y voi* * L a Vs f \ ITi DOLVTION MAY BK MECUBKD ^ BY THE CONGRESS ON HY| J GIENK AND DEMOURAEf pm iN^vAmO' ft ' { 8peclal to tha Dally Newa | V Washington. mat IS?Solution of J . * the world-Wide problem -Of combat| toting tho hookworm. disease may b3 J L one ot the results secured by the fit- w ! teonth International-Congress on Hy- ?J * glene and Demography, which meets 0j in Washlrfgtdn, September 23*8, J j-" 1912. ttnOef*ttfe auspices ot the Unit- 8t ed States Doveruraent, Scientists p< hare run the hookworm to Its la^r .j,J L? since the Fourteenth Oongrerif'wtaTch J I was held in Berlin in 1907, .and the ? \ forthcoming meeting will offer the bl N first opportunity for hygienic experts ; from all countries of the globe to get j,] ^VpgglUier, compare notes and adopt a w systematic and uniform campaign against what is regarded as the q greatest aeon rage which affects more than half the population of the p, world. \ The latest statistics which have p I been prepared by the Rockefeller & Sanitary commission, contain figures w which are etartling in their magnl- jf y tnde and illustrate the Imperative t> > need for * onion of all public health forces in fighting the hookworm. In n l brief, tbeee statistics show thst book- \c V worm Infection belts the earth In a M i tone about 60 degrees wide, extend- c, \ lag from parallel 26 north-to parallel a \ SO south, and that practically ail p \countrles lying between these parall- Cl i il^ are Infected. " Of the foreign t] ountries from which the commission j, Received reports, fifty-font are infect- t] , /bd. In six of these countries?Wales u y Qormaiy, Netherlands. Belgium, and e [j Franco and Spain?the Infection U e y - wholly, or chiefly, confined to mines. 8, Y In at least forty-six countries the in- t] \ fectlon is general and widespread. ^ 3 JDaseemnnteiss baare an area of 14 ,y. 464,168 square miles with 919,653.- 8 343 inhabitants. t, in addition tne report or tne comI mission shows that eleven of our own I . states with V population in excess of 20,000,000 are also in the infected i belt and that of the total population i of the world abont 1,600,006 people. J in round number*?about 940.000.\ 000 live in countries where hook\ worm disease is prevalent. i\ In the cv ngresa, Dr. C. W. Stiles, 7 of tbe Public Health and Marine Hos{ pi tail Service, and scientific secretary ' of the Rockefeller Commission, la ex. ; pected to act as refreo in one of the l4^ principal sections devoted to the II hookworm discussion, and he., with H other members of the Commission, \ Is now encased in the preparation p. of the hookworin exhibit forming a j feature of the Exhibition on Health which will be rn adjunct of the Congress. The Commission also will assist the various states of the L United 8tates in which the Commis\ sion has worked in the preparation 4 of a co-operative exhibit also will por. * tray conditions such as exist in Porto Rico, for dkample, where estimates have been made that ninety out of every hundred of the working people are infected; Colombia, where ninety per cent of the population llv, ing between the sea level and 3.000 y feet above, are victims of the disease l\ : and in India, where from sixty to p| eighty percent of the 300,000,000 in| 1 habitants are infected. The economic effect of the disease I will also be Illustrated by charts showing that in many Instances fifty ' per cent of the efficiency of labor Is lost because pf hookworm anemlcs SV cannot do the work of physically 1 sound laborers?and that this loss in c I tho world each yaar runs Into eo'uriM \ \ leas millions of dollars. . , i AUTOMOBILE PARTY GOES TO BATH j I An automobile party conaiatlng of ' V Mr*. George Hackney. Ml** Katie 1 HL Moore. Re*, b B. Biidger*. Profet- < Kjf' *or R C. Bird and Mr. Jam** Wat- 1 M on. left title morning at A):IS o'- < I clock for Bnth wbere they will *pend I I the day where Rot Mr. Bridge** will ] I Tlatt hla amioted parent* , L BnmiAg gum,' ROABTKD PSA\ *et*. Baited peannu, B?ple*. or- I \ aage*. baaaaaa. Preen candy. loe . \ cream aeaee. Phone 41*. W**hlag*** Frnlt Stare. a I ' - cp ' ."'j. |'c| Xr ^ - '\ . "I ' > / 91 _/ V ~m X5?j) ,y| ? ?