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lli!- b NKWb JUNE 26. 1911 The Charlotte News PvblUhtd dally and Sunday by TOfQ Ifinvs PUBLIIHIKG CO. W. C. D«w«, rvMMaat mmM Oca Msr. T*l*9kraMl C*ty KdltA Basiuaaa Job OfBea J *C PATTON Editor A. W. UtAI^DWUbb City «dlt*r A. W. BURCH AdT*rtltlnK M»r, •imtCHIPTIOIf RATES Hw OliarlAtT* news. Dall^ and Mundajr. On« y«*r Fis montlia Tl)r«« i«ontM On* montk Ot^• itUDday Onl7. 3^*^ * pix bbobxda •••••»•§•••••••«••*** 'i'hT90 (nontQA f>n« y«>ay >nt\ rnoiithc fix mont'CN hr— IS. 00 i.ea 1.10 .to .12 92.00 1.0* .10 fl.OO .60 .11 aaf«oaa*«inrat. Ifco or tn* T4 r*- C :'!'.’ invjip-! to tB« followliigt fi'tur«. Obituary Notice*. In M«- nnrtutn Sketoh«R. C»rrt* of Thank*, cu nn'i’rlcalloni' ««poiis!rK lb® «’ausi* of ft rrl>at» eriaryri** or a political ra’.!.1!dAt* and UK* matror. will be rharfod for at tb* rat* of flv* cent* K ilca^ 'fher* ir\U ^* no (Jevlat'.on from tb‘* rule. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1911. NEWSPAPERS CALLED DOWN. 1 hli* time It is the ‘American A'i»’' Mfdiciiie" which makes liol 1 ' i l);isiisi‘ I Ilf iit‘H spaperd of 1 • The siii coiiuuitted iu tius In ■;ui e as the »lo'tor8 see it, is the 1 I'liiMtion of suicide ne\\a. 'I'iie iloc- t - gtavel.' assei't tliat the iiewsi)a- j • r- wnicli pnt)Ii?*li stu'li reports are 1 • riifj's principe in the crime Krt in.TWiiK the v.-ihie of bumau life at jimin th** Academy figures that our «{'Ui.n \ Ids’ last year |l!4,9J*ri,uOO. ?fro«sim; the point that siiiclde* increas.'il by newspaper publica- t.ins, bv reason of the power oi' n \:.;e!»non. the Academy declares; 1 ouv committee finds that alien 1--*; are practically unanimous in the i»r nion that the sufcgestive effect ot the reading of details of suicides is a ji'werful factor in the causation oi fiilfld*-s among susceptible Individ uals." If this statement be true it is per haps the first case on record where »li«*niBts were ever unanimous on any tuhject under the sun. Dut. coming back to the statement, tht‘ Academy further cites an In stance where the publication of the Btory of a man Jumping to death from a bridge In Chicago caused several wtnllar attempts, and concludes by asking, “It is worth trying to save, *ven If one Is not actuated by any higher n'.otive of humanity?” The report also scathingly chides the newspapers by asking them to publish such reports on yellow pa per. if they must be published at til. Let’s take a glance at these charges and suggestions. In the first place It ma\ be ^observed that the newspaper fraternity Is composed of a band of men with as much hu manity. charity and Interest in the welfare of their fellowmen as will be found 'h the medical or other fra ternity of men. It is not uncommon for a bunch of highbrows to get together, and when subjects of interest are few', to launch forth on a campaign of gratuitous advice to newspapers. If the statements made by these doctors were proven true we do not believe there is a reputable newspa per in the cotintry which would pub- ish n ports of suicide. But the mere fact that an aggregation of alienists ir-siKus as cause for the increase of r.iioiile the publication of such re ports, does not make it, true. The newspaper men do a lot of figuring themselves. They do not relish stories T»f misfortune or sorrow'. They prefer to carry their readers along the pleas ant path* of happiness. l>nt to be tnie to life, they must print new'» as It. ii found, the dark side as w’ell as the bright. They do not gloat over blood curdling reports of crime. In- ttead they curtail, and trim the slo- fles, giving only that iiart which !