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"S i:;S'rf' J tit Compiled at Iss l' OF NORTH; CAROLINA.' j.' " bv : H. C. McUUEEN'f't :" ' ' L,irman Banking and Currency Com- Th banks of Wilmington have 1 1 r DUrsued a - liberal - policy in the waJinnment of the surrounding terri de well as the city itself.. The in k '"""ed wealth and business, due in. a c0! measure to agricultural growth, J81""., the wisdom of such 'a policy, 6i!0ir 'business having grown to, large 'nrtions and Wilmington is now the f'Sg banking center in the State. aoital. deposits, and resources, a.d ' clearing point for' a large number .'ALu nf North and South Carolina. ' " .mnRrative figures; are an evi .nn i 'it i av - jw 01 li"- c.-- V'" . . r . the evei in -,f Wilftlingion it a a. y cm .o follows: -; r , "srnl'n-' - " - Bun . 1910 - .J. 1915 ' 'Bink Deposits: - 1910 ; " 1913 Banking Resources: 1910 -.. . . l.JLi, UD.1V 2,701,341,58 ..$ 9,292,085.89 .. 10,234,073.40 . .$12,150,021.24 . . 16,479,060.10 1915 Becentlv the decline in the prices of the most important staple products of ) this section caused almost entirely by the shock of the sudden war in Europe -last summer, fixed, upon the banks a tremendous and unexpected s burden. The banks of Wilmington were able by means of their large resources and high credit, to meet the "requirements necessary, by extending loans to aid the producers directly and indirectly to hold their cotton and prevent its sacrifice at the ruinous prices prevail ing last fall andywinter. It is not too jnuch to -sajr'that the banks of Wilmington have been a vital factor in the growth and. development' of this section of the country during the last 15 year's. , . " "'' . " SOME FACTS ABOUT : " " XORTH CAROLINA'S PORT. BV WALKER TAYLOR, Collector of Customs. i The Port of Wilmington is North Carolina's only deep-water seaport and greater interest in its future develop ment is manifest among-cities Of Jthe State than ever before. , -; During the past five years the for eign exports have increased 26 per cent and the imports increased 239 per cerit. Figures frorrr. the official records, of the port verifies' this statement, as fol lows: , :.. -1 ' ' il ' Exports Imports 1309 , . . . . . . . : $20,479,726 . $1,228,945 $25,870,850 $4,174,745 : This poTt's large deep water termi nals afford ample storage capacity to meet the demands from the interior cities of the Carolinas. Wilmington has 469,814 square feet of warehouse space available for public use and the storage and wharf rates are fixed" and controlled by thecity. The export and import business through the port of Wilmington largely represents the wa ter borne commerce of the' State, .as this is essentially the port of NOrth Carolina.. - I Besides a rapidly increating export SUMMER nd import trade, the domestic com irar?e .of the nort has likewise, shown T71 Prt t in t ha o-ono to 1 Borrme- f business-' As the fourth from"the iimou'n,- of cotton exported stanJi , Cni.ted States, Wilmington ws nth in the value of her exports, ag0n' y tne soverpment Soi.fi,6.0; tbe' fading seaports of the . u"i Atlantic seaboard. . - ' ! o:virufI;l agricultural AI)VA.TA(iES IN THIS SECTION V HUGH MACRAE ARricnltnjral and Immigra tion Committee. e affrituHurai advantages of the section have now become 0 p-p Senerallv fo ... . ' sPeak: o '-B"iaea mat we can let - vauveiy about them and r'iake i an impressive shnwinv im i-,... . .. ".. - Uni'... -Itn any other section of the jT"-. states. .. . -ttetfVt'"8 keh recOrds-of "i W ' :r.r" , svernment, wfticn 'hr :.::?pt.e'' as nnai. There are llJr: I Irrl' t0 successful agricul nibf:.,, ' fcoo1 soil- types: (9. mT.i Onfall evenly ditPiK-. .' I. o Seasons -.uicu, ynf lung If these !.L1lr lfeiv '$prIL: - Wmmm. ! I " .; .ilS&aJfeP .rZS-3 . : .... : ' ' ' - -nor.fZ 'ir' "- oiiies are combined to what more can we ask? -UnVf tltKe the raall chart of the ir, Art Jt "veals the fact that SdttEi- f annual rainfall is from Lt 't0, 10 inches; As' we! come lainfall increases, -in Kansas n ;,2B.lnchM'' Per annum, in Missouri inches per annum, in Tennessee 40 inches,, and, oh the; coast of North' Caro lina we gef the ideal maximum of 55 inches per .annum well distributed throughout, the year. , ; . Now let us turn to the growing sea son s chart, showing the length of the growing seasons:, Near the Canadian border west of the Great Lakes, , the growing season is 110 days per year: in Maine it is 120 days per year; Mas sachusetts "160Ydays; in Pennsylvania I" days; in- Maryland 190; in Virginia 200 days per. annum, in southeastern