes. Moira read the mail to him 
and then took him up to the Valley of 
the Giants. He said he wanted to do 
a little quiet figuring on that new steam 
schooner you’re thinking of building. 
He thinks she ought to he bigger —big 
enough to carry two million feet.” 
(Continued next week) 
