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fo EXTERMINATE “HOOK WORM”
Rockefeller G'.ves $1,000,000
to X* ;g'ht the Disease.
HE IS FOND OF THE 800111
Magnate Says the Gift Expresses His
Appreciation of the Hospitality Shown
Him By the Southern People.
New York Citl—A gift of $1,000,000
by John D. Rockefeller to fight the
“hook worm disease” was announced
here.
A dozen well known educators and
scientists, selected in large part from
institutions of learning in the south,
where the parasite is prevalent, were
called in conference with Mr. Rocke
feller’s representatives, and at that
meeting Mr. Rockefeller’s desire to
organize a commission to carry on a
campaign against the malady was dis
cussed. Asa result of this discussion
of the situation, the “Rockefeller
Commission for the Eradication of the
Hook Worm Disease” was organized.
The members ‘of this commission,
as selected by Mr. Rockefeller, are:
Dr. William H. Welch, professor of
pathology in Johns Hopkins universi
ty, president of the American Medical
association; Dr. Simon Flexner, direc
tor of Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research: Dr. Charles W. Stiles,
chief of the division of zoology, Unit
ed States Public Health and Marine
Hospital service, and discoverer of
the American species of hook worm,
and the prevalence of the disease in
America; Dr. Edward A. Alderman,
president of the University of Virgin
ia; Dr. David F. Houston, chancellor
of Washington university, St. Louis,
Mo. ; Professor P. P. Claxon, profes
sor of education in the University of
Tennessee; Honorable J. Y. Joyner,
state superintendent of education in
North Carolina, and pifisidont of the
National Educational association;
Walter H. Page, editor of the World’s
Work; Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal
Hahipton institute; Frederick T.
Gates, one of Mr. Rockefeller’s busi
ness managers; Starr J. Murphy, Mr.
Rockefeller’s counsel in benevolent
matters; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
All but Professor Claxtofi and Mr.
Joyner were present at the meeting
and they have both since accepted
places on the boards elected to cany
out Mr. Rockefeller’s plans.
In calling these gentlemen together
Mr. Rockefeller addressed to each a
latter pointing out his interest in re
lieving the human suffering caused by
the “hook worm” parasite, especially
because, he said, it had been his pleas
ure to sfrend a portion of each year
among the warm-hearted people of
the south, and he welcomed the op
portunity to express appreciation of
their many kindnesses and hospital
ities. . .
The members of the commission
in framing a reply to Mr. Rockefel
ler’s offer of $1,000,000 declared that
the proposition met with their hearti
est approbation.
■ “Two millions of our people are in
fected with this parasite,” they ad
ded “It is by no means confined to
one’ class- it takes its toll of suffering
and death from the intelligent and
well-to-do as well as from the' less for
tunates.”
The “hook worm,” according to
New York Medical authorities, is a
hair-like parasite to which is chaig
ed a form of anemia prevalent espec
ially among the poor people of the
south. It Was not until recent years
that members of the medical profess
sion recognized that a parasite caus
ed the malady.
In December, 1902, Dr. Charles
Wardell Stiles, then a zoologist in the
Bureau of Animal Industry at Wash
ington, who had been studying in
testinal parasites, announced to the
Pan-American Sanitary congress his
conviction that the so-called lazi
ness’ and “shiftlessness,” widely ob
served in certain portions of the south
was a specific disease due to the
hook worm. Many members of the
congress expressed surprise at the
announcement and up to the present
the disease has been a matter of
some controversy.
REPORT ON RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Railroads Killed 2,791 During the
Year 1909.
Washington, D. C. —The interstate
commerce commission announces that
hv railroad accidents during the year
ending June 30, 1909, 2,791 persons
were killed and 63,920 injured, as
against 3,764 killed and 6,8,989 injur
ed in the preceding year. The num
ber of employees killed in coupling
cars was 32 per cent less than last
oqi7 derailments and collisions in the
same period,, of which 272 affected
■passenger trains.