North Carolina 240 days. A further in vestigation of the chart shows that the Wilmington district has the same length of growing season as northern Mexico, but northern Mexico lacks one of the other essentials, viz.,-abundant rainfall. Then, too it will be noted that northern Mexico is perhaps four times as far from the great centers of population of the United States as - is the Wilmington district. If We take the Government soil sur- GROUP - OP BUSINESS BUILDINGS AND POSTOFFICE veys ofj this section, we find the con ditions . equally favorable. The . types of soil designated by the government, as. "Norfolk fine sandy loam". and "Portsmouth fine sandy loam", are the prevailing types in - the five or. six counties whjch constitute what may be called the Wilmington district. . For instance, in Pender county probably SO per cent ol, the soil belongs to' the" Portsmouth and Norfolk series of the best types; and within a radius of 50 miles of Wilmington there, are at least' one million acres of this much to be desired type of land. I A Government expert was once 'ask ed what .type of soil he would make, if he was asked to recommend -.the best type for; general agricultural purposes, and especially for intensive agricul ture; and he replied -immediately that he could fnot improve on the "Norfolk fine sandy loam," which is a fine sandy loam having a clay sub-soil. . The rea son . for this is that the sandy . 10ams warm up quickly and force the'grqwth of the plants, and also permit of growth .during the warm spells in. the winter and immediately " after fain; whereas many .other types ; of soil re main cold, and plant life on these soils is (.dormant . during the winter months and the early "spring. - I Mr. J. A. Bonsteel, the expert Of the United. States Bureau, of .Soils, desig nated the strip of land. along theAt lantic coast, between southern Dela- ware and Savannah, Ga as "the natur al I garden spot" ' of the United States, and says that its possibilities are : less than 1 per. cent developed at the pres ent time, but when recognized and ful ly I developed this area will be capable of j producing', many times the vegetable and fruit requirements of the entire United States. The . only difficulty at present is that these advantages" (com bined in a way: that does not obtain in any other part of the United-States and confirmed by1 the Government" records) are not known or understood by" our t SCE1CES AT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH own people and are not conceived of by people in other parts or tne unuea States. NEW HANOVER .LEADS I : .SOUTH IN SANITATION. ,H;:;:;;' :v: dr. c. w. stiles. ( t United States Public Health Service, The change for the better in the sanitary conditions of New Hanover county and its county seal, the City: or Wilmington, during the past four years, and especially during the past two years, is one of the interesting pages in the history of American sani tation. i - - i . .. pive years ago, upon my first visit there, I' was greatly:, disappointedto see certain conditions1 that' -existed. To day the story is quite different. ' , . Perhaps the most striking feature of the - local public health situation, at Present - is the V intelligent "Public Health Sense" of the people, especially of the leaders in thought and action in the community. The,; importance of this spirit can be fully appreciated only bv the professional health worker, who knows, too well "that "Public Health Sense" is prerequisite to ob taining the best results from public a nrfTODriatiOns. . f I ".have never. threefun-Jinvestigkted'in a' locality w.he re the public health', sense' of the people was I developed to" a greaterj degree than ex ists in ' Wilmingtoni and; New Hanover at the. beginning of'1915. Next, to this feature mention should be made- of: five other points in par ticular, -namely : f . 1' The $50,000 loan-fund of the city available (1915) to property owners on easy .terms, forT the specific purpose of, improving the sanitation of therr homes. v This should prove to be an epoch-making -feature in American sanitation. ..''- 2. .The , existence of concrete sanitary privy vaults at every rural school (white or black) in the entire county. If there, is another rural county in the entire South (or in the entire country) that has reached this point in school sanitation, it should certainly make it self known. . 3. The bed-side method of prevent ing the spread of typhoid from any case which may appear, either as of imported or as a local origin. This method, introduced by the local Board of Health, is getting right down to rock foundation. 