■ legitimate news. The doctors are the very men themselves who wotild criticise the newspai>er which with held the report of crime or wilcide. They woiild chK'lo it with the Ing behind the times, and remind U that it did not print the news. And they,^ above all others, should be the ones to know’ that the mere reading of newspaper report* of suicide has lot caused the enormous increase In cases of aclf-destTUCtlon. There were ■uiclde* before there were newspa pers. A large pat cent of the suicides reported are of men and women who tjo not read the newspapers. Nine time* out of ten the suicide Is a vic tim of shattered nerves. This i» the sause. Did newspaper reading bring ibout this condition? A proper solution of the subject would have been to assign the cause to too rapid and too strenuous Mvlng. We all go In a hurry, and by the time we reach middle age our ner TouB system I® shattered. Keyed to the very hlghsst pitch of endurance batlve power which would expel the battlve power which would expel the iulclde Idea. Suicides have increased as we as H people have changed our waj^s of living. X^t*0 take a glanc* fct the power •f fuggestlon” offered ai cause for suicides. There is no force more po tent in the world today. It applies to all things. If the new'spaper ceas ed to publish stories which suggested idea» to the reader, it would print nothing whatever. They publish reports qf revival meetings, and caitse men to stop and think on a subject which perhaps they had forgotten. They publish lists of donations to good causes and the mere suggestion makes men remem ber their duty to their fellow- men. Occasionally they publish reports of crime, and other similar crimes fol low. In a few oases some one, resting on the fence of indecision, may have been led to the commission of some deed simply by seeing how it was douo in the newspaper story, But there is another »ide. The report of a Buicile is most likely to deter similar acts. . Perhaps the poor soul, * nerves wrecked, money gone, In a moment of mental Irresponsibility, ended his life. The newspaper tells of the in- eflible grief caused his wife and chil dren from his self destruction, and the very horror oi ihe act is most likely to cause thf . an who had con templated it, to ri.l’/t his responsi bility to himself, tt> i • !‘;uuily and to his maker. After the bloody fight in Heuo n great protest went up aigainst the inib- llcation of details of pugilistic en counters. There were hundreds ready io tell the editor how to run his pa- l>er. He committed a grievous &in when he dwelt at length upon de tails. Hut disrej;arding all advice, he continued to print the news, bad or good, knowing that the very presenta tion of such affairs, with all of their dirty set tine: of crime and degrada tion, would be most likely to have the effect of st.irriug the public to break uii such practices. The newspaper which is true to its miswon cannot present that phase of human life which it would prefer to offer. It gives the story as It finds it, and if the picture Is dark it is be- cau.5e the photograph could not e.x- cel the object sketched. OTHER DISEASES THE FLY CAR- RIES. Tn the previous article of this fly- fighting campaign, The Xew’s showed how dangeroue a carrier of typhoid fever the house fly is. If that w'ere its only crime, even so It would be desirable to eradicate the fly, which, unlike bad air or water, Is an evil that can be permanently removed, II we prevent the breeding of flies. But typhoid carrying is not its only crime. It bears a great part of the dlarrea or "summer complaint” w'hlch kills thousands of children every sum mer. In 1S08, 52.213 died of summer complaint of whom 44,621 were* babes under tw'o years of age. 44,521 chil dren—many of whom were infected by disease-bearing flies. Here are some of the scientists’ in- Investigations: Dr. Fraser found in Portsmouth, England, during the important diar rhea epidemic of 1902, that there was “a perfect plague of flies at every house where there was diarrhea. Dr. Nash shows that there w'ere twenty cases of diarrhea at Southend-on-Sea, in the summer of 1901. when there were plenty of flies : but none in the wet summer of IH02, when there were no flies. But September. 