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SIX Prevent Death'Rate From Running High By Having Proper Sewerage and Water Mains Ru?> ii Southern Portion ot City Dr. E. E. Murphey, President of Board of Health, Will So Recommend in Annual Report---Death Rate For Whites, 14.6 Per 1,000 Against 21.5 For Negroes Dr, Fluprcn* TC. Murphey, president of the Board of Health, announced yester day that the city health department had about completed Jib vital statistics for the year ending December Ist, 15)14. At The Herald'* request Dr. Murphey makes some Interebtlng statements which will he horne out by bis annual report to be submitted by him to tbs Board of Health and then to city coun cil to be passed upon at Its next regu lar meeting The body of his report, however, can not at this time be made public. The general ten*** of the report Is found In what Murphey said yester day. of which the most striking fe - ture Is the large disparity between the white and negro death rate from varl* on* diseases, as reported to the Hoard of Health. Deaths have occurred from pneumonlA, nephritis, pulmonary tu berculosis, apoplexy, heart diseases, pel* lngra. str . named heio in the order of their Importance The deaths among the negro popula tion run Augusta’s death rate up com paratively high, nnd it Is learned that In* cumber of d*«*tbe !•■}...» D.l r*:i»c city’s now territory, south of the town proper the section acquired when the city a few years ago extended her boundaries an* greater than from any other part of the town. This. It Is un derstood, Is due to the fact that it has as yet been Impossible to run adequate sfwersgc, get the proper drainage, and, In some cases, even to Install water mains As soon as this part of the city is tmproved, Augusta's death rate, It 1s said, will be lowered, snd It will com pare favorably with cities of the North, whereas, at present, it does not. It does compare favorably, however, with Southern cities. Dr. Murphey state* that this Is by po mean* n local problem. Jt has to be contended with, he say*, in most •very other city in the South. The Death Rate. The T 914 death rate in Augusta is 14 6 per 1 .<‘oo population among the whites an against 21. R per 1,000 among the ne (pros* During the year deaths have been reported as follows IVom typhoid fever, f, white. 1(1 colored; from malarial fever, no whites, 22 colored, snd so on. It) every instance the majority of the negro deaths over the white deaths from the ■ame causes being conspicuously large Railroad Men Enthusiastically Endorse Movement to Use Kahki Unitorms on Railway Trainmen Joint Session of Members of Board of Governors of American Cotton Manufacturers Association With Representatives of Railways, Steam and Electric, Held Last Night at Bon Air Hotel, President T. I. Hickman in the Chair. White no pledßei* w*ro tnndr—for the Imtinf '\ AM not • lUtd 1“!' t fiat pui post thoHo present at the Hon Ait laftt night at t tie Joint aoairfon of tin* board «»f govornorH of tho American Cotton Manufacturer*’ Aaaociation find of the principal rail wtyi( meant and electric) i»f thesouth eaat, called to dtaciiMH the vital prob lem of increasing the conmimption of thin year's rotion crop heartily en doraed the movement, It in hoped that some definite action will be taken shortly. The concensus of opinion was thnt there must bt some way of Increasing the consumption and every railroad man present was heartily in favor \ adopting the khaki uniform, which ia e of cotton goods, In the pla<'i> of the blue serge or worsted that Is now being worn Home of the railway rep resentatives present had authority to state whether or not the«lr respective roads would adopt the khukl (cotton) uniform for its employes, while there were others present who did not. Among Those Present. The president. Mr. T. I. Illckman, ol this city, presided over the session. Mr. ('. 