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WORLD-WIDE MEDICAL
SURVEY. IS PROPOSED
A Study of the Preventable Disease That Afflict the Human
Race What It Would Mean to Asia Proposal Put
Up to American Medical Association, As Larg- '
est Social Service Medical Missions
Would Help.
By the Religious Rambler.
The biBgi t of all schemes for social
betterment at) yet proposed and one
which makes the reader gasp at its
magnitude was suggested to the
American Medical Association at Us
recent meeting In Minneapolis. This
was nothing lees than a medical sur
vey of the entire habitable globe with
a view to ascertaining what are the
definite needs and what feasible action
may be proposed with respect to the
stamping out of preventable diseases.
As yellow fever was eliminated from
Cuba and Panama, so western science
could in great part either eradicate or
repress the epidemics which are deci
mating the human race, such as chol
era, bubonic plague, pneumonic
plague, small-pox. typhus fever, beri
beri, nlalalarla and dysentery, hot to
mention tuberculosis, syphilis, and
cancer.
The man who Is sponsor for this
new propaganda. Dr. W. It. ForsyJthe
of Louisville, has been seen extended
medical service" in Korea. He declares
that "it is impossible to grasp, in the
wildest (light of imagination, what a
world-wide campaign against prevent
able diseases would mean to humanity
In the lives saved, In homes spared
from desolation, in the preventing of
unnecessary suffering, in conserving
to mankind wealth, beyond computa
tion, and human efficiency and pro
ductive power beyond all telling."
Tlie w World 'eifliborliiiess.
The plan, which at first seems like
an Utopian dream, but which students
of world conditions are pronouncing
thoroughly practicable, is a logical ex
tension of the present practices of civ
ilization. The social sense, which con
cerns itself with suffering and need
everywhere, is dominating our tlmo.
This is the erU of world neighboiii
ness. ( Congo atrocities, Peru rubber
slavery, Chinese opium, Turkish mas
sacres, all are made the business of
civilization in Europe and America.
Because every year Is now increas
ing the interflow of trade and travel
between all parts of the world, the
powerful element of self-preservation
is brought into the question. Every
small town has, indirectly, commerce
with practically every section of the
earth. The Ten Cent stores display
wares made by Chinese peasants. For
a few dollars one may buy rugs made
In Armenia and Persia. The germ
carrying possibilities of all imported
articles may not be overlooked. Im
migration likewise is bringing to one
level the welfare of all mankind.
Even the man of the street is coming
to perceive with the social eeonomlu;
that this world is not permanently a
good place for any of us until it is a
good place for all of us.
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How Tho Plan Would Work.
The jdea of a world medical survey
Is after all not so radical or novel as
it seems, for the idea is inherent in
the medical missionary propaganda
with which church people have been
familiar for more than a generation.
The medical missionaries of America
and Europe are scattered pretty much
over all of Asia and Africa. These
would be made the local .centers of
the proposed Investigation. The med
ical missionaries themselves would be
agents in the gathering of statistics
and in promoting the survey. Just
as the missionaries have had a potent
part in the London School of Medicine
for the study of tropical diseases, and
in the MulHen conference upon the
pneumonic plague, sd they would rep
resent the frontier i.f western medical
science in this suggested undertaking.
Two Johns Hopkins graduates, man
and wife, who are Southern Presbyte
rian medical missionaries in . mid
China, put the1 case concretely to send
out scientific doctors for the study of
disease in China. Our mission work
in caring for the cases that throng us
by thousands leaves us no time for
scientific research. Our mission would
offer the facilities, but what we desire
is men who would come out hot as
missionaries, but as expert investiga
tors in the interest of worldwide medi
cal science. There are no such clinics
accessible to the profession anywhere
as may be found in Asia, with the piti
able plentitude of disease and the
common recurrence of extraordinary
cases."
Surveys by Continents.
Should the American Medical Asso
ciation, after a year's private discis
sion of the subject, appoint such a
commission as was suggested to the
Minneapolis convention, the funds for
the needed investigation would be pro
vided by the association itself, by pri
vate philanthropists or even by the
national government. It is pointed
out that the international work In
making a standardized map of the
world is an analogous case. The prac
ticability of this huge task is illustrat
ed by the fact that the missionary
bodies made a missionary survey of
the world for Edinburgh conference
three years ago. The aim would be to
discover what are the prevalent dis
eases among mankind, and how far
medical science is prepared to conquer
them.1 This would be taking the whole
earth as a medical clinic.