1902, was dry, the flies reappeared, and with them thirteen cases of diarrhea. File* and Poverty. Newsholine has declared that the food In the houses of the poor,can scarcely escape fecal infection, ^he sugar used in sweetening milk is of ten black with flies, which have come from a neighboring garbage deposit, or the liquid stools of a diarrheal pa tient. Klios have to be picked out of a can of condensed milk before it can i»e used. Snell has shown that seventy per cent of the case of Infantile diarrhea in his* medical district, Coventry, Eng land, occurred in the northeast part, near a large collection of refuse wl.ere files swarmed. Kill the fly; prevent his breeding; screen from his eager feeding—and disease germ-planting—the food of your children. Consumption. The fly is one of the greatest bear ers of this most deva^^tating of dis eases. Dr. Leland O. Howard, in “The House Fly—Disease Carrier” gives a terrible picture—so terrible that every reader of The Ne^Vs should look at it. and make sure that such condi tions are wiped out forever. Dr. How ard (piotes one of his assistants to the effect that at a Colorado resort for cons\iraptives he had often seen patients sitting on the porch, expec torating over the rail; Numerous flies congregated abotit the sputa—and then headed for the open windows of the kitchen, a few feet away. Cobb, Haushalter, Hayward, Buch anan and dozens of others have shfcwn that flies gather tuberctilar germs from tuberculous sputa and carry them to the foo’d of well per sons—persons well, that is, unless the flies succeed in carrying out their mission of death. Dr. Frederick T. Ix)rd, after a se ries of long and careful laboratory investigations, reached the following conclusions, regarding the carrying of consumption by flies. 1. Flies may suck up tubercular spu. turn and excrete tubercle bacilli, the vlrtilence of which may last for at j least fifteen days. 2. The danger ot human infection from tubercular fly-specks is in swal lowing the specks with food. What we must do; 1. Tubercular material (sputum, pus from discharging sinuses, fecal mat ter from patients, etc., must be care fully protected from flies, lest they get at it and carry the bacilli. 2. During the fly season, greater attention should be paid to the screening of rooms containing pa tients with tuberculosis. 3. As these precatitions would not eliminate infection of flies by pa tients who are at their homes, all foodstuffs should be protected from flies. Dyentcry. English army surgeons have sus pected for years that flies w'ere the chief carriers of infection during dys entery epidemics, but no exact proof w’as found till last year, 1910, when Dr. Orton, of the Worcester State Hospital for the Insane found that flies, breeding in huge numbers in piles of hops used as fertilizer near the hospital, were infesting the hos pital, carrying the dysentery germs from patient to patient. Cholera and the Plagu*. Dr. J. Tsuzki, of the Japanese army Medical Service, made as pedal study of the terrible cholera in North Chi na. and, isolating flies, found that burg, also found conclusive proof by brios. The great Russian physician Sawtchenko, and Simmonds of Ham burg, laso found conclusive proof by sttidy and examination of the flies tlint they bore cholera germs. As to the dread plague, whose very naiue makes nations blanch, flea- bearing rats are worse‘than flies as carriers, but the great investigator Yersin. who fearlessly stayed in his laboratory at Hong Kong during the pingue of 1894, found that the flies carried decidedl.v virulent plague ba cilli. Nuttall, the highest English au thority on the house fl.v. found by ex])erirae!itation that flies harbor plague germs for more than forty- eight hotirs after feeding on diseased animals. Smallpox