-\if\ ' '"fflTlC^flff j- A'-:y' rAi ill MITAHlTfn & SlSSi .ILL UK INSTALLED *? WAHHINUTON ATLANTA MA1H LINK WORK W(U|i BK COMPARTED SHORTLY fecial to the Dally Newai *- \ f : Washington. D. C.. May 18.?One ' the most complete and up-to-date ectrlcal automatic aYgaal systems operation on any railway in the orld la to be installed by the Southn Railway on the Important stretch [ Its Washington-Atlanta main line lng between Denim, N. C.. the flret )int Just south or Charlotte and emracing practically 96 mile?, nearly 1 of wfcldh to double track. Ckmact has been let and the work will a completed In the next few months, ot only will the signals he operated r electricity hat the same p<\wer 111 be used to light all stations, irItch, and signal lights between . rensboro and Charlotte. One huddred and sixteen threeoeitlon "upper-quadrant automatic gnals. representing the very' latest rcduct of enginerfng science, will s erected and so located that blocks 111 be approximately two mllo In ngth. The system will be operated y alternating electric current furnhfed from ha main plant at 8pencer. [. C., and auxiliary stations at Char?tte and Greensboro, which wlil be > constructed that should the Spenw plant become Inoperative from ny cause, the power of the Southern ower Company can be Immediately ut In without any Interruption to j le operation of trains or the light- j tg system. The current to operate ' le system will be transmitted by a dd carrying 4,400 volta const ruetd on the right-of-way of the Southrn Hallway and at each signal and! tatton transformer* to step down j tie current to 110 toIU will b?r looted. / ; L The installation Of this ajwtem of ignals will not only provide promotion against the possibility of colBlona bat will also detect the presnce of a broken rail, an/open switch wash out bridge, or year standing n a side track, dangerously near ~ tie main track, thhs affording a ] reatly Increased measure of proteclon. Knginemen approaching a algal and observing the signal arm in horizontal position ftr a red light at ight will know thdt a train is In he first block aheac and must stop, hould tbey find the signal arm rais- 1 d 45 degrees a box horizontal Or a reen light at nigh they will know 1 hat a train la in he second block 1 head and they m ist proceed with t aution. When th v find the signal f re vetrical or a w lte light at night c hey know that thqy may proceed at c all speed as the track Is Hear of f 11 ,obetructlons and not train near- 4 r than two blocks ahead. t The Southern Railway is Just com- f letlng a similar system on the >, welve mile double track stretch j rom Monroe. Va., through Lynchurg, to Montriew, and although a j ery efficient manual block system Is , perated on all Itnes on which traffic , s at all heavy,. President FInley a ins antftmnced that It has been de- , ermined to.install automatic electric tanal systems on all double track ' Ine and on all lines which may here-i1 fter be doable-tracked. iAST CAROLINA DIOCESE 10 MEET ID EDENTON | ^ 4 The annual meeting of the Diocese 1 f East Carolina, will meet In Saint ij MM" vrrm*+iu&n&n. ' hie evening. The eeesion will last * intil neat Tuesday evening. The Council will be presided over By lit. J lev. Robert Strange, D. D., bishop ? >f East Caroltaa. The oouneil will ' old Its sessions in ms seeond oldest ' thurch in North Carolina, and prom- ^ sea to be one of the best sessions , >f the council yet b*ld. ! Rev. Na- i ihanlel Harding, Mrs. Harding, Qap- 1 ain J. d Bragaw. Mr. John O. Bra- j raw. Mtsa Settle Hoyt. Miss Janle j dyers. Miss Laura Branch sad Miss , Mildred Rumley and others, left to- i lay to attend the Council. i , 1 *>n SALE A SECOND HAND TYPE- < writer. Apply to Miss Mary i Koonce at J. K. Hoyts store. 