DYNAMITE USED ON UAMBLERS.
Two Eombs Thrown in Chicago
Sporting Clubs.
Chicago, Hh—Two bombs were
thrown here in the downtown dis
trict in buildings occupied by. game
ling clubs. The bombs were the thir
ty-second and thirty-third that have
been hurled in gambling establish
ments within the last two years. No
one was injured.
For two years bombs have been ex
ploded intermittently in Chicago in
the vicinity of places declared to
house gambling clubs andl bookmak
ers' establishments. The homos
have been thrown in what is believed
"he a quarrel between -gamblers
who operate in violation ot the law.
WOMEN THREW ACID ON BALLOTS.
English SuffragettJ, Smashes Bottles,
But Doesn’t Hurt the Tickets.
London, England Mrs. Chapin, a
suffragette, furnished a thrill at the
Bermondezey, by-election, when she
■ mashed a bottle containing corrosive
acid upon a ballot box. Her intention
evidently was to destroy the ballots
in the box as a protest against the
exclusion of women fropi the right
of franchise. What she accomplished
was the painful burning of some of
the election officers and assurances
of her own arrest.
About the same time a similar out
rage was attempted at another booth
by a young girl who wore the suffra
gette colors. In the latter instance
little damage was done beyond the
burning of the finger tips of the elec
tion officials who removed the bits of
broken glass. So far as could be as
certained, not much acid reached the
ballots in either ease.
FOOTBALL FATAL TU CADET.
Member of West Point Eleven Dies.
Injured in Harvard Game.
West Point, N. Y—Cadet A. Eu
gene Byrne of Buffalo, U. S. A., a
fourth year man at the United States
Military Academy, died in the cadet
hospital, a sacrifice to football.
The army is accustomed to death,
but not in this deplorable form; and
this tragedy of the gridiron has
brought such poignant grief to offi
cers and cadets alike that the end of
football at West Point and Annapolis
is predicted by many.
Brave as was the young soldier’s
fight against death, it was hopeless
from the start. Buried beneath a
mass of struggling players in the
Harvard-Army game, his neck
twisted and broken by the weight of
the crushing pile above- him, and 1 he
was picked up- with every nerve of
his body, except those of his head ; ind
face, helpless to perform their func
tions. Only the immediate resort to
artificial respiration kept the boy
from almost instant death.
. Because of the death of Cadet
Byrne no more football will be played
by the West Point eleven this year.
This statement was made by Colonel
Hugh L. Scott, superintendent of the
United States Military Academy, af
ter a consultation with the athletic
authorities of the academy on the
death of young Byrne.
12 MEN KILLED IN COAL MINE.
Dynamite Supposed to Have Caused
Explosion.
Johnstown, Pa —Twelve men were
killed in the Cambria Steel Compa-,
ny’s coal mine, two miles from here,
as the result of what is supposed
to have been a dynamite explosion.
All the dead are foreigners. Three
men escaped with their lives by a
perilous climb on life ladders through
poisonous mine gas and falling slate
up the walls of the main shaft. At
the time of the explosion only fifteen
all track layers, were in
the’ mine.
The explosion occurred at sun
down, as the workmen were putting
their tools away at the end of their
day’s work. Hundreds of persons
gathered at the mine entrance with
in ail incredible space of time.
A force ,of men, working in shifts,
began clearing the debris and fallen
slate in the lower levels of the mine.
It was hours before the workers
gained perceptible headway. When
the final" barrier of rocks was passed
the rescue party found twelve forms
huddled close together, the bodies in
dicating that the men had died of
suffocation.
Mine officials refused definite in
formation as to the cause of the dis
aster, saying they were awaiting the
arrival of state mine examiners.
WILD WHEAT DISCOVERED.
Thousands of Acres Growing Wild in
Palestine.