4. The steady, persistent determina tion of the local Board of Health- to preach to the people and not to be con tented with temporary, makeshifts. Some localities preach a doctrine that i t PARK. is practically equivalent to saying: "Thou shalt not steal, unless thon "art too. lazy- to work" but this dcs not apply to Wilmington and New Hanover county. 5. Unless the facts' available to me are incomplete, New Hanover county today leads all the rural counties .in the South in the point of having at least a 10 per cent sanitary installation at every" home in. three out of four of its rural townships and by April 1, 1915, at the latest, the fourth .township will probably be in the same class as the .other three. . The, average sanita tion, as to soil pollution, for 189,586 rural homes in 501 Southern counties thus far surveyed. is 5.8 per cent. Ninety-five thousand, nine hundred and eighty-eight of these homes had an ex creta disposal index of zero, while the highest average made for any one county was 34 per. cent. . The average for the three townships mentioned probably reaches not less than 30 to 35 per cent, at this date, March 1915, and better than that, the spirit of progress, the: desire to do better, in other words "Public Health Sense," is not exhaust ed. PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM A CREDIT TO THE CITY. BY JOHN J. BLAIR, . Superintendent Public Schools. . Wilmington .enjoys, the - unique dis tinction, of .having occupied in one ses sion four new. school buildings, three for the .white and one . for the colored, capable to accommodate more . than 1,400 children. This , transformation from "the old to the new was accom plished without, the loss of a single day on the part of a single scholar. The city equipment oonsists now of six buildings for the' white and two for the colored, making a total of eight. The enrollment hac reached a total of H.17T; 2,860 being white and 1,317 be ing colored. - ' . The teaching force including princi pals and assistants numbers 103. A i uniform course of study prevails for me tuj auu iue:euure county. Tne hign scbool has a total enroll ment of 406 with a faculty of 14. The Wilmington High . School is one of the few in the: State which enjoys the dis tinction of being on the accredited list of high schools endorsed by Southern Association of Schools and Colleges. - some oi tne interesting features of the High School consist of an admira bly equipped Domestic Science depart ment, a reference library, physical lab oratory, a. wireless telegraph station, a- telescop of five inch aperture and focal length of more than six feet:- 1 'phe High School magazine, "Tileston Topics,"' fs, an attractive, publication and ranks with the. best periodicals of this type.' The class in agriculture has the supervision of a school garden in which practical" demonstration in plant growing is practiced.' The graduates 1 of the High School number 314, many of whom are filling responsible positions in the-schools, church, state and . society. r Tho Iaac Bear , Memorial building was a gift to ; the Board of Education by Mr. Sm ,Bear and may be taken as a model 1 school of its class. He fur nished -4t :with an outdoor gymnasium equipmentwhich is as complete as any in the State. , ' V - v CAPE PEAE A SPLENDID HIGHWAY OF COMMERCE. BY MAJOR H. W. STICKLE. Corps Engineers, U. S. A. The Cape Fear river, upon the left bank of .which Wilmington is located, 30 miles from its mouth,1. is under imr provement by the United . States in the interests of navigation: The project below Wilmington under execution was adopted in the river and harbor act approved July 25, 1912, and provides for "a channel depth of 26 feet at mean low water, with a. width of 300 feet, in creased at entrance and curves in the river, and widened to 400. feet across the bar. The.: project is seventy-five per cent completed, the depth having been secured , throughout the .entire distance, additional work being re quired only to widen the channel where width is deficient. During the five years ending June 30, 1914, $1,457,214.24 were expended on this portion of the river, in the ex ecution, and maintenance of the existing and prior projects. The commerce on the Cape j Fear river at and below Wilmington aver aged 945,361 tons with an average val uation of $55,685,101 for the five calen dar years ending 1913. The project above Wilmington un der execution was adopted in the river and harbor act approved June 25,. 