To the persons who have but to
telephone for the doctor when any
thing goes wrong, it is well-nigh In
credible that the majority of the hu
man race has absolutely no access to
the assistance of modern medical sci
ence. Approximately two out of every
three sufferers In this world have no-;
tody to diagnose their cases, nobody
to prescribe for them, and nobody to
operate when operations' are neces
sary. The ignorance of the common
est principles of the transmission of
disease is simply abysmal. Thug the
Moslem pilgrims are still drinking
from the Zem Zem Well In Mecca and
carrying the water home to their
friends, although the Zem Zem Well
has been pronounced the most prolific
center of pollution in the world.
The Idea of isolating any diseases is
unknown to most people. Even lep
ers walk the streets In China unhin
dered. The Religious Rambler him
self has been thronged, in China, by a
crowd of children with small pox.
whose disease had reached the peeling
stage. He once went aboard a little
Chinese houseboat for a week's Jour
ney up Grand Canal, only to find that
his boatman's children were in the
eruptive stage of Virulent small pox
Such experiencs are too common to be
mentioned in paris of the east. In
some regions Chinese mothers do not
count their children until they have
had the small pox( w hen they enumer
ate the survivors.
Saving the Bailies' KyeH.
The schemo in its bigness rather
baffles comprehension, yet it becomes
more practical when looked at in de
tail. Thus most of the babies of
Egypt and Arabia and pretty much
all of Asia, for that matter have sore
eyes. These result, In tens of thou
sands of cases, in total blindness, anM
in other tens of thousands of cases
in suffering and .disfigurement, all of
which Is preventable. If horacic acid
solution could be distributed to the
mothers of Asia, with instructions how
to use it, the results would be an in
crease In human comfort, happiness
and. efficiency simply beyond measure.
The amateur philanthropist who would
undertake to supply Arabia with bo
racic acid and to teach the habit of Its
use would rank as one of the great
benefactors of humanity.
It never occurs to the western
reader that most babies in the world
are born without the help of doctors.
The ignorance which attends child
bearing and child-rearing In Asia and
Africa Is colossal. And to this the
fact that in Moslem lands male physi
cians am not permitted to attend wo
men, and it is seen what possibilities
of suffering are involved.
A liullinlion of CiviUxaUon.
The project involves the Use of the
daily newspaper press in Asia as it has
been used in America for popular edu
cation along linf-s of health ai l hy
giene. This is the day of the rapH' .
extending dominion of the dally pa, i
in Asia. A more opportune time for
the proposed propaganda could
scarcely be chosen.
As famine relief in China has im
measurably enhanced American pres
tige, so this plan for the amelioration
of suffering would vindicate Christian
civilization in the eyes of the ancient
peoples. It would prove the reality of
the West's professions of the Christian
religion and of human brotherhood.
Free Amusements.
Spend the fourth at Riverside V:rk:
Field and water sports In the i'ore
noon. Captain Ulondell, champion
swimmer, in the afternoon, free l re
works exhibit, motion picture Show,
and band conceit at night. It.
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INDEPENDENCE
Practically All the Business
Houses and Institutions
Will Suspend for
Day.
VARIOUS AMUSEMENTS
HAVE BEEN PROVIDED
Athletic Contests at Riverside Many
Picnic Parties riannetl Two;
, Baseball tiames.
In observance of the one hundred
thirtv-seventh anniversary of
American independence the city of
Asheville will suspend business to
morrow and her citizens will enjoy a
real holiday. Preparations are being
made for one of the ..biggest J uiy 4
celebrations ever observed here; and
those who have been sweltering in
offices and business houses for the
past two weeks are looking forward
to an outing at some place of amuse
ment or on a picnic that will amply
repay them for all the trials of hot
weather 'and confinement. There will
be sufficient amusement provided for
all who desire the relaxation, and
even the most fastidious may be satis
fied. The Asheville postnfTiee will be
closed all day with the exception of
two liours in the early morning, from
8 to 10 o'clock, when the windows
will be open for the convenience of
the patrons. There will be no city
or rural deliveries of mail, but during
the hours that the ofTice is open the
city carriers will be present to deliver
mail to anyofie along their routes who
may happen to call for it. The other
offices in the Federal building will
also be closed with the exception of
the Internal revenue ofTice.