Billings, Mont. —At the meeting of
the National .Dry Farming Congress
here, Dr. Adolph Aaronsohn, in charge
of the dry land experiments in Pales
tine for the Turkish government, made
his first public announcement of his
discovery of a wild wheat on the
slopes of Mount Hebron. Dr. Aaron
sohn is preparing for a thorough in
vestigation of the subject, including a
survey of thousands of square miles
in which this wheat grows.
Keeping Liquor From Indians.
Washington, D. C. —The Indian se
cret service for the suppression of the
liquor traffic among Indians is mak
ing a vigorous campaign in Wiscon
sin. Notwithstanding the local prej
udice encountered antf the active work
of the organized liquor interests, good
results are being reported from small
er towns in which roaming Indians
have secured liquor.
Alabama Must Borrow.
Montgomery, Ala. —It is shown that
with a balance* of $60,000 in the
treasury, the state will have to bor
row at least $50,000 to meet the de
mands of the month of November.
Governor B. B. Comer, who, under
the new law, may borrow as much
a.s $300,000, is negotiating a loan, it
understood, to come in when needed.
Dickinson Sells Belle Meade.
Nashville, Tenn.— ,l. M. Dickinson,
secretary of war, has sold his coun
try seat, “Belle Meade,” four miles
west of here, to J. O. Leake, a Nash
vilel capitalist. The place comprises
400 acres of land and the price is
SIIO,OOO.
CENSUS OF RELIGION
33,000,000 Members of Church
in the United States.
444 NEW CHURCHES IN SOUTH
$13,000,000 Spent in New Church Build
ings During the First Nine Monthf of
1909 in the 14 Southern States.
Washington, D. C —Tha' 'he church
members iji the United St. es num
bered nearly 33,000,000 in 1906; that
there were a billion and a quarter
dollars invested in church edifices ;
that every day eight new churches
sent their spires skyward; that men
formed 'considerably less than half
the total church membership; that in
sixteen states the majority of the
church membership were Roman Cath
olic, but that ot the grand total of
church members reported for the Uni
ted States 61.6 per cent were Protest
ants and 36.7 per cent Roman Catho
lics —these are the salient facts ap
pearing in the proof sheets of a Uni
ted States census bureau bulletin,
prepared by William C. Hunt, cbt/T
statistician of the division of popi*,.
tion of the United States census Ml
ream
More than $13,000,000 is represelm
ed in 444 new churcn edifices as havil*
been built, in course of erection fig
definitely planned during the lira
nine months of 1909 in the 14 soul _
era . states, the District of Columbij hi
Oklahoma and Missouri.
Of the total amount $4,396,000 re j
resent Methodist undertakings, $:
708,500 Baptist, $1,840,500 Protcstai
Episcopal, $1,161,000 Presbyterial,*
$930,000 Catholic, $569,000 Christian,
$270,500 Lutheran, $210,400 Jewish,
and $1,066,700 various bodies „ .with
comparatively small following in the
south. '
THE PERFECT HUSBAND.
Qualifications of a “Model Husband”
Of the Chicago Standard.
Chicago, 111. —Samuel W. Van Nos
tram, who was adjudged the “model
husband” at the second annual “hub
by show,” received from his wife
•credit for being the possessor of all
the virtues necessary to make an
ideal mate.
“Other than possessing the most
super-husbandly quality of being good
natured before breakfast,” said Mrs.
Van Nostran, “my husband allows me
to carry the family pocketbook and
declares, just as if he meant it, that
my cooking is so far above ‘mother’s’
efforts in the culiinary line, that there
could be no comparison. If that is
not glory enough for one woman, I
would like to know what is.”
The complete list of desirable qual
ities attributed to her husband by
Mrs. Van Nostran are:
Prompt at meals.
Good entertainer.
An adept with the chafing dish.
Good judge of feminine beauty.
Generous and kind-hearted.
Enjoys home more than the club.
Happiest when among friends.
Mr. Van Nostran, who also received
the prize for his almost womanly abil
ity to sew on a button, is thirty-five
years old, and has been married nine
years.