1910, and -provides for securing a navigable depth of 8 feet up to Fayetteville, 115 miles above, by the construction of two locks and dams. The canalization of this long portion of the. river, provid ing at all times a depth of 8 feet,is being rapidly prosecuted, and its com pletion in 1916 is dependent only on sufficient congressional appropriations and favorable stages of water for sinking the dams. Certainty of navi gability will develop a 'large increase in economical water transportation, be tween Wilmington and Fayetteville, and bring about a large agricultural development of the Cape Fear j River Valley between these two cities. GATEWAY OF STATE IS IMPORTANT DISTRIBUTING POINT BY J. A. TAYLOR Chairman Traffic Committee As a distributing point Wilmington has no superior on the South Atlantic Coast. It is , the gateway of North Carolina, and should be availed of by all the principal cities in the Carolinas; it is fed by ocean lines of steamers to New York and, Baltimore directly, and indirectly to other North Atlantic ports, with transshipment facilities through these ports to the interior, and by system of railroads penerrat ing into the interior in every direction. It is the policy of the railroads serving Wilmington to make coinpetitive dis tributing rates to all common territory where business enterprise seeks an outlet, and the possibilities of this port are being rapidly recognized and availed of. In addition to these facilities, Wil- mington has long established and well maintained transport facilities to Eu rope, and , commercial . relations with .South America, and in foreign trade is the-j fourth cotton export point of the country. It is a large depot for foreign fertilizer materials, . and its possibilities of reciprocal trade j with foreign countries are only limited by the spirit of commercial enterprise. INVITING GOLF LINKS AMONG i THE LONG LEAF PINES BY J. F. SEARS Preeident Cape Fear Country Club Cape Fear Country Club was organiz ed as The Cape Fear Golf Club, of Wilmington, N. C," March, 1896, rank ing as one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States. Its growth has been continuously sustained by reason of its accessibility of members who for the most part reside in the City of Wilmington. It is reached by elec tric car in ten minutes, while lor the motorist there is a broad,' well-paved highway leading to the beach;and ex tending for a considerable 'distance parallel to the entrance to the grounds.' Since the entire locality enjoys a peculiar immunity from devastating storms, and a winter snow is a rarity, play is possible all the - year round under weather conditions which give this club a distinct advantage over all . other clubs in the State, hence the fixed club tournaments are played each year on Thanksgiving, New Year's and Washington's Birthday. . In the Summer the; links appear most inviting, fort the fair green is. border ed on all sides by a thick growth of long leaf pine trees, affording at all times a restful shelter from the heat to the player who steps ; aside from the course into the cool shade of the ad joining woodland. The course con sists of nine holes with a total length of 3,055 yards. Natural hazards abound and the course will tax the skill of the seasoned player, Par being 36 'and Bogie 42. The 'facilities of th,e club and grounds :are open to the visiting golfer. Many visitors to Wrightsvilie Beach avail themsejves during ; the Summer of the club privileges. I The Tide Water Power Company maintains a frequent electric car service, the trip from the - furthermost point on the beach to the station .at the entrance to the Country Club grounds con sumes about twenty minutes. SUN-KISSED, SEA-COOLED WRIGHTS VILLE BEACH Wrightsvilie Beach -is on an island three miles . long, about eight miles east of Wilmington. The island is located so far out from : the mainland that, the beach enjoys the full benefit of the ocean winds coming from the ocean and not from the land. For these reasons Wrightsvilie Beach is the coolest sea side resort in the South. t It;is also one of the most healthful 'resorts, for on account of the distance of the beach from the mainland there is an absence of mosquitoes and other: insects. At Wrightsvilie; Beach there Tare three hotels, two clubs,, numerous boarding houses, about 100 private cot tages and that famous pavilion, "Lumina."" Nearly all ot . these ljuild ings are situated on the ocean side of the beach '.many of them at the water's edge. This makes it convenient for surf bathing for those living in the