11. Hryan of Charlotte, N. C„ the secretary and treasurer, was also present Other members of the board of governor* present were Messrs. Heott Maxwell, Cordova, Ala., vice president; John A. Ijiw, Spartanburg, 8 C. chairman, and C. It Armstrong. Oaatunta. N. C.; Fuller K. T. Calloway, Oa.; J. T Gossett, William ■ton. S. C.; Juutes Maynard, Knox ville. Tenn., and Mr. and Mrs l.eroy Springs, 8 C. It. M Miller. Jr.. Charlotte, and T. H, Hennie, Fell mu COTTON MEETING COES TO MEMPHIS Business Session of Board of Governors of American Cot ton Manufacturers Associa tion Held Yesterday After noon at Bon Air Hotel. At a business meeting of the board of governors of the Amor loan Man ufacturers' Association, held at three O’clock yesterday afternoon at the lton Air Hotel. Memphis was the city de cided upon tn which to hold the an* nual meeting of the association the middle of next April The date has not yet been fixed The meeting was held yesterday for this and other reasons, and unlike the night meeting, was not open to the public Many Cities Wanted It. Among the cities who were after the Ift 16 meeting of the association were: Denver. Saginaw. Asheville. Atlan ta. Galveston. Nashville, San Francis co, Cincinnati, New Orleans. Mont real, Buffalo, Charlotte Memphis. Norfolk. Augusta, Richmond Saratoga Springs Charleston and Birmingham It was announced after the meeting b.v Secretary Bryant of the board that delegates to the National Foreign Trades Council, which meets January Slat and 32nd, In St Isrula, Mo, will be appointed by Mr. Hickman to rep. resent the American Cotton Manufac turers’ Association at that time. Those Present. Those present at yesterday after- Dr. Murphey stntes that the in the mgro death rate over that of the white* is almost entirely contrlbutable to preventable diseases. The city of Augusta, as Dr. Murphey s report will show Is now practically free from smallpox. All cases that have be»*n discovered have been traced to Infec tions acquired out of the city. In pulmonary tubercij’osiH the same ratio In the death rate between the white and blacks exists as from any of the other disease*. For the present year rate wan 25 whites against 60 blacks, and this estimate does not In clude the unrecognized deaths in the ne gro element. Pellagra, which ranks sixth among tbs causes of death In Augusta, shows a similar condition between the wdiites nnd the negroes, 15 deaths having occurred among the former and 25 among the lat ter race. His Recommendation. The president, In bis report, will rec ommend first of all. that attention be directed to that terrltr**y in the southern part of the city, Which needs to be put Ivi ii more s«ntt*irv condition imme diately. When tms ts done, says in. Murphey, there will be some hope of de creasing Augusta’s death rate, but not until this has been properly attended to. He says that at present It is the great est fact**- In bolding up Augusta’s death rate. N The school inspection, ns carried on under the supervision of the Board of Health, Is very satisfactory, and It will he recommended to continue this work In the same rwvhner. The work of com pulsory vaccination In the schools will continue as unremittingly as And It will also he enforced among convicts ns in the past. CJreater attention than ever will he pnld to the common house fly and mos quito in Augusta during the coming year. During the heated ’erm the hoard expert* to put on one or more special Inspectors to attend to these particular phases of the public health work. The meat, market, dairy and food in spection will he carried on ns before, If the presldnet’s recommendations are fob lowed, nnd doubtless they will be. Dr. Murphey stilted that this year the amount of condemnation of food, meat, etc.. Is far in excess of any jAovlous year. City, Ala., were also present as ex-of flelo members of the board. Among the rallwuy men present were General Manager W. N. For aker of the Southern, Washington, 1). C. Commercial Agent F. F. Powers of tin' Central of Georgia, Augusta. General Manager A. W. Anderson of (he Charleston and Western Carolina Hallway, Augusta; I’urohuslng Agent Hurclicr of the Pennsylvania; Super intendent J A. White of Hie Augusta Southern, Augusta; General Manager Kirkland of the Georgia and Florida; General Manager R. W. Hpofford of the Augusta-Atken Hallway and Elec tric Corporation, and others. Th« Speakers. President lllckmun called on the fol lowing to speak briefly on the subject before the meeting; Mr. Rennie, Mr. Calloway, Mr. Horcher and Mr. Spot ford. In the order named. It was Im possible to hear from everyone there, but before adjournment the oppor tunity was offered any others who wished to speak. The meeting was opened by a splen did talk made by the president, Mr. Hickman, in which he explained - the klutkl uniform Idea, enumerating the numerous advantages It has over any other, After this samples of khaki uniforms were displayed in a novel and unique manner. Ten young men were presented before the spectators, each wearing a different stylo