1 ft-ll tfc. "7 ' i . / . - - ' ' 1 ;?...I-' ~ ywijjgmirrfm . - ii t ? K TONIGHT AMD SINDAV. WAR ;i ' ? ' -r Give the Do you live in W Do the Washingt ?o you buy ever you make youi If you don't, wou example? \ TV n i , uoes Kicnmona, pave your stre Do you really go buy a thing in from out of to1 Suppose your cu the big cities; ton kept theiri would Washin; Do the merchant! mond pay any If you want to 1 each individual Some of us have principle. Will you be first This applies to B Insurance Peoj Estate Men. C& I ' PRIMARIES OF WERE HEL1 The primaries for the respective i sards of the city were held last tight at the regular meeting ( ilaces of meeting. The purpose ot ' he primaries was to select dele- ( rates to the forth coming county 1 convention and also for the purpose >f selecting members of the precinct 1 sxocutlve committee and to ascertain 1 :he preference of the voters as to he respective candidates f?r dele- i rate to the National Democratic con- 1 rentlon to be held in Baltimore in rone. *] The vote for delegate to the Na- 1 tonal convention in the first, second ind third wards was as follows: First i ward?Neal 26. Tayloe 36. Second t SVard?Neal 45 Tayloe 25. Third ' ward?Neal 9. Tayloe. 7. Fourth i mm of louisa goes to newbern Mr. R. A. Cherry the popular and capable manager of the Hotel Lonlae < a to leave Washington on October ' L next for New Bern where he will , become manager of the Hotel Oaston ' In that town. Mr. Cherry is half ( leasee of the Oaston. He has been the manager of the Louise here for the past live months ( fining from the Hotel Charles at . Moreheed Cttr. During h* abort itay In Waahlngton be baa made a large number of frlende and bla do- . part urn la to be regretted. Mr. Cbor- . ry la a botal man of experience and ( ilnea ha aaaumrd the management of Dm Ixralaa he haa lncreeaed the ?6pularlty of tha hotal In every way. It In common remark that tha botal bore If oaa of the very heat In Kaat im Carolina. Mr. Cherry haa every < unuraace of anreeaa In hm now home I and the Dally Newa commenda him ' to the elttnme of New Bern. ;,TJle 1 Daaton-under btt npervtalnn ahould 1 and^ will Decern, a leading hotel In I * : *" " V- ' )t N. CL, KATUKDAY ArnmXOOK, MKR IN THK INTERIOR. JIDDA News Your ashington? ? on people patroni: ything you can in r living? Wn't it be a good Philadelphia or F ets and pay your : to the trouble fo Washington befo wtti stomers sent all suppose the peop money in New Yc gton be in the bus i of Chicago, Nevy taxes in Washing build a town, isn't I to help? i 2fot to be first i and stick to it Ion ankers, Merchants ate, HotekMariage ipitalists and plain c THE CITY ) LAST NIGHT ward?uninatructed. For members of the precinct exe:utlve committee the following cltltens were anmed in their respective wards. First Ward?W. D. Grimes, 3eo. H. Hill, J. B. Bragaw Jr.. Chas. j* Morton. J. M. Saunders. Second Ward?Lindsay Warren, D. tf. Carter Sr., J. D. Grimes, F. S. iVorthy and Dr. S. T. Nicholson. Third Ward?Jesse Hodges, Thornis Bobbins, H. S. Winfleld, S. F. Burbank Jr., arffl J- H. Simmons. Fourth aWrd?E. A. Daniel, W. H. Chauncey, Frank Flynn, E. L?. Stewart, W. H. McDevett. The polls In the respective wards, according to the late law. will be apen until six o'clock this evening. The Drlmsriea fhmui?hnti? tho y are being bold as we go to press. )R H. SHELL STRICKEN WIT! PARALYSIS Dr. Henderson Snell. for years a citizen ot Washington and one of the. most prominent and efficient merawrs bf the Dental profession" In forth Carolina, was stricken with paralysis while visiting his relative* it Suffolk, Virginia, the o^ply part >f the week. Dr. Snell has been In podr health for sometime and .the atack of paralysis coming on top of lis weakened condition makes his rienda apprehensive as to the out?me. The Jatest reports from his Mdside is 'to the effect that while tits condition is still precarious he a slightly better. >. Od Next HondtT afternoon at ( o';lock nt the residence of the astreary, Kin Lew windier, oomer or Phlrd end Market Streeta, the Pamtco Chapter. Dantkters at tha Coa lederacy are reeantoed W aaaa*. a*M& neat of Importance la to he t|UB-li mted and every member ot the ehap-1-: er la arfad to be preaeat. v., 1< JUtsnTi hmfhrYix.U.'