hotels and cottages. Every cottage commands a fine view of the ; ocean. - The beach is connected with Wil mington by : the welliequipped, up-to-date trolley lines' of the Tide. Water , ; : ; - The reason AMMEN'S TOILET POW DER has found its way to China, Eng land India, Panama, South America and Hawaiian Islands, is because- Jhese countries are finding out what a good, reliable" powder -it lsv to. make one feel better. " 25 oentsiatydruggists, who : are interested in your comfort. . , . . Power Company.1 j '-During ikthe 'Summer season : high speed? electr.ic trains run: between Winlmingtor and " thei beach every -half hour -: from early . morning until late at night. : ' A "convenient schedule v is alsb' operated v between seasons. .. .' ; ' ;'.."-f. . . . Wrightsvilie Beach offers advantages for amusement" hot possessed by, many other ocean resorts. ,v The surf bathing at .Wrightsvilie Beach is unsurpassed anywhere. Lumina is noted ; for - its high "class musical '.entertainments. FINE STEAMER- SERVICE' , TO AND FROM THE NORTH BY . C. Jn BECKER : Agent Clyde S." S. Co. The placing of the steamship-"Chero-keef and sister ships, with large pas senger carrying capacities, in the -New York-Wilmington service "of the Clyde Line, affords opportunity for a de lightful sea voyage oh I comfortable w?teaners to passengers destined to Wilmington or to points-in North Caro lina; reached via Wilmington. ' . These steamers off er passenger . ac commodations that ' ere first-class in every respect. -. The state-rooms are extremely comfortable and are , fitted CLYDE ' up with every convenience, all wellJ located, and most or tnem witn ooor opening inside from the social "hall, but with outside window to the main deck. The main saloon, the social hall, the dining saloon and the smok ing room are all comfortably and tastfully . furnished, . and there is a spacious promenade , deck . affording every opportunity for the . enjoyment of , various open air games so popular on ocean liners, and! for pedestrianismt etc The regular weekly trip by the Clyde between Wilmington .and - New York is growing in popularity among the; people of the- Carolinas. Freight is handled by -the - Clyde Steamship Co.. for all points North,. -asr well as all immediate territory of the' Carolinas. - ' STATE MAKING-RAPID PROGRESS IN DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE (The following article recently fur nished the Chamber, of Commerce, 'by the Agricultural and . Immigration Committee, with reference to the won derful crop production and diversifi-: cation in North. Carolina, reflects great credit,upon the. State and will be. read with general interest.) j "We have all read a great deal - in the papers recently-with regard. to -the necessity for crop diversification., on the part of the agricultural interests' of 'this State, the idea being prevalent that the farmers .. of - North Carolina have devoted-themselves to the -one-: crop idea (cotton) and . have made-little or no progress towards deversi fied farming. V ' . ' "Therefore it - may : not be amiss to take stock as to . just, what the agri cultural development-has been in this State in the last ten or fifteen years. "I have before me. statistics, compiled by the United ..States .Department of Agriculture, which shows that for the fifteen .years from 1900 .up to 1915, the' number of dairy "cows in this State . 'has increased, eighty-one thousand or' 35 per cent. The number of other cattleJ if - ..y.y-.,y... on farms in this , State has increased one hundred and twenty tnousano or 49 per cent. "For the same period of fifteen years North Carolina's corn production in creased 65 per cent, totaling fifty seven and one half millions in 1914. The production of oatsvlast year .was 'nearly four and one . half million .bushels, an increase of So per : cent. Over-seven' and one quarter million bushels, ofj wheat; an increase of 69 per cent. Nearly half million mushels of rye, an increase of 244 per cent. ..Three hun dred and sixty, eight thousand . tons of hay, en increase of , 75 ' per cent. Potat.oes show only a small increase of . eighty thousand . bushels j over -the-same year fifteen, years ago, but .in the production of sweet potatoes North Carolina leads .every other southern State iproducing.six million eight hun dred and JTorty' thousand bushels, an increase of 18 per cent. In tobacco North,: Carolina leads jevery" Southern State producing . last year over one' hundred and seventy two million pounds, an increase, of 3,5 per cent, the 1914' re-port crediting her with nine million bushels of apples, an increase of 93. ' per ' cent. Cotton -h produced for the. present year will approximate 'one million bales! This shows . an increase ijr. - ' " - V r ... .