klmkl uni form. The exhlMtlon seemed to deep ly Interest every gentleman In the room and It afforded them the chance to see for themselves what the cot ton uniforms looked like after being made up and put on.living models. noon's mestlng wers: T. 1. Hickman, president, Augusta. Ga. C. TV Bryant, secretary and treas urer. Charlotte. N. C. John A. Law. chairman board of governors. Spartanburg, S. C. Scott Maxwell, vice-president, Cor dova, Ala. C B. Armstrong, Gastonia. N. C.; Fuller R. Callaway, LaG range, Ga.; .1 I\ Gossett, WUllamstnn. S C„; .lames Maynard. Knoxville, Tenn.; Leroy Springs, Lancaster, S. C. ALLEGED CHICKEN THIEVES CAUGHT Detectives Roney and Horn Capture Negroes Supposed to Have Been Raiding Hen Houses Near Enterprise. lAUrls Mcdltn and Dal Jones, two negroes were arrested by Detectives Roney and Horn on Saturday and en tered on the State lloolt under two charges of larceny. It is alleged they stole a quantiy of rubber from T. A. Quarles of 1843 Walker St some days ago, which con stitutes their first charges and second ly that the are the chicken thieves who have been making a clean sweep of the Enterprise Factory district during the last week. Seven witnesses from whom It is claimed they took chickens or turkeys are entered against them If, Indeed these twe negroes turn out to tw the thieve* In question, which the police believe they will have tittle trouble in proving. Detectives Roney and Horn will have added a large sited feather in their cap. It was a fine piece of work and these officers •!P*er\ e great credit for their speedy and akllful action. Prize Winners Misspelled Word Contest Prizes awarded in Herald's Mis spelled Word Contest Sunday, Decem ber 13th, 1914, as follows: Miss Eugenia K. Ellington, 1855 Starnes Street, first prize. Mis. B. Sunken, 1003 Reynolds St., second prize. Mr*. R. M. Bostick, 465 West Ave., North Augusta, S. C., third prize. RAJ. ARCHIE CRUMP DIED LAST NIGHT For More Than Fifty Years He Was Turnkey at the Rich mond County Jail. Probably Turned Key on More Crim inals Than Any Other Man in Country. Major Archibald B. Crump, for more than f.O years turnkey at the Richmond county Jail, died at the city hospital at nine o'clock last night after a linger iny Illness, MaJ. Crump was 77 years of age and was a lifelong resident of Augusta, his mother being one of the founders of Ht. James church. The funeral arrangements will be announc ed later. iVe the past three years MaJ. Crump had been unable to work and he lived with Sheriff Plunkett at the Jail. Mr. Plunket was very fond of the old gen tleman and even though his term of usefulness had expired because of his advanced age, he was Invited to live at the Jail, the place which he had grown to regard with an attachment horn of long years of association, the remainder of his life. MaJ. Crump he secured the entitle ment of major because he was the ma jor of a drum corps in Augusta many, many years ago—turned the keys on more criminals, probably, than any other man in this section of the coun try. One sheriff after another tie serv ed faithfully until lie was no longer able to fulfill the duties and then he remained at the Jail, lie was a kindly old man and had a great many friends. He. served in a portion of the Civil War and recently applied for a pension, but had not received it up until the time of his death. l Wk iPr Mi mmu T mm THOUSANDS OF ATTRACTIVE PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Our store is filled to capacity with new and pretty things for Father, Mother, Brother, Sister and the Baby. EVERY ARTICLE IN THE HOUSE IS REDUCED from 25 to 40 Per Cent. Practical Toys $30.00 Automobile $22..75 $25.00 Isngine $19.75 $12.00 Wagons $9.75 $6.00 Irish Mail $3.75 $2.00 Drums $1.25 SI.OO Drums 79<^ 25c Drums 17^ Tool Chests for Boys from 25c up Poot Balls from 75C up U. P. SPETH, Broad Street We have an exhaustive line of Brass Goods. Pocket Knives, Razors, Carving Sets, Silverware. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. Mrs. S. W. Owens, 1017 Calhoun St., fourth prize. Mr. Fred L. Morse, 713 Kollock St., fifth prize. Many hundreds of correct replies received, but the above were given preference on account of neatness, ac cording to rules of the contest, as an nounced. Orders to merchants have been mailed successful contestants. RAIDED ALLEGED GAMING JOINTS Do Drop In and Wig Warn Soda Founts Pulled For Running So-Called “Candy Game.’’ Saturday night the Po Prop In and the Wigwam, two local soft drink stands stands, were* raided on a gambling charge. At the former place four alleged participants of a crap game, it is claimed, were arrested and a gambling charge lodged against each. At the latter place eight young men were coraled and sent to the bar racks with the same , charge lodged against them. Their bonds were fixed at $l5O each. It is claimed by the proprietors of both houses, and also by the young men engaged that only a “candy game” was in progress. However, the police charge gamb ling. Up until a late hour Saturday night the majority of the "players" had met their bond ami had been released. It is claimed by several of the arrested that they were merely passing through when taken in charge. But this re mains to he seen when the cases will come up at the next session of the city court. Pice used in the alleged gambling ess seized, together with the'dice cup. GAVE MONEY SAVED ON A WINELESS SUPPER TO POOR Chicago. One hundred officials the Illinois Steel Company attended a wine less banquet tonight and gave to char ity the money usually spent for cham pagne. Instead of a dinner at $5 a plate at a downtown hotel the officials gathered in the elubrooms of the works where the dinner cost a dollar, and the four dollars was given to the needy. Look for Santa Claus ——— AT ——— L. P. SPETH’S Christmas Store Mrs . Desha Breckenridge Makes Splendid Suffrage Address Mrs. Pesha Breckenridge, of Lexing ton, Ky., speaking in the Interest ol Woman’s Equal Suffrage, charmed a most representative audience of Au gusta women for one hour and twenty seven minutes Friday afternoon at the Albion parlor, an audience that found every word of her address filled with comprehensive interest. Mrs. Breck enridge was introduced in u bright lit tle speech by Rev. G, Sherwood Whit ney, one of the few men in the audi ence, who prefaced his remarks by saying that his presence and intro duction should not be taken as an ad mission that he was for woman’s suf frage but that he was there as ha would ever be at the call of woman, the president of the Augusta Equal Suffrage League had asked him to pre sent. Mrs. Breckenridge, who had spent years in the study of the question and who was in a position to tell them all about it. Mrs. Breckenridge greeted her audience and at the same time re sponded to Mr. Whitney’s remarks by saying that the women did not want to dispense with the men but that one of their grievances was that the men were trying to dispense with the wo men. Mrs. Breckenridge is a delightful speaker and her pleasant, well modu lated voice rang through her audi ence Just as fresh at the conclusion as it did at the beginning of her splen did address. Her English is perfect, her sentences well rounded and force ful, clean-cut and to the point, w r ith never a superfluous word. Her ad dress was a magnificent stating of the suffrage question and carried enlight enment to her most appreciative audi ence as to why women should be given the ballot. She made only a few attacks on the arguments that have been presented by the organizations of women who are opposed to equal suffrage, but de voted most o sher time to presenting the logical reasons for woman’s suf frage and citing the many instances in which the voting of the women has proven a boon to the community in which it is allowed. "I think I am perfectly safe in say ing that the granting of the ballot to women generally in this country will come within the next quarter or half century,” said Mrs. Breckenridge. "We now have eleven states in which whole or partial suffrage has been given. The very biggest statesmen in the country have said that they believe woman’s suffrage Is coming |tnd I believe that anyone who is not totally blind can see now that it is coming just as surely as the sun rises and sets. Be Over-Confident. "Speaker CSark in an interview with FAMILY GIFT Caloric Fireless Cooker. $30.00 Model, Aluminum Lined, reduced to. . . $21.25 $25.00 Model, Aluminum Lined, reduced to.. .. $17.25 SIO.OO Chafing Dishes at . . $6.79 SIO.OO Ccffee Machines .. ..$6.75 Brass Kettles, very special . .$3.75 SB.OO Steak Plates for .. .. $5.75 $2.00 Casseroles 85^* EXTRA SPECIAL $2.50 Casseroles .. . 