and Diphtheria. There is far less evidence regarding the carriage of these two diseases by flies; though N\ittgili and .lepson have found that there have been cases of such carriage. One important doctor, at least, I.aforgue the Frechman, be lieves, after his experience with a serious smallpox eplflemic, that flies played a most important part in the carriage of the disease. Other Diseases. Dr. Iceland O. Howard discovered in an epidemic of pink eye among Flor ida school children that flies, settling about the eyes of children with the disease, promptly carried it to others. In the same way, flies settle in swarms on the eyes of Egyptians with ophthalmia, a terrible eye disease, and carry off the infection. In the cases of parasitic worms, which often trouble children, flies carry the eggs of th^- worms from the discharge of afflicted children to the food of others. With yaws—a tropical dIseas—an thrax and others, the case against the fly has been proven also. We are only beginning to.find out in just how many dieases flies are the chief carriers of inefction. But enough has been discovered to indict the fly as the most dangerous to man of all creatures. It is up to us. up to every reader of The New's to do something. The next article of this series will be on the necessity and means of organiza tion. Meanwhile, are your Jiouses screened to keep out the flies? Are your outhouses screened to keep the flies a wav from refuse In which they can breed, and from disease-contain ing nmterial on which to feed. It is up to you. Kill all the flies. HOT WEATHER SPECIALS —IN— Clothing and Furnishing Dept. APPETITE GONE? DIGESTION POOR? BOWELS COSTIVE? SYSTEM RUN DOWN? then—BY ALL MEANS—TRY OSTEUER OILBBNATIO STOMACH BITTER Cause For ManaJiiughter. This story is blamed on Scamp Montgomery at the Friars’ Club. Mr. Montgomery alleges that the story, as he relates it, actually happened. Mr. Montgomery's statement is offered without prejudice. ' man had just been released from the penitentiary,” said Mr. Montgomery, “and the first place he lieaded for was a barber shop. He wanted to get the traces of his pris- son-made haircut rubbed down smooth. The barber spotted him in a minute. “Must out, hey?’ said the barber. “‘Yes.’ said the customer. ‘And I’m in a hurry, and do it quick.’ “'‘How- long have you been in?’ “ ‘Four years,’ said the ex-prisoner. Hurry.’ “ ‘How did you like it?’ “ ‘Pretty good. Hurry.’ " ‘Have to work hard?’ “ ‘Never mind. Hurry.’ “ ‘Four years,’ said the barber, pausing to look romantically out ot the w'indow. ‘And me at liberty every blame minute, goin’ hither an’ yon,’ as you mights ay, and stayin’ up all night if I wanted to, and runnin’ down tow'n to take in a show. Gee! Four years. I'hat’s stire tough luck. What W’as vq4i in for?’ " ‘For killing a jackass of a bar ber.’ howled the customer. ‘And I’m. on my way back.’ ”—Cincinnati Times Star. Scotch Humor. David R. Forgan. the Chicago bank er, has a dry Scotch humor. Speaking of the danger of being puffed up by sudden honors, Mr. Forgan told this story of Simpson, the great Scotch physician; “Dr. Simpson had been absent from his class for some time, and on his return he announced that a great pro fessional honor had been ^ coferred upon him,” said Mr. Forgan. “ ‘1 am very happy to inform you young gentlemen that a very great honor has come to me since last we met here,’ said Prof. Simpson, his face beaming with honest pride. T have been appointed physician-in-ordi- nary to her majesty. Queen Victoria.’ “The great discoverer of chloroform looked over his glasses as if he ex pected his class to be quite taken away by the great news. Jinstead he Was shocked to hear those Scotch boys burst Into the national anthem, ‘God Save the Queen'! ’ '‘And still they say the Scotch have no Isense of humor,” added Mr. For gan.