.'?i ! -! V - s n-e. - ; J.' m* ?a?S 11'WXai'> WMWa IgSlii* 4#l I ' MAT 1A.IH12. IRnTS NORTH TO NORTHWEST WIN ' JTi Answer I \ le you? F( the town where j I idea to set the ^ Jew York help " school teachers? hBc Stat see if you can r.v( re you order it pret asp! -i t. ln? their orders to tal le of Washing- L >rk banks, where the 7 tha iness world? 2s r York or Richto t tdn? z it the duty of * can tiot The to establish the r the for lal gest? = ManilfaMiirnro w" >, uicuiuiaviUl CI Of irs,Printers, Real ivery day people. '? maMI M CQ1 sun SEVERED FR011 BIS BODTf^ to Jlennls. the 6-year-old son ol Mr. ye and Mrs. John F. Latham, had his ga head nearly severed from hla body IZ yesterday at the home of his parents ni at Jessaraa. and while his condition D! today Is precarious the physicians think theTe ia*a slight chance for his recovery. Daniel Latham, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Latham, was en- sf gaged with a bush axe in cutting away the shrubbery from the ditch Gi banks on the farm and the little fel- jei low was following him as the work tl( was being done- The oldsr son did ? th not know that his younger brother | ^ was so near and in attempting to cut the shrubbery the axe struck him on the back of the neck, cutting a deep to and serious gash. ' .The unfortunate little fellow was Cc carried to his home and medical aid 1 summoned. It Is to be hoped that m< he will soon recover. Mi ADDISCO BOOK CLUB = AT MISSIHIARCIA MYERS ? ' I * The Addisco Bok Olub held its r?g- tai ular meettti^.- yesterday afternoon off with Ml^AMarcia Myers on Bast hli Main Street. After the usual preliminary tterctses and items, which are -lar always full of Interest, the club had all the pleasure of hearing a One paper foi on Queen Victoria, by the president, tie rs. B. R. rous ever waged within Ohio's ' ndaries has been amplv fulfilled. Ro >hlo has no presidential prefer- be e primary law. but the primaries Ro >e held next Tuesday are expected bet ertheless to make it plain who is ess ored by the voters of this st=te en< the presidential nominations. The ho^ mblican voters will vote for two dei didates for delegates to the na his lal convention from their district, aft i ballots will not" bear the names alx the preeidential candidates. The me ers therefore may be somewhat in I sit! dark as to whom the candidates wh nomination, but workers at tbe Is no doubt will find a way to in- 8tr ate to the voters how the candi- Ha ea stand. In a few places there no! 1 be I^aFollette candidate for na- poi aal delegates, but as a rule there Br 1 be only Taft and Roosevelt Hats. th? regates^win b* named In The twen- Is one congressional districts. The po delegates-al-large completing | cn lo's forty-eight in the national con- de ition will be named by the state Tfa ivention next month. eg The Democratic primaries will be jo: ictically of the straight-out presl- tlh ntial preference variety. Only in I go e essential feature does the meth'.cr differ from that already tried out la' a number of states. This feature isl the provision that the winner of ha p preference primary shall be au- T1 orlzed to name the deleguteB-at- th ge. At first glance this provision g< ty seem an unwise delegation of th wer. but it is to be romembered ly at the candidate has much at stake gi d. if Governor Harmon's name is Tl be presented to the Baltimore con- ec ntion he naturally desires dele- cc tes from his own state whose loy- p< \TTLBSHIP TEXAS WAS P LAUNCHED TODAY! >ecial to the Dally News ^ Newport News, Va.. May 18.? m eeted by a chorus of steam whist- p s and cheered on by an enthuBias- T ! assemblage of 20,000 spectators ai e battleship Texas, twin sister of t<: A Van' Vn.l- L..IIJ1 ' - > ? h ? .,vn luirw, juiiuitiK ai me nrooK- 1 w n Navy YaJ'*L glided from her ways ^ day at th<*?yard8 of the Newport QJ jwb Shipbuilding and Dry Dock ^ mpany. vl As the big vessel swept down to p] aet thev water of the James Klver tJ( Irs Claudia Lyon, daughter, of Col- bj ell Lyon, a wealthy ranch owner . d Republican National Committeeu? for Texas, broke the traditional ttle of champagne and formally med the rfhlp. Grouped about the ^ onaor on the official stand were ^ mcroua repreeentatlvea of the ^ ate of Texas, together with Secrery Meyer and a number of other Iciala of the. Navy Department and ^ jh'officers of the navy. The Texas is designed to be the gest and most formidable warship w oat. Her displacement is nearly ir tlmee as great as tl^e old batthip of the same rotT?e. Her tocost will be In the neighborhood * $14,000,000. 