79C -> \ IP* a delegation of women advocates of equal suffrage said that he believed equal suffrage was inevitable. I think this is one of our greatest weaknesses. We think it is inevitable and we are apt to underestimate the difficulties and the opposition that undoubtedly confronts us in our fight for the bal lot. * “Woman’s cause is not won until it is won throughout the entire nation, and one of the greatest forces with which we must reckon is the force of inertia. This exists among a largo percentage of women all over the country. The women are too prone to sit idly by and say that it can’t be done or that their time is so taken up with their duties at home that they are unable to get out and work for the cause, even though they feel down deep in their hearts that in asking for a voice in the affairs of their states and their nation they are but asking for that which is Justly due them. "Other forces opposed to granting suffrage to the women are the liquor and vice interests and the interests who know that child labor will be speedily abolished after equal suffrage goes into effect." Work in Kentucky. Mrs. Breckenridge told of the ex periences of those who had fought for suffrage in Kentucky and gained a partial victory. She«said that as a result of the limited power given the women of her state some very good and successful laws had been enacted in Kentucky; that commissions on schools and illiteracy have been es tablished and that the laws provided that on all of the commissions ap pointed for educational purposes wom en must be appointed as well as men. The result, she said, had been that a far greater percentage of the state funds have been spent for educational purposes, the conditions in the schools have shown marked improvement and the percentage of adult illiteracy in the state has been cut down to almost nothing. The part women have played in the wars of the world was one of Mrs. Mreckenridge’s most forceful argu ments. "If there were no better argu ment in favor of giving the ballot to women,” she said, "war would be an entirely sufficient one. Women’s Part in War. “When we think of patriotism we think of war and when we think of war we think of men who march off to war ’mid the playing of patriotic airs, the beating of drums and the waving of flags. We forget the hun dreds of thousands of women who have been and are being made widows, whose sons are taken away from them Bicycles and Supplies $50.00 Tribune $37.75 $40.00 Crescent $27.75 $40.00 Double Frame Princeton .. $27.75 $35.00 Princetons $22.75 SIO.OO Puncture Proof Tires $7.75 $7.00 Oxfords $5.25 $4.00 Motorcycle Saddles .. ..... $2.75 $2.00 Motorcycle Saddles $1.25 $1.75 Shop Pumps $1.25 Everything in stoves from toy ranges to our handsome $75.00 Monitor Radiator—all at im mense Reductions. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20. Modjeska Monday "FORTUNES OF WAR,” A Kay Bee Future in two parts. "BUSTER BROWN AND GERMAN BAND,” An Edison play. "THE SHERIFF’S REWARD,” A Selig play. "HIS PREHISTORIC PAST,” Another one of those laughable Key stone comedies in two parts. "AMBROSES’S FIRST FALSEHOOD,” Another Keystone comedy. THREE REELS OF KEYSTONE LAUGHS MONDAY. in the cru°l, bloody game of war—a war which was precipitated by an act of their nation in which they had no voice. “But the mere fact that war is all wrong, that.it is harbarous and crimi nal and awful and terrible to think of in this stage of civilization is not the only argument in favor of woman s suffrage that war gives us. Has not woman, since the very earliest days when nations took up arms against each other, made sacrifices that make this plea of hers for the right to help conduct tf.e affairs of her nation but a request for but a portion of that which has been her right?” Mrs. Breckenridge dwelt stronger upon the great need of new laws and the enforcement of existing laws >n the South and explained that the giv ing of the right to vote to women would help ereatly/to accomplish those things which the South needs most. Christmas Gifts SI.OO Down, SI.OO Week For Everybody How about a set of furs for mother, wife, sister, daughter? We have love ly furs at $5 to sls, our terms, SI.OO down, SI.OO a week. Other fur sets up to $35 on very easy terms. A coat for the Girl at $3 to $6, or a skirt or waist or hat for any woman, or a nice warm sweater coat at $2.50 to $4.50. On any bill up to sls, our terms SI.OO down and SI.OO a week. Then of course we have very pretty silk, and cieth dresses at $8 to sls for SI.OO down and SI.OO a week and coats and suits on the same terms. Yes, in deed, a dollar down will go a long way at the Menter Co., 940 Broad. St. Will be open late all next week.