-v 0.. -. . ".. to-. ." " i.t - I i r i 1 -i zz:--.:.-. Sifc. -.- ac: . - ti of 10'vper centVover; that of fifteen years ,a'go. - v , " .'" ''-c' ' "For .i certain .other . products - named below, the' only), figures available - are those ta.eri from the U." S. Census re port: of .1 8 99 ah d i 9 0 9,;cbmpari son made foK.a; period Of ten years. ... These show that : the farmers have marketed "fowls in; the year 1909 to the value of four and one half mtillion dollars," an ' in crease of 70 per cent? " - "Eggsto .the Value of four, and one: quarter ; "million, dollars, an ' increase: of . 135 per cent.i . ,- . . "Domestic ianimals .slaughtered to the extent, of eighteen., and one half million dollars an increase of 93 per cent. . - ' . - "In "... vegetables "and. trucking crops North Carol inai produced, in 1909 crops, to the value of six and one half mil lion dollars, an increase of 180 per cent in the ' ten years. The farmers have also paid considerable attention to their orchards : during this period, in that the State produced in 19,09 six million three hundred and twenty five thousand bushels of orchard fruit, ah increase of 23 per cent. In nuts pro duced in pounds the census report shows that the State produced in 1909, one' and one quarter million pounds, an increase of .409 per, cent '"An analysis -'of these figures shows-him5 STEAMSHIP CHEROKEE A ND NEW i NORTH CAROLINA AT BOTTOM Has Highest Death Rate From Typhoid Fever.' . (State Board of Health.) "North Carolina is at the bottom of the 'list with a rate of 57:4," says Dr. W.- A.; Evans in speaking of the ty phoid death- rate of various . states of the Union. The ayerage . death rate from typhoid .in this country, according to ' Dr. Evans, - is 17.9. , If j these .figures are true, and they are taken : from . government - reports. North Carolina has a' death ' rate from typhoid fever" over three times' as high as the . average in the United States and over eight..times. that of Vermont. The latter has "the lowest death rate from' typhoid of any state " in the Union.; : ; ; . . There may be mentioned two condi tions as- slightly accountable for North Carolina's high, death rate from typhoid, but -they do not alter the fact that ,'She. is needlessly 'sacrificing sev eral hundred lives a year to this filth disease. The first is that the figures werer taken from the cities and 'all the towns "having more -than '1,000 inhabi tants. The typhoid death rate in cities may not." be so high as. that of . the country -districts," but that of the small ,towhs, where there is no '-protection offered by sewerage - and water works, is higher than that of rural .commu nities. . The second condition is that "35 'per "cent, of North, Carolina's., popu lation; 'is negrOes, -and the -insanitary conditions that exist" from , their .modes of, living .affect .no little the .preva lence of . the: disease., . : v : , "v Whether North "Carolina shall toler ate this, position and continue losing her j hundreds . tov this preventable dis ease is the -question now at stake. This summer' will decide' this question to a large extent. ' If " the small towns and villages are - going :to maintain; insani tary conditions breeding places for i : . - .4 .-.,.. "' v - V VM' "3-x it' 3 " " - - . WILMINGTON'S SYSTEM OF SIX PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS flies, open-oack privies, unscreened food' and polluted water and if the State's citizens, r black 'and white, are going ; to- refuse to ,'be vaccinated against typhoid. North Carolina will remain et. the bottom of the list with the ; highest typhoid rate. But if she chooses to clean up and . tolerate no such conditions, she can go a long way in one summer toward. -reducing the rate and stamping out the disease. ' There is another view,, of this posi tion given : North 'Carolina, apart from health, that might be looked on with no little-consideration. That is in the light of her interest as a State at tracting home-seekers and investors. 