8he will he the first * rehlp of the American Nary to * rj a battery at 14 taeh guns. Her * ?tract saUe for a speed of at taut * kloU u hq?r. HMm Arehla uuTbm.1* Onae.d * Mk, m tMU?? != tfc? tit; *l*r?a?. J-Oy^.3'. Ui.ixu !i1>. IT- . i oRirs 1 1IEXT TUESDAY I The Presidency e Another Over ?Roosevelt Fight i ' f to him cannot be under susptcu The plan was adopted by the te committee at the suggestion of \ Harmon forces.. rhe result of the Ohio primaries expected to determine definitely i chances of President Taft for re- ? ? nination. His friends believe he 1 carry his own state, "but they tpEO.that his cause is weil-nigh liopes If he docs not. The President Is his principal opposition here ong the Republican farmers. In i cities they are believed to be re favorably inclined toward hirn. . k) is near enough to the Canadifrontier to feci the eiTect of the aadian reciprocity treaty negotiaby the President, and the Bucki farmers were very much opposto the measure. rhe results of the primaries Jo the osevelt candidacy are believed to equally important. Should the osevelt sweep continue as it has u going lately, it would not necarily give the Colonel votes >ugh to nominate him. It would wever, according to the close stuits of the situation, either make nomination inevitable sometime er the first ballot or wosld bring >ut a condition where the stiong n of the party would be In a polon to unite upon a third man om they might have some hope of cting. The Democratic contest is a alght-out fight between Governor rmoti and those who oppose his tninatlon for President. The oplitiop has been led by Williari J.. yan# who has stumped the state in s interest of Woodrow Wilson, who expected to Save the genera! sup ri 01 top unio progressive neir.oits. Friends of Governor Harmon flare that he ie sure to win our. ley expect him to name the six delates-at-lnrge and to carry the rarity If not all of the congressional strlcts. Among the farmers the vernor is very popualr. Hv the opation of his one per cent ta\ arte iv. which he rorced through the leg ature. the taxes on farm lands ive been very materially reduced, le Harmon opposition is confined to e progressives and is due to the . meral feeling that the governor, ough he has proved a comparativeprogreesive executive, is not pro eeaive enough on national matters, his feeling has beeu most pronour.cI since the governor advised the institutional convention not to pro)se the initiative and referendum. RICE INDUCEMENT SALE AT J. K. HOYIS Today and Monday Mr J. K. !oyt, as will be seer, by announcelent elsewhere, is conducting a rice Inducement Sale at his store, he sale is for the "Careful Purses" nd every since the sale opened yeatrday a steady stream of bargain untcrs have been pouring into his ell-ltnown place of business and tdging from the number of pack;es going to all parts of the city, ley are being amply repaid for their sit. Mr. Hoyt is making special ices during the sale and all vising the store are delighted with the CR VICES AT ST. PETKIl'S BPltKXIPAL (TII'RCR On ac<*>unt of the absence of the ector, . Rev. Nathaniel Harding. ja ere will be only lay services held J St. Peter's Episcopal Church to- . J orrow morning. There will be no rvices at night. Sunday School ill meet promptly at 4 o'clock. T. WILL (ilVE SPECIAL PRICKS on one piece silk dresses today and Monday. J. K. Hoyt. 1 I.1HT OF NEW ADVKR1KE Bromalgln*. * MBN18 IN THE NEWS ? K, I'. ' h P. Jftckm. - i - ? ju- w