—Milwaukee Free Press. Explained. “A Harvard professor says that the turtle is more of a bird than a fish.” “That accounts for it.” “For what?” “So many of these autos turning turtle when they are trying to fly.”— Houat/m Post. j MEN’S SUITS $7.50. 100 Men’s Blue Serge and Fancy Worsted Suits. These are real $10.00 val ues. Our price $7.50 . / $9.50 MEN’S SUITS Men’s and Youths’ all-wool Suits in Blue, Black and Fancy Worsted Suits, $12.50 values, all on one counter. Sale price $9.50 MEN'S DRESS PANTS $2.50. ‘JOO pair Men’s all worsted Dress Pants, $3.00 values. Belk’s price.. $2.50 Men’s Work Bants 75c, 98c and $1.50 Boys’ Wash Suits, 48c, 75c, and 98c BOYS’ SUITS 98c. 1 lot Boys’ Suits, with plain and bloomer Pants, $1.50 to $3.00 values. Sale price 98c SILK SOX 25c A few more of the 100 dozen lot Silk Sox in Black, Tan, Navy ' and Gray. Special 25c Boj's’ Knickerbocker Pants, 3nd 48t Boys’ Peg Top Knick. Pants no ♦'■50. K.00 Men’s $1.00 quality Overalls, in Blue and Gray pa'.,. Lion Brand Collars 2 25c Soft Collars 2 for 25c Men’s Belts 50c Men’s Poros Knit Shirts and Drawers 1.2c Boys’ Poros Knit Shirts and Qrawers Men’s PorOs Knit Union Suits Boys’ Porus Knit Union Suits . . . •• Girard Nainsook Underwear • . 57 •';.2c Men’s Nainsook and Balbriggan Underwear.. .. o- Sarniftnt All the new shapes in Men’s and Boys’ Straw and Panama Hatp. ♦ 9Sc WHITE SHIRT SALE ♦ ♦ See window Lion Brand White Shirts, - plain and plaited t ♦ style. Special ♦ ^ ^ ❖ BELK Sell it For Less Founded 1842. Eight Bargains In Used Upright Pianos ALL IN FINE CONDITION. Gilbert Ebonized Case $125 Mathusbek Ebonized Case 140 Windsor Figured Walnut Case 150 Mathusbek Ebonized Case, 160 Chase Bros. Quartered Oak Case ^175 Harvard Figured Mahogany Case 225 StiefC Ebonized Case 250 Forbes Figuerd Walnut Case (practically new).. 325 Convenient terms If desired. Chas. M. Stieff SOUTHERN WAREROOM Maker of the Piano with the Sweet Tone. 6 West Trade Stmet CHARLOTTE. - N. C. J C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. “GET IT AT HAWLEY’S” Cigars We carry a carefully consid ered and chosen line. Ask for your favorfte. We have it. Agents for the famous line of Park & Tiiford’s Mi Favoritas All shapes. All shes. All prices. Hawley’s Pharmacy ^ErRIISERATO i if FOR BOILS I Thies’ Salve, 25c ♦ ALL DRUGGISTS ^ Eas Em Rests tired feet. Cooling, Soothing and Antiseptic. Makes walking easy. Don’t forget the name, EAS’EM. 25c package. TryonDrugCo. No. 11 N. Tryon. Smoke Havana Extras, the 5c Cigar with the 10c Taste. BLAKE S DRUG SHOP On the Square, l^rescrlptlons Filled Day and Night. QUICK DELIVERY That means we send it to you in a hurry. A trial will convince you, so when you '^ant a PRESCRIPTION or anything else In the drug line John S. Blake Drug Co. PHONE 41. ’Phones 41 and 300. Registered Nurses’ Directory. ALL REFRIGERATORS ARE NOT ALIKE. YOU WANT TO GET THE RIGHT KI.>JD—THE KI.ND THAT LN5URES PROPER AIR CIRCULATION. WE SELL THE North Star Refrigerator THIS REFRIGERATOR WILL KEEP YOUR FOOD^ FRESH AND PREVENT VEGETABLE ODDR5 FROM MAK ING YOUR BUTTER AND MILK ‘•TASTE.’* WE SELL ONLY THE BEST IN HARDWARE. Charlotte Hardware Company Cures Two Corns in 3 Days Your advertisement in the Observer induced me to buy Woodall & Sheppard’s Corn Remedy. It removed corns from each of my little toes in three davs without pain. GRADl! WINTHROW, Hollis, N. C. Price 15c , Price ISc WOODALL & SHEPPARD, Inc. DRUGGISTS In the Skyscraper Building. , Phones 69 and 166 We Invite the Mother to visit our Boys’ and Cnil- dren’s Department, where they will find the very best of everything pertaining to Clothing, Hats and Furnish ings, . Wash Suits from 50 to J5.00. Blue Serges, all wools and fancy, suits from $3.o0 to ?1S.00. Rompers, from 25c to fl.OO. Underwear from 15c • to $1.00. Hats and Caps, from 25c to $5.00. All lines complete strictly ijp-to-date. and ED MELLON
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