'Safety flrst'V-is the chief considera tion, of those Who . would seek new homes and places of business, and no state occupying the foot of the table, in 'Ileal th matters especially, can hope to hold out inducements -that will.be accepted. That North Carolina, will continue at the foot does not seem likely even from this mercenary point of view, and when the health find 'happiness of her citizens, are considered, she cannot af ford not to use. - this summer as the season to stamp out . typhoid. Read Star Business' Locals. that North Carolina exceeds her ister southern states In the production of vegetables and trucking crops, going ahead' even :Of Floridavin this ' respect; in the production of tobacco, sweet 'potatoes, and pounds of nuts produced. :She . also exceeded in 1914 the States "of Alabama, Georgia, South CaroHna, Virginia, and Florida in the amount of corn " produced and. she ranks second to Virginia only in the value of domes tic animals slaughtered. 1 ' i ininK tne aoove record is a credit-, . : 2 -; ; able one to our farmers and especially ;f -V?' i---to the agricultural department and .Mi!-m'f$-& agncuiiurai conege, ana tne various agricultural papers who have done so much to attract attention in this re- : . ,l r I !' r" ; spect." Kinston, N. C, May 8. N. J. Bouse, the prominent local lawyer, . had his attention called today to newspaper stories connecting his name with -those of Collector J. W. Bailey, former Lieu tenant Governor R. A.Boughton, Judge Frank Carter and . R. O. Everett of Durham, as an attorney generalship possibility.' .Mr. Rouse declared he had not. seen the stories and--was in terested. . He . said he had not even heard of any mention beins made of for the office. TERMINALS. TO PREVENT WIDESPREAD EPIDEMICS OP DISEASES.. British Health Authorities Preparing . For Elaborate Measures. The British health authorities are preparing for elaborate measures to prevent any widespread epidemics of diseases like cholera, typhus, scurvy, dysentary or typhoid, either in this country or among the British soldiers abroad. There is widespread anxiety that some diseases of this character will make their appearance in force "in the Western pan. of the Continent dur ing the next few "months, says a Lon don correspondent of the Associated Press. . ' Professor Simpson, of King's College, London, points out in the Lancet that the armies of Germany, and Austria will be in a very different physical, mental and material condition, in August and the autumn of 1915 or 19ifi from what- they were' in 1914, Should epidemics I li-f IX then arise, they are not likely to be If f Ih confined to the particular armies first stricken, nor will the civil population in 'the devastated areas escape. Scarcity of food, it is further indi cated, will' play its . part . in reducing the disease-resisting power of the pop ulation. 1 The . combination of war, flood and famine will favor the spread of epidemics. "Indeed," says ProfeesOr" Simpson,i "the terrible taint In the air that already characterizes the inun dated area on the Yser tells its own tale. Under- this flood lie a hundred thousand " corpses.".- The .Yser is not much, farther from London than New York is from Phila delphia, London, therefore, : must take strict " measures to protect herself, "At a moment when health is of such vital importance," comments Professor "f:3 lm - -V - .us . t I "A ir Simpson, "we cannot afford to overlook any precaution.. The effect upon hours of labor alone would be overlooked if an : epidemic should 'arise; the effect of al coholic excess would be quite insignifi cant in comparison. . . "Various measure's of protection . are now in force. Everyone who has crossed the Channel recently ; knows that a medical examination is carried out at Folkestone before passengers are permitted to - land. This measure should be more vigorously applied as the summer advances. -. "It has been recently suggested that inoculation .agamst " typhoid should be carried out among the civil population of England. There is much to be said in favor of this idea. England is at present full of camps in which; large ' numbers1 of people are crowded to gether. ' These camps are models of good management, nevertheless there .are certain dangers, which are unavoid able. The typhoid carrier is one of them; he is not himself . ill but be car ries the germ Of the disease and ' in fects other people.. , : "The question . of fly destruction-has -already been dealt with. The1, best way t to- avoid t, flies is to keep scrupu- . lously clean premises - and to leave nothing of an . edible character uncov ered." , - ' V- - " mmm ', '-; l' f .: ti: S mm. mm cT"X :.v fei3U'-M mm :t ,.i 4... 4 IE ti "R 3 f .:?s tm .'MM - ; Sine-;-; : fvlf .::sa .. . fcl .V f,'f.. Hji - 'i lie Wi--!;-.!' mm :J:Vr.-::.,r'.--'--.. ',0.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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