The members of the Asheville Mer-
liants' association, as well as a num-
er of business men who are not mem
bers of the association, will close their
places of business during the entire
day, according to a statement made
this morning by President J. W. Neely
of the association. Practically every
office In the city, except those of phy
sicians, will also be closed. The banks
will take a full holiday. The City
ticket office of the Southern railway
will be closed except from 12:30 to
1:30 o'clock.
The ofl ices in the county court
house will be closed for the day, and
all city employes will be g'ven a half
holiday. The city market will be
closed for the entire day; and In order
that the housewives may properly pre
pare for this emergency the market
was opened this afternoon at 2 o'clock
Instead of 4, and will remain open un
til the usual closing hour.
Probably the -biggest amusement
F.
Clothing Hats, Caps and Men's Furnishings
feature of the day, especially to fan-
dom, will be the two baseball games
to be staged at Oates park between
the Tourists and Horneta. The first
of these contests will be played at
:S0 o'clock tomorrow morning and
the afternoon game will be called at
4 o'clock, the usual hour, with
these two teams standing so close to
gether In the percentage column in
terest in the outcome of the two games
is Intense, and mammoth crowds are
expected for both, the morning and
afternoon performances. l he tore
cast of the weather man that It will
be generally fair 1b encouraging to
the fans of the city.
At Riverside park there will . be
other amusements, the Asheville
Power & Light company having ar
ranged a program of entertainment
for the patrons of the park that prom
ises to outshine any, previous Fourth
of July celebration. The exercises
there will start promptly at 10 o clock
tomorrow morning with various ath
letic contests, and there will be some
thing doing all the time then until
the program Is closed at night with a
band concert, moving pictures on tho
lake, and what is promised to be the
finest display of fireworks ever shown
here on any occasion. -
Among the athletic contests ar
ranged for the morning are the fol
lowing: Two boat races, one for boj's
and one for girls; a canoe race; a
greased log race; relay race; egg race;
potato race; two ball throwing con
tests, one for boys and one for girls;
and last but not least, a fat man's
race. Cash prizes ore offered In each
of these contests to the winners and
it is expected that there will be a
large number of contestants entered.-
The big feature of the afternoon at
the park will he the exhibition In
swimming by Capt. L. D. Blondell, the
champion endurance swimmer of the
world; ..'"'. , '. . - "".'
Everything will be appropriately
decorated for a Fourth of July cele
bration and the holiday spirit will
prevail. To those who do not care for
the public amusements ample enter
tainment will he provided In small
picnic parties, and not the least pleas
ing of the outdoor amusements will
be the golf and tennis tournaments at
the Asheville Country club. Several
cannon , will be fired during the day
in the rooms of the Asheville club.
The Southern has Inaugurated spec
ial rates from all surrounding points
to Asheville. . . . -.
Open Sheet Metal Shop
O. F. Meadows -and W. H. Arthur,
two experienced ' sheet metal work
ers who for a number of years work
ed In A. I McLean's shop on Patton
avenue have opened a shop of their
own at 4 Market street. ,
Messers Meadows and Arthur have
purchased the tools and equipment of
Ottls Green's Sheet Metal Works de
partment and are prepared to execute
all orders promptly. ,, 122-lt
. NOTICE . -
Notice Is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the stockholders
of the . Asheville Cemetery Company
will be held in the office of Bourne,
Parker & Morrison at S o'clock P. M
Monday, July 14th, 1913.. for the
transaction of any business that may
come before the meeting.
HAYWOOD PARKER, ,
. Secretary of Asheville Ceire
tery Co. ' ' ':""' i22-"t.
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,this mammoth stock of house furnishings he will
be glad to personally select anything you want.
REMEMBE.R!
You don't have to keep it if it doesn't plense you.
That's our way of doing business;. We will match
your parlor, bedroom or diniig room suit with
extra pieces or order special desigtis for you.
HURRY!
For all such orders must be in hand not later than
Saturday.
J. L. Smathers & Sons
Mammoth Furniture Store.
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