JUDGE BERNARD DEAD.
Was One of Florida’s Oldest and
Most Influential Citizens.
Tallahassee, Fla. —Judge Jesse Tal
bot Bernard, one of Florida’s oldest
and at one time most influential cit
izens, died at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. T. B. Byrd, at 635
South Calhoun street.
The death of Judge Bernard marks
the close of a brilliant career and a
life of usefulness. During the war
between the states he was adjutant
quartermaster to General R. E. Lee’s
headquarters. After the “days of re
construction’’ he was elected the first
democratic mayor of this city. Fol
lowing this he accepted appointment
of judge of Leon county.
MISSION BOARDJHSREPRESENTED;
Suffrage for Women Was Not Men
tioned at Recent Meeting.
Nashville, Tenn. —Mrs. R. W. Mac-
Donell, general secretary of the wo
man’s board of home missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, south,
states that the woman’s board, which
recently met in Savannah, Ga., had
been misrepresented in the statement
that it had declared in favor of wo
man suffrage. Mrs. MacDonell states
that the board not only did not take
such action, but not one word was ut
tered on the subject during the entire
session. This board, she says, is a
church body and devotes its time and
attention to church and ecclesiastical
affairs.
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THE HUNTING SEASON OPENS.
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—Cartoon by Godwin, in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
WHO OWNS THE AIR?
A Pressing Problem That Must Be Settled at -Once is Whether aD
Aviator Has the Right oi Way Over Private Property, the
Ownership oi Which in Every Case, According to the
% Old Roman Law, Extends Upward Indefinitely.
: New York City.—How high must
aviator fly to be safe from the con
juences of illegal trespass? and
great many other questions, not
burning now but considered as soon
to be hot ones, were treated by Lyt
tleton Fox, a lawyer, in an address to
members of the Aero Club of Amer
ica. The answer was that *he aviator
would have to be out of sight. He
must dodge the police.
The old Roman law which gives to
the owner of land absolute ownership
also of the air above it is responsible
for this. The law must b~ changed,
he added, or th-e courts win he ruin
ously congested. As matters stand,
there having been no changes in the
law for several hundred years, a man
in a flying machine has no rights that
a man With a plow is bound to re
spect. The question is how best to
bring the attention of the judicial
system to this unfair discrimination
against the flying portion of the race.
No man can fly as things now stand
without technically breaking the law,
unless he gets special privileges from
the landowners.
It is a problem that bristles with
novelty, says Mr. Fox. In the event
of pedestrians being hit by ginger
pop bottles dropped by the passing
aviator or by other objects, includ
ing the aviator himself, the man be
low would have redress at law. Mr.
Fox believes the Aero Club should
urge the Wright brothers, for in
stance, to consent to be sued by the
owner of land over which they have
flown (and thereby trespassed), so
as to bring the whole subject before
the courts for’ settlement. The suit
should be a friendly one, ho said, the
object being to modify, if possible,
the law of aerial trespass. Another
way might be to condemn the air by
legal procedure, and thus knock over
the historical fossil.
A discussion that followed tho ad
dress of the evening resulted in the
members arriving at the Arm belief
that the air should be considered a
highway, and there was preliminary
talk concerning an attempt at legis
lative enactment.
To avert suits for aerial trespass
Mr. Fox suggests that the State con
demn and buy a stratum of air as a
highway for flying machines. The
fact that Count Lambert in his flight
across Paris violated a police regula
tion forbidding aeroplaning over the
city shows that the French have al
ready applied the law to cover one
phase of the question. By leaving
the aerodrome for his Paris flight
Lambert incurred a penalty of $4;
COFFINS TOO CHEAP, MAKERS COMPLAIN
The Burial Ca3ket P/Icn Say Cost of Dying Has Not Kept Pace
With increased Cost of Living.
Cincinnati, Ohio. —The burial cas
ket manufacturers and jobbers, in
convention here, are dissatisfied be
cause the cost of dying has not kept
pace with the increased cost of living.
They deprecate cut-rate funerals, and
are proposing to establish uniform
prices for the retail trade in coffins.
‘‘We coffin makers, want the under
takers to help us out more than they
do,” said one delegate. "We want
the undertakers to make stiffer bills,
and then we can get more for our
goods. Why should we have to pay
double what we used-to pay to live
and let people die cheaply? It isn't
FOREGOES CLOISTER TO FIND LOST FATHER
Miss Swanson Discovers Him in Jail as Burglar and Will Now
Seek to Procure His Parole.
St. Louis.—Miss Elsie Swanson, of
St. Louis, renounced her aspiration to
become a nun because she believed
her duty was to search for her father,
whom she had not seen for eleven
years. She found him in the County
Jail at Joplin, a few minutes after he
was convicted of burglary and lar
ceny and sentenced to two years In
the penitentiary.
Swanson did not recognize his
daughter, but she picked him from a
erowd of prisoners in the main cell
at the Rheims meet an aviator was
fined for reckless driving.
The military airship will necessi
tate new provisions in International
law to meet the new problems of In
ternational relations which It will
raise. France has now seven air
ships, Germany eleven and Italy five
in course of construction. Given a
fleet of Zeppelins arriving unan
nounced above a British port, will
the act constitute a cause of war?
If the aeroplane develops the power
to carry explosives for dropping on
an enemy's fleet, will the practice be
permitted under the rules of war?
The interesting fact in connection
with the suggested regulation of air
travel is that It Is already made nec
essary by an invention only yesterday
in its infancy which threatens a re
vision of the statute books along with
Its revolution of traffic.
In advocating arrangements for a
test suit, Mr. Fox seems to believe
that after the existing legal status of
an aerial trespasser has once been
clearly outlined the law may be so
modified that the air will be pro
nounced a public highway. Legisla
tion of that kind, however, would be
unfortunate If it were not very accur
ately limited. There is a wide differ
ence between navigation of the sea
and navigation of the air. If a trans
atlantic steamship Is badly handled
those who are on board her may
suffer, and she may injure an
other craft which is on the same
level. There is practically no chance,
however, that she will harm anybody
or anything directly under her, at the
bottom of the ocean. She can discard
ashes, ballast or any other material
without fearof doing mischief. If such
things are dropped from an airship,
there will always be a possibility of
danger—a danger which is enhanced
by the temperamental characteristics
of those who engage in aerial naviga
tion for sport.
Editorially the New York Times
stays:
"Will the invasion of the air by
aeroplanes be repelled by suits for
trespass? *
"We think not. The first success
ful human flight made the air a high
way—a possibility not contemplated
in the Roman law. Besides, there can
be no effective possession of the upper
air by a land owner. Where posses
sion neither is nor has been, there
should be no ownership. At any rate,
this is assumed in Germany and
Switzerland, which have passed stat
utes establishing rules of the aerial
road.”
fair and it isn’t logical. There are
too many undertakers. They are cut
ting each other’s throats to get busi
ness, and, what is more to the point,
they are cutting prices. Another
thing, the supply of coffins is greater
than the demand; that's what makes
’em so cheap.
“If a man wants a decent burial he
ought to be made to pay a decent
price for it. It isn’t as though it was
a steady drain on the family purse.
Coffins are bought only occasionally,
and when the occasion arises they
ought to be willing to do the thing
handsomely.”
room. Father and daughter wept in
each others' arms. She will now try
to obtain a parole for him, and as he
was convicted solely on his own ad
mission of guilt it is possible her plea
for clemency will be granted.
Miss Swanson, who is twenty-one
years old. is the ward of the Rev. C.
C. Stahlmann, who took her from the
custody of her father when she was
ten years old, Swanson having been
declared unfit to care for her. She
was educated in a convent here.